[spectre] Seoul Net Festival 2005

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Seoul Net Festival 2005 
(May 1 - September 8) at 
www.senef.net <>
Competition : May 1 - June 30 / Out-of-Competition : July 1 - September 8

Seoul Net Festival has been trying to introduce talented visual artists 
all over the world and their brilliant works and is to provide a full 
access to understanding specific constraint given as "the Internet" and 
"New Media". As one of the best online festivals in the world, Seoul Net 
Festival has extensively engaged in current digital discourse governed 
by unprecedented aesthetic merit and achievement.

In the competition section, as German works, 
Truth-Paradise Found (Agricola de Cologne) 
and Rewrite History (Bjørn Karnebogen), and 7 sons 
(Florian Thalhofer / Mahmoud Hamdy) are featured in Web-Work section,
and The Case of Claudia Bonheur (Florian Seidel), 
Yawning Void (Holger Mader, Heike Wiermann) and Kosmos 
(Thorsten Fleisch) are included in Digital Express (International 
Competition) Cinema 4 Net section. 

All the works in the competition section will be judged by online jurors 
from the world who specialize in new media art and cinema. This year, 
Peter Weibel will participate in online jury with Natalie Bookchin 
(web-artist, professor in CalArts from USA), Michael Borras aka 
SYSTAIME.com(web-artist from France), Suzung Kim(web-artist, professor 
in Seoul National University from Korea), Mike Hoolboom (filmmaker from 
Canada), Kyudong Min (filmmaker from Korea) and Jihoon Lee (film critic 
from Korea).

In the out-of-competition section, in special program Digitraffic @ 
Germany, the award-winning works of the International Media Art Award 
will be featured supported by ZKM : Nonlinear Dynamics (Volkhard 
Stuerzbecher), Eye/Machine II, Eye/Machine III (Harun Farocki), 
Actionist Respoke (Michael Janoschek, Ruediger Schloemer), together with 
other brilliant German works such as Gestalt (Thorsten Fleisch), Cut 
(Till Heim), Rosemarie (Marc Comes), A Pragmatic of Links (Juan Romero) 
and the newest work of Marcello Mercado.

For the exhibition in Samsung Media Lounge during Seoul Film Festival 
2005, this will be to bring the works dealing with the perception of 
sound and image which are obviously immersed in phonetic and abstract 
expressionism to be included such as Thomas Koener, Michael Snow, Anri 
Sala and Imogen Stidworthy to date. German media artist Thomas Koener's 
current media installation and live performance Banlieue Du Vide (2003), 
Suburbs Of The Void (2004) and NUUK (2004) will be featured during the 
festival from August 25 to September 8 in 2005.