EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK 2011 - Emaf

Professor Ludger Brümmer from
the ZKM, Centre for Art and Media
Karlsruhe, will present the
project Mediaartbase.de; Martin
Groh from the documenta Archiv,
Sandra Mijatovis and Sarah
Niedergesäß from Kassel Documentary
Film and Video Festival,
and Alfred Rotert and Ralf Sausmikat
(EMAF) will screen a selection
of works from their archives.
Professor Rotraut Pape will present
the history of Media Art and
its many forms, as well as projects,
from her personal perspective
and experience. She will ask
whether the increased level of
digitalisation in the 21st century
has indeed made everything easier,
more ›user-friendly‹, or
whether, on the contrary, it is now
a matter of one software version
chasing another from the desktop.
In his presentation entitled ›Abolition
of the present and (anarchives)
of the future‹, the media
philosopher Professor Dr.
Siegfried Zielinski from the
Villem Flusser Archiv of Berlin
University of the Arts will explore
the technologies of forgetting,
how the future is coupled to the
past, and the extreme reduction
of storage times.
Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico
designed special software
that copied images and data from
around 250,000 Facebook users,
which they then used for a supposed
dating service ›lovelyfaces.com‹.
The media response
was huge, and facebook was not
amused.
In addition to lectures and presentations,
the Congress also offers
visitors ample opportunity to
engage in discussions, exchange
information and establish contacts
with others interested in
media.
BREAKING INTO BOLLYWOOD
Prof. Candice Breitz
Candice Breitz discusses the making of her most recent work The Character,
which was commissioned by EMAF Osnabrueck in the context of
the travelling exhibition Moving Stories. As Breitz interviewed Bollywood's
youngest stars for another project during a visit to Mumbai in late
2010, a very particular image of childhood started to emerge from their
descriptions of the many roles that they had collectively played on the big
screen. The Character was developed out of a workshop that Breitz lead
with school children in suburban Mumbai in a quest to better grasp the
role of fictional children in the context of the Hindi-language film industry.
Her interviews with the children were eventually woven into a composite
portrait of the child within the Bollywood imaginary. Breitz is currently
working on a three-part installation that will be shot in Hollywood,
Bollywood and Nollywood. Her talk will also briefly address the radical
expansion of the cinematic 'mainstream' that is occurring as the unilateral
dominance of American blockbusters is increasingly challenged by
the Indian and Nigerian film industries.
See as well: The Character- installation in the exhibition
Candice Breitz discusses the making of her most recent work The Character,
which was commissioned by EMAF Osnabrueck in the context of
the travelling exhibition Moving Stories. As Breitz interviewed Bollywood's
youngest stars for another project during a visit to Mumbai in late
2010, a very particular image of childhood started to emerge from their
descriptions of the many roles that they had collectively played on the big
screen. The Character was developed out of a workshop that Breitz lead
with school children in suburban Mumbai in a quest to better grasp the
role of fictional children in the context of the Hindi-language film industry.
Her interviews with the children were eventually woven into a composite
portrait of the child within the Bollywood imaginary. Breitz is currently
working on a three-part installation that will be shot in Hollywood,
Bollywood and Nollywood. Her talk will also briefly address the radical
expansion of the cinematic 'mainstream' that is occurring as the unilateral
dominance of American blockbusters is increasingly challenged by
the Indian and Nigerian film industries.
See as well: The Character- installation in the exhibition
Candice Breitz was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1972. Since the
mid-1990s, the Berlin-based South African artist has produced a body of
work treating various aspects of the structure of identity and psychological
identification. Candice Breitz has been a professor of fine art at the
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig since 2007. In recent years,
solo exhibitions of her work have been hosted by, amongst others, the Temporäre
Kunsthalle Berlin.
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