VIDEOMEDEJA 2009

13th International Video Festival

No commercial value !
December 11 - 13, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

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COMPETITION:
http://videomedeja.org/2009/screening
http://videomedeja.org/2009/media-installations

From the total 461 submissions for the festival 2009, received by authors from more than 59 countries, festival curators selected following to be included in the Competition program:
- 54 Videos and Films, to be presented within the Screenings part of the Competition program.
- 13 Media Installations, to be presented within the Exhibition part of the Competition program, includes Video installations, Net projects, Software (Open Source), Interactive art, Video game.

SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
http://videomedeja.org/2009/special

Made in Serbia 2009 | Selected works by Serbian artists
Holland Experience! | Contemporary Video from the Netherlands, from the collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, curator: Joke Balintijn
Vladimir Frelih | selected works
Ivan Sijak | selected works
Artyčok.TV | Non-commerical internet TV from Prague, covers Central-European art scene
VIDEOFORMES | Selection of works from the agenda of VIDEOFORMES festival from Clermont-Ferrand (France), curator: Gabriel Soucheyre

JURY MEMBERS
http://videomedeja.org/2009/jury

Joke Balintijn (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Vladimir Frelih (Osijek, Croatia)
Ivan Sijak (Belgrade, Serbia)

In total there are 67 works in the Competition and 40 more in the framework of the Special screenings
from more than 30 countries.

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EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Aleksandra Acic, Ciro Altabas, Francesco Biccheri, Jen-Kuang Chang, Seoungho Cho, Eunha Choi, D-Fuse, Boris Eldagsen, Pascal Fendrich, Bernd Harpfer, Lucas Figueroa, Thorsten Fleisch, Max Hattler, Gareth Hudson, Kaia Hugin, Ana Husman, Petra Innanen, Timo Katz, Ulf Kristiansen, Mores McWreath, Messmatik, Fennesz, Dennis H. Miller, Kelly Monico, Scott Bagus, Nassrin Nasser, Neil Ira Needleman, Michaela Nettell, Erkka Nissinen, Matthew Ortega, Jean-Gabriel Periot, Pink Twins, Johanna Reich, Juan Rey, Alicja Rogalska, Michal Ronen, Julika Rudelius, Rimas Sakalauskas, Mariano Salvador, Diego Sanchidrian, Fabio Scacchioli, Volker Schreiner, Semiconductor, SJ. Ramir, Irena Skoric, Vicent Gisbert Soler, Andres Tenusaar, Jeff Thompson, Asier Urbieta, Andoni De Carlos, Maarit Suomi-Vaananen, Philip Widmann, Sylvia Winkler, Stephan Koeperl, Patrick Bergeron, Christin Bolewski, Paul Destieu, Dominic Gagnon, Ethan Ham, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Olga Mink, Scanner, Thomas Mohr, Monochrom, Natacha Paganelli, Szacsva y Pal, Surabhi Saraf, Evelin Stermitz, UBERMORGEN.COM
eddie d, Vladimir Frelih, Ivan Sijak, Arno Coenen & Peter Leeuwerink, Jeroen Kooijmans, Martijn Veldhoen, Jacco Olivier, Lin de Mol, Julika Rudelius, Guido van der Werve, Michal Pechoucek, Adela Babanova, Ivan Svoboda, Mark Ther, Ondrej Brody, Radim Labuda, Petr Hatle, Klara Tasovska, Erik Sikora, David Mozny, Zbynek Baladran, Matej Smetana, Nenad Nedeljkov, Mia Nikolic, Srdjan Radakovic, Aleksanar Srb, Ana Stefanovic, Darko Stojkov, Andrej Tisma, Mane Zudjelovic, Reynold Reynolds, Mihai Grecu, Nadia Vadori, Sebastien Trouve, Bruno Lasnier, Neil Beloufa, Johnny Kelly, Maix Mayer, Clorinde Durand, Lior Waterman, Amit Levinger.

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THE FESTIVAL THEME
No Commercial value !
read full text at: http://videomedeja.org/text/no-commercial-value

Parcels labeled like this or similarly, carry, among other contents, our video works and films to be viewed by the Festival audience. Sending parcels online has become very common for speed and convenience, if not reliability. It is only up to your bandwidth how much data you can download, legally or otherwise. I wouldn’t go into the recurring issues of censorship or copyright (they come back to life like characters in horror movies). Whether the labelling is correct or not, the declared Zero value of a film or video puts their authors into the group of romantic-idealist losers, incapable of making money and forever maintained, handicapped from the outset by the fact that their brain-child is not really wanted in the wide world of trade policy. I bet there is no film maker who would object to a new, less deprecating label without the Zero value attached to a possible master-piece!?! Unlike labels on bottles of sugar-free carbonated water (stuffed with deadly sweeteners). Here are some recommendations for labelling parcels with video or film contents:

1. C’est Ne Pas Une Pipe
2. Dangerous Works of Art!
3. Beware of The Artist!
4. Caution, Art!
5. Unbreakable!!!!
6. All Four Sides Up (marked with arrows)
7.Etc.

The correct label would read: Value-Unknown!

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FOR THE FULL PROGRAM, CHECK OUT:
http://videomedeja.org

SUPPORTED BY:
Provincial Secretariat for Culture, Novi Sad City Council, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia