Why does the artist Andrew Norman Wilson have a Pikachu made of paper mâché on his passenger seat? The answer can be found on the new platform Videonale X.
Videonale X is a continuously expanding online platform that allows users to discover new and surprising aspects of video art. Videonale X invites viewers to intuitively immerse in and playfully access its contents. In collaboration with the artists of the Videonale, short video formats were produced for the platform that provide enlightening as well as entertaining insights into the artists’ daily lives and the artistic, technological and conceptual development process of individual works. Here, one can learn what music they listen to first thing in the morning and what their most recent Google searches were. But the artists also show their digital tool kits and explain how their artworks originate in front of and behind the screen.
Videonale X is conceived as an expansion of the Online Video Archive of the Videonale, in which more than 140 video artworks of the past Videonale editions are freely accessible for research and viewing. Videonale X complements the archive as a digital storage site by an interactive space of discovery, in which new perspectives for the research and experience of video art are shown. It was developed by the Videonale in close cooperation with Büro für Brauchbarkeit and the artists.
These are the Videonale X video formats:
Desktop selfie: What does the internet know?
The short digital recordings grant unique views of the screens of the Videonale artists. They present themselves and their works by entering their name in Google Images and show the pictures and websites relevant to their artistic work.
X questions: Everyday life of an artist
These short digital self-portraits offer exclusive and intimate views of the daily life of the Videonale artists. Here, they give answers to a selection of somewhat unusual questions.
ConteXt: The development of the video works
In digitally held conversations, artists, curators and staff members as well as members of the jury share detailed observations of the works’ contexts.
Toolbox: The digital work process
The short clips provide exclusive insights into the digital work processes of the artists who use video. They open their digital toolbox and explain the technological, conceptual and organization processes associated with video art.
Xtra-view: What do the pros say?
Curators, video directors and artists present their favorite works from the Online Video Archive of the Videonale. They grant particularly interesting and exclusive insights into the respective works and their backgrounds.
Videonale X is developed as part of “dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions" of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.
