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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.

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

...r, EMAF’s congress – under the motto "European Digital Visions" – focused on the...

EMAF 2001 offered an examination of the present, increasingly dominated by information and media technologies that varied between play and reflexion. During the festival both the virtually endless possibilities of new aesthetic styles of composition

Virtual actor or: how real is reality? The congress at EMAF 2002 explored films in which avatars (characters created on the computer) or "human" actors rather than real human beings act in virtual environments. This topic was reflected also in some

The guiding theme of EMAF 2004 triggered numerous associations: transmitters, emitters, carriers or x-mitters – visualised by all kinds of dove species depicted on the festival’s posters, billboards and catalogues this year. In line with this

Under the motto "Document", the 18th EMAF highlighted various media artistic approaches to documentary forms. Playing with media structures, analysing the power of the media, reflecting one’s own media production and examining the conditions of

To mark its 20th anniversary, the congress part of EMAF called "D-Fluxx" presented not only a kind of inventory entitled "Media Art History", but also a definition of the current position of Media Art. The film programme focused on the Cuban

In 2008, the 21st EMAF explored personal identity in a globalised world. How will the advance of digital technologies change all areas of private and public life? Identity is always a contemporary issue, concerning all areas of society. In