CFront 2000 Book out now - presentation on 6 December in Zurich

[Dimitrina Sevova]

Dear friends and colleagues,

After a long period of preparation, we are happy to be able to present the
CFront 2000 Book, a trans-Balkanian intervention in media space.

Communication Front 2000
/international project of electronic and media art and culture/
Crossing Points East-West
<www.cfront.org/cf00book>
Curators: Dimitrina Sevova, Emil Miraztchiev
Selection of texts and editing: Dimitrina Sevova, Alain Kessi
<sevokessi at cfront.org>
ISBN 954-90880-1-4

The book will be presented to the public by Dimitrina Sevova, Alain Kessi
and Emil Miraztchiev in the context of the "Konsequenz" project curated by
Frederikke Hansen in Shedhalle in Zurich, Switzerland, on 6 December (see
<http://www.shedhalle.ch>; information about our workshop there to follow
soon).

The Communication Front project has grown over the years in a broader
context of media art, of net activisim, of mailing lists, meetings and
projects that allowed, outside the Art World System, informal contacts and
friendships between media artists, theorists and activists from East and
West. This communication context today presents itself in rather different
form. If at its beginnings, it has grown as a community of people feeling
part of a common movement and endeavor, now the channels of communication
that were the backbone of this community have turned into more open channels
of information flow. The media landscape is changing dynamically, new
tendencies are emerging, while others have become history.

The context of this process, especially with regard to the East-West axis
that has always played an important role in it, is the broad topic of the
CFront 2000 Book. The deliberately eclectic selection of texts in the book
ranges from strictly theoretical, through anecdotal texts to some fervent
manifestos or experimental forms that are more characteristic of hypertext
and the Net. Some texts were written as working materials for CFront 2000,
the second edition of Communication Front. Others were written after the
event by participants inspired by the discussions at CFront 2000. And a
number of other authors who have been part of these processes have been
invited and have accepted to contribute, either with existing, but not
widely published texts, some specially reworked for the CFront 2000 Book, or
with original contributions.

We would like to thank the authors: Adele Myers (United Kingdom), Alain
Kessi (Bulgaria/Switzerland), Ana Peraica (Croatia/Netherlands), Andreas
Broeckmann (Germany), Daniel Smilovski (Bulgaria), Dejan Kršic (Croatia),
Dimitrina Sevova (Bulgaria), Dimos Dimitriou (Greece), Donatien Garnier
(France), Eric Kluitenberg (Netherlands), Geert Lovink
(Netherlands/Australia), Güven Incirlioglu (Turkey), Iara Boubnova
(Bulgaria), Iliyana Nedkova (Bulgaria/United Kingdom), Jane Brake (United
Kingdom), Jen Southern (United Kingdom), Jenna Collins (United Kingdom),
Kayo Terzijski (Bulgaria), Luchezar Boyadjiev (Bulgaria), Melentie
Pandilovski (Macedonia), Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria), Nina Czegledy (Canada),
Ravi Sundaram (India), Rupert Francis (Australia/United Kingdom), SNORTER,
Steve Bradley (USA), Susanna Paasonen (Finland), Tapio Mäkelä (Finland),
Ventsislav Zankov (Bulgaria)

All the texts in the book are available online at
<http://www.cfront.org/cf00book>.

We also thank the authors of the texts published in the extended online
edition: Alexander Brener (Russia/Austria), Jen Southern (United Kingdom),
Korinna Patelis (Greece/United Kingdom), Luchezar Boyadjiev (Bulgaria),
Melentie Pandilovski (Macedonia), Rupert Francis (Australia/United Kingdom)
and Yordan Eftimov (Bulgaria).

Last but not least, our special thanks go to the Daniel Langlois Foundation,
without whose support the book would never have been published.

If you'd like to know more about the book, a good place to start is the
introduction to the book, which you will find at
<http://www.cfront.org/cf00book/en/dimitrina-alain-intro-en.html>.

With our very best regards,

Dimitrina & Alain