Fri. Oct. 17, 18:00-20:40 (3 showing/day)
Sat. Oct. 18, 18:00-20:40 (3 showing/day)
Sun. Oct. 19. 18:00-20:40 (3 showing/day)
Venue : Filmforum / www.filmforum.co.kr
Admission : 3,000 won / 1 Screening, 7,000 won / 1 Day
Organizer: IASmedia, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea
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IASmedia Screenig 2008
IASmedia is holding ‘IASmedia Screening 2008’ from October 17 to 19 in order to introduce new titles for distribution as well as titles from exchange screening programs. In this screening, titles distributed by IASmedia and titles from MIACA (Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art) of Japan and imai - inter media art institute of Germany are introduced as a part of exchange screening program. Each program will be featured three times a day (30-40 min. long) from 6 p.m. according to the screening schedule. The screening will provide an opportunity to consider various trends of today’s media art in the era of so-called post medium and reflect on the changes of the new production, acceptance and perception as a result.
2008 IASmedia Titles 1
In addition to 18 existing artists, IASmedia has contracted for further distribution in 2008 with Dong-ryung KIM, Kim Du Jin, Daewoong Nam, Hwayeon Nam, Cho Na Hyun, Juen Jiin and some of the new titles from these artists will be featured at the screening. Among them, Like the Ghost Around You of Kim, Du Jin borrows the last scene of the movie Merlin where camera rotates faster and faster while showing a couple being getting old and getting young again and through this it expresses intersection of time with delicately contrasting emotion. Daewoong Nam’s Sokupnori creates an unrealistic reality in reverse by having adult couple playing children’s house play with toy utensils, mud, rock, and grass. Dong-ryung KIM’s Alice in Wonderland plainly portrays the people enduring the repetitive daily routines in a world that is fictitious yet still real. Juen Jiin’s File X-y exhibits a kind of oral history about a space that contains different meaning as the time goes by through reconstructing the different stories about an art school which used to be a building for National Intelligence Service. Also, Hwayeon Nam’s I give you my knife is an experimental work about mute sound of the letter ‘K’ which exists in text form but not in spoken word. Cho, Na Hyun’s Vanished Word is an animation work expressing eccentric and discrepant situation where the meaning of the word is keep changing while the letters of the word ‘LOVE’ remain the same through the main character who is searching for the word ‘EVOL’. Through various titles, IASmedia would like to present a new possibility of media art in the era of post medium where it is expanding its methods of production, reception, and perception while reiterating with various genres such as feature films, independent films, documentaries, fictions, performances, and animations.
2008 IASmedia Title 2
In 2008, among its existing artists for distribution, IASmedia is distributing new titles by Park, Chan-Kyong and Jin-mi Yoon, and Park, Chan-Kyong’s new work of 2008〈Sindoan〉is presented as a special feature in the screening. Artist spent about two years to complete the project by researching, investigating, exploring, and interviewing in the Gyeryong mountain region. It comprises six chapters of stories leaping back and forth the boundaries of religion and shamanism, past and present, documentary and fiction. From being rumored as a new capital during Joseon Dynasty to being developed as a center of various new religions and shamanism through the Japanese colony era and 1960’s, and to settle down as a big-scale military facility post 60’s through massive clean-up movement, the project displays various aspects of the region. Especially, the work becomes an elaborate text and moving image where news photos, documentary footages, and objective texts are harmonized with interview voices, chanting spells, elegant songs and other sounds for the desire of new utopia.
MIACA Exchange Screening
Compendium for IASmedia
Non-profit media art organization MIACA (Moving Image Archive of Contemporary Art) of Japan collects various visual titles, converts them into preservable format, and maintains archive. Based on this, MIACA provides opportunities for promotion to the artists through diligent distribution activity home and abroad. MIACA has come up with a screening program called ‘COMPENDIUM for IASmedia’ for this year’s IASmedia screening. This program is composed of young Japanese artists with interests in daily routines on a separate level from the ‘Boom of Cool Japan’ represented by manga and animation. Yuki Okumura, Masanobu Nishino, Mayumi Kimura, and Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi’s collective work called ‘Everything is under control’ consists of short stories about simple movement of objects and it reminds of an odd sense of estrangement from the reality. Also, Yuko Suzuki, Tetsushi Higashino, and Tetsuya Karatsu’s collective work titled ‘Twisted Reality’ cleverly twists the perception method about the continuity of time. Finally, in the title ‘Drawing Animation’ Daisuke Nagaoka and Chikara Matsumoto showcase exhaustive handworks of drawing in animation projects. The works of these young Japanese artists display the interest in daily lives and unstable contact with outside world while exposing their agonies about media art in the midst of global expansion of Japanese pop culture.
imai exchange screening
imai - inter media art institute is a non-profit German media art organization dedicated to distribution, preservation and research in the field of video and media based arts. As a distributor for international video art imai is aiming to expand the scope of reception of the artist and their works. Therefore imai built up a unique Online-Catalogue providing access to more than 1.300 video art works and additional information via internet. As an open forum for an international community imai deals with questions of exhibition, preservation and dissemination of audiovisual arts. Through international exchanges – like the IASmedia screening - imai is shaping discourses about historical and contemporary video and media art. imai selected titles of Maria Vedder, Jan Verbeek, Gudrun Kemsa, and Philipp Lachenmann demonstrate elegant visual and poetic sound. Especially, these titles invite the viewers to reconsider their experiences with the real time and the concept of continuity. Also they feature plentiful of visuals with rather quite calm sound.
Direction to Filmforum
By Bus:
1) In front of Haneesol Building: 272, 606, 708, 6714, 7017, 7737, 8272, 9600
2) Central lane at rear entrance of Ehwa Women’s Univ.: 161, 272, 370, 470, 601, 708, 750, 9602, 9713, 9600, 8272, 606
3) Rear entrance of Ehwa Women’s Univ.: 272, 606, 708, 751, 6714, 7017, 7024, 7737, 8272, 9600
Parking: 2 hour free parking pass provided for parking at basement parking lot of Haneesole building
