[spectre] Call for submissions -> videomedeja 2008

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12 international video festival  v i d e o m e d e j a
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december 12 -14 2008 | studio m,  novi sad -> serbia
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entry forms and criteria for submission: http://www.videomedeja.org/entry
deadline: october 1st 2008

Like previous years we are looking for new video art works and short films, 
media installations, live audiovisual performances, network based 
projects... In addition, we are very glad to receive proposals from curators 
and producers/distributors for the non-competitive special screenings. Entry 
forms are online and it is not necessary to create user account in order to 
submit entries but we suggest to do so and log in prior submitting. This way 
you will be able to edit your own submissions and get partly prefilled 
entries with values from your user account.

more info at: http://www.videomedeja.org
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categories:
video | film
media installations | network | live projects
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awards:
Sphinx award - for the best video
Bogdanka Poznanovic award - for the best media installation, network or live
project
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subject: POP Video
What is a popular video today?
The title is so abundant in associations that it can direct one's thoughts 
to at least two directions at the same time: one is the music video
production, video clips of famous performers; the other is the artistic 
direction whose most prominent representative is certainly Andy Warhol. 
However, the cruel non-artistic reality responds to the technological 
revolution differently from the way the artists such as Nam June Palk or 
Warhol would. Dominant aspects of popular video today are still the long 
lasting phenomena categorized as kitsch and pulp. Yet, over time a new 
hypertrophied tide wave of human transgression has emerged, imposing the
urge that it need be recorded at any cost. We have seen numerous sensations, 
wars, death, and bizarre events, causing in audience unquenchable thirst, 
which by an extension has led to the continuation of the search for new 
sources. In order to obtain them, it is no longer sufficient to wait 
patiently for thy neighbor to fall, but the event needs to be provoked and 
made real, as opposed to its being accidental or performed. If the concept 
of recorded bizarreness was realized as a simulacrum, we would be dealing 
with amateur video, which unfortunately is not the case. Criminal subjects - 
independent video makers - are not alienated strangers whose deviations come
as a result of their not having been loved or having been abused in 
childhood. Quite the opposite, in accord with general circumstances (and by 
this I mean primarily the responsibility of the sensationalism-hungry 
media), a common passer-by with a camera in his cell phone, regardless of 
the resolution, turns into an urban headhunter or a hunter for the trophies 
alike...
read more here: http://videomedeja.org/text/pop-video
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videomedeja info:
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videomedeja festival is stricly dedicated to art, completely independent and 
non-profit annual event.
The first festival was held in 1996. So far, 11 festivals have been 
realized, more than 3000 works made by artists all over the world were
submitted for the programme. Renowned artists, prominent critics, 
theoreticians, producers, distributors and journalists from all over the
world took part in the festival programme.

Festival focuses on narrative or abstract art projects which combine image 
and sound, communications and networks, from video art works, documentaries 
and short films, digital animations, media installations, url and network 
projects, objects, interactive and robotized objects, open source 
applications, audiovisual performances, mobile technologies, electronic 
music, advanced technologies in art practice...

Permanently obeying copyrights and being strictly determined for 
professional approach, videomedeja is well known festival on the
international scene.
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