Syndicate: "graz 2000" ..... a European city CALL FOR PROPOSALS !

["Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)" <asci@asci.org>]

"graz 2000"...
is more than two exhibitions in a palace, a castle, & subterranean spaces!

It is an ambitious cultural project (two permanent exhibitions) being
organized by the Cultural Department of the city government of Graz,
Austria, with a distinct future mission...  to create a sustainable
self-image for Graz as a center for modern art, high technology, education,
and science.  It will look back on the city's roots as a context for the
presenting some of the most exciting art/sci/communications projects of our
time.  "graz 200" will play a seminal role in outfitting the city for new
dynamism in the artistic, cultural, and information-technology realms, and
lay a solid foundation for the year 2003, when Graz will have the
distinction of being the European "Cultural Capital."
For information on Graz  http://www.iicm.edu/graz;sk=FF047D01/

ASCI Director, Cynthia Pannucci, will be setting up a meeting schedule
( in NYC, Nov.4 - 8th ) for artists, scientists, producers, etc. to meet
with Richard Kriesch, the director of the "graz 2000" project.

Seeking predominately interactive works (or those that could be) that
express the two exhibition themes  (below)... as well as panelists for
public symposia, performance artists and ideas for public events & projects
that will be presented in conjunction with the exhibitions and during the
next 5 yrs.

***If you feel your current work fits this project and you would like to be
involved
(the works will be commissioned, travel, and expenses paid, etc.)....
You may, of course, be proposing work that is a collaboration.
***SEND  200  WORDS  (no more!) describing your work and a URL
for reference to past projects and bio/resume(s).
If they are interested in your work, you can bring more materials to the
meeting.  *** DEADLINE... October 31st.   (Email with Subject: "graz 2000"
proposal)


1.  Title of the Exhibition: "Chip"
Context of the Exhibition: "Art, Science, and Communication"
Location: The Second Floor of the Eighteenth-Century Palace of SchloÃ?
Eggenberg and Its Surrounding Park

This exhibition will examine "The Impact and Consequences of Information
Technology as Expressed in Art, Science and Communication."
In this connection, the palace itself and its setting are of particular
importance.  They will not simply serve as a backdrop for the exhibition,
but will be an integral part of it.  In keeping with the goal of creating a
sense of continuity between present and past, we will examine the
historical origins of the palace and its grounds in order to expose the
hidden mathematical and scientific principles upon which they were laid
out.  Eggenberg is an example of a world view given architectural
expression--in this instance at the threshold between the premodern and
modern ages.  Eggenberg therefore presents at once a point of departure and
an opportunity for reflection and discovery in an exhibition that will also
take place at the watershed between two ages--in this case the modern age
and the information age.  And like its eighteenth-century predecessor, the
new world view being ushered in by the information age also finds
expression in a highly abstract, mathematically-determined
architecture--that of the computer chip.

2.  Title of the Exhibition: "Living, Dying, Thinking"
Context of the Exhibition: "Art, Science, and Communication"
The Exhibition in the City Museum/SchloÃ?berg

The exhibition at Eggenberg deals with the great swiftness of recent
scientific and technological innovation and the breathtaking pace with
which knowledge is currently being accumulated and distributed.  The
exhibition on the SchloÃ?berg, a hill located at the city's center,  stands
in dialectic to that of Eggenberg.  It deals by contrast with eternal
questions.  The themes, "Living, Dying, Thinking" were chosen specifically
for their continuing importance at the turn of this new millennium. Today
these questions have taken, among others, the following concrete form. The
question, "When does death actually take place?" raises yet another, "What
exactly is life?"  Without doubt, this is connected with thinking, with the
functioning of the brain. So we turn to the sciences that today deal with
questions of communication, not just between people, but within
individuals, with the transfer of information and messages, with their
coding and decoding.  "Science, Art and Communication" brings together
disciplines that, each in its own way, deals with the bridge between life
and death.  The boundaries between science and art thereby dissolve.

2a.  In the SchloÃ?berg
To go into the SchloÃ?berg with a portion of the exhibition means to follow
the pattern of information and technological revolutions in order to
understand their cultural and social significance. The information
revolution is inwardly oriented; one's environment becomes one's interior
space; the exterior view becomes an interior one; sight becomes insight.
In the same sense, we will not go to the mountain top, but rather into the
mountain (i.e., into its tunnels) in keeping with the logic of modern
information science.  The use of these subterranean spaces will be the
first step in ensuring an on-going impact of the exhibition, since they can
then be utilized long after the year 2000 or 2003 as a foundation for a
modern cultural information cluster in the center of the city.


*** Tying the Exhibition Sites Together
In order to bind these two sites--Eggenberg and the city center--together,
we foresee a visible material link in appropriate signage, as well as a
less materially tangible link in a communicative networking of the two.
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Cynthia Pannucci
Founder/Director
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
****Celebrating its 10th Anniversary****

718 816-9796;    pannucci@asci.org
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