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The Center for Computer Arts, which acts within the frameworks of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje, Macedonia will premiere the Skopje Electronic Arts Fair. SEAFair is the first manifestation of this kind on the Balkans, bringing together International web artists, multimedia artists, media critics and theorists, as well as the interested audience. SEAFair is conceived to be a serial of international events, exhibitions/video conferences, which will explore the creation and existing of new media and electronic arts and venues. SEAFair will at the same time serve as an international and intercultural meeting point of arts and technologies. The Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje web site http://www.scca.org.mk will be updated frequently and will contain full information on these events.

 

 

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The Center for Computer Arts will in the framework of
Skopje Electronic Arts Fair ‘98 present

Communing
* V.R. - WWW - Net-Linked - CD ROM exhibition


SEAFair is the first manifestation of this kind on the Balkans, bringing together International web artists, multimedia artists, media critics, theorists, and philosophers, as well as the interested audience.

SEAFair is conceived to be a serial of international events, exhibitions/video conferences, workshops, and meetings that will explore the creation and existing of new media and electronic arts and venues.

SEAFair assists the communication within the European emerging electronic art&media scene.

SEAFair urges the discussions about the artistic, philosophic, educational, and other aspects of the emerging media.

SEAFair serves as an international and intercultural meeting point of arts and technologies.


The web site of CefCA [Center for Computer Arts] which acts within the frameworks of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje [http://www.scca.org.mk] will be updated frequently and will contain full information on these events.


Chief Aims of the project SEFair 98

  • to present the most current international projects in the field of electronic arts.
  • to enable a critical discourse towards the diverse emanations in the electronic arts.
  • to enable a historization and theoretical platform of different aspects and expressions in the electronic arts.
  • to serve as a bridge and enable a communication between the international and Macedonian artists, curators, and theoreticians in the field of electronic arts.

 

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Communing

V.R., WWW, Net-Linked, and CD-ROM Art Exhibition

Venue: Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art
October 02 - 09, 1998 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
An international call for V.R., WWW, Net-Linked, and CD ROM Art projects.

The exhibition Communing addresses the theme of the visions of the artists including the processes of Imagining, Meditation, Dreaming, Reflection and Visualization, during the process of art creation.

The exhibition will feature the result of the Communing i.e. the digital language of different international artists that express themselves in V.R., the WWW, Net -Linked Installations, and CD-ROM.

The exhibition is conceived as an encounter of artists, technologies and visionaries.

Communing is especially interested in original innovative projects.

The exhibition welcomes all projects using information technology and different multi-media applications, hypertext, vrml.

The selected international projects will be presented in the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, accompanied with a lectures of the invited artists, and a workshop directed at qualifying the local artists and audience for complex media projects.

The submitted projects will pass through a juried election process.

The authors of the projects retain all of the copyrights.

For the V.R. projects

  • title of project
  • abstract
  • technical equipment requirements for the presentation
  • curriculum vitae

For the web projects the proposals should contain:

  • - title of project
  • - abstract
  • - URL addresses of projects (or CDs)
  • - technical equipment requirements for the presentation
  • - curriculum vitae

* The selected artists will be contacted and will be provided with the guidelines and an FTP address where the projects can be uploaded. When sending the projects please send description of any additional changes that have to be done locally.

For the Net-Linked Installations the proposals should contain:

  • - title of project
  • - abstract
  • - URL addresses of projects (if already existing)
  • - detailed technical equipment requirements for the presentation
  • - curriculum vitae

For the CD ROM projects the proposals should contain:

  • - title of project
  • - abstract
  • - technical equipment requirements for the presentation
  • - curriculum vitae
  • - video tape
  • - the actual CD ROM

 

Deadline for submission: July 15, 1998

Notification of acceptance: July 25, 1998

International Web Art and CD ROM Art exhibition

Venue: Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art
Date of exhibition: 02.- 09.October 1998

Submit proposals for the event to:

Melentie Pandilovski, Curator of SEAFair '98
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje, Macedonia
Orce Nikolov 109, 91000 Skopje
mpandil@soros.org.mk
scca@soros.org.mk
http://www.scca.org.mk
tel/fax: 389.91.133.541

 

 

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Junction

*Syndicate meeting

October 03-04.1998

(Support is expected by SCCA - Skopje, Arts&Culture Department of OSI - Macedonia and CultureLink)

It is expected that more than 30 active members of the Syndicate List from across the European Continent will gather in Skopje to discuss the current issues that the art&media community is facing, the undertaken actions, as well as to investigate the possible developments of the Syndicate. The participants include artists, theorists, art curators, directors of various art institutions, journalists, media activists.

Goals of Junction:

  • To discuss the implementation of the artistic, philosophic, educational, and other aspects of the new and emerging media in various parts of Europe with an emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe.
  • To promote the European East-West exchange of ideas and discuss the techniques that will assisist the communication within the European emerging electronic art&media scene.
  • To find practical ways of enabling the access of necessary technology to the artists on the East.
  • To find ways and means of improving the study of the emerging arts and new technologies.