On a 3rd May like today, twenty years ago, 25hrs, a 25-hour screening of video art, took place in a sports centre in downtown Barcelona. During the first hour, the five hundred visitors who attended could watch Dziga Vertov’s «The Man with the Movie Camera». More than 330 works by 300 artists from around the world followed. For the curators, Jorge Bravo, Luisa Ortínez and myself, it was a life-changing event. Juande Jarillo, Juan Carlos Escudero, Chloe Lambourne, Marko Daniel, Carolina Grau Rahola, Anxo Nimo Rabuñal, Jesús Arpal, Julia Ribera and many other friends and participants helped us.
And, of course, all the artists who showed their videos: A Constructed World (Jacqueline Riva & Geoff Lowe), Abbey Williams, Agnes Lam, Akio Okamoto, Akram Zaatari, Alan Curral, Alicia Martín & Mario Marquerie, Alison Murray, Alnoor Dewshi, Ane Lan, Angus Wyatt, Animal Charme, Anja Wiese, Anke Schäfer, Ann Steuernagel, Anne Course & Paul Clark, Anne McGuire, Anson Mak, Antoni Abad, Antony Flackett, , Arjen de Leeuw, Atsushi Ogata, Axel Stockburger, Ayako Yoshimura, Bart Dijkman, Bas van Koolwijk, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Bjorn Melhus, Brian Boyce, Bridget Murphy, Campanilla, Carles Congost, Carlo N. Echave, Carlos Troncoso, Carolina Esparragoza, Cecilia Lundqvist, Chen-chu Tsai, Cheng-Tsai, Chi Hung Cheng & Chi Hang Mak, Chino Moya, Chris Cunningham, Claus Richter, Constant, Cordelia Swann, Courtney Egan, Cristian Alarcón, Damien Hirst, Daniel Cockburn, Daniel von Sturmer & Meri Blazevski, Danio Man, Dennis Miller, Dennis Summers, Di Li Chan, Diane Bonder, Dion Sanderson, Dominic Thomas, Dong Fu Yang, Dong Song, Dophin Chan, Dora Garcia, Doreen Etzler, Doron Solomons, Doubly Jing & Heaven Shaw, Douglas Gordon, Douglas Weathersby, Dryden Goodwin, eddie d, Eder Santos, Effie Gibson, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Elizabeth Fearon, Ellen Pau, Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby, Emmanuelle Antille, Enric Maurí, Ernest Fung, Eugenio Ampudia, Felipe Morey, Fion NG, Fiona Tan, Fitsum B. Wegayehu, Francisco Queirós, Frederico Fazenda, Gabriele Nagel, Gansomaeda, Gene Gort, George Barber, George Snow, Georgina Starr, Gerald Bäumler, Goang-ming Yuan, Grinder-man, Gudrun Bittner, Guillem Bayo, H.W. Wen, HalfLifers, Hee-Seon Kim, Helga Steppan, Hiroyuki Kawada & Norimasa Nakanishi, Howie Chen, Hung-chih Peng, Inez Cabral de Melo, Isabel Chacon, Ito Takashi, Iván Edeza, Ivan Perez, J. Tobias Anderson, James Hull, Jamsen Law, Jane & Louise Wilson, Jaume Parera & Eugeni Güell, Jeff Warmouth, Jenn Norton, Jeremy Bailey, Jeroen Kooijmans, Ji-Hoon Park, Jo Landsey & Helen Bendon, Joan Morey, John Beagles & Graham Ramsay, John Butler, John Greyson & Joe Laughlin, John Lindell, John Marriot, John Smith, Jon Mikel Euba, Joo Young Lee, Jordana / Tres, Jordi Colomer, Jorge Macchi, Juande Jarillo, Judith Norris, Julia Montilla, Junko Wada, k r buxey, Karl Sims, Karma Clarke Davis, Katsuyuki Hattori, Kay Walsh, Kazuhiro Goshima, Kazumi Kanemaki, Kazuo Honda, Kazuya Nakayama, Keith Lee, Kenny Macleod, Kentaro Taki, Keung Hung, Khaled Hakim, Kika Thorne & Adrian Blackwell, Kuang-Yu Tsui, Kuang-Yu Tsui, Kyoko Ebata, Laurel Woodcock, Leon Grodski, Les Leveque, Leslie Peters & Lisa Foad, Lucas Ajemian, Luis Bezeta, Luis Macías, Luis Miguel Suro, Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, Makin Fung, Mami Kosemura, Manuel Saiz, Marco Roso, Marijke van Warmerdam, Marit Lindberg, Marit Lindberg, Mark Bain, Mark Lewis, Marta Marcé, Martin Pickless, Martín Sastre, Masakazu Saito & Rintaro Teshima, Masaoki Sano, Masayuki Watanabe, Matthew Barolo & Tabatha Tucker, Matthew Noel-Tod, Matthias Müller, Mayling To, Michael Frank, Michael Maziere, Michel Chevalier, Miho Hagino, Mika Miyabara, Mika Tajima, Mike Hoolboom, Mikio Okado, Miranda July, Mireya Masó, Miriam Böhm, Monica Castillo, Monique Moumblow, Myriam Thyes, Nacho Simal, Natalie Zimmerman, Neeta Madahar, Neil Goldberg, Nicky Zwaan, Noémi McComber, Nose Chan, Olaf Geuer, Oliver Harrison, Oliver Szymczak, Oreet Ashery, Oriol Font, Patricia Bentancur, Patrick Martinez, Paul Bush, Paul Harrison & John Wood, Peter Stel, Pierre Bismuth, Pleix, Primoz Novak, Ra Di Martino, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Ressentiment, Robert Arnold, Robert Hamilton, Roderick Buchanan, Sadie Benning, Saki Satom, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles, Sarah Smiley, Sarina Khan Reddy, Satoh Yoshinao, Satoko Nakaizumi, Seiji Hori, Sergio Prego, Seung Jun Lee, Shelly Silver, Shimabuku, Siew-wai Kok, Sikay Tang, Sinichi Yamamoto, So-hei Hatakeyama, Sophie Whettnall, Spaceanus, Steve Harley, Steve Reinke, Steven Ball, Stuart Croft, Stuart Pound, Surachok Sangthumchai, Suzie Silver, Synait, Sze Lin Pang, Tadasu Takamine, Tasman Richardson, Tere Recarens, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Tim Macmillan, Tim Webb, Tomoko Kaneko, Toni Serra, Tony Hill, Tony Oursler & Joe Gibbons, Tracey Moffatt, Travis Foster Kopach & Kean Adam Levreault, Ulrike Kubatta, Valeriano López, Wendy Lawton, William Raban, William Tang, Xavier Carbonell, Ximena Cuevas, Ya-hui Wang, Yan Yan Chan, Yasu Ichige, Yoshihisa Nakanishi, Yung-hsien (Hugo) Chen, Yung-hsien Hugo Chen, Yusuke Shinmura, Zhi Jie Qiu