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¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ "Federspiel, Stefan" <Stefan.Federspiel@iao.fhg.de> (via Tilman Baumgaertel) ¤ [1] Electronic media art competition ¤ [2] Net Art Guide english ¤ ¤ Darko Fritz: new e-mail address / home page ¤ "darko fritz" <fritz.d@chello.nl> ¤ ¤ "Katasonix" <data@katasonix.demon.co.uk> ¤ Ccru Datastream 00 ¤ ¤ isea <isea@isea.qc.ca> ¤ OPEN CALL: Future ISEA Symposia ¤ ¤ "Pirelli INTERNETional Award -Technical Committee" ¤ <info@pirelliaward.com> ¤ RELEASE: APRIL 11, 2000 ¤ ¤ "EMAF" <info@emaf.de> ¤ European Media Art Festival 3 - 7 May 2000 ¤ ¤ "Alchemind Society" <info@alchemind.org> ¤ Cognitive Liberty Org. ¤ ¤ Bart Rutten <bart@montevideo.nl> (via Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>) ¤ Dejan Sretenovic lecture, 2 May 2000, MonteVideo/Amsterdam ¤ ¤ ¤ "Activitats 2" <mecad@mecad.org> ¤ BECA ESDI ¤ ¤ ¤ <mi_ga@o-o.lt> ¤ Fw: (info-o) ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 14:55:42 +0200 From: "Federspiel, Stefan" <Stefan.Federspiel@iao.fhg.de> (by way of Tilman Baumgaertel <tilman_baumgaertel@csi.com>) Subject: Electronic media art competition Electronic media art competition The Fraunhofer Society's E-Business Innovation Center is awarding a prize for an electronic media work of art which will be installed at the five linked sites of the partner institutes. We invite all artists with experience in the field of electronic media art to send a conceptual contribution to the competition. The following prizes will be awarded: First prize DM 5000 Second prize DM 3000 Third prize DM 2000 For the realisation phase of the work of art an additional budget is available (details see below) A competition jury will select and award prizes to the three most interesting entries. Legal recourse is excluded. The jury consists of: Prof. Peter Weibel, Chairman of the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany. Gertfried Stocker, Director of the Ars Electronica Center (AEC), Linz, Austria. Tilman Baumgaertel, editor at the "Berliner Zeitung", at the moment Guest Professor at the University of Paderborn Thomas Renner, Head of the E-Business Innovation Center Stefan Federspiel, artist, web designer The media art work will be expected to meet the following criteria: Artistic and content requirements: A confrontation - which can be critical as well - with the economic processes and consequences of the Internet-age is required. This includes for example world-wide networking in general, the change of the Internet through commercial use, the permanently rising private and professional use of e-business, the change of trade through the use of the Internet, the elimination of geographical and temporal limits etc. The Internet is the shared platform used by artists, commercial companies and scientific institutions. The Fraunhofer Society points to this relation with the installation of a work of art at the E-Business Innovation Center. The work of art can be realised using all kinds of pictorial, associative, playful, tactile and/or acoustic elements which are available today. We do imagine a work of art which works with multi-media elements and, possibly, uses the Internet or the networking itself. The artist should deploy appealing, exciting, fascinating means which stimulate viewers to spend time exploring the work of art. Viewers should be offered a new perspective or a new means of experiencing the theme. Technical requirements: - a work of art for conventional browsers and web-servers, realised with html, Javascript, JAVA, CGI script etc. or - a work of art as stand-alone multi-media software or presentation (e.g. realised with Macromedia Director, JAVA etc.) Each with or without interaction between various sites via intranet or Internet (e.g. via the sites of the five Fraunhofer partner institutes). Integration of innovative visual and acoustic media or unusual combinations. Equipment and software must be capable of maintenance by standard IT services. Concept to be submitted: The concept must contain a detailed description of the media art as well as a draft outline of its technical realisation. The concept should be structured into the following elements: 1) How is the media work of art structured, what processes or responses does the viewer initiate, what do the screens or pictures look like? (Possible thumbnails or drafts in attachment). 2) How is the theme, as it is described in the artistic requirements, reflected in this structure? 3) Draft a schedule showing when the work could be completed. 4) List the costs for software, possible software development, materials and hardware. 5) Describe the technical resources; what equipment/hardware will you need in order to realise the work of art? 6) What will the cost of maintaining the installation be? 7) Further comments. 8) Name, address, e-mail. (We shall not publish or pass on the address data in any form - this information will only be used by us for internal archiving and to make contact if necessary.) The concept should not be more than 20 pages. Images, sketches, etc. can be sent in an attachment. One of the concepts should be realised at the Innovation Center. The following resources are available for the realisation of the media art work: Artist's fee: approximately DM 35,000 Technical equipment and materials: up to DM 25,000 per site The Fraunhofer IAO employs a number of IT & Internet specialists. These specialists could support the realisation phase, if asked for by the winner. Details have to be discussed. Please inform us by April 28, 2000 whether you wish to take part in the competition. The closing date for concepts is June 16, 2000. By e-mail to: Stefan.Federspiel@iao.fhg.de The following formats are allowed: Word 97, PowerPoint 97, HTML without frames, JPEG pictures. Attachments should be no bigger than 1 MB, larger files should be split into several e-mails. By post to: Fraunhofer IAO Markus Lebender Nobelstrasse 12 D-70569 Stuttgart Germany Contact: Stefan Federspiel E-mail: Stefan.Federspiel@iao.fhg.de Telephone: +49 (0)711 / 970-2419 Markus Lebender E-mail: Markus.Lebender@iao.fhg.de Telephone: +49 (0)711 / 970-2422 Fax: +49 (0)711 / 970-2401 Home Page E-Business Innovation Center http://www.e-business.fhg.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the E-Business Innovation Center The E-Business Innovation Center (EBIC) provides consultative support and information about the integration of electronic media in business processes and develops applications and example solutions. The main objective of the E-Business Innovation Center is to demonstrate ways in which e-business can be used to the benefit of companies. The EBIC approaches this task by demonstrating concrete solutions for the use of Internet technologies for selected applications areas such as the implementation of virtual companies, new procurement methods or the use of "virtual reality" processes for product presentation purposes. Information about the current state of the art such as networking and encoding/secure technologies is also provided. The requisite know-how has been acquired and deepened by the five collaborating Fraunhofer Institutes Fraunhofer IAO in Stuttgart, Fraunhofer ESK in Munich, Fraunhofer IGD in Darmstadt, Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen and Fraunhofer IPK in Berlin during the course of actual practice-related projects so that solutions can be found and elaborated for any issue relating to e-business by bundling individual competences. The Fraunhofer intranet enables the E-Business Innovation Center to be decentralized across the Institutes' five locations and example solutions to be demonstrated at each location. The Innovation Center is also involved in the field of new media art organising exhibitions and documentation. (A detailed description of the E-Business Innovation Center is enclosed or you find it here: http://www.e-business.fhg.de/english/netzknst/ebicinfo.pdf). ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 14:56:04 +0200 From: "Federspiel, Stefan" <Stefan.Federspiel@iao.fhg.de> (by way of Tilman Baumgaertel <tilman_baumgaertel@csi.com>) Subject: Net Art Guide english Net Art Guide As artists engaged in the field of Net art we would like to invite you to publish your work at no cost in the Fraunhofer Society's Net Art Guide. The Fraunhofer Society's E-Business Innovation Center publishes a Net Art Guide which documents artists and projects on the Internet. The Fraunhofer Society is the leading organisation for applied research in Germany and aims to promote public awareness of online art with its Net Art Guide. This guide also offers you the opportunity of reaching a wider circle of art aficionados for your projects. The Net Art Guide is entirely non-commercial and publishes a free catalogue. The Net Art Guide will be appear on the Internet and in print in both English and German and should, as far as possible, reflect the very latest state of play. The idea is to make art on the Internet better known and easier to find. The aim of the Guide is to provide an all-inclusive exposé of the diversity of art forms on the Net and it will not promote a particular type of art but will document the whole gamut of contemporary art. An important feature of the Guide will be to provide artists themselves with the opportunity of talking about their work and providing background information. All entries in the Guide are free - the only condition attached is that you send us a completed questionnaire. A returned questionnaire shall be interpreted as expressing the artist's consent to having screenshots of his or her pages published in the Net Art Guide. (Size of printed screenshots: approximately 7 x 5 cm or 12 x 9 cm). Alternatively, you can also send your own screenshots or other material to the Guide editors. (Screenshots: 600x800 pixels as attachment, format: .jpg , zipped.bmp or .tif). Galley proofs in PDF format can be sent on request. The printed version of the Guide will probably appear in the middle of 2000. Three complementary artist's copies will be sent to all participants. Further copies will be available on request at cost price plus postage. The press deadline is: April 28, 2000. Please complete the questionnaire so that information about you can be published in the Net Art Guide and return your answers to: Stefan.Federspiel@iao.fhg.de Entries marked * are optional. First name, surname: Street*: Zip / postal code*: Town/city*: Country*: Tel.*: Fax*: E-mail*: Website(s): Year of birth: Also optional: A portrait photo of the artist (as attachment in .jpg , zipped.bmp or .tif format) 1)Vita and artistic development: (max. 100 words) 2)Exhibitions: 3)Brief outline of main focus of your work: (max. 100 words) Describe one or two of your projects 4) Web address: 5) Title: 6) Contents of work, background: (max. 200 words) 7) How has the work been implemented? (HTML, Javascript, Java, etc.): 8) Is the Net art work (or has it been) expanded by a local installation? (video, installation, etc.): 9) Year of origin: 10) Can the work be viewed on the Internet? Yes/no If so, is access public or only with user identification? 11) Can the work be purchased? Yes/no (price?) Do you know any other Net artists? Web addresses: The editors of the Net Art Guide reserve the right to edit and cut material. We shall not publish or pass on the following address data in any form (unless already entered above) - this information will only be used by us for internal archiving and to make contact if necessary. First name, surname: Street: Zip / postal code: Town/city: Country: Tel.: Fax: E-mail: Contact: Stefan Federspiel Email: Stefan.Federspiel@iao.fhg.de Telephone: +49 (0)711 / 970-2419 Markus Lebender E-mail: Markus.Lebender@iao.fhg.de Telephone: +49 (0)711 / 970-2422 Fax: +49 (0)711 / 970-2401 Home Page E-Business Innovation Center http://www.e-business.fhg.de ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 21:17:48 +0200 Subject: Darko Fritz: new e-mail address / home page From: "darko fritz" <fritz.d@chello.nl> (advance apologies for cross-posting) dear all i change my e-mail adress dfritz@xs4all.nl and home page http://www.xs4all.nl/~dfritz/index.html --------------------------------------------------- NEW e-mail is: fritz.d@chello.nl and NEW home page is at: http://members.ams.chello.nl/~fritzd consist of large archive of my new and old work and projects. after january 2000 update with streaming video [13 min.] and audio [60 min.] at > projects > end of the message there is big new update with a lot of new and old projects and works at > projects: - balkania [incl. flash animation] - space=space - the imitation of life studio - 3 x moscow intershadow and more ... and a lot of objects, installations and graphic design works. --------------------------------------------------- kind regards Darko Fritz NEW mobile telephone, but when I am in croatia only: ++ 385. (0)91. 5026271 Jacob van Lennepstraat 349 / 2 1053 JL Amsterdam Netherlands tel / fax ++31.(0)20. 6831814 ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ From: "Katasonix" <data@katasonix.demon.co.uk> Subject: Ccru Datastream 00 Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:32:36 +0100 Ccru http://www.ccru.demon.co.uk it@ccru.demon.co.uk -------------- Ccru Datastream 00 -------------- Ccru has spawned another monster aka ABSTRACT MACHINES games design consultancy. Abstract Machines specializes in Cybergothic mystery-adventure and strategy games. Scripts are based upon tales from the dark-side of artificial intelligence and biomechanical systems, exploring the convergence of ancient horrors with near-future fictional technologies. Our unique system of games fiction and design integrates all dimensions of computer gaming (story, character, puzzles, objects, and game-play) within a thematically and functionally coherent digital labyrinth. Alongside the production of scripts, Abstract Machines is also well-placed to offer high quality games consultancy, evaluation, and criticism. It conducts pure and applied research in the fields of games-design theory and games-culture analysis, bringing rigorous conceptual tools to bear upon a variety of issues involving games systems, markets, trends, and technologies. www.abstract-machines.com ---- The kode9 darkcore hyperdub production line keeps rollin. Journo's have described the latest e-plate release, REST, as Dem2 meets Bad Company. And the genres keep comin. Check the site for some death garage, flangecore and ying 2step. www.kode9.com ---- Beware of forthcoming release on Katasonix records of the kode9 remix of the xxignal classic, SUCKERS. www.katasonix.demon.co.uk ---- For the latest in Ccru thoughtware, check the archive. Recently added is "From Pleasure to Desire: Involution and anti-climax in Octavia Butler's Dawn" by Dr. Luciana Parisi. http://www.ccru.demon.co.uk/archive/lilith.htm ------------- COMING SOON ABSTRACT CULTURE SWARM 4 - DIGITAL HYPERSTITION ------------- ALSO CHECK THE FORTHCOMING ISSUE OF MUTE MAGAZINE FOR CCRU'S CYBERHYPE COLUMN -------------------------------- -------------------------------- it@ccru.demon.co.uk Ccru http://www.ccru.demon.co.uk kode9 http://www.kode9.com Katasonix records http://www.katasonix.demon.co.uk Abstract Machines http://www.abstract-machines.com ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:59:34 -0500 From: isea <isea@isea.qc.ca> Subject: OPEN CALL: Future ISEA Symposia (le francais suit ci-bas) Apologies for cross-posting; please circulate. OPEN CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST ISEA2002, ISEA2004, ISEA2006 The Board of ISEA is now accepting bids for future symposia in a series known as the International Symposium on Electronic Art. These symposia bring together artists, scientists, and theoreticians involved in the electronic arts for a week of workshops, exhibitions, performances, panels, roundtables, and other related events in different venues around the globe. Each Symposium is organized by an independent agency, in cooperation with the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. ISEA and the Symposium are dedicated to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural communication/ cooperation between the arts and the fields of technology, science, education, and industry. ISEA and the ISEA Symposium create platforms for: - the exchange of ideas and critical discourse - connecting communities and facilitating access - research, presentation and exhibition ISEA will realize this mission through organizing international symposia and local events, developing partnerships, implementing culturally diverse initiatives, and through publishing and archiving. ISEA is committed to collaboration, membership participation, creation of new work, and multilingual communication. Through these means ISEA and the ISEA Symposium both shape, and are responsive to, the evolving nature of the relationship between the arts and technology. ISEA is particularly interested in candidates outside of Western Europe and North America for ISEA2002. ISEA Symposia have taken place in the following cities: 1. Utrecht, Netherlands (FISEA, 1988) 2. Groningen, Netherlands (SISEA, 1990) 3. Sydney, Australia (TISEA, 1992) 4. Minneapolis, USA (FISEA, 1993) 5. Helsinki, Finland (ISEA94) 6. Montreal, Canada (ISEA95) 7. Rotterdam, Netherlands (ISEA96) 8. Chicago, USA (ISEA97) 9. Liverpool & Manchester, UK (ISEA98) 10. Paris, France (ISEA2000) - 10th edition Potential hosts are strongly encouraged to visit the Symposia archives and to carefully read the Symposium Guidelines. This information is available on the ISEA website: http://www.isea.qc.ca/symposium/information.html LETTERS OF INTEREST ISEA currently invites those interested in hosting a future ISEA Symposium to manifest their interest. Letters of interest indicating location, host organization, year, and (if possible) dates of the proposed Symposium will be accepted from April 1 to May 31, 2000. Symposium bids will be accepted from: Category 1: (Educational) institutes (universities, art schools, museums etc.), (artistic, cultural scientific) organizations, government bodies, etc.; Category 2 Congress organizing bureaus; Category 3 Umbrella organizations created for the purpose of hosting an ISEA Symposium. >From this pool of bids, potential host organizations will be >invited to submit a more detailed dossier, and will be guided >through the Symposium submission process. Final dossiers must >include: * Creative vision for the particular event * Business or operational plan, including a financial plan * Draft event program which should include the following: -An academic three-day Symposium -Workshops -An Electronic Art Exhibition -A Film & Video Show -Performances/Concerts -At least one Publication, also accessible to non-participants -PR activities -An Inter-Society General Meeting FINAL SELECTION Potential Symposium hosts will be invited to make a presentation during ISEA2000, 10th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Paris, France (December 7-10, 2000). The Board of the Inter-Society is responsible for appointing the successful candidates. For more information, please contact ISEA HQ: isea@isea.qc.ca __________ (French version) APPEL DE CANDIDATURES: ORGANISATION D'ISEA2002, ISEA2004 ET ISEA2006 Le Conseil d'administration d'ISEA accepte presentement les candidatures pour l'organisation de symposiums s'inscrivant dans la serie des Symposiums Internationaux sur les arts electroniques (ISEA). Ces symposiums rassemblent artistes, scientifiques et theoriciens impliques dans le domaine des arts electroniques a l'occasion d'une semaine d'ateliers, expositions, performances, conferences, tables-rondes, et autres evenements du genre dans differents lieux a travers le monde. Chaque edition du Symposium est organisee par un groupe independant en collaboration avec l'Inter-Societe des arts electroniques. ISEA est une organisation internationale a but non-lucratif vouee a la promotion et au developpement interdisciplinaire et interculturel des arts electroniques. ISEA a pour mandat de favoriser l'emergence et la circulation des pratiques et des discours souleves par le croisement des arts avec la technologie, la science, l'education et l'industrie. ISEA cree ainsi des plates-formes afin de stimuler: - l'echange d'idees et de discours critiques; - le reseautage avec la communaute internationale; - les activites de recherche et de diffusion. ISEA realise sa mission en organisant des symposiums internationaux et des evenements locaux, en developpant des partenariats et des initiatives de diversite culturelle et a travers la publication et l'archivage. L'Inter-Societe est vouee a la collaboration, a la participation des membres, a la creation de nouvelles oeuvres et a la communication multiculturelle. Avec ces diverses initiatives, ISEA a la fois structure et reponds a la nature evolutive de la relation entre les arts et la technologie. ISEA est tout particulierement interessee a recevoir des candidatures de l'exterieur de l'Europe de l'Ouest et de l'Amerique du Nord. Les Symposiums ISEA ont eu lieu a: 1. Utrecht, Pays-Bas (FISEA, 1988) 2. Groningen, Pays-Bas (SISEA, 1990) 3. Sydney, Australie (TISEA, 1992) 4. Minneapolis, EU (FISEA, 1993) 5. Helsinki, Finlande (ISEA94) 6. Montréal, Canada (ISEA95) 7. Rotterdam, Pays-Bas (ISEA96) 8. Chicago, EU (ISEA97) 9. Liverpool & Manchester, GB (ISEA98) 10. Paris, France (ISEA2000) - 10e edition Les candidats sont fortement encourages a visiter les archives des Symposium et a lire attentivement les lignes directrices. Cette information est disponible sur le site web d'ISEA: http://www.isea.qc.ca/symposium/apsymp_fr.html LETTRES D'INTENTION ISEA invite presentement les candidats interesses a manifester leur interet. Les lettres d'intention indiquant le lieu, l'organisme hote, l'annee et (si possible) les dates proposees seront acceptees jusqu'au 31 mai 2000. Seront acceptees les candidatures de: Categorie 1: Institutions d'education (universites, ecoles d'art, musees, etc.), organisations a vocation artistique, culturelle ou scientifique, agences gouvernementales, etc.; Categorie 2: Agences d'organisation de congres; Categorie 3: Consortiums crees pour l'organisation d'un symposium ISEA. À partir des candidatures reçues, les organisateurs potentiels seront invites a soumettre un dossier plus detaille et seront guides a travers le processus de soumissions finales. Les dossier finaux devront inclure: * Vision creative pour l'evenement * Un plan d'affaire ou plan d'operation, comprenant une planification financiere * Une ebauche de la programmation qui devra comprendre: - un symposium a caractere académique de trois jours - des ateliers - des presentations video et cinema - des performances/concerts - au moins une publication disponible aussi aux non-participants - des activités de relations publiques - une assemblee generale de l'Inter-Societe SELECTION FINALE Les organisateurs potentiels du Symposium seront invites a presenter leur projet lors d'ISEA2000, 10e Symposium international des arts electroniques a Paris, France (du 7 au 10 décembre 2000). Le Conseil d'administration de l'Inter-Societe est responsable de designer le candidat choisi. Pour plus d'informations, veuillez contacter le secretariat d'ISEA: ISEA/The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts Complexe Ex-Centris, 3530 boul. St-Laurent, #305, Montréal, Québec, H2X 2V1 CANADA Tel: +1.514.847.8912 * Fax: +1.514.847.8834 * email: isea@isea.qc.ca * http://www.isea.qc.ca ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ From: "Pirelli INTERNETional Award -Technical Committee" <info@pirelliaward.com> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 12:55:27 +0200 Subject: RELEASE: APRIL 11, 2000 [Please hit Reply if you wish to receive a Report on the Pirelli INTERNETional Award] E-PIRELLI AWARDS TO THE WEB AND SCIENTIFIC CULTURE: ERICSSON WINS THE INTERNETIONAL AWARD'S IV EDITION Rome, Italy, April 11 2000 - The prizes of the IV edition of the Pirelli INTERNETional Award, the international multimedia competition launched by Pirelli in 1996 and carried out entirely on the Internet, have been assigned today in Rome. The ceremony was attended by Carlo Buora, General Director of Pirelli S.p.A., Umberto Colombo, President of the Award's Jury, Giorgio Fossa, President of the Italian Confederation of Industry "Confindustria" and Valerio Calzolaio, vice-Minister for the Environment. "The INTERNETional Award", stressed Carlo Buora, "gives a valuable contribution to the online diffusion of scientific culture, and is an example of Pirelli's unceasing attention to the 'Web Revolution'. A primary interest confirmed by the e-Pirelli Project, aimed at strengthening the Group's leadership in the world of hi-tech and the new 'e-conomy' with the enhancement of competitiveness and the creation of value for shareholders, thus re-shaping traditional management processes through new 'on-line' technologies". The competition, open to all "Netizens", awards prizes for over 40,000 Euros to the best multimedia works made available on the Internet. After evaluating the many submissions to the fourth edition, the Award's jury - which includes personalities such a Nobel Prizewinner Ilya Prigogine and EU's General Director George Metakides - awarded first prize to Ericsson multimedia laboratories (Sweden). The work of Ericsson Medialab, "Warriors of the Net", is a short and most clear animated overview of Internet's mechanisms (http://www.warriorsofthe.net). The University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) won the second prize with "Physics 2000", an interactive journey through modern physics (http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl), while third prize went to the University of São Paulo, with a Website on Human Sexuality (http://virtual.epm.br/cursos/sexhum/sexualid.htm). CAB International, a British not-for-profit organization, received the prize for the Environment with "Crop Protection Compendium", a Cd-Rom containing science-based information on all aspects of crop protection (http://pest.cabweb.org/cpc/cpchp.htm). Among the prizes for Schools, the Zoology Department of the University of Guelph (Canada) has won for an extract of the Cd-Rom "Mammals, Amphibians, and Reptiles of the Great Lakes (http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/adverts/armt.htm). The Cd-Rom prize was awarded to a Californian software house in Santa Barbara (USA) for "The Atomic Archive", a work exploring the complex history of the making of the atomic bomb (http://www.atomicarchive.com). Last but not lest, a special prize was awarded to "A Camper for Science", a Website created by the Italian National Research Council (http://www.camperperlascienza.ibc.rm.cnr.it/Index-en.html). The ceremony ended with the official launching of Pirelli INTERNETional Award's fifth edition. Among the most interesting news, the 10,000 Euro prize reserved to "individual participants". This year too, starting from October, the selection of the best works will be made on the basis of such criteria as: originality, socio-economic impact, scientific rigor, multimedia level, and international relevance. In addition, a prize for Scientific Information will be awarded to the best multimedia product or multimedia transposition of scientific publishing (article, essay, magazine, book, Cd-Rom, Website), whose entries will be pre-selected by the students of the Master's degree course in Science Communication of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy. For the 2000 edition, the prestigious international jury coordinated by Umberto Colombo welcomes Alun Anderson, Editor in Chief of the "New Scientist" magazine. Regulations and online registration form are available at the Website: http://www.pirelliaward.com. ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:03:47 +0200 From: "EMAF" <info@emaf.de> Subject: European Media Art Festival 3 - 7 May 2000 //now/future: European Media Art Festival 3 - 7 May 2000 www.emaf.de www.veejay-groove.de (First Part: English Text / Second Part: German Text) >From 3 to 7 May 2000 the EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL once again >presents a cross section of the variety of innovative and >experimental media art. Productions by internationally renowned >artists will be shown as well as works by creative young talents >who stand out with their inventiveness and their joy in creating >unconventional images. Around 1500 works from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia were submitted to the different sections of the EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL - more than ever before. The experimental and innovative aesthetic concepts of the 230 films, videos, installations, performances, CD-ROMs and Internet works selected for the festival give a fascinating insight into the //now/future of media art. This year the main focus is on the thrilling symbiosis of light (projections), movement and music, as well as the discussion on our sample and remix culture. film and video The EMAF presents 134 productions in the international selection lasting from one minute up to full-length films and videos. Apart from the classic themes of love and death authors tend to orientate themselves on classic avant-garde models. Image and sound can technically be considered equal and the abstract visuals often go hand in hand with modern soundscapes and samples. Thus, they form the connecting link between this years's retrospective and the festival's VEEJAY-GROOVE. Everyone is on tenterhooks awaiting this year's decision of the AG der Filmjournalisten, the association of film journalists traditionally who award the German Film Criticism Prize to the best German experimental film and video production of the year. retrospective Len Lye born in New Zealand 1901, is known as a famous figure in experimental cinema as well as a leading kinetic sculptor and innovative theorist, painter and writer. He was a pioneer of `direct film´, made without a camera or other technical devices by painting and scratching images directly onto the celluloid-material. This retrospective gives a general overview of his experimental film work, his life and his ambitious sculptural work, which he worked on until his death in New York in 1980. video-café and video-gallery The video café offers the chance to watch all international works on video. The video gallery presents a thrilling selection of European films and videos that were selected from the cooperating festivals in Germany, Croatia, Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland and travel as a Travelling-Project to each festival. electronic lounge Via numerous current CD-ROMs and websites EMAF's electronic lounge gives the public the opportunity to keep up with the latest trends in digital art. performance The premiere of the performance Med Machine will be presented in Osnabrück by Jessica Levy, Sean Tuan John and Bernd Terstegge. Med Machine is an erotic laboratory, in which images from medicine, science, technology and sadomasochism plus old computers will be deconstructed in a spectacular fashion. With playful irony video images, computer animations, digital loops and theatrical elements are manipulated live. congress european digital visions The congress accompanies the festival and asks decisive questions about the way our mediatised society views itself culturally. It gives insight into the latest media developments and projects. The symposium Körperschnitt & BodyScan focuses on the body's real and virtual dimensions while New Digital Formats presents new digital media projects. Körperschnitt & BodyScan With the overpowering victory of old and new mass media like television and the Internet individual identity as inscribed in humanism is disappearing rapidly. The individual happily immerses himself into the interface of global virtuality and experiences himself as an oscillating variety: "We are interfaces completely exposed to input and output", observes the Swiss cultural philosopher and writer Gerhard Johann Lischka. Together with the media theoreticians and artists Thomas Feuerstein, Katharina Gsöllpointner, Ursula Hentschläger and Stefan Weber, Gerhard Johann Lischka will discuss the liberating and captivating aspects of an extensive media osmosis: Are we threatened to forget our real body because of all these virtual experiences? How far are we into the age of technology and to what extend is our body already dependent on technology? Are there no limits to the deconstruction of our bodies? Where do we cross the line and only indulge in what Stefan Weber describes as "the joy of immortality": "To escape the current dialectics of hating our body and body fetishism I am eager to discard my mortal body and to live as a sample, cut & paste body forever"? new digital formats The digitalisation of the media opens endless possibilities to new formats, contents and distribution. Thus, the EMAF has initiated the European Digital Media Network (EDMN), a project sponsored by the EU, that will install a European media chanel on web-television. The concrete realisation will be discussed during the congress by members of ten European countries. In addition, a series of interesting cultural projects will be presented, for example i2TV, an interactive Internet telvevision project developed by Mars Lab of GMD, Bonn, presented by Jasminko Novak and Wolfgang Strauss, the online Encyclopaedia New Media created by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva, presented by Christine van Assche , or the web-project Digital Film-Festival from San Francisco, introduced by Jonathan Wells. David Guez and Anais Lemignan, Paris, will present the project TV-ART.Net, which as a web-TV project has a special focus on arts and culture. New projects of the Ponton Media Art Lab, Hannover will be presented by Benjamin Heidersberger. Cross plattform projects and the development of interfaces between interactive media, the web and TV are the thematical focus of a presentation by Susan Kennard from the Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada. Permanent Flux presented by the publishers Yariv Alter Fin and Bastian Lips, Amsterdam, shows the perspectives of four multimedia insiders Laurie Anderson, Siegfried Zielinski, Paul Garrin and Paul Evers on past, present and future of multimedia art. student forum Do you prefer virtual reality? Or do you prefer the realistic reality? In both cases this year's film and video selection in the student forum is a good choice: refreshing and unusual productions ranging from the Wild West to parallel worlds invite you to linger. The exhibition of installations also offers an experience between dream and brutal fact - is it real or isn't it? Exciting new productions from German and European students are awaiting to be discovered. //fresh: exhibition 3.-28. may 2000 The exhibition corresponds in varied aspects to this year's festival motto //now/future. The exhibited works express their vision of media art in a fresh and innovative way. They point to a future that is influenced by infinite data spaces, biogenetics and spare time as work and/or the purpose in life. The interactive multimedia installation Text Rain by Romy Achituv and Camille Utterbeck from New York will be shown as a European premiere where the borders between reality and magic become blurred. Words and texts come down like rain on the screen. Using his body as an "interface" the viewer can catch the symbols, balance them on his head, arms or hands and create a new order: in this installation "writing" becomes a physical act. Arrival - Departure by Bjørn Melhus interprets the future body as an androgynous double being that was conceived and animated in the sexless cyberspace. "Raum-Möbel" Séparée by Stefanie Klekamp invites the viewer to a very intimate but voyeristic observation of a female body. The Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche will exhibit two exceptional works by the French artist Pierrick Sorin called Title variable No.2 and Pierrick coupe des boits, plus the installation Mother Mary by the American artist Gregory Barsamian. In addition the following works will be exhibited in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche: Wie heißt Du? - Ivana by Wiebke Grösch and Frank Metzger, A Brief Flash by Theo Lenders, Metathesis by Ben Owen-Jones, Statement by Robert Hutter, Electric Shrom by Antenne Springborn and the ZKM produced work Small Fish by Kiyoshi Furukawa, Masaki Fujihata and Wolfgang Münich. With the project Die Luft über dem Toaster Norbert Schliewe presents the interface of analog and digital recording media in a temporary media lab. Optiballs by Heiko Hansen can be seen as a consequent development of office health balls in the last ten years. The balls start to glow when you use them, and depending on the movements of the person sitting on them the colours change. Together with Osnabrück's EXPO-Kultur-Sommer the EMAF will realize Wartesignale by Mina Hagedorn and Heiko Hansen, an interactive light installation that will be installed in the bus terminal in front of Osnabrück's central station. OLB-Medienkunstpreis For the first time the EMAF will award the OLB-Medienkunstpreis. This media art prize is worth a total of DM 8000. Two exceptional works from the sections video, computer and multimedia installations will be chosen. The criteria are first of all the inventive artistic approach and the seismographical feeling for new developments in our mediatised society. Monika Fleischmann (GMD, Bonn), Katharina Gsöllpointner (Uni Salzburg) and Heiner Holtappels (Monte Video/TBA, Amsterdam) will be on the jury panel. veejay-groove >From 14 April to 12 May the EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL presents the innovative crossover of media art and dance floor projects in a series of events held in Amsterdam, Osnabrück, Wilhelmshaven and Berlin. VEEJAY-GROOVE picks up a trend that is clearly taking shape in the capital club scene: the expansion of conventional DJ club culture to a multimedia event. The virtuoso use of video tapes and computer animation create constantly changing visual spaces and make the club audience the oscillated centre of a digital piece of art. After the starting event on 14 April in Amsterdam's legendary Melkweg, an especially redesigned warehouse in Osnabrück's harbour will be the central meeting place for the international DJ and VJ avant-garde on 6 May. For the first time, DJ Spooky from New York and Alec Empire will fight a DJ-VJ battle with their VJs Art Jones and Philipp Virus. Further party highlights will be the London formation The Herbaliser from the independent label Ninja Tune, as well as Erobique who is famous for his bombastic home organ sound and DJ Koze, recently nominated Best DJ by Spex readers. The VJ group Lichtsport will design the Osnabrücker Hellmann-Halle using wide screen projections, as well as numerous video projectors, mixing desks, turntables and live cameras. Simultaneously with the event in Osnabrück, a Parisian Night will be held in Wilhelmshaven's Pumpwerk. The French techno star Kid Loco and the DJs Lab Insect and Automat will perform live. The VJ association Skwa'x & Larsen-Family, the found footage artists Labs as well as the rave dance group Les Asteroides will make sure the night will be a visual spectacle. For now the last VeeJay-Groove event will be held in Berlin's Maria am Ostbahnhof with the Terranova DJ Set, FM Einheit/Gry and the VJs monitor automatique, Rainer Remake, Dura Lux and many more. On the website www.veejay-groove.de the whole event can be experienced live as interactive Internet video stream. On 29 July a three hour festival documentary can be seen on the German television programme N3-Fernseh-Night, which will be produced by the European Media Art Festival in cooperation with the College of Art and Media in Cologne. Other programmes yet to be finalized will be listed in the festival programme (appearing 16. April 2000), which will be sent on request. A catalogue will be published at the beginning of the festival. European Media Art Festival PO Box 1861 Lohstr. 45 A D-49074 Osnabrück T:+49/(0)541/25779 T:+49/(0)541/21658 F:+49/(0)541/28327 E:info@emaf.de http://www.emaf.de ----------------------------------------------------- //now/future: European Media Art Festival 3 - 7 May 2000 www.emaf.de www.veejay-groove.de ----------------------------------------------------- Vom 3. bis zum 7. Mai 2000 präsentiert das EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL wieder einen Querschnitt durch die Vielfalt innovativer und experimenteller Medienkunst. Produktionen international renommierter und bekannter Künstler werden dabei ebenso vertreten sein, wie Arbeiten aus den Kreativ-Laboren junger Talente, die sich durch ihren Ideenreichtum sowie ihre Lust am Gestalten unkonventioneller Bilder auszeichnen. Rund 1500 Einreichungen aus Europa, Nord- und Südamerika, Asien und Australien sind für die einzelnen Sparten des EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVALS eingegangen - so viel wie nie zuvor. Die 230 für das Festival ausgewählten Filme und Videos, Installationen und Performances sowie CD-ROM- und Internet-Arbeiten eröffnen mit ihren Experimenten und innovativen ästhetischen Konzepten spannende Einblicke in das //now/future der Medienkunst. Zentrale Arbeitsfelder sind dabei in diesem Jahr die spannende Symbiose von Licht (-Projektionen), Bewegung und Musik sowie die Auseinandersetzung mit unserer Sample- und Remix-Kultur. film und video Im internationalen Auswahlprogramm stellt das EMAF 134 Produktionen vor, die vom einminütigen Animationsfilm bis zu abendfüllenden Filmen und Videos reichen. Tendenziell läßt sich feststellen, dass die Autoren sich neben ewig gültigen Themen wie der Liebe und dem Tod wieder stärker an den Vorbildern der klassischen Avantgarde orientieren. Formal stehen Bild und Ton in einem gleichberechtigten Verhältnis und häufig sind die abstrakten Visuals mit zeitgenössischen Soundscapes und Samples verbunden. Damit bilden sie auch ein Bindeglied zwischen der diesjährigen Retrospektive und dem VeeJay-Groove des Festivals. Gespannt sein darf man auch in diesem Jahr wieder auf die Entscheidung der AG der Filmjournalisten, die auf dem EMAF traditionell den Preis der deutschen Filmkritik für die beste deutsche experimentelle Film- oder Videoproduktion des Jahres vergibt. retrospektive Len Lye, 1901 in Neuseeland geboren, ist eine der berühmtesten Figuren im experimentellen Film. Zudem gilt er als einer der führenden Künstler im Bereich kinetischer Skulpturen sowie als innovativer Theoretiker, Maler und Schriftsteller. Len Lye war der Pionier des "direkten Films", indem er ohne Kamera oder andere technische Apparaturen Bilder direkt auf das Filmmaterial malte oder kratzte. Die diesjährige EMAF-Retrospektive gibt sowohl einen umfassenden Überblick auf sein experimentelles Film-Werk als auch auf sein Leben und seine ehrgeizigen skulpturalen Arbeiten, mit denen er sich bis zu seinem Tod 1980 in New York beschäftigte. video-café und video-galerie Das Video-Café bietet die Möglichkeit, sich alle Beiträge des internationalen Programms individuell auf Video anzusehen. Die Video-Galerie präsentiert eine spannende Auswahl europäischer Film- und Videoarbeiten, die von den kooperierenden Festivals in Deutschland, Italien, Kroatien, Niederlande, Portugal und der Schweiz zusammengestellt wurde und als "Travelling-Project" zu den Festivals reist. electronic lounge In der Electronic Lounge bietet das EMAF seinen Besuchern mit zahlreichen aktuellen CD-ROMs und Web-Sites die Gelegenheit, sich umfassend über die neuesten Tendenzen in der digitalen Kunst zu informieren. performance Als Premiere wird in Osnabrück die Performance Med Machine mit Jessica Levy, Sean Tuan John und Bernd Terstegge präsentiert. Med Machine ist ein erotisches Labor, in dem Images aus dem Medizin-, Wissenschafts-, Technologie und Sado-Maso-Bereich sowie alte Computer spektakulär dekonstruiert werden. Unter dem Flair des Ironisch-Spielerischen kommen hier live manipulierte Videobilder, Computer-Animationen, digitale Loops und theatralische Elemente zum Einsatz. kongress european digital visions Begleitend zum Festival stellt der Kongress die entscheidenden Fragen zum kulturellen Selbstverständnis unserer mediatisierten Gesellschaft und verschafft Einblicke in die neuesten Medienentwicklungen und -projekte. Während auf dem Symposium Körperschnitt & BodyScan der Körper in seinen realen und virtuellen Dimensionen im Fokus des Interesses steht, stellt New Digital Formats neue Projekte aus dem Bereich der digitalen Medien vor. Körperschnitt & BodyScan Mit dem überwältigenden Siegeszug der alten und neuen Massenmedien wie TV und Internet löst sich die im Humanismus festgeschriebene Identität des Individuums rapide auf. Lustvoll taucht der Einzelne in die Schalt- bzw. Schnittstellen globaler Virtualität ein und erfährt sich als oszillierende Vielfalt: "Wir sind rundum offengelegte Schnittstellen für Input und Output" konstatiert der Schweizer Kulturphilosoph und Schriftsteller Gerhard Johann Lischka. Zusammen mit den Medientheoretikern und -künstlern Thomas Feuerstein, Katharina Gsöllpointner, Ursula Hentschläger und Stefan Weber wird Gerhard Johann Lischka die befreienden und fesselnden Aspekte einer umfassenden medialen Osmose diskutieren: Drohen wir vor lauter virtuellen Erlebnissen unseren realen Körper zu vergessen? Inwieweit wohnen wir schon im Körper der Technik und inwieweit wohnt die Technik bereits in unserem Körper? Sind der "Dekonstruktion" des Körpers Grenzen gesteckt und wann überschreiten wir die letzte Borderline und frönen, wie Stefan Weber, der "Lust auf Unsterblichkeit": "Als Ausweg aus der gegenwärtigen Dialektik von Körper-Verachtung und Körper-Fetischisierung möchte ich endlich meinen sterblichen Körper abstreifen: als body sample, cut & paste-Körper ewig leben"? New Digital Formats Die Digitalisierung der Medien eröffnet eine ungeheure Vielzahl von neuen Formaten, Inhalten und Distributionsmöglichkeiten. So hat das EMAF das als EU-Projekt geförderte European Digital Media Network (EDMN) initiiert, mit dem ein europäischer Medienkanal im Bereich des Web-TV etabliert werden soll. Die konkrete Umsetzung wird auf dem Kongress von Teilnehmern aus zehn europäischen Ländern diskutiert. Darüberhinaus werden hier eine Reihe von weiteren interessanten Kultur-Projekten vorgestellt - u.a. ein vom Mars Lab der GMD, Bonn, unter dem Namen i2TV entwickeltes interaktives Internet-TV, vorgestellt von Jasminko Novak und Wolfgang Strauss, die vom Centre Pompidou, Paris, usammen mit dem Museum Ludwig in Köln und dem Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst in Genf erstellte online Enzyklopädie Neue Medien präsentiert von Christine van Assche, oder das Web-Projekt Digital Film-Festival aus San Francisco, vorgestellt von Jonathan Wells. David Guez und Anais Lemignan, Paris, stellen TV-ART.NET vor, das als Web-TV besonders auf den Kunst- und Kulturbereich ausgerichtet ist. Neue Projekte des Ponton Media Art Lab, Hannover, werden von Benjamin Heidersberger vorgestellt. Cross Plattform Entwicklungen an den Schnittstellen von interaktive Medien, Internet und TV sind Thema einer Präsentation von Sarah Diamond vom Banff Centre for the Arts in Kanada. Permanent Flux, vorgestellt von den Herausgebern Yariv Alter Fin und Bastiaan Lips, Amsterdam, stellt die Sicht von vier Autoren, Laurie Anderson, Siegfried Zielinski und Paul Evers über Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der Medienkunst vor student forum Bevorzugen Sie die virtuelle Realität? Oder doch eher die reale Realität? In beiden Fällen ist die diesjährige Film- und Videomischung des Student Forums eine gute Wahl: erfrischende und ungewöhnliche Produktionen zwischen Wildem Westen und parallelen Welten laden zum Verweilen ein! Einen Aufenthalt zwischen Traum und knallharter Tatsache verspricht auch die Ausstellung von Installationen - ist es wirklich real? Oder nicht? Spannende neue Produktionen von Studenten aus Deutschland und Europa warten darauf, entdeckt zu werden. //fresh: ausstellung 3.-28. mai 2000 In vielfältigen Bezügen zum diesjährigen Festival-Motto //now/future steht die Ausstellung. Präsentiert werden Arbeiten, die mit frischen Ideen ihre Visionen medialer Kunst ausdrücken und in eine Zukunft weisen, die geprägt ist von unendlichen Datenräumen, Biogenetik und Freizeit als Arbeit und Lebenszweck. Als Europapremiere zeigen wir die interaktive Multimedia-Installation Text Rain von Romy Achituv und Camille Utterbeck aus New York, in der die Grenzen des Realen und Magischen ineinander verschwimmen. Auf der Leinwand fallen Worte und Texte wie Regen nieder. Der Zuschauer kann die Zeichen mit seinem Körper auffangen, auf dem Kopf, den Armen oder Händen balancieren und in neue Ordnungen bringen: "Schreiben" wird in dieser Installation zu einer physischen Handlung. Arrival - Departure von Bjørn Melhus interpretiert den Körper der Zukunft als androgynes Doppelwesen, das im geschlechtslosen Raum des Cyberspace erzeugt und zum Leben erweckt wurde. Das "Raum-Möbel" Séparée von Stefanie Klekamp lädt den Betrachter zu einer sehr intimen und doch voyeuristischen Betrachtung eines weiblichen Körpers ein. Neben zwei herausragenden Arbeiten des französischen Künstlers Pierrick Sorin Title variable No. 2 und Pierrick coupe des bois und der Installation Mother Mary des Amerikaners Gregory Barsamian werden in der Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche noch folgende Arbeiten gezeigt: Wie heißt Du? - Ivana von Wiebke Grösch und Frank Metzger; A Brief Flash von Theo Lenders; Metathesis von Ben Owen-Jones; Statement von Robert Hutter, Electric Shroom von Antenne Springborn sowie die am ZKM produzierte Arbeit Small Fish von Kiyoshi Furukawa, Masaki Fujihata und Wolfgang Münch. In dem Projekt Die Luft über dem Toaster stellt Norbert Schliewe in einem temporären Medialab die Schnittstellen von analogen und digitalen Aufzeichnungsmedien vor. Optiballs von Heiko Hansen kann als konsequente Weiterentwicklung der Büro-Gesundheitsbälle des letzten Jahrzehnts gelten. Bei Benutzung beginnen sie zu leuchten, und entsprechend der Drehung des Sitzenden wechseln sie ihre Farbe. Mit Wartesignale von Mina Hagedorn und Heiko Hansen realisiert das EMAF in Zusammenarbeit mit dem EXPO-Kultur-Sommer der Stadt Osnabrück eine interaktive Lichtinstallation im Bus- Terminal vor dem Osnabrücker Hauptbahnhof. OLB-Medienkunstpreis In diesem Jahr wird vom EMAF erstmals der mit insgesamt 8000 DM dotierte OLB-Medienkunstpreis verliehen. Ausgezeichnet werden zwei herausragende Arbeiten aus dem Bereich der Video- und Computer- sowie Multimedia-Installationen. Als Kriterien zählen insbesondere innovative künstlerische Ansätze sowie das seismographische Gespür für neue Entwicklungen in unserer mediatisierten Gesellschaft. Die Mitglieder der Jury sind Monika Fleischmann (GMD, Bonn), Katharina Gsöllpointner (Uni Salzburg) und Heiner Holtappels (Monte Video/TBA, Amsterdam). veejay-groove Mit VeeJay-Groove präsentiert das European Media Art Festival vom 14.4.-12.5. auf der Event-Achse Amsterdam-Osnabrück-Wilhelmshaven-Berlin innovative Projekte im Spannungsfeld von Medienkunst und Dancefloor. VeeJay-Groove greift einen Trend auf, der sich in den Clubs der Metropolen immer deutlicher herauskristallisiert: Die Ausweitung herkömmlicher DJ-Clubkultur zu einem multimedialen Erlebnisraum. Unter dem virtuosem Einsatz von Videotapes und Computeranimationen sich ständig verändernde "visual spaces" werden die Clubbesucher in das oszillierende Zentrum eines digitalen Gesamtkunstwerks gerückt. Nach einem Event-Auftakt am 14. April im legendären Amsterdamer Melkweg wird der VeeJay-Groove am 6. Mai in einer ehemaligen, eigens für dieses Event hergerichteten Lagerhalle am Osnabrücker Hafen zum zentralen Treffpunkt der internationalen DJ- und VJ-Avantgarde: DJ Spooky aus New York und Alec Empire werden sich gemeinsam mit ihren VJs Art Jones und Philipp Virus erstmalig eine kombinierte DJ-VJ-Battle liefern. Weitere Highlights der Party sind die Londoner Formation The Herbaliser vom Independent-Label Ninja Tune, der für seinen schwülstigen Heimorgelsound berühmte Erobique sowie der erst jüngst von den Spex-Lesern zum besten DJ gewählte DJ Koze. Die Osnabrücker Hellmann-Halle wird durch die VJ-Gruppe Lichtsport gestaltet und mit mehreren Großleinwänden sowie einer Vielzahl von Videoprojektoren, Mischpulten, Turntables und vernetzten Live-Kameras ausgestattet. Zeitgleich zum Osnabrück-Event findet im Wilhelmshavener Pumpwerk eine Pariser Nacht statt. Hier stehen neben dem französischen Techno-Star Kid Loco, die Szene-DJs Lab Insect und Automat auf dem Programm. Zum visuellen Spektakel wird die Nacht durch das VJ-Assoziation SkwaŒx & Larsen-Family, die Found-Footage-Artisten Labs sowie die Rave-Dance-Truppe Les Asteroides. Seinen vorläufigen Abschluß findet der VeeJay-GROOVE in der Berliner Location Maria am Ostbahnhof mit dem Terranova DJ Set, FM Einheit/Gry sowie den VJs monitor automatique, Rainer Remake, Dura Lux und vielen anderen. Auf der Website www.veejay-groove.de wird der gesamte Event zudem live als interaktiver Internet-Video-Stream zu erleben sein. Am 29.Juli folgt in einer N3-Fernseh-Night eine dreistündige Festivaldokumentation, die vom European Media Art Festival in Kooperation mit der Kunsthochschule für Medien (Köln) erstellt wird. Weitere Programmpunkte sind in Vorbereitung und können dem Programmheft (Erscheinungsdatum 16. April 2000), das auf Wunsch zugesandt wird, entnommen werden. Zum Festival erscheint ein Katalog. European Media Art Festival PO Box 1861 Lohstr. 45 A D-49074 Osnabrück T:+49/(0)541/25779 T:+49/(0)541/21658 F:+49/(0)541/28327 E:info@emaf.de http://www.emaf.de Ende ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ From: "Alchemind Society" <info@alchemind.org> Subject: Cognitive Liberty Org. Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:03:06 -0700 Hi - I want to invite you to join the Alchemind Society. The Alchemind Society (www.alchemind.org) is a new nonprofit organization working in the public interest to foster cognitive liberty -- the right of each individual to think independently, to use the full spectrum of his or her mind, and to engage in multiple modes of thought. Presently, the Alchemind Society is the world's only organization championing cognitive liberty. We believe that effective social policy for the third millennium must recognize a fundamental right of each person to apperceive the full-spectrum of his or her mind and to access a diversity of mental states.20 Our Board of Advisors includes: John Perry Barlow, Rick Doblin, Alex Grey, Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., Jonathan Ott, Dale Pendell, David Presti, Ph.D., Alexander Shulgin, Ph.D., Myron Stolaroff, M.A., and Thomas Szasz, M.D. As part of our mission, Alchemind Society members believe that national and international drug policy should accommodate law-abiding citizens who sincerely believe that wise and considered use of psychedelics, MDMA, and marijuana has assisted physical or mental healing, or has brought them spiritual, epistemological, creative or productive insights that would otherwise have escaped them. We believe that the current laws outlawing psychedelics, MDMA, marijuana, and other cognitive enhancers violate the core of what it means to be "free."20 20 Membership in the Society includes a one-year subscription to the Journal of Cognitive Liberty. The Journal is a scholarly venue for expressing thoughts on the importance of cognitive freedom, and for discussing the politics, policy, and prospects of integrating full-spectrum-thinking into a modern society. Please join us in our effort by becoming a member of the Society. For the complete details of our mission, blip to our Web site at www.alchemind.org. or jump directly to our on-line membership page at www.culturejam.com/aimembership.htm. You can also reach us toll free at 1-888-950-MIND. Please forward this message to others you think may be of interest. --Richard Glen Boire, J.D. Executive Director The Alchemind Society: The International Association for Cognitive Liberty Operators of the: Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics www.alchemind.org Journal of Cognitive Liberty www.alchemind.org/alechemindpubs.htm Drug Law Library http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/lawlibrary/entryway2.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:24:26 +0200 From: Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl> Subject: Dejan Sretenovic lecture, 2 May 2000, MonteVideo/Amsterdam Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:00:01 +0200 From: Bart Rutten <bart@montevideo.nl> Dejan Sretenovic lecture on Media Art in Serbia 2 May 2000, 20.00 hrs, MonteVideo/Amsterdam We would like to draw your attention to a special lecture by Dejan Sretenovic, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Belgrade (CCAB), on the development of video/media art in the former Yugoslavia and Serbia. This lecture will be given at the Netherlands Media Art Institute on May 2nd, 2000. Dejan Sretenovic is currently regarded as one of the most important contemporary curators and art theoreticians in Central Europe. In 1999, Sretenovic organised the manifestation Video Art in Serbia, which gave a unique overview of 30 years of video art in the former Yugoslavia. It will be of no surprise to anyone that this overview showed the traces of a turbulent history. Following on from this video-art project, Sretenovic organised Reality Check, Serbian Art during Wartime (http://realitycheck.c3.hu/center.html), which explored the delicate socio-cultural situation in Serbian art. The self-reliant nature of Serbian video/media art is not just based on the political situation. Due to the socio-economic and technological developments in this country, Serbian video art has gone through a different development than its ‘Western’ equivalent. These differences are caused, among other things, by the relatively slight influence of television on culture until the late 1980s, and by the unavailability of up-to-date technical equipment. Sretenovic will delve into this history, and will focus on the current flourishing situation. The presentation focuses on media art projects produced in the last 5 years. The main topic to be discussed is how media art reflects Serbian reality and its media representations. The presentation includes CD Rom pieces by Milica Tomic and Zoran Naskovski and videos by Apsolutno, Zoran Todorovic, Zoran Naskovski, Dragana Zarevac, Pavle Cosic as well as excerpts from Serbian TV coverage of the operation Allied Force and turbo-folk video clips. The project Realty Check, produced by CCAB during the war, will be presented as well. Twee Hoog Achter will open its doors at 20.00 h. The entrance fee will be NLG 10.00, and we would recommend that you make your reservation by telephone (+31 20 623 7101), or email (info@montevideo.nl). Yours sincerely, Bart Rutten -- Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264 NL 1016 EV Amsterdam Nederland T +31 (0)20 6237101 F +31(0)20 6244423 E info@montevideo.nl http://www.montevideo.nl PRESENTATIE · COLLECTIE · DISTRIBUTIE · RESEARCH · SERVICES ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ ¤ From: "Activitats 2" <mecad@mecad.org> Subject: BECA ESDI Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:28:09 +0200 ESDI CONVOCA 1 BECA DE ANIMACION DIGITAL La Escola Superior de Disseny ESDI, ubicada en Sabadell - Barcelona, convoca una beca para docencia e investigacion en el campo de la animacion en 2D y 3D digital, dirigida a profesionales de este campo. Esta beca tendra las siguientes caracteristicas: Se establece el siguiente tipo de beca: Beca para la practica de docencia e investigacion en animacion digital. Campo de especializacion: Podran presentarse candidaturas que tengan como objetivo la practica academica y la investigacion en el campo de animacion digital. El tiempo total de dedicacion es de 40 horas semanales. La labor del becario consistira en practicar la docencia en animacion con estudiantes de la titulacion superior Arte Electronico y DiseF1o Digital, que se imparte en la Escuela Superior de DiseF1o ESDI, y en la investigacion de un tema relacionado con la animacion digital. El tema de investigacion puede tratarse de un proyecto propio o ser propuesto por ESDI. La duracion sera de 12 meses (1 curso lectivo), del 15 de septiembre de 2000 al 15 de septiembre de 2001. 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