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.
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> 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
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line for a South African Industrial/Techno/Experimental
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