I’m invited to speak at the cinema Lumière in Maastricht on May 15th. The event is called Digitally Unreel and presents filmmakers, who incorporate digital effects in their work. I will show my short film Palindrome and some other works in progress. I will speak about how technology influences my work, but will also present some more general ideas on the the interplay of technology and art.

About:
“Film lovers define key moments in their lives by the movies that have accompanied them, but what is often lost in the ether is the technology that punctuates their emotional effectiveness and makes them memorable. It is for that reason that we decided to highlight the technological side of film making in discussing the digitization of film, but steer clear from getting bogged down in technologically determined rhetoric, we simply wish to showcase great film making techniques and leave the repercussions, knowing now how the digital was involved in the process, up to you, the audience, to determine.”

Brussels based ARGOS centre for Media and Art organized a conference on VIDEO VORTEX: Responses to YouTube. I was invited and held a talk on “The Artist Moving through the Web - new forms of Artists’ production and distribution on the Internet.”

It was a very inspiring conference!
Thanks to Stoffel, Maria, Adre, Bram and the whole team at ARGOS for the wonderful weekend!

“Over the past years the moving image has claimed an increasingly prominent place on the internet. Thanks to a wide range of technologies and web applications it has become possible, not only to record and distribute video, but to edit and remix it on-line as well. With this world of possibilities within reach of a multitude of social actors, the potential of video as a personal means of expression has arrived at a totally new dimension. How is this potential being used? How do artists and activists react to the popularity of YouTube and other ‘user-generated-content’ websites? What is the impact of the availability of massive on-line images and sound databases on aesthetics and narrativity? How is Cinema, as an art form and experience, influenced by the development of widely spreading internet practices? What does YouTube tell us about the state of art in visual culture? And how does the participation culture of video-sharing and vlogging reach some degree of autonomy and diversity, escaping the laws of the mass media and the strong grip of media conglomerates?”

Speakers are JOHAN GRIMONPREZ, PETER HORVATH, LEV MANOVICH, ANA KRONSCHNABL & TOMAS RAWLINGS, ADRIAN MILES, SIMON RUSCHMEYER, KEITH SANBORN, PETER WESTENBERG.

I was invited to the OFFF Festival for Post Digital Creation Culture 2006 in Barcelona, Spain, to show my short Film Palindrome in their 6th annual Competition. OFFF is an amzing festival with loads of great speakers, a very nice venue (in a very nice city) and a great atmosphere. This year it was also hold in Ney York and in 2008 the festival is moving to Lisboa.

Thanks to Fred for hosting me and to Sergi for taking care while the festival.

My short film Cave of Memories was chosen for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2005.

The Campus is a workshop for 500 aspiring filmmakers from all over the world, which takes place during the Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin. The Campus was an amazing experience, 5 days of talks, discussions and screenings. Moreover, it’s is an extraordinary oppurtunity to meet other filmmakers and get in touch with the industry.

My foot on the red carpet :-)