International Video 
  Festival
  VideoMedeja 07
  25 - 27th April 2003 Novi 
  Sad 
   
  subject: videobeat
  cathegories: video, CD ROM, video 
  installations 
  deadline for entries: 15th February 
  2003.
  
   
  25, 26, 27th 
  April        Selection of Competitiors
  best works chosen by Selection 
  Committee
  projection room DV, DVD, 
  BETA
   
  25, 26, 
  27th         Follow up 
  Programmes
  
  video | 
  video installations | sound installations | performances | live acts | 
  installations
  show 
  windows| open spaces | digital screens | billboards| 3D objects 
  | 
  city 
  centre | wider area
  CD ROM, 
  VHS, S - VHS, DV, DVD
   
  27th 
  April
  Live 
  bands | Audio Visual Performance | VJ Performance
 
   
   
  
  <<the 
  videobeat idea, in this case refers to 
  various analytical approaches and theories of history and development of video 
  arts.  videobeat equally 
  refers to the future and to the past.  therefore, the video subject 
  matter will be approached from its very beginnings, when it appeared as a 
  technological discovery - the image signal and the use in military purposes, 
  and then it will be analyzed through a wider sociological, political and 
  artistic prism. the videobeat 
  explores 
  the transformation of the video from the instrument for accurate transmission 
  of certain events and situations all the way to the almost revolutionary 
  possibilities in the scope of the most diverse expressions and experiments. 
  video becomes the instrument for expression of emotions, imaginary realities, 
  and new perceptions. freed from rational and technological, it steps away from 
  the language of the feature film; the emphasis is put on freedom of 
  expression. during the last decades of the past century, picturesque and 
  poetical characteristic became the essence of the video>
  <with 
  regards to the videobeat 
  subject matter, the intention is to define the status of video 
  arts today, especially in relation to other forms of visual expression and 
  media. one of the aims defined in this way is to answer frequent questions in 
  this field: is video art being transformed into a new form and how can we be 
  sure that the transformation isn't going in the opposite direction? what kind 
  of media is this about, which are the new ways? is video disappearing in the 
  age of pure digital forms? the most interesting question is whether the new 
  media and the whole digital visual production are nothing but logical steps in 
  the progress of video art 
aesthetics>>