> >Subject: [faces] Video as Urban Condition: VIDEOpool > >Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 23:31:45 +0000 > > > >Dear faces, > >I'd like to bring this call to your attention. Also, even so it is limited > >to video (such as in minidv and dvd) for presentation, it means 'video' in > >its broad sense conceptually. I'd be really interested to include > >video-documentations of locative media projects or other and look forward > >to > >your contributions. > >Cheers,manu > > > > > >===CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF VIDEO WORKS=== > > > >Video as Urban Condition: VIDEOpool > >Deadline: 7th of May, 2004 > > > > > >===Video as Urban Condition=== > > > >S examines the ways in which video has become part of the urban fabric: > >the > >omnipresent screen and the watchful eye that inhabits private and public > >space. Here, video is the ubiquitous equipment of the home, the street and > >the work place: the tube, the box, the telly, CCTV, info-screen, electronic > >billboard, in-store advertising, mobile, terrestrial, cable, satellite, > >pay-per-view, downloadable, for sale, to rent. > > > >Video as Urban Condition http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/ > > > > > >===VIDEOpool=== > > > >Sis the videotheque attached to the symposium and future touring > >exhibition. > >The Pool aims at expanding the range of positions presented in the show and > >symposium by giving access to related video work. During opening hours, > >visitors have access to the Pool and viewing facilities (DVD and MiniDV). > >Work which has been submitted to the Pool will be indexed, documented and > >promoted online at the project website. The contents are intended to help > >set the agenda of the symposium and provide concrete points for discussion. > > > > > >VIDEOpool is online at http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.html > >entry form at http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf > ><http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf> > > > > > >===Special focus: Urban road movies=== > > > >February 2003: the Congestion Charge is introduced in London. The fee > >applies to all vehicles that drive in the 21 sq kms of central London. > >Compliance is ensured by a surveillance apparatus that records vehicle > >registration plates. Every vehicle is monitored over its entire journey > >through the charging zone. In medieval times, city walls signified to those > >entering them that they were approaching the centre of political, economic, > >and religious power. Today¹s guardians, closed-circuit TV cameras that peer > >down from posts on every street corner, ensure that modern citizens are no > >less aware of this fact. > > > > > >In 1995, at the Telepolis symposium in Luxemburg, an attempt was made to > >redefine urbanism for an emerging digital age, in which trade, > >communication, and information exchange would be increasingly carried out > >by > >means of e-commerce, video conferencing, and chat- and newsgroups. Today, > >media convergence is a reality, but the predicted decline in the physical > >movement of people has not occurred. The increase in traffic is not just > >across national boundaries, but also across the economically more > >significant city borders. Former inhabitants leave older European and > >American city centres, now turned into lifeless zones of speculation. The > >influx of people into newer urban centres in Asia and South America is > >creating mega-cities. > > > >The European city plan is medieval; its nodes of activity are crossroads. > >The new Asian media cities (attached to Dubai, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur) are > >growing around an infrastructure of data highways, and their nodes of > >activity are the access points to these highways. To what extent can > >electronic media impose or create an urbanism? What kind of urbanism will > >this be? could this be? Or, will the urban accrete only in the interstices, > >despite the planners¹ best intentions? > > > >Media convergence and the diffusion of digital technology, coupled with > >increasing anxiety and paranoia in the city, has greatly expanded the realm > >of video. The telephone conversation, the journal entry, the eyewitness > >account, the infant¹s room, all have enhanced, supported, substantiated, > >monitored, or otherwise qualified by the use of ³moving² image. Video is > >most prevalent not in any ³pure² form, but in such hybrid manifestations. > > > >This symposium and exhibition will examine the extents to which mediation > >forms our urban experience, and urban experience influences video culture. > >We invite work that throw light on the place of video in the city, and of > >the city in video. Works that situate urban experience around networks of > >traffic (human, vehicular, or data), or that examine the relationship of > >newer, developing cities to media, would be of particular interest. > > > >Manu Luksch (march 2004) > > > > > >===REQUIREMENTS=== > > > > > >Send work and entry form to: > > > >³VIDEO AS URBAN CONDITION² > >Manu Luksch > >ambient space, Regent studios Unit 76 > >8 Andrews Road > >London E8 4QN > > > > > >post stamped: 7th of May, 2004 > >video formats: DVD or MiniDV (pls no VCD or VHS) > >form download: > >http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf > >inquiries: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >===EVENTS=== > > > >The VIDEOpool will be launched at the symposium end of May 2004, London. > >The artists will be informed about all subsequent exhibition participations > >or screenings of VIDEO AS URBAN CONDITION on tour. > > > > > > > >===BEHIND THE SCENES=== > > > >The project was initiated by Anthony Auerbach in collaboration with > >architect and filmmaker Clare Gerrard for the ACF Visual Arts Programme. > >The > >project is managed by Vargas Organisation, London. The project team > >consists > >of Anthony Auerbach (artist, ACF visual arts co-ordinator), Diana Baldon > >(curator), Manu Luksch (film-maker and media artist, founder ambientTV.NET) > >and Mo-Ling Chui (assistant). > > > > > > > > > >- > >- > > > >__________________________________________ > >___________________Manu Luksch____ > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >T: +44 7951539144_________________________ > >__________http://www.ambientTV.NET_______ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >faces-l mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://lists.servus.at/mailman/listinfo/faces-l > >http://faces-l.net > > _________________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for a FREE BT Broadband connection today! > http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband > >
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