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Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98
International Competition for Interactive Media Environment

WDR and GMD nominate international jury

The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne, and GMD - German National
Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, will present
the Cyberstar in 1998 for the second time. Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98
supports cooperation between artists, designers, media and computer
experts. Innovative concepts for interactive scenarios in the categories
television, internet and stage will be awarded. Entries presenting for
example  virtual communities, virtual classrooms or avatar performance
worlds shall reflect and develop "Shared Visions".

An international jury will meet in May 1998 and will decide upon monetary
awards a total of DM 35.000. Furthermore, the main price will include a
work term of several month at GMD to develop the submitted concept.

The jury members are:

Karin OHLENSCHLAEGER, journalist and freelance curator, head of Proyectos
Culturales, Madrid

Hans-Peter SCHWARZ, head of ZKM, Medienmuseum Karlsruhe

Gerfried STOCKER, general manager of Ars Electronica Center and artistic
director of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz

Wolfgang STRAUSS, architect and artist, Bonn/Gargnano in Italy

Georg TROGEMANN, professor for art and media sciences, Kunsthochschule fuer
Medien Cologne

Regina WYRWOLL, head of media division, Goethe-Institute headquaters, Munich


Submisson deadline for Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98 ist March 31th, 1998.

The award ceremonial will take place in connection with the Medienforum
Nordrhein-Westfalen, June 1998 in Cologne. The event will happen at KOMED -
Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum im MediaPark Cologne.

Information and submission guidelines:

WDR
Cyberstar
D -  50600 Cologne
phone +49/221 - 220 6728, fax -6252

http://www.wdr.de/cyberstar

email: cyberstar@wdr.de

Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98 is supported by Stadt Koeln and KOMED -
Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum /MediaPark Cologne.