Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 9-13 December 2014 3rd Research Forum (Call for papers) After the success of the 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum in 2012 which featured such notable participants as Dirk de Bruyn, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, and others, and the second edition of the forum in 2013, featuring Branka Benčić, Bruce Posner, and more, we are now announcing the 3rd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum. This one-day event (on 11 December) running concurrently with the festival will gather a group of curators, critics, artists, and researchers for an intimate forum where papers will be delivered and discussions held concerning alternative works of film, video, and new media art. Cinephilia is thriving, particularly a certain obsessive-compulsive attachment to the film apparatus in the wake of the continuing onslaught of digital media. In the alternative, avant-garde realm, quite ironically, celluloid is cherished as a prior standard, an ideal, often traced to canonic achievements of the past. Video has always been the black sheep of the visual mechanical reproductive family. In the 2014 research forum we will liberate ourselves from the dogmatic tangle of the film strip and celebrate video as an inherently progressive form of expression. In 2014 Alternative Film/Video Belgrade will commemorate the introduction of video to the profile of the festival in 1985. The research forum will look to explore and contextualize the emergence of video art. However, we will not limit ourselves to the past. We will also be interested in exploring contemporary forms of video art, including the use of webcams, CGI, net art, mobile media, and more. As such, we invite contributions on artists, aesthetics, technology, workshops, exhibitions, conservation, curation, and other subjects relevant to understanding experiments in video art past and present. We are accepting abstracts of 300 words along with short biographies of 150 words for consideration. Selected participants will be given support towards their accommodation in Belgrade but are asked to cover travel expenses on their own. Please forward inquiries and submissions to Greg de Cuir, Jr, Selector/Curator for Alternative Film/Video Belgrade, no later than 1 September 2014 at gdec...@yahoo.com. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade (Serbia) is the premier international festival in the Balkans for new film and video tendencies and one of the oldest festivals of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1982 by festival director Miodrag Milošević as an antidote to commercial film and video-making and to support radical practices in celebrating the moving image. Alternative Film/Video Belgrade is organized by and hosted at Academic Film Center in Belgrade, which was established in 1958 as a ciné-club and where many legendary filmmakers worked, including Tomislav Gotovac, Živojin Pavlović, Radoslav Vladić, and others. Visit the website at www.alternativefilmvideo.org/.
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