[syndicate] call: VIII MEDIA FORUM

[claudia westermann]

VIII MEDIA FORUM

of the §·§·IX Moscow International Film Festival

24-27, June 2007

 
CALL FOR ENTRIES ¨C EVERYBODY!
10 May, 2007


>MEDIA FORUM

 

Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is held since 1959 and gradually
it has become one of most respectable and prestigious film-forums in the
world. In 1973 MIFF was registered by the International Federation of
Film-producers associations (FIAPF) as an ?A? class film festival alongside
with those in Berlin, Cannes, San-Sebastian, Karlovy Vary and Venice. 

 

This is the eighth year Media Forum is organized as part of the Moscow
International Film Festival. The role of new media in audiovisual art and
culture received due recognition and Media Forum was immediately introduced
into the official program of MIFF. The programme was started in 2000 at an
initiative of Aleksei Isaev, a well-known Russian media artist, curator and
theorist of the new media, who founded and directed the Moscow MediaArtLab
Centre. Media Forum as action is an exchange of ideas, infusion of new
forces into contemporary culture and vice versa. It is an attempt to
demonsrtate the logic of new thought and new communications. At the moment
it is inside media culture that new ideas go through trial and approbation,
ideas that cannot be realized in contemporary art context. 

 

>>MF programme 2007/ The theme of the Media Forum 2007 is NUDITY. 

 

Nudity in philosophy of the postmodernism is understood as a hypostasis of
such important notion as corporality. It expresses in its limit the ability
of the postmodern ¡°body without image¡± (Deleuze) to be a screen of
desires. In this sense the theme brings up the following problems in the
mediacontext:

 

¡¤         Overcoming of the nudity of the screen in the spatial interaction
with media, in interactivity;

¡¤         Transcendence of the overtechnologisation up to the condition of
low-tech and escape from virtual to actual, i.e. the return to the physical
body;

¡¤         Performativity that allows the body in its interaction with media
to turn from the object of desire into the effective instrument of critical
reflection;

¡¤         Divine comedy, i.e. the nudity of mass-media that parodies
itself.

 

The idea that moved the organizers of the Media Forum in selecting the theme
was a new anthropological ideal, a new measure of things in the epoch of
media predominance.

 

Theme of the Conference and round table: NUDITY /GAME CONSOLE



Reflections on nudity trigger another theme: the game.  The game is media
par exelence. At long last the critical theory always aspires to strip media
naked, to expose its game.

So game is a basic principle of media culture. What is to speak and discuss
in this connection:

 

Border between game and reality¡­

Common codes for real and virtual and how they become white noise

 

Mourning of heartfulness of the low-tech of 80s

Ethic of self-made games

Provocation of virtual

Encounter with your avatar

 

Society where all is in war with all

Game as universal communication hub

Machine that play us / with us

Illusion of the game that continues even when it¡¯s ended long ago

 

That games have became movable ¡­ The game is universal. It belongs to every
critical and artistic statement, and even those who try to deconstruct it
are only gamers. 

Be blessed the society of naked gamers!

 

>>>International Board

 

¡¤         Woody Vasulka ¨C pioneer of media art, founder of the world¡¯s
largest media archives ?Vasulkas?, USA

¡¤         Kirill Razlogov ¨C art director of MIFF, director of Russian
Institute for Cultural Research, Russia

¡¤         Kathy Rae Huffman ¨C Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse,
Manchester,UK

¡¤         Etienne Sandrin ¨C Attach¨¦ de Conservation of Video Archive at
the Georges Pompidou National Centre for Art and Culture, France

¡¤         Jan Schuijren ¨C curator, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

>>>>Entry Form
http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru




>>>>>Contacts: MIFF, Media Forum

119019, 8a, Nikitskii Boulevard, 3rd, (¡°Internews¡± - for ¡°MediaArtLab¡±)

URL: http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru 

Olga Shishko, Programs Curator (mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)

Konstantin Bokhorov, International Curator (bororo at division.ru)

Olga Selivanova, Coordinator of the Festival Program (elka at sidor.ru)

Elena Rumjantseva, MF PR director (rumy at mail.ru)