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The starting point of the work is a sound recording of an interview with a woman suffering from recurring spells of dissociative memory loss that arose in response to a repressed trauma. It appears that her body developed a coping strategy in response to the trauma that consisted of blocking her short-term memory of events that reminded her of the initial event. In the video, the fragments from the original soundtrack are juxtaposed with aural noise and with visual material that references current psychological research into post-traumatic stress disorder as well as theories of defense mechanisms related to basic emotions. The monochromatic colours that shift throughout the video are punctuated by short-duration images of slightly blurred and apparently mutually unrelated objects and gestures. These images symbolically reinterpret the visual material used in current research to uncover the nature of intrusive memories and the various objects that can trigger them. It appears that the potential threat lurks in anything that perceptually resembles an object unconsciously associated with the initial trauma. In a highly intuitive way, the video charts how the interviewee gradually comes to term with her trauma-induced memory loss.

Paula Muhr (1977, Serbia) is a visual artist and researcher based in Berlin, Germany. She studied photography and comparative literature in Belgrade (Serbia) and received her master’s degree from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute of Art History and Visual Studies of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Through her research-based artistic practice, Muhr examines socio-cultural strategies of constructing sexuality, gender, desire, and normality. Her work has been shown internationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (Croatia), Fotogalerie Wien (Vienna, Austria), Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig (Germany), Fotogalleriet Format (Malmö, Sweden), Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes (Tenerife, Spain), Centre national de l’audiovisuel (Luxembourg), MAMAC (Liege, Belgium), Einstein Forum (Potsdam, Germany) and the Shenzhen Fine Art Institute (China). She received the Sittcomm Award for Central European Photography (Slovakia), the FEX Award for Experimental Photography (Dortmund, Germany) and was shortlisted for the Haus am Kleistpark Art Award (Berlin, Germany). She received grants by Pro Helvetia, ifa (Institute for Foreign Relations, Germany), as well as residencies at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (Luxembourg), Shenzhen Fine Art Institute (China) and the City of Salzburg (Austria).

Future Cinema 00:00:53:09 min Mini DV / Colour Vienna / Austria 2007 Future Cinema Das Video behandelt das Thema : was ist eine Projektion ? Licht wird in einen Dunklen raum geschossen . Die einfache Metapher des schießen ( to shoot ) gab Anlass eine Rakete in einen Dunklen Raum zu schießen . Slogans wie, ?Rockets for the Crowd? lehnen sich an die Performances des Expanded Cinema der sechziger Jahre in Wien. Das aufleuchten der Rakete , zeigt uns für einen Moment ein Bild, eine Projektion . Mit Humor wird dargestellt, das Licht dass Kino erst möglich macht.

Simon Mullan Lebt und Arbeitet in Stockholm ( Sw), sowie Wien (A) Geboren am 28.04.1981 in Kiel, Deutschland. Aufgewachsen , gemeinsam mit vier Geschwistern in Österreich , Wien . 1999 Abschluss mit Abitur am Wirtschaftsgymnasium,Anton Kriegergasse in Wien . Künstlerische Ausbildung an der Universität fuer angewandte Kunst Wien ,in der Klasse von Professor Brigitte Kowanz / Transmediale Kunst . Seit 2008 in Stockholm Schweden . Einjähriges Studium an der Königlichen Universität für Bildende Kunst Stockholm , im Bereich Video . Während des Künstlerischen Studiums entwickelte sich ein besonderes Interesse am Medium Video. Hier ,in besonderen immer in der Mitte zwischen bewegtem Bild und dem festgehaltenem Moment in der Fotografie. So liegt es nahe , dass nun viele Video arbeiten in Zeitlupe zu sehen sind. Die Bewegung oft kaum merkbar ,der Rahmen gewählt als wäre es ein Foto. Während der Ausbildung, wurde bei Harun Faroki, sowie Ruth Noak, Film und Video erforscht und eine eigene Ästhetik geformt. Über die Jahre entstanden so viele Video arbeiten, oft werden soziale Themen behandelt, seien es Behinderte Menschen , oder Immigranten und ihr Dasein in einer Stadt wie Wien . Die arbeiten sind meist einfach gehalten. Kurze Statements oft mit Ironie und Humor.

The latest video piece by Simon Mullan was shot and produced in Stockholm in May this year with one of the last remaining knife throwers worldwide. The artist becomes the focus and he is also the target.   Here a confrontational encounter is witnessed between the performance artist and the knife throwers. Mullan choses to be subjected to an old ritualistic fairground act.   Central to the piece is the two man facing each other  in their roles and respective professions. The performance is punctuated by the rhythm of the knives piercing into the turn table also known as the ?wheel of death?.   The artist is deliberately encountering a feeling of mortality, total helplessness and compliance while there is an anticipation felt from him as well as the viewer. Curiosity and arousal of the ten knives being thrown ceremoniously and intermittently at the artist transport the viewer into the artists place. With the fortuitous outcome a sense of relief is felt at the end of the performance.   Simon Mullan is searching in all his work for the point of no return. He is also addressing the questions of masculinity, machoism, innate fear and pathos.   The notion of drama is elementary. 

Personal Information: Date of Birth: 28.04.1981 
Place of Birth: Kiel , Germany
Citizenship: German

 Based in Stockholm and Berlin. Education : University of applied arts Vienna / Transmedial Art. 2001-2007 Royal University College of fine art Stockholm / Video Department 2008-2009.

Teaser02# 00:01:10:07 min Mini Dv / B+W Schweden 2009 Teaser02# Zu sehen ist ein Junger Tänzer der Uebungen an einer Pole Stange betreibt. Die Zeitlupe unterstützt hierbei die Ästhetik des Tanzes. Der Ton besteht aus der Original Ton Aufnahme. Das Video behandelt die Thematik Tanz. Tanz als Kampf gegen die Langeweile, das ausleben von Bewegung, Energie als Form von Kunst . Der Junge Tänzer ist teil einer Generation die hier wieder gegeben wird. Eine Generation die sich mit Thematik des Überkonsum und dessen Stagnation befasst. Eine : alles ist möglich Stimmung, die oft zum Verdruss führen kann. Der Tänzer und seine uebungen, die er alleine, und nur für sich macht , zeigen eine Möglichkeit des ausleben, des kämpfen für werte abseits von Alkohol und Drogen. Der Titel Teaser , legt sich an das wort ? Teasing ? und lässt auch erahnen das dieses kurze Video erst der Anfang ist ,von einer weiteren Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik.

Simon Mullan Lebt und Arbeitet in Stockholm ( Sw), sowie Wien (A) Geboren am 28.04.1981 in Kiel, Deutschland. Aufgewachsen , gemeinsam mit vier Geschwistern in Österreich , Wien . 1999 Abschluss mit Abitur am Wirtschaftsgymnasium,Anton Kriegergasse in Wien . Künstlerische Ausbildung an der Universität fuer angewandte Kunst Wien ,in der Klasse von Professor Brigitte Kowanz / Transmediale Kunst . Seit 2008 in Stockholm Schweden. Einjähriges Studium an der Königlichen Universität für Bildende Kunst Stockholm , im Bereich Video . (2008-2009) Während des Künstlerischen Studiums entwickelte sich ein besonderes Interesse am Medium Video. Hier ,in besonderen immer in der Mitte zwischen bewegtem Bild und dem festgehaltenem Moment in der Fotografie. So liegt es nahe , dass nun viele Video arbeiten in Zeitlupe zu sehen sind. Die Bewegung oft kaum merkbar ,der Rahmen gewählt als wäre es ein Foto. Während der Ausbildung, wurde bei Harun Faroki, sowie Ruth Noak Film und Video analysiert und eine eigene Ästhetik geformt. Über die Jahre entstanden so viele Video arbeiten , oft werden soziale Themen anhand von interesanten charaktären gezeigt, seien es Behinderte Menschen , oder Immigranten und ihr Dasein in einer Stadt wie Wien . Die arbeiten sind meist einfach gehalten . Kurze Statements oft mit Ironie und Humor.

Barcelona-born, but a longtime New Yorker, Antoni Muntadas figures among a first generation of artists investigating the social and political significance of information and broadcast media. This thirty-year retrospective, first seen at the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, includes several videos from the pre’fiber optic era, such as Video Is Television’, 1989, which magnifies and distorts images from a host of appropriated sources, including several Hollywood films (Poltergeist, Network). Backed by a plunking score, the nearly indecipherable TV images are overlaid with captions such as CONTEXT and FRAGMENT: blunt reminders of mass media’s partiality and its constitutive power. An even earlier interactive installation, On Subjectivity, 1978, invites visitors to comment on media images divorced from their original context and therefore’a critical ‘therefore’ for the artist’shorn of their original meaning.

On Translation: Fear/Miedo is a televised intervention aimed at the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Combining interviews, documentary footage, and journalistic material, Muntadas seeks to reveal the fear that the border inspires on both sides of the divide, and how this fear is constructed. The interviews feature those who have experienced first-hand the tensions generated by the border. The work was made for broadcast in Tijuana, San Diego, Mexico City, and Washington D.C. in 2005.

Antonio Muntadas est un artiste majeur de ces 50 dernières années. Il est né en Espagne en 1942, vit à New-York depuis 1971. En considérant les médias comme un instrument de socialisation et de normalisation, les vidéo et installations de Antonio Muntadas, qui sont reconnues à l`échelle internationale, explorent les messages contradictoires diffusés au travers des médias écrits et télévisés, leur organisation et leur langage. A travers son ?uvre, Muntadas re-conceptualise l`imagerie disponible en vue de susciter chez le spectateur une réflexion quant à la signification des messages, créant ainsi une brèche dans la construction uniforme du "flot médiatique", ce flux d`informations managé par les publicitaires dans le but de leur totale consommation, brute de toute analyse par le public. Dans son film Political Advertisements (présenté en coopération avec Marshall Reese), Muntadas nous présente un pays de la manipulation, le pays des politiques télévisées. Son film Between The Frames était axé sur l`univers de l`art et présentait des interviews révélant les entrelacs structurels venant établir le mode de communication de l`art, sa construction et son commerce. Son travail fait partie des collections permanentes du MuHKA, Musée d?art contemporain d?Anvers, Belgique, du Musée d?art contemporain de Valladolid, Espagne, du Musée national d?art contemporain d?Athènes. En dehors des nombreuses projections de son travail vidéo, le travail de Muntadas a été présenté au musée d?art contemporain de Barcelone, à la Kunsthalle de Vienne, au centre Witte de With à Rotterdam, au SMAK à Gand, Belgique, au Ludwig Museum Budapest. Il a été professeur invité au Fresnoy. Il est présenté cette année à la Biennale de Venise. Dans ses installations, projet en espace public, et ses vidéos, Muntadas déconstruit le système de représentations et d`information qui prévaut dans le paysage médiatique contemporain. Il étudie les mécanismes invisibles qui régissent les informations dans la production et la réception du contenu des médias de masse. Il analyse la consommation de l`information et le processus par lequel elle est manipulée par le pouvoir, la propagande et le profit.

Antonio Muntadas and Marshall Reese have been documenting the selling of the American presidency since 1984, and have expanded and updated the series with every election. Political Advertisement 2000 features ads from the 1950s to the present, including the 2008 campaign. As Muntadas and Reese trace the development of the TV spot, what emerges is the political strategy and manipulative marketing techniques of the American televisual campaign process. "Political Advertisement 2008" includes many rare spots, some never before seen. Edited without commentary, there`s an endless stream of candidates, from Eisenhower to Obama and McCain, who are sold like commercial products.

Examining the media as an instrument of socialization and normalization, Antonio Muntadas¹s internationally recognized videotapes and media installations investigate the contradictory messages projected by print and broadcast media, architecture, and language. Throughout his work, Muntadas re-contextualizes available imagery in order to provoke the viewer into rethinking the meaning of the messages, creating a breach in the uniformly constructed "media flow," a stream of information engineered by advertisers to be consumed whole, unanalyzed by the home audience. In Political Advertisements, (edited with Marshall Reese), Muntadas shows us a land of manipulation?the land of television politics. His Between The Frames focuses on the art world and presents interviews that reveal the interwoven structures delimiting how art communicates, how it is made, bought, and sold.

Antonio Muntadas and Marshall Reese have been documenting the selling of the American presidency since 1984, and have expanded and updated the series with every election. Political Advertisement 2000 features ads from the 1950s to the present, including the 2004 campaign. As Muntadas and Reese trace the development of the TV spot, what emerges is the political strategy and manipulative marketing techniques of the American televisual campaign process. Political Advertisement 2004 includes many rare spots, some never before seen. Edited without commentary, there`s an endless stream of candidates, from Eisenhower to Al Gore, who are sold like commercial products.

Examining the media as an instrument of socialization and normalization, Antonio Muntadas¹s internationally recognized videotapes and media installations investigate the contradictory messages projected by print and broadcast media, architecture, and language. Throughout his work, Muntadas re-contextualizes available imagery in order to provoke the viewer into rethinking the meaning of the messages, creating a breach in the uniformly constructed "media flow," a stream of information engineered by advertisers to be consumed whole, unanalyzed by the home audience. In Political Advertisements, (edited with Marshall Reese), Muntadas shows us a land of manipulation?the land of television politics. His Between The Frames focuses on the art world and presents interviews that reveal the interwoven structures delimiting how art communicates, how it is made, bought, and sold.

Line of destiny (2006) is Óscar Muñoz?s latest video, where he synthesizes in a very simple action, elements and preoccupations which he has worked for the past years on the relation between fixation and memory. Based on the original idea of the Narcissus myth, a man who stares at himself in the reflection of the water that he holds in his hand ?during the development of this action, the reflection/portrait is as well in a constant making and unmaking of itself? even the theme of photography and its fixation: the video seems to be an intention to reveal and at the same time a liquid and fluid portrait, which at the end detaches itself because of its impossibility to hold the water in his hand.

Was born in Popayán, Colombia, in 1951. He lives and works in Cali. He participated in several group exhibitions since 1980, and in international events such as the XIX Sao Paulo Biennial in 1987; the first Kwangju Biennial, in South Korea 1994; the FotoFest, Houston, in 1996; the VI Havana Biennial in 1997 and the VIII Bogotá Art Biennial in 2002. From the beginning of his career as a photo-realist drawing artist, he has developed his work based on photography. Since the Narcisos series, first shown in 1995 at the La Tertulia Museum of Modern Art (Cali, Colombia) , Muñoz has explored portrait and its relationship with the passing of time. This ork has made him come to inquire, through diverse media and supports, the fundamental elements of image from antagonist opposites like literal/metaphoric, reality/fiction

Un lent travelling révèle des visages et silhouettes colorées dans le noir : fragment de la vie d`une famille nomade sous la tente. Le chant suraigu d`une femme dit l`immensité du grasseland au dehors.

Takeshi Murata continues to push the boundaries of digitally manipulated psychedelia. In Monster Movie Murata employs an exacting frame-by-frame technique to turn a bit of B-movie footage into a seething, fragmented morass of color and shape that decomposes and reconstitutes itself thirty times per second. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix

Takeshi Murata was born in 1974 in Chicago, IL. He graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Film/Video/Animation. Takeshi Murata produces abstract digital works that refigure the experience of animation. Creating Rorschach-like fields of seething color, form and motion, Murata pushes the boundaries of digitally manipulated psychedelia. With a powerfully sensual force that is expressed in videos, loops, installations, and electronic music, Murata`s synaesthetic experiments in hypnotic perception appear at once seductively organic and totally digital. Murata has exhibited at Peres Projects, Los Angeles; Gavin Brown`s Enterprise, New York; Eyebeam, New York, FACT Centre, Liverpool, UK; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti (all 2004), New York Underground Film Festival (2005), and Smack Mellon. Murata lives and works in upstate New York.

Takeshi Murata employs precise digital processing to create astonishing hallucinatory visions. In "Untitled (Silver)", Murata subjects a snippet of footage from a vintage horror film (Mario Bava's 1960 "Mask of Satan", featuring Barbara Steele) - to his exacting yet almost violent digital manipulations. The seething black and white imagery constantly decomposes and reconstitutes itself, slipping seductively between abstraction and recognition.

In this charmingly self-referential cameo, the static camera zooms out slowly to reveal a section of Hadrian`s Wall. As it does so, we listen to a taped phone conversation between the artist and his father as they finalise their travel arrangements to go and see England play Scotland at rugby in Edinburgh; a journey that involves a stop-off en route to shoot the scene we are currently watching.

Even before attending the Royal College of Art in 2004, Matthew Murdoch`s work had be seen in a number of festivals and galleries around the world, as well as being shortlisted for the National Student Film Awards, and the Beck`s Futures Award for Film and Video. Since graduating with a distinction in 2006, he continues to exhibit in festivals internationally, and was recently selected as a finalist for the 2006 Adobe Design Achievement Award for the film and video live action category. Currently Matthew is pursuing a range of new projects concerning histories of social and economic issues of migration, displacement and identity.

Various reels of found 35mm movie film are pulled over a light box under the fixed gaze of video capture. Through veils of apparent motion, the movements of characters can be discerned and their motivations artfully speculated upon. An oblique tribute to Pere Portabella`s Vampir-Cuadecuc, narrative and plot in Untitled (time) are progressively subsumed in a switching and swaying abstraction to percussion rhythms crashed out on cymbals.

Julie Murray was born in Ireland and lives in the US. Her work has been included in many festivals including the New York Film Festival, Images, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and has been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial and more recently at Irish Film Institute/ AEMI Dublin. Her films are in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive, LA The Museum of Modern Art`s Film Archives, NY as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art. Prints of her 16mm films are also to be found in the Public Library`s Special Collections, New York. She likes this fact. Murray`s early super-8 films were selected for a National Film Preservation Foundation Award in 2014.

Untitled (earth)is a digital montage of found film material examined over a lightbox. Hazy figures in smudged pink and gold landscapes are pulled past the video lens unraveling the film image. A cinematic experience is reassembled in stop/start motion falling in and out of sync with the video frame rate. Ruined image detail in rhythmic incantation taps a remembrance of familiar forms in the brightly patterned tropes of cinema.

Born in Ireland and living in the US, Murray draws upon her background in art studies and practice to make moving image works in a range of experimental forms. Her films and videos have screened widely and her work is in a number of library and special collections. She is currently teaching at the University of Iowa.

"Beach Time" is inspired by a daily routine that was recorded from the fact that everyone can see. This work will challenge at least two different points of view. First, seen and understood from a modernist perspective, the appearance of swimming women who are wearing veils on a beach would be considered 'not functional' as they should have worn more efficient and practical swimsuits. Meanwhile, the beach is actually a public space that should consider public interest. For the swimming women, wearing veils while swimming is not at all a problem in enjoying the beach. Moreover, swimming at a beach is a new tradition for them. It seems that they translate the swimming habit with their own tradition, namely 'kungkum' (to inundate someone's body in water), which is indeed more spiritual.

An unnamed event starts; continues; has vague highlights; and quickly ends. The video documents this self-referential and explicit happening as an array of random cuts between random space and time orders. Layers of affirmation follow layers of affirmation. It is almost what it is: a workable portrait of an event.

Peter Müller has studied Visual Communication/Fine Arts. Consecutively, he held positions as visiting scholar and artistic researcher. At the moment he is scholarly and artistically pursuing a doctorate. His works, collaborations and projects deal with questions of narration, representation, creation of presence, as well with questions on modes of mass media realism and circles of production.

Time and again, the feature film places animal actors at the side of its human protagonists – sometimes as loyal companions, sometimes as fierce opponents. However, its stagings do not only instrumentalise animals to release emotions, but also raise a fundamental question of our anthropocentric self-image: how to deal with the experience of the otherness of the animal?

Christoph Girardet, born in 1966, and Matthias Mu?ller, born in 1961, have been collaborating in film, video, photography, and installation since 1999. They had solo exhibitions at institutions such as FACT, Liverpool, Kunstverein Hannover and West, The Hague. They have participated in group shows at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, and Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, among others. Both have taken part in major film festivals worldwide, including the festivals at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Oberhausen and Rotterdam. Their work is included in several public and private collections.

Kristall creates a melodrama inside seemingly claustrophobic mirrored cabinets. Like an anonymous viewer, the mirror observes scenes of intimacy. It creates an image within an image, providing a frame for the characters. At the same time it makes them appear disjointed and fragmented. This instrument for self-assurance and narcissistic presentation becomes a powerful opponent that increases the sense of fragility, doubt, and loss twofold.

Christophe Girardet was born in 1966 in Lagenhagen, Germany, and studied in Braunschweig. He has been working in the fields of video, cinema and installations since 1987. Matthias Müller was born in 1961 in Bielefeld, Germany, and studied in Bielefeld and Brunswick. He has been working as a movie theater director, video artist, photographer and independent art curator since 1981. He was also teaching at the Art and Audiovisual media Academy of Cologne.