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CultureTV What happens when you take the medium of traditional Television Broadcasting and combine it with the much less traditional medium of the Internet? Well, you'll probably end up with a television set for the new millennium, you'll definitely end up with something new and edgy, and you're going to end up here at CultureTV!

Curated by Marjan van Mourik
  1. Myriam Thyes
  2. Pipilotti Rist
  3. Grimanesa Amoros
  4. Alex Budovsky
  5. Nicola Dulion
  6. Sylvia Eckermann
  7. Oliver Laric
  8. Hello Freaks
  9. Kitty Lin
  10. Daniel Scheibel
  11. Vasily Shumov
  12. Pierre Wayser

Flag Metamorphoses Congo Myriam Thyes

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionThe huge Congo (ex-Zaire) is naturally very rich with rain forest and minerals
(copper, diamonds, cobalt, uranium, gold and more). For more than hundred
years, this wealth has been exploited (and stolen) by European, American and
African companies and states (and buyers often pay with weapons).

Since the time the Congo was a colony of Belgium, and up to now, the minerals are often brought to the big commerce port of Antwerp.

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I Want to See How You See (or a por.. Pipilotti Rist

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionIn this video Rist explores the macrocosm of humanity in a video, art and music collaboration. A lyrical tale of a witch's coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically represents an area of the world.

Pipilotti Rist burst onto the international art scene with visually lush video works and multimedia installations that explore female sexuality and media culture, remixing fantasy and the everyday. In the 1980s and '90s the Swiss-born Rist made a series of tapes in which she subverted the form of the music video to explore the female voice and body in pop cultural representations, merging rock music, electronic manipulation, and performance.

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Los Pies Libres Grimanesa Amoros

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionTo have naked feet means freedom ("la libertad"). Since I was little I always had the sensation that when I freed myself from shoes, I would also free my body and the voice of my soul.

For this reason—to free her soul—, Susana chooses to perform in bare feet so that it will shine through in her voice. Susana's elation is visible in her performance, making it intensely beautiful.

She once told me of walking along a shoreline, watching the gulls float over the water. Their wings are like her bare feet, she felt, opened to the air to carry them freely in their dance with the waves and the sky. As the birds can only fly with their wings bared to the wind, so too she can only dance with her feet bared to the earth.
This video, set to her songs "Se Me Van Lo Pies" ("My Feet Are Leaving Me") is an expression of this connection that Susana makes between physical and creative freedom. These images create visual parallels, expressing the feeling of the song, of the singer, and of my own creative process.

An artist can free the soul of the viewers through an unencumbered expression of his or her experience. In this work I am both viewer and creator, this position lending me a freedom that connects me with Susana's freedom and with that of my own soul.

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Bathtime in Clerkenwell Alex Budovsky

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionThis animation is based on Stephen Coates composition under the same title. This film is about The Great Revolution of the British Cuckoos, who bravely took over London, forcing all the people to move inside the cuckoo clocks.

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Wake up Hate Nicola Dulion

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionI always made like everyone: TO ACCEPT! But today I cannot any more! The Battle starts. My body escapes to me.

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N o w h e r e Sylvia Eckermann

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd Editionn o w h e r e is a GameMod - a deconstruction of the firstperson shooter Unreal. The GameEngine is used as an artistic tool to create an interactive audio/visual installation. The visitor of this "ludic envirionment" is enabled to navigate through the virtual space using a special interface. There is no narrative string - without start or end you fly through the cosmos on your own path.

We created n o w h e r e around the utopian ideas of a group of architects and artists that lived in Berlin and other parts of Germany and communicated by way of letters. They believed in the possibility of changing society through Architecture and Art. This exchange was named "Die Gläserne Kette" (The Glass Chain) and was conducted in secret in the years 1919/20.

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787 Cliparts Oliver Laric

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Knock Out Hello Freaks

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionKnock Out is "a retro journey through America's sordid Television past" set to LL Cool J's Mama Said Knock You Out.
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3303 Kitty Lin

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionThe film is based on an idea of timeline order. Usually a film starts from A and ends at B; the timeline is a horizontal straight line.
So I wonder, what if the timeline was a circle that has neither point A nor point B ? The girl in the film is played by Essye, my friend from fine art major.
The time working with her is just wonderful, because she knows exactly what I want the shot to look like. Only 5 hours of shooting completed the film. The music is from "The Books: Thought for Food".

I must thank Jacqueline for it!

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The Unseen Video Daniel Scheibel

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionThe Unseen Video, a weather controlled, dynamic music video for Mike Milosh's - You Make Me Feel.

The Unseen Video is much more than a normal, static music video. It is a video that is affected by the weather and local time from the position of the viewer.

We want to create new synergies between the music, the video and the surroundings of the viewer. Every little change in your environment ensures that you will never see the same video twice. The look of the video might slightly change within an hour, but will have a whole new character in a few months.

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Lemon Girl Vasily Shumov

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Tribulation I Pierre Wayser

CultureTV 10/2007 2nd EditionTribulations 1 has been shot in China in winter 2002.
This tribulation began at the "dam of the Three Gorges" on the Yangtze river, a year before the valley was flooded.

From Yichang to Chongqing, going up the stream, the ferry had many stops.
At that time, every cities along the river were destroyed by hand in a huge mass relocation of towns and villages.

Over 1.13 million people where displaced by the rising waters.
The dam was completed in the summer of 2006, and the water level in the Qutang, Wuxia, and the western portion of the Xiling Gorges has already begun to rise.
In addition to the impacts of the dam on the ecology and people of the region, the dam will also change the scenery of the Three Gorges.
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