We cordially invite you to the opening of the 22nd European Media Art Festival and of the exhibition »IMAGE BATTLES« on Wednesday the 22nd of April 2009 at 19:30 h in the Kunsthalle ... more

Meet the curator: students have the opportunity to be taken on an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition “Image Battles” by the curator Hermann Nöring.  Limited number of ... more

Students from the University of the Arts Bremen invite visitors to artist talks in their exhibition in the Tower Bürgergehorsam.  Fri, 24 April at 6.30 pm in the Tower Bürgergehorsam  Limited ... more

Meet the curator: students have the opportunity to be taken on an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition “Image Battles” by the curator Hermann Nöring.  Limited number of ... more

Students from the University of the Arts Bremen invite visitors to artist talks in their exhibition in the Tower Bürgergehorsam.  Fri, 25 April at 3 pm in the Tower ... more

Meet the curator: students have the opportunity to be taken on an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition “Image Battles” by the curator Hermann Nöring.  Limited number of ... more

Myths, lunar phases, religions and miracles of nature. Spectacle or book with seven seals?    Elvenland / WP / Karel Doing / NL / 33:00 / V Earth of delightfull gardening ... more

A “political” journey through history and current politics.  As if to nothing / EP / Andreas Templin / D / 5:00 / V August 2008 / Ra di Martino / B / 5:00 / V Non-Western ... more

How do we remember history, or is personal memory left up to the discretion of forgetting in short-term storage?  Ruta I Spomenik / Renata Poljak / HR / 18:00 / V Stadt ... more

Evolizer / Jan van Nuenen / NL / 10:36 / V Thee Wreckers: No Place Like Home / Rosto A.D. / NL / 6:10 / V Matter in Motion / Semiconductor: R. Jarman & J. Gerhardt / UK ... more

When all said things do not benefit: Speaking helps! Latrinalia / Kay Kienzler / D / V / 6:40 Und wenn wir dann … / D. Risch / D / V / 3:59 Recitation/Reception / J. Bernagozzi ... more

A tour de force through Media Art. The Two Teams Team / Manuel Saiz / UK / 10:00 / VEnter / Harald Busch / D / 2:00 / VMany Buddhas / EP / P. Winkler / AU / 15:00 / 16 mmLayers / ... more

Roaming, observing, remembering. Three perspectives of New York  I Left My Silent House / Seungho Cho / USA / 10:00 / V Side walk / Karl Kels / D / 30:00 / 35mm A ... more

2 or 3 Things … / E. C. Hidalgo / D / 13:00 / Super 8mm Yo y mi terraza / A. Rodriguez Rosell / ES/SN / 7:00 / V ...nästan som en i familjen / A. Göransson / SE / 10:00 / ... more

Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a Double Take on the cold war period. The master says all the wrong things at all the wrong ... more

“Structural cinema” falls short of this programme; instead, it should be called a 360° panorama of experimental film-making.  Iris Out / Simon Payne / GB / 10:00 / V 69 ... more

Chilean videos (2008 – 2009) curated by Paz Aburto Guevara  Meritoria / Alejandro Moreno / CL / 11:20 / V Boycott / Manuela Viera-Gallo / CL / 3:00 / V Luis / C. ... more

When nature can only be experienced digitally, it’s too late for a night walk in the woods.  Welcome / George Barber / UK / 5:00 / V Coagulate / Mihai Grecu / FR / 6:00 ... more

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A wonderfully staged life study of young Dutch people à la GUS VAN SANT, portraying the misery of this middle-class everyday boredom in the northern Netherlands, miles away from the ... more

The film, as a personal interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, enciphers concerns, beliefs and desires in seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible ... more

Art is work, which needs to be structured; after all, artists want to live from it.  Sorry Curator / Annette Hollywood / D / 4:00 / V Discovering Composition in Art / ... more

Architecture determines not only our personal but also our social life, because it is also always politically motivated.  Simultaneous Contrast / WP / Chris Kennedy / CA / ... more

Interpersonal communication turns us into people, and when it’s missing, conflicts arise that cannot be solved alone.  Being Human / Ilke De Vries / BE / 15:00 / V Der ... more

2 or 3 Things … / E. C. Hidalgo / D / 13:00 / Super 8mm Yo y mi terraza / A. Rodriguez Rosell / ES/SN / 7:00 / V ...nästan som en i familjen / A. Göransson / SE / 10:00 / ... more

What you see is what you get!  Headlines: Hybrid Films / S. Gruffat / USA / 3:00 / 16 mm ShareSnitch / Jan Bode / D / 5:00 / V Zero / Matthias Winkelmann / D / 5:00 ... more

Evolizer / Jan van Nuenen / NL / 10:36 / V Thee Wreckers: No Place Like Home / Rosto A.D. / NL / 6:10 / V Matter in Motion / Semiconductor: R. Jarman & J. Gerhardt / UK / ... more

The MusicClipProgram. Now an essential element of the EMAF. No sign of Sony and Warner, guaranteed!  Hello Antenna / V. Samartseva / D / 5:00 / 35 mm Polizistin Eva / ... more

When ideals are utilised to conceal ideologically tainted brainwashing, the freedom of thought is in grave danger.  The Force of Beauty / Keith Sanborn / USA / 3:00 Burlesque ... more

The film, as a personal interpretation of Beauty and the Beast, enciphers concerns, beliefs and desires in seductive images that are themselves a form of camouflage, making it possible ... more

A look behind the scenes of female multitasking or all you need to know about mothers, divas and tough girls.  The Crystal Gaze / Ursula Mayer / UK / 8:00 Hors Champ ... more

Headcharge / Almagul Menlibaeva / KZ / 12:12 / DV Re: Commentments / Guli Silberstein / IL / 5:00 / DV Adress Unknown / Guo Xiaolu / CN / 2008 / 10:00 / DV Wolkengestalt ... more

What roles do we play in everyday life? What turns men into blokes and how could this be changed?  Freude / DP / Thomas Draschan / AT / 3:00 / 35 mm The Man Who Went ... more

A post-industrial milieu study showing the dependent relationship between victim and perpetrator in coarse grain S-8 images.   With little dialogue, Kim Gok reveals the other ... more

A visual roller-coaster through the beguilingly colourful world of fantastically sparkling convolutions of the brain.  Fashion Death / Daniel Rodrigo / ES / 4:00 / V No ... more

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Here the spike plunges into the thicket of untold stories that sometimes await you on the side of the road.   Cosmo / EP / Nico Herbst / USA / 6:00 / V Fall / Patrick ... more

Diaries record memories, but the historical view changes over time.  Es hört nie auf / Sirko Knüpfer / D / 3:00 / V A Touch / Barbara Meter / NL / 13:00 / 16 mm Heim ... more

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Headcharge / Almagul Menlibaeva / KZ / 12:12 / DV Re: Commentments / Guli Silberstein / IL / 5:00 / DV Adress Unknown / Guo Xiaolu / CN / 2008 / 10:00 / DV Wolkengestalt ... more

Lone warriors or team players? Business as usual or failure as an opportunity? A crisis relief programme  Time Patrol / Jasmin Jodry / UK / 4:00 / V Bouche / Agnes Feuvre ... more

In “A Girl and a Gun”, Gustav Deutsch whisks us away to the dawn of cinema, by structuring found footage up to the beginning of the 1930s into a feature-length opus.  Gustav ... more

The image makes the sound, or is it the other way round? The films give an astounding piece of information.  XI / Pia Martin / D / 5:00 / V Anthrôpos / Mathieu Tremblay ... more

Chilean videos (2008 – 2009) curated by Paz Aburto Guevara  Meritoria / Alejandro Moreno / CL / 11:20 / V Boycott / Manuela Viera-Gallo / CL / 3:00 / V Luis / C. ... more

A post-industrial milieu study showing the dependent relationship between victim and perpetrator in coarse grain S-8 images.   With little dialogue, Kim Gok reveals the other ... more

Enlightenment through spiritual, religious or drug-induced shift in perception.  Incandescencia / EP / Juan Jose Herreara / MX / 2:00 / V Secret / William Wylie / USA ... more

A wonderfully staged life study of young Dutch people à la GUS VAN SANT, portraying the misery of this middle-class everyday boredom in the northern Netherlands, miles away from the ... more

Magical science and the myth of technology encounter one another here openly: Darwin sends his regards!  Le nouveau omiza, … / Ute Hörner / D / 5:00 / V What If? / WP ... more

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Myths, lunar phases, religions and miracles of nature. Spectacle or book with seven seals?  Elvenland / WP / Karel Doing / NL / 33:00 / V Earth of delightfull gardening ... more

How do we remember history, or is personal memory left up to the discretion of forgetting in short-term storage?  Ruta I Spomenik / Renata Poljak / HR / 18:00 / V Stadt ... more

A “political” journey through history and current politics.  As if to nothing / EP / Andreas Templin / D / 5:00 / V August 2008 / Ra di Martino / B / 5:00 / V Non-Western ... more

Julius von Bismarck developed the possibility of a »minimal-invasive« manipulation of photographic images. While others take photographs, he subtly uses the Image Fulgurator (Goldene ... more

"... and Harun Farocki’s image-critical debate" - Professor Dr. Ursula Frohne, Institute for History of Art of the University of Cologne  Ursula Frohne explores the functions, ... more

Master Compass - Interview with a souvenir from the war Harry Walter, Stuttgart  The last German plane left the kessel of Stalingrad on 23 January 1943 with a bullet-ridden ... more

In the ruins of modernity: creative relationism and efficient autonomy.  The nature of fundamental crises is that they question basic concepts and rearrange relationships. ... more

A field report about the online-catalogue of the IMAI (Inter Media Art Institute) by Dr. Renate Buschmann.  The online catalogue, available to everyone on the internet, is ... more

Gabriele Blome, Ludwig Bolzmann Institute Linz.   Online resources on Media Art offer users a wide variety of possibilities to research the data stock. Access offered via ... more

Gaza is situated in Palestine, Sderot in Israel. Men, women and children live here under the constant threat of bombs, air attacks and blockades. But despite these difficult conditions, ... more

Prof. Brümmer, ZKM Karlsruhe  Together with the documenta Archive Kassel/DOKFEST and the Institute for Music and Acoustics of the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, ... more

"Staging an archive in the browser" Monika Fleischmann,Wolfgang Strauss  The matter hidden behind digital archives is usually portrayed in lists and index card-like interfaces. ... more

Prof. Jean Francois Guiton, University of Arts Bremen  The GAMA portal provides access to a wealth of information about the works of well-known and emerging media artists ... more

Dr. Achim Heidenreich, HFG and Institute of Music and Acoustics Karlsruhe  Music and (moving) image have their own dramaturgy and their own criteria of perception. Played ... more

Collections and online resources.  Glenn R. Phillips, Getty Research Institute Los Angeles  Between 1974 and 1995, the Long Beach Museum of Art operated one of the most ... more

Professor Oliver Grau, Danube University Krems  Despite well-attended festivals, international research, numerous articles, conferences and database-aided documentation, Media ... more

Johanna Reich presents the project entitled »Minus 1« by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) and introduces the concept of the experimental lab, as well as some of the ensuing works. ... more

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When all said things do not benefit: Speaking helps!  Latrinalia / Kay Kienzler / D / V / 6:40 Und wenn wir dann … / D. Risch / D / V / 3:59 Recitation/Reception ... more

Dancing devils, homicidal wallets, moths and mites. Do a 360 - done.  Kreutzersonate / Marcel Klein / D / V / 4:11 Loose Connection / Jan Haering / D / V / 6:01 Those ... more

The block rocks: No matter if in the bath, on the web, in the traffic light or on the beach. Keep it real!  Corners / Derek Roberts / A / V / 10:00 Ocean / Chia-Wen Chan ... more

Antje and Richard in Close-Up, Britney and Arnie in cutcarnage.  Luft / Natalia Stürz / D / V / 0:27 Antje und wir / Felix Stienz / D / V / 12:00 Pluto / Yang Kai ... more

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Flash seminar under the motto “Well roared, lion? How to produce creative Flash animations”  Manfred Osthof, business data processing specialist of the Macromedia Akademie ... more

Antje and Richard in Close-Up, Britney and Arnie in cutcarnage - old and new heroes celebrate a reunion.  Luft / Natalia Stürz / D / V / 0:27 Antje und wir / Felix Stienz ... more

Professor Ingo Petzke, Department of Design at Würzburg University of Applied Sciences  Presentation of  a retrospective with film works by students from the past 20 ... more

The block rocks: No matter if in the bath, on the web, in the traffic light or on the beach. Keep it real!  Corners / Derek Roberts / A / V / 10:00 Ocean / Chia-Wen Chan ... more

Dancing devils, homicidal wallets, moths and mites. Do a 360 - done.  Kreutzersonate / Marcel Klein / D / V / 4:11 Loose Connection / Jan Haering / D / V / 6:01 Those ... more

When all said things do not benefit: Speaking helps!  Latrinalia / Kay Kienzler / D / V / 6:40 Und wenn wir dann … / D. Risch / D / V / 3:59 Recitation/Reception ... more

The French artist and curator Anne Roquigny is planning an extraordinary, exclusive live performance this year.   Together with students, she will link, divide, alienate ... more

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Three awards will be presented: the “EMAF Award” for a trendsetting work in Media Art, the “Dialogpreis” of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural ... more

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James Harper from the Cardiff University of Art and Design will present his performance „Untitled Tea Party“. What do tea, cakes and bricks have in common? Come in and find it out!  25 ... more

The two film artists Torsten Fleisch and Telemach Wiesinger will be involved in a cinematic battle of images.   16mm and S-8 films will be slung in a wild scenario on top, ... more

James Harper from the Cardiff University of Art and Design will present his performance „Untitled Tea Party“. What do tea, cakes and bricks have in common? Come in and find it out!  25 ... more

Scanner (UK) / Maix Mayer (D)  This live performance focuses on a complex and mysterious chronicle of spaces. While the soundtrack spins together an imaginary story, the room ... more

Accompanied with presentation by Cindy Keefer, Center for Visual Music, Los Angeles.  Films include:   Allures / 1961 / 16mm / 8:00 Samadhi / 1967 / orig. 16mm ... more

Rhythm in Light / 1934 / 5:00 Synchromy No. 2 / 1935 / 5:00 Dada / 1936 / 3:00 Parabola / 1937 / 9:00 Escape / 1937 / 5:00 Spook Sport (with animation by Norman ... more