[syndicate] Paraflows 07: annual convention for digital arts and cultures at MAK, Vienna.

[Jean-Baptiste Naudy]

Paraflows '07 - annual convention for digital arts and cultures.
UN_SPACE

The second annual paraflows festival for digital art and cultures
establishes in Vienna a new festival tradition. As an annual fixture between
the Ars Elektronica and the Steirischer Herbst, paraflows functions both as
a platform for the young local net art and net culture scene and as an
interface to the more famous domestic and international positions within
media art.

UN_SPACE is the title of this year's paraflows festival – taking place for
the second time already. The topic is the exploration of inaccessible,
invisible, theoretical, and immaterial spaces.

At the MAK-Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark, about 30
positions in net art and net culture, as well as in adjacent artistic
strategies will attempt an approach to the UN_SPACE. Real spaces, like
architectures and geographical areas, as well as their importance will be
examined. In addition, the exhibition will deal with virtual spaces like the
ones to be found in media and net art. One can even say that social and
personal spatial dimensions and territories are virtual. Here, it is
essential to ask for their qualities, their importance, their individual
approachability and – deriving from these - the concepts of opening up these
spaces. But we also understand UN_SPACE as the elimination of distances,
frontiers, and barriers encroaching upon the cultural, social, political and
media-related reality.


Artists: Ruben Aubrecht, Hubert Blanz, cym, Depart, George Drivas,
Ursula Endlicher, Jason Freeman, Verena Friedrich, Grübl & Grübl, Susan
Härtig, Kurt Hofstetter, Alan Hook, Barbara Husar, Jacob Kirkegaard, Helga
Köcher & Ilse Chlan, Kozek Hörlonski, Krüger & Pardeller, Manuela Mark,
Roland Maurmair, Michaela Mück, Pash, Chiara Passa, Leo Peschta, Gerhard
Ramsebner, Fabian Seiz, Laura Skocek, Société Réaliste, State of Sabotage,
Markus Sulzbacher, Evamaria Trischak, Herwig Turk & Günter Stöger,
ubermorgen .com, Peter Wehinger, Herwig Weiser, Susanne Wiegner, Michael
Zeltner & Florian Hufsky.

An exhibition curated by Judith Fegerl and Günther Friesinger.

MAK
Gegenwartskunstdepot Gefechtsturm Arenbergpark
Dannebergplatz/Barmherzigengasse,
1030 Vienna

Festival Opening am 13. September 2007 at 17 Uhr
Opening Hours Mo-Sa 15 - 19 Uhr, So 11 - 16 Uhr

Download the full program at: www.paraflows.at

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Ferenc Gróf / Jean-Baptiste Naudy
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