[spectre] (fwd) crosstalk video art festival, budapest, 25-30 June

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:42:45 +0200
From: Adrien Török <adrien.torok at gmail.com>


crosstalk video art festival will take place from 
June 25 to June 30 in Gödör, in heart of 
Budapest. The program for the second edition of 
crosstalk video art festival 2009 will be 
comprised by video screenings, round-tables, 
video installation exhibitions and a VJ night.

Although crosstalk video art festival is an 
international event, every year a country is 
invited to present a focused view over the local 
production on art videos. For 2009 Spain is the 
guest country. Every year a video collection is 
invited for the video screening: Antology. This 
year we have a selection from the video 
collection of MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo 
de Castilla y León), Spain.



In this year's edition crosstalk is hosting three 
partner institutes presented in Crosstalk Invites 
section: FixC Cooperative, a video-, media art 
and experimental cimena distributor and promoter 
from Helsinki, Finland, VideoChannel, a video 
project environment from Cologne, Germany and 
VisualContainer, the italian video art 
distributor from Milan, Italy.

In cross-talks screening are presented videos 
based on the open call and S is a section 
exclusevily for students.

crosstalk will present three round-tables with 
professionals in the video art field, such as 
artists, curator, collector, concerning 
techniques, philosophical questions and 
methodology of works with subjects like: 
<http://www.loop-videoart.com/Pages/Mas.aspx?id=6>collecting 
videoart, 
t<http://www.loop-videoart.com/Pages/Mas.aspx?id=7>echnological 
limitations and conservation matters, Video and 
media art in the hungarian and international art 
market, 
p<http://www.loop-videoart.com/Pages/Mas.aspx?id=6>resenting, 
installing and exhibiting videoart.

This edition will explore the dialogue and 
intersections between video art and other arts 
disciplines such as dance, theater by hosting 
Barbara Bañuelos Company with the show called: 90 
DB and Aggtelek from Barcelona will present az 
installation in Labor Gallery. The vj culture is 
also part of contemporary video and media art, so 
one night will be dedicated exclusivelly for a vj 
maraton with 4 dj and 16 vj-s.

This years edition of creating surprising 
collaborations with the aim of spreading the 
interest in video art through a wide range of 
audiences, in a project linked to the city.


crosstalk video art festival
2009., June 25-30.

<http://www.crosstalk.hu/>www.crosstalk.hu