Syndicate: Linz/ars electronica discussions: Culture and New Media in Europe

[Romana Staufer <romana@aec.at> (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

INFORMATION:
Within the Festival ARS ELECTRONICA '98 will be a Presentation/
Discussion group about 'Culture and New Media in Europe'

everybody is invited to participate

The aim:
Media-labs and other cultural institutions should use this possibility
to build up closer co-operations and communication Networks
To get more kow-how about structure and functionality on the level of
the European Commission

The Program:

'Culture and New Media in Europe'


12. September 1998
Ars Electronica Center Linz
15:00 - 18:30 h - Seminarroom


*	Presentation of Media-Labs in Europe
*	Examples of already running as well as planned EU-funded
projects
*	Expert-lectures in the field of
CULTURE
NEW MEDIA
TELEMATICS
and the EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Discussion with the Experts

The main language of the presentations and the discussion will be
English

Time-schedule
1st Part: 15:00 - 16:00
2nd Part: 16:00 - 16:30
Break: 16:30 - 16:45
3rd Part: 16:45 - 18:00
4th Part: 18:00 - 18:30


Participation is FREE

For further questions please contact:
Romana Staufer
T.: ++43.(0)732.7272-39
e-mail: romana@aec.at


1st Part of the Program
Presentation of Media-Labs in Europe
15:00 - 16:00

*	Ars Electronica Center Linz - Future Lab, Austria, Gerfried
Stocker
*	ARTHOUSE Multimedia Centre for the Arts, Ireland, Aoibheann
Gibbons
*	C3 Center for Culture & Communication Soros Foundation, Hungary,
Miklos Peternak
*	Center for Metamedia & Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Czech
Republic, Milos Vojtechnovsky
*	CICV PIERRE SCHAEFFER, France, Isabelle Truchot andPierre
Bongiovanni
*	Hull Time Based Arts, Great Britain, Mike Stubbs
*	MARS-Lab, Media Arts Research Studies, Germany, Monika
Fleischmann
*	NMPFT - The national Museum of Photography, Film & Television,
Great Britain, Malcolm Ferris
*	Public Netbase, Austria, Konrad Becker
*	V2_Lab & V2_Organisation, Netherlands, Anne Nigten
*	Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V, Germany, Peter Zorn
*	ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, Jeffrey Shawn


2nd Part of the Program
EC-Projects
16:00 - 16:30

*	Presentation of an already performed EC-project: EMARE -
European Artists in Residence Exchange Program, Peter Zorn, Werkleitz
Gesellschaft e.V

*	Presentation of an initiative planned to build up a network
between Media-Labs in Europe
	ENCART - European Network for CyberART, Gerfried Stocker, Ars
Electronica Center


Break 15 minutes
3rd Part of the Program
Experts-Lecture
16:45 - 18:00

*	Cultural Funding in Upper Austria and the EC
	Silvia Amann, KUPF - Kulturplattform OÃ?

*	Cultural Funding policy by the European Commission
	�sterreichische Kulturdokumentation, Internationales Archiv für
>Kulturanalysen Vienna

*	Presentation of EFAH - European Forum for the Arts & Heritage
and EFAH's position on the new Cultural 2000 framework programme
proposed by the European Commission
	Mr. Ferdinand Richard, President of EFAH

*	Presentation of a current research project about Digital Culture
in Europe on behalf of the Council of Europe within the framework of the
Working Group on 'Culture, Communication and New Technologies';
Inventory of Good-practice Models of Innovation in the Arts and New
Technologies;
	MEDIACULT - Internationales Forschungsinstitut für Medien,
Kommunikation und kulturelle Entwicklung

*	Possibilities within Telematic-programs within the 5th framework
for Media-Labs; Focus on DGXIII - Information Society
	CATT Linz


4th Part of the Program	Discussion with the Experts
18:00 - 18:30


Please give me a short note, if you will participate and with which
number of persons.



Furthermore:

On Thursday the 10th of September there will be a Discussion with public
access at the Design Center (where the Minister-conference is located)
from 16:30 until 18:00.
Task of this puplic-discussion: 'the cultural aspect within the
enhancement of the EC'

On Friday the 11th of September there will be an event in the Ars
Electornica Center - Sky Media-Loft from 16:00 until 19:00.
Task of this event: EU-Program: Culture, Research and Informationsociety
Presentations and discussion will be in German

For both events participation is free.


Romana Staufer
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Projektmanagement
Telematik & Kultur
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Ars Electronica Center Linz-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH
Hauptstrasse 2
A-4040  Linz
Austria

T.: 0043.732.7272-39
F.: 0043.732.7272-2

Url: http://www.aec.at

e-mail: romana@aec.at................................@