Medi@terra 2001 International Art and Technology Festival http://www.mediaterra.org De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing 14 September - 15 October 2001 Lavrion-Athens >> Sofia - Plovdiv >> Maribor >> Frankfurt The Medi@terra Festival is among the cultural events which are organised in the context of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens CALL FOR PROJECTS The annual Medi@terra Festival is changing form. Under the title De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, the Festival is travelling from the South to the North in the form of a microMuseum. Medi@terra, having developed an intense activity around the questions posed by digital culture, has been included among the events which are organised on the opportunity of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens. Its inclusion in the Cultural Olympiad for the years 2001 - 2004 has recently been announced. Medi@terra supports and puts into practice the view of a continuously evolving festival, both in terms of its form and ideas. As such, it invites all those with an interest in research and experimentation around the new conditions that are now being shaped to take part in its new effort: a moving Festival that will start off from Greece, travel through the Balkans and end up in Germany. This movement will be made through a microMuseum: a small, adaptable structure which, making use of new technology, can contain a large number of works of art, views, proposals and presentations, as well as systems and friendly areas for communication and meetings. The works that will travel with the microMuseum are ones which experiment with the new platforms for the production and exhibition of the modern art work through different creative media. The microMuseum is based on the logic of the kiosk that one finds mainly in Greece (peripteron), with a reference at the same time to the concept of the 'small museum,' an idea which began in the 16th century and continues among today's artists. In each host city, the events of Medi@terra will be set up within and around the microMuseum: CD-ROM art, net art, computer art, digital photography, interactive objects and "hand luggage-sized" installations, sound environments and electronic music, screenings, an archive with printed matter, texts in digital form, audio-visual propositions and presentations as well as cultural events organised by the artists and art centres of each city. A debate on the subject of the other side of globalisation will round off the activities of the Festival. An art centre in each city-stop will undertake the setting up and realisation of the microMuseum in collaboration with its various associates, and will participate as a co-organiser in the preparations and making of decisions. In addition, each centre will be able to take part in Medi@terra's journey as a member of the "Pilot Operating Net" via the Internet. Through the Internet it will be possible to follow the path of the microMuseum and participate in its events from a distance, from every point on the globe. The "Pilot Operating Net" is initiated by the network of centres which co-organise the festival, while all the members of the network can observe, guide, disseminate information and participate with work and activities in the unfolding events of the journey. The microMuseum will start from the city of Lavrion, famous from the antiquity for its silver-mines that have supported the Hellenic Democracy of the Golden Age, whilst in the 19th century the first industrial unit was created there. Today, this unit has been turned into a technological park and the Municipality is participating in a programme for the "smart city." Medi@terra will continue its journey through the cities of Sofia & Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Maribor (Slovenia), ending up at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt where the honoured country this year is Greece. Here, the microMuseum will present, along with all the things experienced on the journey, material with information (videos, photographs, texts, etc.) which artists will have produced throughout the duration of the journey. Important Dates Submission of: VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION NET ART & CD ROM SOUND ART & ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Material for the ARCHIVE & E-BOOKs 20 July Submission of proposals for INTERACTIVE OBJECTS / INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS 31 June VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION Conditions of participation: - The work should be in mini DV or VHS format, PAL system - It can be in any language. English sub-titles essential. Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001 INTERACTIVE OBJECT / INSTALLATION Conditions of participation: - The work, when packed, should have maximum dimensions those of an item of hand luggage so as to be transportable (61 x 25 x 41 cm) - It should be interactive - It should be packed in a wooden or metal case or container "hand luggage-sized" (it should not require extra packing) - It should be technologically autonomous - It should be easy to set up by someone without specialised knowledge - It should weigh up to 20 kilos - It should be accompanied by guidelines for its use/exhibition Submission Deadline for Proposal/Design: 31/06/2001 In the case that the proposal is selected, the work must be completed by 25 August 2001. INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA - INTERNET - CD-ROM Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001 DIGITAL SOUND ART AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC Conditions of participation: - The work should be in wav audio format (stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16bit) AND in mp3 format (96 or 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, stereo), on CD-ROM - It should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes - It should have been created within the last two years Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001 COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Conditions of Participation: - The work should have maximum dimensions 10 x 15 cm - It can be printed on all kinds of paper - It should be unframed Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001 ARCHIVE of the microMuseum - This can include electronic books, proposals, biographies, portraits, testimonies, etc. in digital, internet or printed form (video, CD-ROM, internet, printed matter). The content can be: a message from the creator, a presentation by an artist, a demo, a documentary or a proposal. More specifically: For VIDEO - The work should be in mini DV format - It should have a maximum duration of 5 minutes For CD-ROM, INTERNET: - The work should be PC compatible For PRINTED MATTER: - The printed matter can be in any language, so long as it is accompanied by a summary of the contents in English. For e-BOOKS - The texts must should be on one of the following themes: a) journey from the South to the North, b) from the other side of globalization, c) from the small to the large, d) from the single to the multiple - It can be scientific, literary, an essay, personal, a diary, thoughts, suggestions, even a comic, in digital form - It should be forwarded in English - It can be from 500 to 10,000 words For DIGITAL MUSIC - The work should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes - It should be designed to function adequately if reproduced by the multimedia hardware available on an average computer (medium sized desktop stereo speakers and sound blaster class audio / mini card). Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001 HOW TO DECLARE YOUR PARTICIPATION Fill in the Entry Form that you will find at www.mediaterra.org and send it along with the material required for each category, as described above, to the Fournos Centre for Art and New Technologies * by post: 168 Mavromichali Street, 114 72, Athens * by fax: +301 6470 069 * by e-mail: info@fournos-culture.gr For more information, contact Daphne Dragona, In Charge of Communication and Co-ordination of the Festival by telephone on +301 6460 748 or +301 6420 451 or Email daphne@fournos-culture.gr Medi@terra 2001 International Art and Technology Festival Is organized by: Fournos Center for Art and New Technologies Hellenic Ministry of Culture Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural Olympiad 2001 - 2004 Lavrion Municipal Development Enterprise Is co-organized by: ArtToday Foundation [Bulgaria] Student Computer Art Society [Bulgaria] Multimedia Lab KIBLA [Slovenia] Intima Virtual Base [Slovenia] European Media Art Festival [Germany] CICV Pierre Schaeffer / next-movies [France] MEDI@TERRA 2001 - STEERING COMMITTEE Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of Fournos Dodo Santorineou, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the Hellenic World Dimos Dimitriou, Artist Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist Zoe Kazazaki, Head of the International Organizations Department, Hellenic Ministry of Culture Maria Theodorou, Adviser of the Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural Olympiad 2001 - 2004 Andreas Nefeloudis, Director of the Lavrion Municipal Development Enterprise MEDI@TERRA 2001 - PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of Fournos Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the Hellenic World Dimos Dimitriou, Artist Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist Pierre Bongiovanni, Director of the CICV Pierre Schaeffer, France Peter Tomaz Dobrila, Director of the KIBLA Multimedia Lab, Slovenia Alfred Rotert, Co-Director of the European Media Art Festival of Osnabruck, Germany Dimitrina Sevova, Curator of the Communication Front Festival & Member of the ArtToday Foundation, Bulgaria Rosen Petkov, President of Student Computer Art Society & Director of the ComputerSpace Festival, Bulgaria