| Venues: | Podewil |
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| Date: | 23.05 – 01.06.1997 |
| Organisation: | Mediopolis Berlin e.V. |
| Website: | https://pastwebsites.transmediale.de/97/english/index.htm |
CD-ROMs, videos, Internet projects, seminars, TV productions, debates, exhibits, retrospectives, workshops, experimental, documentary, and artistic work
On its tenth anniversary, the VideoFest is changing its name to transmedia. A look at the programme makes it obvious why: for the third time running, the festival is focusing on multimedia, innovative television and video. This year, again, we are integrating technological developments and philosophical discourses relevant to these media realms into the programme: brain research, neuroaesthetics, nanotechnology, and a (self-)critical debate on the inflationary multiplicity of futuristic discourses.
festival catalog preface
It is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track o f the surge of media developments and discourses and to filter out what is appropriate for presentation at a festival. Particularly if – like us – you aspire to look primarily at the interplay and synergy effects between the individual media territories in a critical light.
It seems almost as if the multiplication of forms of expression through multimedia has done less to merge creative forces and more to create a new segmentation into yet another specialism.
This poses a challenge for us: to adopt a predominantly "transmedia" perspective and to initiate crosssectoral discourses. To be able to live up to our aspirations o f taking a wideangled view, we have worked with various experts right from the conception phase of our programme and have once again succeeded in attracting a number of renowned professionals to the individual events.
The new festival date is an experiment: we are stepping out o f the shadow of the celebrated Berlin film festival, the Berlinale, for the benefit of our audience, who will now no longer be spoilt for choice because too much is on at the same time. During three of the festival days, the Digital Media World and Internet World trade fairs will be on at the Berlin trade fair grounds, offering visitors the opportunity to become familiar with state-of-the-art equipment for producing transmedia work.
Amid so much change, some things have to remain the same, so for the fifth time running the festival will take place in Podewil, which now houses our daily operations, as well. transmedia '97 - 10th VideoFest: CD-ROMs, videos, Internet projects, seminars, TV productions, debates, exhibits, retrospectives, workshops, experimental, documentary, and artistic work - we hope for a good response and wish everyone a transmedia time.
transmedia ‘97, like previous iterations of the festival, was divided into several sections: Spot (Critical Discourse on the Media on selected days), Focus (Special Programs and Discourse), Primetime (International videos), Media Art Installations Explore! Multimedia Exhibition, Nightflight (videos and Performances from 22.30 onwards), and the Latenight video screening shows. Through these sections, the festival also integrated technological developments and philosophical discourses relevant to these media realms into the programme: brain research, neuroaesthetics, nanotechnology and a (self-) critical debate on the inflationary multiplicity of futuristic discourses.
transmedia award 1997
This year, there will be prizes worth 2,500 DM in the following categories: Video, TV, and Multimedia. Prizes will be awarded to works which are of outstanding creativity and contribute to the further enhance video, TV, and multimedia, or those which deal with important social topics in an unusual way. In addition, a prize will be donated by PRO PUBLICO: video production services worth 10,000 DM.
On its tenth anniversary, the VideoFest is changing its name to transmedia. The festival catalog includes information on this change, as well as information on all events and artworks of transmedia '97.
team
Mediopolis Berlin e. V. Organizer Pim Richter Board Podewil Co-Organizer Axel Bohse, Knut Gerwers, Micky Kwella (Best Boy Video), Bea Wölfling Festival Program Wolfgang Neuhaus Conception in cooperation for Spot/Focus 23.5.–25.5. Internationale Stadt Berlin Spot/Focus 31.5.–1.6. Johannes Lenz-Flawliczek Management Monika Ebert Press Steffi Müller (Guidance), Naira Bloss, Trixie Gülland Organization of the Festival Klaus Meier EDP Matthias Behrens, Andreas Hader, Hannes Ickert Technical Support Danja Swindall, Kerstin Rautenberg Counter Ulf Schleth & Erich Maas; Iedesi, Berlin WWW-Design Raimund Schlie Coordination Podewil Maximilian Stelzl Technical Support Podewil Bünck + Fehse, Martin Schramm transmedia trailer
supporters
Organizer Mediopolis Berlin e.V. Thanks to Akademie der Künste, British Counsil, 4, Eisfabrik Hannover, Foro Artistico, Internationale Stadt Berlin, Lettre International, Podewil Sponsors: Apple, Berliner Kindl, Contrib.Net, Europäische Kommission, NIL, PandaSoft, Pro Publico, Siemens Kultur Program