[derive] SÓNAR 2008 :: Exhibitions

[Prensa Sónar 2008]

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*SÓNAR 2008 :: EXHIBITON AREAS*

*http://www.sonar.es/2008/eng/multimedia.cfm*

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On its 15th anniversary, Sónar 2008 takes an in depth look at one of the 
most important exhibition adventures in the festival's history. For the 
first time, most of the Sónar exhibition areas are structured around a 
single theme: film.*

*Cinema beyond Cinema includes the areas of SonarMàtica, Sonarama, 
Digital Art À La Carte and a SonarCinema menu. **Two exhibitions, five 
displays and three audiovisual shows make up this unprecedented 
adventure for the visitor's eyes.*

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*SonarCinema, electronic music and the image***

*The programme has 14 menus, offering the opportunity to take a look at 
a scene that is in constant creative effervescence.* Projects like the 
documentary *Part of the Weekend Never Dies* about the Soulwax world 
tour, the videos from the *Osaka*, animations by E*Rock for the 
*Audiodregs *label, the fascinating portrait of the British company EMS 
in *What the Future Sounded Like* or the rise of dub in the early 
seventies as a result of a mix-up in a studio in Jamaica in the 
documentary *Dub Echoes* are some of the alternatives being projected in 
the CCCB Auditorium.

*Sónar À La Carte:*
*- Digital Art À La Carte* is part of the main theme of *Cinema Beyond 
Cinema*.
*- Video À La Carte*: the SonarCinema schedule at any time.**
*- Music À La Carte:  *the Sónar media library. A selection of the most 
outstanding and the latest in the audiovisual universe and current 
digital art, by a number of experts in the field. 
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SonarExtra:*
- *Red** Bull Music Academy** Lounge*: The academy is ten years old, and 
it has hosted musicians who have succeeded in creating an exceptional 
mosaic of styles.**
-*Doropaedia -- Golden Productions*: An encyclopaedia of multimedia 
content that covers various concepts in different artistic disciplines.
- *Girona** Film Museum*: A journey through the attempts of humanity to 
capture images in movement.
- *Hangar -- Creating Space*: The visual arts production and 
dissemination centre of with the highest profile in the city.
- *Magnum. 10 sequences*: An exhibition and workshop on the influence of 
film images on the collective imagination.

***Conferences and Debates:*
- *Live Cinema, YouTube, short film and video games*: the curators of 
Digital Art A La Carte will analyse these new frameworks of audiovisual 
formalisation.
- Controleando featuring *DJ Loomy*. The new generation of *MIDI** 
controllers for DJs*.
- *15 years of Sónar*: characters like Mary Anne Hobbs and Heiko Hoffman 
will be analysing *electronic music in the twenty-first century*; Tara 
de Long will talk about her vision of '*The female factor'* and artists 
like Jeff Mills, Arbol and Ewan Pearson will talk about the *15 years of 
Sónar*.

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CINEMA BEYOND CINEMA

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 On its 15th anniversary, Sonar 2008 delves into one of the most 
significant exhibition ventures in the festival's history. For the first 
time, a central theme will run through most of Sonar's exhibition areas: 
Cinema.

 Cinema Beyond Cinema is a remarkable journey to the present and the 
future of cinema. But this is a journey from the frontiers of cinema, 
one that begins beyond cinema.

Well into the 21st century, new modes production and diffusion - digital 
media and the internet - have already revolutionised audiovisual culture 
in general, and they are now starting to transform the possibilities of 
cinematic art in particular - from the outside.

 New image processing programs and popular online portals for free 
digital video distribution have become the new pillars of contemporary 
visual culture. This expanded territory is brimming over and disrupting 
the seventh art as we knew it.

Cinema Beyond Cinema turns its attention to these new areas of 
contemporary audiovisual production, distribution and consumption that 
have room for new media art to play a major role.

Two exhibitions, five showcases and three audiovisual shows come 
together to form Cinema Beyond Cinema, an unprecedented adventure for 
the eyes of visitors.

What new forms of reaching audiences can new media contribute to cinema?
What new audiovisual culture emerges from the Internet?
Might the VJing scene develop into a new form of cinema?
What is the history of videogames, the leading entertaining industry in 
the 21st century?

The exhibitions Future Past Cinema at SonarMàtica and Light and Sound at 
Sonarama, the various online showcases included in Digital Art a la 
Carte, and part of the SonarCinema and SonarExtra programs, all revolve 
around the ways in which new spheres of audio and video production 
interact with and influence cinema. And vice versa. The construction of 
images based on going back and recovering different kinds of pre-cinema 
technologies, the use of light as a focus for the possibilities of 
installation art, the development of videogames as the huge new 
entertainment factory for the masses, the birth of live-cinema (the 
production of sound and visuals in real time that emerged from club 
culture) as a new format in cinema's near-future, and the massive influx 
of YouTube and GoogleVideo as the great collective, universal video 
library of the 21st -- these are some of the thought-provoking fields 
that the exhibitions at Sonar 2008 deal with.

More than fifteen top international artists, thirty audiovisual 
directors, filmmakers like Jonathan Caouette and Bigas Lunas and arts 
centres like Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial are on the 
impressive roll-call of artists and specialists who have contributed to 
the exhibitions that take Cinema Beyond Cinema.

Festival visitors will be invited to openly explore through an extensive 
program of interactive exhibitions and shows that allow them to 
experiment with these new forms of the moving image.


Press Department
Sónar 2008
19.20.21 June
www.sonar.es
 

 

 

 

 

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