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Storytelling Part 1: Change of Storytelling from ith storytelling on Vimeo.

Thoughts about the presence and future of storytelling. With:
Ian Condry, MIT Cambridge web.mit.edu/condry/www/;
Joshua Green, UCSB Santa Barbara cftnm.ucsb.edu/mip/?author=1;
Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation New York participatoryculture.org/;
Henry Jenkins, USC Los Angeles henryjenkins.org/;
Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Storytelling Berkeley storycenter.org/;
Nick Montfort, MIT Cambridge nickm.com/
Clay Shirky, New York University shirky.com/;
Interview and Editing: Kurt Reinhard
Camera: Copi Remund
Institut für Theorie, Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts ith-z.ch/programm/contemporary+storytelling/

MMIX* is a timeless work in four interactive tableaus, where each visitor is invited to follow with his eyes and ears what his mouse gestures reveal. At each caress, sound and visual elements get randomly muddled up on the screen creating always new combinations. A work travelling between real and surreal, dream and mind, rage and fright, where humour and drama are cruelly mixed to suggest the sad patterns of our contemporary reality.

These works are part of Nicolas Clauss‘ virtual gallery, flyingpuppet, a collection of digital tableaus started in 2001.

MMIX is currently exhibited at Japan Media Art Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo.

Visual Foreign Correspondents is a platform for international video artists to reflect on recent events and to take the role of correspondent through their work. Die ZEIT online will provide additional background information and interviews to the invited artists and projects, and invites for critical discourse about the work.

Coinciding with the 20th commemoration of the fall of the Berlin wall, WL Project Berlin | Hong Kong together with Visual Foreign Correspondents Foundation, invited seven international artists to develop work relating to borders and boundaries and to take different positions relating to the nature of virtual or physical boundaries, walls or barriers as well as reflecting on the current state of the world. In times of a global economic crisis and international acts of terrorism, there is a clear tendency to re-erect or strengthen existing barriers; just as the European Union is strengthening its exterior borders.

A project of Visual Foreign Correspondents, Amsterdam, and WL Project Berlin | Hong Kong in collaboration with ZEIT Online.

SCREENINGS IN BERLIN:
- U Bahnhof Kochstraße/Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin-Mitte
(21 September – 9 November 2009, 7 – 21 hrs, Sat & Sun 11:30 – 20 hrs)

- Media facade of Collegium Hungaricum,
Dorotheenstraße 12, 10117 Berlin (9 November 2009)

SCREENINGS IN AMSTERDAM:
- Melkweg, Die Wende Festival, 1-30 November 2009 http://www.die-wende.nl/

- CASz in Amsterdam (December 2009)
(more information to follow)

ARTISTS:
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil), Simon Faithfull (Great Britain), Mariam Ghani (US, Afghanistan), Han Hoogerbrugge (Netherlands), Little Warsaw (András Gálik & Bálint Havas, Hungary), Lena Merhej (Lebanon), Berit Zemke (Germany)

http://www.visualcorrespondents.com
http://www.wl-project.org
http://www.zeit.de/kultur