Descriptions of all presentations |
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Tony Allard: Ship of Fools |
Found footage joins historical images of the illustrious sailor's life to images of Freud, lobotomy, brain tests and Rorschach tests. The journey with the 'Black Swan' is a perilous undertaking and it is unclear whether the ship will ever reach its destination. |
USA
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Mark Bain & Mia Keinanmi: In Stabilities |
In 'In Stabilities' Bain himself, together with Mia Keinanmi, takes centre stage in a black & white exploration of time and space. This video deals with movement, time, space and perception, all recurring elements in Bain's work. |
USA
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Phyllis Baldino: NanO-cadabra |
In 'NanO-cadabra' a connection is made and investigated between the science of nanotechnology and the miraculous. The images are presented as though time and again a new page is being turned over from the book 'The Wonderful World of Nanotechnology'. |
USA
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Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatic: A Retrospective |
Hrvoje Horvatic died at the end of 1997. This film/videomaker from former Yugoslavia worked for the last ten years of his life with his close partner, the visual artist Breda Beban, on a revelatory &brkbar;uvre that includes television documentaries and installations as well as videos. The World Wide Video Festival is paying homage to this filmmaker who died much too young with a retrospective of his work with Breda Beban. |
Joegoslavië
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David Blair: Preliminary Reconstruction of a Training Device for Telepathic Katsuben |
Preliminary Reconstruction of a Training Device for Telepathic Katsuben, once used during production of the lost film 'The Telepathic Motion Picture of THE LOST TRIBES' (Taisho 47, Hsingking, Manchuria). |
USA
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David Blair: Waxweb |
By combining many techniques a story is told here that turns out to be made up of many stories, a non-linear short story in hypertext, hyperimage and sound. The video 'Wax, or the Discovery of Television among the Bees' was completed in 1991; it formed the basis for the website (1994) and this CD-ROM is the last, and once again revised, version of this project. |
USA
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Guillaume Boulanger: Zone interdite / Forbidden Zone |
Boulanger travelled about the world for years with his video camera at the ready. As a correspondent he recorded much suffering; as an independent artist he commented critically on (war) reporting. How far can you go in showing violence? |
Frankrijk
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Slater Bradley: Blind Date |
We move and are moved in spite of ourselves. It is the simultaneous fact of bearing life as a load, and being borne along by forces beyond is characteristic of Bradley's oeuvre. |
Nederland
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Steen Carlsen: Gennemtraek / Draught |
'The Danube is the starting point of any military operation, no matter in what direction this is being executed; it is an excellent line of defence, suitable to confront any kind of attack, wherever it may come from...' (Colonel B. Sironi). 'Gennemtraek' is as exciting as it is confusing because the allusions never become tangible, rather, they call on the imagination. |
Denemarken
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Shu Lea Cheang: Brandon |
The murder of the woman Brandon who lived as a man was occasion to create him as a personage in cyberspace and use him as the protagonist in a project on the mixed borders between male and female gender in the real as well as the virtual world and the consequences of taking on another form (anonymously or not). |
USA
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Shaoxiong Chen: Landscape |
We regard as 'reality' that what we see communally and what we talk about together. But as we have only one pair of ears and one pair of eyes and we are dependent on others: to gain knowledge we must trust each others judgement. Especially when man imposes his will on nature and when the taoist ideal (the individual as part of nature) seems to be disappearing. |
China
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Seoungho Cho: Rev |
'Rev' is a complex combination of visual and sound montage, in which Cho's almost abstract images and the windblown sounds of Stephen Vitiello's soundtrack complement each other effortlessly. All concept of time is irrelevant and 'real time' becomes 'dream time', both detached and overwhelming at the same time. |
USA
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Guillermo Cifuentes: Night Lessons: Communion, First Lesson, Falling Bridge |
This trilogy is an impressive treatment of the fear that was felt in Chile during the regime of the military dictator Pinochet. |
Chili
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Vuk Cosic: No Land's Man |
Vuk Cosic, originally a writer, is a multi-talented artist and critic and he is also an excellent narrator. His website does not present just a list of items you can click on or go to, but the artist's story in hypertext, animations and images. |
Slovenië- websites
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Katharine Cullen: 172 Views 1981-1988 |
Katharine Cullen's grandfather endlessly photographed the bridge across the harbour of Port Jackson in Sydney from his quayside apartment's balcony. 172 shots from 1981 to 1988 were edited and animated by his granddaughter. |
Australië
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Kristine Diekman: Corn, Kitten, Sox and Knot |
This tape, a strange succession of memories and stories with an autobiographical touch, seems to be connected almost subconsciously. By means of a clear division into equally structured sections, apparently futile memories and events are woven into a network of associations that reverberate in the different worlds. |
USA
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Gisela Domschke & Fabio Itapura: Off Line |
Domschke and Itapura have been working together for quite some time already and have made performances, videotapes, websites. This time they will present a VJ/DJ performance called 'Off Line', together with DJ Desperado from Amsterdam en DJ Cliffy from London. The images are a variety of extracts of different elements of Brazilian media
especially novelas, news and some ads. The idea is to displace values, playing with the visual and cultural significance of this material. (With DJ Cliffy and DJ Desperado) |
Groot-Britannië
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Merilyn Fairskye: Flash |
It is dark outside, blowing up a gale, raining. Through a window, we see the trappings of an airport and reflected in the glass, we see people passing by. Inside, in the light, sits a man with a beard. The storm has stopped him from travelling any further. His reflection in the window gives him cause for contemplation about the choices he made in life. |
Australië
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Boris Gerrets & Anne Wellmer: Souvenirs entomologiques / Entomological Souvenirs |
Gerrets and Wellmer studied the book on insects 'Souvenirs Entomologiques'. The way in which insects perceive the world so fascinated Gerrets that he translated it into video image. Sound artist Anne Wellmer experimented with electronic music based on insect sounds, and improvised vocals. The images and sounds come together in a performance in which the audience participates in a personal investigation into the magnitude of the microworld. |
Nederland
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Granular Synthesis: NoiseGate-M6 |
NoiseGate-M6 is another step on the road towards the complete interchanging of the roles of men and machines. In the installation a model, Michael Krammer, is caught in a net of visual and acoustic structures and becomes totally alienated from himself. Man becomes machine while the machine starts to show human traits and displays a wide array of emotions. ('NoiseGate M-6 is an international co-production by Granular Synthesis and is presented in Holland under the auspices of Muziekcentrum De Ijsbreker). |
Oostenrijk
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Alexander Hahn & Niki Good: Popular Admiration of Great Thieves |
The Hahn/Good duo, in a series of 'tableaux vivants', creates an imaginary journey through time and space. The darkened stage is taken up by a number of screens which form a sculptural object as well as being a projection surface. Video projections are used in each scene to create a transitory microcosmos with Good moving as a dancer within it. The boundaries of physical space are breached, removed in a kind of 'mindscape'. |
Zwitserland
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Gusztáv Hámos & Katja Pratschke: Natural Born Digital |
The players in a virtual role game have to mix the digital with the real world, crossing the boundaries between the two. They ask Stelarc, Sandy Stone and Sugijama to help them develop the ideas and strategies. |
Duitsland/Japan
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Rummana Hussain: Is it what you think? |
This performance questions the Muslim woman stereotype, projected by the media and by the West. Considering the wide geographic spread of Islam with vastly dissimilar practices and rituals, specially in details, is it possible to create an image of the universal Muslim woman? |
India
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Iatrou & Morgan: Funeral in My Brain |
In the poem with the same title Emily Dickinson describes feelings of isolation and despair. In the video this is being visualized in grainy black & white shots portraying the deranged delusions of a woman. Iatrou and Morgan have succeeded in translating Dickinson's words into images in such a way that the result is like music. |
USA
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Takahiko Iimura: Interactive: Aiueo NN Six Features |
Our entrance to the world of sound and meaning and, therefore, reality, is through language, sound and image, with each being used in its own way. This is the game that Iimura plays, not only in the installation of the same name, but also again with this CD-Rom. |
Japan
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Adriene Jenik: Mauve Desert |
For this CD-Rom the novel 'Le Désert Mauve' by the Canadian writer, Nicole Brossard, was adapted for multimedia. The CD-Rom is not only an exemplary homage to Brossard's novel, it is also a rare example of how interactive fiction can be just as enthralling as the paper novel. |
Canada
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jodi: OSS/**** |
This CD-Rom is not connected to a network, but it is also not a program with a start and a finish, and every computer reacts differently to it. 'OSS/***' is not a story with push buttons and beautiful pictures. The program uses and manipulates the contents of the computer it is being run on, creating new images. |
Nederland
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Nigel Johnson: Fire-Fly (Pteroptyx Malaccae) |
The visitor to this installation is treated to a space which has been transformed, as if by magic, into a summer's eve. A cloud of fireflies buzz above your head when you move through the space. Johnson got the idea for this installation when one summer evening he saw large shining dots with a green glow dancing in the night air. |
Groot-Brittannië
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Art Jones: Culture versus the Martians, vol. 1 & 2 |
A CD-Rom, which seems to be almost entirely made up of images, sounds and texts from others, where you look and listen to clips, but where the interactivity often lies more in one's own thoughts and associations than in the doing. |
USA
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VJ OOKAAP (Gerald v.d. Kaap): Run on the Spot |
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Nederland
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Kai Kaljo: Luuser / Loser |
Why are you a 'Luuser' if you are still living at home at the age of 37, cannot live from your artistic endeavours, might even be a bit overweight, but yet can close with the announcement: 'I am happy', with the broadest and most winsome smile. |
Estland
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Istvan Kantor: Black Flag |
Computer animated words form a three-dimensional funnel. As you see the words passing by, turning, you can read: 'Down with the government that starves us!' Seen in conjunction with the title, the symbol of anarchism, the intent should be quite clear. Kantor has changed tack since his trilogy 'Jericho - Babylon - Nineveh', now devoting himself to direct political action. |
Canada
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William Kentridge: History of the Main Complaint |
Since 1989 Kentridge made seven films, grouped as 'Drawings for Projections', that examine the lives of Felix Teitelbaum and Soho Eckstein, players in a historical South African landscape. Eckstein is the fat cat businessman who flourished during apartheid, and Teitelbaum is a wandering naked soul of humanity, hinting at the specific post-colonial confusion of South Africa. 'History of the Main Complaint' was made at the start of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings and it also probes questions of guilt and responsibility. The other tapes shown are: 'Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris', 'Monument', 'Mime', 'Felix', History of the Main Complaint'. |
Zuid-Afrika
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Felix Knoth: Nackt / Naked |
Only at the very last moment, after an outpouring of shots of possible plots which do not avoid blood, sweat and tears, the complete picture is shown and the maker clarifies the situation. The pressure is off. We can breath easily again. |
Duitsland
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Ken Kobland: Manezh Square, 1:20 pm, 16 sept. 1990, Moscow, USSR |
Just outside the Kremlin walls, in the centre of Moscow, is a large traffic square: Manezh Square. In September 1990 it was the scene of a massive demonstration for democracy. Images of the demonstration and the contributions of those who were present (which are still being collected today) became the starting point of this panoramic website. |
USA
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Jeroen Kooijmans: Videograffiti |
Just like 'traditional' graffiti, video graffiti takes place in the evening, outside. By showing his videos unannounced Kooijmans ensures that his work will be seen only by chance passers-by with no expectations. Visitors of the video festival will have to make do with a taped record of the actual video graffiti itself. |
Nederland
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Shigeko Kubota: Sexual Healing |
Just as Marvin Gaye once fought to reunite his body and soul, Paik also carries on his battle here. The soul is willing, now the body has to do its bit, and while many try to help him with this, we hear the text by Gaye and Paik seems to long for other times. Kubota records the situation with much feeling, and the picture she sketches is optimistic. |
USA
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Ema Kugler: Postaja 25 / Station 25 |
Kugler based this video on one of her performances about power. The system of power that subordinates the individual to the authorities and the system that rules the intimate relationship between a man and a woman. |
Slovenië
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Yasuyuki Kurihara: Left WING |
Kurihara uses video for a voyage of discovery into his own identity. He compiled 'Left WING' out of material from his daily video diary. The collection of fragments covers a period of one year and is divided into a prologue and nine chapters. |
Japan
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Chip Lord: Mapping a City of Fragments v2 |
Information technology and transport are themes that Chip Lord uses in this video as the pillars of the metropolis at the end of the millennium. It is a vision of the development of that city, starting in 1997 and ending sometime after the year 2000. |
USA
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Lucky People Center: Live |
The makers of 'Lucky People International', the film/documentary hit at the filmfestival of Locarno, also perform live. In a special performance for the World Wide Video Festival they will transform the Oude Zaal of the Melkweg into a platform for sound and image where video samples, projections and live music by three performers, combined with a spectacular lighting design will provide a rare audiovisual sensation. |
Zweden
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Lucky People Center: Information is free / Electronic Pollution |
This compilation consists of fifteen shortfilms/musicvideos deconstructing political, religious an privat events in a media perspective. The videos consists of own archive material and of material zapped and 'stolen' from differen TV channels. Featuring (a.o.): 'Live in the World, 'Get Up', 'Jesus', 'Rodney King', 'Harris' and 'Sundance' |
Zweden
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Nalini Malani: Remembering Toba Tek Singh |
The theme of this installation is the problematic relationship between India and Pakistan and the often absurdist consequences the Partition of the two countries has had over the years. |
India
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Nalini Malani: Memory-Record/Erase |
The title contains two terms typical for the medium of video. Video however is not the medium central to this piece. This work is Malani's visual animation/interpretation of 'The Job' by Bertolt Brecht, set by Brecht during the depression in Germany. |
India
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Arturo Marinho & Andrea Ostero: Noche y niebla / Night and Fog |
This video is based on 'Las Ruinas Circulares' by the Argentine poet and writer Jorge Luis Borges. 'Nacht und Nebel' was the name of a secret order issued by Adolf Hitler during the Second World War as a reaction to increased activity by the French resistance. |
Argentinië
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Bjorn Melhus: No Sunshine |
In cyberspace red spaceballs whirl about in the darkness. There are two identical little spacemen in one of the balls. They are wearing strange red outfits and have yellowish hair. This story has no happy ending. |
Duitsland
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Marcello Mercado: The Warm Place |
Every image always consists of the components of which that image is made. But what happens if all the components are detached from each other, every image fragmented and the parts mixed together? |
Argentinië
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Sabine Mooibroek: Are you in love? |
'Do you find eating and swallowing noises annoying to hear? Would you like a bodyguard or do you feel safe enough? Do you like to go shopping? Do your parents say things like: dark sunglasses for dark people? Would you think it horrible if your husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend turned to prostitution? Are you in love?' |
Nederland
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Jordi Moragues: Una nit / One Night |
In Moragues' computer-animated film an impossible love affair flares up between a Pepsi bottle and a Coca-Cola bottle, personifying, respectively, Romeo and Juliet. The love tragedy does not take place in idyllic Verona, but in a perfectly ordinary supermarket. |
Spanje
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Sükran Moral: Hamam / Turkish Bath |
As a woman between the men in a 'hamam', Moral tempts the men into breaking tradition. She remains passive, innocent. She submits to the whole scene which makes her the voyeur with regard to changed ideas of woman as whore, virgin and Madonna. |
Turkije
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Lars Movin & Steen Müller Rasmussen: Lowell celebrates Kerouac |
Jack Kerouac, daddy of the Beat Generation, grew up in the small industrial town of Lowell in Massachusetts. Fans come to Lowell every year for the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac festival to be taken round the places he wrote about in his books and to listen to readings and jazz. |
Denemarken
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Carol Murphy: Blind Date |
Murphy writes, directs, performs and edits videos. She installs objects, video and sound based installations, reads, writes, produces photographically based public art and letter based installations. She is all singing and all dancing. |
USA
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Carlos Nader: Carlos Nader |
The question 'Who am I?' has been asked over the years in many different ways by videomakers. Carlos Nader adds yet a new way to the genre: suspense. He takes this work beyond self-examination by generalizing his question, and by asking it of others. |
Brazilië
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Nomad (Petra Epperlein & Michael Tucker): The Last Cowboy |
This is a story about the last cowboy who goes on a journey in 1989, just after the Berlin Wall came down. Now that his world is captured on DVD, other aspects of his story are accessible for his listeners. The linear narrative perspective only applies to the sound, the visuals tell a non-linear story. |
Brazilië
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Wendelien van Oldenborgh: Splitsing |
Van Oldenborgh makes remarkable, short, super-8 and 16 mm films. In her films, mostly mounted in loop form, she records human actions which at first seem random and nondescript. The film is about the difference between seeing and looking. Here, the tone is set by the difference between life and death. |
België/Nederland
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Tommy Olsson: Blind Date |
Tommy Ollson's videos and performances look like incantations. Ritual acts mixed with pop culture symbolism are used to expose the obsessions and repressed fantasies people carry with them. |
Noorwegen
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Ronald Ophuis: Blind Date |
Ophuis attempts to capture the dark side of mankind in his work. The situations he depicts could happen to anyone and the viewer is forced to empathize, either as victim or as perpetrator. Ophuis confronts his audience with human nature. |
Nederland
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Maria Pask: Blind Date |
Pask sees her work as a 'personal narrative' which mirrors her life. The videos, performances and texts with her as the protagonist are partly autobiographical but are also partly based on fabrications. |
Nederland
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Malcolm Payne: Abandon your Culture |
A plea is being made for abandoning old models and searching for new interpretations of our cultural beliefs. Abandon your culture, your parents, your future, your ideology, your identity, your history... Abandon everything. |
Zuid-Afrika
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Malcolm Payne: Ace |
This 'ad', made following western European advertising conventions for detergents, is laced with images of more conventional forms of life in South Africa. Progress is favoured and the traditional forgotten. This is true of aspects of society as well as of detergents. |
Zuid-Afrika
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Alix Pearlstein; Pause |
A woman moves and takes on a pose and this pose relates to a certain concept. We see here an ironic game of associations, and with the codes relating to female identity. An amusing image drawn in black & white pantomime. |
USA
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Keith Piper: The Exploded City |
This installation plays upon notions of the lines of demarcation, which currently transact urban spaces, creating barriers and frontiers between people on the basis of racial and class difference. 'The exploded' city exists in the space after the fragmentation of language and in which economic, social, cultural and racial differences are entrenched through the cultivation of so-called 'no go areas'. |
Groot-Brittannië
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Philip Pocock, Florian Wenz, Udo Noll & Felix S. Huber: A Description of the Equator and Some Øtherlands |
The Equator is a 'travel-as-art-as-information' project produced for Documenta X with artists reporting from and performing on the equator in Central Eastern Africa and South East Asia, as well as Øtherwhere. The Equator since then has grown into a large website, where regular users, agents and robots reside. |
Duitsland
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Manuel Saiz: Updated 4/98 |
By taking samples of images made by others and citations from films then combining that with original material the maker creates a path through all the references, a story that is not created by an unambiguous narrative structure, but by the references that are shown. |
Spanje
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Eder Santos: Tumitinhas / Youhadme |
A small video that does not try to carry a moral message, but rather is 'only' poetry. Poetry about the memory of the break-up between two people who loved each other. |
Brazilië
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Viviane Sassen: Blind Date |
Sassen records mainly her friends in their own surroundings, thus documenting and describing the life style of a group of youths. She is especially interested in the outside, the appearance, which according to her sends out signals that reveal a lot about identity. |
Nederland
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Martin Sercombe, Sianed Jones & Cris Cheek: Tongues Undone |
In this performance the three use digital video art, experimental music, poetry, light and animation in a continual dialogue. During this interaction between live improvisation and reproduced image and sound the artists use various musical instruments, sampled sound and voice. |
Groot-Brittannië
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Sluik/Kurpershoek: FANAL! March Radau II |
The truth now is a myth and each individual has his own interpretation of a truth. And so history consists of questions only and whoever has no more questions has reached the end of a journey. The Reichstag fire (27/11/1933) is the leitmotif of Sluik/Kurpershoek's voyage through European landscapes. |
Nederland
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Sonic Act |
Sonic Act is an annual festival in Amsterdam bridging the gap between new electronic music and video, film, situational art, club culture and music theatre. The festival combines these elements within a larger concept, forming a working ground for new multimedia presentation forms. Sonic Act participants will present an image and sound performance of half an hour at the World Wide Video Festival |
Nederland
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Peter Stel: Blind Date |
In the media and in everyday matters Stel 'finds' situations that surprise, disturb or attract the attention in some other way. The images stay glued to his retina and are converted into installations with a strong sensory appeal. |
Nederland
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Ricardo Summers: Assembly Lines bore Me |
Many of the common consumer products that invade our daily lives are factory-made nowadays at a large number of assembly lines. Summers holds strong views on this: he is fed up with it all. |
Spanje
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Vivan Sundaram: House/Boat: Sculptures in Paper, Glass, Steel and Video |
The transport of people who have been driven from their homes for political or religious reasons to a, for them, yet unknown destination has also been a constantly recurring tragic occurrence throughout India's history. With this work of art Sundaram seizes on a politically loaded event. |
India/Canada
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Vivan Sundaram: Couples |
A succession of couples of very different national and cultural origins follows, not an unusual sight in big cities. The parade becomes more and more absurd, the unique music having a hand in this. |
India/Canada
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Supreme Particles & From Scratch: Global Hockets |
The combination of the analogous polyrhythm of the music of From Scratch with the digital layered visualizations of Supreme Particles sets off an extra 'hocketic' dialogue. All these loose elements from separate stimuli and impulses gradually create a dramatic environment which encircles the audience like a pulsing global brain. |
Duitsland/Nieuw-Zeeland
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Tomoko Take: Dutchwife/Dutchlife |
Central to the performance are the differences in interpretation of language and symbols not just between Japanese and Dutch culture, but between all cultures. The point of departure of the performance is the conventions three women adhere to in their lives and concepts such as physicalness, humanity and the relationship between the sexes. The collaboration with Easy Tune also gives live sound an important role in the performance. |
Japan
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Fiona Tan: Roll I & II |
In this installation Tan uses contrasts to visualize some of her views on how we process images and how editing influences the images we see. Not just while we are watching, but in our memories as well. |
Nederland
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Fiona Tan: Linnaeus' Flower Clock |
Starting with the idea that nature is exceptionally punctual, Linnaeus described the flower clock: certain species open and close at specific times of the day. Could such a scheme be helpful in holding on to memories? Or will these, like flowers, turn out to be transitory and is that the core of existence for both, the essence of their beauty? |
Nederland
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Uri Urech: Hotel El Portal |
How did Scottish Scotty end up in New Mexico, in Raton, where there are few pedestrians, everyone drives a pick-up, with the radio tuned to the local station. And where Scotty has been already forgotten shortly after his death because only daily life is of interest here. |
USA/Zwitserland
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Steina Vasulka: Orka / Force |
In 'Orka' (Icelandic for 'power') the continual fascination for the primal forces of nature and the elements come to the fore. Steina has dynamically interwoven all kinds of video takes of natural phenomenon. |
USA
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Martijn Veldhoen: Dislocations |
'Dislocations' is a semi-interactive installation. On a projection screen in a darkened space the visitor sees a slowly rotating city and landscape panorama. The images are serene, there are no sounds of any activity. As soon as the visitor reaches the beam of a spotlight a motion sensor triggers a bombardment of images and sounds. |
Nederland
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Sandrine Vivier: La pommose d'Adamour / Adamour's Apple Illness |
This modern fairy tale paints a sobering picture of marriage and family life and does not shy away from some theatrical experimentation. Thanks to the plastic masks everyone keeps on smiling. |
Frankrijk
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Mascha de Vries: Blind Date |
The videos by De Vries distinguish themselves by the precise choreography of everyday movements and acts. Her characters are often stereotyped caricatures who by their actions either confirm our expectations of their behaviour or mercilessly denounce them. |
Nederland
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Magnus Wallin: Blind Date |
Since the mid-90's Wallin has been investigating what constitutes our concepts of normality and difference. For a number of years, this investigation has taken its starting point in the representation of the handicapped or physically defect body, as opposed to the perfect body and society's relation to it. |
Zweden
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Mark Wallinger: Angel |
The middle escalator in a London underground station is elevated to 'the' way to heaven. Wallinger, waving with his white stick and blackened sunglasses, recites continuously the same text from John 1; 1-5 back to front. The only sentence which can be wholly understood is: 'In the beginning was the word and the word was with God, and the word was God.' |
Groot-Brittannië
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Christa Werner-Geiselhofer: Wiener Blut / Vienna Blood |
'Wiener Blut' is an ironic commentary on love and the impossibility of actually meeting one another. Werner-Geislhofer works a lot with sound effects and psychedelic images that evoke associations with the days of bubbling light shows. |
Duitsland
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Erik Wesselo: Blind Date |
Wesselo's attitude is that of a non-conformist. The willy-nilly artist. His melancholy nature evokes a destructive energy from within which he sublimates into an existential experience. |
Nederland
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Paul Wong: Miss Chinatown |
Sugary sweet images of the specific, idealized world of a beauty pageant are contrasted with fragments of stories told by a number of Chinese Canadians from 'other' worlds. |
Canada
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Ersan Wu: Look around |
In a continuous circling motion an image of changes is formed. The scarcity of the previous years is being mixed with the abundance of the modern consumer society. |
China
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Liang Zhao: Game |
The maker seems to be playing a game with nearness and distance, and introducing stratification by giving a meaning to the sign of two entwined figures, a meaning which we could not perceive before. |
China
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Jia Zhu: Shine |
An unusual perspective and the striking camera movement greatly influences the aesthetics of the image and forces the viewer to experience in a different way a familiar scene: basketball. |
China
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