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.

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

The world’s first feature-length mobile phone art film.
A story about a future world where the dream of living in utopia can only be sustained by a nomadic tribe of artists and intellectuals, Mark Amerika’s Immobilité mashes up the language of “foreign films” with landscape painting and literary metafiction. The work was composed using an unscripted, improvisational method of acting and the mobile phone images are intentionally shot in an amateurish or DIY [do-it-yourself] style similar to the evolving forms of video distributed in social media environments such as YouTube. By interfacing this low-tech version of video making with more sophisticated forms of European art-house movies, Amerika both asks and answers the question “What is the future of cinema?”

Exhibitions and Screenings
Tate Modern, Intermedia Fall 2008 Program (interview at the Tate Britain)
Chelsea Art Museum, April 8 – May 9, 2009

Cast and Credits
Created by Mark Amerika
Original soundtrack by Chad Mossholder
Featuring Camille Lacadee and Magda Tyzlik-Carver

Productions by internationally renowned media artists and the innovative works of new masters from the academies will be presented at the 22nd European Media Art Festival. The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of new experimental films, performances, lectures, an exhibition and the Media Campus. Around 250 current contributions will be selected this year for the festival from a total of 2400 submitted works, offering a comprehensive insight into the latest tendencies in Media Art.

An international jury will present the “EMAF Award” for a trend-setting work in Media Art and the “Dialogpreis” of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural exchange. Furthermore, the jury of the German Federal Association of Film Journalists will award the prize for the best German experimental film of the year.

Watchmen is a twelve-issue comic book limited series created by writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. The series was published by DC Comics in single issues during 1986 and 1987, and has been subsequently reprinted in collected form. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics. As Moore’s proposed story would have left many of the characters unusable for future stories, managing editor Dick Giordano convinced the writer to create original characters instead.

Moore used the story as a means to reflect contemporary anxieties and to deconstruct the superhero concept. Watchmen takes place in an alternate history United States where the country is edging closer to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, freelance costumed vigilantes have been outlawed and most costumed superheroes are in retirement or working for the government. The story focuses on the personal development and struggles of the protagonists as an investigation into the murder of a government sponsored superhero pulls them out of retirement and eventually leads them to confront a plot by one of their own to stave off nuclear war by killing millions of innocent people.