24th European Media Art Festival – The Place for Experimental Media
27 April – 1 May 2011
Exhibition: 27 April – 29 May 2011

2200 entries compete for the EMAF awards!
With its international film and video programmes and its Media Art exhibition, the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück is Germany’s only festival that offers the entire spectrum of experimental media creations and works at the interface of experimental and narrative film. This year, at the 24th EMAF, around 250 works will be presented between 27 April and 1 May.

Over 2200 entries from more than 60 different countries were submitted to the EMAF, including shorts and feature-length films, music videos, sound projects, installations and performances. All of the film and video contributions will now be viewed and assessed by the committee of this year's EMAF, made up of Florian Wüst from Berlin, Katrin Mundt from Essen and Jennifer Jones from Cologne, under the leadership of Ralf Sausmikat (EMAF).

Artists from Germany, the USA, Spain and England, as well as from countries such as Taiwan, Mozambique and Lebanon are hoping their contributions will be included in this programme, and may possibly even win one of the awards: in addition to the "EMAF Award", the "Dialogpreis" of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the "Prize for the best German experimental film", a "Newcomer Award" will also be conferred this year for the first time.

One of the main focal areas of EMAF is the subject area Japanese Media Art Now, which is being shown to mark the celebrations of "150 years of friendship Japan - Germany". Anime and manga productions, which fascinate millions in Japan, will take the centre stage of the film programmes.
Other highlights of the programme include the international prize-winning performances "Braun Jazz Tube Band" by Ei Wada and "Rheo" by Ryoichi Kurokawa.

In addition to the film programmes, the Media Art Festival in Osnabrück will also be showing contemporary positions of internationally recognised artists and young talent at the exhibition Planet M from 27 April to 29 May 2011.
Moving Stories, the main part of the exhibition, was compiled in international cooperation between the EMAF and five other European art institutions. Both male and female artists explore new forms of narration related to the topic of moving images, each in their own very personal artistic way.

The EMAF succeeded in encouraging the internationally renowned artist Candice Breitz to create a new piece for Moving Stories.
Transit – European Young Talents Forum, another part of the exhibition, will show 15 works by students from various European art academies. In collaboration with the higher education institutions and the festival Vidéoformes in Clermont-Ferrand and FLACC workspace in Genk, the project promotes young artists from six European countries.

The Media Campus at the EMAF, a platform for students to establish contacts and to present projects, offers a number of European media universities, art academies and design colleges the chance to present themselves and their programmes.
Demanding lectures, interesting presentations by various artists and numerous workshops will be offered in the Congress part of the 24th Media Art Festival. Speakers include the renowned media philosopher Siegfried Zielinski from the Vilem Flusser Archiv at the Berlin University of Art and the media theorist Timothy Druckrey from New York, who will deliver talks on the history and the future of media and film.

Together with the Media Art Flow Festival (MAFF) in Almelo/NL, the EMAF will present the Media Art Garden this year. This garden project will be realised in the inner cities of the two festival locations. Together with the German artist Karl Heinz Jeron and the Dutch artist Wessel Westerveld, visitors and passers-by can join in workshops to grow/build mechanical plants and machines that gain their electrical energy from fruit and vegetables.

Online accreditations from 15 February 2011 at www.emaf.de!

For the latest information on the festival, visit www.emaf.de or check out facebook, twitter, vimeo and flickr.

European Media Art Festival – The Place for Experimental MediaThe EMAF in Osnabrück is one of the most important forums of international Media Art, and is an open laboratory for creative and artistic experiments that help shape media and the aesthetics of their content.
As a lively meeting place for artists, curators, lenders, gallery owners and a specialist audience, it has been instrumental in forming the themes and aesthetics of Media Art.

// CONCEPT AND FESTIVAL MANAGEMENT
Hermann Nöring, Alfred Rotert, Ralf Sausmikat.

// SPONSORS
nordmedia - Die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH
City of Osnabrück
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
German Federal Foreign Office
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Kulturstiftung der Länder
Europa fördert Niedersachsen
European Regional Development Fund
EU/Culture Programme
150 Years of Friendship Germany - Japan
University of Osnabrück
Canadian Embassy
Grenswerte, funded by Euregio
Cybob Communications

// MEDIA PARTNERS
arte
le monde diplomatique

// CULTURAL PARTNERS
NDR Kultur

// MORE INFORMATION
Kerstin Kollmeyer
Presse(at)emaf.de
European Media Art Festival
Lohstr. 45a
D-49074 Osnabrück
Tel. +49 (0)541/216 58
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