Artmedia VIII - Paris

from "l'Aesthetics of Communication" to Net Art

November 29th - December 2nd 2002
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International symposium organized by Mario Costa, Fred Forest & Annick Bureaud
under the umbrella of the Universita degli Studi di Salerno,
Dipartimento di Filosofia

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Information at : www.olats.org

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Locations :

>From November 29th to December 1st 2002 :
Centre Francais du Commerce Exterieur (CFCE)
10, avenue d'Iena
75116 Paris

Monday December 2nd 2002:
Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS)
46, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris

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The conference Artmedia VIII bases its reflection on the presupposition
that technological communication at a distance functions as a driving
force in transformations to our world. This brings us to reflect, in
particular, on the questions of anthropo-philosophy and aesthetics
raised by the current situation. It also involves pondering the
implications of this for the economy and even the organization of
culture.

At the beginning of the 1980s, "The "aesthetics of communication"
(Costa, Forest) having sensed the direction of this current change, and
its present developments, appears as one of the first attempts aiming to
provoke awareness of what was happening in order to observe all the
consequences, both aesthetic and artistic.
The present-day existence of networks and the very diversified
phenomenology of "aesthetic" products which can be found there, raises
again, although according to different modalities, all the questions
already posed by the "aesthetics of communication", while generating new
experimentation one can still recognize as related to these
problematics.

The conference proposes to "thematize" this situation, with the
participation and testimony of a great many "communications artists",
both old-timers and newcomers, and the contribution of theoreticians and
specialists engaged, in one way or another, in reflecting on, organizing
and spreading culture.

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Topics & Participants :

History of an Aesthetics of Technological Communication
Moderator: Frank Popper
With : Louise Poissant, Natan Karczmar, Fred Forest, Louis-Jose Lestocart

Form and Event in the Networks
Moderator : Derrick de Kerckhove
With : Mario Costa, Mariapaola Fimiani, Edmond Couchot

'Thematizing