19 September 2003
Review of the 20th World Wide Video Festival 2003
The jubilee edition of the World Wide Video Festival came to a successful
conclusion on 25 May. Twenty years of World Wide was celebrated with, among
other things, a comprehensive retrospective exhibition which provided
insight into the most important developments in media art over the last two
decades. The festival was well attended by both the public and the
participating artists. Many visitors saw the solo and retrospective
exhibitions, the live VJ-performances during the three-day closing
manifestation 'RGB', the screenings in the Auditorium and those in the
World Wide Media Lounge. Eighty of the participating artists were present in
person to take part in the meet-the-artist programme.
We were very pleased with our new main location, Passenger Terminal
Amsterdam. Most of the festival activities were held in this striking,
transparent building made of glass and steel on the shore of the IJ. The
concentration of events at one location contributed to the festival's
success.
World Wide thanks the public, the guests, the artists and the many staff
members who made the World Wide Video Festival 2003 a dynamic and
stimulating event.
The festival catalogue is now available on CD-ROM and has links to the
festival website where additional audio and visual material made during the
festival, can be seen and heard. The catalogue can be ordered at:
www.wwvf.nl/catalogue
Click here for a look at the festival programme 2003
Data 21st World Wide Video Festival 2004
The next edition of the World Wide Video Festival will be held from 13 - 23
May 2004. Passenger Terminal Amsterdam will once again be the festival's
main location. The Passenger Terminal will be open daily from 11 a.m. until
1 a.m. in the morning. Preparations for the programme are well under way.
Extra attention will be given to the developments in media art in eastern
Europe. You will find more information about the coming festival in our
next newsletter.
Call for submissions n
Artists interested in participating in the selection for single-screen
productions (video, DVD, net art, CD-ROM) for the 21st edition of the World
Wide Video Festival in 2004 can use the
on-line entry form.
The festival's coming editions give priority to: thematically oriented
exhibitions, solo presentations and special projects. This development
introduced in the previous editions of the festival means that it is no
longer possible to submit proposals for the categories: installation and
performance. We would have to disappoint too many artists, as there is not
sufficient space for the presentation of their work. Single-screen
productions however can be submitted. A selection of these entries will be
compiled into a programme to be displayed in the Auditorium and in the
World Wide Media Lounge.
World Wide activities abroad
In addition to the main activity, the yearly festival, the World Wide Video
Festival is developing a number of activities abroad. There are
far-reaching plans to arrange an edition of the World Wide Video Festival in
the Triennale di Milano in Italy in October 2004. The installation 'Video'
by Ivan Esquivel Naito; net art and videotapes by Iv?n Lozano, Angie Bonino
and Diego Lama were exhibited during the 7th ATA festival 2003 in Lima,
Peru. Eder Santos' solo exhibition was on show in July in Brazil in the
Pal?cio das Artes in Belo Horizonte and the installation Encyclopedia of
Ignorance, produced by the festival, will be on view during Videobrasil in
Galeria Brito Cimino in Sao Paulo.
Furthermore, a selection of work from the last festival will be at
VideoLisboa 2003 in Lisbon and in Centre d'Art Contemporain
Basse-Normandie, WHARF in Hérouville Saint-Clair, France. The
interdisciplinary production Hamlet Machine by Dominik Barbier which had its world premiere as prelude to the World Wide Video Festival in March was a big success in the Système Friche Théâtre in Marseilles.
ATA: www.ata.org.pe
Videobrasil: www.videobrasil.org.br
VideoLisboa: www.videolisboa.com
'The way of the weed' screening at Club Cinema
Club Cinema screens unique and experimental films in a club context. On
Saturday 20 September at 22.00 the film 'The Way of the Weed' by Anne
Quirynen, An-Marie Lambrechts & Peter Missotten is being screened in Amuse
Theater, Amsterdam.
In the year 7079 the researcher Thomas is dropped in a desert to research
the life's work of the obscure scientist William F. (William Forsythe). In
the catacombs of the underground laboratory Thomas chances upon a team of
plant researchers in a comatose state who have been stored in tanks filled
with water. Thomas is literally engulfed by this mystery and comes in
contact with a 'science' that is much older than what he had expected to
study.
Club Cinema is an initiative of Electronation in association with the World
Wide Video Festival. After the film there is an Electronation party with a
performance by Alexander Robotnick - the king of Italian disco from the
eighties - and others.
For more information:
Electronation: www.electronation.nl
The Way of the Weed
Jobs at World Wide
World Wide currently has job openings for a staff member Communication/Public Relations, and a staff member Acquisition of Funds & Sponsors.
For more information: www.wwvf.nl/vacatures
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
