[spectre] Call for works: festival Videologia 2005 (Modified by Geert Lovink) [u]

Mon Jun 27 09:54:44 CEST 2005

The 2nd International Festival of Audio-Visual Arts ⌠VIDEOLOGIA will 
take place in Volgograd, Russia in the 1st decade of November 2005.

Artists are invited to participate!

The festival debuted in 2004 and united authors working with videoart, 
experimental cinema, animation, VJ works and musical accompaniment to 
video. The international competition selection and hors concourse 
programs of international & Russian festivals & curators were 
demonstrated in the cinema hall for four days. Jury and audience 
evaluated official selection videos. Along with screenings ⌠VIDEOLOGIA 
2004 included video gallery, theoretical forums, concerts and 
performative actions in clubs. Works taking part in the selection were 
subdivided into two nominations according to the main conceptual lines 
of the festival:

•	Intersection of video with other arts (poetry, painting, photography, 
dance);
•	(V)ideological statement of an artist.

Developing their theoretical and artistic interest in omnipresence of 
the aesthetical and the seeming lack of taboos for art in contemporary 
culture curators of ⌠VIDEOLOGIA 2005 link its key conceptual lines to 
the issues of the 1st festival. As the sample of das Gesamtkunstwerk, 
integral creative work, audio-visual art incorporates poetry, dance, 
theatre, photography and even the non-spectacular self-criticism. This 
claim for omnivorous wholeness is consonant to the events on the 
present sociopolitical scene, where alteration has become constancy. 
The ability of audio-visual works to underline the multitude of 
thematic elements & to act as digital pseudo-equivalent of the endless 
scope of modifications makes it the art of kinetic Becoming rather than 
the art of statuary Being. Dissonance and constraint caused by constant 
becoming in love, politics, theory, production, economy, technology and 
war are relieved in cathartic (v)ideological statements, in which 
audio-visual becomes verbal and words turn into images.

We invite artists to participate in ⌠VIDEOLOGIA 2005 with:

Videoart
Experimental cinema and video
Animation
Video theatres
Documentaries
Video installations
VJ
Accompaniment to cinema

•	VOB, DivX, MPEG4, XviD, FLASH, GIF, TIFF, BMP formats on DVD, CDR and 
VHS are accepted.
•	Duration of works should not exceed 30 minutes.
•	The panel of coordinators of the festival will view every video.
•	Only works created after January 1st, 2003 will be accepted.
•	The entry deadline is October 20, 2005.
•	The application form filling is required.
•	All deliveries from international participants should be marked: "no 
commercial value - for cultural purposes only".
•	Jury and audience will evaluate Works of the selection program.
•	Works, which will not take part in the selection program, will be 
included into curators projects and into video gallery also taking 
place during the festival.

The submission forms can be found in the attached files and on the 
official site of the festival www.videologia.ru
Email to: volgafest at yandex.ru

Curators of the festival:
Nick Demidov           mob. +7-903-316-82-60       8(8442) 23-83-54
Alexander Dudnik     mob. +7-902-312-73-14       8(8442) 72-60-00
Yaroslav Khokhlov    mob. +7-905-392-38-59
Ilya Permyakov         mob. +7-903-478-67-38       8(8442) 35-40-40

Send your works to:
Yaroslav V. Khokhlov
Do vostrebovaniya
Volgograd 400066
Russia

www.videologia.ru