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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:   - Artists   - Introduction Tom van Vliet   - World Wide Media Art   - Art en Politics   - Culture Jamming   - Still image/Moving image   - Meet the Artist   - Who is who/Face to Face   - Kunstkanaal/Art Channel PROGRAMME SCHEDULE:   - Screenings/Performances   - Exhibitions   - Seminar GENERAL INFORMATION:   - Adresses, Opening hours and Ticket Sales   - Reservations   - Opening and Closing Programme   - Festival Bars and Restaurants   - How to reach the Festival   - Colophon

Seminar In 2000 the World Wide Video Festival will organize its third seminar. The topics for the three day seminar have been chosen on the basis of a critical urgency and the current artistic practice. The presentation and distribution of media art is a recurring theme and will this year focus on the relationship between net.art and the museum world and the new possibilities of broadband Internet. In contemporary media art the narrative element is 'back', as we can gather from 'Dial History' by Johan Grimonprez and the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Irit Batsry and Nalini Malani. The digitization of film and photography creates an entirely new relationship between still images and moving images. Time and speed, simulation of time and still images: everything gets a new dimension. Last update: 21/02/01

Day 1. Thursday 14 September De Balie, 10:30 - 13:30 Narrative tendencies in contemporary media art In the past, media art was often involved in formal exploration of the medium itself, paying much attention to the poetic aspects of video. Lately, a trend can be discerned where artists increasingly use 'classic' narrative structures. The dividing lines between media art, film and documentary seem to be dissolving. Speakers Jayce Salloum (USA), has been working in video, installation, photography, and mixed media since 1975. His work deals with a variety of contexts critically engaging itself in the representation of cultural manifestations and other cultures. Jeroen Boomgaard (NLD), art historian and art critic. Boomgaard wrote a doctoral thesis on Rembrandt but is currently active in contemporary art. Lately he has been studying the relationship between television and visual art, especially the way in which television influences art.

Day 2 Friday 15 September De Balie, 10:30 - 13:30 The interaction between still images and moving images Digitization is creating a new relationship between still images and 'filmic' images, blurring the dividing lines between the two media. Speakers Pierre Bismuth (BEL), is a visual artist who is fascinated by cinema, especially by its commercial and social role. Bismuth took part in the exhibition 'Cinéma Cinéma' at the Van Abbe Museum in 1999. Francis McKee (GBR), curator and art critic. McKee curated the opening exhibition of the new building of the Centre of Contemporary Art in Glasgow. He published articles about Douglas Gordon, Jorge Pardo and about the duo Smith & Stewart, amongst others.

Day 3. Saturday 16 September De Balie, 10:30 - 13:30 Presentation and distribution of media art via the World Wide Web The advancing technology of the Net offers artists the chance to present their work world wide and net.art as well has developed rapidly. At the same time broadband technology now makes it possible to distribute short films over the Net. How does this effect festivals and other presentation sites for media art, and what role can and should the classic museums for modern art play in this? Speakers David Guez (FRA), founder of the Arts Channel tv-art.net and free public access channel teleweb.org. Steve Dietz (USA), media curator with the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis. He bought one of the first net.art initiatives, Adaweb, for the museum and founded the net.art department 'Gallery 9' at the Walker Art Museum.