ISEA Meeting at Invencao
Sunday 29 August, 1999
4pm-6pm
Itau Cultural Centre
Avenida Paulista, 149,
Sau Paulo, Brazil

We would like to invite all ISEA members, friends, and interested
parties planning to attend INVENCAO (Sau Paulo, Brazil, August 25-29,
1999) to an ISEA gathering during this event. The meeting, hosted by
ISEA Board member Nina Czegledy, will be an opportunity to network and
discuss ISEA projects.

INVENCAO is organised by the Itau Cultural Institute in collaboration
with:

ISEA, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
(http://www.isea.qc.ca)

Leonardo/ISAST
(http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/home.html)

CAiiA-STAR, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts,
University of Wales College, Newport and the Centre for Science
Technology and Art Research , University of Plymouth, UK
(http://caiia-star.newport.plymouth.ac.uk)

and supported by IDEA (http://nunc.com).

Hope to see you there! For more information on the ISEA meeting, please
contact one of the following:

Nina Czegledy
ISEA Board Member
(czegledy@interlog.com)

Katarina Soukup
International Relations, ISEA
(katarina@isea.qc.ca)

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More information on INVENCAO itself:

INVENCAO
August 25-29, 1999
Itau Cultural Centre
Sau Paulo, Brazil
http://www.isea.qc.ca/symposium/1999.html
instituto@itaucultural.org.br

INVENCAO is an opportunity for those working at the creative edge of the
arts, sciences and technology to collaborate in the transdisciplinary
development of ideas and innovative strategies for life in the next
millennium. Invencao is a "seeding" event that seeks to identify key
questions and issues that can lead to the radical transformation of
culture.

Just as artists increasingly work with the metaphors of science, so
scientists are employing forms of representation, such as visualisation,
which owe much to research in the digital arts. As art is transformed by
interactivity, so science increasingly recognises the subjectivity of
the observer. In turn, technology informs our aesthetic and
epistemological structures and is engendering new processes of
perception, communication and cognition.

INVENCAO will examine the consequences of this convergence of art,
science and technology on our sense of self and human identity, on
consciousness, community and the city, as well as on learning and
leisure.

The organising committee consists of: Arlindo Machado (chair), Roy
Ascott, Roger Malina and Alain Mongeau. The scientific committee is:
Diana Domingues,Claudia Giannetti, Eduardo Kac, Marcos Novac and
Margarita Schultz.

INVENCA0 place at the Itau Cultural Centre, Avenida Paulista, 149, Sau
Paulo, Brazil.
Blue Room and Red Room
10am to 6pm (panels and presentations of papers)
7:30pm to 9pm (lectures by the guest speakers)

To attend :

Send e-mail from July 10 forward to (invencao@itaucultural.org.br), with
your complete name, phone and e-mail. Then, wait for a confirmation
notice. There is no registration fee. Once your registration is accepted
and confirmed, you can go to the INVENCAO secretary from August 23 to
the final day of the event and get an identification card