CULTURE

isea 2004

The UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2004 is to be organised in association with ISEA 2004 New media meets art, science, research, and popular culture at the leading international symposium held for the 12th time: ISEA2004 in Stockholm – Tallinn – Helsinki. For the first time an event of this scale is being organised between three cities in three countries. ISEA has previously taken place in Utrecht, Groningen, Sydney, Minneapolis, Helsinki, Montréal, Rotterdam, Chicago, Liverpool-Manchester, Paris, and Nagoya. ISEA, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts, is pleased to announce that, following its recent elections, it will welcome five new members to its Board of Directors. ISEA was extremely honoured to have such a prestigious and diverse roster of nominees and would like to express its sincere thanks to all candidates for running. ISEA originally announced four open positions, but due to a tie in the elections results, it is happy to accept five. The new Board members are: Christopher Csikszentmihalyi MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA Gunalan Nadarajan LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore Anne Nigten V2_, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Julianne Pierce Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), Station Arcade, Australia Mark Tribe Rhizome, New York, NY, USA These five individuals will join the four continuing members (Peter Anders, Nina Czegledy, Cynthia Beth Rubin and Wim van der Plas) on the ISEA Board in 2003. ISEA would also like to take this opportunity to thank the three departing Board members, Kathy Rae Huffman, Atau Tanaka and Niranjan Rajah, for their hard work and dedication over the past years and months. *********** ISEA2004 *********** Time to take initiative: ISEA2004 approaching - please note the early deadline for large projects and sub-themes February 15th! - www.isea2004.net In January 2003, the Baltic sea is, for the first time in living memory, about to freeze entirely. Luckily, the Baltic region has also been one of the warmest and sunniest regions in Europe in the summer time which is when you are all invited to participate in the 12th ISEA symposium: August 14th-22nd 2004. ISEA2004 is organised between Stockholm, Tallinn and Helsinki. The main coordinator is m-cult, centre for new-media culture, Helsinki. Tapio Mäkelä, initiator of the proposal, acts as the programme chair. Amanda McDonald Crowley from Australia is joining the team as executive producer. Local chair for Tallinn is Mare Tralla and Peter Hagdahl for Stockholm. Please see the website for further details on people and partner organisations. In the three Baltic cities, international participants and local audiences attend thematic conferences, exhibitions, live performances, screenings, satellite events, concerts and clubs. Many events are also interfaced via television, radio, broadband Internet and mobile networks making them available to the widest possible audience. ISEA2004 kicks off in Helsinki, Finland with a pre-event on electronic music, digital sound technology and sound art in collaboration with Koneisto, the largest festival of electronic music in Northern Europe. Both Koneisto festival and ISEA2004 pre-event participants board a cruiser ferry, enjoying electronic music performances and clubs. The electrified ferry travels to Stockholm, Sweden, for the main launch of ISEA2004. From Stockholm the event continues by sea to Tallinn, Estonia, connecting the Nordic with emerging Baltic new-media cultural scenes. ISEA2004 culminates back in Helsinki. ISEA2004 will break new ground for new-media culture, arts, and research. The event travels through new waters as a physical, critical, and creative experience. We invite you to propose, to participate, to become part of a new floating point in the process of creative new-media culture. Mid January, we are posting instructions on how to propose large projects, sub-theme, pre-conference workshops and large collaborative projects. There will be an additional (more traditional) call for proposals later in the year for papers responding to established themes for the conference/s or projects which you would like to be included in program, for which the deadline is August 15, 2003. Please note that the actual call will be circulated mid-January and that this information for ISEA members is not intended for wider circulation. ******************************************** ISEA, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts Pieter de Hoochstraat 38-2 1071 EG Amsterdam The Netherlands T: +31 20 6120297 F: +31 20 6182359 info@isea-web.org www.isea-web.org URL for Link http://www.isea2004.net

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