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. dvdDeaf 03, Data Knitting
<dvd video> V2_
Is it possible to reproduce the experience of an electronic art festival in a filmed documentary? Abiding by a sort of moral obligation, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival del 2003 of 2003, dubbed 'Data Knitting', has produced a rich documentation on this dvd, which allows the user to experience most of the events and the works exhibited, with the addition of the point of view of the artists and guests. It follows a precise direction, somewhere between an 'official' look and an 'informal' one. As Alex Adriaansens, director of V2_, says, 'reality expressed by media is a construction of reality itself'. Thus, this product is a 'constructed interpretation' of the festival itself, different from the ones of the visitors and their experiences. This attempt at decoding the construction mechanisms of information is, at the same time, one of the goals of the festival, which, by accepting to be represented by an arbitrary set of its events, stakes it's all and doesn't celebrates itself, and accepts the challenge to represent its richness in a sequential-televised mode.