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Vancouver, BC, Canada - The New Forms Festival (NFF) is an international
festival of contemporary media arts and technologies, featuring an
Exhibition, a Conference, and a Performance/Events Series. Showcasing
emerging new media artists from across Canada and around the world, New
Forms provides an exciting opportunity for audiences to interact with
unique art forms that use cutting-edge media technologies. The theme for
our fourth annual festival is Technography, the inscription of culture
in technology. Over two weeks, at various venues in and around
Vancouver, the Festival will feature more than fifty performances and
presentations by North American and international guest speakers,
musicians, installation and net artists, performance and video artists,
DJs, and dancers.

New Forms is pleased to announce the official launch of the net art
exhibition online -
http://www.newformsfestival.com/net\_art\_web/net\_art.htm. Local artists
include Julie Gendron and Day Kirby (also known as dkjg.com) whose piece
SwirlingUncertainty.Com exposes the risk and danger bombarding us
everyday; artist/dancer Evann Siebens whose collaborative piece Portal
with Yael Kanarek (US) incorporates dance and the Internet together in
one spectacular performance experience; and Jillian McDonald whose two
interactive pieces Advice Lounge and Stand By Your Guns will
revolutionize the way you think about the Internet.

International highlights include: Edward Tang and Jeanne Strole (US)
whose piece Threads: Porn/Personals explores the desire and expectations
of online personal ads; art collective Usine de Boutons (Italy) with
Plug'n'Pray, a software application that helps you get 'converted