| Tanya Gorioutcheva on Thu, 1 Apr 1999 01:59:24 +0300 |
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| Syndicate: Trash-Art Festival |
Dear friends, On Friday, 26 March, Moscow MediArtLab of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art held presentation and press-conference of two festivals happen in the Internet: - Da-Da-Net - the festival of Russian cultural and art resources http://www.da-da-net.ru (in Russian) - Trash-Art - the international net festival of art projects: net.art, web.art, media art http://www.da-da-net.ru/TrashArt/ (in English) <<<<<<<<<<<<< see more detailed info below >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> During the presentation everybody could listen to B92 and examine its site http://www.b92.net . <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> At the Syndicate meeting during N5M3 I announced the site of Trash-Art would be opened by 18-20 March, but sorry, there was delay for some technical problems. It has become accessible just today. Everybody who'd like to take part in the Trash-Art festival as author of art project, or participant of discussion on cultural and art trash, or to offer own variant of Trash-Art collection - and all all all - are welcome! INTERNATIONAL ART FESTIVAL "TRASH-ART" http://www.da-da-net.ru/TrashArt/ (within the frame of "Da-Da-Net" Festival) Trash - crash of machine (computer) logic Trash - crash of user logic Trash - failure of image creating Trash - as fashion, style, freedom Trash - cracked art - isn't to be identified, is unexpected by society, critics, doesn't conform to the demands, wishes, logic key words: style, fashion, millennium, art, links, anti-critics, video-art, net-art, mail-art, conceptualism, texts, music, message, data-trash MANIFEST Network art in the Internet demonstrates the new democratic and progressive form of communication. Today it is necessary to revive the original radicalism of the media-technologies. This is not the problem of technology, but the problem of philosophy and ideology. We are interested in projects, that revolt against the technology itself. Why do we need new technologies, if they can not express new ideas? New technologies are first of all new tasks. Today the concepts of "trash" & "trash-art" have rather broad meanings. Our task is to confine them to the categories that would conform to the new tendencies in ideology and culture. For us "trash" stands for the positive radicalism in art,technology and forms of communication. Our festival is the search for materials and criteria. The interaction of art and technology frames the conception, within which the festival is working. Communication within this frame can be represented as a form of art as well as a form of technology. "Trash-art" Festival aims at searching for the alternative form of art. Within this context "trash" is not the negative definition of the present situation in art, but a word that expresses our optimism and confidence that not all art resources have been discovered for the culture. The festival appeals to the entire cultural situation. The project has an open structure and an discursive open field. Every participant can register his art work him/herself. The members of the Jury are free to select the "artworks" from the Internet trash according to their taste and understanding of the present situation in contemporary culture. It is possible that "trash-art" as a new ideology and a new technology can perform much wider tasks in the general context of contemporary art. For us it is evident, that today it is exactly in the Internet where one can find most radical projects and dialogues, whose experience the culture has to adopt. Nominations or ideological classification of art projects. 1. Ecological Project . In this category the projects have to present effective strategies of utilization of cultural trash. The artists are supposed to explain and justify their idea of "cultural trash" as well as utility of the proposed "recycling techniques". 2. Anarchistic Project The projects are to be directed at the destruction of common stereotypes and logic of presentation of images, symbols, ideas, theories, propaganda, manuals, documents, etc. We welcome everything that is opposed to expediency, constructiveness, social benefit, economic profit, power/political responsibility, common pragmatismâ?? 3. Radical Conformist Project Communicability, interactivity, openness, transparency are to be both the goals and strategies of the projects. Their authors have to be concerned with assimilation of certain environment, social context or resources. The ideology of their activity is to be determined by the search for the most efficient and witty ways of interaction with the audience, other artists, power. It is a kind of navigation through trash. Working language of the Festival - English JURY: Rasa and Raitis Smits <Latvia> http://re-lab.net Rachel Baker <Great Britain> www.irational.org Janos Sugar <Hungary> http://www.c3.hu/butterf/Sugar/project.html Kathy Rae Huffman <USA> http://www.arts.rpi.edu/ Olga Lialina <Russia> http://www.teleportacia.org Vuk Cosic <Slovenia> http://www.vuk.org Joachim Blank and Karl Heinz Jeron <Germany> http://www.sero.org Tetsuo Kogawa <Japan> http://anarchy.k2.tku.ac.jp Alla Mitrofanova <Russia> http://www.spb.cityline.ru/~tac TIME-SHEDULE: 26 March - official opening of the Festival and press-conference (SCCA, Moscow) 29 March - 5 May - registration of applications for participation in the Festival from 29 March - on-line conference 9 April, 23 April, 7 May - seminars (SCCA) 5-15 May - the work of the International Juries 20 of May - the winners reward at "Anigraph" Festival August -September - publication of the catalogue and CD-ROM. CD-ROM will present the research on the subject of "trash-art", that will bring together all art-projects, interviews, discussions and the texts. Concept - Alexey Isayev [email protected] Curator - Olga Shishko [email protected] Co-curator and coordinator - Tatyana Goryucheva [email protected] Organizer - MediaArtLab (SCCA, Moscow) http://www.sccamoscow.ru/gif/lab ul. Chernyakhovskogo 4A 125319 Moscow Russia tel.: 7 095 151 8706 tel./fax: 7 095 151 8816 ___________________________________________________________________________ SCCA http://www.sccamoscow.ru Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow supports the development of new media art since 1993: In 1994 SCCA organized the New Media Art Lab for young Russian artists, an International symposium "NewMediaLogia", which brought together the specialists in cinema, computer industry, philosophy, criticism and visual arts and an exhibition "NewMediaTopia", which presented a lot of video/media-installations by the leading Russian media-artists. 1995-1997 - multimedia studio "Cross-media" (organized by SCCA, Moscow in collaboration with "Thermen" Center). A lot of video-artists had the possibility to use video-equipment, participate in the workshops and attend the lectures. From 1996 - SCCA, Moscow presents the Russian artists in the Internet (http//www.sccamoscow.ru). 1997-98 - SCCA, Moscow was the organizer of the first festival of the Russian art resources in the Internet "Da-Da-Net". The Festival aimed at bringing to light the work of artists interested in contemporary art. It gave them the possibility to present their art works in the single thematic context and participate in discussions, devoted to the culture of the electronic community. 87 projects from Novosibirsk, St.Petersburg, Moscow, Perejaslavl-Zalessky, Kazan, Altai, Ufa, Odessa, Jaroslavl and other cities were examined by the festival jury. _____________________________________________________________ Sincerely, Tanya Goryucheva :)))))))((((((: [email protected]