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Optica,
the Gijón International Festival of Video Art,
is one of the first festivals of its kind in
Spain, and at the same time is
among the cultural events in Asturias which
attracts the most media attention.
The
Festival, organized by the art collective
Interferencias, offers a forum for
interchange and promotion that encourages
an encounter with visual experimentation at an
international level. To experiment means to go in
search of the unknown. Video-art breaks
established precepts, conferring prominence on the
essence of film: light, sound and movement, in
some cases resulting in pure abstraction.
That's why it's one of the most natural and
genuine forms of audio-visual culture, to the
degree that it demands a subjective perception of
space-time, through the technology of the
electronic image.
We
seek to provoke reactions in the spectator's
personal world-view, to stir up his private
apprehensions. We
aim to explore reality, but via a
deconstruction of its constituting elements. We
want to discover how we create our memories; how
not only fantasy but pre-established patterns come
to form part of the articulation of space and
architecture; how we domesticate life by resorting
to codes.
To
set out on the path leading to video art means
exploring the byways of observation. An
observation which through the years has been
transmuted, revealing to us its complicity with
history and its discursive potential transformed
into cultural image.
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