October 18, 2016 Week 4

I attended an event held at the Anvil Centre Theatre by the New Media Gallery in collaboration with DOXA Documentary Film Festival’s Motion Pictures Film Series, New West Film Fest, Momentum Youth Arts Movement, and the City of New Westminster.

Mediated Visions was a truly interesting night of film, art, technology and artist talks that addressed the interconnected nature of human society, culture, and technology.

The film presented was Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, a new film by Director Werner Herzog, that documents the beginnings of the internet to the ungraspable information we have floating around today through technology. It questions how our interaction with technology has changed our understanding and experience with notions of embodiment, public space, and the technologies.

Later on, the evening continued on with two short artist talks from Adam Basanta, award-winning composer, musician and installation artist who exhibits worldwide, and Mazdak Gharibnavaz, Grassroots Development Officer at OpenMedia. Basanta talked about the “various levels of witnessing- personal, interconnected, disconnected, a type of re-enacted cinematic moment and the recursive, circularity and humour that can be described in each of these moments through a discussion of his work ‘A Truly Magical Moment.’ Gharibnavaz, a passionate believer in the power of the Internet, addressed the upcoming challenges of the 21st century and the fight for a free and open Internet.” (New Media Gallery)