7 januari 2003
World Wide 2003: 8 - 25 May 2003
For those who haven't heard this yet; the World Wide Video Festival's new main location will be the PTA - Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, Piet Heinkade 27, at a ten minutes walk from Central Station. Most of the programme of World Wide 2003 will take place in this huge, transparent building on the IJ's waterfront. World Wide's 20th anniversary edition will start on Thursday night 8 May at 8.30 PM and will remain open to the public through 25 May.
Dominik Barbier/Hamlet Machine:
13 - 16 March 2003
On 13 March 2003 the premičre will take place of 'Hamlet Machine', as conceived by French artist Dominik Barbier, based on a text by the legendary German playwright Heiner Müller, who, until his death in 1995, was actively involved in this project. In his version of Müller's legacy, Barbier brings together various art disciplines: visual art, electronic music, dance and theatre. Actors from Toneelgroep Amsterdam will collaborate in this production. This grandiose interdisciplinary performance will be presented, as a prelude to the World Wide Video Festival, on Thursday 13, Friday 14, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 March, 2003, in a huge barn of 500 min2 in Ruigoord, Amsterdam. You can reach Ruigoord from bus station Marnixstraat/Europarking or train station Sloterdijk. Bus 82 (direction IJmuiden) leaves for Ruigoord every half hour. The bus ride will take approximately forty minutes. For more information on public transport services, timetables and routes please consult 
www.9292ov.nl. At Ruigoord there is ample parking space for cars and buses.
Festival Programme 2003:
- About
The upcoming edition of World Wide will host a large number of activities, including a retrospective exhibition, solo exhibitions and the presentation of a selection of current media art: installations, net-art, CD-ROMs, videotapes and performances. The spectacular retrospective exhibition is showcasing a selection of intriguing installations from previous editions of the festival - all works that were developed or co-produced on the initiative of World Wide by artists from all over the world. These include installations by: Juan Downey (Chili/USA) , Gustzáv Hámos (Hungary/Germany), Tony Oursler (USA), Komiko Kushiyama (Japan), Klaus vom Bruch (Germany), Jianwei Wang (China), Minette Vári (South Africa), Nalini Malani (India), Francesc Torres (Spain/USA), Rita Myers (USA), Keith Piper (UK) and Anne Quirynen, An-Marie Lambrechts & Peter Missotten (Belgium).
The festival will also present the world premičre of the installation Vumbuludéo by Marie-France Giraudon and Emmanuel Avenel (Canada). The intoxicatingly poetic images of this installation bear references to the permanent darkness of an arctic winter; a metaphor for an imaginary journey through an incoherent physical world - a world governed by the logic of trance, turning all of the surrounding as well as the body itself into a place where the imagination is being projected. In 2000, the festival showed Giraudon/Avenel's tape Trans(e) Bleu.
Besides hosting the installations exhibition, the PTA building will also have a dedicated space for the Meet-the-Artist programme, large screen projections of videotapes and the seminar. The PTA's Panorama Deck will be the location for the World Wide Media Lounge - the place to privately watch all of the selected single screen works.
Festival Programme 2003:
- Solo Éder Santos
World Wide highlights Brazilian artist Éder Santos by presenting a wide selection of his work. He will also produce two new works, commissioned by the festival. Santos lives in Belo Horizonte, where he is currently working on The Encyclopedia of Ignorance, an installation about the experience of mortal sins and the intense emotions they can evoke. Structured like an encyclopedia, these emotions and sins are treated as 'entries' or lemmas. Santos relates traditional values, modern taboos and the emotions of human relationships by juxtaposing them, causing a certain alienation and raising critical questions.
From February through May, 2003, Santos will be artist-in-residence in Amsterdam. Just like in Framed by Curtain, his video on Hong Kong, during his stay he will work on a poetic video essay about cosmopolitan Amsterdam. In this video Santos will examine his experience of the city from the position of a foreigner and outsider, analyzing the rhythm and daily routines of the city. The artist-in-residence program is supported by the Amsterdam Art Fund. Works by Éder Santos have been presented regularly in the past at the World Wide Video Festival.
Festival Programme 2003:
- Bolivia/Peru/Ecuador: Call for entries
This year, special attention will be paid to new work by young artists from the Latin American countries Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Together with the HIVOS, the festival offers a number of young artists from this region the chance to produce new work and present it at World Wide.
Media artists from these countries are invited to submit proposals for new productions of installations, videotapes, internet productions and/or CD-ROMs. Selected entries will be realized and presented at the 20th World Wide Video Festival. Proposals labelled "Latin American Programme" should be submitted before 1 February 2003 to the office of the World Wide Video Festival, Keizersgracht 462, 1016 GE, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. E-mail: wwvf@wwvf.nl.
Online Archive
For some time now, we have been working on opening up the World Wide archive. A large part of the catalogue texts of the past 20 years World Wide Video Festival are already available on line. The festival's video archive, containing thousands of videos from the festival programmes, documentaries, recordings of live performances and interviews is now being digitized. Next year, a selection of 300 videos will be added to the online archive. Until then, we will regularly present samples from the archive in the form of Quicktime movies. At present these are: a registration of Planetart's noise installation, Jeroen Kooymans' video graffiti Maybe Marnixstraat and Tony Oursler's video greeting, which he made for the opening of the World Wide Video Festival 1993.
Tom van Vliet receives Cultural Merit Award
On 24 October last, Tom van Vliet, director of the World Wide Video Festival, was presented with Cultural Merit Award by the Canadian ambassador to the Netherlands Serge April, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the realisation and promotion of media art in the Netherlands.
Read the complete press release
For more information:
World Wide Video Festival
Keizersgracht 462
1016 GE Amsterdam
P: +31 (0)20 420 77 29
F: +31 (0)20 421 38 28
E: wwvf@wwvf.nl
W: www.wwvf.nl
