************************************************** Newsletter 19.1.2007
transmediale.07 unfinish! January 31 - February 4, 2007 Akademie der Kuenste Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10 transmediale times twenty - retrospective ************************************************** 1. transmediale times twenty 2. TM*20 - Register 3. Project library 4. Conference - Many Years of Video Art 5. Infermental 6. Media Art in the GDR? ************************************************** 1. transmediale times twenty Within the scope of the twentieth edition of the festival for art and digital culture, which started as VideoFilmFest in 1988, transmediale.07 offers a retrospective of the festivals development as well as several historical sections and perspectives of art in dialogue with media. ************************************************** 2. TM*20 - Register On the occasion of twentieth festival edition, transmediale publishes an extensive Register, which lists all participants of the last 20 years in a detailed index. The compendium presents the broad variety of all festival programmes. ************************************************** 3. Project library On occasion of transmediale.07 a temporary project library is installed in exhibition hall 3. 827 of a total of 1030 works submitted for the transmediale Award 2007, whose authors approved to publication in this context, are available for viewing. Additionally, several historic compilations of video and media art from Brazil, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and Slovenia can be viewed here. The temporary project library also features a complete collection of all eleven INFERMENTAL editions in full length. The editions will also be introduced in extract by the respective editors within the film and video programme. ************************************************** 4. Conference: Many Years of Video Art - Historical Views on Art and Media Wednesday, January 31, 16 hrs, Studio In spring 2006, five German museums presented the project '40 Jahre Videokust in Deutschland' (40 years of video art in Germany). A substantial DVD edition of more than 50 individual works in combination with a catalogue (Hatje Cantz Verlag) tries to describe the field of video art in Germany since the mid 1960s. In the context of its anniversary programm, transmediale.07 presents this DVD edition and attempts its evaluation in ab roader and international context. Therefore similar projects from other countries have also been invited to the transmediale. The panel discussion between the producers of '40 Jahre Videokunst' and international colleagues offers a critical debate about such projects of documentation and overview. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, the international distributor of '40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland'. ************************************************** 5. Infermental Wednesday, January 31, 10 hrs (Studio II) Thursday, February 1, 11 hrs (Studio II) Friday, February 2, 11 hrs (Studio II) INFERMENTAL was the first international magazine on video tape and was initiated in 1980 by the Hungarian filmmaker Gabor Body. Between 1982 and 1990, eleven editions were produced with 674 single works by more than 600 artists from 36 countries. The basic idea of INFERMENTAL was the collecting and archiving of current cultural tendencies on video in order to connect isolated media islands with already existing networks. Looking at the editions it becomes clear that these differ considerably in their interpretation of the concept, their selection criteria and the respective form of organisation of the editors. Each edition not only documents a specific period of cultural and artistic creation, but also allows for a very authentic look at the different approaches of the respective editorial group and their views on the world, politics, and work. On the occasion of transmediale.07, the festival presents an extensive overview of the INFERMENTAL editions, which can also be viewed in full length in the temporary project library of transmediale.07. An INFERMENTAL breakfast will be held simultaneously and opens the series of presentations within the festival's programme. http://www.infermental.de ************************************************** 6. Media Art in the GDR? Independent Film and Media Art in the GDR 1976-1989 Sunday, February 4, Akademie der Kuenste (Pariser Platz) In the last years of the GDR there was a lively film subculture that existed beside the official image factories in Babelsberg (DEFA movies) and Adlershof (TV). Multiple cine-films were produced and shown in private spaces, churches, galleries, concert halls and improvised festivals. The medium of Super-8 film was first discovered in the late 70s by painters who adopted the Soviet Quarz camera. Multimedia activities by A.R. Penck in Dresden or Lutz Dammbeck in Leipzig triggered a veritable wave of films by painters, which later also reached East Berlin. 16 hrs Film programme: 'Revision DDR' (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Joerg Herold, Else Gabriel, Via Lewandowsky, Yana Milev, Ulrich Polster) 18 hrs Discussion: 'Media Art in the GDR? (in German with Lutz Dammbeck, Else Gabriel, Claus Loeser, Helke Misselwitz, Klaus Staeck, Christoph Tannert, Dieter Daniels) 20 hrs Film programme: 'Films by Painters in the GDR' (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Helge Leiberg, Cornelia Schleime, Andreas Dress, Christine Schlegel, Juergen Boettcher, A. R. Penck) Film programme curated by Claus Loeser (Archiv ex.oriente.lux) ************************************************** transmediale.07 unfinish! festival for art and digital culture berlin http://www.transmediale.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************** ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre