[spectre] VIDEOLOGIA Festival of Audio-Visual Arts, Volgograd, Russia

[Marjan van Mourik]

The 2nd International Festival of Audio-Visual Arts VIDEOLOGIA will 
take place in Volgograd, Russia in the 1st decade of November 2005.
Artists are invited to participate!
The festival debuted in 2004 and united authors working with 
videoart, experimental cinema, animation, VJ works and musical 
accompaniment to video. The international competition selection and 
hors concourse programs of international & Russian festivals & 
curators were demonstrated in the cinema hall for four days. Jury and 
audience evaluated official selection videos. Along with screenings 
’ÄúVIDEOLOGIA 2004’Äù included video gallery, theoretical forums, 
concerts and performative actions in clubs. Works taking part in the 
selection were subdivided into two nominations according to the main 
conceptual lines of the festival:
Intersection of video with other arts (poetry, painting, photography, dance);
(V)ideological statement of an artist.
Developing their theoretical and artistic interest in omnipresence of 
the aesthetical and the seeming lack of taboos for art in 
contemporary culture curators of ’ÄúVIDEOLOGIA 2005’Äù link its key 
conceptual lines to the issues of the 1st festival. As the sample of 
das Gesamtkunstwerk, integral creative work, audio-visual art 
incorporates poetry, dance, theatre, photography and even the 
non-spectacular self-criticism. This claim for omnivorous wholeness 
is consonant to the events on the present sociopolitical scene, where 
alteration has become constancy. The ability of audio-visual works to 
underline the multitude of thematic elements & to act as digital 
pseudo-equivalent of the endless scope of modifications makes it the 
art of kinetic Becoming rather than the art of statuary Being. 
Dissonance and constraint caused by constant becoming in love, 
politics, theory, production, economy, technology and war are 
relieved in cathartic (v)ideological statements, in which 
audio-visual!
   becomes verbal and words turn into images.
We invite artists to participate in ’ÄúVIDEOLOGIA 2005’Äù with:
Videoart
Experimental cinema and video
Animation
Video theatres
Documentaries
Video installations
VJ
Accompaniment to cinema
Works should be sent in PAL format.
VOB, DivX, MPEG4, XviD, FLASH, GIF, TIFF, BMP formats on DVD, CDR and 
VHS are accepted.
Duration of works should not exceed 30 minutes.
The panel of coordinators of the festival will view every video.
Only works created after January 1st, 2003 will be accepted.
The entry deadline is October 20, 2005.
The application form filling is required.
All deliveries from international participants should be marked: "no 
commercial value - for cultural purposes only".
Jury and audience will evaluate Works of the selection program.
Works, which will not take part in the selection program, will be 
included into curators’Äô projects and into video gallery also taking 
place during the festival.

The submission forms can be found in the attached files and on the 
official site of the festival www.videologia.ru

Email to: volgafest at yandex.ru

Curators of the festival:
Nick Demidov           mob. +7-903-316-82-60       8(8442) 23-83-54
Alexander Dudnik     mob. +7-902-312-73-14       8(8442) 72-60-00
Yaroslav Khokhlov    mob. +7-905-392-38-59
Ilya Permyakov         mob. +7-903-478-67-38       8(8442) 35-40-40