Screenings at the Les Instants video festival

From September to November 2005

La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseilles

The public was very much involved during the 2005 edition of the festival (from September to November in 16 different screening places) with the exploration of the theme of memory and all the questions raised by OASIS.
A web TV broadcast was created for three days during the part of the festival, which took place in La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseilles. A group of students from Aix-en-Provence Fine Art School conceived this web TV as a research zone for electronic memories, they presented interviews of artists and spectators talking about their memories.

The public was very much involved during the 2005 edition of the festival (from September to November in 16 different screening places) with the exploration of the theme of memory and all the questions raised by OASIS.
A web TV broadcast was created for three days during the part of the festival which took place in La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseilles. A group of students from Aix-en-Provence Fine Art School conceived this web TV as a research zone for electronic memories, they presented interviews of artists and spectators talking about their memories.

A debate “Arts and new media” with the participation of video artists, poets and art theorists raised the question of the influence of new technologies on contemporary creation and especially the modes of narration. It was broadcasted through the web TV.

During the festival, and later in Lyon at the video festival Les Inattendus, Julien Girardot interviewed video artists about their feelings towards the OASIS project and the subjects of digital archives and web streaming of video art. These video interviews were published on the Internet and designed using the Plotsème (cf http://www.instantsvideo.com/archives/oeuvredutemps/index.php?browse=OASIS%20ET%20MIRAGES).
This work shows that many artists are not familiar with the Internet technologies and feel very concerned by the topics of copyrights and broadcasting over the Internet. The younger generation of artists is very enthusiastic about the OASIS project but we noticed the importance of information and dissemination for a good understanding of the project goals by the public and the artists.

Flyer of Les Instants festival 2005:
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