Experiments with Truth: Video Art

Kalakriti Art Gallery & Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad

present:

Experiments with 

Truth:

Video Art in Germany from the Present to

 1963

ON: 20-22 January, 2009

AT: Kalakriti Art Gallery, Banjara Hills

Program:

Opening: 15:30hrs, January 20

Welcoming Introduction by Johan Pijnappel, Screening and Open Discussion

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15:30hrs, January 21

Presentation by Johan Pijnappel, Screening and Open Discussion

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15:30hrs, January 22

Presentation by Johan Pijnappel, Screening and Open Discussion

OPEN TO ALL

The Cultural Foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany has attempted to rescue, preserve and disseminate the cultural heritage of video art. As this medium for preservation has a very short life-span and media art works tend to disintegrate, the project 40YEARSVIDEOART.DE was set up as a study edition giving an overview of this art in Germany as well as the international media art scene. The Goethe-Institut compiled an exemplary selection, a panorama of historic, but also current works made by various artists ranging from 1963 to 2004.  A panorama of this highly rich archival resource will be screened in co-operation with Dhaka University Film Society at the Goethe-Institut Bangladesh.

What is video art?  Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and is comprised of video and/or audio data and often if not always site-specific. (should not be confused with television or experimental cinema).

More than ever we live in a world where the use and abuse of the moving image has changed our experience and perception of reality. The borders between documentary and fiction are blurring and it seems that our new home is a mesmerizing digital cave, where terror is served like the latest computer game. ‘Experiments with Truth’ shows examples of how have we arrived at this stage and what alternative visions independent and critical artists in Germany have added to this in the last forty years.” Johan Pijnappel

Johan Pijnappel is an independent Dutch art historian/curator who has been critically engaged with computer-, video- and new media art since the last 25 years. He has initiated and edited a series of publications such as ‘Fluxus: Yesterday and Today’, ‘World Wide Video’, ‘Art and Technology’,‘Marina Abramovic-Cleaning the House’ and ‘Video Art in India’. Living in India for almost decade he has been involved with more than fifty international Indian video art presentations in seventeen countries.