Organizers
MediaArtLab centre for art and culture, Russian Cinematographers Union, Interfest.
 

Support
German Cultural Center Goethe-Institute, Moscow, Netherlands Royal Embassy in Moscow, British Art Council, Moscow, CAC International Partners.
 

About MediaForum
Festival programme works submittion deadline – May 20th 2003
Presentation programme and conference applications deadline – May 20th 2003 
e-mail – mediaforum@danet.ru 

Media Forum is the first event of such scale in Russia and it reveals a new vision of the world of new media culture and new screen technologies to the professionals, critics and public in general. The objective of Media Forum is to demonstrate the connection between traditional and modern branches of screen culture, the impact of technological innovations on visual arts.

Media Forum as action is an exchange of ideas, infusion of new forces into contemporary culture and vice versa. It is an attempt to demonsrtate the logic of new thought and new communications. At the moment it is inside media culture that new ideas go through trial and approbation, ideas that cannot be realized in contemporary art context. 
 

Moscow International Film Festival
Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is held since 1959 and gradually it has become one of most respectable and prestigious film-forums in the world. In 1973 MIFF was registered by the International Federation of Film-producers associations (FIAPF) as an «A» class film festival alongside with those in Berlin, Cannes, San-Sebastian, Karlovy Vary and Venice.

This is the fourth year Media Forum is organized as part of the Moscow International Film Festival. The role of new media in audiovisual art and culture received due recognition and Media Forum was immediately introduced into the official program of MIFF.
 

Contacts
Alexei Isaev, Art-Director newart@aha.ru 
Olga Shishko, Programs Curator mediaforum@danet.ru 
Alexandra Litvina, International Coordinator mediaartlab@danet.ru 
Antonina Titova, Coordinator procontra@danet.ru.