VIDEONALE.7

Foreword of the VIDEONALE.7 catalogue (excerpt)

Being that this festival for international video art came to life over twelve years ago, the birth of the Videonale is closely tied to the development of video as an art form. Like all of its past festivals, the seventh Videonale serves as a forum for the work of artists from all over the world. Still, the video tape as medium moves back and forth between the poles of being an outstanding artistic achievement, an experiment which is critical of the media, and an art which does not allow itself to be taken advantage of. [...]

As during past festivals, the Bonner Kunstverein, where the exhibition "In Etappen" will be presented, is the festival's center. Contemporary video art from Japan will be shown at the Kunstmuseum der Stadt Bonn in collaboration with the Videonale. Together with the ifa-Galerie Bonn, contemporary Croatian art, Zagred showing a retrospective of video tapes, Croatian video art will be well-represented this year. The Bonner Entwicklungswerkstatt für Computermedien will, once again, be the locatian of a media performance with a dance scenario from the series "Observation Suite". Also, the Bonner Kinemathek will show the prize winners and other works from the video tape program during a special event. [...] ( Rosanne Altstatt & Catrin Backhaus)

VIDEONALE.7 Artists
Nicole Adler, Max Almy & Teri Yarbrow, Michiko Amali, Dan Asher, Mark Bain, Alfred Banze, Irit Batsry, Breda Beban & Hrvoje Horvatic, Rene Beekmann, Giancarlo Bocchi, Michael Bruna, Eva Brunner-Szabo, Marie José Burki, Paulo Chagas & Inge Kamps, Philippe Chatelain, Pierre Yves Clouin, Ignacio Crespo, Ivo Deković, Sylvia Dergwill, Bart Dijkman, Ivan Engler, Kip Fulbeck, Christoph Girardet, Marina Gržinić, & Aina Šmid, Gusztáv Hámos, Heure Exquise!, Juha van Ingen, Sami van Ingen & Philip Hoffmann, Jaki Irvine, Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, Sebastian Jochum, Kain Karawahn, Annebarbe Kau, Andreas M. Kaufmann, Hilja Keading, John Knecht, Kristian Kožul & Ana Šimičić & Marko Raos, Kritzkratz (Lili Voigt & Marcus Krips), Thomas Kutschker, Peter Land, David Larcher, Bettina Lockemann, Jennifer Bozick McCoy & Kevin McCoy, Holger Mader, Daniel Marlos, John Maybury, Norbert Meissner, Marcello Mercado, Matthias Neuenhofer, Marcel Odenbach, Dan Oki, Lennaart van Oldenborgh, Gabriele Pichler, Seppo Renevall, Anette Rose, Francisco Ruiz de Infante, Hans-Peter Scharlach, Bettina Schoeller, Bill Seaman, Gabriele Seifert, Andy Seklir, Ivar Smedstad, Stephanie Smith & Edward Stewart, Jennifer Steinkamp, Klaudia Stoll, Andrew Stones, Fujio Suetani, Cordelia Swann, Clea T. Waite, Christa Werner-Geiselhofer, Katharina Wibmer, Moritz Wissel, Wladimir, Liu Xun, Yasuto Yura, Kai Zimmer, Vlado Zrnić

Competition Jury
Rosanne Altstatt, Catrin Backhaus, Axel Klepsch, Annelie Pohlen, Clea T. Waite

Award Jury
Mindy Faber, Jean-François Guiton, Abina Manning, Johanna Schenkel, Petra Unnützer

Festival organisation & conception
Rosanne Altstatt, Catrin Backhaus

Festival website
verein.videonale.org

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VIDEONALE.7 catalogue cover, 1996. © Videonale