SATURDAY, APRIL 18th

[DEBATE]
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PANEL DISCUSSION
What needs to change
What needs to be changed in art film and video distribution. Questions and issues linked to film and video distribution. New concerns regarding distribution and broadcasting structures, development of new ways to circulate works and to offer support to the artists.

Eli Lloveras - Hamaca
Member of the Directive Team, Barcelone, Spain
www.hamacaonline.net

Theus Zwakhals - Montevideo Netherlands media Art Institute
In charge of Distribution/Collection - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
www.montevideo.nl

Lori Zippay - EAI Electronic Art Intermix
Distribution Director - New York, USA
www.aei.org

Christian Merlhiot - Poinligneplan
Co-fondateur - Paris, France
www.poinligneplan.com

SATURDAY, APRIL 18th

[DEBATE]
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PANEL DISCUSSION
What has changed
What has changed. Media art practices and cultural changes they involve. What net art practices and digital practices teach us about our contemporary culture and possible future audiences. Observation on emerging forms and on new audiences which are forming.

Perttu Rastas - Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Head of picture service department, specializing at media art archiving - Helsinki, Finland
www.kiasma.fi

Alex Adriaansens - V2
Directeur - Rotterdam, The Netherlands
www.v2.nl

Jose Miguel Medrano - Medialab-Prado
Curator - Madrid, Spain
www.medialabmadrid.es

Valentinas Klimasauskas - Vilnius Contemporary Art Centre
Curator - Vilnius, Lithuania
www.cac.lt

SATURDAY, APRIL 18th

[PRESENTATION]
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MEETING WITH...
UBERMORGEN.COM

Hans Bernhard, à l'occasion de la présentation de la dernière production d'UBERMORGEN.COM, réalisée spécialement pour les Rencontres Internationales, présentera le travail d'UBERMORGEN.COM, les projets récents réalisés.

Übermorgen is an artistic duo created in Vienna, Austria, by Lizvlx and Hans Bernhard, a founder of e-toy. Behind Übermorgen we can find one of the most unmatchable identities - controversial and iconoclast - of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde. Their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel- painting, computer installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism (media hacking) transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. Übermorgen's work is unique not because of what they do but because how, when, where and why they do it. The computer and the network are (ab)used to create art and combine its multiple forms. The permanent amalgamation of fact and fiction points toward an extremely expanded concept of one's working materials, that for Übermorgen also include (international) rights, democracy and global communication (input-feedback loops). "Ubermorgen" is the German word both for "the day after tomorrow" or "super-tomorrow". Übermorgen have received the Arco-Beep price in 2008.