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From: VideoMedeja videomed at neobee.net 

International Video Festival
VideoMedeja 07
25 - 27th April 2003 Novi Sad

subject: videobeat
cathegories: video, CD ROM, video installations
deadline for entries: 15th February 2003.
more info and entry form at: www.videomedeja.org.yu

25, 26, 27th April        Selection of Competitiors
best works chosen by Selection Committee
projection room DV, DVD, BETA

25, 26, 27th         Follow up Programmes
video | video installations | sound installations | performances | live 
acts | installations

show windows| open spaces | digital screens | billboards| 3D objects |

city centre | wider area

CD ROM, VHS, S - VHS, DV, DVD



27th April

Live bands | Audio Visual Performance | VJ Performance

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<<the videobeat idea, in this case refers to various analytical 
approaches and theories of history and development of video arts.  
videobeat equally refers to the future and to the past.  therefore, the 
video subject matter will be approached from its very beginnings, when 
it appeared as a technological discovery - the image signal and the use 
in military purposes, and then it will be analyzed through a wider 
sociological, political and artistic prism. the videobeat explores the 
transformation of the video from the instrument for accurate 
transmission of certain events and situations all the way to the almost 
revolutionary possibilities in the scope of the most diverse expressions 
and experiments. video becomes the instrument for expression of 
emotions, imaginary realities, and new perceptions. freed from rational 
and technological, it steps away from the language of the feature film; 
the emphasis is put on freedom of expression. during the last decades of 
the past century, picturesque and poetical characteristic became the 
essence of the video>

<with regards to the videobeat subject matter, the intention is to 
define the status of video arts today, especially in relation to other 
forms of visual expression and media. one of the aims defined in this 
way is to answer frequent questions in this field: is video art being 
transformed into a new form and how can we be sure that the 
transformation isn't going in the opposite direction? what kind of media 
is this about, which are the new ways? is video disappearing in the age 
of pure digital forms? the most interesting question is whether the new 
media and the whole digital visual production are nothing but logical 
steps in the progress of video art aesthetics>>