Syndicate: SEAFair '99

[Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk>]

OPEN COMPETITION
For SEAFair '99:  e-FUSION

- Exhibition:     e-FUSION:  International VR & Web 3D ART
- VR/WEB 3D/ Hands-on workshop
- Symposium with artists, critics, curators and theoreticians


Categories:
	New WORK FOR THE EXHIBITION -
	PROPOSALS FOR THE SYMPOSIUM - TALKS AND PAPERS
	PROPOSALS FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

ONLINE APPLICATION FORM
http://seafair.scca.org.mk/applicationform.htm

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS:  August 25, 1999

DATES:
October 1 - October 15, 1999
e-FUSION:  Virtual Reality - Web 3D Exhibition

September 15 - October 3
VR/WEB 3D/ Hands-on workshop

October 1-4  Symposium with artists, critics, curators and theoreticians

Locations: 	Museum of the City of Skopje
		CIX Gallery, Skopje
		Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art

Organizer: 	Cultural Institution "Contemporary Art Center - Skopje"
Orce Nikolov 109, 91000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel-fax ++389.91.133.541
e-mail: scca@soros.org.mk
mpandil@soros.org.mk

Co - curators: Kathy Rae Huffman and Melentie Pandilovski

PARTNERS, SPONSORS:
Institutions: OSI - Macedonia, OSI - New York, Museum of the City of Skopje,
Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Van Gogh Television

SEAFair (Skopje Electronic Arts Fair) is the first media art
manifestation in the Balkans, bringing together International Internet
artists, multimedia artists, media critics and theorists, as well as the
interested regional audience. SEAFair is conceived to be a serial of
international events, exhibitions/web conferences, which explore the
creation and existing of new media and electronic arts and their newly
developing venues. 
SEAFair serves as an international and intercultural meeting point
for arts and technologies. SEAFair urges discussions about the artistic,
philosophic, educational and other aspects of the processes in electronic
culture. It promotes communication between the international and regional
electronic & media artists. SEAFair, which began in 1997, has established
a great regional importance by being the central focal point in the
Balkans to disperse and expand electronic art knowledge.
SEAFair contributes to the understanding of the artists and cultural
audience in Macedonia, and abroad.
The URL for the past 2 SEAFair events:
http://www.scca.org.mk/SEAFair98/
http://www.scca.org.mk/SEAFair97/


Idea and Concept of SEAFair '99

e-FUSION: VR/3D WEB ART

Part 1.  e- FUSION, an exhibition, will focus on the complexities, achievements and 
limitations of the electronic arts, with projects that emphasize virtual reality, VRML 
(virtual reality modeling language), and web 3D technology.
e-FUSION deals with the themes of individual identity, culture and
technology. e-FUSION will demonstrate the digital language of
international artists, who express themselves with dynamic interactive
simulations of physical systems. The exhibition is envisioned as a focal
point for the meeting of artists, visionaries, and technical experts, all
exploring the technologies of communication in dialogue and exchange. 
Selected projects from the international ART competition for the VRML 99 Conference
In Paderborn, Germany, are invited to SEAFair as a resource of international
achievement in the area of  web 3D technology.  New works - texts - or
lecture demos by VRML-ART artists will be selected.
The e-FUSION exhibition will feature up to 30 new works / installations that utilize VR or 
VRML- web 3D technology, and it will be on view from 01.10.1998 -
15.10.1999.
The exhibition will feature projects utilizing information technology and different applications 
of VR, VRML, web 3D, and multimedia web based works. 
All international and regional artists working with these technologies
are invited to an open competition. 
The exhibition FUSION is dedicated to a dialogue between local and
international artists, critics and a general audience. It is the
continuation of  three years of emphasis in the growing field of 3D Web
Technology, which has manifested in several
independent projects and proposals for this production. The event should urge the creation 
of new projects in Macedonia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe opening up
the creation of installations in virtual reality by local artists.

Selection:  The Curators are responsible for selection of the projects.


Part 2.  e-FUSION: Real/Virtual the environments we choose. A melt down dialogue exchange and 
international lecture and presentation series of projects by the
selected artists, and invited theoreticians.

Part 3.  e-FUSION: Hands-on VR/Web3D Workshop
15.09 1999 - 03.10.1999

Twenty local and international artists, and interested audiences, will be selected to participate in this
development  of complex media projects. The workshop has already a 3
years old history and has been initiated in collaboration with VAN GOGH TV.
The workshop will serve as a theoretical and practical introduction
in the creation of virtual worlds and virtual communities.

The workshop will be divided in 2 parts.

1. - Introduction in 3D programs
2. - Practical demonstration and development of concepts for work in VR models (Web3D).

Part 4. FUSION: VR Community.  During the SEAFair conference, and workshop, an online dialogue 
will be conducted in various 3D communication spaces.  In these areas, selected artists will
conduct guided tours and elucidate the virtual territory.



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Melentie Pandilovski
Contemporary Art Center - Skopje
Orce Nikolov 109, 91000 Skopje
Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax:	++389.91.133.541
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