Syndicate: SEAFAir 98 deadline for proposals approaching

[Melentie Pandilovski <mpandil@soros.org.mk>]

Dear All,

Thank you for the large number of contributions! 
A reminder for those that have not yet
sent their proposals that the DEADLINE for the submissions 
for the SEAFair '98 edition is July 15, 1998 so please hurry up
with the proposals !!
The guidelines are contained in the Call for proposals.


Best Regards,

Melentie Pandilovski

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The Center for Computer Arts which acts within the framework of the
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje, Macedonia 
will feature in the program of the

                    Skopje Electronic Arts Fair '98


                               COMMUNING

             * V.R. - WWW - Net-Linked - CD-ROM  exhibition


SEAFair is the first manifestation of this kind on the Balkans, bringing together International 
web  artists, multimedia artists, media critics,  theorists, and
philosophers, as well as the interested audience. 
SEAFair is conceived to be a serial of international events, exhibitions/video conferences, 
workshops, and meetings which will explore the creation and existing of
new media and electronic arts and venues. 
Seafair assists the communication within the European emerging electronic art&media scene.
Seafair urges the discussions about the artistic, philosophic, educational, and other aspects of 
the emerging media.
SEAFair serves as an international and intercultural meeting point of arts and technologies. 

The web site of CefCA [Center for Computer Arts] 
which acts within the frameworks of the 
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje 
http://www.soros.org.mk/scca
http://www.scca.org.mk
will be updated frequently and will contain full information on these events.
Also see SEFair '97 on:
http://www.soros.org.mk/scca/seafair   
http://www.soros.org.mk/scca/seafair/altering


Chief Aims of the project SEFair 98
- to present the most current international projects in the field of
electronic arts.
- to enable a critical discourse towards the diverse emanations in the electronic arts. 
- to enable a historization and theoretical platform of different aspects and expressions in the
electronic arts.
- to serve as a bridge and enable a communication between the international and 
Macedonian artists, curators, and theoreticians in the field of electronic
arts.



	Call for Contributions

	COMMUNING

V.R., WWW, Net-Linked, and CD-ROM Art Exhibition
Venue: Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art
October 02 - 09, 1998 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
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An international call for V.R., WWW, Net-Linked, and CD ROM Art projects.
The exhibition Communing addresses the theme of the visions of the artists including the
processes of Imagining, Meditation, Dreaming, Reflection and Visualization,
during the process of art creation. 
The exhibition will feature the result of the Communing i.e. the digital language of different
international artists that express themselves in V.R., the WWW, Net  -Linked
Installations, and CD-ROM. 
The exhibition is conceived as an encounter of artists, technologies and visionaries.
Communing is especially interested in original innovative projects. 
The exhibition welcomes all projects using information technology and different multi-media 
applications, hypertext, vrml. 
The selected international projects will be presented in the Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, 
accompanied with a lectures of the invited artists, and a workshop
directed at qualifying the local artists and audience for complex media
projects. 
The submitted projects will pass through a juried election process. 
The authors of the projects retain all of the copyrights. 

For the V.R. projects
- title of project
- abstract
- technical equipment requirements for the presentation
- curriculum vitae
 

For the web projects the proposals should contain: 
- title of project
- abstract
- URL addresses of projects (or CDs)
- technical equipment requirements for the presentation
- curriculum vitae

* The selected artists will be contacted and will be provided with the 
guidelines and an FTP address where the projects can be uploaded. When
sending the projects please send description of any additional changes
that have to be done locally. 

For the Net-Linked Installations the proposals should contain:
- title of project
- abstract
- URL addresses of projects (if already existing)
- detailed technical equipment requirements for the presentation
- curriculum vitae

For the CD ROM projects the proposals should contain: 
- title of project
- abstract
- technical equipment requirements for the presentation
- curriculum vitae
- video tape 
- the actual CD ROM 
(If CD - ROMs have already been sent for the project Interactive
Narration they do not have to be re-sent).


Deadline for submission: July 15, 1998

Notification of acceptance: July 25, 1998


International Web Art and CD ROM Art exhibition
Venue: Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art 
Date of exhibition: 02.- 09.October 1998

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Submit  proposals for the event to:
Melentie Pandilovski, Curator of SEAFair '98
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje, Macedonia
Orce Nikolov 109, 91000 Skopje
mpandil@soros.org.mk
scca@soros.org.mk
http://www.scca.org.mk
tel/fax:	389.91.133.541