International Exhibition of Art Video and Cinema Beyond

INVIDEO 2002 (6-10 november 2002) enjoyed a second year of hospitality at the Spazio Oberdan in Milano, where the public had at its disposition two monitors and one big screen. Throughout the exhibition spectators could also interact, thanks to three computer posts, with the website of the Canadian artist Shirin Kouladjie (www.photomontage.com, www.daysofmylife.org, www.n3xt.com). An increasingly loyal and attentive public (a total of 7,500 spectators) was presented with 112 works from 15 countries. Alongside the new works a selection of 109 video art classics from 19 countries were also shown, representing the best international and Italian works from the 1980s and 1990s to be deposited at the Medialogo videotheque. The public was also able to participate in a number of meetings with Italian and international filmmakers on the aesthetics of their presented works, experimentation in cinema and video and opportunities for expression offered by new technology.

Beyond the meetings, with the various auteurs present (including Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci-Lucchi, Giuseppe Baresi, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Carlo Ippolito, Antonin De Bemels, Vincent Pluss and Ashot Shiroian, to mention a few) the following seminars also took place:
- Meeting "Tribute to Carmelo Bene", curated by Michele Schiavino and Lucia di Giovanni.
- Meeting "Words/Without Words: focus on Canadian video ", curated by Canadian video artist Nelson Henricks.
- Meeting "The virtual actor", curated by Jens Hauser and Sabine Hirtes.
- Meeting "Anton Corbijn: a great photographer at the service of video music" curated by Anton Corbijn and presented by Alessandro Amaducci.
- Meeting "Tribute to Nam June Paik", curated by Marco Maria Gazzano.
- "Distanza di sicurezza" ("Safe Distance"), video performance by Enzo Procopio with live music by Michele Tadini.
- Meeting "Poetronica II: hypothesis for a palimpsest created by poets and artists", curated by Carlo Isola.

The following works were awarded in the "Io e il cibo" ("Me and Food") organised by the Friends of Invideo Cutural Association: "Ami" by Marcello Gori, "Ich liebe dich" by Michela Lorenzi and "The Food & I" by Brunella Battista).

The following bodies supported Invideo 2002: Ministry for Cultural and Heritage Activities, Cinema department; Regione Lombardia, Cultural Department, the Identity and Autonomy of Lombardy division; Culture Sector of the Province of Milano; City of Milan, Culture and Museum Sector; European Commission, MEDIA Programme. In collaboration with the Canadian Embassy, Friends of Invideo Cultural Association (member of the Italian Union of Cinema Circles), the Swiss Cultural Centre, The Council of Arts and Literature of Quebec, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, Italian Film Library Foundation, Goethe-Institut-Inter Nationes Mailand, Medialogo, Ondavideo, MPI Electronics srl and Enoteca Ross & Bianch.