[Nettime-ro] Medi@terra festival

[Dan Perjovschi <perjo@ong.ro>]

Subject:
        Medi@terra .01
   Date:
        Thu, 12 Jul 2001 21:51:49 +0300
   From:
        fournos-culture <info@fournos-culture.gr>
     To:
        Lia Dan Perjovschi <perjo@ong.ro>




Hello dear friends,

I hope you are very well. I forward the Call for Projects of the
Medi@terra .01 Festival, in case you would like to distribute the
information.
I also do hope to meet you again..!

all the best,
maria x



Medi@terra 2001
International Art and Technology Festival
http://www.mediaterra.org

De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing



14 September - 15 October 2001
Lavrion-Athens >> Sofia >> Belgrade >> Maribor >> Frankfurt




Medi@terra Festival is among the cultural events which are organised in
the context of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens



CALL FOR PROJECTS

The annual Medi@terra Festival is changing form.  Under the title
De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, the Festival is travelling from the
South to the North in the form of a microMuseum.

Medi@terra, having developed an intense activity around the questions
posed by digital culture, has been included among the events which are
organised on the opportunity of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens.
Its inclusion in the Cultural Olympiad for the years 2001 – 2004 has
recently been announced.

Medi@terra supports and puts into practice the view of a continuously
evolving festival, both in terms of its form and ideas.  As such, it
invites all those with an interest in research and experimentation
around the new conditions that are now being shaped to take part in its
new effort: a moving Festival that will start off from Greece, travel
through the Balkans and end up in Germany.
This movement will be made through a microMuseum: a small, adaptable
structure which, making use of new technology, can contain a large
number of works of art, views, proposals and presentations, as well as
systems and friendly areas for communication and meetings.  The works
that will travel with the microMuseum are ones which experiment with the

new platforms for the production and exhibition of the modern art work
through different creative media.  The  microMuseum is based on the
logic of the kiosk that one finds mainly in Greece (peripteron), with a
reference at the same time to the concept of the 'small museum,' an idea

which began in the 16th century and continues among today's artists.

In each host city, the events of Medi@terra will be set up within and
around the microMuseum: CD-ROM art, net art, computer art, digital
photography, interactive objects and “hand luggage-sized” installations,

sound environments and electronic music, screenings, an archive with
printed matter, texts in digital form, audio-visual propositions and
presentations as well as cultural events organised by the artists and
art centres of each city.  A debate on the subject of the other side of
globalisation will round off the activities of the Festival.

An art centre in each city-stop will undertake the setting up and
realisation of the microMuseum in collaboration with its various
associates, and will participate as a co-organiser in the preparations
and making of decisions.  In addition, each centre will be able to take
part in Medi@terra's journey as a member of the “Pilot Operating Net”
via the Internet.  Through the Internet it will be possible to follow
the path of the microMuseum and participate in its events from a
distance, from every point on the globe.  The “Pilot Operating Net” is
initiated by the network of centres which co-organise the festival,
while all the members of the network can observe, guide, disseminate
information and participate with work and activities in the unfolding
events of the journey.

The microMuseum will start from the city of Lavrion, famous from the
antiquity for its silver-mines that have supported the Hellenic
Democracy of the Golden Age, whilst in the 19th century the first
industrial unit was created there. Today, this unit has been turned into

a technological park and the Municipality is participating in a
programme for the "smart city."

 Medi@terra will continue its journey through the cities of Sofia &
Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Maribor (Slovenia), ending up at the International
Book Fair in Frankfurt where the honoured country this year is Greece.
Here, the microMuseum will present, along with all the things
experienced on the journey, material with information (videos,
photographs, texts, etc.) which artists will have produced throughout
the duration of the journey.


Important Dates
Submission of:
VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION
NET ART & CD ROM
SOUND ART & ELECTRONIC MUSIC
COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Material for the ARCHIVE & E-BOOKs       20 July

Submission of proposals for  INTERACTIVE OBJECTS / INTERACTIVE
INSTALLATIONS  31 June


? VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION
Conditions of participation:
- The work should be in mini DV or VHS format, PAL system
- It can be in any language.  English sub-titles essential.

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


? INTERACTIVE OBJECT / INSTALLATION
Conditions of participation:
- The work, when packed, should have maximum dimensions those of an item

of hand luggage so as to be transportable (61 x 25 x 41 cm)
- It should be interactive
- It should be packed in a wooden or metal case or container “hand
luggage-sized”  (it should not require extra packing)
- It should be technologically autonomous
- It should be easy to set up by someone without specialised knowledge
- It should weigh up to 20 kilos
- It should be accompanied by guidelines for its use/exhibition

Submission Deadline for Proposal/Design: 31/06/2001
In the case that the proposal is selected, the work must be completed by

25 August 2001.


? INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA
- INTERNET
- CD-ROM

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


? DIGITAL SOUND ART AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Conditions of participation:
- The work should be in wav audio format (stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16bit) AND
in mp3 format (96 or 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, stereo), on CD-ROM
- It should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes
- It should have been created within the last two years

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001

? COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Conditions of Participation:
- The work should have maximum dimensions 10 x 15 cm
- It can be printed on all kinds of paper
- It should be unframed

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


? ARCHIVE of the microMuseum
- This can include electronic books, proposals, biographies, portraits,
testimonies, etc. in digital, internet or printed form (video, CD-ROM,
internet, printed matter).  The content can be: a message from the
creator, a presentation by an artist, a demo, a documentary or a
proposal. More specifically:

For VIDEO
- The work should be in mini DV format
- It should have a maximum duration of 5 minutes

For CD-ROM, INTERNET:
- The work should be PC compatible

For PRINTED MATTER:
- The printed  matter can be in any language, so long as it is
accompanied by a summary of the contents in English.

For e-BOOKS
- The texts must should be on one of the following themes: a) journey
from the South to the North, b) from the other side of globalization, c)

from the small to the large, d) from the single to the multiple
- It can be scientific, literary, an essay, personal, a diary, thoughts,

suggestions, even a comic, in digital form
- It should be forwarded in English
- It can be from 500 to 10,000 words


For DIGITAL MUSIC
- The work should have a  maximum duration of 8 minutes
- It should be designed to function adequately if reproduced by the
multimedia hardware available on an average computer (medium sized
desktop stereo speakers and sound blaster class audio / mini card).

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


HOW TO DECLARE YOUR PARTICIPATION

Fill in the Entry Form that you will find at www.mediaterra.org and send

it along with the material required for each category, as described
above, to the Fournos Centre for Art and New Technologies

* by post: 168 Mavromichali Street, 114 72, Athens
* by fax: +301 6470 069
* by e-mail: info@fournos-culture.gr

For more information, contact Daphne Dragona, In Charge of Communication

and Co-ordination of the Festival by telephone on +301 6460 748 or +301
6420 451 or Email daphne@fournos-culture.gr


Medi@terra 2001 International Art and Technology Festival
Is organized by:
? Fournos Center for Art and New Technologies
? Hellenic Ministry of Culture
? Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural Olympiad 2001 – 2004
? Lavrion Municipal Development Enterprise

Is co-organized by:
? ArtToday Foundation [Bulgaria]
? Student Computer Art Society [Bulgaria]
? Multimedia Lab KIBLA [Slovenia]
? Intima Virtual Base [Slovenia]
? European Media Art Festival [Germany]
? CICV Pierre Schaeffer / next-movies [France]


MEDI@TERRA 2001 – STEERING COMMITTEE
Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of
Fournos
Dodo Santorineou, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the

Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Zoe Kazazaki, Head of the International Organizations Department,
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Maria Theodorou, Adviser of the Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural
Olympiad 2001 - 2004
Andreas Nefeloudis, Director of the Lavrion Municipal Development
Enterprise


MEDI@TERRA 2001 - PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of
Fournos
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the

Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Pierre Bongiovanni, Director of the CICV Pierre Schaeffer, France
Peter Tomaz Dobrila, Director of the KIBLA Multimedia Lab, Slovenia
Alfred Rotert, Co-Director of the European Media Art Festival of
Osnabruck, Germany
Dimitrina Sevova, Curator of the Communication Front Festival & Member
of the ArtToday Foundation, Bulgaria
Rosen Petkov, President of Student Computer Art Society & Director of
the ComputerSpace Festival, Bulgaria




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