Exploring television on the internet with six video art channels

Instead of making use of the many internet possibilities for displaying art, we chose to present this editions film and video's in six channels. Which works basically just like television. These six channels were simultaneously streamed, and looped for the whole duration of the festival. Each channel was approximately between 1.5 and 2 hours long.

With this different approach, the festival hopes to bring back the element of surprise, and stimulate the discovery of new works of art that otherwise might have been missed.
Obviously we want to keep all visitors happy, and therefore made this editions films also accessible on-demand on the pages of the artists.

In addition to the video art streams, the 7th edition also showed Sound and 2D


Photographs from the opening on 1/12 in The Hague.
All photo's made by Dave Zijlstra

Opening at the Nutshuis

Experimental film, underground docs and video art from the 7th edition which will be unleashed on the big screen in the Nutshuis vault. Alongside this visual extravaganza, our friends from Intergalactic FM will drop by to provide music, noise and soundtracks.
And they will bring several guests to mix things up, including:
Ian Martin www.discogs.com
Roberto Auser www.discogs.com
Intergalactic Gary www.discogs.com
Interr-ference (I-f) www.discogs.com

www.intergalactic.fm
www.nutshuis.nl

Video art, Sound art and 2Dimensional art

The Streaming Festival is a non-profit project created to encourage the understanding of audio-visual art. Naturally, the artists’ viewpoints differ from one another, whether in their subjects or in the way they created their work. This edition aims to show a sample of that diverse contemporary videoculture while stressing the all-time significance of artistic development.

In addition to the many videos on display, the 6th edition premièred a whole new direction with the Sound and 2D programs.

Opening on 1 December in Milan, Italy

The always inspiring Italian video art organization VisualContainer hosted this edition's official opening at their project space The [.BOX] in Milan, Italy.
For this occasion, the Motion based collages program was extended with additional films from the sixth edition. The program was not only on display offline, but also on their online TV channel at VisualContainer from 1 to 18 December.
18.30hrs, Free entrance.
Via F. Confalonieri 11, 20124 - Milan Italy
www.dotbox.it

Opening at Het Nutshuis - 1 December, The Hague

The program started at 20.00 with the American Juggalo documentary made by Sean Dunne, followed by a selection of recent films from Dutch video artists
The screening was completed with a reloaded Tiltisfth & other video experiments program.

Intergalactic FM live streaming program

Simultaneously, Intergalactic FM created a live streaming program straight from Het Nutshuis into the digital airwaves, blending all three programs in an improvised audio-visual extravaganza, including a mix from the Sound program, 2D exhibit and a selection of films from the sixth edition, whilst accompanied by the soundtrack collection of DJ Technician and Pametex.

www.intergalactic.fm
Het Nutshuis - 20.00hrs, free entrance.
Riviervismarkt 5 - The Hague, Netherlands

Starting on December the 1st

From the 1st till the 5th, this five day videoart extravaganza screened around 150 experimental, underground and obscure videos from more than 125 independent artists from all over the world. The festival takes place once a year, and this year it had its official opening at the PaardCafe in The Hague - the Netherlands as well as at the [.BOX] in Milan - Italy.

Check out the complete 5th edition archive.

This year’s novelty was that the première of the 5th edition consisted of a film competition.
The Left Field Award has been given to the most prominent artist with visual, conceptual and artistic excellence.
Alfredo Hisa with his film Nearby (9:20, 2010) was chosen by the jury as the winner of this first competition on the Streaming Festival.

Fifth edition programs

She shot pretty nice windmills 11 - 23 December in Milan - Italy

Finally, when we close the curtains of the 5th edition on the 11th of December, you can view the She shot pretty nice windmills program.
The program is a research in diversity represented by six women from the Netherlands each with their own distinctive style. Besides working with video, they use a wide range of media to express their artistic concepts. The possibilities offered by their cross-media approaches reflect in these works, and the borders between moving images and stills fade.

[.BOX] Open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 18.30 to 20.30. Via Confalonieri 11 20124 Milano - Italy

20 - 30 Nov. 2009 View the 4th edition archive.
During this 10 day art festivity films from more than 100 video artists and filmmakers were shown. Some of those were highlighted to showcase this diversity and artistic possibilities of audio visual art.
Read more on the highlighted films page.

Missed the 4th edition? Have a look in the archive or check out the trailers from this edition.

Streaming Stills

Besides showing audio visual art, we also hosted an exhibition Streaming Stills in the BH139 gallery - The Hague, the Netherlands.

Amongst the 9 photographers there were 100+ stills projected in the gallery as well.
These stills were uploaded through the Streaming Festival website. You can view a slideshow of the stills here.

Student films

We schemed a little pilot project together that focused on the screening of films from students which were reviewed by teachers.
This project had films from the Wimbledon college of art, University of Texas, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and more.
But also from our very own Streaming Festival regulars: Robin Whenary, Mark Zuniga, and newcomer Matthieu Cherubini.

The Student Edition is a platform for college level Art students (undergraduate and graduate) to exhibit, prepare, speak out and receive feedback for their works that examine the medium of video and experimental film.
The Student edition was broadcasted one week before the Streaming Festival from 13 to 19 November.

23 - 26 Oct. 2008 View the 3rd edition archive.
The 3rd edition of the Streaming Festival was slightly different from previous editions. Most notably was the opportunity to watch films separate from the program. Making it easier for viewers to choose exactly what to watch & when.

24hrs broadcast

The festival broadcasted 24hrs starting from the 23^rd till the 26^th of October 2008. Festival Streams were divided into 14 programs holding almost 200 films. 107 of those films were premièred on the 3rd edition of the Streaming Festival.

Another première was the sneak preview of Raymond Salvatore Harmon's film: The Philosopher's stone, which was officially released later on the 31^st of October.

Offline screening

On saturday the 25^th films were also shown at our partners offline location: ArtiKraak in The Hague, the Netherlands.

DJ Technician made this evening complete by playing obscure, long forgotten and classic soundtracks.
www djtechnician nl

Special programs

Were composed by the KAN festival which consisted of features, documentaries and animations from Polish filmmakers which had been shown on the KAN festival in 2008.

CultureTV presented 5 videos from different Latin-American video artists.
Curated by Marjan van Mourik

The Opera program was specially compiled for the Streaming Festival. Curated by Xiaowen Ju and Paul Donker Duyvis

Streaming Festival 2nd edition 2007

25 - 28 Oct. 2007 View the 2nd edition archive.
The festival broadcasted four programs; documentary, fiction, animation and the art program plus three special programs.
Composed by the KAN festival was a special program presenting a select number of films including films from Agnieszka Smoczynska, Anna Maszczynska and Anna Pankiewicz.

CultureTV brought a special program with selected international video art works. Including works from Pipilotti Rist, Grimanesa Amoros, Gaelle Denis and Bathtime in Clerkenwell by Alex Budovsky.

ISFTH

Isfth put together its own program with films from James Harvey, The City of Photographers by Sebastian Moreno and four recent works from Dré Didderiëns www.dredidderiens.nl
This program was curated by Mak Kapetanovic.

We screened 18 hours of independent films from more than 100 filmmakers from over 20 different countries.

Programs from this edition
Interviews from this edition