CYNETart
CYNETart has been showing new trends of cultural developments in the media arts since 1997. The consequences of the prevailing progress of civilisation and the introduction of new information technologies in all fields of social life lead to the disembodiment of perception triggering the examination of a new sensitivity for physical experience and for the perception of one’s own body. The international festival focuses on the broaching the issue of this change of the perception of the body by new information technologies. Herein, the performance of the new technology is less important, it is rather about their cultural potential for mediation. This applies f.i. to linkages between existential questions of humankind and how they are perceived. It also applies to the sensual approach to scientific methods of research and the interconnections between the arts.
Call for entries for the 12th Festival of computer-based art CYNETart_08
TMA Hellerau hosts this international competition of CYNETart, inviting artists and art groups to present their projects, every two years. They can apply with projects that fully utilise digital technologies in their conceptual, creative and performing processes, thereby opening up opportunities for digital performance and their relationship to factors such as time, space, physical presence and social encounters. An international jury with representatives from well-established media culture institutions and experienced scientists with a background in media art history will decide about the winner of the CYNETart-award and the sponsorship award. It will also decide on the award of the artist-in-residence-scholarship funded by the Ministry of Culture. On the occasion of the Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden (12th until 25th November 2008) we will together with Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden AG (ZMD) tender a so-called chess-media-art-award for the amount of €5.000 for the first time.
Online-Submission form at http://www.cynetart.de
Deadline for submissions: 22nd March 2008 Festival period 30th October until 09th November 2008, Festival Theatre Hellerau Awards Ceremony: 30th October 2008, Festival Theatre Hellerau
organiser
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. and Landeshauptstadt Dresden, Amt für Kultur und Denkmalschutz in co-operation with European Centre of the Arts Hellerau
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau CYNETart Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56 01109 Dresden
