Syndicate: CO++ in Sofia, BG

["Iliyana Nedkova" <iliana@[194.141.1.156]>]

Dear Syndicate friends,

CO++, also known as  Crossing Over II, Mini-International Festival of 
New Video Art, is lingering in the sizzling Sofia air.  Indeed CO++ is just 
round the corner beginning from June 23 till  July 3, 1997. 
All CO++ sessions will be mastered by Nina Czegledy and will 
take place at two host venues: Audio-Visual Center, 
NAFTA & Computer Art Center, SSCA in Sofia. 

The initial purpose of Crossing Over I/II was to establish a mini-framework 
within which East European artists will be able to develop and implement 
experimental projects using digital studio facilities.  The basic and
still persistent hindrance to any East-European video and media artist
- the access to proper high technology or knowledge of alternate
production technologies - has been thoroughly explored in CO+ and
CO++.

The immediate goal of the pilot 1996 project Crossing Over I was
to foster prospective contacts, discuss various production
possibilities and end with clear-cut videoart concept & production
strategy. In achieving this aim 6 East-European participants have been
selected by the CO+ Workshop master who collaborated with their 10
Bulgarian peers within an intense fortnight programme comprised of a 
theoretical workshop during the day and international video 
screenings and public talks of 4 CO+ lecturers in the evenings.

Few months later CO++ aims at implementing the production  of  9 
videoart projects, approved  by Nina Czegledy. There are 3 guest-
participants like Branka Milicic-Davic, Novi Sad, Yu,  Denis Neimand, St. 
Petersburg, Ru and Darij Kreuh, Ljubljana, Slov who are committed to
work hard and overhours alongside 8 local media artists like Odiliya Yankova, 
Krassimir Terziev,  Ivan Mudov,  Elena Belova,  Iliya Bekirov in team with 
Velimir Velev and Tsvetelina  Gancheva in a team with Rashko Kovachev.

CO++ will provide an electronic catalogue which will document the events of 
Crossing Over I and II and open a venue for critique by renowned media curators
and  for broad/narrowcasting of the works. Moreover a CO case-study with 
premier screenings of the  works is scheduled within the International Media 
Forum, OSTranenie, Dessau, Germany in November 1997. 

CO is curated by Iliyana Nedkova, based at the Soros Center for the
Arts, Sofia. CO is funded by the Open Society Cultural Link Regional
Programme.

WWWith Hot Greetings,
Yours,
Iliyana Nedkova
CO++ Curator





Iliyana NEDKOVA
Media Art Curator
currently based @ Soros Center for the Arts - Sofia

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