Fwd: Video as Urban Condition: VIDEOpool

Von Benjamin Fischer am 31. März 2004 um 18:35

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> ===CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF VIDEO WORKS===
>
> Video as Urban Condition: VIDEOpool
> Deadline: 7th of May, 2004
>
>
> ===Video as Urban Condition===
>
> examines the ways in which video has become part of the urban fabric:
> the omnipresent screen and the watchful eye that inhabits private and
> public space. Here, video is the ubiquitous equipment of the home, the
> street and the work place: the tube, the box, the telly, CCTV,
> info-screen, electronic billboard, in-store advertising, mobile,
> terrestrial, cable, satellite, pay-per-view, downloadable, for sale, to
> rent.
>
> Video as Urban Condition http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/
>
>
> ===VIDEOpool===
>
> is the videotheque attached to the symposium and future touring
> exhibition. The Pool aims at expanding the range of positions
> presented in
> the show and symposium by giving access to related video work. During
> opening hours, visitors have access to the Pool and viewing facilities
> (DVD and MiniDV). Work which has been submitted to the Pool will be
> indexed, documented and promoted online at the project website. The
> contents are intended to help set the agenda of the symposium and
> provide
> concrete points for discussion.
>
>
> VIDEOpool is online at
> http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.html entry form at
> http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf
> <http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf>
>
>
> ===Special focus: Urban road movies===
>
> February 2003: the Congestion Charge is introduced in London. The fee
> applies to all vehicles that drive in the 21 sq kms of central London.
> Compliance is ensured by a surveillance apparatus that records vehicle
> registration plates. Every vehicle is monitored over its entire journey
> through the charging zone. In medieval times, city walls signified to
> those entering them that they were approaching the centre of political,
> economic, and religious power. Today¼s guardians, closed-circuit TV
> cameras that peer down from posts on every street corner, ensure that
> modern citizens are no less aware of this fact.
>
>
> In 1995, at the Telepolis symposium in Luxemburg, an attempt was made
> to
> redefine urbanism for an emerging digital age, in which trade,
> communication, and information exchange would be increasingly carried
> out
> by means of e-commerce, video conferencing, and chat- and newsgroups.
> Today, media convergence is a reality, but the predicted decline in the
> physical movement of people has not occurred. The increase in traffic
> is
> not just across national boundaries, but also across the economically
> more
> significant city borders. Former inhabitants leave older European and
> American city centres, now turned into lifeless zones of speculation.
> The
> influx of people into newer urban centres in Asia and South America is
> creating mega-cities.
>
> The European city plan is medieval; its nodes of activity are
> crossroads.
> The new Asian media cities (attached to Dubai, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur) are
> growing around an infrastructure of data highways, and their nodes of
> activity are the access points to these highways. To what extent can
> electronic media impose or create an urbanism? What kind of urbanism
> will
> this be? could this be? Or, will the urban accrete only in the
> interstices, despite the planners¼ best intentions?
>
> Media convergence and the diffusion of digital technology, coupled with
> increasing anxiety and paranoia in the city, has greatly expanded the
> realm of video. The telephone conversation, the journal entry, the
> eyewitness account, the infant¼s room, ‚ all have enhanced, supported,
> substantiated, monitored, or otherwise qualified by the use of „moving¾
> image. Video is most prevalent not in any „pure¾ form, but in such
> hybrid
> manifestations.
>
> This symposium and exhibition will examine the extents to which
> mediation
> forms our urban experience, and urban experience influences video
> culture.
> We invite work that throw light on the place of video in the city, and
> of
> the city in video. Works that situate urban experience around networks
> of
> traffic (human, vehicular, or data), or that examine the relationship
> of
> newer, developing cities to media, would be of particular interest.
>
> Manu Luksch (march 2004)
>
>
> ===REQUIREMENTS===
>
>
> Send work and entry form to:
>
> „VIDEO AS URBAN CONDITION¾
> Manu Luksch
> ambient space, Regent studios Unit 76
> 8 Andrews Road
> London E8 4QN
>
>
> post stamped: 7th of May, 2004
> video formats: DVD or MiniDV (pls no VCD or VHS)
> form download:
> http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf
> inquiries: manuambientTVNET
>
>
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