EXPOSING CINEMA: UNKNOWN QUANTITY
Dates: Thursday 26 January – Sunday 5 February 2006, 12:00-18:00 hrs
Location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
Admission: free
Website: www.v2.nl | www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com
During the 35th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), V2_ presents Unknown Quantity, a film by Andrei Ujica. Unknown Quantity features the staging of a discussion between philosopher Paul Virilio and writer Svetlana Alexievich, based on her book bearing witness to the Chernobyl disaster.
The viewer is gradually brought to realize that Svetlana Alexievich is in fact a stalker by profession. She has come from the dead zone to pay a visit to Virilio in a public library. And what is Virilio himself, if not a stalker who fled to the big city many years ago?
The presentation during IFFR is the premiere of the new version of Unknown Quantity. IFFR will also screen Andrei Ujica's debute Videogramme einer Revolution (1992) and his second film Out of the Present (1995), with, as a special introduction, a lecture by Peter Sloterdijk.
EXPLODING TELEVISION: TEA TIME TV
Dates: Friday 27 January – Wednesday 1 February 2006, 15:00 hrs
Location: Witte de With/TENT, Witte de Withstraat 50, Rotterdam
Admission: free
Website: www.v2.nl | www.explodingtelevision.net
Live video stream available from www.v2.nl/live
Online moderation by Lotte Meijer
On 26 January 1926, television pioneer John Logie Baird gave a first successful public demonstration of image transmission. Eighty years later, the IFFR brings you Tea Time TV, a series of guest interventions, talks, workshops and telepresentations streaming from Satellite of Love, the headquarters of a veritable TV commune located at Witte de With, center for contemporary art, and TENT. Center for Visual Arts.
These Tea Time TV series focus on artist and activist interventions with television. Tetsuo Kogawa will take a rare break from his primary love – radio – to lead a "Build your own TV" workshop. Artists Geert Mul, Perry Bard, and The Yes Men will discuss the fragile connection between representation and truth in broadcast culture. Focusing on artist and activist interventions with television, the Tea Time TV sessions are online streamed events, each afternoon in the Auditorium (2nd floor) of Witte de With during IFFR. In addition to Tea Time TV, Satellite of Love hosts TV dinners with warm meals and elaborate screening programs.
Friday 27 January, 15:00 hrs
DIY_TV will focus on the growing phenomenon of independent microTV broadcasters. With Franco Berardi (rekombinant.org), Hanna Harris (ISEA2004), Annalisa Pelizza (Telestreet), and moderator Rob van Kranenburg (Virtueel Platform).
Saturday 28 January, 15:00 hrs
SILENT_TV will be a telematic workshop with Tetsuo Kogawa (Tokyo Keizai University) and Adam Hyde (r a d i o q u a l i a) on how to build your own tv. By building transmitters the workshop participants inevitably deconstruct broadcasting, challenging their own notions of what broadcasting is now and what it could be.
Registration for this workshop via is necessary as there will be a limited number of places available. All parts and tools provided gratis.
Sunday 29 January, 15:00 hrs
GATED_TV will deal with copy right issues vs open archives, open source, open archives. What new potential does digital television usher in for the creative viewer? If viewing behavior can be monitored and recording severely restricted, who ends up watching whom – is this genuinely an issue restricted to merely upholding a lexicon of copyrights? With Cory Doctorow (Electronic Frontier Foundation), Juha Huuskonen (Pixelache), Jennifer Rigby (BBC Creative Archive), Syb Groeneveld (Creative Commons Netherlands), Rachel Baker (Ambienttv.net and Arts Council of England), and others. Moderated by Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm (IP Lawyer).
Monday 30 January, 15:00 hrs
TRUTH_TV will bring together several artists to discuss their work exploring the nature of truth as represented by television. With Geert Mul (artist), Perry Bard (artist), and The Yes Men (culture jammers). Moderated by Stephen Kovats (V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media).
Tuesday 31 January, 15:00 hrs
DISH_TV will deal with satellites and the constellations around global television. How can the artist challenge the already ubiquitously innocuous technology and its accompanying baggage of eidetic imagery? DISH_TV will dive into the question of satellites and the constellations around global television, with Mark Bain (simulux), Menno Grootveld (Rabotnik TV), Mauzz (DDS), Ewen Chardronnet (elipse). Moderated by Adam Hyde (r a d i o q u a l i a).
Wednesday 1 February, 15:00 hrs
AVANT_TV will deal with the ambiguous interaction between art and television. With Raimundas Malasauskas (CAC TV), David Garcia (N5M), and Ian White (Whitechapel Gallery). Moderated by Emily Pethick (CASCO Projects).
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Curatorial team: Edwin Carels, Adam Hyde, Stephen Kovats Special thanks to all participating artists and television units, V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, Stifo (Stimuleringsfonds voor Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties), HGIS-Cultuur, Mondriaan Foundation, Witte de With, VPRO Digitaal, Apple, Dutchview, Tiscali, and the French Embassy in The Netherlands.