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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. > 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.


From: Beth Elise Stryker Subject: videofest 94/cyberqueer media works

Hello-- I saw your post on alt.artcom this morning. Your project sounds fascinating, and I'm partiucalarly curious about this independent producer of electronic culture... Currently I'm helping the New Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film put together a cyberqueer/sci-fi program. I would be interested in corresponding with you about ideas/information on how to exhibit interactive & electronic works. I'm also wondering if you know of any work which might fit into our program, or know of anyone who might. The Festival is taking place in May, submissions are due Feb 15. The New Festival is International, so any contacts you have regarding electronic culture internationally would be a great help. (We are also including film and video, and computer and other types of animation in this program.) Could you tell me a bit more about how your exhibition will be set up, and how you managed to get equipment for such a venture? If you are interested, I have a film/video guide to the Internet I could send you. It might be helpful in providing resources. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Beth Stryker (bes7@columbia.edu) Tapes should be sent to The New Festival of Lesbian and Gay Film Attn: Cyberqueer Program 462 Broadway 510 NYC, NY 10013 phone#212 343 2707


From: Geert Lovink Subject: Re: HANDSHAKE - VideoFest94, Berlin To: luxlogis@uropax.contrib.de (Lux Logis e.V.) Date: Wed, 2 Feb 1994 08:04:21 +0100 (MET)

Is Handshake culture....?!? Is Berlin Culture.....!? Don't spread German self-hate towards media! Attack all expressions of media-ecology It is depressing to read as the very first question on your list wheather television is 'culture'. Television is a technology, a medium as you wish. Allthough in decline as a one-way, two channel massmedium with hugh influence on the population, it's slowly growing in other directions. People and groups can influence the direction of their own television culture, by starting experiments, doing piracy, working on the connection between television, telephone and computer, by commenting the current narrow ideas of interactivity. And by making television themselves. And not starting to debate such silly topics, dictated by some elitist frustrated German intellectuals who don't know anything about the media or new technologies and who want to go back to the real world, opera, nature etc. You reactionary pigs! geert@hacktic.nl


Return-Path: Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 12:16:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: HANDSHAKE - VideoFest94, Berlin

I would like to exchange views on video art versus traditional film with someone from the Graduate Film School in Lodz, Poland or any other participants of your video conference. Would you also let me know the address where I shall direct my picture (at my computer)? I look pretty filmy, I'm telling you. Best, Kamil Turowski Eugene, OR. USA turowski@darkwing.uoregon.edu


Date: Wed, 9 Feb 94 16:43:16 EST From: h0155amd@rz.hu-berlin.de (Thomas Scheutzlich) Subject: Re: VideoFest94 (Berlin) Newsgroups: zer.z-netz.freizeit.tv,zer.z-netz.freizeit.video,alt.tv,bln.kultur

Hallo Videofestler/innen, (...) >Wenn Du Lust hast, lass uns Deine Meinung zu einem der folgenden >Punkte wissen. Wir werden sie auf dem VideoFest publizieren, und >moeglicherweise hat einer der Besucher Interesse, intensiver >darueber mit Dir zu kommunizieren. Gern. So here it goes: >1. Unter elektronischer Kultur versteht man meistens Fernsehen. > Ist Fernsehen Kultur? Klar, fuer viele wohl (leider) auch die einzige Form von Kultur. Fragt sich dann natuerlich auch auf welchem Niveau...(Trash Culture?!) >2. Welche Formen von Fernsehkunst koennte es geben? Interaktives Fernsehen (Van-Gogh-TV hat mir als Versuch sehr gut gefallen, nur koennte ich mir noch viele andere Formen vorstellen) >3. Kuenstlerfernsehen als andere Variante - wie koennte sie > aussehen? siehe 2. >4. Welche Assoziationen verbindest Du mit Videokultur? Video-Kinos, Unabhaengige Produktionen, Animationen, (spezialisierte) Videotheken, Kunstvideos, Videoskulpturen, Musikvideos >5. Was wuerdest Du ueber Video gerne wissen? Welche Tools gibt es inzwischen fuer Computeranimationen, welche Standards setzen sich durch (Soft- und Hardware), wann wird Silicon Graphics ein fuer Normalsterbliche erschwingliches System auf den Markt bringen, wann wird MS-DOS endlich verboten, welche Multimedia-PCs werden voraussichtlich die groesste Ver- breitung finden (Mac???) >6. Hast Du Lust, andere Formen elektronischer Kultur zu > diskutieren - Multimedia, Virtuelle Realitaet, Kuenstliche > Intelligenz etc.: Hier kann ein Anfang gemacht werden. Ja, sogar lieber _machen_ als diskutieren; nur fehlt mir im Moment leider die Zeit dazu (ich habe neben meiner Ausbildung noch zwei Musikprojekte am Laufen), aber was noch nicht ist... Ansonsten wuensche ich Euch viel Spass und gutes Gelingen; ich schau' dann bei Gelegenheit 'mal vorbei! Gruss, /------------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Tom Scheutzlich @ Azubi am Rechenzentrum der Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | "Ich bin nicht schuld! Ich habe nicht CDU gewaehlt!" (Aufkleber) | \------------------------------------------------------------------------------/