Below is a 5 min documentary of Videoart.net's first annual Video Art & Experimental Film Festival that has taken place on May 22nd, 2010 Tribeca Cinemas - 54 Varick Street New York, NY.
The screening included a wide spectrum of international contemporary video art and experimental films followed by a lively and dynamic panel discussion. The festival concluded with a reception party.
The festival aspires to shed new light on the definition of the video art genre by showcasing the work of ground-breaking contemporary video artists and experimental filmmakers from all over the world. This much-anticipated event will also feature a panel discussion with a distinguished group of professionals including gallery directors, art critics and online video sharing experts. A reception with the filmmakers will follow the screening and panel. Taking video art out of its traditional home in galleries and museums and bringing it to a wider audience at Tribeca Cinemas, the VIDEO ART AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL promises to be a defining moment in the way we perceive video art.
Panel participants include, Ross Harley, Professor and Head of the School of Media Arts, College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Ed Bowes, an SVA professor and winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship 2010, and Blake Whitman, Director of Community and Product at Vimeo. The discussion will be moderated by Bonnie Friel, a video and performance artist and instructor of media theory and production at Temple University.
The panel discussion will explore issues such as the definition of the video art and experimental film genre in the wake of the new era of the digital and internet revolution and the complex relationship between online communities dedicated to video art and experimental film versus offline spaces such as galleries, museums and film festivals.
"A new generation has to create its new strategies to show, to represent, distribute. And I think it can happen in galleries! Outside of galleries! In museums! Outside of museums! And that is part of what I think the future holds." click here for full interview
-John G. Hanhardt the former senior curator of film and media arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-
