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The Long Video-Night

1990 – 2000

The long videonight is a tradition, and always completely sold out. Non-stop-Video-Show.

  1. The Long Video Night

    transmedia 1997 catalogue scan

  2. Die Lange Videonacht 91

  3. Stills from the 1994 VideoFest programme

The projectionists' favourite tapes, their favourites and those of the public from this year's programme. Why not dare to ask for your favourite? Open end.

Running on the last day of the programme, the Long Video-Night became from its inception a must-go of the festival: a whole night of projections of the videos and films of the festival's programme. Already on the catalogue from each year, the organisers hurried the audience to buy their tickets as the night was always sold out. In the trailer of transmediale '98 BESTANDSAUFNAME SEHEN / STOCKTAKING VISION the programme declares the Long Video Night "non-stop until the first U-Bahn". From 1996, it served as aftermath for the Award Ceremony. The name adapted to the changes of the festival, being the last the transmediale night in 2000.

Related Festivals

Archive videofest 1990
sVideoFest '90
3․ VideoFest

Within a short time the VideoFest has become one of the most important international video festivals. The programme consisted of works covering the field of videoart and documentation; the intention was to point out video-specific realisations of documentaries.

09.02 – 20.02.1990 AdK MedienOperative
Archive videofest 1991
VideoFest '91
4․ VideoFest

1991 – the character of the programme has become more angular than before; there are more works that irritate in form and content, more documentaries that ry to find an innovative formal language for exciting topics, surprisingly more works that use artistic means to reflect upon social or political topics in an unusual way.

13.02 – 24.02.1992 AdK
Archive videofest 1992
VideoFest '92
5․ VideoFest

Also with the VideoFest ‘92, the MedienOperative claimed to reflect the development of international video culture and to represent a rich variety of genres – productions, sculptures, or selections from fields like interactive media and computer animation that break down boundaries

13.02 – 24.02.1992 AdK MedienOperative
Archive videofest 1993
VideoFest '93
6․ VideoFest

VideoFest '93 had more to offer than ever before. On the one hand we offered a core programme of the usual high quality. On the other hand we can now boast greater space for all activities – the programme, installations, market, conferences, special showings, and so forth. Better informed and better entertained. Sometimes irritated, but never bored –plenty of mental turbulence.

14.02 – 24.02.1993 Podewil
Archive videofest 1994
VideoFest '94
7․ VideoFest

VideoFest in its seventh year, the year of that infamous „itch“ – which wasn’t the case luckily. The interconnections between video and television had become ever more important. The programme showed uncommon television productions and takes that, critically speaking, went against the grain of commercial media.

10.02 – 20.02.1994 Podewil
Archive videofest 1995
VideoFest '95
8․ VideoFest

1995 VideoFest saw beyond the end of ist own nose and explored in detail what the new maigc word Multimedia stands for in the realm of CD-ROM and Internet artworks. There were performances, discussions, an exhibition and workshops.

09.02 – 19.02.1995 Podewil
Archive videofest 1996
VideoFest '96
9․ VideoFest

Technological advances were growing at an exponential rate, and electronic art had started to invariably succumb to the digital. To deal with these developments, the VideoFest had restructured itself: video, television and multimedia were now given equal attention, and even the screening of films made with digital production elements was now possible.

15.02 – 25.02.1996 Podewil
Archive videofest 1997
transmedia '97
10․ VideoFest

The festival focused again on multimedia, innovative television and video. In 1997, 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.

23.05 – 01.06.1997 Podewil
Archive 1998
transmediale 98
BESTANDSAUFNAME SEHEN / STOCKTAKING VISION

For the first time in its history, the transmediale festival had a motto: BESTANDSAUFNAME SEHEN. The festival took stock of where television and all the new media have gotten us so far, and what they have given us.

12.02 – 22.02.1998 Podewil
Archive 1999
transmediale '99

transmediale invited artists, scientists and commercial producers in 1999 to present digital worlds and beings in films, video and games. It acknowledged the entertainment industry and its stimulating experiments with art, design and modern technologies, as well as the revolutionary changes the branch has undergone and brought about.

11.02 – 22.02.1999 Podewil Maria am Ost-Bhf
Archive 2000
transmediale 2000

The transmediale 2000 festival occurred at the turn of the millenium: the whole world was speculating about major computer break downs, philosophies that go astray discovering never-imagined paths of cognitive territory, and the world took one step closer to its own doom.

11.02 – 20.02.2000 Podewil
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