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Medi@terra 2001
International Art and Technology Festival
http://www.mediaterra.org

De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing

14 September - 15 October 2001
Lavrion-Athens >> Sofia - Plovdiv >> Maribor >> Frankfurt

The Medi@terra Festival is among the cultural events which are 
organised in the context of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens

CALL FOR PROJECTS

The annual Medi@terra Festival is changing form.  Under the title 
De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, the Festival is travelling from the 
South to the North in the form of a microMuseum.

Medi@terra, having developed an intense activity around the questions 
posed by digital culture, has been included among the events which 
are organised on the opportunity of the Olympic Games of 2004 in 
Athens.  Its inclusion in the Cultural Olympiad for the years 2001 - 
2004 has recently been announced.

Medi@terra supports and puts into practice the view of a continuously 
evolving festival, both in terms of its form and ideas.  As such, it 
invites all those with an interest in research and experimentation 
around the new conditions that are now being shaped to take part in 
its new effort: a moving Festival that will start off from Greece, 
travel through the Balkans and end up in Germany.
This movement will be made through a microMuseum: a small, adaptable 
structure which, making use of new technology, can contain a large 
number of works of art, views, proposals and presentations, as well 
as systems and friendly areas for communication and meetings.  The 
works that will travel with the microMuseum are ones which experiment 
with the new platforms for the production and exhibition of the 
modern art work through different creative media.  The  microMuseum 
is based on the logic of the kiosk that one finds mainly in Greece 
(peripteron), with a reference at the same time to the concept of the 
'small museum,' an idea which began in the 16th century and continues 
among today's artists.

In each host city, the events of Medi@terra will be set up within and 
around the microMuseum: CD-ROM art, net art, computer art, digital 
photography, interactive objects and "hand luggage-sized" 
installations, sound environments and electronic music, screenings, 
an archive with printed matter, texts in digital form, audio-visual 
propositions and presentations as well as cultural events organised 
by the artists and art centres of each city.  A debate on the subject 
of the other side of globalisation will round off the activities of 
the Festival.

An art centre in each city-stop will undertake the setting up and 
realisation of the microMuseum in collaboration with its various 
associates, and will participate as a co-organiser in the 
preparations and making of decisions.  In addition, each centre will 
be able to take part in Medi@terra's journey as a member of the 
"Pilot Operating Net" via the Internet.  Through the Internet it will 
be possible to follow the path of the microMuseum and participate in 
its events from a distance, from every point on the globe.  The 
"Pilot Operating Net" is initiated by the network of centres which 
co-organise the festival, while all the members of the network can 
observe, guide, disseminate information and participate with work and 
activities in the unfolding events of the journey.

The microMuseum will start from the city of Lavrion, famous from the 
antiquity for its silver-mines that have supported the Hellenic 
Democracy of the Golden Age, whilst in the 19th century the first 
industrial unit was created there. Today, this unit has been turned 
into a technological park and the Municipality is participating in a 
programme for the "smart city."

  Medi@terra will continue its journey through the cities of Sofia & 
Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Maribor (Slovenia), ending up at the 
International Book Fair in Frankfurt where the honoured country this 
year is Greece.  Here, the microMuseum will present, along with all 
the things experienced on the journey, material with information 
(videos, photographs, texts, etc.) which artists will have produced 
throughout the duration of the journey.


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HOW TO DECLARE YOUR PARTICIPATION

=46ill in the Entry Form that you will find at www.mediaterra.org and 
send it along with the material required for each category, as 
described above, to the Fournos Centre for Art and New Technologies

* by post: 168 Mavromichali Street, 114 72, Athens
* by fax: +301 6470 069
* by e-mail: info AT fournos-culture.gr

=46or more information, contact Daphne Dragona, In Charge of 
Communication and Co-ordination of the Festival by telephone on +301 
6460 748 or +301 6420 451 or Email daphne AT fournos-culture.gr