Andreas Broeckmann on Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:13:42 +0100 |
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[at least these people have a good, if naive, sense of humour; maybe alexej and daniel/TTTP can help; -a] From: "Andy Forbes" <andy@j15.co.uk> Subject: approved sponsors HURRAH! Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 16:07:22 +0100 Department of Fine Arts Manchester Metropolitan University Re: Sponsorship for Web specific art competition launching September 5-20 isea98: the ninth International Symposium on Electronic Art Dear friend, ISEA98TERROR has decided that the suggestion for the ninth International Symposium of Electronic Art web site, the 'net-art98' project/competition, hosted by Ellipsis and with production by Junction 15 and Warp-Interactive, is an excellent initiative. We believe this online international competition, probably the first to be held for this emerging art format [where have these people been in the last four years? -a], will be crucial in developing and moving forward artistic endeavour on the web. Despite the tight time schedule we believe there is lightly to be a great response from artists and the worldwide web audience alike, with resulting good coverage for the competition and its sponsors in the conventional and online press. The Manchester Digital Summer programme is moving into full swing. The birth of "The Baby" (the first ever stored-programme computer) was celebrated on Sunday 21st June at the Museum of Science and Industry. You will no doubt have seen the many media articles and screenings around this rebuilt computer. The summer continues with events throughout and will lead to ISEA98 as the climax in September. We have received over 800 submissions from the open submission calls and it promises to be the UK's biggest ever electronic arts event to date and indeed the most ambitious ISEA so far, making the Ninth Annual ISEA a crucial event in the arts calendar worldwide. The online voting for the net-art98 competition will open at the beginning of ISEA98TERROR, a first elimination of competitiors will be made at the close of the event, and voting will then continue till December '98 culminating with the award of prizes based on the final vote. [this language (terror/elimination) is quite interesting; but more interesting will be the programming stunts that the nat.artists will pull off in order to manipulate the voting process: expect a convincing demonstration of the merits of an online-democracy! -a] We would like to offer you the opportunity to develop the net-art98 competition in conjunction with ourselves. We currently need to boost the prize money on offer and also provide some funds to ensure the smooth running of the competition. All sponsors will appear on the main competition web page in order of contribution (with small logos hot linked to their own web sites) and on all competition publicity and press releases. Myself, as Head of Department and as Executive Director of ISEA98, am signatory for a charitable account at MMU, where this will be fully accountable and auditable. Any sponsorship cheques for net-art98 should be made payable to "Manchester Metropolitan University" and sent to myself at the above address. I look forward to hearing from you. Professor John Hyatt Executive Director/Chair ISEA98TERROR