ISEA97 - WEBCAST

The 8th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA97) is coming up
next week !

To emphasize its presence at the Symposium, the Montreal ISEA HQ is
organizing a "WebCast."

The ISEA WebCast wishes to link the ISEA virtual community that has been
evolving for the past ten years and the symposium, the yearly meeting
point of this community.

ISEA opens its wings in two complementary time-spaces, the first being
linear in time but never grounded in a particular space: the community,
the second being ephemeral both in time and space: the annual meetings.

Each ISEA hosting city can be seen as a temporary base for this huge
community. If the WebCast we realize is a real electronic fingerprint of
an urban event, it is also a vessel in the cyberspace of the hosting
town.

The ISEA WebCast will land in Chicago to:

1-define the frontier between the ephemeral interior space of a
symposium dedicated to electronic arts and its concrete exterior space,
not always concrete, the city which welcomes and surrounds it.

2-grab the essence of the event and allow the critical expression of its
participants.

**CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **

All ISEA attendees can help us to make this WebCast an experimental
success

Time 1: We are seeking artistic collaborations and critical texts to be
realized during the symposium, both from panelists or anyone concerned
by the confrontation of 3 spaces we will experiment during the
symposium, the space of the ISEA community, the ephemeral symposium and
its grounding grip; Chicago

Time 2: All columns and reviews regarding the symposium will be hosted
on the site. A call is now sent to everyone. Our team will put on line
daily all your contributions, texts, images and sounds

Hoping to meet you in the WebCast Lounge (Ballroom) in Chicago, we hope
you will be part of this collaboration experience of the third kind.

For further information, don't hesitate to contact us,

The ISEA WebCast team

- ISEA- 307, Ste-Catherine O # 760.- C.P.508, Succ. Desjardins
- Montreal Quebec H5B 1B6 Canada
- Tel:1-(514) 281-6543
- Fax:1-(514) 281-6728
- email: isea@sat.qc.ca
- http://www.sat.qc.ca/isea

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Hosting ISEA in 1999 or 2000 – ISEA Symposium Deadlines Extended !

For your information, the ISEA Board of Directors voted for an extended
deadline regarding the reception of proposals for the location of both
ISEA99 and ISEA 2000.

For ISEA99, celebrating the 10th edition of the International Symposium
on Electronic Art, the deadline to propose a candidacy for the location
of the event is >>>>December 1st, 1997<<<<.

For ISEA 2000, the 11th International Symposium on Electronic Art, which
will propel ISEA into the next millenium, the deadline for candidacy is
>>>>March 1st, 1998<<<<.

If you wish to know more or receive the Symposium Guidelines, contact
Isabelle Painchaud at:

isea@sat.qc.ca

T: (514) 281-6543
F: (514) 281-6728

ISEA
C.P. 508 Succursale Desjardins
Montreal, Qc
H5B 1B6
CANADA