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International Council of Museums

AVICOM International Committee for Audiovisualand New Technologies of Images and Sound

Fi@mpFi@mpFestival International pour l'Audiovisuel et le Multimédia

sur le Patrimoine

AVICOM International Committee for Audiovisual and New Technologies of Images and Sound

Partners:INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF MUSEUMS

CANADIAN HERITAGE INFORMATION NETWORK (CHIN) - CANADA

A festival for the museums

The purpose of FIAMP is to encourage, develop and promote therealization and the diffusion of audiovisuals (films, videos) andmultimedia programs (websites, CD-ROM, computerized programs…)initiated, directed or produced by museums and heritage institutions,and by the professionals of cultural multimedia. It is aimed atprofessionals of culture, and to those of technologies of (the)communication.

Itinerant, FIAMP is held each year in a different country.

FIAMP has three components:

a competition arbitrated by an international jury,

an interprofessional symposium,

presentation of the Official Selections to festivalers, audiovisualscreenings and multimedia viewing.

This festival, which has no equivalent, is particularly appreciated byprofessionals of museums which are numerous to take part in thecompetition.

Information on this event and its details are on the AVICOM websitehttp://avicom.icom.museum/

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The competition

Arbitrated by an international jury, and concerning audiovisual andmultimedia, the competition is opened to museums and cultural institutionsthat perform, initiate or produce films (audiovisual), CD-ROMs and websites,as well as to private companies having produced cultural multimedia formuseums.

Trophies are awarded to the winning institutions during the official closingceremony of the festival; the awards are:

"Grand Prix AVICOM Claude-Nicole HOCQUARD" all categories

"Grands Prix Audiovisuels"

"Grand Prix short film"

"Grand Prix medium-length film"

"Grand Prix full length film"

"Prix Web’Art" for official institutional sites

"Prix Spécial Web’Art" for monothematic topics and virtual exhibitions orprograms

"Prix Multimédi’Art" for cultural CD-ROM and DVD-ROM

"Prix Multimédi’Art Interactif" for interactive terminals

"Prix Multimédi’Art Interactif Innovation" for mobile and specialprograms

Prix "coup de coeur" of the jury



A place for diffusion and consultation

The festivalers can view or consult individually the cultural productionsregistered with the festival, in the spaces dedicated to each type of media.

"Cybermuseum" and "multimedia exhibition"

Viewing of all the Web sites, CD-ROM and terminals registered toparticipate to the competition of the festival,

Viewing of a Special Selection of the best award-winning multimediaproductions preceded in previous editions of the festival since itsinception.

"Ciném'Art"

Projection of the films and video registered in the competition of thefestival of the year

Projection of a Special Selection of the best award-winning productionsin previous editions of the festival since its inception,

According to the events or the host country, specific programming: on atopic, a museum, a series, a director…



A symposium

The symposium consists of round tables, conferences, and demonstrations, withthe participation of professionals museums and heritage institutions who areinvolved in multimedia and audiovisual projects, or policies which favor them,and those in audiovisual and new communication technologies.

This Open forum, allows exchange and confrontation of ideas and experiences,substantive debates and thoughts on the use of technology in scientific,museographic, teaching, ludo-cultural and commercial subjects.

Presentations and demonstrations of programs, software and hardware, allowfestivalers to discover and to be informed about the achievements and scientificapplications and technological developments related to the study orvalorization of collections and cultures:

Software creation, delivery, management, simulation, Digital technologies and virtual synthesis, computer, video,

photographic… "Workshops study" to become familiar with handling systems and

programs.

When conditions allow it, a "Technology Exhibition" opens its stalls withpresentations of technologies or equipment.



Trophies of the festival

The trophies given to the winners of the competition of "Festival AudiovisuelInternational Musée & Patrimoine" are different at each edition.Traditionally, it is requested from the host country to carry out the trophy byintegrating a double symbolic topic, on one hand heritage and national art,on the other hand, new technologies.hand, new technologies.Brazil 2002

Resin copy of “the study of hand” of Auguste RODIN,carried out by the moulding workshop of the Réuniondes Musées Nationaux de France, assembled on a moviebox and reflected on a CD.The hand symbolizes at the same time the creative act,the artist and the art object, while the CD represents atthe same time the vector of knowledge and the newtechnologies, as well as the mirror which values Art.

Taiwan 2004The trophy consists of a base made of out of aninvaluable wooden piece surmounted by a gracioussilhouette whose arms raised in offering a disc. Thischaracter is a fairy.The bronze disc is a reproduction of the “Sublime Mirror”of the Han dynasty also known as the "immortal divinemirror". The circle symbolizes the sky.On the other side of the mirror is affixed a CD-ROM, thenew kind of mirror which announces the advent of theage of the multimedia, and represents the contemporarysupport of knowledge and the vector of theirtransmission.

Shanghai 2010Fiamp.2010 trophy was created by the staff of thePalace Museum of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

It weighs 1kilo is 25 cm high, this crystal trophy, is thereproduction of a ritual bronze vase Fang Ding of theShang dynasty; the carved decorative motifs are thoseof a taotie. The trophies were given to the winners, inthe presence of Alissandra Cummins,the President ofICOM, during the ceremony held on the occasion of theGeneral conference of ICOM in Shanghai.



Edition 2012 of the festival

Organized in collaboration with the Board of Montréal Museum Directors (BMMD),the AVICOM Committee’s 2012 Conference was hold in Montreal, Canada fromOctober 9–12, 2012 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), during theAVICOM Committee’s annual meeting. The Topic of the edition 2012 is: thedevelopment of new technologies and of new trades of museology.

The symposium was the opportunity to listen to presentations by specialists innew technologies of sound and image. Coming from various countries, they workfor museums, create educational programs or responsible for heritageinstitutions. Others are producers or try to predict the future of technologicaldevelopment.

Considerations on “current reality and ethical positioning”, the conferenceproposed to draw a parallel between the evolution of the practice of certain tradesof museology and collectively ; it allows to start a reflexion on the implications ofthese practices as regards to new quasi obligatory partnerships between theprivate sector and the public one, the contents and the container.

This symposium was followed by the results of the competition of the "FestivalInternational de l'Audiovisuel et du Multimédia sur le Patrimoine" (FIAMP). Theofficial Selection selected in the category “audio-visual” 14 short film, 6 medium-length film, and 1 full-length film; in the “multi-media” category 2 CD-ROMs, 6websites, 6 programs online, and 22 terminals and applications; and 6 programsin the “new museography” category...http://network.icom.museum/avicom/fiamp-festival/official-selection/L/10/

The winners were proclaimed at the time of the ceremony of the handing-over ofthe trophies, on October 10th in the Canadian Center of Architecture (CCA).http://network.icom.museum/avicom/fiamp-festival/winners-2012/L/10/



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AVICOM comité international de l'ICOMpour l'audiovisuel et les nouvelles technologies de l'image et du son

Marie-Françoise DELVALDirectrice générale du Fiamp

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Tel : +33 (0)6 60 96 61 09

Email : [email protected] web : http://network.icom.museum/avicom

Photo albumsFAIMP 1996 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

FAIMP 1997 - Paris, France

FIAMP 2004 - Taipei, Taiwan

FIAMP 2007 - Vienna, Austria

FIAMP 2008 - Gatineau, Canada

Jury FIAMP.2009 - Turin, Italy


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