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In September 1989, for the second time Osnabrück hosted the European Media Art Festival, a forum that aimed to show and create free artistic spaces. Against the backdrop of media history, the intention of EMAF was to critically reflect upon the claim...

To mark the start of the new decade, the European Media Art Festival presented a review of German experimental film and video art production from the 1980s, offering viewers the opportunity to see familiar works again and to perhaps rediscover and...

This year, EMAF took a look beneath the "surface" and shed light on the handling of media from a variety of perspectives.

No- und low-budget productions from the independent scene met films and videos produced with commercial cinema and television...

In contrast to the tendency perceived in previous years, an increase in film entries and the trend towards longer, more complex contributions in the film area became noticeable in 1992. In addition to presenting the Russian filmmaker Vladimir Kobrin...

In a time characterised by the loss of utopia and by major social and political change, creativity was called for – this was where artistic and philosophical concepts became increasingly important for creating new perspectives. Not the answer, but...

By 1994, EMAF had already evolved into one of the largest annual events for innovative experimental works in the areas of film, video and interactive projects. Compared to the created reality of television and the colourful media design of digital...

"Art and Body" was the general topic of EMAF 1995. Many artists had chosen the human body to be the focal point of their projects, and they also brought up the question of the influence the expansion of interactive media has on the individual. The...

In 1996, the festival was still held in September, unlike later, when it was traditionally held in spring.
This year, the film programme was put together in cooperation with the Swiss Film, Video and Multimedia Festival VIPER. It presented...

For the 10th anniversary, almost 1000 entries were submitted to the organising team for the various sections of the festival. In addition to Great Britain and the USA, numerous contributions were sent from New Zealand, Japan, Romania and Brazil.
In...

EMAF 1998 addressed the structures of a mediatised society shaped by the simultaneousness of different systems. In everyday life, too, we are surrounded by perception situations taking place in parallel, explained the American Pat O’Neill, to whom...