----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the NINCH list. Judy -------------Forwarded Message----------------- From: David Green, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] To: Multiple recipients of list, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] Date: 2/17/99 2:19 PM RE: CYBERART99 Symposium in New York City... May 9th, 1999 ************************************************************************** NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT February 17, 1999 CYBERART99: seeking solutions May 9: New York City An impressive array of participants have been gathered for this symposium, designed not only to analyse the current state-of-the-art of online digital arts but to propose different models for financial support of this work in the future. David Green =========== >Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:36:31 -0500 >To: [log in to unmask] >From: "Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: CYBERART99 Symposium in New York City... May 9th, 1999 CYBERART99: seeking solutions Sunday, May 9, 1999; 10am - 5pm Doors Open at 9am The Great Hall @ Cooper Union 7 E. 7th Street, NYC (at 3rd Avenue) It's been four years since ASCI produced what was perhaps the world's first CyberFair at Cooper Union, NYC. Michael Govan, Director of the DIA Center in New York and internationally renowned performance artist, Laurie Anderson were keynotes. The field of cyberart has evolved and changed dramatically since those early days. The issues at the end of the twentieth century are no longer how to get access, how to create your own homepage, or how to use the Internet to make art. Artists have pushed this globally interactive medium in all kinds of creative ways: hypertext poetry, multimedia works, and even live performances. Categories have been created at prestigious international competitions to recognize and reward the best and most innovative work in this newest of digital art media. However, there are pressing questions that need resolution if this young artform is to survive and flourish. At CYBERART'99, you will see and hear how artists and museums are dealing with the unique challenges of this rapidly developing "virtual" art. As a medium that cannot be sustained by the traditional commercial gallery model, webart requires new solutions regarding its production, presentation, and maintenance. This all-day event brings together some of the world's most creative digital minds in a unified effort to invent concrete and viable *new models* of support. The event format is designed to first provide an important historical context--history being a relative term in this field. Highly recognized webart projects that exemplify many innovative U.S. and European support models will be presented in the first half of the program. Then, proposals for four *new models* of support will be shared for public critique and feedback. These proposals will have been created during a month-long online discussion of the panelists prior to the event. We invite our audience members to learn about this vital new artform spawned from recent tele-communications technologies, and to join us in building a viable, formal structure for supporting it. PARTICIPANTS: * Maxwell Anderson - Director of the Whitney Museum of Art * Robert Atkins - art writer, editor/producer * Steve Bradley - web artist, professor at the University of Baltimore * Steve Dietz - Director, New Media Initiatives; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; * John Maxwell Hobbs - Creative Director, Ericsson CyberLab, NYC * Jon Ippolito - Internet designer/curator, Guggenheim Museum SoHo * Bill Jones - Editor of ArtByte Magazine * Laura McGough - independent curator and co-Director of NOMADS * Mark Napier - web artist and technologist * Randall Packer - media artist, lecturer in digital media, independent curator. * Manuel Schilcher - web artist/engineer, set-up Ars Electronica's Lab * Doree Seligmann - Lucent Technologies, New Jersey * Wolfgang Staehle - Founder & Director of The Thing * Helen Thorington - turbulence website, Founder/Director * Martha Wilson - Founding Director of the Franklin Furnace, NYC * Adrianne Wortzel - web artist, professor at NYCTC-CUNY and Cooper Union REGISTRATION: $15 Pre-Registration (until April 15th) $20 At the Door Print-out the Registration Form and send with your check to ASCI, P.O. Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301. ASCI phone#: 718 816-9796. For event schedule, panel topics, hyperlinks to panelists URL's: http://www.asci.org/cyberart99 CYBERART99 is a co-production of The Cooper Union and ASCI. (Sponsorship opportunities are available. Contact Cynthia Pannucci by return email or call 718 816-9796.) ASCI is a 10 yr.old, NYC-based, non-profit arts organization devoted to raising public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaborations between these fields. Cynthia Pannucci Founder/Director Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) ****Celebrating its 11th Year**** 718 816-9796; [log in to unmask] PO Box 358, Staten Island, NY 10301 URL: http://www.asci.org =============================================================== David L. Green Executive Director NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE 21 Dupont Circle, NW Washington DC 20036 http://www.ninch.org [log in to unmask] 202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax ==============================================================