[spectre] (fwd) call: BEYOND MEDIA 2009. TUNE UP YOUR VISIONS!

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Subject: BEYOND MEDIA 2009. TUNE UP YOUR VISIONS!
To: abroeck at transmediale.de
From: "BEYOND MEDIA" <info at beyondmedia.it>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:36:39 +0100

We are happy to announce the call for video entries for the new 
edition of BEYOND MEDIA 
<http://www.beyondmedia.it>www.beyondmedia.it, international festival 
of architecture and media. The event, devoted to the most advanced 
visualizations in architecture and to the debate on the relationships 
between the project and the means of its communication, will take 
place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009.

Organized by Image <http://www.image-web.org/>www.image-web.org, and 
curated by Marco Brizzi, BEYOND MEDIA has been constantly observing, 
since 1997, the development of the systems of communication in the 
field of architecture by evaluating their impact on contemporary 
architectural production and by promoting their understanding and 
enhancing their quality. The festival offers its visitors an 
articulate and rich program of events. The screening of the videos 
which are selected internationally complement an intense calendar of 
conferences and workshops with the protagonists of the international 
debate and of architecture exhibitions which elaborate on the theme 
of the festival.


The theme for the forthcoming edition of BEYOND MEDIA is VISIONS.

It seems as if contemporary architecture lost, in the last years, its 
ability to pursue broad visions, to collect with a wide outlook the 
complex transformations of the built environment, to lead its 
thoughts and consciousness beyond that which is usual, empirical, and 
visible. The massive production and consumption of architectural 
images resulted in a greater vicinity, on the part of the general 
public, to design issues. But, at the same time, they produced an 
alteration in the way people conceive architecture, and affected the 
ability and the opportunity for architects to generate visions, and 
hence theories, which are deeply rooted in our times but, at the same 
time, are receptive towards new possible scenarios.

We are looking for people with an architectural vision. A really new 
and effective one! As we check the architects' sight, the event will 
welcome crazy, mad, or mystic people, philosophers, politicians, 
opticians who will present their personal visions.

We are expecting to present videos and authors that are able to 
demonstrate how much we are lacking visions, nowadays, despite the 
apparent proliferation of innovative concepts and images. We are 
concerned by the fact that most of these images are pure expressions 
our own times. Not enough about our future.

Deadline for video submissions is January 31, 2009.

The call for entries is posted on the official BEYOND MEDIA website 
<http://www.beyondmedia.it>www.beyondmedia.it.

With kind regards,

BEYOND MEDIA


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