VIDEO_CIRCLING

In 2005 there will be a second vj-workshop lasting several days at the media art gallery, following the success of last spring's international workshop “Video_Recycling. Sample-Mix-Remix”.
This year the vj-workshop is entitled “Video_Circling – The camera as picture source”. It is jointly organised by vj-team “4youreye” (Vienna, www.4youreye.at), co-organizer of the international vj-festival “contact europe” (www.contacteurope.org, www.projekttor.org) and founder of the first Austrian vj-label EYE|CON (www.eye-con.tv), by Matthias Siegert (Stuttgart, www.siegert.cc), vj and architect, and by media art gallery fluctuating images.

Topic of the workshop is the generation of pictures directly from the camera itself and from connected equipment without using any external material. The camera does not only work as a medium for pictures but as a producer of pictures. This may be achieved by using defective equipment, methods of feedback, or deliberate interference with the camera provoking malfunction. Starting point for this topic is an issue of reflection on media that goes back to the sixties (Fluxus and Expanded Cinema) and has become fruitful again in recent audiovisual productions (i. e. works from Yoshi, Rechenzentrum, Madame Chao a. o.).

The video workshop will finish in a public presentation of the resulting works on May 8, 2005. The presentation will be accompanied by music of Mark Lorenz Kysela and phisch that will likewise be generated using sound-media (e.g. an audio-mixer) as sound producing media.

The workshop takes place in co-operation with Wand 5 e. V., Uli Wegenast will make a presentation of films produced without camera on May 6, 2005.
German press text (lecture): Der Vortrag versucht die unterschiedlichen Ansätze von kameralosen Filmen im Animations- und Experimentalfilm in Beziehung zu setzen. Dabei spielt auch die Kamera als selbstreferentielle Bildquelle eine wichtige Rolle. Unterschiedlichste Künstler haben seit den 20er Jahren immer wieder versucht, die Festlegungen und die Ideologie des Apparatus‘ zu umgehen. Dieser Ansatz war eine wichtige Quelle künstlerischer Strategien im Umgang mit dem Bewegungsbild, die im Zeitalter computergenerierter Bildwelten jedoch zunehmend in den Hintergrund tritt, jedoch im DV-Film und Mikrokino neue Fragestellungen hervorbringt.

Participants: Angelika Bürkle (Stuttgart), Natalia Borissova (München), EYE|CON (Eva Bischof-Herlbauer und Gery Herlbauer, Wien), David Fischer (Wien), Katrin Orth (Offenbach), Johannes Raff (Stuttgart), Matthias Siegert (Stuttgart)

Supported by:
Medienteam der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Unternehmen Form, f_concept. licht- und tontechnik