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Organizers & festival team are Invite artists working with video, animation
and new media to participate in the project:

Festival dates, July 5 - August 5, 2007

Festival places Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh, Irkutsk,
Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Riazan’, Samara, Sochi, Ufa,
Yaroslavl’, Yekaterinburg and Surgut [Russia]

The idea of the festival is to integrate contemporary video art into the
public spaces.

International Festival of Videoart in public spaces “OUT VIDEO ‘07” is the
only one around the world shown on large-sized LED video screens within the
urban environment. For two years it was held in Yekaterinburg (in
2004-2005). In 2006 “OUT VIDEO” is for the first time emerging the
All-Russian stage and is to be demonstrated in 16 cities by the outdoor
video network consisting of 39 large screens. This festival aims at
full-scale integration of actual videoart into the urban environment and
promotion of public art strategies in Russia.

There are only two formal requirements to video works: LENGTH - 30 SECONDS,
NO SOUND.

The festival will end with two nights video screenings of the entire
festival program on all 39 city screens.

All necessary information and application forms you can receive also by
e-mail: outvideo@pochta.ru or by telephone/fax +7 (343) 374 73 18
Contact person: Arseny Sergeyev – curator of festival

Deadline for works sent via post – June 7, 2007 (‘sent‘ postmarked)
Deadline for works sent via fast post [DHL, UPS, City Express etc] – June
15, 2007 (”sent” postmarked)
Deadline for works sent via e-mail & FTP – June 24, 2007

Videolab Project has decided to challenge video artits to produce a short movie following some rules:

* must not exceed five (5) minutes
* it must not include human presence
* *Deadline: September 15

* the human body must be inferred, be it for the movements of the camera or for all sorts of elements that you wish to include in order to suggest the physical presence of one or more human beings
* Videolab would like to have artists send us works in which the human body stays away in terms of image, but at the same time we feel its presence. A good help to understand the idea is to think about the third rule of the Dogma 95 mouvement: during the use of the camera all the camera movements owed to the movements - or the immobility -of the body are allowed.

Videolab will then select the works that best fit the concept, and will have them screened during the “Videolab Challenge#1 ”, scheduled to the end 0f 2007.

Here is the first cut. I’m trying to decide between using a voice over or just use the text at the end. Any suggestions/comments?

I’ve realized, one can only have time or money. When you have lots of time, you don’t have money. When you have the money, you don’t have so much time left. You can’t buy it back, no refunds. Sad result.

A regular day of mine = 10 hours (work time + travel time) + 5 (existential crisis time) + 9 (sleeping or being sleepy time). According to this mathematics I should be able to do whatever I want in this 5 hour portion, but it’s not as easy as it seems.

Let’s have a closer look at that 5 hours.
5 = 1 hour (dressing up, breakfasting, complaining) + 2 (checking emails, eating dinner, more complaining, replying emails) + 30min (showering) + 10 min (sex) + 40 min (intellectual activity) + 1 hour (miscellaneous stuff, like blogging… etc.)

So. If I give up complaining and perhaps sex, I would gain an hour.

Yes.

I received this email from a friend today: PUNK ROCKERS FACE PRISON TIME FOR PROTEST SONG.
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav041307.shtml

Frankly, it didn’t surprise me. Because I know my government and it’s people (like me) only want to hear songs about our beautiful shores, delicious food and belly dancers. Oh! And love stories between macho Turkish men and well-behaved Turkish virgins.

The song criticizes a central examination system that places you into a college program according to the score you get. Yep! I couldn’t make it, I couldn’t get the score to get into the sociology program in the school I wanted to study. Luckily, my parents had the money to send me to a private university to study graphic design, which was exempt from this central exam. Thus I didn’t deal with the aftermath of not passing the fucking test. Yet, there are thousands whose parents cannot afford private education. This song is their voice. And they’re shutting it down by putting the band in jail. It’s symbolic of course, it just says, “control your kids mothers and fathers, or they might end up in jail like these guys instead of ending up in college.”

I agree: “screw your exam system”

Up: An incredible Marvin Minsky lecture about 2001: Space Odyssey and AI.

Down: Answering questions about my future plans to the interviewers, but especially to myself.

“Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.”