VideoChannel - video project environments http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
is happy to launch the first of a series of features of German video art. dedicated in July 2009 to Johanna Reich - video artist from Cologne/Germany http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=273 "Johanna Reich, a young video artist living and working in Cologne/ Germany, is walking consequently on a performative path in video art, giving the camera, the action or the performative process and the result in form of a video a new and very personal meaning. She involves the audience by provoking the visual senses with unexpected results. Her videos are much closer to performance as a form of contemporary art than filmic narritive or technological aspects, the videos go to the essence of the medium and have something purist we know from Japanese abstract minimalism of Zen, something very spiritual which seems to be very familiar and very strange at the same time. Thus art in its best sense." (Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, curator) Read --> her interview on VIP -VideoChannel Interview Project http://vip.newmediafest.org/?page_id=22 --> her biography on AND - Artists Network Database http://and.nmartproject.net/?p=111 Direct access to the online feature also via http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/2009/dvk-reich-index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ VideoChannel forms together with CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival, VIP VideoChannel Interview Project and VAD - Video Art Database - a unity focussing on art forms of film and video in the framework of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne - www.nmartproject.net the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany info (at) nmartproject.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre