VIPER BASEL | INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR FILM VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA (Modified by Auriea)

[VIPER Basel | Competition 2004]

VIPER BASEL NEWSLETTER
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INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR FILM VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA
18 - 22 NOVEMBER 2004
GENERATIONS ON THE MOVE
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WWW.VIPER.CH
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1_VIPER SCREEENINGS EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES
2_VIPER CONFERENCE
3_VIPER FOCUS ART&CINEMA
4_VIPER FOCUS INTERACTION&SPACE
5_VIPER PARTNER EVENTS
6_VIPER SPECIALS

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1_VIPER SCREENINGS EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES

VIPER Basel International Festival for Film Video and New Media will be
running between Thursday, 18 November and Monday, 22 November 2004. The
festival will present an extensive film/video and exhibition programme, 
a
conference, workshops, performances and numerous premiers and events and
offers an up-to-date overview over Swiss and international positions in 
art
and new media.

VIPER presents the best 133 works from the International Competition.
Projects from renowned international art and research labs like  the MIT
Media Lab Europe/ Dublin, Interaction Design at the Royal College of 
Art/
London, MonteVideo Netherlands Media Institute/ Amsterdam, Eyebeam
Atelier/New York and others.

Festival venues: Kunsthalle Basel, Stadtkino Basel, Kultkino Atelier, 
Museum
für Gegenwartskunst, [plug.in], Gare du Nord, Kaskadenkondensator, Cargo
Bar, and others

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1_VIPER CONFERENCE

Under the motto GENERATIONS ON THE MOVE VIPER is presenting an 
international
Conference.

Three subject areas will be up for discussion:
PERFORMING TO SURVIVE focuses on equipping the world we live in with 
digital
intelligent technologies. Individuals and collectives become players in 
the
system - lifestyle or a subtle economy of control?
TESTING THE CULTURAL AFFAIR enquires about cultural orientation and 
action
in a globally networked world - authenticity in the digital age or 
multiple
consumerism?
PROBING CITIZENS WAKE introduces new so-called «governance» models. They
stand for our hope of a self-determined constitution for 
post-industrial,
knowledge-based societies - trans-national utopia or cleverly presented
self-interest?

Participants include: Piotr Cofta (Media Lab Europe Dublin/Trusting
Technologies), Sylvia Harvey (University of Lincoln/Faculty of Media and
Humanities), Dieter Lesage (Erasmusuniversität Brüssel/RITS) Anthony 
Dunne
(Dunne & Raby, London), Brian Holmes (Multitude Paris), Michael 
Kieslinger
(Fluidtime Wien/Interaction Institute IVREA Turin), Tiziana Traldi 
(Future
Concept Lab Mailand/London), Greg Van Alstyne (Institute without 
Boundaries,
Toronto), Omar Vulpinari (Benetton Fabbrica Interactive Treviso), and 
others

The GENERATIONS ON THE MOVE conference is organised in conjunction with 
the
Swiss Federal Office of Culture's Sitemapping,ch initiative.

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3_VIPER FOCUS ART&CINEMA
It is impossible to ignore interactions between film and art, and since
digital technologies have swept all before them this has been an
increasingly exciting area of artistic action. VIPER BASEL 2004 
presents a
retrospective of the English artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien.

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4_INTERACTION&SPACE
Entire industries, research and design departments are developing 'smart
tools' and 'intelligent ambients'. VIPER BASEL presents projects and
concepts: Ben Hooker/Shona Kitchen (UK), Katerine Moriwaki (US/IE) 
Michelle
Teran (NL), Alison Sant/Ryan Shaw: Trace (US) and others

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5_VIPER PARTNER EVENTS

PRO HELVETIA/XCULT(at)VIPER
Official Launch 56kTV - bastard channel - Online Art Project
A hybrid between a television and a Web project, an Internet platform 
that
tells itself as the story of a television station. The station works 
with
the low-tech and financial resources of Net art and has employees on 
four
continents.

METAWORX(at)VIPER
'Interaction&Process' - lectures, project presentations and performances
Models and methods from a research programme in the interaction field.

HYPERWERK(at)VIPER
nomadics.campus - combining and mediating competences, offering 
resources
and expertise as practised at Hyperwerk will be demonstrated.

MEWI(at)VIPER
The Institut für Medienwissenschaft, Universität Basel invites as part 
of
the festival to an open seminar: students and visitors discuss selected
works of the VIPER Exhibition with a focus on the topic «Aesthetics of
Projection».


PLUG.IN(at)VIPER
'copy - create - manipulate': The exhibition Cornelia Sollfrank: 'legal
perspective' provides practical and theoretical insights into the 
explosive
debate about ' creative commons', 'free art', 'open content'
The relating panel discussion "Out of Balance" focuses on discrepancy 
and
radical change in artistic practice and intellectual property.

Participants include: Severine Dusollier (creative commons /Brussels), 
Jamie
King (Mute / London), Stella Rollig (Lentos Museum / Linz) and others

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6_VIPER SPECIALS

VIPER | OPENING
Public Opening with a parcours on Thursday, 18 November 8 p.m., 
Kunsthalle
Basel
VIPER | PUBLIC PROJECTS
Invitation to the audience to participate in an art project
VIPER | DIGITAL ART NIGHT
Saturday, 20 November starting at 7 p.m., reservation recommended
VIPER | SCHOOL SPECIAL
Programme for college and school students from all over Switzerland and 
the
adjacent countries
VPER | GUIDED TOURS
Introduction and special interest programme

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INFORMATION ON THE PROGRAMME AND ADMISSION: WWW.VIPER.CH
VIPER BASEL IS LOOKING FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT!
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27 00
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