Call for Papers, Presenters, Developers, Performers, Audience.
What: San Francisco Performance Video Symposium When: 27 September 2003 Where: Dimension7, 150 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA Who: Anyone can submit. Video artists, performance artists, software developers, cultural and film theorists are especially welcome.B B B Submissions are due 21 July 03. The plan: On 27 September, the Symposium will begin with a series of speakers on ideas in performance video, comcluding in a roundtable discussion. Following the round table a series of performances would occur in the Dimension7 video gallery. The evening will then be capped off by a super-fun multimedia party! Admission is technically free, but a donation might be requested to help defray the costs of mounting this Symposium, depending on the level of sponsorship found. Dimension 7 has more than adequate video projectors, screens, and sound reinforcement. The idea: Performative video: theory and practice Recent innovations in computer software and performance gains in hardware are now permitting the development of a truly performative cinema. Thus far three distinct camps seemed to have evolved over the years: video light shows for dance clubs and raves and the similar development of VJ culture on one end, academic video art installations on the other end, and a vast number of artists in between. This situation bears some relation to what obtained in cinema in its earliest years (nickelodeons, and all film was some kind of an experiment, etc.) Significant theory wasnC-t really developed until some 20 years into the history of cinema with the early formative theories of the 19teens. Due to the dependence on rapidly changing technology, contemporary video performance doesnC-t have the luxury of 20 years to wait for theory to C,gelC.. ItC-s important that at this historic interstice of music and video that Theory evolve along with the emerging practice, and the practice develop its own coherent theory. It is the purpose of this Symposium to help that along at this historic juncture. Discussions of the history of the form, the strengths and shortcomings of the discipline, the challenges ahead, the political implications and uses of, and the trends within performance video - all of these need to be discussed and brought into awareness. All contents (papers, video, images, etc.) submitted will be featured on a website dedicated to this symposium after 27 September. The ideas need to get out into the world as quickly as possible, so performance video practitioners might acquire some new common language, develop shared concerns, and create useful theory in order to further the integrity and coherence of this new practice in an age of digital media convergence, and the near complete hegemony of passive entertainment environments. No honoraria are presently available C1 this is an all volunteer effort, so if you wish to present your ideas in person, please be aware that the symposium canC-t help you with any expenses. However, if present efforts to find sponsorship are successful, and funding is found, this may all change, and presenters and contributors will certainly be notified. Please note, for your pleasure: Late September is the BEST time to be in San Francisco, and this event will be a truly extraordinary moment in history. What to submit: Send a .txt, .rtf, or MS Word document of your paper / lecture notes attached to email. The email you send should include a short single paragraph bio, and let me know if you wish to be considered for live presentation of your paper at the Symposium. If you have a lecture AND a performance to provide, please submit the lecture as noted above and the performance idea per following paragraph. Please email it to: henry (dot) warwick (at) sbcglobal (dot) net Those who would like to be considered ONLY for performance that evening should send a CDR w/ a short QuickTime movie or a DVD-R demo of your work and a document describing what you want to do. Please include a brief bio, and your email address. Please send disk and documents to: Henry Warwick 148 Dellbrook Ave San Francisco CA 94131 ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] archive: http://www.mediascot.org/ambit info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
