Syndicate: MINI-SYNDICATE MEETING & CF

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

dear syndicalists,

this is a call for a potential MINI-SYNDICATE MEETING in JUNE 1999 within
the CF event. there is an accompanying MINI-VR MEETING planned as well. [VR
is not to be confused with virtual reality but referred to as virtual
revolutions, as usual]

welcome are all syndicate enthusiasts who would like to make an impressive
appearance in PLOVDIV/BG around 3, 4 & 5 June, 1999. funds are being sought
and hopefully travel, accommodation & per diem costs of participants will
be covered.

so, pack up your topthbrush for yet another art and tech event split into
SYMPOSIUM-EXHIBITION-and-WORKSHOP sections and do let us know which section
& topic will suit you best. send us a brief proposal of your
talk/presentation/installation by SUNDAY, 21 MARCH 1999. in the meantime,
do contact us with any inquiries.

time & resources limited, so apply and confirm your interest TODAY.

cheers,
-iliyana nedkova
[as CF co-curator]


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WHAT:
COMMUNICATION FRONT [CF]
Yet another art and technology event split into
SYMPOSIUM-EXHIBITION-and-WORKSHOP sections, this time in PLOVDIV/Bulgaria -
the city of the 1999 European Cultural Month. Accompanying print and CD
publication. Closing Techno Party. This is the most pertinent event to be
organised at an ever larger scale in this country considering the growing
awareness of artists, critics and curators, based in Bulgaria, of the
development in the arts and creative technologies today.

WHEN & WHERE:
1 - 20 June 1999
ART TODAY Center for Contemporary Art at the Ancient Turkish Baths, Plovdiv

BY WHO:
Initiator/Organiser: ART TODAY Foundation, Plovdiv
Organising Committee: Emil MIRAZTCHIEV, Dimitrina SEVOVA, Monika ROMENSKA,
Nadya GHENOVA, Co-curator: Iliyana NEDKOVA
Collaborative Partners:  EN FORMS VISION/Sofia, V2/Rotterdam, MUU/Helsinki,
FACT/Liverpool, SCCA/Skopje, PUBLIC NETBASE/Vienna, VIA/Basel.

FOR WHOM:
SPEAKERS [Bulgarian and visiting media curators/artists/critics invited to
debate in a three-day symposium [THU - SAT, 3 - 5 JUNE 1999] Accompanying
SYNDICATE & VIRTUAL REVOLUTIONS Mini-Meetings.
EXHIBITORS [Bulgarian and visiting artists invited to work on the theme
'Restoration of the Entity' and to present their site-specific
installations and events within CF]
WORKSHOPPERS [invited artists webauthoring around CF]
GUESTS [trans/local media arts aficionados]
ALL ABOVE: benefiting from the broad range of arty events across Plovdiv
celebrating PLOVDIV99, the European Cultural Month City.


SPEAKERS/EXHIBITORS/WORKSHOPPERS' BUZZ WORDS & CLUES:
communication front; shifting the front lines of electronic arts - center -
periphery - author - spectator; communication, interactivity and mobility
as categories of artistic practice; artist's choice of/within multimedia -
reasons, consequences, perception; telecommunications propaganda machine
and visual arts; displacing nationality - sex - authorship in the network;
the front of technological or artistic - freedom or confinement; the front
of more accessible, more interactive and cheaper art; information
technology as an alternative to traditional artistic practices; art as no
longer preoccupied with the finished product and aesthetic integrity;
today's prevailing interest to the process of creation;  claiming
individual or connected/collaborative authorship; art, politics and social
issues; the manipulative game of artmaking and the emerging new
viewer/participant
...and other related reports from the communication front

VISITING SPEAKERS/EXHIBITORS/WORKSHOPPERS YET TO BE CONFIRMED:
Inke ARNS [G], Lisa HASKEL [UK], Anneke PETTICAN [UK], Melentie PANDILOVSKI
[Mac], Micz FLOR [G/Au], Taylor NUTTAL [UK], Andreas BROEKMANN [G/NL],
Tapio  MAKELA [Fin], Vesna MANOJLOVIC [Yu/NL], Erika PASZTOR [Hun], Saso
VRABIC [Slov]
Igor MARKOVIC [Slov], Tatyana MOGUILEVSKAYA [Ru], Suzana MILEVSKA [Mac],
Oleg KIREEV [Ru], Ryszcard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI [Pol], Jukka YLITALO [Fin],
Antal BODOCZKY  [Hun], Stefan SASKOV [Mac], Natalia ZOLOZNAJA [Ru] "LE
RAINES PROCHAINES" Art Group,  Pipilotti RIST  [CH], Barbara KONOPKA
[Pol]... and some more.


BULGARIAN SPEAKERS/EXHIBITORS/WORKSHOPPERS YET TO BE CONFIRMED:
Albena MIHAILOVA, Mihail DIMOV, Tania ABADJIEVA, Boriana DRAGOEVA, Ivan
NIKOLOV, Simeon NIKOLOV, Trayan ANEV, Filip POPOV, Adelina POPNEDELEVA,
Stefan BOJKOV, Tsvetan KRUSTEV, Kalin SERAPIONOV, Pravdoljub IVANOV, Kamen
BALKANSKI, Maria VASSILEVA, Nedko SOLAKOV, Elisaveta MUSAKOVA, Krasimir
TERZIEV, Ventsislav ZANKOV, Iliyana NEDKOVA, Iara BOUBNOVA, Luchezar
BOYADJIEV, Ilina KORALOVA, Petko DOURMANA, Irina GENOVA, Lyuben KOSTOV,
Svilen STEFANOV ... and some more.


FUNDING
Communication Front has sought funding from the City of Plovdiv, PHARE
Euro-BG Arts Fund/Sofia, Open Society Fund/Sofia, European
Commission/Brussels, European Cultural Foundation/Amsterdam, Pro
Helvetia/Zurich, KulturKontakt/Vienna, Soros Center for the Arts/Sofia.

BACKGROUND
Communication Front will mark the opening of the ART TODAY Center for
Contemporary Art, Plovdiv/BG.  ART TODAY Center comes into being thanks to
the efforts of a group of Bulgarian artists, known as RUB/EDGE collective
who in 1995 initiated an annual event presenting [trans]local contemporary
visual arts. The Ancient Turkish Baths, recognised as a monument of culture
located in downtown Plovdiv, was established as the traditional venue for
these annual fests. Despite its rough and rundown premises, this Turkish
twofold bath of unique architecture, built in the XV C,  proved an
excellent venue for exposing alternative and experimental works of
contemporary art.

In 1997 RUB/EDGE collective evolved as the ART TODAY Foundation [ATF]. ATF
is goal-driven by the tasks of converting the ancient Turkish Bath, left
derelict for good 20 years, into a center of contemporary art and of
raising funds for its activities, i.e. for studying, documenting and
exhibiting the most recent achievements in the contemporary art practices
thus boosting the profile of Bulgaria in the international artscape. It is
hoped that this unique venue will be further developed as a premier
multimedia laboratory.


CONTACTS:
ART TODAY FOUNDATION  &  COMMUNICATION FRONT:
e: [arttoday@bitex.com] or [vr@fact.co.uk]
[t:+359 32/ 452 577, 628 745, 435 442  or +359 2/ 366 633, 378 100]
[f:+359 32/ 661 503]
snail a: [6, Koprivkite St, Plovdiv 4002, BULGARIA]



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