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,HO Association For
Contemporary Art
presents
VA(MEDIA.DOC)VA
International
Art Forum for Video and New Media
October 25 - 27. 2000 Sofia, Bulgaria
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VA(MEDIA.DOC)VA is part of the extensive international,long-term project for art and innovative technologies, initiated by ,HO Association for Contemporary Art, in October, 1999, with VIDEOARCHAEOLOGY : The First International Video Art Biennial. Its goals are: to bring together highly experimental and innovative ideas, works and artists devoted to video and new electronic technologies, and to provoke discussion in order to reconsider and further define current global and individual human issues that are related to the technological and economic globalization as it affects national, racial, sexual, personal, and cultural identity.
The inaugural festival of VA (Videoarchaeology) was organized by ,HO Association for Contemporary Art in collaboration with outstanding international media and video art organizations and festivals, such as: FACT, Liverpool/UK; VIA AudioVideoPhotoKunst, Basel, Switzerland; VideoDataBank, Chicago, US; WRO Media Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland ; Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia; Soros Center for Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria; Heure Exquise, France. In its two-week screening and exhibition program,VA showed a competitive selection of more than 180 works, with artists from 20 countries, including also screenings of curatorial packages, and a theoretical forum. The first VA festival encouraged a rethinking of the ideas of dialogue among diverse historical and cultural layers in our society. The themes ranged from insights into each person's unique,unshared self-perseptions to broader cultural, geopolitical, and historical implications of the issue of self-identity at the end of the 20th c.
This year's project VA(MEDIA.DOC)VA comes as a follow-up of Videoarchaelogy, and will pursue a more profound revisitation of the problematic interaction between all these complex human characteristics and the new technological network of information, communication and artistic expression.
VA(MEDIA.DOC)VA is a project open to diverse ideas, artworks, forms, formats, artists, and backgrounds. It is interested in your visual answers to the question of the [im]possibility of multiculturalism in an age of technological and economic globalization. To what extent is cross-cultural dialogue possible, and where/how do you see its definition, limits, and interaction points?
So far we have selected works from more than 10 countries, including curatorial selections from the collections of VideoDataBank, Chicago/USA; Heure Exquise!, France; VideoMedeja, Novi Sad,Yugoslavia, and others.
Curators: Boris Kostadinov and Zhivka Valiavicharska
Submit your work before September 1, 2000, with the following information:
__title of the work
__year of production
__length
__format: CD, web.site, videotape(videos must be VHS copies only -- PAL or NTSC)
__special technical requirements
__a brief description of your idea
We need your:
name and contact information
a brief resume
Materials will not be mailed back. Please, indicate whether you will permit us the further use of your work by ,HO Association for Contemporary Art for promotional purposes,press releases and broadcast reviews.
Thank you for your participation!
Mailing Address:
,HO Asociation For Contemporary
Art
Boris Kostadinov
Attn: VA(MEDIA.DOC)VA
21B Patriarch Evtimii St.,
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria
APPLICATION
DEADLINE
September 1, 2000
Tel. (359) (2) 989-6027,
e-mail:
A detailed program and a catalog of VA(MEDIA.DOC)VA will be available after October 1, 2000.
,HO Association for Contemporary Art is an independent, non-profit institution founded in 1998, and located in Sofia, Bulgaria. Main projects, activities and goals:
-- to bring together highly innovative ideas and artists, working with new electronic media. ,HO ACA privileges the visual arts; however, it also initiates and strongly supports projects whose nature crosses the boundaries of the visual into multidisciplinary and new media forms;
-- to provoke theoretical and visual dialogue about current issues in visual culture; to revisit and rethink well-defined theoretical positions; to popularize underrepresented contemporary problems and minority viewpoints through the visual arts;
-- to encourage and support the integration and dialogue between the Eastern European countries and the West by financially supporting international new-technology grounded projects, and by stimulating professional collaboration among artists, critics, theoreticians, and new media activists throughout the world.
,HO ACA initiators, staff and contributors are: Zhivka Valiavicharska - Bulgaria, Ilina Koralova - Bulgaria, Boris Kostadinov - Bulgaria, Michaela Nikolova - Bulgaria, Andreas Spigl - Austria, Milena Ilieva - France, Herve Perdriel - France
> Mailing Address:
,HO Association for Contemporary Art,
Boris Kostadinov 21B Patriarch Evtimii St.,
Sofia 1000, Bulgaria
tel. (359) (2) 989-60 27
e-mail:
zhvk@yahoo.com
b_kostadinov@yahoo.com
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