Claudia Giannetti on Sun, 8 Nov 1998 16:21:15 +0100 |
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opening of the new MECAD \ Media Centre of Art and Design, Sabadell-Barcelona, Spain On next 9th and 10th of November, MECAD \ Media Centre of Art and Design organises, together with Goethe Institut Barcelona, the symposium "cross_over: arts.technologies.networks" in Barcelona, Spain. During these two days, well-known theoreticians and artists in the field of electronic art in order to discuss various topics related to the education and production of electronic art. This event constitutes as well the official opening of the new MECAD \ Media Centre of Art and Design, recently founded in Sabadell - Barcelona, Spain. MECAD's main objectives have to do with the development of research, producction and support of those creative practices that involve infographic, audivisual, telematic media and hipermedia. At the conferences and the round table, the international specialist invited will expose their opinions and perspectives on the current conditions - in the field of electronic art - of the education provided by universities and colleges, as well as on the support offered to the production of media art by European media centres. The participants will be: Michael Klein, director of the Institute for New Media, Frankfurt; Miklós Paternák, director of C3 - Center for Culture and Communication (Soros Fondation), Budapest; Jean-Michel Blottière, director of the Imagina Festival; and Siegfried Zielinski, director of the Kunsthochschule für Medien, in Cologne, indeed the most prestigious school of Europe in this field. The composer Eduardo Polonio and the coordinator of this symposium, Claudia Giannetti, will also take part in the programme, the latter introducing the new centre MECAD, whose director she is. There will also take place a paralel programme which includes various activities, such as an electroacoustic music concert, with works by Eduardo Polonio; a retrospective projection of the videos awarded at the Imagina Festival during the last decade; and the premiere of the interactive, multimedia performance Afasia, by Marcel.là Antúnez Roca, which has been coproduced by MECAD. During this premiere, the creation of MECAD will also be officially presented. On occassion of this symposium, the first book published by MECAD - a book/monography on Marcel.là Antúnez Roca which opens the collection devoted to media art that this Centre intends to publish - will also appear. Conferences, concert and video projection: Conference room of the CCCB, C/ Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona. ADMISSION FREE. Performance "Afasia": Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Sala Tallers. Pl. de les Arts, 1 (entrada calle Padilla). From 11th to 22nd November. Tickets: 2.600 pts. Information: MECAD \ Media Centre d'Art i Disseny, Marquès de Comillas, 79-83 - 08202 Sabadell - Barcelona Tel: 93 745 70 40 Fax: 93 726 81 83 info@mecad.org Claudia Giannetti MECAD \ Media Centre d'Art i Disseny Marques de Comillas, 79-83 08202 Sabadell - Barcelona Tel: +34 93 745 70 40 Fax: +34 93 726 81 83 info@mecad.org http://www.mecad.org