[spectre] VII MEDIA FORUM of the VIII MIFF, Moscow

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  VII MEDIA FORUM

of the ïïVIII Moscow International Film Festival

June 23-26, 2006



<http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/>http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru



CALL FOR ENTRIES - EVERYBODY!

« AUTHO(RITARNOST)»

>MEDIA FORUM

>>MF programme 2006

>>>International Board

>>>>>Entry Form and contacts







>MEDIA FORUM



Festival programme works submittion  deadline - May 20th 2006

Presentation programme and conference applications deadline - May 10st 2006

(e-mail - <mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)



Organizers: MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture, Interfest

Location: Russian Cinematographers Union, Club Na Brestskoj, Moscow

Support: ANO Internews



Moscow International Film Festival

Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is held since 1959 and 
gradually it  has become one of most respectable and prestigious 
film-forums in the world. In 1973 MIFF was registered by the 
International Federation of Film-producers associations (FIAPF) as an 
«A» class film festival alongside with those in Berlin, Cannes, 
San-Sebastian, Karlovy Vary and Venice. This is the sixth year Media 
Forum is organized as part of the Moscow International Film 
Festival.  The role of new media in audiovisual art and culture 
received due recognition and Media Forum was immediately introduced 
into the official program of MIFF.



Media Forum is the first event of such scale in Russia and it reveals 
a new vision of the world of new media culture and new screen 
technologies to the professionals, critics and public in general. The 
objective of Media Forum is to demonstrate the connection between 
traditional and modern branches of screen culture, the impact of 
technological innovations on visual arts.



Media Forum as action is an exchange of ideas, infusion of new forces 
into contemporary culture and vice versa. It is an attempt to 
demonsrtate the logic of new thought and new communications.  At the 
moment it is inside  media culture that new ideas go through trial 
and  approbation, ideas that cannot be realized in contemporary art 
context. 



>>MF programme 2006

1. Festival programme

During preparation to this year MEDIAFORUM Alexey Isaev (1960-2006), 
our ideological leader and theoretician, died. 



This tragedy brought us to two immanent conclusions:

1. dedicate MEDIAFORUM 2006 to Alexey Isaev memory;

2. select as a theme for the Forum Autho(Ritarinost) because this was 
his last will.



Media-artist by the very order of things is placed in the state of 
auto(rhetarian) author. 



First, as artistic personality generating its significant discourse, 
its self rhetoric. He automatically places itself in opposition to 
totality - to its material, to the viewer, to the society, to the 
critic, to the power, to the temporality, and to the space. 
Authorizing his conception he wins the fight with the context. Only 
charismatic, autonomous, despotic rhetoric rips the emptiness of 
distrust, indifference, apathy. To establish his authority and 
accomplish the influence of art the author glows with will, forth, 
self-esteem,  pretension; under this aegis he storm the heaven, shoot 
forward in a deep avant-garde. Only ambitious will be taken to the 
future (Victor Misiano).



Secondly, he joined with the tentacles of the power, i.e. with media. 
He manipulate with its manipulators. Media is rhetoric in itself; 
without authority of the author it escapes the grasp. Artist which 
rules them by the iron hand doubles authority, i.e. produce art.  



The theme of the authority of media is as old as first experiments of 
'guerilla video' of the 60-s but it haven't lost its actuality. The 
power reactualizes it again and again. Now is quite obvious that 
without total antagonism and authority of artist it's not possible 
interaction with unlimited.



2. Presentation programme: informational retrospective screenings and 
special screenings

We invite the participation of festivals, distributive centres, media 
labs, archives, independent curators

3.       The International Conference and round table "Between viewer 
and screen"

4.     Multimedia shows





>>>International Board



·         Woody Vasulka - pioneer of media art, founder of the 
world's largest media archives «Vasulkas», USA

·         Rudolf Frieling - Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnology 
[ZKM], Karlsruhe,Germany.

·         Kirill Razlogov - art director of MIFF, director of Russian 
Institute for Cultural Research, Russia

·         Kathy Rae Huffman - Director of Visual Arts at Cornerhouse, 
Manchester,UK

·         Etienne Sandrin - Attaché de Conservation of Video Archive 
at the Georges Pompidou National Centre for Art and Culture, France

·         Jan Schuijren - curator, Amsterdam, Netherlands











>>>>Entry Form and contacts



Festival programme

(Deadline:  May 20, 2006):



ONLY CD ROMs or DVD disks

Name, family name, nationality, telephone/fax, address and e-mail of 
the author (group)

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Title of work, year and place of production 
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Technology, original format 
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Submitted format ______________________________________________________________

Synopsis ______________________________________________________________________

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Short CV _____________________________________________________________________

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*Please enclose to your work:

I authorize that my work can be (yes/no):

transferred to other formats if it's necessary for presentation 
within the festival ________;

used in printed and online publucations, TV programs presenting Media 
Forum, full _______; fragments ________;

kept in MediaArtLab's archive ________.

Date _______________  Signature ____________________

            

Non-selected works won't be returned



Presentation programmes and conference

(Deadline:  May 10, 2005):



Papers and Programme'description Proposals

Please submit short abstracts (no more than 50 words) and description 
of organization or short CV (by e-mail 
<mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)



Contacts: MIFF, Media Forum

119019, 8a, Nikitskii Boulevard, 3rd,

("Internews" - for "MediaArtLab")

Tel.: +7 (095) 956-22-48

E-mail: <mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru

URL: <http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/>http://mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru  



Media Forum programme is to be published as part of the official 
XXVIII Moscow International Film Festival Catalogue in Russian and 
English


Olga Shishko, Programs Curator 
(<mailto:mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru>mediaforum at mediaartlab.ru)

Konstantin Bokhorov, International Curator 
(<mailto:bororo at division.ru>bororo at division.ru)

Olga Selivanova, Coordinator of the Festival Program 
(<mailto:elka at sidor.ru>elka at sidor.ru)