The second leg of the GRAMMATRON World Tour [www.grammatron.com] is
moving into the home-stretch. After successful presentations at many
prestigious events in the Fall of 1997 including the Ars Electronica
Festival in Linz, the International Symposium of Electronic Art at the
Art Institute of Chicago, and the International Biennial of Film and
Architecture in Graz, the GTRON program is about to take off for
Australia.

On Sunday, March 8th, at the Ngapartji Multimedia Centre in Adelaide
(South Australia), the Australian Network of Art and Technology (ANAT),
in association with the Telstra Adelaide Arts Festival, will be
presenting FOLDBACK, a day long forum on media, techno-sound and screen
culture celebrating the tenth anniversary of ANAT's existence as
Australia's peak network agency for artists working with technology.

The Telstra Adelaide Arts Festival is considered Australia's Foremost
event in contemporary art. As one of the few events Profiling
technology-based art, FOLDBACK is an integral aspect of the Adelaide
Festival. The event takes place on a Sunday, forming a bridge between
the themes explored during both Writers' Week and Artists' Week.
According to a recent press release from ANAT, "[d]rawing connections
between the often divergent cultures of art, writing and sound, FOLDBACK
seeks to dispel the assumption that media art belongs only in a visual
arts context." Forming a living biography of ANAT's past and present,
the event will feature many of Australia's most exciting
transdisciplinary artists and Alt-X's Mark Amerika has been invited to
deliver the keynote address.

Amerika's keynote address and appearance at the Telstra Adelaide Arts
Festival will be followed by a lecture/performance tour Throughout
Australia where he will be presenting both the Alt-X and GRAMMMATRON
projects to audiences in Perth (March 18th at the Perth Institute for
Contemporary Art), Sydney (The Performance Space, date TBA), and
Brisbane (March 24th at the Institute for Modern Art).

For updates on all FOLDBACK events, including the tour, go to:
http://www.anat.org.au/

For information on the Telstra Adelaide Arts Festival go to:
http://adfest98.telstra.com.au/

For information on Mark Amerika, The Alt-X Online Network or GRAMMATRON
go to: http://www.altx.com