8 Years of Academic Video and Media Art
From video art to media art: in 2008, re/act will take place for the fourth time, but its roots go back further. From 2000-2002, the international student video art festival Schraegspur in Oberstdorf attracted nationwide media attention in Germany on radio and television.
The organizers then extended the spectrum of the festival with further current tendencies of media art, and it was renamed re|act. In 2006, re/act was part of the TDK Time Warp in Mannheim, a festival for electronic music that attracts over 15,000 visitors each year.
For the first time, a proud venue like Mannheim Castle was chosen, juxtaposing classical architecture with todays media art.
In the past re/act has featured well-known experts from the world of arts, culture and media as jury members, lecturers and participants in the symposia, including
Michael Saup (University of Design, Karlsruhe)Sebastian Oschatz (University of Design, Offenbach)
Mischa Kuball (University of Design, Karlsruhe)
Hans Dieter Huber (Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart)
Dieter Kiessling (Academy of Fine Arts, Mainz)
Jussi Ängeslevä (University of Arts, Berlin)
Slavko Kacunko (University Osnabrück)
Thorsten Wübbena (University Frankfurt)
Lydia Haustein (Haus der Kulturen, Berlin)
Barbara Könches (ZKM | Karlsruhe)
Lydia Hartl (Kulturreferentin München)
Sabine Himmelsbach (Edith Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg)
Nikolaus Schaffhausen (Witte de With Rotterdam, Niederlande)
Bernhard Foos (SWR, Baden-Baden)
Daniel Wöller (Groove-Magazin, Frankfurt)
Werner Schaub (Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste, Berlin)
////FUR// (Artists, Köln)
Marc Mer (Media Artist, Österreich)
Marcel Odenbach (Media Artist, Köln)
Monika Oechsler (Media Artist, London)
Samir (Director, Schweiz)
Ulrike Rosenbach (Artist, Köln)
Ira Schneider (Media Artist, USA)
Roman Signer (Artist, Schweiz)
Achim Mohné (Media Artist, Köln)
Mark K. Owen (3deluxe, Wiesbaden)
Georg Winter (Media Artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Nürnberg)
Régine Debatty (Blog: we make money not art, Belgien)
Candice Breitz (Video Artist, Südafrika)
Karl Bartos (Kraftwerk)
Catalina Rodriguez (Artist, Kolumbien)