Web special: click above for the Size Matters film Influenza/Composition II (Chrome Square) by Jeroen Jongeleen.
The thematic programme Size Matters focuses on both the ubiquitous presence and the content of audiovisual screens in this post-cinema age. The electronic screen is making a major breakthrough in both the private and public spaces. Within ‘Size Matters’, the IFFR realizes the group exhibition ‘Aspect Ratio’, brought together by festival programmer Edwin Carels and a project for the public space, entitled Urban Screens, curated by festival director Rutger Wolfson.
By projecting three commissioned films on high-rise office buildings in Rotterdam, Urban Screens, poses the question of what the language and tradition of cinema may contribute to the function and software of these screens. More information about ‘Urban Screens’ will be announced shortly.
Aspect Ratio confronts media art and art installations with a focus on the human factor in a progressively expanding technological universe. The exhibition will include works by Ken Jacobs, Simon Starling, Roy Arden, Louise Decordier, Carlo Zanni, Morgan Fisher, Joachim Koester and JODI. The referential work will be Ray and Charles Eams’ short documentary film POWERS OF TEN (1977).