19th EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL

The European Media Art Festival (EMAF) is one of the most important current media art forums world-wide: from 10 to 14 May 2006 the Osnabruck Festival will offer a comprehensive overview spanning the whole range of this young genre of art.

Under the motto "Smart Art" the EMAF will present current works that question social conventions, take familiar things out of their context and subtly track down the absurdities of individual and social everyday life. The approaches range from popular subjects to provocative statements that go down new paths of artistic debate in film, installation and expanded media, making playful and intelligent use of various media.

Spanning five days, the Osnabrueck Media Art Festival will show over 200 new experimental films and videos and around 50 installations, also offering numerous performances, lectures and discussions.

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International experts will discuss the history and future of media art under the title "From Paik to the iPod". Guests include Prof. Dr. Wulf Herzogenrath, initiator of the exhibition "40 Years of Video Art", who will highlight the historical aspects of video art, and Prof. Zhang Ga from the New York Institute for Technology, who in his presentation "On media art in China" will describe the development of media art in the Far East.
Other speakers and their subjects are:
Frank Hartmann (Vienna): "Global Media Culture - Guided tours of the
media modern age",
Armin Medosch (London): "Creative resistance, artistic strategies in
the age of long-term political crisis"
Karin Wehn (Leipzig): "Best of web animations"
Philine von Guretzky (London) and Marjan van Mourik (Rotterdam):
"Tank.tv and CultureTV"
Ingo Linde (Leipzig): "Machinima: Puppet theatre in a killing game "
Christian Hieber (Stuttgart): " Media Revolution through the iPod and
podcasting?"
Melanie Manchot and Johannes M. Hedinger, whose works entitled
"Security" and "Mocmoc" will be on display at the festival's
exhibition, will talk about their artistic oeuvres.

For more information: www.emaf.de