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This newsletter in Dutch: http://www.wwvf.nl/nieuwsbrief
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  WORLD  WIDE  VIDEO  FESTIVAL
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  annual international media art festival
  Amsterdam

  NEWSLETTER, 7 January 2003

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  CONTENT
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1. World Wide 2003: 8 - 25 May 2003
2. Dominik Barbier/Hamlet Machine: 
   13 - 16 March 2003
3. Festival Programme 2003:
 - About
 - World Wide Solo: Éder Santos
 - World Wide Focus: Bolivia/Peru/Ecuador:
   call for entries!
4. Online Archive
5. Tom van Vliet awarded Cultural Merit Award
6. Hotel accommodation
7. Attention please...
8. Festival Newsletter

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1. World Wide 2003: 8 - 25 May 2003
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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. http://www.wwvf.nl/2003

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2. Dominik Barbier/Hamlet Machine: 13 - 16 March 2003
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On 13 March 2003 the première 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 http://www.9292ov.nl. At
Ruigoord there is ample parking space for cars and buses.
 
Because of the limited space, the only way to obtain tickets is by
reservation. The admission fee is 10 Euro (with discount 8 Euro). Please
make a reservation in time on our website http://www.wwvf.nl/2003/barbier
(from Februari 1) or, starting 1 February until four days before
performances via the AUB Ticket Shop or the Uitlijn at 0900-0191 or
http://www.uitlijn.nl.

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3. World Wide Programme 2003: 
 - About
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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),
Jiangwei Wang (China), Ebru Özseçen (Turkey/The Netherlands), Irit Batsry
(Israel/USA), 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 première 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.

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3. Festival Programme 2003:
 - World Wide Solo: Éder Santos
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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.
http://www.wwvf.nl/2003

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3. Festival Programme 2003:
 - World Wide Focus: Bolivia/Peru/Ecuador:
   call for entries!
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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 at wwvf.nl.

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4. Online Archive
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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. 
http://www.wwvf.nl/archive.

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5. Tom van Vliet awarded Cultural Merit Award
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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. For full details, please see: http://www.wwvf.nl/news.

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6. Hotel accommodation
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For the 20th edition of the World Wide Video Festival in May 2003, we have
been able to make discount arrangements with a number of hotels, including
the Hotel Arena. May is a very busy month for hotel accomodation in
Amsterdam, so be sure to make your reservation well in advance. See
http://www.wwvf.nl/hotels.

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7. Attention please...
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In two minds
'In two minds' is a '55-minutes-live-exhibition' by Dutch artist Aernout
Mik, in co-operation with Toneelgroep Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum and
World Wide. 
http://www.stedelijk.nl.
 
30 Years of Dutch Video Art 
>From 11 January through 8 March 2003 the Netherlands Media Art Institute,
Montevideo/Time Based Arts presents a survey of Dutch video art from 1970 to
2000. 
http://www.montevideo.nl.

DEAF03
DEAF, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, is a biennial international and
interdisciplinary festival organized by V2_ in Rotterdam (NL) which
showcases crossovers between art, technology and society. From 25 February -
9 March 2003 in Rotterdam. http://www.v2.nl. 

The Cuckoo's Nest Festival 2003
>From January 22 - February 2, during the International Filmfestival
Rotterdam, The Cuckoo's Nest will host a wide range of acts and activities
centered around the theme Cinema and New Media in Dance Culture. 
http://www.thecuckoosnest.nl.

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8. Festival Newsletter
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The World Wide Video Festival is supported financially on a regular basis by
the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and by the City of
Amsterdam. The festival also receives grants from, among others, Amsterdam
Art Foundation, Culture Fund of the Bank of Dutch Cities, VSB Foundation,
Mondriaan Foundation, The Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation, Prince Claus
Fund, European Committee, HIVOS, Canadian Embassy in the Netherlands,
Ambassade de France au Pays Bas, Goethe Institut Rotterdam.

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