SEAFair 2002 Cultural Transformation - Consciousness and New Technologies
Project investigating the transformation of culture, through the prism of consciousness, and new technologies.
Duration and dates: November 29 - December 04. 2002
Location (full address): Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Samoilova bb, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, phone/fax : 389 2 117.734
Organizer (organization and contact person) and basic information about it:
Contemporary Art Center Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, Tel/Fax: +389.2.133.541
e-mail: scca@scca.org.mkhttp://www.scca.org.mk
2.PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
SEAFair (Skopje Electronic Arts Fair), which was initiated in 1997, is the first media art manifestation in the Balkans, bringing together International multimedia artists, artists, critics, and theorists dealing in Internet, bio-technology, nano-technology, as well as the interested regional audience. SEAFair serves as an international and intercultural meeting point for arts and technologies. SEAFair urges discussions about the artistic, philosophic, educational and other aspects of the new processes in culture.
The project SEAFair 2002 Cultural Transformation - Consciousness and New Technologies is envisioned to bring together culture theoreticians, practitioners of new media, philosophers, consciousness experts, neuroscientists, artists and sociologists, in a constructive dialogue. We expect the project to produce an open atmosphere for critical discourse, and an on-going debate regarding the raised issues.
The idea of this sixth edition of SEAFair is to investigate the cultural transformation in the beginning of the 21st century by critically examining in an overall platform the evolution of consciousness, society, networks, and new media. The study of consciousness is now considered to be one of the top themes in artistic and cultural circles especially because current research of broad fields in a cultural and a social sense may assist us in the visualizing of our future.
We expect participants from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, England, Germany, France, and the United States. The candidates will have to apply on the open call for the event, after which the Curator and the Board of CAC will decide upon the participants.
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