Sonic Acts XII - the Cinematic Experience is a festival/conference, taking place in Amsterdam from 21-24 of february 2008. Besides a conference, screenings, performances and an exhibition they’ll have a publication which has an interview with me in it! It discusses how the Internet changes the cinematic experience both in terms of distribtion and artist’s production experiences. You can order the publication here.

On the occasion of the twelfth Sonic Acts festival, Boris Debackere and Arie Altena edited a multi-faceted book with nine essays and ten interviews dealing with various aspects of the cinematic experience. The book focuses as much on theories of the cinematic experience, as it does on the practice of artists working in the fields of cinema, contemporary media art and sound. It shows how artists develop their work and theories on the cinematic experience, using different technologies and materials, and offers a many-sided theoretical journey into the history, present and future of the magic we call cinema.

Essays:
Joost Rekveld on the mechanization of the magical sign, Arjen Mulder on the reality effect of film and the extramedial, Gerard Holthuis on the art of chatter and the power of images, Jan Schacher and Randy Jones on Live Cinema, Lucrezia Cippitelli on the history of cinematic experiments in visual art, Gregory Kurcewicz on Structural Film, Rob Vanderbeeken on immersion, Thomas Zummer on cinema and memory.

Interviews with:
Ernie Gehr, Kurt Hentschläger, Stephen O’Malley, Jan Peter E.R . Sonntag, Thomas Köner, Jürgen Reble, Frank Bretschneider, Simon Ruschmeyer, Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabel, and Lev Manovich.

Sonic Acts XII
The Cinematic Experience
Arie Altena & Boris Debackere ( editors )
Graphic Design by Femke Herregraven; www.zeropointproject.com
English text , illustrated
Published by Sonic Acts Press / Paradiso , Amsterdam , 2008
Edited in cooperation with Transmedia/St . Lukas Brussel , and the Cimatics Cinematic Experience conferences, curated by Boris Debackere.