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WELCOME TO THE B@R WELCOME TO BULGARIAN @RTISTS REGISTER B@R ID Bulgarian @rtists Register - B@R - is an arts information service based at New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria. B@R was initiated in 1995 by SCA-Sofia to promote the work of contemporary Bulgarian artists through a sophisticated multimedia database which records and displays comprehensive information on a constantly growing number of artists. Each artist is presented through a full CV, high quality colour images, video and sound extracts. B@R is also designed to maintain information on Bulgarian literature and performing arts professionals, as well as on opportunities for artists: festivals, competitions, funding sources, commissions, residencies. B@R Background Information B@R has been developed in close consultation with artists, curators and art historians and forms a useful search and reference tool for a wide range of user groups within professional and general public. Till the end of 1996 B@R will include over 40 visual artists (painters, sculptors, printmakers, craftspeople, designers, illustrators). For each artist B@R contains a detailed CV with contact details, a critic's review on the artists' skills and up to 20 high quality full colour images of the artists' artwork, each described by the critic. Most are established or emerging practitioners, nominated and selected by the Advisory Visual Arts Board at SCA-Sofia. Thus the cost of their entry is entirely subsidised by SCA-Sofia. B@R Public Information Service B@R Public Information Service is currently being set up at the premises of SCA-Sofia as its first public access point. It will be providing information free of charge by phone, fax, snail or e-mail, in the form of illustrated printouts or in person. B@R services will be shortly available to anyone with a Internet access point. Look out for B@R initial webpage. B@R is coming soon. Latest B@R News B@R is in its initial, trial stage of processing and collecting information about artists. B@R has been tested to be completely `user friendly' and able to undertake numerous research tasks. The first public B@R demo was delivered in July 1996 to a selected professional group of SCA Visual Arts Board Members. Next B@R demos target a wider national audience and are scheduled for later in the year at SCA. Recently B@R coordinator promoted the project internationally at the V2_East Documentation Meeting tailored within the framework of the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival - DEAF96 and the Inter-Society of Electronic Arts' annual conference - ISEA96 held in Rotterdam between 16-22 September 1996. By the end of 1996 B@R will be launching a comprehensive SELF REGISTRATION scheme to enable Bulgarian professional artists to register themselves. To ensure B@R's further development B@R coordinator is currently identifying co-funders on a regional and national scale within and outside the country for various B@R projects. Iliyana NEDKOVA B@Rmaid & Coordinator inedkova@sca.osf.acad.bg Iliyana NEDKOVA B@Rmaid Soros Center for the Arts 16 A, P.Evtimii Blvd. Sofia 1000, Bulgaria e-mail: inedkova@sca.osf.acad.bg