VII MEDIA FORUM of the ïïVIII Moscow International Film Festival
June 23-26, 2006 <http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/>http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru CALL FOR ENTRIES - EVERYBODY! « AUTHO(RITARNOST)»
MEDIA FORUM
MF programme 2006
International Board
Entry Form and contacts
MEDIA FORUM
Festival programme works submittion deadline - May 20th 2006 Presentation programme and conference applications deadline - May 10st 2006 (e-mail - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Organizers: MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture, Interfest Location: Russian Cinematographers Union, Club Na Brestskoj, Moscow Support: ANO Internews Moscow International Film Festival Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is held since 1959 and gradually it has become one of most respectable and prestigious film-forums in the world. In 1973 MIFF was registered by the International Federation of Film-producers associations (FIAPF) as an «A» class film festival alongside with those in Berlin, Cannes, San-Sebastian, Karlovy Vary and Venice. This is the sixth year Media Forum is organized as part of the Moscow International Film Festival. The role of new media in audiovisual art and culture received due recognition and Media Forum was immediately introduced into the official program of MIFF. Media Forum is the first event of such scale in Russia and it reveals a new vision of the world of new media culture and new screen technologies to the professionals, critics and public in general. The objective of Media Forum is to demonstrate the connection between traditional and modern branches of screen culture, the impact of technological innovations on visual arts. Media Forum as action is an exchange of ideas, infusion of new forces into contemporary culture and vice versa. It is an attempt to demonsrtate the logic of new thought and new communications. At the moment it is inside media culture that new ideas go through trial and approbation, ideas that cannot be realized in contemporary art context.
MF programme 2006
1. Festival programme During preparation to this year MEDIAFORUM Alexey Isaev (1960-2006), our ideological leader and theoretician, died. This tragedy brought us to two immanent conclusions: 1. dedicate MEDIAFORUM 2006 to Alexey Isaev memory; 2. select as a theme for the Forum Autho(Ritarinost) because this was his last will. Media-artist by the very order of things is placed in the state of auto(rhetarian) author. First, as artistic personality generating its significant discourse, its self rhetoric. He automatically places itself in opposition to totality - to its material, to the viewer, to the society, to the critic, to the power, to the temporality, and to the space. Authorizing his conception he wins the fight with the context. Only charismatic, autonomous, despotic rhetoric rips the emptiness of distrust, indifference, apathy. To establish his authority and accomplish the influence of art the author glows with will, forth, self-esteem, pretension; under this aegis he storm the heaven, shoot forward in a deep avant-garde. Only ambitious will be taken to the future (Victor Misiano). Secondly, he joined with the tentacles of the power, i.e. with media. He manipulate with its manipulators. Media is rhetoric in itself; without authority of the author it escapes the grasp. Artist which rules them by the iron hand doubles authority, i.e. produce art. The theme of the authority of media is as old as first experiments of 'guerilla video' of the 60-s but it haven't lost its actuality. The power reactualizes it again and again. Now is quite obvious that without total antagonism and authority of artist it's not possible interaction with unlimited. 2. Presentation programme: informational retrospective screenings and special screenings We invite the participation of festivals, distributive centres, media labs, archives, independent curators 3. The International Conference and round table "Between viewer and screen" 4. Multimedia shows
International Board
· Woody Vasulka - pioneer of media art, founder of the world's largest media archives «Vasulkas», USA · Rudolf Frieling - Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnology [ZKM], Karlsruhe,Germany. · Kirill Razlogov - art director of MIFF, director of Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Russia · Kathy Rae Huffman - Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse, Manchester,UK · Etienne Sandrin - Attaché de Conservation of Video Archive at the Georges Pompidou National Centre for Art and Culture, France · Jan Schuijren - curator, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Entry Form and contacts
Festival programme (Deadline: May 20, 2006): ONLY CD ROMs or DVD disks Name, family name, nationality, telephone/fax, address and e-mail of the author (group) ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Title of work, year and place of production ________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Technology, original format _____________________________________________________ Submitted format ______________________________________________________________ Synopsis ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ Short CV _____________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ *Please enclose to your work: I authorize that my work can be (yes/no): transferred to other formats if it's necessary for presentation within the festival ________; used in printed and online publucations, TV programs presenting Media Forum, full _______; fragments ________; kept in MediaArtLab's archive ________. Date _______________ Signature ____________________ Non-selected works won't be returned Presentation programmes and conference (Deadline: May 10, 2005): Papers and Programme'description Proposals Please submit short abstracts (no more than 50 words) and description of organization or short CV (by e-mail <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Contacts: MIFF, Media Forum 119019, 8a, Nikitskii Boulevard, 3rd, ("Internews" - for "MediaArtLab") Tel.: +7 (095) 956-22-48 E-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: <http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/>http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru Media Forum programme is to be published as part of the official XXVIII Moscow International Film Festival Catalogue in Russian and English Olga Shishko, Programs Curator (<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Konstantin Bokhorov, International Curator (<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Olga Selivanova, Coordinator of the Festival Program (<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]) ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
