IFFR 2006

Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda

How to make sure that digital technology doesn't become an agent of neo-colonialism?

Exploding Television

Afro@Digital

Pierre Bismuth

Michel Gondry

Installation in which a bourgeois apartment is built up and then broken down again in front of our eyes in successive movements of a turning camera. Furniture appears and disappears until the room is completely empty at the end.

The All Seeing Eye, The Easy Teenage Version

Edith Dekyndt

Installation with pictures of all the flags that Dekyndt could find in the world, including the states that the United Nations does not recognise.

Alpha-Zulu

Manu Luksch

A London collective makes live television, Ceefax words for both national and international channels and documents itself in a wall of visual and text, ices. Also with various installations: The Voluptuously Blinking Eye.

ambientTV.NET

Ant Farm Video

avant_tv deals with the ambiguous interaction between art and television.

avant_tv

John Logie Baird

Baird Undersock

Angela Bulloch

Installation with meticulously constructed boxes that show an endlessly changing colour sequence. The boxes represent all the pixels from which a news broadcast is built up.

Blow_Up TV

Raimundas Malasauskas

A Lithuanian collective of amateurs makes live television under the concept of television as a game, as episode in a reality meta-show genre. With the motto `every programme is a pilot, every programme is the last, the contents of every programme is its making'.

CAC TV

Alexander Kluge

Dadaist, multidimensional, multi-sensory experience.

DCTP TV (Development Company For Television Program)

dish_tv deals with satellites and the constellations around global television.

dish_tv

diy_tv focuses on the growing phenomenon of independent micro-TV broadcasters.

diy_tv

Jan Leman

The restored wonders of original recordings made in the era of mechanically-scanned television!

Don McLean Restorations + JLB - The Man Who Saw The Future

Judson L. Yalkut

Nam June Paik

A sample of rare early collaborative works by Jud Yalkut and Nam June Paik, recorded between 1967 and 1969.

Early Collaborations

Mark Bain

This installation represents a television of the future as that would now be, amplified and speeded up towards oblivion, with their montage without human intervention. A total image implosion that feeds itself

Feed Carnivore

And installation within which the weatherman departs from his usual rational and self assured performance. He returns to the hopelessness that accompanies the age-old issues of nature.

Fore Cast

Michel François

Installation with nocturnal images from the studios of the American television network Fox. In the background we hear an episode of a police series.

Fox TV

gated_tv deals with copyright issues vs open archives and open source.

gated_tv

Franz Ackermann

Installation with `mental maps' by a Berlin painter and designer, psycho cartography of his world trips with images of globalised landscapes.

Globe ground, grounded

Erik van Lieshout

Installation with amorphous, reflecting shed of Perspex and the  breaking voice of Van Lieshout while he passionately tries to make it clear to his brother Bart why he doesn't have any friend.

Happiness

Melik Ohanian

Installation that observes an empty television studio where the set built up still has to be tested.

Yves Netzhammer

This installation investigates the theme of blood, both as psychological and physiological material. The very suggestive images raised doubts about the mythical protection of the skin as a shield.

The Inverse Armory

John Logie Baird, an independent inventor and scientist, demonstrated television for the first time in public on 26 January 1926 in his small laboratory in London. Cabin installation with Televisor (1925-1950), Daily Express Televisor Kit (1934) and Baird Undersock (1917).

Francesco Vezzoli

Installation with a `vintage remake' of the most famous series in Hollywood style from the 1980s dynasty. Helmut Berger plays Alexis Carrington.

The Kiss (Let's Play Dynasty)

Laurent Grasso

Installation about the ambiguity of the concept reality, the relationship to images and information, with various references to the same elements (video projection, TV monitor, neon and photos).

Maurice van Tellingen

Installation about the feel the tension between the real state of things and expectation, `empty' moments such as a security camera filming an empty room or a ventilator turning endlessly.

Monitor

Francis Alÿs

Installation generated from the advanced CCTV (closed-circuit television) system of the National Portrait Gallery with the fox Bandit free at night in a deserted museum.

The Nightwatch

Annalisa Pelizza

Radical initiative from Bologna makes live television with various technologies (videophone, real-time closed circuits with graphic elements, etc.) and local news items in for instance the public library, on the market and in WORM.

Orfeo-Telestreet

Installation with static video registrations shows how 30 concierges in Sao Paulo enter their typical `living rooms'. Everything is there: the fridge, the green plant, the TV and the sofa.

Os Raimundos, os Severinos e os Franciscos

A video collective pioneering media criticism through video since 1981.

Paper Tiger TV

Installation with a small shed in the middle of a blue-screen film set, with synchronised projection of the video of Al+AL for Channel 4 and the Toxic video by Britney Spears.

Perpetual Motion in the Land of Milk and Honey

As opposed to conventional TV, the editing applied by Radio Rabotnik-TV Amsterdam is consistently artistic.

Rabotnik TV

Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Briain

Kim Bartley

Donnacha O'Briain

Two independent film makers were inside the presidential palace on 11 April 2002, when Venezuelan president Chavez was forcibly removed from office.

The Revolution will not be Televised

Monika Sosnowska

Inspired by an advertising sign she found by a workshop in one of Warsaw's grey apartment buildings, Sosnowska painted a fake advertisement in which you advertise nothing but herself.

Rubin 2004

A tele-matic workshop on how to build your own TV.

silent_tv

Peter Westenberg

Rotterdam kids make live television in an investigation into the use of the word immigrant. Video weblog with street interviews, workshops and exercises, sketches, background information and links.

De Taalpolitie

truth_tv brings together several artists to discuss their work, exploring the nature of truth as represented by television.

truth_tv

David Hall

The first example of British artists' television and as an equally formative moment in British video art.

TV Interruptions (7 TV Pieces)

Participants in a network of producers from Copenhagen make live television in which they experiment with television as a public space.

tv-tv

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Installation with Tiravanija's own 'illegal' personal broadcasting station that screens Punishment Park (1971) by Peter Watkins, a documentary drama about the brutal silencing of anti-war demonstrators during the Vietnam war.

Untitled

Harun Farocki

Andrei Ujica

Reconstruction of a revolution. During the fall of Ceausescu in Romania in 1989, demonstrators took over state television to broadcast their revolution. The filmmakers compress 125 hours of TV.

Videogramme einer Revolution

Daniel Sauter

Osman Kahn

Installation investigates the real nature of television, with its countless broadcasting channels, ubiquitous nature and endless stream of images. Using abstraction and leaps in time, a broadcast is reinterpreted.

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