MADE IN VIDEO
Ny international festival for eksperimentel videokunst i København
Den 7–10. september vil København danne rammen om en ny videofestival. Festivalen, Made in Video, viser, hvordan en række nationale og internationale videokunstnere bruger videomediet til at bringe alternative vinkler pÃ¥ politiske og sociale problemstillinger end dem vi til daglig ser pÃ¥ landsdækkende tv.

Ã…bningen finder sted pÃ¥ Cinemateket d. 7. september kl. 15–18. Her vil Bifo, italiensk medie teoretiker, diskutere videokunstens evne til at indgÃ¥ aktivt i den sociale debat. Den hollandske kurator Nathalie Müller vil belyse videokunstens aktivistiske potentiale. Publikum kan ud fra et bredt udvalg af spændende og skæve videoer selv sammensætte og se deres egne programmer.

I de efterfølgende tre dage vises de 51 udvalgte videoer på kendte og mindre kendte steder i København: Biografen Vester Vov Vov, spisestedet Marrakech Kitchen, Overgaden – Institut for Samtidskunst, udstillingsstedet Pixel, kulturbureauet YNKB, tv-tv på Kanal København og Chamber of Public Secrets.

Til Award Party fredag d. 8. september kl. 22 i Folkets Hus afsløres festivalens vindere af de fire kategorier ARThopology, ARTivism, ART Documentation og Video Voodoo. Vinderne optræder på seminaret lørdag d. 9. september kl. 14 på Overgaden. Her vil Kristine Kern, kunsthistoriker og anmelder ved Politiken, diskutere dokumentarisme og videokunst. Endvidere vil kunstner Morten Goll sætte fokus på videokunstens æstetiske strategier og kritiske potentiale.

Efter seminaret vil Frederiksberg Metro Station danne ramme om videofremvisning på metroens reklameskærme. Danmarks bedste folk inden for Poetry Slamming vil med kreative ordspil fylde metroens klinisk rensede rum, der til daglig er forbeholdt reklame og ventende passagerer.

Arrangøren Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS) er en uafhængig sammenslutning af nationale og internationale kunstnere og kuratorer: Khaled D. Ramadan, Jane Jin Kaisen, Stine Høxbroe, Alfredo Cramerotti, Ida Grøn og Iben Bentzen. CPS har til formål at eksponere anderledes tilgange til elektroniske medier og massemediernes måder at behandle sociale og politiske emner på. CPS producerer hver måned programmer til tv-tv.

Til Made in Video er der lavet et fyldigt katalog med uddybende artikler af kunstnere og forskere.

For yderligere information, katalog og udførligt program www.chamber.dk
Kontakt: Iben Bentzen (Tlf. 27262310) iben@chamber.dk

OVERSIGT:
– Ã…bning, 7. sept. kl. 15–18, Cinemateket
– Award Party, 8. sept. kl. 21–04, Folkets Hus.
– Seminar, 9. sept. kl. 14–17
– Video screenings, 7.-10. sept, 51 videoer fordelt pÃ¥ 9 visningssteder — se vedhæftet program.

The task is simple: Who ever writes the date of the photo first wins the butto

More schwag in the photosphere. Yeah.

Date:
Friday the 18th 18.00 in Copenhagen K/V. Location to be determined asap.

How to signup:
– comment on the post over at Mygdal so we have an idea of who’s coming.

Yours truly,
oschlag, trine-maria, mygdal, pollas

History and drawings from Tveskov (hope he has something on the cars), reboot8 photogroup (like the 23 feature), good round up by Classy.

My video from the boat lounge on Wednesday — pictures at Flickr (added to the photogroup).

reboot8 was a tough challenge. I guess it was prettty much impossible not to disappoint anyone after last year’s insanely great event. Meeting expectations like that is a bitch. However, I think it was pulled off rather well. It seemed like everyone was busy doing their thing, resulting in a less hectic atmosphere. I attended a second conference earlier in the same week and had to meet some deadlines during the conference, so I was a bit tired, not really capable of talking to a lot of new people which I felt I shared with a lot of the people I know. Nevertheless, people were nice and smart and everyone seemed to have a nice couple of days out. As a few people stated elsewhere, there might not have been that killer keynote that turned everything upside down, but come to think of it, that might be a healthy sign, that all the stuff we’ve talked about for years now…is real.

Noone had to persuade everyone else that blogging / social software is the new black, noone wondered if this and that might happen next year or the year after. It’s already happening — and the reboot attendees is busy building and experimenting. Next year I hope to see someone challenge whatever it is we’re all doing, but for now I’ll just sit back and enjoy the fact that it’s happening. Right now.

The demos made that even more clear. Lots of interesting stuff being made and launched. Really liked the Imity demo — and the list of Bluetooth-partyers; Rust-imity.

The second day did it for me; there was more energy and I catched some really good presentations that made me think.

Also good to note the self-organising going on here and there, pecha-kucha being one.

Ended up at a bar, leaving at 7AM. I headed home, the rest ended up doing a drive-in at 7-eleven.

One last note: I guess I’m not the only one that look forward to the videos from the 2/3 of the conference I couldn’t attend. Trouble is, it’s about 50+ hours of DV-footage that has to get captured in realtime and converted into a format suited for web — which takes even more time. They might have it all figured out, but if that’s not the case, how about a collaborative effort where we split the tapes between us, committing to capture and compress a tape or two. It might be a logistical nightmare and I haven’t talked with the reboot crew about it, but at least I’ll be glad to assist…

Pictures at Flickr.

Download audio: langelinje.m4a.