Impakt Highlights in Nizhny Novgorod The screening will take place on December 17, 18.00 hours at cinema center “Record” located on 11 Piskunova Street More information: http://art.nnov.ru/archive.php?news_id=246. Impakt Highlights: YourSpace The Internet with its new generation of interactive platforms is vibrant with promise: communicating, exchanging and networking with applications that can be adjusted to the users wishes with increasing ease. This trend which fits the image of the individualization of society, at the same time nourishes the rise of specific subcultures. With Web 2.0, today's Internet that is, everybody can create their own space and personality, and build a personal network of like-minded people. But what exactly are the quality properties of these new structures and how do they relate to existing social contexts? Are YouTube and MySpace about social networking or are they merely platforms for vain self-exposure? Is a blog a public diary or a valuable contribution to the social debate? On the Internet trends and fashions spread in a viral way but who is in control? Individual users or record companies, fashion brands and other multi-national companies ? Does Web 2.0 contribute to a global mono-culture or is a paradise of pluriformity and individual expression ? YourSpace addresses all of these issues and also sheds a light on alternatives virtual realities and the changing notions of privacy, love and sexuality in the 21th century. With works by Chris Cunningham, Erwin Olaf, Camille Verbunt, Kurt d' Haeseleer, Federico Solmi and many others. This program is based on the main theme of the Impakt Festival 2008. Listing of works in the program: Beautiful, Camille Verbunt (The Netherlands 2008, 5min) Crazy Girls, Jesper Nordahl (Sweden 2001, 9 min) (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me), Ryan Trecartin Kneecam No.1, Matthias Fritsch (Germany 2000, 4 min) Face It! (Cast Your Self™), Michael Brynntrup Scary Maze,Camille Verbunt (The Netherlands 2008, 3 min) Archaic Smile, Kurt d' Haeseleer (Belgium 2008, 20 min) Le dérnier Cri, Erwin Olaf (The Netherlands 2006 , 4 min) All is full of love, Chris Cunningham and Björk (UK 1998, 4 min) The Evil Empire, Federico Solmi (USA 2007, 5 min) 2 girls and a cup, Camille Verbunt (The Netherlands 2008, 3 min) |
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