Syndicate: IN (BETWEEN) THE IMAGES

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

[ art.image ] announces its upcoming international conference on moving
images!


                      IN (BETWEEN) THE IMAGES
         Moving Images in Their External And Internal Expansion

                       Graz, Dec 4 - 6, 1998


[ art.image ] - well known since 1993 for its "film+arc.graz" festival -
establishes now In (BETWEEN) THE IMAGES as another forum for discussing the
current "state" of moving images, thus again emphasizing the many and
complex relations of, and between, image production and (social, aesthetic,
public, etc.) phenomena related to (different and diverse) spaces.

At present, the CONCEPT OF THE IMAGE is at the centre of numerous debates,
not only in the fields of film/media/art, but it increasingly appears to be
a focal point of analyses which reflect cultural developments as a whole.
In this sense, IN (BETWEEN) THE IMAGES is focussed on central paradigms of
the contemporary, apparently more and more hybrid production of moving
images, with special regard to new types of (also social) dispositives as
are produced by such image formations.

The phenomenon of the (INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL) DISCLOSURE OF IMAGE SPACES,
which can be traced in many pieces of artistic works, as well as the
multiplying of perspectives and the increasingly experimental relation to
the spectators will be explored from various main perspectives which will
deal with both theoretical bases and, primarily, aspects of spatiality and
perception, i.e. an appropriation of bodies and spaces by images.

Thus, IN (BETWEEN) THE IMAGES aims at the eminent modification of
interpreting procedures and perception spaces - a modification which turns
images and spaces into FLUCTUATING CONSTELLATIONS where the border between
images and spaces can no longer be defined as a surface and where image and
spectator do not seem to be in any hierarchical relation but rather to
revolve around each other, as do the various topics and parts of the
conference:

0 - OPENING PERFORMANCES 1 - FULL SCREEN - EMPTY PLACES? 2 - IMMERSION <->
EXPANSION: TRACES OF ASSIMILATION 3 - DECENTRALIZING THE EYE: BODIES AND
IMAGES 4 - post-STORY-post: PARALOGIC STRUCTURES 5 - PERSPECTIVES 6 -
STUDENTS WORKSPACE 7 - "VIDEO BETWEEN" PROGRAM  8 - "IN (BETWEEN) ARTISTS"
9 - VIDEO LONGUE 10 - IN (BETWEEN) THE SITES

What kinds of images are these, what kinds of interpretations and spaces of
perception do the various forms of screens and image spaces refer to? What
new type of "aesthetics of behaviour" is depicted by these new image
spaces? How to define those - conceptual, fictitious - image spaces which
appropriate media-based moving images, turning the spectator into a
"spect-actor"? Do these complex levels of images - layered against and
towards each other - still aim at the production of meaning, do they tell
stories? What are the consequences of all this for production and mediation?

In theoretic lectures and round tables, in the presentation of current
artistic projects, but also in performances and video screenings by leading
artists, theorists and curators in the field of image production these
questions will, among others, be the main focus of the conference.


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              OPENING PERFORMANCES - Fr, Dec 4, 1998

GEORGINA STARR/SEAN DOWER/OLIVER HANGL - MALCOLM LEGRICE - VINYL VIDEO
among others.

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                 PANELS - Sat/Sun, Dec 5/6, 1998

ALEX ADRIAANSENS, V_2, Rotterdam, STUDIO AZZURRO (I), PIERRE BONGIOVANNI,
Centre International de Création Vidéo, Montbélliard, SHU LEA CHEANG (USA),
CHRIS DERCON, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, TIMOTHY DRUCKREY
(USA), KEN FEINGOLD (USA), RUDOLF FRIELING, Zentrum für Medienkunst,
Karlsruhe, PERRY HOBERMAN (USA), ANDRÃ? ITEN, Saint Gervais Geneve,
MARGARETHE JAHRMANN, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, DAVID LARCHER
(GB), MALCOLM LEGRICE (GB), DIANA MCCARTY, Intermedia Department, Academy
of Fine Arts, Budapest, NICOLAUS SCHAFFHAUSEN, Frankfurter Kunstverein,
RUTH SCHNELL, Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, BILL SEAMAN (USA), MIKE
STUBBS, Hull Time Based Arts, Hull, and others.

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                          "VIDEO BETWEEN"

A series of guest-curated programs by PIERRE BONGIOVANNI, ANDRE ITEN,
RUDOLF FRIELING, and MIKE STUBBS, from leading institutions concerned with
moving images, will combine an intriguing line-up of artists' videos
revolving round the topics of the conference.

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                       "IN (BETWEEN) ARTISTS"

DAVID LARCHER, KEN FEINGOLD, SHU LEA CHEANG a. o., will show their seminal
works representing the foremost concerns of artists working in the field of
expanded and hybridized imagery.

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                            VIDEOLONGUE

will provide an experimental environment for individual access to video.
Considering both the specifities of site and medium it will create a field
of getting in (between) the images both in terms of concentration and
leisure - realised by students of the Faculty of Architecture at the
Technical University, Graz.


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                      IN (BETWEEN) THE SITES

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