EMAF, Osnabruck (DE)

European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck (DE)

21-25 arpil, 2010.

The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of new experimental films, performances, lectures, an exhibition and the Media Campus.The frame of content of the festival is ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements.The motto of the 2010 festival is MASH UP, reflected in film programmes, lectures and specials.

Free Falling, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)

Opening at PACT Zollverein with FREE FALLING is a new series of film programmes, conversations, and lectures. The first weekend unfolds around two pivotal works that highlight junctures between artistic and societal experimentation: William Greaves’ "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One" (1968), a rarely shown Black Cinema classic, documents the process of its own genesis, thereby questioning the borders between fiction and reality. Jean-Pierre Gorin’s filmic essay "Poto and Cabengo" (1979), most recently shown at Documenta 12, hones in on the language habits of a set of twins from California, reflecting on the limitations of societal integration. Posited in dialogue therewith are more recent works, such as those by Vincent Meessen, Stefan Hayn, Peggy Ahwesh, and Laure Prouvost.

Also : Clemens von Wedemeyer, Sharon Lockhart, Kevin J. Everson, Phil Collins, Joyce Wieland & Hollis Frampton ...

Curated by Katrin Mundt

May 28 & 29, 2010

PACT Zollverein

Essen

Germany

Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France

Flare #12, Musée Fabre (auditorium), Montpellier (F)

April 1, 2010, 6PM.

Screening by Florence Lazar & Vincent Meessen

followed by artist talks with Corine Rondeau

(Nîmes University /France Culture radio)

Les soirées Flare mettent en lumière les formes contemporaines de l’image en mouvement : films d’artistes, nouveaux médias, art vidéo, cinémas en marge, qui troublent les frontières entre art contemporain et cinéma. Comment les œuvres des artistes vidéo d'aujourd'hui travaillent-elles les formes cinématographiques ? Cette actualité de l'art contemporain est abordée sous la forme d’une rencontre avec des artistes, cinéastes et vidéastes, des diffuseurs et des critiques d’art.
Ces soirées sont organisées par Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma en collaboration avec le Musée Fabre et l'Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier Agglomération.