Syndicate: VR on Tour INVITE

[vr@fact.co.uk (iliyana nedkova)]

dear syndicalists,

below is a virtual invite for those who won't be able to join us and a MUST
for those members of the syndicate 'club' who are around in sofia. there
are quite a few of us, currently based in this city. hope that it will turn
into a mini-VR and mini-syndicate meeting.

cheers,
-illie________________________________________[VR]



POST-ISEA98 PREMIERES at ICA-SOFIA
TWO PROCESS-LED PROJECTS ON THE FRINGE & FOREFRONT OF ISEA98 [www.isea98.org]

VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS__________________________ [VR]
www.yourserver.co.uk/vr
guest presentation by Iliyana NEDKOVA, VR Curator

&

MERCURIAL STATES_____________________________ [MS]
www.mercurialstates.com
guest presentation by Mickela SONOLA, MS Curator

Join us at ICA-SOFIA to test the creative potential of internet artmaking &
[trans]local collaborations. Do check out with ICA-SOFIA videoteque for a
videotape documenting the diverse programme of ISEA98 events to brush up
your background understanding of ISEA98.

venue: ICA-SOFIA
address: 28, Chataldja str, SOFIA 1504
how to get there tips:
off Dondukov Blvd & Byalo More str, close by ISUL Hospital
contacts: [t:46 64 33][ica-sofia@bitex.com] [www.bar.bg/ica]
date: Tuesday, 23 February 1999
time: 6 pm - 8 pm


Mickela SONOLA [UK] [mickela@mercurial.u-net.com]
Mickela is currently a freelance project manager and curator. She is based
part time at FACT, Liverpool, UK [The Foundation for Art & Creative
Technologies],  where she recently completed a 2 year traineeship in
Project Mangement and Curation, focusing on collaborations between new
media artists and members of the local black communities in Toxteth,
Liverpool. Mickela is also an active member of VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS media
art community. Besides that Mickela is the Administrator for The Fittings
Group - a touring disabled theatre Group and the manager of Die Kunst - an
art-rock band based in Manchester, UK.

MERCURIAL STATES [www.mercurialstates.com]
The Mercurial States website has been recently updated and Mickela has
began to develop the second stage of Mercurial States which so far consists
of a Creative Technology module, located at Liverpool Black Sisters. The
collaboration will bring together local women based in Toxteth, an artist
and a multi media trainer. The module will culminate in an
exhibition/presentation during the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Arts
this year from September to October.

Iliyana NEDKOVA [BG/UK] [vr@fact.co.uk]
Iliyana is lately a freelance curator, lecturer, writer and facilitator of
a number of media art events in/about Eastern Europe and Bulgaria, in
particular. Iliyana is also a part time  MPhil/PhD research fellow at the
Liverpool Art School, Liverpool John Moores University. Currently she is
based at FACT, Liverpool [the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology]
as a  curator-in-residence.

VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS [www.yourserver.co.uk/vr]
VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS has been initiated to address the fragmented cultural
identities from both sides of the former East/West divide by providing
opportunities for about 71 international electronic art professionals to
travel, meet, research in rich stimulating environments such as festivals
and media labs across Europe in the summer of 1998. The VR community, which
has emerged of the VR summer series of digital art workshops is now busy
with setting up the VR Publication featuring VR CD and VR WEB of entirely
new cd-rom and net-based works and a VR BOOK of critical writings. VR WEB
has just been updated, marking the new production-oriented stage of the
project. This will be the European premiere of the VR WEB.


Mickela & Iliyana will be giving brief and informal presentations of their
experiences of the nature and process of collaborative, community based art
projects and tour of the websites. Hopefully, an interesting talk will
develop from the close discussion. Mickela looks forward to hearing about
similar projects or otherwise that artists are producing on a local level.

The guest presentations are courtesy of ICA-SOFIA. Mickela SONOLA guest
visit is kindly facilitated by N-Forms Vision Foundation, Sofia and TED
Gallery, Varna. The ISEA98 videotape is a courtesy of FACT.



iliyana nedkova_______________________________ illie
media art curator, based in sofia/bg & liverpool/uk
currently on t:+359 2 37 81 00 or f:+359 2 936 09 88
always on ___________________________ e:vr@fact.co.uk
virtual revolutions on _______www.yourserver.co.uk/vr