DEAF 2000 - Machine Times
Rotterdam, 14 - 26 November 2000
(main festival week: 14-19 nov)

+ DEAF - Dutch Electronic Art Festival

DEAF, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, is an international and
interdisciplinary bi-annual festival organised by V2_Organisation in
Rotterdam (Netherlands). DEAF presents an exhibition of interactive
installations, WWW-sites, CD-roms and live performances, seminars,
workshops and an academic symposium, all brought together in relation to
a special theme. The event brings together a varied group of visitors,
artists and critics from home and abroad.

+ Theme DEAF 2000 'Machine Times'

DEAF 2000 will deal with the theme of 'Machine Times'. After all the
recent millenial excitement, the festival will take a close look at the
role which time plays in the constitution of our technological reality.
Ever since Einstein's theory of relativity and Bergson's aesthetics, we
have been aware that time forms an indispensible dimension of the
reality that surrounds us, and of the way in which we perceive this
reality.

Temporal structures are built into technological apparatuses, from
chronometers and industrial machines, to the frequencies of radios and
computers with their ever-increasing processing speeds. But time is also
an essential part of our natural existence, our bodies being time
machines in themselves, with biological cycles and cellular aging
mechanisms. Movement in time is the way in which we perceive, maybe even
constitute space, and the most radical boundary of nature is made up of
the speed of light, beyond which we transgress into the utopian terrain
of time-travel.

DEAF 2000 will investigate the phenomenon of time through a variety of
formats, in art projects, performances, lectures and film screenings.

For updates about the festival, watch the DEAF website and subscribe to
the DEAF_info mailing list.

[Note: There is no open call for the festival. The festival has a rather
strict curatorial policy and we really focus on the theme described
above. While we welcome related proposals, we want to discourage people
from sending in projects that not really relate to the theme. There is
no application form for submitting proposals.]