SEAFair 2002
Skopje Electronic Arts Fair

Cultural Transformation
Consciousness and New Technologies

14 December 2002 - 13 January 2003


Location: Skopje Museum of Contemporary Arts - MoCA

Organizer: Contemporary Art Center Skopje

Curator: Melentie PANDILOVSKI

Supported by: Foundation Open Society Institute Macedonia, PROHELVETIA Arts Council of Switzerland, Goethe Institute Belgrade

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.

The main theme of the Symposium will be CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS. Themes such as the influence of techno-scientific change upon society, the study of consciousness, the study of the mind, etc. will be examined.

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