NEWSLETTER: 28 April 2002

• World Wide Video Festival moves to May 2003
• Submitting entries for the 20th festival
• Festival website
• Presentations of selections from World Wide
• Organization and board

World Wide Video Festival moves to May 2003
The jubilee edition of the World Wide Video Festival will take place in the spring of 2003 and will highlight 'media art: the past 25 years'. This will give us more time this year to prepare an extensive restrospective exhibition with over 30 installations from previous editions of the festival. There will be solo exhibitions by, among others, Éder Santos (BR), Marina Abramovic (NL) and Walid Ra'ad (LB), installations in the public space in Amsterdam, a media lounge for recent single channel productions, a 'meet-the-artist' programme, performances and a seminar. The festival opens on May 8, 2003. More details about all this in the next newsletter.

As of 2003, the annual World Wide Video Festival will take place in the spring.

Submitting entries for the 20th festival
Artists who wish to submit new work for selection can fill out an online entry form here
The deadline for sending entries is August 1.

Festival website
Over the next few years the festival website will develop into a dynamic forum for current media art. Also, the history of 20 years World Wide Video Festival will come to life by enhancing the online archive with moving images and sound. The website will also offer more service to audience and members of the press, e.g. by making it possible to book hotel rooms, order passepartouts and reserve tickets, and buy the festival guide online.

Sao Paulo Biennale
Papisthione, the 18 year old Senegalese artist, whose confrontational and poetic film 'About the Life of Children in the XXIst Century' caused quite a stir among the audience of last year's festival, has since this presentation been invited to take part in the Sao Paulo Biennale, that started in March. He has also been invited to become a student at the Art Academy of Cologne, Germany. The young Dutch/Turkish artist Ebru Özseçen has been selected to represent the Netherlands in Sao Paulo. Her work 'Bitter Chocolate Love' was shown at the 17th World Wide Video Festival 1999.

Cape Town / Johannesburg
From 18 February until 10 March 2002 an exhibition was organized in Cape Town, South Africa, consisting of works from the 19th World Wide by Tracey Rose, Minnette Vári, Matthew Hindley and Fernando Alvim. All of these works were the result of co productions between the artists and the festival, with finacial support by HIVOS, a major fund for collaboration in development. The event was an initiative of the WWVF and Malcolm Payne - visual artists and professor - whose work has been shown at World Wide in 1998 and 2000. The exhibition also signalled the opening of Cape Town's first centre for media art. Tracey Rose's installation 'Ode to Leoness' is currently at the 'Playtime' exhibition in Johannesburg.

For more information read the press release

• Tom van Vliet - director
• Remco Vlaanderen - curator new media / website
• Pim Peterse - coordination of entries / collection management
• Renée Krayenbrink - assistant to the director / office manager
• Evelien Kroese - communication / sponsoring

• Martijn Sanders - chairman
• Ab Klaver - secretary / treasurer
• Rop Gonggrijp - member
• Els van der Plas - member
• Marijke van Warmerdam - member
• Abe van der Werff - member

More information:

World Wide Video Festival
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