e-magic: INTERNET MEDIA OR THE 8TH ART
This year in the framework of the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival, e-magic will be presenting the wide range of artistic creativity spewing from the Internet at club Mylos and at the facilities of the Thessaloniki Port. In their press conference today, Nikos Giannopoulos and Dimitris Skoufis of e-magic spoke about the company's ambition to establish a yearly international conference for Internet multimedia as part of the Organisation of the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
"We'd like to thank the Thessaloniki Film Festival for once again harbouring an event not entirely associated with cinema but one that deals with another aspect of audio-visual creativity. e-magic is literally a demonstration of a competitive festival that is to begin next year. It is going to an on-line festival with media developed and distributed through the Internet", explained Mr. Giannopoulos.
Supervising the event are Dimitris Skoufis, electrician, ART TOPOS, Anna Hatzigiannaki, art historian, Nikos Giannopoulos, director and producer, and the European Meeting for New Art and Technologies.

Structure and character of the programme
Nikos Skoufis spoke about the programme: "Beginning tomorrow from12:00-15:00 and 18:00 and onwards, e-magic's programme will focus mainly on one of most important theoreticians of experimental cinema, Lev Manovich, professor at the University of California". The programme will last for five days and is divided into 5 thematic sections:

12/11: Presentation of Lev Manovich's film, Soft Cinema. Focus on non-linear cinema and the use of databases to produce alternate narrations.
13/11: Focus on the pioneers of digital media who in 1994 -when the Internet and multimedia were hardly known- began to produce digital audio-visual material and distribute it over the Internet.
14/11: Presentation of material via the Internet made for other mediums (video, cinema etc.)
15/11: Presentation of audio-visual productions made specifically for the Internet.
16/11: Music via the Internet and "a glance into the future", when broadband connections make it into our homes providing us with the means to choose what we watch and changing the distribution process of typical audio-visual production.

Parallel events Besides the e-magic programme that includes a variety of on-line interactive screenings via the Internet, there is also a symposium about the present and future of Internet mediums entitled cinem@net with α Greek and foreign panel. There are also several workshops taking place tomorrow and Friday morning for people interested in learning more about these new technologies.

Beginning tomorrow and until November 16th, e-magic will be broadcasting their Internet television entitled e-magic Net TV at 20:00 every evening. Those interested can watch the broadcast via Internet from the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival's site: www.filmfestival.gr

AMY DIGITAL VIDEO - "COMPUTERS WORKING FOR CINEMA"

Today, in the framework of the press conference of AMY Digital Video -sponsors of e-magic- friends and professionals of cinema had the chance to watch an extravagant presentation.

The impressive event included a unique presentation of all the new technologies such as digital cameras and special effects.

Alexandros Halkidis of AMY DIGITAL VIDEO displayed how computers can be made to work in the interest of cinema using simple examples of where and how these new technologies can be implemented. In particular, various categories were presented such as, High Definition, digital cinema in practice, various useful techniques, elementary editing, object scene placement, advanced techniques, titles as well as virtual actors.

Those who are interested in taking a tour of this magical world can visit AMY's site at www.amy.gr/amydv.

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