Syndicate: Network Art Festival "Da-da-net", Moscow, Nov.-Dec. 1997

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

From: newart <newart@aha.ru>
Subject: festival da-da-net

This year Soros Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow) opened its site
(www.sccamoscow.ru), where the Center has placed its database on Russian
contemporary art. Starting from September, 1, 1997 Soros Center for
Contemporary Art will open one more address in Internet (www.da-da-net.ru),
this will help to organize the Festival of Russian Art Resources.

The Festival "Da-da-net" will take place in November-December 1997. The aim
of this competition is to reveal creative possibilities of Russian users.
We also would like to invite the users from the Community of Independant
States-former Soviet Republics - as subjects of the cultural space, which
had been indivisible not so long ago.

Taking into account that Russian Internet art-association only starts its
work nowadays, the range of artists involved is not so wide, the notion of
Internet art-projects is not so broadly-spread, we would like to draw to
the projects the attention of various participants, not only professional
artists.

This project is a logical continuation of Moscow New Media Art Laboratory,
which was organised by Soros Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow) in 1994,
in the frame of which were held "NewMediaLogia" symposium and
"NewMediaTopia" exhibition.

Nominations of the festival are not limited by solely art web projects, but
also include Russian informational resources (cultural) and educational
resources as well.

To get more detailed information about this project, please contact
festival's supervisors Ms Olga Shishko (newart@aha.ru) and Ms Tatiana
Mogilevskaya (tanusha@aha.ru).


Network Art Festival "Da-da-net"

Organisers:
Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Electronic Publishing House "ArtInfo"

Organizing Committee:
Irina Alpatova - director of the Festival (director of Soros Center for
Contemporary Art, Moscow)
Olga Shishko, Tatiana Mogilevskaya - authors and supervisors of the project
(supervisors of "NewMediaArtLab" project and "NewMediaLogia" simposium)
Jury Plastinin - technical director (director of electronic Publishing
House "ArtInfo"
Eugeny Patarakin (Institut of programme systems, Pereslavl-Zalessky) -
consultant
Tatiana Detkina (first prize at annual exhibition of SCCA "NewMediaTopia"),
Alexander Nikolaev - web-design site
Tatiana Gorucheva - assistant

Structure and terms:
1. Network conference - from September, 1, 1997
2. Applications for participation in the festival - from September, 10
3. Selection of works for competition - from Octobre, 1 to November, 10
4, Festival - from November, 20 to December,20

Selection Criteria:
1. Originality of the idea
2. Usage of web's technical advantages
3. Information updating (for informational resources)
4. Inner unanimity and justification of artistic solution
5. Site's futurological potential

Nominations:
1. The best art project
2. The best cultural resource
3. The best educational resource
4. The best personal home page