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PRO&CONTRA International Symposium Of Media Culture
Krasnoyarsk, November 7-10 2012

The project is realized with Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation support
Under the patronage of Ministry of Culture of Russian Federation
Organized by "MediaArtLab" Centre for Art and Culture
Co-organized by Artplay on Yauza Design Centre
Partners: Royal Netherlands Embassy, Goethe Institut, Moskau, Austrian Cultural Forum

2012 Theme: Heritage and Modernity

We live in the world of new images, an elusive reality and unexplored opportunities. Each day we are introduced to new phenomena in hybrid forms of art: web theatre, cyber-space cinema, tactical and interactive media. Every day we provide new ways of seeing the world and actual interpretation of reality. New technologies make work with a cultural heritage much more modern and experiment as well as contemporary art practices. It enables a completely different way to present classical artwork of painting, architecture and other arts. It designs new structure and logic of the exhibition, makes the museum interactive and interdisciplinary with the help of new media, bring it to the virtual world, etc. Museum becomes not only as a place of preservation and exhibition of some artifact, but also a place of educational and socio-cultural platform, where the main priority is to create a qualitatively different environment for the audience.

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Venues

Siberian Federal University
Krasnoyarsk, Svobodniy prospect, 79
sfu-kras.ru

Film House
Krasnoyarsk, Mira prospect, 88 14
filmshouse.ru

Tvori-Gora Creative Association
Krasnoyarsk, Mira street, 46a
tvorigora.ru

Premieres and presentations

PARTNER EVENTS. PREMIERS AND SCREENINGS

Partner and location: The House of Cinema 

VIDEO SCREENINGS WITH COMMENTARY:

NOVEMBER 7, 2012 (WEDNESDAY)

20.00 — 21.30

Olga Shishko “Curator’s choice”. The best works of the Moscow Media Forum and Festival Now&After (Russia) 

NOVEMBER 8, 2012 (THURSDAY)

20.00 — 21.30

The best works from PRIX Ars Electronica (Austria)

NOVEMBER 9, 2012 (FRIDAY)

20.00 — 21.30

Viral Temptations, the Lure of the Virtual

A thematically curated program with best works from the Impakt Festival and the Impakt Works residency program (The Netherlands).

Curated by Arjon Dunnewind

NOVEMBER 10, 2012 (SATURDAY)

20.00 — 22.00

A special premiere screening for Krasnoyarsk by Yang Fudong (China) — "Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest" installation.

In 2009 the Shanghai artist Yang Fudong has finished work on his major film Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. Its initial parts were presented to the audience at the 50th Venice Biennial and then travelled galleries all round the world.

The Asian multimedia art’s most redeeming features are probably not its exotic faces or high tech landscapes but its appeal to the thousand-year philosophical tradition and the artists’ amazing realization of these ideas in the ultimately technological contemporary forms –without losing their poetic clarity or depth. So the Shanghai artist Yang Fudong retells the story of seven wise men and revelers of the 3d century AD. They abandoned the stifling life at court, full of scheming and vanity, and came to the seclusion of a bamboo forest, where they played music, feasted and discoursed on scolarly matters. Following a traditional Chinese and Japanese art iconography Fudong makes a film... about the future.

In the aesthetics of noir films and with an ambient accompaniment the artist brings to life the story of seven ancient Chines wise men and poets who shun the vain world for his viewers. Filmed in a contemporary setting the narrative does not lose its poetic quality and depth. Now its main theme is frustration and the feeling of being lost experienced by young intellectuals, ambitious and educated people who expect from the world what it cannot give them. Fudong tells the story of a journey that his characters take in their search for new Utopia, knowing nothing of the destination or of their own future.