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The lectures, seminars and workshops of the festival are going to take place at
the Forum of the Art Gallery Dominican Church
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Thursday, 2 p.m., Forum |
| Heiko Idensen and Olia Lialiana, Netfilm |
| Net/Work/Narratives |
| Inter-disciplinary and co-operative art forms in the Net represent the most
interesting developments in the Internet. In the second part. Olia Lialiana
will introduce her work with a lecture and presentation on "A.K. goes to
Paradise". Her theory purports to show that "Net language is closer to Film
than Video". The artist is also represented in the festival programme with her
Internet project "My Boyfriend came back from the War". |
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Thursday, 4 p.m., Forum |
| Irwin: Neue Slowenische Kunst - State in Time |
| Marina Grzinic will present the work from the fine art group IRWIN, Ljubljana,
Slovenia and it's project Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) - State in Time. |
| Since the 1990's one of the most attention-drawing projects of the Neue
Slowenische Kunst (NSK) movement, which consists of the music group LAIBACH, a
theater group and the group IRWIN; ist the project NSK - State in Time. It was
in the context of a paradigm of this kind that the NSK Embassies were
realised. |
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Friday, 1 p.m., Forum |
| Net Criticism |
| The subject of Net Criticism represents a thematic focal point in the EMAF
seminares in 1997. After the Internet euphoria of last year, a critical
stock-take concerning projects, developments and artistic perspectives is
needed. |
| Concepts and the relationship to other media forms, such as film and video,
will be analysed from a variety of view points and complemented via
considerations of a societal and philosophical nature. |
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- 1 p.m.
- From Speculative Media Theory to Net Criticism
- Lecture and discussion from and with Geert Lovink.
- 2 p.m.
- From Couch Potato to Screen Potato?
- Lecture and discussion from and with Herbert A. Meyer
- Coffee Break
- 3.30 p.m.
- Notes from a Virtual Butterfly
- Lecture and discussion from and with Merel Mirage
- This is a personal experience between the experience of the body and the
experience of the mind interacting with VR. This led the artist to her latest
work: subject: emotions encoded, a docudrama in Cyberspace in which two
strangers meet and start an affair. Through the work she analyses how to deal
with real emotions, born and developed in Cyberspace. But where have the
feelings gone?
- "Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming
myself a man?"
- Chuangtse, Taoist philosopher
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Friday, 5 p.m., Forum |
| Danny Yung, Towards 1997, Hong Kong |
| A Global View of Arts in Hong Kong. |
| Lecture and presentation by Danny Yung, Artistic Director of the arts Center of
the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. |
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Saturday, 1 p.m., Forum |
| Go on then, Push! |
| Discursive economic considerations from the Frankfurt Internet theorist Dr.
Hartmut Winkler on Current developments in the Internet. |
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Saturday, 3 p.m., Forum |
| Non-Locations |
| Non-Locations - Fields of Activity in Urban and Digital Experiential Space is
the title of a presentation to be given by Knowbotic Research, Cologne. |
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Saturday, 5 p.m., Forum |
| Games & Comics |
| Games and Comics, High End Games. Machiko Kusahara (Tokyo) will present the
most recent productions from Japan where theever continuing link between
computer games and the entertainment industry will be demonstrated using
Japan's very popular comicculture as an example. |
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Saturday, 7 p.m., Forum |
| Artwarpeace Sculptureplan, End Time Transmission for Lucerne |
| Presentation of a subversive-ironical Net- and Project-architecture by M.
Falkenstein, K.D. Michel, F. Riepe. |
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Sunday, 1 p.m., Forum |
| New Agora |
| An artistic project in the Internet from the Universities of Kassel,
Göteborg and Helsinki researching the potential in the Web for joint
project developments. |
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Sunday, 2 p.m., Forum |
| Carvien Shiu, F-Port |
| An abstract interacitve internet art-space within the virtual portus of Hong
Kong. |
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