October-December 2002

Artists and curators Laurie Halsey Brown (USA/Netherlands) and Florian Wuest (Germany) curated weekly video programmes within a framework of theoretical concerns surrounding media such as: narrative, identity, interact ion, authenticity, time, simultaneity, translocality, hybridity, information systems and the political-philosophical, with an awareness of the historical and geographical properties of individual works. The project focused on video/film as it relates to our omnipresent media stream, but also considered Net.art as part of the dialogue surrounding media.

The sessions curated by Laurie Halsey Brown included the following themes and works:

interactivity, with works by William Wegman, Burt Schutter, B as Jan Ader, Ulay & Marina, John Wood/Paul Harrison, Cheryl Donegan and Fischli & Weiss.

authenticity,with works by Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Stansfield & Hooykaas, Marinus Boezem, Dara Birnbuam, Ant Farn, eddie d., and Mark Shepard.

identity, with works by Martha Rosler, Sadie Benning, Marlon Riggs, Ho Tam, Steve Reinke, Bjorn Melhus and Paul McCarthy.

information systems, including works by Bart Dijkman, Kurt D’Haeseleer, reMi belchic, and Seungho Cho.

moving time, including works by Halfifers, Yael Bartana, Bill Viola, and Sliuk/Kupershock.

every picture tells a story, including works by Maya Deren and Chris Marker.

translocality, including works by DEDO, Linda Wallace, and Reynold Reynolds.

simultaneity, including works by Neil Goldberg, Gary Hill, Julia Rudelius, Komen & Murphey, and Bruce Nauman.

hybridity, including works by Kristin Lucas, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Richards and Liza May Post.

The sessions curated by Florian Wüst included the following themes and works:

memory & history I, with works by Maya Deren/Alexander Hamid, Valie Export, Ann Course/Paul Clark, Matthias Mueller, John Smith, Robert Frank and Bruce Conner.

memory & history II, with works by David Hoffos, T.R. Uthco & Ant Farm, F lor ian Zeyfang, and Johan Grimonprez.

geographies of power, with works by Vito Acconci, Bureai of Inverse Technology, Alan Currall, Ursula Bieman, and Alex Rivera & Lalo Lopez.

Guests for this project were visual artists Babak Afrassiabi (Nethe rlan ds/Iran) and Caspar Stracke (USA), and the art/architecture collective Het Observatorium (Netherlands).