Syndicate: Da-da-net

[newart@aha.ru]

              "Da-da-net"
              Internet Festival organised by SCCA Moscow -
              dec 97 to feb 98
              curated by Olga Shishko and Tania Moguilevskaia

              The name "Dadanet" is a pun on "da" (yes in
              Russian ; reference to the dadaiste movement,
              as one of the first artistic movements that
              widdened the boarders of art) and "net" (no in
              Russian ; reference to the Net).
              87 projects were presented for the competition,
              one third coming from Moscow, 9 from Saint
              Petersburg, another third from Russian
              provincial cities (including 4 projects from
              Yaroslavl), and 8 projects coming from Russian
              authors living abroad (in USA, France and
              Germany).
              (Let us mention that among participants, there
              were only 3 women who presented themselves as
              such. But it is difficult to evaluate the real
              number of women since several sites were
              anomymous.) The competition was divided into
              several categories: art projects, artistic and
              cultural resources, home pages, and educational
              projects. The 3 first categories welcomed more
              or less the same amount of projects, whereas
              the last one welcomed three times less
              projects, and the jury was unable to select a
              winner.

              Members of jury:
              Tetsuo Kogawa (Japan)
              Lev Manovich (USA)
              Gilles Morel (France)
              Alexei Isaev (Russia)
              Adele Eisenstein (Hungary)
              Alexei Shulgin (Russia)
              Stephen Wilson (USA)
              Alla Mitrofanova (Russia)

              The winners are :

                       Art-project - First Price
                       Andrei Gagarin (alias Andrei Velikanov) - Moscow
                       "Herbarium for Goethe"
                       http://www.da-da-net.ru/works/goethe/goethe.htm/

                       Art-project - First Price
                       Mirza Babaev (alias Evgeni Gorny) - Moscow
                       "Procession of Simulacre"
                       http://www.zhurnal.ru/gallery/mirza/

                       Art-project - Second Price
                       Roman Zolotaryev (Kazan)
                       "Roman's Home"
                       http://romanz.tol.ru/

                       Art-project - Second Price
                       Dmitri Shubin (St. Peterburg)
                       "Identified"
                       http://www.neva.spb.ru/dsh/ident.htm

                       Art-project - Second Price
                       Yuri Kirillov & Tolya Postovit Moscow)
                       "First April Booth"
                       http://palitra.infoart.ru/archive/joint/lapr97/

                       Art and Culture Resource - First Price
                       Kostya Mitenev
                       "Digital Body"
                       http://www.dux.ru/digbody/body.htm

                       Art and Culture Resource - Second Price
                       Gleb Pavlovski - Moscow
                       "Russian Magazine"
                       http://www.russ.ru

                       Art and Culture Resource - Second Price
                       Andrei Smirnov - Moscow
                       "Theremin-Center"
                       http://postman.ru/~fyodor/there min/Thc0.htm/

                       Home page - First Price
                       David Mzereulyan - Moscow
                       "The page of trips and friends"
                       http://www.chat.ru/~daethar/