Syndicate: WRO 01 finnal results

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The jury of the the 9th International Media Art Biennale WRO01, consisting
of Katherine Carl (USA), Erkki Huhtamo (Finland/USA), Jaroslaw
Kapuscinski(Poland/Canada/USA), Sally Jane Norman (New Zealand/France) and
Alexei Shulgin (Russia), decided to distinguish seven works, three with
special mentions and four with prizes. The screening has shown a wide
variety of approaches, clearly designed to be viewed in an equally wide
variety of presentation contexts, ranging from traditional video screenings
to installations, CD-ROMs with online connections, and works created
specifically for club culture settings.
Given the level of technical fluency that has been reached with new media
tools, we are now looking forward to seeing works with a sharper critical
edge.

    The first two prizes, ex aequo, go in alphabetical order to:
- Oliver Pietsch, Heroes (Germany)
For original and multilayered interpretation of motives and behaviors
in contemporary media culture; for effective use of simple sound and video
techniques to build a novel dramatic structure.
- Anita Sarosi, Dragon (Hungary)
For a highly poetic evocation and virtuoso integration of image and sound.
Above all, for a very precise impression of a dragon.

    The second prize goes to :
- Andreas Gedin, Gemini (Sweden)
For artistically interesting portrayal of ambivalent identity; for an
original recreation of a literary work, by inventive use of standard video
tools.
    The third prize goes to :
- (n:ja), Rewind (Austria)
For meditative and precise deconstruction of contemporary machine
interfaces.

    Special mentions were awarded to:
- Alex Sanjurjo Rubio, Ventilar (Spain)
For simplicity and clarity of vision, for a creative take on game
aesthetics.
- Dan Geesin and Esther Rots, The Garden (UK-Netherlands)
For using a simple editing technique to build a surprisingly sophisticated
intrigue; for witty comment on cinematographic narrative structure.
- BIT ?Bureau of Inverse Technology, BIT Plane (US)
For ironic metadiscourse on power structures of technological society, for
being playfully subversive (it should be pointed out that this video
explicitly testifies to a larger project).


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WRO 01 / 9th International Media Art Biennale
May 1st - 6th, 2001
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