DARKLIGHT FESTIVAL in association with ARTS COUNCIL?S CRITICAL VOICES 3 presents

SATURDAY 24th JUNE:::2.30pm:::IFI:::TICKETS FREE FROM IFI BOX OFFICE.

In association with the Arts Council?s Critical Voices programme 2006 Darklight are delighted to host a public interview with John Thomson, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York conducted by artist John Gerrard.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is one of the world's leading non-profit resources for video art and interactive media. John Thomson has been active in media arts on an international level since the 1980s and has been Director of Distribution at EAI since 2000. He is also a co-director and founder of Foxy Production, a leading contemporary art gallery in New York. He has been active in media arts on an international level since the 1980s. Before moving to New York in 2000, he researched media art digitization and distribution for the Lux Centre, London. In 1998 he was Coordinator of Pandaemonium Festival, London, and in 1997 he co-curated the Lux's inaugural moving image exhibition program. He has curated media art programs and exhibitions for the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Tate Britain, London; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Exit Art, New York; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, among other venues. He has lectured in media arts at the London Institute, and the School of Visual Arts, New York. He has written for ?Mesh?, Melbourne; ?Art in Culture?, Seoul; and has written on media art preservation in ?Art Between Zero and One: A Manual of Digital Art?, Christoph Kehl and Beat Raeber, eds., Basel, 2006.

During this interview he will discuss issues surrounding distribution and selling of moving image work as well as issues on archiving video, art an animation originating on computers. We hope this discussion will trigger some of the topics up for debate at the Darklight Symposium 2007.

John Gerrard is one of Irelands most exciting young artists, amongst other things his work is concerned with real time passing and deals with issues of sustainability, longevity and durability both thematically and practically.

EVENT DETAILS:
IFI - Irish Film Institute, Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6793477
2.30pm : Public interview John Thomson & John Gerrard
3.30pm : Screening of EAI?s catalogue & archive.
Tickets are FREE of charge but must be obtained from IFI box office.


Interview is followed by a screening of a selection of work from EAI?s catalogue and archive.
Video Variations: Artists' Experiments with the Video Image
Artists working with video have often manipulated images they have shot or found to produce new contexts, meanings, and effects. The works in this
programme re-present original materials in ways that enthral, disturb, and entertain. They undermine our expectations of the behaviour of moving
images, placing in relief the elements of contemporary film and TV that we take for granted: character, narrative, figure, scene, and tempo. Spanning
four decades, this collection includes work from Steina and Woody Vasulka, Dara Birnbaum, Peggy Ahwesh and Shana Moulton.

www.artscouncil.ie/criticalvoices.ie
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Karen Walshe
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Darklight Festival 22 ? 25 June 2006
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