[spectre] tm*20 - 20 years transmediale

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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Newsletter 19.1.2007

transmediale.07
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January 31 - February 4, 2007
Akademie der Kuenste
Berlin, Hanseatenweg 10

transmediale times twenty - retrospective
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1. transmediale times twenty
2. TM*20 - Register
3. Project library
4. Conference - Many Years of Video Art
5. Infermental
6. Media Art in the GDR?

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1. transmediale times twenty

Within the scope of the twentieth edition of the festival for art and digital
culture, which started as ‘VideoFilmFest’ in 1988, transmediale.07 offers a
retrospective of the festival’s development as well as several historical
sections and perspectives of art in dialogue with media.

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2. TM*20 - Register

On the occasion of twentieth festival edition, transmediale publishes an
extensive ‘Register’, which lists all participants of the last 20 years in a
detailed index. The compendium presents the broad variety of all festival
programmes.

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3. Project library

On occasion of transmediale.07 a temporary project library is installed in
exhibition hall 3. 827 of a total of 1030 works submitted for the transmediale
Award 2007, whose authors approved to publication in this context, are
available for viewing.
Additionally, several historic compilations of video and media art from Brazil,
Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Austria and Slovenia can be viewed
here.
The temporary project library also features a complete collection of all eleven
INFERMENTAL editions in full length. The editions will also be introduced in
extract by the respective editors within the film and video programme.

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4. Conference: Many Years of Video Art - Historical Views on Art and Media
Wednesday, January 31, 16 hrs, Studio

In spring 2006, five German museums presented the project '40 Jahre 
Videokust in
Deutschland' (40 years of video art in Germany). A substantial DVD edition of
more than 50 individual works in combination with a catalogue (Hatje Cantz
Verlag) tries to describe the field of video art in Germany since the mid
1960s. In the context of its anniversary programm, transmediale.07 presents
this DVD edition and attempts its evaluation in ab roader and international
context. Therefore similar projects from other countries have also been invited
to the transmediale. The panel discussion between the producers of '40 Jahre
Videokunst' and international colleagues offers a critical debate about such
projects of documentation and overview.

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, the international distributor of '40
Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland'.

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5. Infermental
Wednesday, January 31, 10 hrs (Studio II)
Thursday, February 1, 11 hrs (Studio II)
Friday, February 2, 11 hrs (Studio II)

INFERMENTAL was the first international magazine on video tape and 
was initiated
in 1980 by the Hungarian filmmaker Gabor Body. Between 1982 and 1990, eleven
editions were produced with 674 single works by more than 600 artists from 36
countries.
The basic idea of INFERMENTAL was the collecting and archiving of current
cultural tendencies on video in order to connect isolated ‘media islands’ with
already existing networks. Looking at the editions it becomes clear that these
differ considerably in their interpretation of the concept, their selection
criteria and the respective form of organisation of the editors. Each edition
not only documents a specific period of cultural and artistic creation, but
also allows for a very authentic look at the different approaches of the
respective editorial group and their views on the world, politics, and work. On
the occasion of transmediale.07, the festival presents an extensive overview of
the INFERMENTAL editions, which can also be viewed in full length in the
temporary project library of transmediale.07.
An INFERMENTAL breakfast will be held simultaneously and opens the series of
presentations within the festival's programme.

http://www.infermental.de

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6. Media Art in the GDR?
Independent Film and Media Art in the GDR 1976-1989
Sunday, February 4, Akademie der Kuenste (Pariser Platz)

In the last years of the GDR there was a lively film subculture that existed
beside the official image factories in Babelsberg (DEFA movies) and Adlershof
(TV). Multiple cine-films were produced and shown in private spaces, churches,
galleries, concert halls and improvised festivals. The medium of ‘Super-8 film’
was first discovered in the late 70s by painters who adopted the Soviet ‘Quarz’
camera. Multimedia activities by A.R. Penck in Dresden or Lutz Dammbeck in
Leipzig triggered a veritable wave of films by painters, which later also
reached East Berlin.

16 hrs Film programme: 'Revision DDR' (with works by Lutz Dammbeck, Joerg
Herold, Else Gabriel, Via Lewandowsky, Yana Milev, Ulrich Polster)
18 hrs Discussion: 'Media Art in the GDR? (in German with Lutz Dammbeck, Else
Gabriel, Claus Loeser, Helke Misselwitz, Klaus Staeck, Christoph Tannert,
Dieter Daniels)
20 hrs Film programme: 'Films by Painters in the GDR' (with works by Lutz
Dammbeck, Helge Leiberg, Cornelia Schleime, Andreas Dress, Christine Schlegel,
Juergen Boettcher, A. R. Penck)
Film programme curated by Claus Loeser (Archiv ex.oriente.lux)

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