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From: "WRO" <wro@wro.getin.pl>
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Subject: WRO 01 starts on May 1st
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:51:15 +0200


WRO 01
9th International Media Art Biennale
May 1st-6th, 2001, Wroclaw, Poland

-the Contemporary Theatre, Rzeznicza Street 12 (video-art screenings, CD-ROM 
art, net.art, installations, lectures, special presentations)
- postindustrial spaces of Stajnia nr 8a, Sienkiewicza Street 8a (multimedia 
activities, audio-visual concerts, club scene).

After closing the last year with a special millenium edition of WRO2000@kultura 
devoted to changes in art and culture in the time of cybertechnology, in May 
2001 next regular edition, Poland's and the Eastern Europe's largest biennial 
festival of electronic and computer art - WRO 01 will be held.

The leading theme of the WRO 01 Biennale, SCREENS refers to an intriguing 
situation of the contemporary media art with its continuous striving for 
expression of new communication spaces and reaching new cognitive horizons, and 
at the same time determined by ever-present use of SCREENS of television, 
computers, projectors so restrictive through their aesthetics of inventions that 
are slightly dated, yet still indispensable and irreplaceable.

info about program schedule
http://www.wro.art.pl/wro01/html/scheduler_en.html
info about live webcast
http://www.wro.art.pl/wro01/html/transmission_en.html


 WRO 01 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
 >From the total of 780 works which have met the criteria of the WRO 01
 international competition, the selection commission constituted by the WRO
 team have chosen 52 works for competition presentations:
 Romy Achituv and Camille Utterback/USA - "Text Rain",
 Alexandru Antik and Stefan Dragos/RO - "Corpus Transit",
 Robert Arnold/USA - "Triptych",
 Dominik Barbier/F - "Father Shark",
 Bret Battey/USA - "Writing on the Surface",
 Bureau of Inverse Technology/USA - "Bit Plane",
 Susanna Carlisle/USA - "Butoh(dance of darkness)",
 Seoungho Cho/USA - "Linear Tracking",
 Jem Cohen/USA - "Little Flags",
 Nicole and Norbert Corsino/F - "Captives(2nd Mouvement)",
 Heiko Daxl/D - "Health and Civilization",
 Blazej Dzieduszycki/PL - "The Emptiness",
 Einar/A - "Timebased_Body",
 Lilie Ewgraphovitch and Maximilian von Dada/YU - "H-Eaven",
 Merilyn Fairskye/AUS - "Eye Contact",
 Andreas Gedin/S - "Gemini",
 D.Geesin and E.Rots/UK/NL - "The Garden",
 Marie-France Giraudon/CDN - "Trans(e) Bleu",
 Matt Hulse/UK - "Hotel Central",
 Pawel Janicki/PL - "Tangled Sky",
 Kai Kaljo/EW - "Pathetique",
 Istvan Kantor/CDN - "Broadcast",
 Barbara Konopka/PL - "Hybernating Chips,
 Gustavo Kortsarz/F - "Vanarsky/Toporgraphie",
 Dariusz Krzeczek/A - "Unterwerk",
 Sylvie Laliberte/CDN - "The tool isn't always a Hammer",
 Robert Lisek/PL - "Kehre",
 Anita Malmqvist/S - "Super Natural",
 Calin Man/RO - "Esoth Eric",
 Gilles Marceaux/F - "Tape Bibi!",
 Jennifer and Kevin McCoy/USA - "201: a space algorithm",
 Juergen Moritz and Norbert Pfaffenbichler/A - "Santora",
 Lydia Moyer/USA - "Nebraska Suite",
 Boerries Mueller-Buesching/D - "Go(down) Mary!",
 n:ja/A - "Rewind",
 Jeroen Offerman/NL - "The Great Escape",
 Alain Pelletier/CDN - "Die Dyer",
 Sebastien Pesot/CDN - "Paradoxa",
 Olivier Pietsch/D - "Heroes",
 Simon Pummell/UK - "Blinded By Light",
 Alex Sanjurjo Rubio and Ieximal Ielimite/E - "Ventilar",
 Andreas Sachsenmaier/D - "Kreislauf#1",
 Anita Sarosi/H - "Dragon",
 Andrey Savitsky/BY - "Data- stream Processing",
 Gianni Toti/I - "Gramsciategui ou les poesimistes",
 Maxim Tyminko/BY - "No",
 Andrzej K. Urbanski/PL - "bardosphere",
 Gerald Vak/A - "Run",
 Kerstin Wagener/D - "Three Seconds Black",
 Herwig Weiser/D - "Entree",
 Joerg Wolff/D - "Stimulus Body",
 Edward Zajec/USA - "Orphics 6.2".

The shows are to be simultaneously viewed by both the audience and the 
international jury: Katherine Carl (USA), Sally Jane Norman (F/NZ), Jaroslaw 
Kapuscinski (PL/USA/CDN), Erkki Huhtamo (FIN/USA), Alexei Shulgin (RUS).

SHOWS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
- among projections of selections prepared specially for WRO by the invited 
curators: Another (set of international video-art pieces and CD-ROMs, curator: 
Katherine Carl, New York), Instants Video (curator: Marc Mercier, France), Perte 
de Signal (Montreal, Quebec), the newest polish works (video/CD-ROM/net), 
Extreme Sports (emergent European video-art), U-7TV (Ekaterinburg, Russia), 
short information sets from Germany (Emare, Werkleitz), Bulgaria 
(Videoarcheology, Sofia), Japan (J Vision), Belorussia and Russia (Moscow Media 
Lab).

LECTURES (webcast)
Walter van der Cruijsen (NL/UK) - Screen aesthetics in the context of classic 
art.
Erkki Huhtamo (FIN/USA) - Elements of Screenology - Media-archaeological 
explorations.
Ryszard W. Kluszczy?ski (PL) - Screens - Images - Worlds. The transformations of 
seeing.
Machiko Kusahara (J) - Mixed Realities: Changing Scenes from Japanese Media Art 
and Culture.
Violetta Krajewska, Piotr Krajewski (PL) - What's about the screen? What's after 
it?
Sally Jane Norman (F/NZ) - Screens, Stages, Spectres
Maria Anna Potocka (PL) - Glossary of basic terms and problems of computers from 
software to multimedia.
Alexei Shulgin (RUS) - Art After the Internet.

A medialounge based in the Contemporary Theatre is a presentation place of: 
videotheque, cd-rom art, internet projects and webcasted events such, as "Train 
Stop" a Wroclaw-Krak?w Internet action of Aleksander Janicki, "Embryo" by 
Andreja Kuluncic and Anna Plotnicka's Internet "Performance on demand".

STAJNIA 8A- 1-6.05.200
performances, netcasting, mixed media
i-club -- Peter Style/Piotr Wyrzykowski (CUKT), Dj Zmarszczki/ Maciej 
Sienkiewicz (CUKT), Podletz / Artur Kozdrowski (Neurobot/CUKT), Dj Mic 
(recognition), Facial Index/ Jacek Staniszewski (Neurobot)

live AV performances:
Urbano Mistica Amplitude + Ginseng: / U.M.A. = Gato Leiras (Buenos Aires) : 
Sampler
Michael Renkel (Berlin) : Sampler  - Ginseng = Sonja Bender (Berlin) : 
Videosampling/

SYNTAX ERROR (Wroclaw): music: Bartosz Jakubicki, Artur B?szczyk, Radek 
Turkiewicz, visuals: Bartosz "Kostia" Jakubicki/ Digital aesthetics!
 -
machine music!

av performance:  VJ Peter Style /Piotr Wyrzykowski/ - a technology based artist, 
working in new media DJ Maciej Sienkiewicz - techno, drum'n'bass

"Eden" (work-in-progress)/"Freight Train" in concert with a simultaneous 
projection of an animated film by Andrzej Czeczot.

gameboyzz orchestra project, performed by kunstbande SLA, jura /A creation of 
new aural space on base of live-generated sounds from GameBoy Color console/.

386 DX Cyberpunk Rockband /Alexei Shulgin (RUS)  and 386 DX / 4Mb RAM / EGA / 40 
Mb HD /Synchronized text-to-speech and midi synthesis/

Joint Venture Sound System (PL): DJ Bass Reproduktor Xiadz /Priest/ Maken - 
since 1988 one of the very first polish sound systems - hip-hop, ska, big-beat, 
reggae, techno and hard core.

WRO Biennale is a festival organized since 1989 by Open Studio/WRO and WRO 
Center for Media Art Foundation. Artistic director: Piotr Krajewski, Program 
director: Violetta Kutlubasis-Krajewska, Organising director: Zbigniew Kupisz.
www.wro.art.pl
www.wro.getin.pl

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