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FRED FOREST

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE EVOLUTION OF ART IN THE THIRD MILLENIUM

SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 2004 5:00 PM


Artcurial 7 Rond Point des Champs-Elysées 75008 Paris
(open to the public)

Fred Forest will present his book "De l'art vidéo au Net Art" l'Harmattan
(“From Video Art to Net Art”)

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It is interesting that an artist should be calling art into question at the very moment that the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC) is taking place in Paris. Clearly, any notion of progress has now been banished from art; however, it remains that art is organically tied to the science and knowledge of its time, to its technology, social environment, ideologies, and fads. In spite of the fact that futurologists have been wrong most of the time, unless they happen to be named Leonardo or Jules Verne (both true artists), there nevertheless exists at present time good reason to believe that tomorrow’s art (if there still is such a thing by that name?) will different. Outside the art market, in research institutes and universities, the question of art’s future has been subject to ongoing reflection and experimentation since the decade of the sixties. It is for this reason that Fred Forest proposes that the notion of contemporary art itself be replaced by the more pertinent concept of an “art of the present” that transcends the esthetic values manipulated and imposed by the market.

SYMPOSIUM INTERNATIONAL SAO PAULO

SYMPOSIUM/EXPOSITION
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ART.FICIAL EMOTION II: TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERGENCES
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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
2nd July - 2:30 PM
Opening: Homage to Haroldo de Campos and Julio Plaza

2nd July - 7:30 PM
Networks and the New Spaces for Intervention

Fred Forest (France)
Paulo Bruscky (Brazil)
Clemente Padin (Uruguay)
Gilbertto Prado (Brazil)
Maria Luiza Fragoso (moderator)

3rd July - 10:00 AM
Art & Tecnology: How to Politicize the Discussion ?

Antoni Muntadas (Spain)
Jorge La Ferla (Argentina)
Davide Grassi (Slovenia)
Oliver Ressler (Germany)
Coco Fusco (Cuba/EUA)
Lucas Bambozzi (moderator)

3rd July - 2:30 PM
Poetics and Perspectives of Media Arts

Anne-Marie Duguet (France)
François Soulages (France)
Ivana Bentes (Brazil)
Christine Mello (Brazil)
Cláudia Giannetti (Brazil/Spain)
Milton Sogabe (moderator)

3rd July - 7:30 PM
Digital Inclusion, Free Software, Open Sources

Susana Noguero - Platoniq (Spain)
André Lemos (Brazil)
Rejane Spitz (Brazil)
Hernani Dimantas (Brazil)
Angie Bonino (Peru)
Guilherme Kujawski (moderator)

4th July - 10:00 AM
Conflict and Resistance in the Global Society

Fran Ilich (Mexico)
Maria C. Costa (Brasil)
Maurício Dias & Walter Riedwec (Brazil & Switzerland)
José-Carlos Mariategui (Peru)
Fábio Duarte (moderator)

4th July - 2:30 PM
Emergent Realities

Diana Domingues (Brazil)
Rodrigo Alonso (Argentina)
Sílvia Laurentiz (Brazil)
Iliana Hernandez (Colombia)
Marcos Cuzziol (moderator)

4th July - 7:30 PM
The City as Interface

Christian Huebler - Knowbotic Research (Netherlands/Germany)
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
Michael Rakowitz - ParaSite (USA)
Simone Michelin (Brazil)
Nelson Brissac Peixoto (Brazil)
Marcelo Tramontano (moderator)

5th July - 10:00 AM
Immersive Virtual Spaces

Jeffrey Shaw (Australia)
Arlindo Machado (Brazil)
Tânia Fraga (Brazil)
Rejane Cantoni (Brazil)
André Parente (Brazil)
Lúcia Leão (moderator)

5th July - 2:30 PM
The New Biological Paradigm

Eduardo Kac (Brazil/EUA)
Paula Sibilia (Brazil)
Annick Bureaud (France)
Roy Ascott (Great Britain)
Eduardo de Jesus (moderator)

5th July - 7:30 PM
Subjectivities on Line

Suzette Venturelli (Brazil)
Sara Diamond (Canada)
Giselle Beiguelman (Brazil)
Minerva Cuevas (México)
Mariela Yeregui (Argentina)
Paula Perissinoto (moderator)

PIERRE RESTANY ONE YEAR ALREADY !

Dear Fred Forest,

I was touched, to receive your e-mail of 2 May last night, on my return from a brief absence, and to learn of your plans to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Pierre Restany, at a ceremony at the cemetery of Montparnasse tomorrow morning.

May this ‘livre d’or’, in honour of our late, and much lamented, friend, Pierre, serve as an inspiration to all those wanderers of the spirit who visit its pages, so that it may metamorphose, through his example, and their presence, into a ‘Zone of Immaterial Sensibility’!

With warmest regards,

Henry Meyric Hughes, International President, The International Association of Art Critics (AICA).