The International Exhibition of Art Video and Cinema Beyond
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INVIDEO 2003 (5-9 november 2003) enjoyed a third year of hospitality at the Spazio Oberdan in Milan, where an adhoc environment was created. The attendees was able to view works on monitors in the entrance and also on the big screen in the projection room. In total, the public had access to three viewing posts: a monitor with headphones (for the classics from INVIDEO's archive), a video projection on a big screen with digital dolby surround sound set up for video as well as cinema for the event. Throughout the exhibition, the public could also view the works of Totem - a series of videos prepared for a column of monitors at the entrance to the exhibition. An increasingly loyal and attentive public (a total of 7,500 spectators) was presented with 140 works from 22 countries. Alongside the new works a selection of 120 video art classics from 20 countries were also shown, representing the best international and Italian works from the 1980s and 1990s to be deposited at the Medialogo. 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.

This year, there were numerous meetings with filmmakers including Alberto Signetto, Elisabetta Sgarbi, Luciano Emmer, Claudia Quintieri, Stefano Scarani, Mauro Santini, Leonardo Carrano and the assemble-audiovisual research from Italy (to mention a few), Simon Goulet from Canada, Joshua Simon from Israel, Susanna Carlisle from the United States, Liz Aggis and Billy Cowie from the UK, Börries Müller-Büsching and Veit-Lup from Germany, Pierre-Yves Borgeaud and Petra Weiss from Switzerland and finally Tina Gonsalves from Australia.

The following seminars also took place.
- Meeting "Poetronica III: a palimpsest created by poets and artists", curated by Carlo Isola.
- "Video tribute to Luciano Berio" with a screening of the video Krazy Kathy-le 1001 voce di Cathy Berberian (Krazy Kathy - the 1001 voices of Cathy Berberian) by Carlo Ippolito and Sequenza III by Francesco Lupi Timini.
- Meeting: Live performance of "Absurdities" by Liz Aggis and Billy Cowie.
- Meeting "Studio Azzurro: Nodes of the Mediterranean". Brief journey into Mediterranean wisdom shared with the spectators, curated by Paolo Rosa.
- Meeting with Vincent Pluss "the Swiss New Wave between cinema and video".
- Meeting-performance with Michele Sambin "Between video, theatre and music" with the participation of Anna Maria Monteverdi.

Two important programmes were also presented:
- "Europe in Shorts 8: experimental cinema" directed by European Coordination of Film Festivals.
- "Carta Bianca at the Viper International Festival for Film Video and New Media". A selection of Swiss videos curated by the direction of the Viper Festival.

For the first time INVIDEO 2003 travelled abroad. In collaboration with Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Cultural Centres in Paris and Milan and the Swiss Agency for Short Films, the exhibition began 4 th November at the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris. To mark the event, INVIDEO dedicated the opening night to Vincent Pluss with the French premier of his "On dirait le sud", winner of the Swiss Cinema Prize 2003 at Soletta and a selection of his works.

The following bodies supported Invideo 2003: 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 Plus Programme. In collaboration with the Swiss Agency for Short Film, the Israeli Embassy, British Council, the French Cultural Centre of Milan, Friends of Invideo Cultural Foundation, the Swiss Cultural Centre, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada, Italian Film Library Foundation, Goethe-Institut-Inter Nationes Mailand, Medialogo, Ondavideo and Pro-Helvetia.