Image Flux: China
New Work in Video Art, Documentary Film, and Independent Film
November 15-18th 2006
Guangzhou (Canton), Peopleˇ¦s Republic of China
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Deadline October 20, 2006
We invite proposals for participation in the form of creative works, position statements, and academic papers. A full catalog of participating individuals will be published and available for free at the conference. A further in depth study will be issued by an academic press wih opportunities for full length articles.
Instructions: Please mail 250 word abstracts of texts/proposals of work to:
mmcshane@fgcu.edu
with subject line: Image Flux: China
Why China? Why Now?
What we see as an important, genre changing moment is based in the individuals' empowerment to record, create, and propagate unofficial narratives through Digital Media. This is true in the Fine Arts, in Documentary Film, and Independent Film. The narratives are not overtly political but rather deeply personal. It is through the individual stories of coping with the exponential speed of change in society, globally, that one finds an important social phenomenon manifesting itself, and recording itself.
Currently, there is a very important phenomenon in China based on Digital Video and the relatively cheap way it is propagated. Artists and Directors regularly shift and move DV copies in and out of universities and cities all over China, among themselves, and internationally. Chinese historians, practitioners, and critics are treating 1987-1997 as a prehistoric moment in the new image production, with 1997-2002 as the start of the DV Movement. The first phase was important because it signified a loss of control by the official system. Similar to the rise of the internet, there is a new wave in the production and propagation of the digital medium and the discourse surrounding the medium.
Image Flux: China Conference Website for Information and Registration:
http://www.sedonaconversations.com/imagefluxchina.htm
Collaborating Organizations:
American Consulate General, Guangzhou, P.R.C., Cultural Affairs
United States Council for the International Exchange of Scholars
Sedona Conferences and Conversations, Arizona
American Film Institute (AFI)
University of California at Los Angeles, (UCLA), Entertainment Studies & Film
Fielding Graduate University, Media Psychology Program, Los Angeles
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts
Guangdong Art Museum, Host of the Guangzhou Triennial
Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) University, History Department
Creative Factory
Participating Artists and Directors:
Zhu Jia
Wang Goug Xin
ShiQing
Wang Zhen Hui
Cao Fei and Ou Ning
Jiang Zhi
Hu Xin Yu
Gao Zi Peng
Liu Deng
Gao Shi Qiang
Sun Xun
Ni Ke Yun
Cheng Ran
Wu Jun Youg
Jin Shan
Chen Wei
Tang Mao Houg
Dong Wen Sheng
Shi Yong
Qiu Zhi Jie
Shu Hao Lun
Cui Ying
Bang Bang
Shi Gang and Zhu Ye
Zhou Tao
Event Registration Cost:
$550.US Before November 1, 2006
$700.US After November 11, 2006
Deadline for Final Work to be included in Published Catalog: October 20, 2006
Registration Cost Includes:
Image Flux: China print catalog of works with accompanying DVD
Two Evening Cocktail Receptions
One Outdoor Dinner on the Banks of the Pearl River
Film Festival
Final Evening Closing Gala
Admission to all galleries and museums
Transportation to and from TianLun Hotel to Venues
Optional Tour: $US25. Private Midnight River Cruise down the Pearl River on the evening of November 16th
Official Conference Hotel:
TianLun International Hotel
Five Star Hotel, International Design, Award Winning Luxury
Special Conference rate, $68USD/night
Book direct with the hotel, providing the conference name: Image Flux: China Official Conference Hotel website in English:
http://www.tianlun-hotel.com/en/about.htm
Getting to Guangzhou.
Flying Direct: Taxi from the Guangzhou International airport (Code:CAN) to TianLun hotel: approx. 150RMB, or $20USD.
Or, we are 1.5 hours by high-speed train from Hong Kong. One can take the train direct from the Hong Kong International Airport with luggage transfer service available, the local train station being two blocks from the TianLun hotel, in Guangzhou.
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