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Date: Mon Aug 30 09:53:47 1999 From: "Center for Metamedia" <hermit@iol.cz> Fairy-Tale International Symposium September 1 to 30, 1999 Curated by Denise Carvalho Organized jointly with the Center for Metamedia-Plasy "Fairy-Tale" is an international symposium of visual artists addressing forms of narrative both conditioned by and distinct from contemporary communications technologies. The symposium will be held at the Center for Metamedia/Hermit Foundation, an international, interdisciplinary cultural center located in Plasy, Czech Republic. The Centers programs provide artists and scholars of all disciplines with a setting at the Plasy Monastery for experimentation, the creation of new work, research, meetings, as well as opportunities for open dialogue and new forms of collaboration. The Center enjoys the support of the Institute for Historic Monuments-Plzen, the Czech Ministry of Culture, Res Artis, the town of Plasy, the Prins Bernhard Fund, and The Soros Foundations. An international selection of artists, each combining various media through a multidisciplinary practice, will meet at the Center, during the month of September, to examine and explore their relation to (and understanding of) contemporary narrative structures in the visual arts. Conjoining one of the oldest forms of narrative - the fairy tale - with the current and historical contexts of western Bohemia, the symposium will investigate the idea of the real as we assimilate it through various sources of information, addressing the narratives that construct a reality and simultaneously mediate its apprehension. During their residency at the Center, the artists will develop works addressing this theme within a collaborative environment encouraging the exchange of ideas across cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Informal exchange among the artists will be fostered by the setting at the Center where the artists and organizers share their living and work spaces. More formal occasion for exchange will be provided during public forums organized throughout the month, such as round-table discussions and studio visits. The works will provide the material basis on which these forums will refer and elaborate. In addition, a web site will be created prior to the residencies to initiate a dialogue between the artists participating in the symposium. This web site will provide both a message board facilitating the exchange of ideas between the artists prior to their residency at the Center, as well as an archive of texts, images, and other material serving to document both the development of the symposium as well as the event itself. A catalogue will be produced documenting the development of the artists projects at the Center and will incorporate critical and theoretical texts elaborating on the concept of the fairy tale. About the website The website would provide a vehicle for a series of conversations between participating artists, curators, critics and others through its online message board and virtual reading room. This ongoing forum would address contemporary forms of narrative with regard to the cultural, historical, theoretical and technological contexts through which they signify. The virtual reading room becomes a searchable archive for texts and images referenced by postings to the message board. Participants would receive daily updates of postings to the server's message board via e-mail. In addition to facilitating a series of dialogues between the participants prior to their residency at the Center, the site would also provide the opportunity to broadcast via the internet performances and panel discussions held at the Center during the residency. Finally, a catalogue would be produced from a combination of postings made to message board material deposited in the archive, and documentation of symposium's activities. About the curator and the artists For several years, Denise Carvalho has been a contributing writer and critic for magazines such as Flash Art, Review, New Observations, Sculpture, and Cover. Her career as an art critic began as an existential twist from her own art. After many years as an experimental painter, she started to work with ideas, and the writing on other artists' works was a continuation of this process. The artists selected to participate from the United States are: Michel Gerard, Alex Villar, Alison Cornyn, Mark Shepard, Abdelali Dahrouch,Jacques Roch and Tony Roch, Barbara Broughel, Erwin Redl, Dan Devine, Michael Crackford, Stephanie Syjuco. The artists participating from abroad are Mare Tralla (Estonia), Monika Brandmeier (Germany), Redas Dirzys (Lithuania), Martin Zet (Czech Republic), Charlie Citron (Holland), Toshihiro Yashiro (Japan), Janos Sugár(Hungary), Yuri Lederman(Russia). In addition, the artists will have the opportunity to collaborate with others currently in residence at the Center.The unexpected interventions, contingency and different contumecious evets are included in the framework of the symposium. Denise Carvalho, Milos Vojtechovsky, Jo Williams. Hermit Spolecnost pratel umeni Plasy / Centrum pro Metamedia Society of Friends of Art-Plasy / Center for Metamedia Klaster, PO Box 25, 331 01 Plasy, Czech Republic tel/fax: 420 (0)182 32 29 09 e-mail: hermit@iol.cz http://www.hermit.cz carv@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Welcome to our website, Fairy-Tale >I invite you to join our website www.fairy-tale.org subscribing (at no >cost) to our list of participating artists. To participate, you will >have to follow the steps described in the website?s front page. You >should click on Forum and then subscribe by substituting where it is >written "YOUR firstname" with your first name, then replace "YOUR >lastname" with your last name. Avoid writing a subject on the subject >line, although it will ask you to do that. Just press SEND again, and it >will send your subscription. >You will receive an acknowledgment in your email that you are >subscribed. Then, you can begin adding your comments and email them >directly to fairy-tale@listproc.thing.net >Please, invite other artists, critics, writers, curators to participate >as well. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress