In its 13th edition, Videobrasil celebrates the launching of the project that underlines its concern in investing and promoting research on electronic art. With this new initiative, the Festival, which has always encouraged investigations and experimentations, opens space for the premiere of works and the presentation of projects to be realised in the future. The authors will present the main ideas involved in each work, discussing and raising issues essential for the dialogue between and the advance of media and supports. Kicking off the programme, Lucas Bambozzi will present "4 Walls/4 Paredes", a project developed over a research period in Britain. An artist with a video background who is now investigating and exploring new platforms, Lucas Bambozzi proposes an important and objective discussion about privacy in an era marked by the emergence of a new and vast public space constituted by the Internet. "4 Walls/4 Paredes" is a project originally presented for Videobrasil. This will be the author’s first incursion into an area bringing together installation,  performance, internet and CD-ROM.

German Bobe, in his turn, premieres his "Lovemoderne", the first film for the internet made by the Chilean "enfant terrible". Humour and irony mix in the work of this iconoclastic artist. With the premiere and the meetings, Videobrasil extends its role of not only exhibiting, but also stimulating research that will result in new challenges of form and language. From now on, meetings with authors who are challenging traditional concepts will be an integral part of the Festival.

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Lovemoderne

German Bobe has been described as the "enfant terrible"
of Chilean video: an apt way to refer to a creator who crosses unhindered the borders of areas such as museums, art galleries, the world of music videos and experimentation. In his works, German Bobe mixes media such as video, photography and painting. Besides, explores also religious elements, popular traditions, plays with the excesses of Baroque and of kitsch. Bobe, who more recently has been working with the internet and the virtual world, brings us the premiere of his work 'Lovemoderne', consistent with his irreverent and iconoclastic character. In an exhibition in Santiago in Chile, for instance, he produced a kind of 'moving digital painting', using images of local celebrities.

'Lovemoderne' (www.lovemoderne.cl) is a piece of work where participants interact with the virtual piece, conceived specially for the internet. The idea is to confront people with a film, and not with the performer. It is Bobe’s first film for the nNet. Playful, 'Lovemoderne' was basically inspired in the author’s dreams. A compilation of memories turned into a film dispensing with traditional supports. And, as in previous works, seen in Latin America, United States, Europe and Australia, images and sounds spark sensations in the visitors, provoking them to freely interpret the stimuli. The associations, says Bobe, are free. In 'Lovemoderne', interaction takes pace at the screen, the mouse serving as communicating tool. The artist, present, only observes the reactions and the people’s choices.

Each one will be able to transform and manipulate the film, without following what would be an orthodox script. Beginning, climax, end, all is interchangeable and no one path gains the weight of the word 'definitive'. Linear time and narrative are, therefore, absent from this work of dream-like character, peopled by human shaped beings manipulated by computer.

ASSOCIAÇÃO CULTURAL VIDEOBRASIL, "13º Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica Videobrasil": de 19 de setembro de 2001 a 23 de setembro de 2001, p. 214- 215, São Paulo, SP, 2001.