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"Media Reflexivity in video. Some reflections on Electronic/Visual Culture" de Yvonne Spielmann (in english)

Yvonne Spielmann is Professor of Visual Media at the Braunschweig School of Art, Germany, previously Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Siegen, Germany. She has edited "Kunst und Politik der Avantgarde" (1989); "Image - Media - Art" (together with Gundolf Winter, German and English, 1999); "Special issue: What is Intermedia?", Convergence, Winter 2002 (together with Juergen Heinrichs) and authored "Eine Pftze in bezug aufs Mehr. Avantgarde" (1991), and "Intermedialité Das System Peter Greenaway" (1998). Forthcoming is the German book "Video, the Reflexive Medium." with Suhrkamp Press.
Residential Fellowships were granted by: The Getty Center, Cornell University, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The Daniel Langlois Foundation.

"Media Reflexivity in video. Some reflections on Electronic/Visual Culture"
The lecture discusses concepts of reflexivity of the electronic medium video in selected works of video arts in North America and Europe. In a historical perspective the presentation gives an overview of some developments in the audiovisual medium of video that contribute to and reflect on of what is understood by "electronic culture". It can be shown that critical and self-reflexive concerns with "new" types of images in video works of the seventies and eighties preceed some of the contemporary concerns with the debatable status of the "digital image" that has no "visual truth value".
The lecture is held in English. Excerpts of video works will be shown.



MANIFESTATION DE LA DESTINEE NUMERIQUE — LA VALLEE DE LA MORT ET L’INCINÉRATEUR DES CARRIÈRES by Barry Vacker (in english)

Barry Vacker teaches mass media and digital media theory at Temple University in Philadelphia. Vacker writes about utopia and dystopia in technology and culture, and recently completed the book No Exit / Must Exit: Existential Conditions of Digital Destiny, for which he is seeking a publisher. He received his doctorate from The University of Texas at Austin.
Barry Vacker may be reached at barryvacker@mac.com

Jean Baudrillard once juxtaposed Death Valley and Las Vegas as “mental frontiers” for theorizing the territories being generated as electronic media permeate the architecture of the city and the structure of society. Inspired by the poetic parallels between Death Valley and the Des Carrieres Incinerateur, this talk will explore the conceptual frontiers of the natural ecology of the desert and the cultural ecology of art and architecture. Drawing from Baudrillard and Sartre, this talk will theorize the desert and digitalization as existential destinies for being and nothingness in the information age.



Argentine video today by Graciela Taquini (in english)

The video scene in Argentina today is strongly marked by a tendency toward testimonials that corresponds as much to an attitude of political correctness as it does to caustic irony. These works evidence recent historical events in Argentina, but they do so metaphorically, without overstating the obvious. The panorama presents a strong experimental current, where genres are mixed or slide between one and the other, with a large degree of human action and a strong performance element, much more so than abstraction or formal exercises. Even the animations reveal much more than simple design. The very knowledge of the medium is questioned from the inside.

Urban Desert
by Luna Nera

Luna Nera is an international group of artists based in London, creating site-responsive installation and media art.

Waste space, junk ground, derelict ruin… these places lie in the midst of cities, deserted, desolate. Barren inhospitable space, yet teeming with life.
   
     

DESERT : 6th MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE VIDÉO ET ART ÉLECTRONIQUE
MONTREAL - SEPTEMBER 20 TO 27, 2004 - PRESENTED BY CHAMP LIBRE