[spectre] media art festival friesland, sept-oct 2005

[media art]

[from the archive, for the archive ...; ab]



9e Media Art Festival Friesland

16 September t/m 2 October 2005



Official opening

Friday 16 September at 20.00 hrs, Kanaalstraat 9 Leeuwarden.



Doekle Terpstra, the new chairman of the Association of Universities 
of Professional Education opens the ninth Media Art Festival 
Friesland. The choice for Terpstra underlines the intensive contacts 
of the festival with the Dutch academies of Arts and academies abroad.

The new International Student Media Art Friesland (ISMAF) Award will 
be presented by Terpstra as well. Afterwards the exhibition Young 
talent, the Computer Gallery and the price winner of the ISMAF Awards 
are to be seen.



Opening Harlingen and Drachten

á         Kunsthuis Mij-September, Midlumerlaan 15, Harlingen opens 
on Sunday 11 September 14.00 hrs.

á         Galerie de Valk, Rozengracht 10 Harlingen will be opened on 
Saturday 17 September 11.00 hrs by Albert van der Kooij, director of 
the Academy for Pop culture in Leeuwarden.

á         Museum Smallingerland Drachten will be opened by Tijmen van 
Grootheest, chairman of the College of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 
Amsterdam on Saturday 17 September 15.00 hrs.



Media Art Festival Friesland

The Media Art Festival differentiates itself by offering a platform 
for the new generation and well-known media artists, and sometimes a 
work place as well.

The festival is developing growth thanks to the substantial 
contributions by the Province of Friesland, the city of Leeuwarden 
and the Mondriaan Foundation.



This growth is visible by the amount of participating cities. The 
last years, Drachten and Harlingen took part next to the main 
exhibition Young Talent and the sideline programming in Leeuwarden. 
The festival gained the city of Groningen and Beetsterzwaag 
(Friesland). But most of all the growth is noticeable in artistic 
energetic; next to exhibitions other events are realised to merge 
media and art even more.



New is the international program Sound Vision. Other international 
programmes are the Video Salon which takes four days with a 
kaleidoscopic international program, the Computer Gallery and the 
Artist in residence program which evokes high expectations.



New in the exhibition program is the design of several locations in 
Leeuwarden and Groningen shows international documents as well. The 
interest for the young generation came in front next to the 
predominance of high quality and professional art.  The motto of the 
exhibitions is emphasized as Young Talent. Media Art Friesland 
presents a unique selection of artist graduated of the Dutch 
academies of arts.



The multi media event Experience offers workshops, presentations by 
well-known companies, artists and VJs and the Multi Media Art 
Friesland Award for Frisian college students will be presented.   



The growth and development positions the Media Art Festival Friesland 
as the Dutch Nordic festival for the international media art world 
and education sector. 



Information

All events of the Media Art Festival Friesland have free entrance, 
except for the museums which ask their regular entrance fees.

The free festival magazine and the website 
<http://www.mediaartfriesland.nl/>www.mediaartfriesland.nl (in 
English online from 16 September) offer the complete program.



For more information about the festival:

Nadine Bors <mailto:info at mediaartfriesland.nl>info at mediaartfriesland.nl