//The EMAF-Congress
The Congress, part of the 24th European Media Art Festival, offers a critical and exciting exploration of current Media Art and Culture.
A series of lectures will be introduced by the artist Professor Candice Breitz. She will present her work “The Character”, showing at the EMAF exhibition, and explain how it came about. She will also explore the Indian and Nigerian film industries, which are increasingly challenging the dominance of American blockbusters. Next, Timothy Druckrey will give his presentation entitled “Time Shift”, which will delve into the aspect of time in film, using countless cinematic examples.
Professor Machiko Kusahara will also deliver a talk at this year’s festival as part of the Japan special. In her presentation, the curator from Tokyo will introduce the specific characteristics of the Media Art scene in Japan. Professor Yvonne Spielmann will give us a taste of her book “Hybridkultur”. Hybrid cultures are phenomena of the present that emerge from connections between influences of different media, and from various cultural contexts and discursive fields.
Other lectures explore the influence of the media and the Internet: in his presentation “Dramaturgy of violence? – Or: Why games are also art!”, Professor Dr. Michael Bhatty highlights the synergies, convergences and divergences in media and technological contents. Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico designed special software that copied images and data from around 250,000 Facebook users, which they then used for a supposed dating service “lovely-faces.com”. The media response was huge, and facebook was not amused.
Professor Ludger Brümmer from the ZKM, Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, will present the project Mediaartbase.de; Martin Groh from the documenta Archiv, Sandra Mijatovis and Sarah Niedergesäß from Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, and Alfred Rotert and Ralf Sausmikat (EMAF) will screen a selection of works from their archives. Professor Rotraut Pape will present the history of Media Art and its many forms, as well as projects, from her personal perspective and experience. She will ask whether the increased level of digitalisation in the 21st century has indeed made everything easier, more “user-friendly”, or whether, on the contrary, it is now a matter of one software version chasing another from the desktop.
In his presentation entitled “Abolition of the present and (an-archives) of the future”, the media philosopher Professor Dr. Siegfried Zielinski from the Villem Flusser Archiv of Berlin University of the Arts will explore the technologies of forgetting, how the future is coupled to the past, and the extreme reduction of storage times.
In addition to lectures and presentations, the Congress also offers visitors ample opportunity to engage in discussions, exchange information and establish contacts with others interested in media.
The whole EMAF 2011 programme can be downloaded from our website as a pdf document.
We look forward to your accreditation at www.emaf.de !
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// CONCEPT AND FESTIVAL MANAGEMENT
Hermann Noering, Alfred Rotert, Ralf Sausmikat
// SPONSORS
nordmedia - Die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH
City of Osnabrueck
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
German Federal Foreign Office
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
Kulturstiftung der Laender
Foundation of Lower Saxony
Europa foerdert Niedersachsen
European Regional Development Fund
EU/Culture Programme
150 Years of Friendship Germany - Japan
ANA
University of Osnabrueck
Canadian Embassy
Moundriaan Foundation
GrensWerte, funded by Euregio
Japan Foundation
Cybob Communications
// MEDIA PARTNERS
arte
le monde diplomatique
// CULTURAL PARTNER
NDR-Kultur
// Contact/Address/Postal
European Media Art Festival
Lohstrasse 45 a
D-49074 Osnabrueck
phone +49 (0) 5 41 - 2 16 58
fax +49 (0) 5 41 - 2 83 27
mail: info(at)emaf.de
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