[spectre] Media Forum 2005 (Moscow) - Call for entries!

[MediaArtLab]

  VI MEDIA FORUM

of the ïïVII Moscow International Film Festival

June 23-26, 2005



<http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru>http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru


CALL FOR ENTRIES -  - EVERYBODY!

«Attractions Park»

So, on for the unit of impact in art! Science knows 'ions', 
'electrons', 'neutrons'. Let be 'attractions' in art!

The technical term signifying assembling of machines, water-pipes, 
and lathes migrated to everyday language from industrial usage.

The beautiful word 'montage' signifies assembling.

If the word isn't still fashionable it has all chances to become common.
Well!

Let the combination of impact units in one whole receive this 
ambiguous semi-industrial, semi-music-hall signification blending 
together two words!

They are both from the heart of urbanization and these years we all 
were awfully urbanized. Like this the term "attractions montage" will 
come into being.

  (Sergey Eisenstein. How I became a film director)



Attraction (from the  angle of  theatre) is any aggressive theatrical 
moment, i.e. any element putting viewer to the mental or 
psychological impact, optically measured and mathematically 
calculated for  the  predefined emotional shock to  the perceiverŠ

(Sergey Eisenstein. Attractions Montage)



A good art work get ready as a killing, it should be precise, perfect 
and privateŠ To describe some of its aspects is almost a treachery 
because there is possibility that the one of art forms possessing the 
potentiality of destructive force and unexpectedness has been 
realized in the pastŠ

(from the article of Dutch artist, participant of FLUXUS group, Wim 
T. Schippers)



>MEDIA FORUM

>>MF programme 2005

>>>International Board

>>>>>Entry Form and contacts



>MEDIA FORUM



Festival programme works submittion  deadline - May 20th 2005

Presentation programme and conference applications deadline - May 10st 2005

(e-mail - <mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)



Organizers: MediaArtLab centre for art and culture, Interfest

Location: Russian Cinematographers Union, ClubnaBrestskoj, Moscow

Support: ANO Intermews



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 sixth 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.



Media Forum is the first event of such scale in Russia and it reveals 
a new vision of the world of new media culture and new screen 
technologies to the professionals, critics and public in general. The 
objective of Media Forum is to demonstrate the connection between 
traditional and modern branches of screen culture, the impact of 
technological innovations on visual arts.



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 2005



1. Festival programme



Resting upon the Sergey Eisenstein 'Attraction Montage' avant-garde 
conception the Festival aims at collecting "Attractions Park" 
represented by the new technologies in experimental film, video, and 
interactivity art. The Festival works for re-actualizing Eisenstein 
conception in correspondence with contemporary ideology, cultural 
context and technology. 



2. Presentation programme: informational retrospective screenings and 
special screenings

We invite the participation of festivals, distributive centres, media 
labs, archives, independent curators



3.      The International Conference and round table "Between viewer 
and screen"



4.     Multimedia shows "Attractions Park"



>>>International Board



·         Woody Vasulka - pioneer of media art, founder of the 
world's largest media archives «Vasulkas», USA

·         Rudolf Frieling - Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnology 
[ZKM], Karlsruhe,Germany.

·         Kirill Razlogov - art director of MIFF, director of Russian 
Institute for Cultural Research, Russia

·         Kathy Rae Huffman - Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse, 
Manchester,UK

·         Etienne Sandrin - Attaché de Conservation of Video Archive 
at the Georges Pompidou National Centre for Art and Culture, France

·         Jan Schuijren - curator, Amsterdam, Netherlands

>>>>Entry Form and contacts



Festival programme

(Deadline:  May 20, 2005):



ONLY CD ROMs or DVD disks

Name, family name, nationality, telephone/fax, address and e-mail of 
the author (group)

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Title of work, year and place of production 
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Technology, original format 
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Submitted format ______________________________________________________________

Synopsis ______________________________________________________________________

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Short CV _____________________________________________________________________

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*Please enclose to your work:

I authorize that my work can be (yes/no):

transferred to other formats if it's necessary for presentation 
within the festival ________;

used in printed and online publucations, TV programs presenting Media 
Forum, full _______; fragments ________;

kept in MediaArtLab's archive ________.

Date _______________  Signature ____________________

            

Non-selected works won't be returned



Presentation programmes and conference

(Deadline:  May 10, 2005):



Papers and Programme'description Proposals

Please submit short abstracts (no more than 50 words) and description 
of organization or short CV (by e-mail 
<mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)



Contacts: MIFF, Media Forum

119019, 8a, Nikitskii Boulevard, 3rd,

("Internews" - for "MediaArtLab")

Tel.: +7 (095) 956-22-48

E-mail: <mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru

URL: <http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/>http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru 



Media Forum programme is to be published as part of the official XXVI 
Moscow International Film Festival Catalogue in Russian and English



Alexei Isaev, Art-Director (<mailto:newart at aha.ru>newart at aha.ru)

Konstantin Bokhorov, International Curator 
(<mailto:bororo at division.ru>bororo at division.ru)

Olga Shishko, Programs Curator 
(<mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)

Olga Selivanova, Coordinator of the Festival Program 
(<mailto:elka at sidor.ru>elka at sidor.ru)