"Academy as potentiality" is a lecture by Irit Rogoff held during the mode05 meeting on March 19th in Potsdam (DE). Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmith’s College, London. Most recently she participated in the international exhibition project "Academy".

Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet talk about Ford, Fassbinder and their own films at the Viennale Filmfestival in Vienna, on October 19th, 2004. The conversation with Hartmut Bitomsky, Tag Gallagher, Jean-Pierre Gorin and Hans Hurch is in german, parts in english and french.

This is the revised version of a lecture that was never given, but then re-appeared as a text and finally was performed during the symposion of evolutionaere zellen on September 10-12 in Berlin. The text is in german, not translated to english yet..

Thursday night participants of the summer academy recorded Videoletters to their friends or relatives. The project was realized by "Neue Methode" and is available at their website.

Meanwhile the video files of all 6:30 lectures from friday to friday are available for download via bit torrent. Instructions of how to download and how to play the videos you find in the Video lecture box on the top left of the site.

Sunday night all five academies were cooking different meals. Camera-edited raw footage right out of the kitchen in Staedel school can be downloaded via bit torrent and played with i.e. mplayer or VLC (follow the instructions in the video lecture box on the top left!)

all acadamies were cooking on sunday night

Jacques Rancière opening the 5th international summer academy

Presentation of the Intifada Offspring DVD Project

Intifada offspring was presented by Sebastian Meissner and Osnat Forschmidt who will also perform later tonight. The video of their presentation can be downloaded via bit torrent (please follow the instructions from the video lecure box). Intifada offspring is a platform for artists from Palestine, Israel and other regions, who have dedicated their work to the artistic deconstruction of the so-called "middle-east conflict".