VCMNET launch presentation

VIRTUAL CENTER MEDIA NET
10 - 13 January 2004


http://www.virtualcentre-media.net


With the occasion of launching Virtual Centre Media Net on the Internet, Fournos_Centre for Digital Culture (Athens, Greece) presents in its premises from the 10th to the 13th of January an ongoing event on the relationship between real and virtual space, including presentations, talks and other happenings.


Virtual Centre Media Net is a new platform for art and digital culture, which is co-founded by 10 European art and technology centers and is supported by the European programme Culture 2000. The aim of the centre is to create a common space for the co-production and the promotion of contemporary art forms, for the development of new artistic projects based on the collaboration of artists and theoreticians, for the information and education of artists and professionals from the new media art field.

www.virtualcentre-media.net includes the following activities:

a permanent collection consisted mainly of works that the artists produce especially for the centre, temporary exhibitions and alternative artistic activities, collaborative art projects in progress, workshops and seminars, an online magazine, research, a dynamic database for youth resources, for postgraduate studies, exchange opportunities, job vacancies, seminars and workshops , focusing on art and new technologies, news and events of activities in the real and virtual space, audiovisual and printed material.

The first official presentation of the virtual centre took place in Paris, in La gaite Lyrique centre on 26 September 2003.

Virtualcentre-media.net is co-organised by the following centres: Fournos, Centre for Digital Culture (Greece), CICV Pierre Schaeffer (France), European Media Art Festival (Germany), Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (UK), KIBLA (Slovenia), Student Computer Art Society (Bulgaria), D.EP.AS (Greece) with the collaboration of International Center for Contemporary Art (Rumania), V2 (Netherlands), AXIS (Netherlands), ΖΟ (Italy).

The design and software management is undertaken by Netmode Lab and the National Technical University of Athens.

The four-day programme will be as follows:

Saturday 10.01.04, 22.00
VJ performance party by Lichtsport (Germany)

Sunday 11.01.04, 21.00
"Best of European Video" Screening of European video artworks, chosen in accordance with the activities of the virtual centre.

Monday 12.01.04, 20.30
Presentation of Virtual Centre Media Net and its activities by its main contributors from Greece and abroad (artists, curators and centre directors).
Talk by Michael Connor, Media Curator from the FACT centre and artist Armin Medosch on the logic of copyleft and net projects

Tuesday 13.01.04, 18.00
Gala on the relationship of "Real and Virtual Space" with guest speakers: artists, academics and architects from Greece.

Fournos_Centre for Digital Culture
Mavromichali 168
Athens, Greece
www.fournos-culture.gr