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Video art with a click of the mouse

A progress report on the imai online catalogue                                                                                  
Talk given by Dr. Renate Buschmann at the Congress «From Archive to Living Database» as part of the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrueck. Friday, 24 April, 2009, 2 pm the Haus der Jugend building.  

The congress with the title «From Archive to Living Database» as part of the pilot project «mediaartbase.de» is dedicated to the various forms of communication work in and with archives.

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imai presents: Scratch Videos

Talk and screening by Elena Friedrich and Sven Seibel in the workshop Im Kontinuum der Bilder: VJing als Medienkunst im öffentlichen Raum of the institute for culture and media at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Saturday 7 February, 12.45 pm, building 23.02, floor 02, room 22                     

Scratch videos as an interface between media art and media design

VJing describes the creation of the visual environment and communication using images as an established component of club culture of today. The digital media technology of VJing involving the complex interaction of numerous aesthetic planes such as light, music and images also opens up new artistic and commercial perspectives beyond that of club culture. Using selected examples from the imai video art collection the talk by Elena Friedrich and Sven Seibel during the workshop offers a clear introduction to this format of media art.

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The role of video art distribution today

Talk by Sandra Thomas, director of imai at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne                             Wed., 23 April 2008, 7 pm

Between being an art market, an educational institution and an organisation dedicated to the preservation of media art

What is the role today of organisations which distribute video art such as imai - inter media art institute? In addition to the hiring out and sale of art videos what are their tasks given the changing conditions of the art market? What possibilities for co operation are available for young video and media artists and lecturers at art colleges? These are just some of the questions which Sandra Thomas will address at her talk at the Academy of Media Arts.

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