Event: Select Media Festival 2 (Click here for details)

Overview:Select Media Festival is an exploration of international movements in the underground of digital media, showcasing emerging and advanced audiovisual currents in music and motion. The insurgent media festival features video programs, installations, performance programs, street arts and showcases experimental and advanced music. We work with curators from international festivals and counter institutions to provide alternative glimpses into current forms of media making.

Future Cultures:
Future Cultures are a sampling of the directions artists and creators are taking in the parallel worlds of the counter cultures. Work from those battling the Disinformation Society, ideas regarding multidimensional potentials of human experimental communications, and interceptions and interference with the world orders.

Cultural Interference:
Cultural Interference is an examination of works by radical cultural activists and experimental video makers critiquing various coercive forces and systems. Mixing desktop editing techniques and a good sense of humor these makers appropriate work, divert and re-edit it as a way to register their dissent. Described as tactical mediaticians, culture jammers, troublemakers, media activists and pranksters, these creators create works that are a sampling of digital video underground.

Date & Time: 11/25/03 (Tuesday) 6PM

Location:
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.
Chicago, Il. 60601
ph.312.846.2085
fx.312.332.5859

Comments:
Mindbomb.tv returns from two separate events in Chicago: The Select Media Festival (thanks Ed) and a lecture/presentation at Columbia College of Chicago to film students there (Thanks goes to Ted). For the Select Media Festival at the Gene Siskel Center, and at a gallery space in Wicker Park known as 'High School', Mindbomb.tv screened with some of the finest documentaries and activist videoworks yet. Works such as: Retooling Dissent, Hypno-Chicken, Surplus, and Unprecedented. Mindbomb.tv met there with the filmmakers Richard Ray Pérez and Joan Sekler of 'Unprecedented' and handed off a DVD of the Mindbomb.tv complete works, which they plan to open future screenings and festivals with, as they tour the world with their illuminating expose on the mechanics of the stolen 2000 election. See this film. Very eye opening. We watched performances by musicians who play 'hacked' videogames that make beautiful music instead of game characters that jump, run and kill. See http://www.markdenardo.com

All in all, the Select Media Festival turned out to be a retreat for like minded artists. There, many ideas were shared and traded, and much was learned. 'Danny's' bar, off Damon and Dickson is by far the quintessential 'dark alcove' hide-away bar, perfect for drinking and brewing discussion. No distractions there. A Mindbomb.tv fav.