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Subject: Open call for SEAFair 2002
SEAFair 2002 Cultural Transformation - Consciousness and New Technologies
Project investigating the transformation of culture, through the prism of
consciousness, and new technologies.
Duration and dates: November 29 - December 04. 2002
Location (full address): Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Samoilova bb,
1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, phone/fax : 389 2 117.734
Organizer (organization and contact person) and basic information about it:
Contemporary Art Center Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, Tel/Fax:
+389.2.133.541
e-mail: [log in to unmask] http://www.scca.org.mk
2. PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
SEAFair (Skopje Electronic Arts Fair), which was initiated in 1997, is the
first media art manifestation in the Balkans, bringing together
International multimedia artists, artists, critics, and theorists dealing in
Internet, bio-technology, nano-technology, as well as the interested
regional audience. SEAFair serves as an international and intercultural
meeting point for arts and technologies. SEAFair urges discussions about the
artistic, philosophic, educational and other aspects of the new processes in
culture.
The project SEAFair 2002 Cultural Transformation - Consciousness and New
Technologies is envisioned to bring together culture theoreticians,
practitioners of new media, philosophers, consciousness experts,
neuroscientists, artists and sociologists, in a constructive dialogue. We
expect the project to produce an open atmosphere for critical discourse, and
an on-going debate regarding the raised issues.
The idea of this sixth edition of SEAFair is to investigate the cultural
transformation in the beginning of the 21st century by critically examining
in an overall platform the evolution of consciousness, society, networks,
and new media. The study of consciousness is now considered to be one of the
top themes in artistic and cultural circles especially because current
research of broad fields in a cultural and a social sense may assist us in
the visualizing of our future.
We expect participants from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe,
England, Germany, France, and the United States. The candidates will have to
apply on the open call for the event, after which the Curator and the Board
of CAC will decide upon the participants.
· Selection of participants October 25, 2002.
· The On-Line Debate will feature an on-going discussion for a period of
3 weeks before the event regarding ideological, social and ethical
discourses that the issues of consciousness, new technologies and media are
raising. The discussion will take into account the current studies of
consciousness as well as future cultural scenarios that are appearing.
· The exhibition will feature between 15-20 artworks by leading
contemporary international and domestic artists. The artworks are in fact a
collaboration of artists with scientists in the fields of: Culture,
Consciousness, and New Technologies. The artworks will be displayed in the
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts in the period November 29 - December 20,
2002.
· The workshop will be aimed at participants from Macedonia and the
Balkan countries including some artists from Central&Eastern Europe who will
take part in it. The artists will be provided lodging and food. The workshop
will be divided in several venues: The CIX Gallery, The Museum of
Contemporary Arts, the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences. The workshop
will concentrate on practical work and demonstration of individual concepts,
as well as on assistance in the realization of their works and bringing the
artists to a level from which the artists can continue to develop the
projects on their own.
The goals of the workshop are:
· To enhance the knowledge of artists in the workshop about envisioning,
preparation, and implementation of projects in the 21st century.
· To enable the artists to disseminate information and experiences
gathered in this workshop to colleagues in their own surrounding.
· To produce the improved version of their projects.
· To test their ideas.
· To prepare their future work.
The workshop participants will have a public presentation on the end
of the workshop, in the framework of the EXHIBITION.
The Contemporary Art Center will attempt to produce the initiated projects
on the workshop. The aim of the new produced conceptual
artwork is for it to be a part of major international art events and flows.
· Symposium. A two-day Symposium, by leading theoreticians in the field
is planned. Around 10 international and domestic theoreticians will be
invited to participate. The Key speaker will be Professor Roy Ascott, a
leading expert in the theme of Consciousness. The main theme of the
Symposium will be CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS. Themes sush as the influence of
techno-scientific change upon society, the study of consciousness, the study
of the mind, etc. will be examined.
The artists taking part in the exhibition and workshop will be invited to
participate in the Symposium.
· Publishing. The main goal of publishing the proceedings in a form of a
catalogue and book is to make available to the general audience of readers,
sociologists, cultural theoreticians and practitioners, as well as
specialists in the field of consciousness, and new technologies. The
catalogue will be printed in English and Macedonian, with a possible
translation to other East European languages. 500 copies are planned. Part
of the catalogues will be disseminated to the audience, as well as to the
artists, the remaining part will be sent to our partners in Europe or
interested institutions or individuals. We believe that this will encourage
a spontaneous cross-border exchange of ideas.
3. LIST OF PARTICIPANTS:
All artists, theorists, curators, who feel that they would like to
explore the idea of connecting cultural transformation, consciousness, and
new technologies are invited to participate in the event. The criteria
artists have to fulfill in order to become participants in the workshop are:
o The proposed art work, text, concept, or idea, must contain as a
theme the issue of cultural transformation, consciousness, and new
technologies, or contain in it issues concerning social, aesthetic, or ethic
questions which these themes pose on today's society or contemporary art
practice. All the proposals should include a short explanation about the
proposed project and the development they would like to make while on the
workshop.
o The idea of the proposals for art works, or for the Conference must have a
content wise potential for further development in artistic way
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Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Contemporary Arts Center - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
Tel/Fax: +389.2.214.495
Mobile: +389.70.217.075
http://www.scca.org.mk
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