[wos] Call for VIII Media Forum, Moscow

[Volker Grassmuck]

VIII MEDIA FORUM
of the IX Moscow International Film Festival
24-27, June 2007

http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru

CALL FOR ENTRIES - EVERYBODY!

«NUDITY»

>MEDIA FORUM
>>MF programme 2007
>>>International Board
>>>>>Entry Form and contacts



>MEDIA FORUM

Festival programme works submittion  deadline - May 10, 2007
Presentation programme and conference applications deadline - May 10, 
2007
(e-mail - mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)

Organizers: MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture, Interfest
Location: Russian Cinematographers Union, Club Na Brestskoj, Moscow
Support: ANO Internews

"Contemporary screen culture finds opportunities for the most rapid, 
clear and actual reflexion to changes or alterations in viewer 
mentality. It defines this experience as avant-garde and progressive. 
Newest tendencies of contemporary culture connected with new 
technologies make it possible for us to describe this part of culture 
as possessing own content and audience. The audience is attracted by 
communicational art model, which allows for the viewers´ interactive 
participation in the art work dramatic composition". Aleksei Isaev

Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is held since 1959 and 
gradually it has become one of most respectable and prestigious film-
forums in the world. In 1973 MIFF was registered by the International 
Federation of Film-producers associations (FIAPF) as an «A» class 
film festival alongside with those in Berlin, Cannes, San-Sebastian, 
Karlovy Vary and Venice. 

This is the eighth year Media Forum is organized as part of the 
Moscow International Film Festival. The role of new media in 
audiovisual art and culture received due recognition and Media Forum 
was immediately introduced into the official program of MIFF. The 
programme was started in 2000 at an initiative of Aleksei Isaev, a 
well-known Russian media artist, curator and theorist of the new 
media, who founded and directed the Moscow MediaArtLab Centre. Media 
Forum as action is an exchange of ideas, infusion of new forces into 
contemporary culture and vice versa. It is an attempt to demonsrtate 
the logic of new thought and new communications. At the moment it is 
inside media culture that new ideas go through trial and approbation, 
ideas that cannot be realized in contemporary art context. 

>>MF programme 2007

The theme of the Media Forum 2007 is NUDITY. 

Nudity in philosophy of the postmodernism is understood as a 
hypostasis of such important notion as corporality. It expresses in 
its limit the ability of the postmodern "body without image" 
(Deleuse) to be a screen of desires. In this sense the theme brings 
up the following problems in the mediacontext:

·	Overcoming of the nudity of the screen in the spatial interaction 
with media, in interactivity;
·	Transcendence of the overtechnologisation up to the condition of 
low-tech and escape from virtual to actual, i.e. the return to the 
physical body;
·	Performativity that allows the body in its interaction with media 
to turn from the object of desire into the effective instrument of 
critical reflection;
·	Divine comedy, i.e. the nudity of mass-media that parodies itself.

The idea that moved the organizers of the Media Forum in selecting 
the theme was a new anthropological ideal, a new measure of things in 
the epoch of media predominance.

MF 2007 programme consists of four parts:

1)	Festival programme
Deadline - 01.05.2007 
We invite for participation media artists and groups, media labs.

2)	Presentation programme
Deadline - 01.05.2007
Informational retrospective screenings and special screenings. 
We invite the participation of festivals, distributive centres, media 
labs, archives, independent curators.

3)	Conference and round table
We invite for participation producers, directors, art critics, 
artists, journalists

4)	Multimedia shows


>>>International Board

·	Woody Vasulka - pioneer of media art, founder of the world´s 
largest media archives «Vasulkas», USA
·	Kirill Razlogov - art director of MIFF, director of Russian 
Institute for Cultural Research, Russia
·	Kathy Rae Huffman - Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse, 
Manchester,UK
·	Etienne Sandrin - Attaché de Conservation of Video Archive at the 
Georges Pompidou National Centre for Art and Culture, France
·	Jan Schuijren - curator, Amsterdam, Netherlands



>>>>Entry Form

Festival programme

Deadline:  May 10, 2007

ONLY CD ROMs or DVD disks

Name, family name, nationality, telephone/fax, address, URL and e-
mail of the author (group)

______________________________________________________________________
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______________________________________________________________________
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______________________________________________________________________
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Title of work, year and place of production 
________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________
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Technology, original format 
_____________________________________________________

Submitted format 
______________________________________________________________

*Please enclose to your work:

1)	Full video score;
2)	Synopsis for presented media work;
3)	Publications about the media work (if any);
4)	Short CV

*Please enclose to your work:

I authorize that my work can be (yes/no):
transferred to other formats if it's necessary for presentation 
within the festival ________;
used in printed and online publucations, TV programs presenting Media 
Forum, full _______; fragments ________;
kept in MediaArtLab's archive ________.

Date _______________  Signature ____________________




 	
Presentation programmes and conference 
(Deadline:  May 10, 2007):

Papers and Programme´description Proposals
Please submit short abstracts (no more than 50 words) and description 
of organization or short CV (by e-mail mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)

MediaArtLab informs that the presented media-work:

·	could be used for advertisement materials of the Media Forum;
·	after competition will be left in the Mediatheque for the use in 
non-commercial research and educational purposes only;
·	all other uses of the presented media-work will be carried out only 
with consent of the author(s);
·	non-selected works won´t be returned.

Media Forum programme is to be published as part of the official XXIX 
Moscow International Film Festival Catalogue in Russian and English.

>>>>>Contacts 

MIFF, Media Forum
119019, 8a, Nikitskii Boulevard, 3rd, 
("Internews" - for "MediaArtLab")
Tel.: +7 (095) 956-22-48
E-mail: mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru
URL: http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru  

Olga Shishko, Programs Curator (mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)
Konstantin Bokhorov, International Curator (bororo at division.ru)
Olga Selivanova, Coordinator of the Festival Program (elka at sidor.ru)
Elena Rumjantseva, MF PR director (rumy at mail.ru)



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