Syndicate: WRO festival - programme update

[Open Studio - WRO festival <wro@info.wcss.wroc.pl> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

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6 t h   i n t e r n a t i o n a l     m e d i a    a r t   b i e n n a l e

april 30th - may 4th

programme

[information updated on April 15th , 1997]



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I n t e r n a t i o n a l  V i d e o  A r t C o m p e t i t i o n

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The selection committee has finished their work.
The selection is done.
4 4  w o r k s have been selected out of over 600
 received from all over the world.
The competition screenings will be in four programmes
about 2 hours each, displayed on M a y 1st (programme 1 and 2)
and M a y 2nd (programme 3 and 4).

Screening of the awarded works - M a y 3rd.

All screenings will take place in the Swiebodzki Theatre Hall.

They will be estimated by the i n t e r n a t i o n a l   j u r y
whose members are as follows:

S a l l y  B e r g e r (USA)
Film and Video Department, The Museum of Modern Art, New York;

G o t t f r i e d  H a t t i n g e r (Austria)
independent curator, programme director of the Ars Electronica
Festival in the years 1990-1991, the author of numerous exhibitions
(among others Obiekt: Video, Landesmuseum OÃ? in  Linz);

R y s z a r d  W. K l u s z c z y n s k i (Poland)
curator at the Film / Video Department of The Contemporary Art Centre
- Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, lecturer at Lodz University;

M u n t a d a s (Spain /USA)
multidisciplinary artist at the crossroads of art, the social sciences and the
media, dealing with installations, films and video works using a critical
approach
to modern-day cultural phenomena;

T a m a s  W a l i c z k y (Hungary)
prominent video and computer animation creator, since the beginning of the 90's
associated with The Visual Media Institute of the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany;

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 GEO / INFO TERRITORY

I n t e r n a t i o n a l  E x h i b i t i o n

Open Apr 30 - May 4, BWA "Awangarda" Gallery

and "Foto-Medium-Art" Gallery

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Artists:
Yoshiyuki Abe (Japan)
Emmanuel Avenel (Canada)
Chris Dodge (USA)
Marie France Giraudon (Canada)
Izabella Gustowska (Poland)
Irena Juzowa (Czech Republic)
Przemyslaw Kwiek (Poland)
Darrin Martin (USA)
Czeslaw Niemen (Poland)
Jan Pieniazek (Poland)
Anna Plotnicka (Poland)
Scott Sona Snibbe (USA)
Jozef Robakowski (Poland)
Jerzy Truszkowski (Poland)

 CD-ROM Art Gallery:
-Artintact 3 > Ken Faingold (USA), Perry Hobberman (USA),
George Legrady (Canada)
-Venetian Deer > Die Veteranen (Germany) and Stock, Hausen and Walkman (U.K.)

(in The European Partnership Centre halls)
- W(ww)NET - Internet operations
- Videotheque - informational programmes

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GEO / INFO TERRITORY

T h e  I n t e r n a t i o n a l M e e t i n g

a n d  S y m p o s i u m

May 1-3, 1997 - The Kalambur Theatre Hall

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Participants:

Andreas Broeckman - V2_Organisation, Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Alexandar Davic - artist (Yugoslavia)
Chris Dodge - artist, MIT Media Lab (USA)
Juraj Duris - Experimental Studio, Slovak Radio, Bratislava (Slovakia)
Adele Eisenstein - C3, Budapest, (Hungary)
Dr Ryszard W. Kluszczynski - Lodz University (Poland)
Miroslaw Kocur - Wroclaw University (Poland)
Jaron Lanier -  artist, composer, writer, scientist, film maker (USA)
Dr Lev Manovich - University of California, San Diego (USA)
Alla Mitrofanova - Gallery 21, St. Petersburg (Russia)
Muntadas -  artist (Spain / USA)
Rasa Smite - E-lab, Riga (Latvia)
Raitis Smits - E-lab, Riga (Latvia)
Scott Sona Snibbe -  artist, Interval Research (USA)
Jerzy Truszkowski - artist (Poland)
Tamas Waliczky - artist,  ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany)

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SPECIAL EVENTS - video

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	M u n t a d a s  (Spain / USA)

the New York-based prominent video/media artist's

own presentation;

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	Y o u n g   a n d  R e s t l e s s

a four-part presentation of video works by seventeen women artists from

New York; curated by Stephen Vitello, Sally Berger, and Barbara London,

Department of Film and Video, The Museum of Modern Art, New York;

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	M a n i a c s  o f  D i s a p p e a r a n c e

a four-part presentation of contemporary Japanese video art,

prepared by curators: Kazunao Abe, Yukiko Shikata, and Christophe Charles

with support from The Japan Foundation;

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	P i o n e e r s  of  V i d e o  A r t

a two-part presentation of the early works of video art classics

- Bill Viola, The Vasulkas, Nam June Paik, Livinus, Nan Hoover, Garry Hill

curated by:  Mirjam Coelho (MonteVideo/TBA, Amsterdam)



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SPECIAL EVENTS - performances

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J a r o n  L a n i e r (USA)

Virtual Reality Considered as a Musical Instrument

A performance by the American computer artist and musician,

composer and film maker who coined the term "virtual reality"

and invented the data glove.

An incredible mingle of music based on the traditional instruments

and the high-end computer technology employed to create music

and animation;

                                                  May 3rd,  Polish TV
Wroclaw, The Big Studio.

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S t e l a r c (USA)

The Third Hand

A performance by the renowned Australian artist seeking

alternative aesthetical strategies to overcome the

restrictions imposed by the human body and mind;

                                                                        May
4th  at Grotowski Centre.

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G r z e g o r z  Z g r a j a and  K r z y s z t o f  Z g r a j a

(Poland/Germany)

Installation/Music performance                        - April 30th at
Awangarda Gallery

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M a r e k   C h o l o n i e w s k i (Poland)

The prominent Polish electronic music composer's performance;

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April 30 at Swiebodzki Theater Hall

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C e z a r y D u c h n o w s k i  and M a r c i n

R u p o c i n s k i (Poland),

Krany (Taps)

A multimedia spectacle prepared by The Wroclaw Music Academy

graduates and students. Co-production: WRO Festival and The Lipiñski

Memorial Music Academy, Wroclaw;


May 2nd at Musical Academy

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F r e d e r i c k  A b r a m s (USA/Poland)

Underground Cathedral.

The world premiere of the multimedia project for an audio tape,

video tape, and a chamber orchestra by an American artist and

composer Frederick Abrams, prepared together with Polish instrumentalists.

Co-production: WRO Festival and Polish Public TV, Wroclaw


May 1st at Musical Academy

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P a w e l  K w a s n i e w s k i (Poland)

Performance -

                                                                        May
4th, at Awangarda Gallery

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Alfred Banze (Germany)

kon-tiki

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N i g h t  at  BWA Gallery May 3/4, 1997

with Techno Opera by CUKT (Poland)

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c u r a t o r i a l   c o m m i t t e e:



Violetta Kutlubasis Krajewska (programming director)

Piotr Krajewski (artistic director)

Zbigniew Kupisz (managing director)



m a i n   o r g a n i z e r



OPEN STUDIO/WRO

P O BOX 1385

54-137 Poland

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e mail: wro@info.wcss.wroc.pl

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WRO 97 has been made possible thanks

to funds from:

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City Council of Wroclaw

Council of Wroclaw County

Polish Television Channel 2, Warsaw

Pro Helvetia, Zurich

KulturKontakt, Vienna

Austrian Consulate, Cracov

Fundacja Kultury, Warsaw

Stefan Batory Foundation, Warsaw

Soros Centers for Contemporary Arts Network

Ministry of Culture, Forreign Affair Dept, Warsaw



w i t h  s u p p o r t  o f :

ATM Computers System, Warsaw

Sillicon Graphics Poland, Warsaw

Polish Television SA, Wroclaw Branch,

Polish Telecommunication SA, Branch Wroclaw

LOT Polish Airlines

Optimus SA

Eurowings Airlines

BWA "Awangarda", Wroclaw

Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Wroclaw

Grotowski Centre, Wroclaw

Wroclaw Centre of  Networking and Supercomputing

Mikrokom Soft, Wroc³aw

Gazeta Wyborcza

Musical Academy, Wroclaw

Centre of European Partnership, Wroclaw

CHIP (Polish Edition), Wroclaw

ORBIS Hotels, Wroclaw

ODRA Hotels, Wroclaw

Gazeta Wroclawska

Art and Culture Center OKiS, Wroclaw

Polish Radio, Wroclaw



Japan Foundation, Tokyo

The British Council, Warsaw