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A3.Format
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A3.Format on taide&design-kollektiivi, jonka toiminnan käynnisti Filip Bojović yhteistyössä Vladimir Manovskin kanssa. Kyseessä on yhteisöllinen blogi, joka on avoinna erilaisille A3-paperikokoon tehdyille digitaalisille teoksille.

A3.Format is an art&design collective initiated in 2005 by Filip Bojović, in intensive cooperation with Vladimir Manovski. Idea of the A3.Format project comprehends creation of, before all, online collaborative platform, which is open for diverse interventions on so called “digital canvas”, dimensions 29,7 x 42cm.

JUST ONE KISS- THE FALL OF NED KELLY - An experimental film by Sami van Ingen in Jyväskylä March 3, 2010

JUST ONE KISS- THE FALL OF NED KELLY - An experimental film by Sami van Ingen
Kampus Kino Wednesday 3.3. at 19 (doors open + ticket sales start at 18.30)
Tickets 6€ (students 5€)

(MORE INFO about film, tickets and workshop COMING SOON)

JUST ONE KISS- THE FALL OF NED KELLY

An expansive cinema work by Sami van Ingen: 35 mm film, 47+ minutes, with live sound.
In 1906 the Australian brothers John and Nevin Tait co-directed the first ever feature length narrative film The Story of the Kelly Gang. The film told a popular story of Ned Kelly, the last Australian bushranger, using the classical dramatic narrative formula, adapted from the theatre where the Taits had previously been working. Theirs was not the first narrative film, but the thought of a one storyline film taking place as the main attraction of the show, the feature, was unheard of at that time.

The Taits developed a way of adding footage to their film after its release, filming whole new scenes and gluing these to their screening print as a way to attract audiences to view the film more that one time, and as a way to gain publicity. When The Story of the Kelly Gang was released, the film reel was 4000 feet long and it expanded over the years to over 6000 feet. As the film was a great financial success, other people started soon to make films about the Kelly Gang and the Taits’ version started to disappear into historical oblivion. The last mention of a screening of it is from Warrangatta, Victoria in 1914. No print (or negative) survived at all, until in 1981 two boys playing in a landfill in Melbourne found a few shots of it, some badly decomposed.

Since then the Australian National Film and Sound Archive have been able to find a few more small fragments of the original film. With a surviving synopsis text, made for publicity by the Taits, we know something of how the original film looked like and what the storyline was in it.

When I first read about The Story of the Kelly Gang, I saw it as now being like a fossil – a casting of something that had been – but that has since disappeared. As an artist I could somehow re-cast it with the information that we have, like palaeontologists reconstruct creatures using a few crumbs of fossilised bone and other information gathered over the years.

One can say that every narrative feature film has been essentially the same since 1906 and the self-standardizing storyline has become a language in itself which we expect to read in any sequence of moving images. In Just One Kiss-The Fall Of Ned Kelly I have attempted to invoke our interpretive faculties to construct this meta story out of unrelated found footage images.

JUST ONE KISS- THE FALL OF NED KELLY is accompanied by live music – a different collaboration in each screening. After each screening a shot or scene is added to the original 4000 feet long 35mm screening print, as a way to follow the traces of the Taits film. Slowly the story gets more diverse and epic, with no final version of it, but a series of projection events with different interpretations and an ever-expanding cinematic narrative.

Animate Jyväskylä with your art!

Live Herring is looking for 10 second flash animations for the JumboArt project. Animations will be presented in Jyväskylä, Finland on the Jumboscreen-videoscreen and in the 10s Gallery of the net art gallery Spirited Herring.

You can upload a 10 second flash clip for JumboArt-project on the net art Gallery Spirited Herring, by selecting the title menu “JumboArt”. All uploaded flash works will be shown in the 10s Gallery of the net art gallery Spirited Herring, from where one flash clip will be juried to be displayed in Jumboscreen each month. Jumboscreen starts to show the flash clips at the beginning of February. Selected works will be presented for one month. The creators of selected works are introduced on net art gallery Spirited Herring, and also Live Herring´s webpage.

It is free to participate to “JumboArt” project and there is neither a monetary compensation from copyrights. If the author gives permission, the JumboArt´s flash works can also use in the different VJ-activities organized by Live Herring. Or they can also be compiled for presentation packages elsewhere. The author’s name are always mentioned on the Flash clips.

To Get involved - do the following:
Technical specs of the flash works:

  • Size 576 x 256 pix, resolution of 72 dpi
  • Ready SWF movie
    • In last frame (action script / stop)

    Flashes can involve a voice, but in Jumboscreen a voice is not heard. (on Gallery Spirited Herring sounds are covered.)
    Flashes can not be interactive and it must be done as an automatic linear presentation.
    Flashes does not have any substantive restrictions (within the limits of good taste), but we hope strong visual vision.

    Presentation may be proposed a 10-second flash or, for example, a work composed of 10s separated parts. However on Jumboscreen parts are presented at random order.

    Participate in the Project at net art Gallery Spirited Herring through the database by selecting a work type on the menu “10s/JumboArt”. Before that you need to log in to Gallery as a user. Signing up is free.

    Act fast, because the project JumboArt is expected to begin in early February!

    The project is produced by Regional artist of film and media culture / Central Findland, Live Herring in cooperation with Jumboscreen.

    More information:
    Satu Viitala
    jumboart10s@gmail.com

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    Pixelache Helsinki 2010 Call for Participation is open until Wednesday 20 January!

    The ninth edition of Pixelache Helsinki will take place 25-28 March 2010.

    Call for Participation, Deadline Wednesday 20 January!
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