MASS '98–Media Art Symposium Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden, December 7-11

MASS '98–Media Art Symposium Stockholm takes place during five days in
December. MASS '98 includes a three-day symposium with internationally
renowned scholars, critics, curators and artists; two days of intensive
workshops; presentations of leading media art organisations.

The symposium is organised under three themes: Media, Distribution and
Reception; exploring the production practices of new media, the
distribution requirements and possibilities of new media technology, and
the challenges new media technology makes on art and society. Leading
artists, curators and researchers in interdisciplinary fields will
lecture on such topics as Art and Interactivity, the History of Media
Arts, Immersive Technologies, New Media Technology and Museology,
Curating Media Art, Art on CD-ROM, the Sociology of Technology,
Hypertext. There will be intensive workshops in Radio on the Internet,
Curating on the Internet, Curating Media Art and Non-Linear
Storytelling. In the evenings there will be guest presentations by the
leading international organisations Ars Electronica, Linz, ZKM/Zentrum
Fur Kunst Und Medietechnologie, Karlsruhe, ICC/Intercommunication
Center, Tokyo and CAIIA/Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive
Arts, Wales.

Speakers:
Roy Ascott
Tony Bennett
Wiebe E Bijker
Char Davies
Timothy Druckrey
Anne-Marie Duguet
Lars O Ericsson
Erkki Huhtamo
Martin Jay
Heidi Grundmann
Perry Hoberman
Hans Peter Schwarz
Astrid Sommer
Jennifer Terry
Benjamin Weil

Further information
MASS '98, Stockholm