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The Hills
Are Alive With... Streaming
Cinema 2.0, the international off-line festival of online films, makes
its next stop at the renowned Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria
from September 1st - September 6th. Ars Electronica is the oldest and
largest festival of art and technology in the world. ... Streaming
Cinema 2.0 is being screened in conjunction with the Festival's focus
this year: "Takeover: Who's Doing the Art of Tomorrow" . According to
Gerfried Stocker, artistic director of the festival, "Takeover" asks the
questions, Which constellations, which factors are defining the art of
tomorrow, where will it happen, who is doing it and with whom? Says Stocker,
"The altered framework conditions that effect working as an artist and
the impact of art in a world characterized by information and communications
technologies have given rise to new forms of art. ... Significant here is the shift of their presence into spheres beyond the conventional art world and also increasingly into the emerging economies that have been geo-culturally uncharted territory for media art". The Streaming Cinema screening will highlight some of these new forms of art. The Streaming Cinema line-up, curated by Nora Barry, features twenty web films from eight countries: A Perfect
Artistic Website, Young-hae (South Korea); Nightshift, Pierre
Wayser (France); Kein Film, Michael Bryntrupp (Germany); Life
At Night, John O'Brien (Minneapolis); A Weird Tale of Christmas,
Analogik-Indians (France); Brain Girl, Marina Zurkow (New York);
D'ou viens-tu?, Jeannette Lambert (Canada); Belgrade Frozen,
Aleksander Gubas, Yugoslavia; Badcop, Martin Dahlhauser (Germany);
Crack the CIA, Josh Shore (New York); Music Hat and Winterlight,
Peter Eudenbach (New York); Golden Boy, Bill Cahalan, (Los Angeles);
Dream, Al Sacui (Philadelphia); Tango, Mirek Nisenbaum,
(New York); Under the Happiest Dawn, George Aguilar (San Francisco);
Sandbox: I Cannot Play, Jib Jab Media (New York); The Heist,
Dave Jones (Australia); The Garden, Steve Whitehouse (Canada);
Orlando, Luca Alagna (Italy). ... The "Takeover"
program includes a symposium with Nora Barry, creator of Streaming Cinema
and The Bit Screen; Stuart Maschwitz, an ILM alum and founder of the FX
company, The Orphanage; and Jerome Rota, the original designer of DivX
technology. ... For more information about Ars Electronica, click on www.aec.at. For additional information about Streaming Cinema, click on www.streamingcine.com or www.thebitscreen.com/...
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