From:          G92E1814@warthog.ru.ac.za
To:            luxlogis@contrib.de
Date:          Thu, 3 Feb 1994 21:13:15 GMT+0200
Subject:       Re: HANDSHAKE - VideoFest94 Berlin


> VideoFest is generally interested in expanding its contacts with > Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America. Contacts can be > individuals, video production and distribution organizations, and > regional or national associations. E-Mail me with A Backstreet abortion in the subject line for a South African Hardcore catalogue, or the iNFINITY LABEL in the subject line for a South African Industrial/Techno/Experimental catalogue.
> 1. When most people hear the phrase "electronic culture," they > usually think of television. Is television culture? Television is most definately culture in the sense that it identifies a certain group of people, these people would have the same basic response patterns, interests and talk about the same things (as a result of being influenced by television > 2. What are possible forms that television art could take? > Television art should move away from a top down flow of information, into a more interactive or two way communication system. It should move away from being a passive experience to being an interactive experience - by either resolving the conflicts of material space on the viewer through immersion in the medium or by completely changing the frame of reference for the viewer. > 3. Another variant: "television by artists." What would it look > like? It would destroy the concept that television has to be realism - television can be Surreal, cubist, impressionist or even deconstructionist. > 4. What do you associate with the phrase "video culture"? Video culture for me is the obscure videos that we trade between ourselves - videos produced by students at varsities/video artists/videos that weren't slated for commercial release/videos that were banned. I don't really think of it as a cultural phenomena but rather as a sort of sub-culture living on the edge of everyday life. > 6. Are you interested in discussing other forms of electronic > culture - multimedia, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, > etc.? This is a good place to start. Multimedia - a cliche' I know iNFINITY nETWORK "I'm doing life for insignificance" c/o Dror Eyal aka StirFry 48a Bathurst St aka E.I.N. Grahamstown 6140 South Africa E-Mail me with A Backstreet abortion in the subject line for a South African Hardcore catalogue, or the iNFINITY LABEL in the subject line for a South African Industrial/Techno/Experimental catalogue.