Call for Papers, Presenters, Developers, Performers,
Audience.

What: San Francisco Performance Video Symposium
When: 27 September 2003
Where: Dimension7, 150 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA
Who: Anyone can submit. Video artists, performance
artists, software developers, cultural and film
theorists are especially welcome.
Submissions are due 21 July 03.

The plan:

On 27 September, the Symposium will begin with a
series of speakers on ideas in performance video,
comcluding in a roundtable discussion. Following the
round table a series of performances would occur in
the Dimension7 video gallery. The evening will then
be capped off by a super-fun multimedia party!
Admission is technically free, but a donation might be
requested to help defray the costs of mounting this
Symposium, depending on the level of sponsorship
found.

Dimension 7 has more than adequate video projectors,
screens, and sound reinforcement.

The idea: Performative video: theory and practice

Recent innovations in computer software and
performance gains in hardware are now permitting the
development of a truly performative cinema. Thus far
three distinct camps seemed to have evolved over the
years: video light shows for dance clubs and raves and
the similar development of VJ culture on one end,
academic video art installations on the other end, and
a vast number of artists in between. This situation
bears some relation to what obtained in cinema in its
earliest years (nickelodeons, and all film was some
kind of an experiment, etc.) Significant theory wasn