"project netarts.org" 2004 - 2nd annoucement

"Project netarts.org" 2004 - 2nd announcement

1. From "Art on the Net" to the new "Project netarts.org"

2. Call for the nomination

3. The schedule

4. Physical events [new]

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1. From "Art on the Net" to the "Project netarts.org"

Since 1995, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts has been hosting the
"Art on the Net" project promoting the Internet as a space for artistic
expression. For almost a decade now, this project has been calling on
artists around the world to investigate the relationship between Art,
the Internet and the Society.

This summer, to celebrate the success of our "Art on the Net" project,
we are going to launch a new event called "Project netarts.org." The
"Project netarts.org" consists of an Internet Art exhibition, artist
essays, theoretical articles, and an online forum.

The Exhibition section of the project will feature recent developments
in Internet Art and is open to all forms of creative expression that use
the Internet as their primary medium. The essays and articles from
artists, critics, curators and other contributors, will be featured in
the Writings section. The Online Forum is open to everyone who is
interested in Internet Art and other hybridized forms of Digital or
Media Art that use network technologies.

Although this project is primarily focused on the latest developments in
the field of Internet Art, we are also very interested in considering
contributions that reflect the influence of Internet Art production on
the wider fields of Media-Art, Digital Art, curatorial practice,
digital pedagogy, and online publishing.

The new "Project netarts.org" will be launched 1st, Nov. 2004, at

http://www.netarts.org/

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2. Call for the nomination

This year, the artworks for the exhibition and the "netarts.org 2004
prize" will be chosen by our Selection Committee. The prize fee for the
top selection will be 200,000 yen.

The members of the Selection Committee are:

Mark Amerika (http://www.markamerika.com/)
John Hopkins (http://www.neoscenes.net/)
Trace Reddell (http://www.du.edu/~treddell/)
Anne-Marie Schleiner (http://www.opensorcery.net/)
You Minowa (Curator, MCMOGATK)

The members will make their own nominations, but we will accept
nominations from the web also. Please send your nomination to us
directly at the website http://www.netarts.org. DO NOT SEND YOUR
NOMINATIONS TO SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

The coordinators of "Project netarts.org" will also review essays and
articles that focus on Internet art. Selected essays and articles will
be featured in our Writings section, in English and Japanese.

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3. The schedule

We will accept nominations by mail from 1st, Aug. 2004 to 15th, Sept.
2004. Check out our website for details.

The award-winning artwork will be selected by 15th Oct. The exhibition
will be launched 1st, Nov. 2004. We will soon announce some physical
events to take place in Nov. at the Machida City Museum of Graphic
Arts, Tokyo.

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4. Physical events

We will invite Mark Amerika (USA)and Agnese Trocchi (Italy), and have physical events on 7th Nov. at the auditorium of the museum under the theme of [Art and the Internet: Hackers, Pirates, and Philosophers].

13:30 Agnese Trocchi [lecture]
"Peer-to-Peer Fightsharing: the Art of making Networks"

14:15 Mark Amerika [lecture]
"Breaking the Code: How Net Artists Are Hacking Reality"

15:00 DJRABBI (Mark Amerika and Rick Silva, University of Colorado,
USA) [Performance Art]
"Net.Art-VJ-Hactivist-DJ-WWW-Collage-Remix-Performance"

16:00 Panel Discussion "Media Art and the Museum"

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You Minowa
Curator
Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts
http://www.netarts.org/
[email protected]