Syndicate: "Maid in Cyberspace - le festival XX d'art WWW"

[studioxx@internauts.ca (Studio XX) (by way of Andreas Broeckmann)]

Studio XX, the women's centre for research and exploration in digital media
in MontrŽal, Canada  presents :

"Maid in Cyberspace - le festival XX d'art WWW"
to be held
May 31st and June 1st, 1997
in Montreal



The festival is a weekend long forum for the exploration and
appreciation of art made for the web. There will demonstrations of the
tools used in the creation of web art, artists' talks, a presentation
of "web art: its characteristics and its significance", and the
opportunity to sit down and check out the projects.

we welcome submissions of art made for the web from all artists

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
-must be an artistic project created for the web (or the Internet):
text, images, hypertext, sound, video, cusee me, interactive, etc.
-any one may submit a project
-the jury's decisions are final
-projects will be selected to be included in the festival and on
the Studio XX web site (in NightLight)
-honorariums will be awarded to 5 participating Canadian artists,
selected by the jury, whose projects will be spotlighted during the
festival


* DEADLINE for proposals : April 25th, 1997 (or before)

please email or send a one page outline of the project or a
URL reference for a completed project to Studio XX:

        studioxx@internauts.ca  subject: "Maid in Cyberspace"

post
        Studio XX (Maid in Cyberspace)
        4001, rue Berri, #104
        MontrŽal (QuŽbec)
        H2L 4H2


phone (514) 845-7934

* The purpose of the proposals is for the jury to verify the feasibility
of the projects. We wish to encourage exploration of this medium.
We will offer hosting for projects on our server, though it is NOT
obligatory to use this service. The artists whose projects will be accepted
will receive a repertory file, a user name and a password after the
examination of the dossier by the jury. Later on we will distribute a
block of HTML code to insert in all the projects to identify the event and
for the purpose of navigation.



* FINAL PROJECTS : by May 17th
-all projects must be ready by MAY 17th, 1997
-all projects must be in "html" (excepting those which make use of other
functions of the Internet, in which case they must be fully functional
and ready to be put into place by the same date)
-please send your project on diskette (either MAC or PC) or contact XX
for other possible arrangements.



PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT FOR ANY QUESTIONS !!


Studio XX acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.