We would like to inform you about an event, LA RECEPTION, soon to come.
LA RECEPTION has two axes: one educational and one aiming to show
different media submitted to experimental practices, as movie, music,
video, multimedia (CD-Rom and internet). There are three workshops for
teenagers: electronic music (Simon Redfern, GB), experimental video
(Daniel Mangeon, FR), litterature and Internet (Linda Stevens, FR).

The showing will take place from the 31/10 to the 2/11 in the Centre de
Culture Europeenne, Saint-Jean-d'Angely, formerly an ancient royal abbey
on the peregrination to Saint-Jacques de Compostelle. LA RECEPTION's aims
are to question, both on the practical and on the critical levels, the
relationship between man and technologies, whatever they may be,
handcraft or electronic, the dialectics between reality and virtuality,
the implications–cultural, social and economical–of contemporary art
practices in a context of technological and societal mutation. The stake
of LA RECEPTION is not to show and demonstrate art practices in
relationship with technologies–whatever sophisticated or primitive they
may be–in an attitude of self-justification, but to offer the
conditions for artists and visitors to meet around the practice, the
tekhne, and together, to receive, question and explore limits and
extremes, to produce works and critics and to set down the bases for a
network which will bloom from this experience.

For more information write to receptio@mygale.org