The International Guerrilla Video Festival is looking for new single channel videos based on the specific conditions of the areas where the festival will be held. Artists are invited to work directly on site where the festival will be shown or at locations with similar conditions in other cities. The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art with the urban and social environment. The festival removes the technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation re-positioning it as open and reflexive in the public domain. The artworks have site-specific thematic relations to the space where they are shown, engaging and reflecting upon the unique architectural, historical, and interpersonal context of each area the festival travels to. One of the aims of the festival is to create a continuous dialogue from the videos into the community, focusing on lapses in the current framework such as an absence of communication or invisible components of the area. Open to local and international artists, the festival widens the panorama of the discourse to include the perspective of communities elsewhere that have parallel circumstances. A self-contained, transportable GPU (Guerrilla Projector Unit) facilitates the incursions into the public realm. Transforming public space into a fertile ground for experimentation toward new possibilities in the relationship between art and society. For additional information go to the festival website at http://www.igvfest.com

Submissions should include: a DVD (NTSC or PAL) a completed entry form any supplemental information DOWNLOAD SUBMISSION FORM All entries must be received by Monday 9 June 2008 International Guerrilla Video Festival Milan 2008 2438 N. Burling St. Chicago, IL 60614 USA All submissions will be retained and enter into the IGVFest archives, with the possibility to be included in future festival locations.

 

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Everyone should take the time to check this out. Punkcast.com was nice enough to document the panel and make it available for download on their site here .

Futures of the Internet - April 16 - NYU What will come of the next decade on the Internet? We often take for granted the state of the net today, but there’s no guarantee that it will remain this way. Will the digital future be dystopian, or is there a brighter outlook ahead than some may believe? Our panelists — thinkers and net visionaries — will provide their perspectives on the future of the net, with backgrounds ranging from art, law, technology, politics, media, culture, and entrepreneurship. We will tap in to each speaker’s knowledge to provide a unique vision of the digital future, and will engage with members of the audience to further the exploration of what lies ahead. Speakers included: Lauren Cornell - Executive Director, Rhizome http://www.rhizome.org/ Clay Shirky Author, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations - Adjunct Professor, NYU ITP http://www.shirky.com Tim Wu Professor, Columbia Law School http://www.timwu.org/ Jonathan Zittrain Professor, Oxford University, Visiting Professor, NYU Law - Author, The Future of the Internet — and How to Stop It http://www.jz.org Sponsored by the NYU Information Law Institute, Free Culture @ NYU, and ISOC-NY Vanderbilt Hall 206, NYU Law School, 20 Washington Square South, NYC

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