VII MEDIA FORUM

VII MEDIA FORUM

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"AUTHO(RITARNOST)"

(e-mail – mediaforum@mediaartlab.ru)

Organizers: MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture, Interfest

Location: Russian Cinematographers Union, Club Na Brestskoj, Moscow

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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.

This tragedy brought us to two immanent conclusions:

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.

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

>>>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

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Olga Shishko, Programs Curator ( mediaforum@mediaartlab.ru )

Konstantin Bokhorov, International Curator ( bororo@division.ru )

Olga Selivanova, Coordinator of the Festival Program ( elka@sidor.ru )