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2006, awardsLive search( total items: 5 ) Public SpacesSphinx AwardIn the category of video art work, the first prize was won by the work called Public Spaces by Martijn Veldhoen from Holland. This work has high technical and artistic value as a video artwork. (Mileta Poštić on behalf of Jury)  Martijn Veldhoen: Public Spaces  Martijn Veldhoen: Public Spaces Once 'public space' was a clear concept. It. was a kind democratic medium that could be accessed by everyone, safely and freely available for traffic between people. Now things have changed; thanks to mobile communication systems, we carry our personal space with us like an air bubble, and the public sphere has become a set of subsets. Everyone is always connected to something or someone else, so that the space between has taken on a virtual form of its own, which constantly changes with time. What is left over between the subsets has the characteristics of a vacuum; it generates forces. It sucks in a great many individuals who cannot or will not 'participate', or who do not have or do not want to have access to the means that link the individual bubbles. Veldhoen shows us how differently we now perceive public space, certainly not as a safe place any more. Looking for AlfredSpecial MentionSpecial mention was Looking for Alfred by Johan Grimonprez from Belgium. This work has dreamlike, almost surreal choreography and is cinematographically and poetically profound. (Mileta Poštić on behalf of Jury)  Johan Grimonprez: Looking for Alfred Together with Daragh Reeves, media artist Johan Grimonprez conceived the idea of casting Hitchcock look-a-likes, reminiscing Hitchcock's many cameo performances in his own films, such as that of the man who only just catches the bus in North by Northwest. For a moment you see a fat man with a bowler hat, an umbrella and two small dogs, and then you see it: it is Hitchcock himself! Specialized Technicians Required: Being Luis PorcarSpecial MentionSpecial mention for Specialized Technicians Required: Being Luis Porcar by Manuel Saiz from Spain. This work is witty and clever. (Mileta Poštić on behalf of Jury)  M. Saiz: Specialized Technicians Requ... Manuel Saiz has done it! The Famous Hollywood Actor has once again gracefully accepted to be or not to be what he is. Witness the film that inspired the pun in the title of this short video – he is not afraid of a few digs at his person and status. He probably has a small army of agents, managers and assistants around him, to keep all those who are trying to make use of him because of his name at a distance. Perhaps Manuel Saiz was lucky, perhaps he knows the friends of the friends of – perhaps he has been waiting on the doorstep and hanging on the phone for months, driving the whole army crazy. He probably just used a sympathetic argument that struck the right cord: would the actor who likes role reversals for once lend his charismatic voice to a man who is used to doing precisely that? The Morphology of Desire (version 3)Bogdanka Poznanović AwardThe first prize in the category of Installations / Net Art was won by Robert Arnold and his Video Installation called The Morphology of Desire (version3). This work is technically and conceptually sophisticated.  R. Arnold: The Morphology of Desire The Morphology of Desire is an ongoing experimental media project which explores the commodity representation of gender and desire in popular culture, and the relationship between the still image and illusion of cinematic motion, using digital morphing to animate romance novel cover illustrations as a never-ending dance of unrealized desire. This third version uses of DVD scripting capabilities to randomly sequence the order of image and text as a continuous but non-repeating loop that is constantly shifting narrative implication. Soviet Unterzoegersdorf/Sector 1/The Adventure GameSpecial MentionThis work is aesthetically interesting as well as entertaining.  Soviet Unterzoegersdorf / Sector 1 Soviet Unterzögersdorf (pronounced 'oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf') is the last existing appanage republic of the USSR. The enclave maintains no diplomatic relationship with the surrounding so-called 'Republic of Austria' nor with the Fortress 'European Union'. The downfall of her motherland -- the Soviet Union - in the early 1990s had a particularly bad effect on the country's economic situation. It is a great challenge to secure survival for the small but proud confederation. External reactionary forces put the country in danger. It’s a lack of respect due to a morally corrupted and perhaps even non-existing unity of the peoples. The goal of a glorious future is almost unreachable. But there are a handful of people who don’t give up on a vision for a better tomorrow. Let us tell you the stories of the brave citizens in the beautiful little country of Soviet Unterzögersdorf. It’s a story that will go into history. |
