PRESENTATION

Artmedia VIII - Paris

"From 'Aesthetics of Communication' to Net art"

Symposium - November 29th, 30th & December 1er 2002

Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur

10 avenue d'Iena, 75116 Paris

-Mario Costa, from the Universities of Salerno and Napoli (Italy),

-Fred Forest from artist and professor the Universities of Nice Sophia Antipolis

-Annick Bureaud

are organizing an international symposium, Artmedia VIII, in Paris at the end of November 2002. During 3 days, this symposium will gather artists and theoreticians on the topic : From Aesthetics of Communication to Net art.

This symposium is organized in collaboration with the University of Salerno and the Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur with the support of Leonardo/Olats for the web site.

The official languages will be French and English.

Six main themes have been defined :

- History of the aesthetics of technological communication

- Philosophy & aesthetics approaches which includes 3 sub-themes : Body, cortex and networks ; telepresence : forms and events in the networks

- New material and new art forms with 2 sub-themes : space and time as art practice ; video games and hybrid art forms in the networks

- Net art within museums, art market and institutions at the era of globalisation

- Network and the futur of writting

• Architecture, urbanism and technologies of communication

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contact : annickb@altern.org

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