3-d International video-art festival in public spaces

Category

Festival

Year

2006

Institution

International 3D festival, St. Petersburg

Comment

3-d International video-art festival in public spaces Organizers & festival team are Invite artists working with video, animation and new media to participate in the project: Festival dates, June 5 - July 5, 2006 Festival place 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 ‘06” 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. Within the framework of the festival, the programme includes lectures, workshops, presentations and round tables of experts from Belgium, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, France, Russia, Serbia. These activities are intended to share experience and update possibilities and problems of interaction between actual art and urban electronic media, aspects of actual art integration into general audience and topical art practices of this field. The festival public screenings will happen on outdoor video screens networks of CityVision & "IgRek Cinema" companies, 39 city screens located in the most busy spots. Selected video art works will be shown during one month each day in the pauses between commercial blocks, altogether around 240 screenings per day on each screen. 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. The closing ceremony will include presentation of the best works in a cinema theaters. (source: http://www.artpolitika.ru/ov2006_concept_eng)