In second life, Videotage plans to play on the larger theme of “Attr/Action” by discussing the second life of archives.

The archive itself is an attraction. It is an artificial system established to organize and preserve certain materials, and then by its very existence, begins to act as a magnet,
“attracting” other similar materials and information, and also interested parties/ researchers due to its enduring research value. The archive is not dead after being set up. It has a second life. The “re-” actions (relive, retrieval, reframe etc.) involved give the archive a second life.

In the exhibition, invited artists will respond to the topic by reprocess – ing physical or virtual materials that are possessed and archived over the course of a lifetime. The remix of history retracts the old and gives the personal or public archives another remarkable life. With the use of different media, the blurred boundary between the virtual and the real will be presented.

錄影太奇在是次名為《第二生命》的展覽，把玩主題「引/動」的意念，談論資料庫的第二生命。

資料庫本身已具吸引力。它是組織和保存資料的人工系統，發揮著磁石效應。除「吸引」相關材料和資訊外，資料庫亦憑藉其持久的資料搜集價值，「吸引」有興趣人士和資料搜集員參與其中。資料庫不是在成立後便宣告死亡，它有著第二生命。要延續資料庫第二生命，依靠的是一連串「重整」動作（重新體驗/ 重修檔案/重新組織）。展覽中，藝術家們會以重整已儲存之實體或虛擬素材來回應主題。重新混合的歷史將取替舊有的，並賦予個人或公眾資料庫一個非凡的第二生命。展覽將以不同的媒介來表現虛擬與現實的模糊界線。

Opening
Date: 4 October 2008
Time: 7pm – 11pm

Exhibition
Date: 6 October – 4 November 2008

Screening
Date: 7 October 2008
Time: 8pm – 9pm

Workshop
Date: 25 October 2008
Time: 10am – 5pm (Registration needed)

Lecture
Date: 26 October 2008
Time: 2:30pm – 4pm

Artists’ sharing
Date: 26 October 2008
Time: 4pm – 5pm