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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:55:44 +0200 From: Ulrike Boecking <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: Fraunhofer-Institut Medienkommunikation.MARS Subject: Press releases - cast01 conference & netzspannung.org xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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:[email protected] 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 -----Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to post to the Syndicate list: <[email protected]> to unsubscribe, write to <[email protected]>, in the body of the msg: unsubscribe syndicate [email protected]