CYNETart 2001

[thomas dumke]

International Festival for computer-based art in Dresden

>From 8th - 18th November 2001 the 5th international festival for
computer-assisted art CYNETart 2001 will take place in Dresden. The
festival is with 6000 visitors one of the most important festivals for
media art in Europe. This year’s thematic focus will be "Interfaces –
Channels of Perception" with the participation of 150 artists and
scientists from over 20 countries. Around 60 works of media artists will
be on show covering categories such as interactive cd-rom, computer
graphic, computer animation, internet, audio processing, performance and
installation.

The CYNETart Jury will award five prizes amounting to a total of DM
25,000 (12,780 Euro) and 11 recognitions. The awards will go to Pablo
Ventura (E/CH) for his computer-assisted choreography and performance
"Zone", to Mouchette (F) for the internet project "Lullaby for a Dead
Fly", to Helen Evans (GB) and Heiko Hansen (D) for the interactive
installation "Twilight", to Orm Finnendahl (D) for his
realtime-generated audio performance "Come and Go” and to Dresden artist
Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf for her computer graphics. The recognitions
will be awarded to artists from Japan, France, Austria, Germany,
Romania, Mexico and Switzerland.

The festival will take place at four venues: the Kunsthalle Dresden
art'otel will show interactive installations, computer graphics and
animations. Interactive cd-rom and internet projects will be presented
at the Projekttheater Dresden. The Festspielhaus Hellerau will be
hosting the performance nights and the audio-visual parties
"microscope". And with lectures, workshops and performances, the forum
at the Labortheater of the Dresden Art Academy (HfBK) will form a
prelude to the      Trans-Media-Academy. In addition, the interactive
installation "Memory of space" by Ursula Damm (D) can be experienced at
the new lecture building of Dresden  University.

CYNETart 2001 will focus on the relationship between human mental body
and computer. The modification of human perception in virtual
environments will be at the centre of investigations. The forum
"Interfaces – Channels of Perception" will extend these approaches
towards brainwave-operated audio-visual events. More than ten
supplementary lectures are to reflect these practical experiments.
Furthermore, the Institute for Communication and Cerebral Research
Stuttgart, the Institute of Fine Arts, Design and Media Technology of
the Technical University Nuremberg and the team robotlab Karlsruhe will
present the results of their work.

For further information please contact
CYNETart office
Yvonne Bahn (Press & Public relations)
Schandauer Str. 64
D - 01277 Dresden
Tel: + +49 – (0)351 – 340 0673
Tel/Fax: + 49 – (0)351 – 340 0033
email: presse at body-bytes.de