OK Video Jakarta International Media Arts Festival

OK.Video is a division of ruangrupa, and the festival serves as its most visible event and largest production entity. OK.Video started with the desire to understand how video and it's almost default denomination in artistic contexts as “video art” are used by artists, creatives, communities, and other agents of cultural production in the urban landscape of Jakarta. The terms “video”, “video art”, “new media”, and “Jakarta” became the familiar associations to OK.Video. Since its initiation in 2003, it has occupied diverse roles as an initiator and a platform, and consequently, it has worked as a node and a networked institution. In 2013, the festival changed its identity as “Indonesia Media Arts Festival” to reflect its scope and history, to unload some of its commitment to other initiatives, to trace broader lines of inquiry and production through contemporary concerns in Indonesia and the region—Southeast Asia, and to actively participate in the global formation of discourses.