>Subject: FW: UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS - deadline July12th
>Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:27:15 -0700
>
>Colleauges
>
>The UNESCO DIGIARTS program and IAMAS have announced a digital
>Arts prize
>
>Roger
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christa Sommerer [mailto:christa@iamas.ac.jp]
>Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 12:00 AM
>To: christa@iamas.ac.jp
>Subject: UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS - deadline July12th
>
> Dear friends and collegues,
>
>We are happy to announce the
>
>Digital Pluralism - UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award>
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award>
>Please find our website and instructions for submissions in 10 languages
>
>at:
>
>http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award>
>1.) AWARD: <http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award/e/prize.html>
>
>The award is organized in collaboration between IAMAS
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp> Gifu, Japan and the UNESCO Digi-Arts Portal
><http://portal.unesco.org/digiarts>, Paris.
>The award consists of a 10.000 USD money award & a 6-month
>artist-in-residence stay at the IAMAS <http://www.iamas.ac.jp>,
>Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences and the International
>Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Ogaki, Gifu Japan.
>
>a) Award Money:
>
>The total money award of USD10,000 is provided by the Higashiyama Fund
>set-up and managed by the National Federation of UNESCO Associations in
>Japan (NFUAJ) and given by the Director-General of UNESCO.
>
>In addition, IAMAS provides a 6-months salary for the 1st price winner
>who will be invited as artist-in-residence to IAMAS. This salary is
>around 2,100,000 yen (~ 18.000.- USD) for 6 months (the exact amount
>will depend on the number of years' professional experience that the
>artist has had, for example, an artist with 2-6 years' experience will
>receive 350,000 yen per month, totalling 2,100,000 yen for 6 months).
>
>The components of the Award are:
>
>1st prize: USD 5,000 & 6 months artist-in-residency at IAMAS
>2nd prize: USD 3,000
>3rd prize: USD 2,000
>
>b) 6-month Artist-in-Residency at IAMAS
>
>IAMAS <http://www.iamas.ac.jp/E/index-html.html> will welcome the main
>award winner as artist-in-residence
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp/intro/E/air.html> for 6 months. This is intended
>
>to give the young artist the chance to work in a very well equipped,
>high-tech environment where he/she can realise the chosen project and
>benefit from cultural exchange with IAMAS staff and students.
>
>IAMAS will provide the artist with a monthly salary during this time
>(depending on the numers of years' professional experience up to
>2,100,000.- yen for 6 months) as well as travel expenses incurred when
>joining and leaving IAMAS. Furthermore, IAMAS will rent an apartment for
>
>the artist-in-residence. However, the artist is asked to pay for part of
>
>the rent.
>
>The artist-in-residence will be at IAMAS from October 2003 until March
>2004. During this time, the artist will develop his/her work, based on
>his/her award-winning project proposal. The final artwork will be
>presented at the 5th World Forum for Media Art and Culture exhibition to
>
>be held in Ogaki, Japan in March 2004. This is when the award winner and
>
>his/her work will be introduced to the public
>
>
>2.) HOW TO SUBMIT <http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award/e/howto.html>
>
>Project proposals in the field of digital art (including web art,
>interactive art, media installation, digital music, performance or other
>
>media art forms) are accepted.
>
>1. One project proposal per artist is accepted. The official language
>for all submissions is English.
>2. The proposed project must not be an already finished artwork.
>3. Total length of the project proposal: 5-7 pages, A4 format.
>4. The project proposal must include: title, 500-word abstract, concept
>of the work, project description, technical description, drawings and
>set-up plan as well as a timetable for carrying out the work during the
>6 months as artist-in-residence at IAMAS.
>5. A short biography (2-3 pages, A4) including education, career,
>exhibition list and list of activities as well as contact address
>(including telephone number and email address) and 2 passport photos are
>
>required.
>6. All submissions must reach IAMAS by postal mail by 12 July 2003.
>7. Download and sign the entry form
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp/%7Eiuko302/unesco/entryform.pdf> and send it
>along with your submission by postal mail to IAMAS:
>
>IAMAS
>Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
>International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences
>3-95 Ryoke-cho Ogaki City Gifu 503-0014 Japan
>Phone. +81(0)584 75 6600 Fax. +81(0)584 75 6637
>unesco_award@iamas.ac.jp
>
><mailto:unesco_award@iamas.ac.jp>
>
>3.) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award/e/guide.html>
>
>* The award focuses on supporting young, talented people involved in
>media art.
>
>* The age limit for submitting artists is 35 years.
>
>* The award will be given to project proposals, not to finished
>artworks.
>
>* Project proposals should relate to the theme of the award.
>
>* The main award winner's project proposal will be carried out at IAMAS
>during a special artist-in-residence period provided by IAMAS.
>
>* We especially encourage submissions by artists from developing
>countries.
>
>4.) OBJECTIVES OF THE AWARD
><http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award/e/index.html>
>
>In our increasingly diverse societies, it is essential to ensure
>harmonious interaction among people and groups with plural, varied and
>dynamic cultural identities as well as their willingness to live
>together" (UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, 2
>November 2001)
>
>But how does technology shape cultural identity and how has it changed
>the way we live together? Can digital technology promote dialogue
>between people from different cultures, creating a better, fairer and
>more peaceful world where cultural diversity and tolerance prevail? And
>how can an artist's vision and sensibility reflect and contribute to
>cultural diversity and digital pluralism?
>
>These are the questions we want to address through the "Digital
>Pluralism - UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS". We encourage
>artists to reflect on the theme of cultural diversity, digital pluralism
>
>and social interaction, and to send project proposals for a media
>artwork that considers these topics and that can be realised during a
>6-month artist-in-residence period at the Institute of Advanced Media
>Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Gifu, Japan.
>
>5.) JURY <http://www.iamas.ac.jp/%7Eiuko302/unesco/e/jury.html>
>
>An expert jury, representing the 5 cultural regions as well as UNESCO
>and IAMAS has been assembled.
>The jury members are:
>
>Africa:
>Ibrahima Ndiaye [Multimedia critic, Professor of Universite Cheikh Anta
>Diop de Dakar, Senegal]
>
>Asia/Pacific:
>Eliane Ng [Independent curator specialized in contemporary and new media
>
>art, China]
>
>Latin America/Caribbean:
>Diana Domingues [Professor and Researcher at the University of Caxias do
>
>Sul/ CNPq, Brazil]
>
>Europe/North America:
>Gerfried Stocker [Director of Ars Electronica, Austria]
>
>Arab States:
>Azza El-Hassan [Independent filmmaker, Palestine]
>
>IAMAS:
>Itsuo Sakane [Founding President of IAMAS]
>Hiroshi Yoshioka [Professor of IAMAS]
>
>NFUAJ:
>Shigeru Okada [Secretary General of the National Federation ofUNESCO
>Associations in Japan]
>
>UNESCO:
>Tereza Wagner [Deputy team leader for the Digi-Arts Project, Paris
>Headquarters]
>
>External supervisor of the jury:
>Christa Sommerer [Associate Professor of IAMAS]
>
>We are looking forward to receive your project proposals and to welcome
>you at IAMAS !
>Best regards
>
>Dr. Christa SOMMERER
>UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS
>Organizing and Program Committee
>
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>Dr. Christa Sommerer
>Associate Professor
>IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences
>3-95 Ryoke-cho, Ogaki-shi, Gifu 503-0014, Japan
>Tel/Fax: +81-584-75-6806 or -6808
>Mobile: +81-90-5880-1801 or +81-90-8957-4524
>christa@iamas.ac.jp http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~christa
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At 08:57 PM 5/13/2003 +0100, marc.garrett wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>
>It seems, looking from over here in the UK that 'Net Art' in America is
>moving into the dark ages.

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion just yet. We are certainly witnessing a
retrenchment in institutional support, but these things develop in cycles.
I predict that in ten years time every major museum (and many of the
not-so-major ones) will have a signficant commitment to new media art in
some form. Meanwhile, the boundaries between new media art and other forms
of art are getting blurrier--a welcome transition, in my opinion. The walls
of the new media ghetto are crumbling. Bring 'em down!

>A power hungry governmental administration that
>is gradually closing many portals/doors for creative net adventurers
>nationally and of course internationally.

Yup. This is a bigger problem, and not just for artists.

>May be business indicatives (not
>necessarily corporate or Rockefeller based) and separate from funding
>demands can offer new answers...

Indicatives? Do you mean initiatives?

> > To view this entire thread, click here:
> > http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread

From the New York Times, May 13, 2003:

"Maxwell L. Anderson, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art,
resigned Monday after a tumultuous five years in the post, the museum
announced... During his tenure Mr. Anderson built the museum's collections
by establishing acquisition committees in previously unsupported areas like
film and video, architecture, and new media."

Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/arts/design/13WHIT.html

From the New York Times, May 13, 2003:

"The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which has been a strong supporter of
Internet art, has dismissed the curator for its online art projects... the
center's director, Kathy Halbreich, said plans to build a digital-art
gallery would be deferred for at least five years... Under Mr. Dietz, who
joined the Walker in 1996, the center has vigorously supported the notion
of the Internet as a creative medium by commissioning a series of
online-only artworks and organizing several Web-based exhibitions... Ms.
Halbreich said she intended to keep the projects online but could not
commit to doing so until the cost was determined."

Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/13/arts/13ARTS.html