Syndicate: Press releases - cast01 conference & netzspannung.org

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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:55:44 +0200
From: Ulrike Boecking <ulrike.boecking@imk.fhg.de>
Reply-To: ulrike.boecking@imk.fhg.de
Organization: Fraunhofer-Institut Medienkommunikation.MARS
Subject: Press releases - cast01 conference & netzspannung.org
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PRESSE RELEASE
August 2001

cast01 / Living in Mixed Realities
Conference on Communication of Art, Science and Technology

The Fraunhofer Institute Media Communication asks for participation in
the conference cast01 "Living in Mixed Realities". cast01 will take
place from the 21st to 22nd September 2001 at Schloss Birlinghoven,
Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany  under the patronage of Edelgard
Bulmahn, German Federal Minister for Education and Research. The
conference addresses everybody working on the interface of art, culture,
new technologies and media sciences.

The conference is to discuss the following questions: What does it mean
to live, play and work in a world shaped and perceived through digital
media, networks and architectures of real and virtual space? How can the
development of complex communication spaces, life environments and
economic models be designed as an interplay of technological, social and
artistic forces?

Unlike conventional concepts of virtual realities mixed reality
architectures combine social and cultural action forms in the real space
with processes in virtual environments. Network structures enable new
forms of cooperation and support generation and detection of new
information in media knowledge spaces.

400 artists and scientists submitted projects on new technologies and
concepts for artistic productions. An international jury will select the
most interesting projects. During the conference these projects will be
presented in seven thematic blocks. Both new media art projects and
innovative research projects of the EU program Information Society
Technologies (IST) will be among these presentations. Famous scientists
and artists from all over the world will present papers and lead through
the presentation of the projects. These include Roy Ascott, Natalie
Jeremijenko, Bill Buxton and Jill Scott.

Two special events will enrich the conference program.
>netzspannung.org<, the media lab on the Internet will go online.
>digital sparks< will give awards to three outstanding  German student
projects in the fields of media art and design as well as media
informatics.

cast01 is organized by the MARS Exploratory Media Lab  of the Fraunhofer
Institute Media Communication (former GMD institute)*. The conference is
funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (bmb+f)
and the European Commission.

For information about preliminary program, invited speakers,
participation and registration see: http://netzspannung.org/cast01

More information about the conference: Ms Claudia Valle
Phone: +49-(0)2241 - 14 2725, Fax: +49-(0)2241 - 14 2133,
E-mail: claudia.valle@imk.fhg.de

Registration fee: DM 500,- (early registration until August 15 - reduced
fee DM 350,-)
Students: DM 150,- (early registration until August 15 - reduced fee DM
100,-)

Press information/registration: Ms Ulrike Boecking
Phone: +49-(0)2241 - 14 2633, Fax: +49-(0)2241 - 14 2133,
E-mail: ulrike.boecking@imk.fhg.de

Fraunhofer Institute Media Communication
Schloss Birlinghoven, D- 53754 Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany
Monika Fleischmann, Head of the MARS Exploratory Media Lab
http://www.imk.fhg.de/mars

* GMD and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft have merged in July 2001.

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Press Release
August 2001

netzspannung spreads networks

netzspannung.org, the media lab on the Internet, will be opened! On the
occasion of the conference cast01/ Living in Mixed Realities taking
place on the 21st September 2001 at Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin
(near Bonn), netzspannung.org will go online.

The Internet platform for media staging, artistic production and
inter-media research is being developed by the MARS Exploratory
Medialab. Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss from the Fraunhofer
Institute Media Communication are the leaders of the project which is
funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The
activities aim at establishing a competence center for media art and
media technology whose information repository about today?s digital
culture can be used by artists, curators, scientists, producers and
enterprises.

Knowledge discovery interfaces enable discovery and visualization of
media works. The distributed system architecture, online workspaces and
tools that are extensible on open source basis such as the mixed reality
stage (eMuse) or interactive Internet television (i2TV) support digital
production and experiments in networked media spaces.

The first knowledge pools available on the platform are the
netzspannung.org/journal, the conference cast01/ Living in Mixed
Realities and digital sparks, a cartography of student media projects at
German-speaking universities. A parallel activity interconnects various
archives to create a collaborative knowledge space.

Though targeted to experts, netzpsnanung.org also allows the
participation of the interested public in the design and exploration of
complex communication spaces within artistic, social and technological
projects.

Information about
netzspannung.org http://netzspannung.org/journal/issue0/netzspannung
the history http://netzspannung.org/journal/issue0/cat-history.html
the conference cast01  http://netzspannung.org/cast01
digital sparks http://netzspannung.org/digital-sparks

Public Relations Department
Ulrike Boecking,
Email:ulrike.boecking@imk.fhg.de
Tel. 02241-14-2633, fax 02241-14-2133

Fraunhofer Institute Media Communication
Schloss Birlinghoven, D- 53754 Sankt Augustin (near Bonn), Germany
Monika Fleischmann, Head of the MARS Exploratory Media Lab
http://www.imk.fhg.de/mars




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