Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 21:51:13 -0400
Subject: VIPER 99 (Festival-Info)


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>Dear collegues and friends,
>Please find following information for your interest.
>We would greatly appreciate you forwarding these details
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>to other colleagues who might also like to know about / submit work to
>VIPER 99.
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>Thank you for your cooperation.
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>Conny E. Voester
>- Director -
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>VIPER - INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR FILM VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA
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>CALL FOR ENTRIES (Deadline postponed!)
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>CLOSING DATE JUNE 21, 1999
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>* VIPER - the International Festival For Film, Video and New Media will
>take place October 27 - 31 in the Casino of Lucerne.
>The 19th edition of VIPER will present international, innovative and
>experimental artistic mediaproduction.
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>Please find conditions of entry on the website of VIPER: www.viper.ch
>Please notify: the for entries postponed until June 21!
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>* VIPER Forum 99:
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>The development of the computer from a calculator to a medium has also
>changed the everyday life, work, communication, culture, and art. VIPER
>moves with a critical approach at the interfaces of this changing process.
>In the discussion of a partial aspect, VIPER takes up fundamental
>questions of the whole cultural and social system.
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>Theme: Cut + Copy
>VIPER 99 examines the interaction between artistic production and the
>typical working method at the computer. The function "copy/paste", for
>instance, is a computer standard. On the other hand, similar procedures
>have already been developed in different artistic disciplines: the collage
>in painting, the dadaist picture/word montage in literature or the
>cut-up-method. Today's "sampling" has been known in music prior to the
>serial electronic reproduction, and the "montage" is a genuine concept in
>film.
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>Nevertheless, the new digital techniques give the subject of copy and
>reproduction a special status, since the original and the copy can no
>longer be distinguished. Is there still a right of authorship? Can the
>concept of "originality" subsist in the age of unlimited technical
>reproduction? What about copyright? How "real" is reality if whole worlds
>(and identities) may be reproduced and manipulated in virtual spaces? How
>is human knowledge transferred to the machine and vice versa? What is the
>meaning of artistic work in view of such fundamental changes? Is this only
>a new version of the game of deception?
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>The VIPER Forum 99 examines these and other questions
>- at an interdisciplinary (public) symposium with artists, culture
>theorists, and scientists
>- in a series of project presentations of new CD ROMS and Internet works
>- in a film and video retrospective to this topic.
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>* INFORMATION
>- to obtain a fax or email copy of the entry form, or for general information
>about VIPER, please contact:
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>VIPER
>P.O.Box 4929
>6002 Lucerne
>Phone: ++41 - 41 - 362 17 17
>Fax: ++41 - 41 - 362 17 18
>e-mail: info-AT-viper.ch
>website: www.viper.ch
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>V I P E R
>International Festival for Film, Video and New Media
>P.O. Box 4929
>6002 Lucerne
>Tel.: ++41 - (0)41 - 362 17 17
>Fax:  ++41 - (0)41 - 362 17 18
>e-mail: info-AT-viper.ch
>http://www.viper.ch
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>__________________________________________________________________ For
>info on FrameWorks, contact Pip Chodorov at .
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