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Indepth Arts News:
"Thaw 00"
2000-04-12 until 2000-04-15
Institute for Cinema and Culture
Iowa City, IA,
USA United States of America
Thaw 00 is an international festival of video, film and
digital media that features new work by emerging media
artists. This years festival will take place on April 12-15 in
Iowa City, Iowa. Thaw is open to all artists who challenge
the conventional standards of video, film, or digital
media.
Why ThawNULL The name was chosen for its implications
of emergence, movement, transition and change.
Appropriately, the festival occurs at the time of Iowas
seasonal thaw, when students are preparing to graduate
and residents of Iowa City are once again reminded of
their locations dynamic intellectual, social and artistic
fluxion.
History: The Thaw festival of video, film and digital
media began in 1996, in an effort to promote emerging,
independent productions which challenge the
conventional language of their media through innovation
in both form and content. The festival was organized by
Rene Seuppel, then a student in the Intermedia
department in the School of Art and Art History, and by
Lloyd Dunn (also a founder of the seminal experimental
recording group the Tape-Beatles), a graduate of the
same program. Thaws organizers hoped to enrich both
the university and the local community by providing a
venue for work which would otherwise not be available in
the area. The festival gave Iowas student producers a
chance to have their work shown and judged along side
exciting new productions from around the world. After the
first year, the organizing committee expanded to include
students of film and interactive multimedia. Every
member of the Thaw committee is a volunteer.
Since its beginning, Thaw has maintained three
principles which set it apart from other festivals. First, it is
organized by media artists and students. Second, there
are no restrictions based on content. Finally, Thaw
celebrates what we call the impermeability of media -- the
idea that artistic expression is never bound to a single
format. Accordingly, Thaw presents film, video art,
websites, and CD-Roms in the context of one festival.
Each year we invite a panel of media artists and critics to
attend the screenings, share their work, and to select
work from each category to receive awards.
Thaw 00 benefit concert
Thursday, April 6th, 10 pm,
Gabes Oasis
330 E. Washington St
Iowa City
Liberty Leg, Drums of Death will rock the house, and verb
(Ty Cobb and Thaw 00 director Kent Lambert) will round
out the night with their improvised symphonies of sampled
sound, accompanied by video work created and projected
by Brittany Parks.
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