20 years World Wide | 8 - 25 May 2003
This year the World Wide Video Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary with a retrospective exhibition that highlights some of the developments in media art over the past two decades. This overview consists of installations that were developed at the initiative of the World Wide Video Festival. Together they represent all continents, making it a truly international exhibition, guided by two leading aspects: the pure aesthetic quality of the images and the artists’ commitment.
Retrospective exhibition
Main location:
Passenger Terminal Amsterdam
The central location to present this overview and most of the other events is a building of contemporary architecture, the transparent Passenger Terminal Amsterdam. For three weeks, the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam – situated on the IJ waterfront – will be transformed into a dynamic festival centre. Besides the retrospective exhibition it will host the screening of over 80 selected videotapes, the Meet-the-Artist programme, and the solo exhibitions by Éder Santos and Walid Ra'ad. The World Wide Media Lounge, where visitors can make their own choice from the videotapes, CD-ROMs and net-art, is situated on the panorama deck, offering an intriguing programme as well as a spectacular view.
Floor Plan PTA
World Wide Solo: Éder Santos
World Wide Solo: Walid Ra'ad
World Wide Media Lounge
Over these three weeks the permanent exhibitions are accompanied by a daily varying programme of artists’ presentations and cinematic screenings of the sections ‘Shorts’ and ‘Portraits’. This website contains a brief description of the programme. Additional information is available in the catalogue, and of course at the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam and other festival locations.
Shorts 1
Shorts 2
Programme schedule 9 till 25 May
Meet the artist
In Meet the Artist which takes place in the auditorium the audience can come into closer contact with the artists in a series of lectures, interviews and introductions that discuss in more detail the works themselves, their context and the artists' motivations.
Programme schedule 8-25 May
World Wide Focus: Latin America
This year, special attention is paid to Latin America. Besides the solo exhibition by Éder Santos there will be an extensive survey of recent media art from Peru, Argentina and Brazil in the programme section World Wide Focus: Latin America.
More on World Wide Focus: Latin America
Arabic culture
The previous edition of the festival featured a tentative exploration of Arab media culture with the section entitled ‘in/tangible cartographies’. We now continue this with a solo exhibition by Walid Ra’ad and the exhibition ‘Mapping Sitting’ – a visual analysis of portrait photography in Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine and Jordan.
World Wide Focus: Walid Ra'ad
Mapping Sitting
World Wide Solo: Marina Abramovic
The development of performance art is featured in World Wide Solo Marina Abramovic. This exhibition features new installations that will have their world première at the festival, and a selection of older works by this internationally renowned artist.
World Wide Solo: Marina Abramovic
World Wide closing event: RGB
The 20th edition of the World Wide Video Festival will be concluded with RGB, a three day event dedicated to the contemporary VJ culture and electronic music. RGB consists of live performances by international musicians, artists and collectives that operate at the intersection of visual art, performance, new media and pop culture.
World Wide Closing Event: RGB
- Tom van Vliet
