<nettime> Lux Centre (London) presents: critical images II: DVolution!

[david.sinden@lux.org.uk]

24 - 28 MAY 2000

streaming and commerce in ideas on Thursday & Friday
in association with LemonTV.com, Sputnik7.com & Satama.com

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Thursday 25 May . 9.00pm
The Lux "Listen Up" lecture series presents Lev Manovich
Response and moderation by Matthew Fuller

Lev Manovich is a major theorist of cinema and the new medias, bringing a
broad knowlege of  the history and theory of film to bear on both the
legacy of cinematic language on new media tools and practices, and the
effect of digital media on contemporary cinema.

In his lecture at the Lux, Lev Manovich will be drawing on his new book
"the language of new media".  Going into detailed analysis of formal
devices that feature in both the language of cinema and computer-based
media, Manovich maps out the close relationship of film language to the
technical and stylistic development of new digital media.  He also examines
the new possibilities for cinema that digital media provide.

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Friday 26 May . 12.00 - 5.00pm
Streaming Media with LemonTV.com

Rich-media Webcast gurus LemonTV.com host an exclusive seminar on working
with Streaming Media for beginners and advanced content producers. From
basic encoding, shooting techniques and technical specifications, through
to the latest developments in Broadband and SMIL. The entire seminar
program will be Webcast at www.lemontv.com

[ 12.00 - 2.00 Beginners Guide to video streaming ]
For those with some experience of working with digital video and who want
to create and optimise future or current projects for delivery over the
Internet.
covers: overview of reasons to do streaming video; applications of content;
low-no budget use and hosting; how to shoot for webcasting; tech specs for
webcasting; editing; encoding; file transfer; watching the video; making it
available to the surfer

[ 3.00 - 5.00 Advanced Streaming Seminar ]
For those who have made a short film, have some experience of streaming
media and who want to take their skills, knowledge and understanding to the
next level, including the conceptual move away from linear narrative and
beyond the video frame.
covers: broadband view of the world; platforms; overview + capabilities of
SMIL; SMIL 2 - Boston Draft; thinking beyond the frame/interactive
storylining

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Friday 26 May . 6.00pm
DVerse II

A showcase and surgery for students and young artists working with digital
video.

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Friday 26 May . 9.00pm
Pleasure In Streaming

Why defer till broadband when you can steep in suspended animation, and
spectate the digital machine's live remix as it chews on a century of
celluloid? Sputnik7 present the cult manga hit X in this pioneering cinema
screening of a net-streamed feature film.
www.sputnik7.com

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Friday 26 May . 9.00pm
E-Commerce Cocktails

Jim Flint's technology social brings all the fervour of dotcom economics to
the Lux Gallery. With readings by Steve Beard (author of Perfumed Head and
Digital Leatherette) and John Browning (former executive editor of Wired UK
and founder of First Tuesday) plus two special mystery guests, and
culminating in one of our famous open-floor late night discussion sessions,
E-commerce cocktails blends fact and fiction into the smoothest of
sundowners. Come along, have a drink, and get interactive.

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one day conferenceSaturday 27 May . 10.00am - 5.00pm

Following the success of last years Critical Images/Critical Mass event,
the Lux once again brings together an impressive line-up of cross-media
practitioners and thinkers to map and debate issues at the leading edge of
contemporary moving-image making. The net is a new horizon for thinking
about the moving image, and a host of independents and media conglomerates
have their eye on the digital frontier. With the profusion of new hybrid
broadcast channels and microcinemas hungry for content, the traditional
media of film and video begin entry into a single digital currency, and
come into contact with an indigenous - and apprehensive - network culture.
But what does the net mean as a context for film and video artists? New
video streaming technologies, the wwws utopian promise of global
visibility, and the tacit offer to move beyond the frame and engage with
non-linear forms make the net an intriguing prospect for moving image work.
But for critical film and video artists engaged in dialogue with or seeking
intervention into the technologies and contexts of their medium, the web is
a more tangled proposition. Having made the conceptual leap from
photographic to digital forms, these artists must engage in dialogue with a
critical net culture, holding open portals for independent work within the
connective commercialised bricolage. The Line-up Ana Kronschnabl presents
Plugincinema . Nick Crowe presents Discrete Packet . Film On-line? A panel
discussion with Ana Kronschnabl, Nick Crowe, Jon Jost and Lev Manovich,
Chair: Honor Harge . Bureau of Inverse Technology (Kate Rich) . Chris Wilch
. Animal Char . Culture Jamming? A panel discussion with Kate Rich, Chris
Wilcha, Jim Fetterley and Rich Bott, Chair : Chris Darke
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other DVolution! events over the weekend include screenings, Club Culture
Jam and the Atari Day of Worship.

For more information on the full critical images II: DVolution! programme,
event pricing and tickets, call the Lux box office on 020 7684 0201.

All events have full and concessionary rates for Lux members and
non-members.

The Lux Centre . Hoxton Square . London N1 6NU

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