POCKET FILMS FESTIVAL
4th edition
13th, 14th, 15th of June 2008
Centre Pompidou - Paris
CALL FOR FILM
The Forum des images presents the Pocket Films Festival, the first
international event dedicated to the artistic possibilities offered by
mobile video technologies. The festival is organized in collaboration
with the Georges Pompidou Center and the French mobile operator SFR,
it’s founding partner.
Filmmakers, photographers, performers, video and new technology
artists are invited to create and sign up their films for one of the two
competitive sections of the festival :
• Cinema Screen : open to all films shot with mobile phones and / or
digital cameras.
• Mobile Screen : open to all video projects viewable on portable
devices, from cell phones to I-Pod.
The Festival is open to short, medium and feature film formats
including documentary, fiction, animation, series, and experimental
genres.
Last date for registration :
March 1, 2008
Find out more :
www.festivalpocketfilms.fr
“Hipic In Beijing!”
The experimental project “hipic” is honored to invite you to the opening of “Hipic in Beijing”
Date: February 29th, 2008, Friday, at 18:00
Venue: ShanghART Beijing, No. 261 Caochangdi, Airport Service Rd., Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Tel: (+86 10) 6432 3202
“Hipic in Beijing” will be installed in 5 galleries in Beijing: Long March Space, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing Art Now Gallery and Beijing Commune and ShanghART Beijing.
About “Hipic”
“Hipic”is a project centered on pictures initiated by Yang Zhenzhong, Xu Zhen, Huang Kui and other artists, who established the “Hipic team”. “Hipic” collects and displays flood of pictures from all over the world using internet as a platform. “Hipic” central system, www.hipic.org., diffuses pictures on various visual poles,including public screens, TV monitors, computer an mobile screens etc.”Hipic in Beijing” constitutes an important step for “Hipic”,aiming to reinforce this platform efficiency, and to share more spaces.
“在北京吞图”
实验艺术项目《吞图》诚邀您参加《在北京吞图》开幕酒会。
时间：20082月29日（星期五）下午18：00
地点：香格纳画廊北京新空间，北京市朝阳区机场辅路草场地261号
电话：（＋86 10）6432 3202
《吞图》介绍
《吞图》是一个以图片为主体的独立艺术项目，由杨振忠、徐震、黄奎等艺术家提出，并成立了“吞图小组”。《吞图》以网络作为传输平台，汇集和展示来自全球的海量图片。《吞图》以www.hipic.org 平台为核心，借助网络传输来实现各种空间内的图片呈现，这个空间包括户外公共屏幕、电视屏幕、电脑屏保、手机屏幕等视窗系统。《在北京吞图》是《吞图》在规模上的重大拓展，其目的就是进一步加强《吞图》的平台作用，让更多的图片资源在更广阔的空间层面上与更广泛的人群进行共享。
在北京吞图》是《吞图》在规模上的重大拓展，其目的就是进一步加强《吞图》的平台作用，让更多的图片资源在更广阔的空间层面上与更广泛的人群进行共享
Greetings all! 丽江工作室2008年度进驻项目名曰”新农村实验室”。”新农村”即中国试图协调农村生活与日新月异的城市生活而付出的努力。“实验室”即农田，以及田地中的一切，这也便是我们实验的原始材料。这是一个艺术调查阶段，旨在探讨居住乡下的意义，尤其是在拉市海，在中国，在此时此刻。我们会定期制作海报（broadsheet），作为我们合作的资料存档，从而记录并交流我们的经验。本次海报包含了一周以来我们探讨的一些内容。首先，我们开始着手调查中国知识分子在农村的历史。工作室成员胡嘉岷为此写了一篇引言。此文的片段粘贴在海报及工作室网站上。第二部分记录了进驻艺术家古暮阳（Duskin Drum）对这里的农民逐渐丧失土地一事的初始反应。对付的途径之一是用更少的土地生产更多的粮食。Duskin开垦了我们厨房背后的一小块空地，并开始在上面纵向耕种土豆。海报展示了他的计划草图。第三样素材是进驻艺术家Ernesto Salmeron对我们居住于此之诗意的反应：他将我们的农民邻居们描述成”campeches”——艺术家可望而不可及的某种事物。海报还记下了60个美国高中生对工作室的一次参观。他们在中国的经验寄托了未来中美相互理解的愿望。最后，海报展现了一些神兽麒麟的图画。拉市海当地神话说，这只杂合的神兽能赐予这里的土地以能量与丰饶，直至近世这只神兽仍以麒麟舞的形式造访过这里。然而，对于麒麟的记忆及需求正在消逝。为了新农村的现实，我们正尝试营造一些情境，让这只神兽得以复现。
Lijiang Studio’s residency-based project for 2008 is called the New Countryside Laboratory. The ‘New Countryside’ refers to China’s attempt to reconcile farm-based life with the newly developed urban life. ‘Laboratory’ refers to the farmland, and everything in it, as our raw material for experimentation. This is a period of artistic research into what it means to live in the countryside, specifically in Lashihai, China, right now. As a record of our participation we periodically make ‘broadsheets’ which to register and communicate our experience.This weeks’s broadsheet contains a few elements from conversations at the farm. The first is to research e the history of Chinese intellectuals in their countryside. Studio member Hu Jiamin has explored this in terms of fantasy and morality, excerpt on www.lijiangstudio.org.Duskin Drum responds to the fact that farmers here are gradually losing their land. One way to provide for the future is to produce more food on less land. Duskin has taken a small plot behind our kitchen and is starting to grow potatoes vertically. The broadsheet contains a sketch of his plan.Ernesto Salmeron describes our way of living here, describing our farming neighbors as “campeches” - something that visiting artists can only aspire to be. The sheet registers the visit of 60 American high school students whose experience in China represents, well, the tip of the iceberg. Finally, we have some drawings and rubbings of the mythical beast Qilin at Lashihai. Local myth tells of a composite beast which gives power and fertility to the land here, and up until recently this beast has visited the community in the form of a dance. The memory and need for this beast is fading. The New Countryside Laboratory will re-invent this beast in 2008. with our best, -Lijiang Studio