[spectre] 2010 Intl Experimental Media Congress at 23rd Images Festival, Toronto

[Andreas Broeckmann]

The 2010 International Experimental Media Congress
April 7 - 11, 2010

 
					Toronto

<http://www.imagesfestival.com>http://www.imagesfestival.com

The 2010 International Experimental Media 
Congress coincides with the closing days of the 
23rd Images Festival. The first Congress since 
the storied 1989 Toronto Experimental Film 
Congress, this gathering will promote ongoing 
international conversations and provide platforms 
for creative discussions about the burning issues 
related to experimental media production, 
exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy 
and reception. The Congress includes dialogues 
about experimental media as a critical and 
material practice and its politics, myths and 
institutions; discussions about media arts' place 
on the screen, on the web, in the gallery and in 
the archive; field reports from the burgeoning 
experimental scenes of Korea and India; and a 
showcase of recent practices. It brings together 
over 50 invited film, video and new media 
artists, curators, theorists and archivists from 
around the world for an intense four days of 
discussions and debate.

Keynote talk: Yvonne Rainer in conversation with 
John Greyson. Wednesday 7 April 2010, 7 PM at the 
Ontario College of Art & Design.

Confirmed Congress guests include: Ainsley 
Walton, Ali Kazimi, Andréa Picard, Anne Balsamo, 
Ayisha Abraham, Barbara Hammer, Bart Testa, Benj 
Gerdes, Chamber of Public Secrets, Cheryl 
L'Hirondelle, Christopher Eamon, Daïchi Saïto, 
David Rokeby, David Teh, Donghyun Park, Dont 
Rhine (Ultra-red), Dot Tuer, Ed Halter, Hangjun 
Lee, Henriette Huldisch, Hito Steyerl, Irina 
Leimbacher, James Holcombe, Jean Gagnon, John 
Greyson, Jorge La Ferla, Kathy High, Kevin Jerome 
Everson, Khaled Ramadan, Konrad Becker, Michael 
Snow, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Nicky Hamlyn, Nicole 
Gingras, Ou Ning, Paige Sarlin, Peggy Gale, Pelle 
Snickars, Peter Ride, Pip Chodorov, Ross Lipman, 
Shai Heredia, Sobhi Al-Zobaidi, Stefanie Schulte 
Strathaus, Steve Anker, Steve Loft, Susan Oxtoby, 
Tamar Guimarães, Tom Sherman, Ursula Biemann, 
Vera Frenkel, Wafaa Bilal, Wendelien van 
Oldenborgh and Yvonne Rainer.


Established in 1987, Toronto's Images Festival is 
the largest festival in North America for 
experimental and independent moving image 
culture, showcasing the innovative edge of 
international contemporary media art both on and 
off the screen. Alongside film and video 
screenings, the festival presents groundbreaking 
live performances, media art installations in 
local galleries and new media projects by many 
renowned Canadian and international artists in 
our three exhibition platforms:
Images On Screen (Film/Video screenings), Images 
Off Screen (installation exhibitions, online 
projects) and Live Images (multidisciplinary 
performances).

The 2010 Images Festival showcases over 140 
artworks in film, video, gallery installation, 
live performance and online projects in addition 
to artist talks, parties and free walking tours. 
Located in 25 venues across the city, this years 
Images Off Screen presents 32 exhibitions in 15 
art galleries across Toronto by Sobhi al-Zobaidi, 
Khadim Ali, Daniel Barrow, Matthew Biederman, 
Ursula Biemann, Wang Bing, Shary Boyle, Peter 
Campus, Andrea Cooper, Franziska Cordes, Tacita 
Dean, Leah Decter, Brenda Goldstein, Sarah Jane 
Gorlitz + Wojciech Olejnik, Tamar Guimarães, Emma 
Hart + Benedict Drew, Joachim Koester, Sharon 
Lockhart, Jayce Salloum, Michael Snow, Ryan 
Trecartin, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Emily 
Wardill and Anna Wignell.

The Images Festival crosses international 
boundaries again this year with artworks 
representing 25 countries, including spotlight 
programs on contemporary Mexican films, projects 
from North Africa and the Middle East courtesy 
Chamber of Public Secrets and a special 
restoration program of films by Tom Chomont. The 
Images Festival presents a wide range of work and 
disciplines - from formal experiments to 
innovative documentary, from film with live 
performance to works which address a range of 
political, feminist and a multitude of social and 
cultural issues including works this year by 
Kamal Aljafari, Cecilia Araneda, Johanna Billing, 
Joshua Bonnetta, Shary Boyle, Thirza Cuthand, 
Keren Cytter, Manon de Boer, Barry Doupé, Franci 
Duran, Köken Ergun, Kevin Jerome Everson, 
Christine Fellows, Robert Fenz, Benj Gerdes, John 
Greyson, Oliver Husain, Luo Li, Annie MacDonnell, 
Babette Mangolte, Ross McLaren, Barbara Meter, 
Shirin Neshat, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Andrew James 
Paterson, Nicolás Pereda, Jenny Perlin, John 
Porter, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Reinke, Ben Rivers, 
robbinschilds, Emily Roysdon, Jon Sasaki, Ichiro 
Sueoka, Benjamin Tong, Naomi Uman, Emily Wardill 
and Lulu Wei.


2010 Images Festival website with program details, schedules and ticketing:
<http://www.imagesfestival.com>http://www.imagesfestival.com

Congress Registration now online
<http://www.experimentalcongress.org>http://www.experimentalcongress.org
Registration required, please sign up early via our website. Space is limited.
Registration includes FREE access to Images Festival events!

For Congress information, please contact Chris Kennedy, Coordinator:
<mailto:congress at experimentalcongress.org>congress at experimentalcongress.org


2010 International Experimental Media Congress is 
supported by grants from The Canada Council for 
the Arts, the Social Sciences and Humanities 
Research Council and the City of Toronto through 
the Toronto Arts Council.

Venue Sponsor: Ontario College of Art & Design

Additional support from: The Canada Council for 
the Arts Visiting Curator's Program, The 
Goethe-Institut Toronto, Prefix Photo's Urban 
Field Speakers Series, Public Access and Ryerson 
Gallery and Research Centre, Ryerson University.


2010 Images Festival made possible thanks to 
generous public operating funds from The Canada 
Council for the Arts, The Department of Canadian 
Heritage, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of 
Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and 
Telefilm Canada.

Special thanks to the Ontario Ministry of Tourism.