LEAF97

[abroeck@v2.nl (Andreas Broeckmann)]

INITIAL CALL for LEAF PAPERS and PARTICIPANTS

What is LEAF:
Liverpool East European Electronic Arts Forum /LEAF/
with a working theme:
Virtually Transformed Europe
Recent East European Revolutions in Society, Culture, Technology, Art

When is LEAF:
Sunday, April 13 & Monday, April 14, 1997
Suggested Liverpool stay of LEAF participants -  April 11-20, 1997

Where is LEAF:
Liverpool, UK
LEAF location further to be confirmed

Who is LEAF's organiser:
Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT),
Liverpool, UK

Deadline for submissions of LEAF papers and proposals to FACT:
January 10, 1997



Dear LEAF participant,

I would like to approach you with an invitation to join a meeting of
East-European media artists, thinkers and practitioners as a productive
debate on the Recent East European Revolutions in Society, Culture,
Technology, Art. LEAF is initiated by FACT - the UK's leading development
agency for artists and exhibitors working with creative technology. LEAF is
set to fit within the framework of both Video Positive 1997 (VP 97) and the
International Symposium on Electronic Arts 1998 (ISEA 98) - the two major
media arts events, organised by FACT in Liverpool and Manchester, UK.

The initial LEAF invitation is a call for papers and proposals  about any
new or developing  media art projects - CD-ROMs, networked projects,
performance/live events that could address the issue of REVOLUTION with a
particular East-European emphasis.

LEAF97 would like to take as a starting point the ISEA98 broad topic of
Revolution and introduce an ISEA context well in advance for ongoing
discussions and debates that could be further explored off- and on-line.
Moreover LEAF97 would eventually aspire to bring the East European
Electronic Arts awareness to ISEA98 agenda.

LEAF97 could elaborate on the metaphor of Revolution and reconsider the
implication of Revolution and technology from a particular East-European
perspective: from the industrial to the technological, from the shifting
political and information territories of the last ten years, to the failure
of the 'information revolution' to address the great divide between the
first and the third world. Thus LEAF 97 will provide an opportunity for
artists, writers, scientists, musicians and philosophers to relate to the
current crucial re-investigation of the histories and philosophies of both
visual and information culture.

LEAF 97could be perceived as a pertinent continuation of the V2_East
Meeting initiative which aims to foster the understanding of the process of
cultural transformation specific to Eastern Europe and the role of the
media art and artists.

Some of the rewarding benefits for the LEAF participants that will perhaps
result in enhancing the local mediascape in the East-European countries of
origin could be:
- exploring the variety of VP 97 events which include more than 20
installations and networked projects at 8 galleries around Liverpool and
Manchester, as well as loads of public screenings, performances, symposia
- developing further the V2_East network;
- promoting East European media art activities to a wider international
audience during VP97
- initiating new contacts and new media art projects


Please do not hesitate to contact me with any LEAF inquiry.

Yours,

Iliyana NEDKOVA,
LEAF Coordinator at FACT

Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT),
Bluecoat Chambers
School Lane
Liverpool
L1 3BX
UK

tel: +44 (0)151 709 2663
fax: +44 (0)151 707 2150

e-mail: isea@fact.co.uk (LEAF)




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The Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT)
The UK's leading development agency for video and electronic media art
(formerly known as Moviola)
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