I started a new blog on Crowdfunding called artistandaudience.net.
Crowdfunding is not only a new form of collective cooperation by people who pool their money together to support cultural projects - in my opinion it’s also a crucial shift in the relationship of artist & their audiences in general.

As I am planning to finance my next short film via crowdfunding I am sharing my questions, thoughts & experiences on the subject, visit the blog to get to know more!

The short is co-produced by MDX FILM, watch out for it’s festival release this winter!

At this point the curator steps in and is confrontated with the new medium challeging his profession. Not only she herself has to find ways to discover the gems in this ocean of videos, but there are so-me demanding questions she has to deal with. First of all there are no proper terms for what forms of online video exist. On the internet the borders blur between commercial and private content, ama-teur and professional and there are no rules how to define their aesthetic qualities. So while the big-gest question for the curator is how and what to choose for exhibiting it, the medium also bears new questions of where to exhibit (physical or virtual spaces) and questions of authorship and copyright. Moreover curators are experimenting with how to exhibit works online and are crossing the edge to artistic expression when they arrange footage in video sculptures (e.g. the exhibition „3 Hours in 1 Second“ at http://grid.curatingyoutube.net/show/index.html).

The project Curating the Web contributes to the discourse of how web video can be categorized and conceptualized from curational points of view.

I’ll start off the project with a lecture&screening at Cluj, Romania, and as a seminar/exhibition at University of Siegen.

We felt that there is the necessity for a new aaproach to online video journalism. Online video has been around for about five years now but most of the productions lack originality, concept and visuality. We think, now it’s time to leave the quick&dirty paradigm behind and try out new ways. Online video needs to free itself from the close-minded production structures of tv networks and publishing houses, on the net there is a global and awake audience, bored by the ever-the-same tv formats which chop information into easy-to-swallow bits and pieces.

We think online video is the medium to create new formats. We want to do films, which last as long as the story needs to be told, which speak with a strong visual language to the voice of a subjective, combative author.

Because it is the right time.

FILMFOREST will start as a blog, we’ll have some talks and screenings soon, and hopefully will be doing out own productions soon.

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.”