With reflective essays, analytic texts and descriptions of the audio-visual works, the argosfestival 2003 catalogue brings an in depth overview of the curated programmes, work surveys, performances, exhibitions and discussions that took place at the argosfestival 2003 (17-25 October). More than merely an anthology of the different components of the festival, the catalogue forms an implicit reflection on the position of contemporary audio-visual arts in relation to complex evolutions of an economical, social, cultural and political nature. In the essay 'Nations, Pollinations and Dislocations: Changing Imaginary Borders in the Americas', Elena Feder analyses the mental and physical concept of borderlines, running through more than fifty years of audiovisual footage made on the American continents. 'Politics of Noise' with essays by Ive Stevenheydens and Paul Hegarty examines the friction between clamour, 'noise' and music, focussing on meaning and the 'political' strategies or issues that might arise from it. Nat Mullers text 'Coded Interference' illustrates and questions new modes of producing and reading artworks zooming in on the moment when the 'code' or the system is inhibited by (external) circumstances.
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