European Media Art Festival
The European Media Art Festival , or EMAF for short , is a festival for film and media art that takes place annually in Osnabrück / Lower Saxony . The festival shows a diverse program of short and feature films, documentaries, retrospectives , special programs and performances . The EMAF annually organizes an exhibition in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück , organizes a conference and a media campus for works from the universities. The aim of the EMAF is to show the trends in contemporary audio-visual art.
organization
The festival is sponsored by Experimentalfilm Workshop eV, which was founded in 1981. Today the festival is directed by Hermann Nöring, Alfred Rotert and Ralf Sausmikat.
history
The festival is based on the "International Experimental Film Workshop", which was organized from 1981 to 1987. In 1988 it was renamed the European Media Art Festival. In addition, there were presentations of video and computer-based interactive installations in the exhibition context of the festival. In the late 1990s, the festival opened up to work in and about the Internet, known as net art .
In 2012 an anniversary festival took place at the z. B. Peter Weibel , Gerhard Johann Lischka u. a. discussed the general change in media use, the effects on artistic work and the importance of networks.
The festival also always reflects current political events and content. The revolutions in the Arab region were the subject of 2012, and 2013 surveillance by secret services and other state authorities.
In cooperation with other partners, the festival took part in the archive project "mediaartbase.de" and introduced in cooperation with European partners, the DCA project by which the cultural portal Europeana cooperates. Every year projects to strengthen the media skills of young people are organized.
EMAF is a founding member of the AG Kurzfilm and a member of the Federal Association of Communal Film Work .
Program sections
The EMAF consists of a cinema festival, an exhibition and an accompanying congress on the festival theme.
Film and video art
The central pillar is the film and video art program, which is divided into the sections International Film and Video Selection, Thematic Series and Retrospectives .
Exhibitions
An important element of the EMAF is the exhibition in the Kunsthalle Osnabrück , a Gothic church. Over a period of four weeks, film and video installations as well as partly interactive and expansive works by renowned international artists as well as up-and-coming media artists are presented here.
Conferences
Thematic conferences such as "Larger than Life - Art and Biotechnologies", "Identity" and "document" are held annually. In 2014, surveillance by secret services and other state authorities under the title "We - the enemy" was the theme of the conference and festival.
Performances
In the performance area, works by De La Guarda , Ryoichi Kurokawa, Ei Wada and Eric Hobijn were shown.
INIT (Media Campus)
The festival platform for the presentation of works from the universities is organized annually by students from cooperating universities.
Prices
At the festival, the EMAF Award for pioneering work in media art , the Newcomer Award and the Foreign Office Dialog Award for promoting intercultural exchange will be presented. In addition, the jury of the Association of German Film Critics eV (VDFK eV) awards the EMAF Media Art Prize .
Projects
Furthermore, the EMAF organizes various media art projects such as short film series and DVD editions, participates in international events and carried out events and productions on VJ culture, such as the television production "VJ Nights" with DJ Spooky and Alec Empire .
archive
The festival has an archive in which experimental films , video art and media art works are stored on various media from the time since the first festival in 1981 to the present day.
subjects
Since 2000, the festival has been taking place under a media-political, social, aesthetic or artistically relevant topic or motto.
- 2000: // Now Future
- 2001: Inside Outside
- 2002: Color
- 2003: Larger than Life
- 2004: transmitter
- 2005: document
- 2006: Smart Art
- 2007: 20 Years of Being Confused
- 2008: Identity
- 2009: The future lasts longer than the past
- 2010: Mash Up
- 2011: This is Media Art
- 2012: 25 years Jubilee
- 2013: Mapping
- 2014: We, the enemy
- 2015: Irony - subversive interventions in media art
- 2016: The Future of Visions: Don't expect anything
- 2017: Push
- 2018: Report - Notes from Reality
- 2019: Wild Grammar
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr Stefan Lüddemann: Media art on the topic of surveillance: Osnabrück's European Media Art Festival starts on April 23. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/mediaartfestival100.html ( Memento from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Frank Jürgens: "The future of the festival has a future". Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, April 24, 2016, accessed on February 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Ralf Döring: Festival under the motto “Push”: The EMAF 2017: media art with reference status. Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ EMAF - Topic 2018. Accessed August 2, 2020 .
- ↑ "Wild Grammar": EMAF program presented. In: OS-Radio 104.8. April 18, 2019, accessed on August 2, 2020 (German).