MS. GUIDANCE FESTIVALS 1996

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Pass to 1997

NOVEMBER 7 + 8
DOORS OF PERCEPTION 4. "SPEED"
Subject: "Is faster always better?"
Amsterdam, NL
Speakers now include: IVAN ILLICH (renowned social thinker); DANNY HILLIS (VicePresident of R&D at Disney); REM KOOLHAAS (architect and city designer); SAM PITRODA (chairman of WorldTel); RICK PRELINGER (film archivist); OLIVER MORTON (editor Wired UK); FATHER GASTON ROBERGE (JesCom); CLAUDE GAIGNEBET (Rabelais expert, ethnographer); WOLFGANG SACHS (Wupertal INstitute). SUSAN GEORGE (economist). MARCO SUSANI (Domus Academy). IVO JANSSEN (hot young pianist). And about 20 more.
Hey - more femmes !
SEPTEMBER 16 - 20
ISEA96 - the programm.
The papers moved to Montreal
Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art
Rotterdam, NL
Including DEAF, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival September 17-22, 1996, organized by the V2 Organization. In cooperation with the R96 Festival 'Media Man' September 16-29, 1996, organized by Rotterdam Festivals.
Some of the speakers at ISEA95_Montreal have texts on our server: Pierre Levy, Derrick de Kerckhove.
SEPTEMBER 16 + 17
THINKINGalien
Conference
Leeds, UK
PANEL TOPICS INCLUDE: the philosophy of gilles deleuze; legacies of the situationists; science fiction and cultural theory; alien aesthetics; prosthetics, technology, culture; antihumanism and feminism; donna harraway and the cyborg; nomadic spaces; abjection, alienation and artefactuality; intimations of apocalypse; technologies of sound; music and dance; sonic expression plus multimedia performances from -jim flint - switch - digital chaos - angus carlyle

SEPTEMBER 11 - 15
EMAF
European Media Art Festival
Osnabrueck, Germany
" New, experimental and artistically innovative productions from the world of film, video, performance, installation, multimedia and Internet will be presented and placed in discussion. "

SEPTEMBER 2 - 7
@rs electronica
"Memesis - the Future of Evolution".
Linz, A
Symposia, exhibitions, concerts, events and art projects ...........The site has been rebuilded recently. Well done !

AUGUST 11 - 17
International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference
Dublin, Irl.
The triennial conference focuses on new or little explored dimensions to Word &Image studies. More information, please !

JULY 11 - 13
Vision Plus 2
International and interdisciplinary symposium.
Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg, A
Seeing, Feeling, Understanding:
Controversial Views on Developments in Communication

JUNE 21 - 22
ISTAS 96
International Symposium on Technology and Society
Princeton, New Jersey
Technical Expertise and Public Decisions
'ISTAS'96 will explore questions broadly related to the theme.'

JUNE 6 - 9
5CYBERCONF
Fundacion Arte y Technologia
Madrid, E
Deadlines for registration: May 1, 1996

MAY 30 - JUNE 2
DIGITAL CHAOS
thank fuck it's the future cyber conference
Bath, UK
CALL FOR INVOLVEMENT
four days of digital delirium computers beer shouting art writing bombastic_argument
. . . . . . . . . . . . olalalalala

MAY 16 - 18
Artificial Life V
Nara, Jp
An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems.

MAY 13 - 14
ART-Science-ATR
International Symposium on Art and Science
Kyoto, Jp
"MIC Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories are pioneering the combination of art & science in Japan, being probably one of the first Japanese institution creating and enforcing this link."
Website created by Christa Sommerer, member of ATR.

MAY 6 - 11
Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
Paris, F
For users, developers and researchers working with the World Wide Web. About technology, tools and applications.

MAY 3 - 5
Virtual Futures 1996: Datableed
University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
'Cyberrevolution', the 95 event, is over, 'Datableed' is coming up next. Participants: Kodwo Eshun (i-D, The Face), Global Communication, Sadie Plant etc.

APRIL 25 - 28
Console-ing Passions
5th Annual Conference
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conference theme: "Fighting back-lashes: global and local perspectives."
There is a listing for TV related informations featuring Laurie Anderson, Mary Tyler Moore etc.

APRIL 24 - 29
42.Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Oberhausen, Germany
Animationfilm program: 40 years of Zagreb Film
Theme for 1996: "weg zum nachbarn"

MARCH 30 - APRIL 3
IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1996
Santa Clara, California
VRAIS '97 Call for Participation !

MARCH 27 - 30
The Sixth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Since its inception in 1991, the series of CFP conferences has brought together experts and advocates from the fields of computer science, law, business, public policy, law enforcement, government, and many other areas to explore how computer and telecommunications technologies are affecting freedom and privacy.

APRIL 11 - 13
AFC Multimedia Conference
THE LANGUAGE OF INTERACTIVITY
Sydney, AUT
The Australian Filmcommission invites to a three day conference "examining the emerging language of interactive media". Toshio Iwai, Agnes Hegedüs and Tony Oursler present 'Phantasmagoria: Pre-Cinema to Virtuality' - an exhibition inspired by the work of the pioneer French film magician Georges Méliès.

MARCH 2 - APRIL 14
Electra
Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
Project for Electronic Media
Electra focuses on interactivity and realtime technology in art, obviously not on networking. Most of the information is in Norwegian, now, lets hope for gradualy updating !

MARCH 1 - 3
KWT96 - Time after Media
Schloss Hagenberg bei Linz, A
Lectures and workshops about digital communication and its social impact.

FEBRUARY 21 - 23
IMAGINA '96
Monaco, F
The forum of images beyond imagination
SeeUself.

FEBRUARY 15 - 25
9th VideoFest '96
Berlin, Germany
"art becomes more sensual through digital media and breaks away from the ghetto of galleries and symposia" that's how they`d like it to be.

JANUARY 20 - February 25
The Butterfly Effect
The Coordinates of the Moment before Discovery
Budapest, H
The theme: "Fundamental to chaos theory is the phenomenon of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, commonly referred to as the Butterfly Effect."
Very nice site featuring art exhibitions, conference, lectures and much more.

JANUARY 18 - 21
Next 5 Minutes : Tactical Media
Conference and Exhibition
Amsterdam & Rotterdam, NL
The Institute for New Culture Technologies / Public Netbase organized e~scape a Hypermedia-Event at Paradiso featuring Nonja, the famous Orang Utan Lady from the Zoo in Vienna.

1 9 9 5 events - frequently updated

NOVEMBER 6 - 11 1995
Doors of Perception 3:
A meeting between info and eco communities
Amsterdam/NL
How might information technology and design help us live more lightly on the planet? How can faster information help us de-materialize products and services and slow down our consumption of matter and energy?

NOVEMBER 4 - 6 1994
Doors of Perception 2
@HOME Conference,
Amsterdam, NL
featuring ...Peter Lamborn WILSON and Virtual Enclosures

NOVEMBER 1 - 3 1995
Interface 3: Netzwerk
Hamburg, Germany
"Labile Ordnungen - delicate constructions"

FIVA ONLINE 95
The First Festival of Independent Audio/Visual Arts Online
"FIVA ONLINE 95 gives artists a huge, public forum of exhibition; no entry fees, no parking problems just the best digital art - online."

ACM SIGGRAPH Online!
For those who are really into it: Calendar of Computer Graphics Events

1 9 9 5 - unforgetable

DECEMBER 6 - 12 1995
Interfiction @ 12th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
Kassel, Germany
Perspektiven und Mythen von Gegenoeffentlichkeit in Datennetzen
Watch out for the 1996 event !

NOVEMBER 21 - 26 1995
DEAF95
Rotterdam/NL
Dutch Electronic Art Festival - Festival on Art and (media)Technology
With: Expositions; Music and Interfaces; World Wide Web; CD-ROM and CD-I; Symposium; Adventures Night with film, performances, and music.
V2's stuff is good, period. Have a look at their event-series: WIRETAP.

NOVEMBER 17 - 19 1995
FUSE95 - The Forum for Experimental Typography
Berlin, Germany
Conference:Exhibition:Internet:Fuselab:Fusenight

NOVEMBER 3 - 12 1995
TELEPOLIS
Exhibition and Symposium on the Interactive and Networked City
Luxemburg

NOVEMBER 1 - 3 1995
interface 3
Symposium
Hamburg, Germany
Themen: Netze Denken - Kunst Verkehren - Verbindlichkeiten

OCTOBER 1 - 22 1995
The Cyberfringe: The Melbourne Fringe is on-line.
Melbourne, Australia
This is what I call a real Cyberconference, at least as far as I can judge from the distance... beautiful site !

OCTOBER 6 - 8 1995
METAFORUM II NO BORDERS/HATÁROK NÉLKÛL/
Budapest Networking Conference
NO BORDERS, organized by the Media Research Foundation and the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy, will take place on October 6th, 7th, & 8th, 1995, at the Academy of Fine Arts as a part of Budapest's annual Autumn Festival of the Arts.
Thanks to the organizers, it was great...hopefully you'll be able to roam through their lecture-archive soon.

AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 9 1995
La Biennale di Venezia
Venice, I
Best part:Japanese virtual pavillion.
Even better: 52nd INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,Venice Lido

MAY 13 - 21 1995
zkm salon digital - Multimediale 4
medienkunstfestival des zkm karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany
Salon Digital - Journal Digital - Virtual Communities - Artists Playground

AUSTRIA 1 9 9 5

DECEMBER 1 - 8 1995
DIAGONALE 95
Salzburg
The major national filmfestival featuring austrian productions. The partner-country 1995 was switzerland.

OCTOBER 12 - 22 1995
V'iennale '95
Vienna
"Die V'IENNALE, Wiens internationales Filmfestival, findet heuer bereits zum 33. Mal statt - unter der Leitung von Alexander Horwath, mit einem gegenüber dem Vorjahr im wesentlichen unveränderten Team. Sie wird zehn menschenwürdige Großkampftage dauern, von 12. bis 22. Oktober 1995." (Originalzitat)

SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 22 1995
Steirischer Herbst 1995
Graz
"Art is over - the game is on" is the motto of Austria's avant-garde festival par excellence. The site is pretty yak, but Min Tanaka's Video makes it worth visiting it.

AUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 1 1995
Alpbach Technologie Gespraeche Alpbach
An Austrian attempt to be global, see for yourself whether they' ve done it. Some of their guests though are virtual stars: (and have material on our server) Peter Lamborn WILSON, Mitsuhiro TAKEMURA.

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NOVEMBER 7 + 8 DOORS OF PERCEPTION 4. "SPEED" Subject: "Is faster always better?" Amsterdam, NL	Speakers now include: IVAN ILLICH (renowned social thinker); DANNY HILLIS (VicePresident of R&D at Disney); REM KOOLHAAS (architect and city designer); SAM PITRODA (chairman of WorldTel); RICK PRELINGER (film archivist); OLIVER MORTON (editor Wired UK); FATHER GASTON ROBERGE (JesCom); CLAUDE GAIGNEBET (Rabelais expert, ethnographer); WOLFGANG SACHS (Wupertal INstitute). SUSAN GEORGE (economist). MARCO SUSANI (Domus Academy). IVO JANSSEN (hot young pianist). And about 20 more. Hey - more femmes !
SEPTEMBER 16 - 20 ISEA96 - the programm. The papers moved to Montreal Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art Rotterdam, NL	Including DEAF, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival September 17-22, 1996, organized by the V2 Organization. In cooperation with the R96 Festival 'Media Man' September 16-29, 1996, organized by Rotterdam Festivals. Some of the speakers at ISEA95_Montreal have texts on our server: Pierre Levy, Derrick de Kerckhove.
SEPTEMBER 16 + 17 THINKINGalien Conference Leeds, UK	PANEL TOPICS INCLUDE: the philosophy of gilles deleuze; legacies of the situationists; science fiction and cultural theory; alien aesthetics; prosthetics, technology, culture; antihumanism and feminism; donna harraway and the cyborg; nomadic spaces; abjection, alienation and artefactuality; intimations of apocalypse; technologies of sound; music and dance; sonic expression plus multimedia performances from -jim flint - switch - digital chaos - angus carlyle
SEPTEMBER 11 - 15 EMAF European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany	" New, experimental and artistically innovative productions from the world of film, video, performance, installation, multimedia and Internet will be presented and placed in discussion. "
SEPTEMBER 2 - 7 @rs electronica "Memesis - the Future of Evolution". Linz, A	Symposia, exhibitions, concerts, events and art projects ...........The site has been rebuilded recently. Well done !
AUGUST 11 - 17 International Association of Word and Image Studies Conference Dublin, Irl.	The triennial conference focuses on new or little explored dimensions to Word &Image studies. More information, please !
JULY 11 - 13 Vision Plus 2 International and interdisciplinary symposium. Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg, A	Seeing, Feeling, Understanding: Controversial Views on Developments in Communication
JUNE 21 - 22 ISTAS 96 International Symposium on Technology and Society Princeton, New Jersey	Technical Expertise and Public Decisions 'ISTAS'96 will explore questions broadly related to the theme.'
JUNE 6 - 9 5CYBERCONF Fundacion Arte y Technologia Madrid, E	Deadlines for registration: May 1, 1996
MAY 30 - JUNE 2 DIGITAL CHAOS thank fuck it's the future cyber conference Bath, UK	CALL FOR INVOLVEMENT four days of digital delirium computers beer shouting art writing bombastic_argument . . . . . . . . . . . . olalalalala
MAY 16 - 18 Artificial Life V Nara, Jp	An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems.
MAY 13 - 14 ART-Science-ATR International Symposium on Art and Science Kyoto, Jp	"MIC Media Integration & Communications Research Laboratories are pioneering the combination of art & science in Japan, being probably one of the first Japanese institution creating and enforcing this link." Website created by Christa Sommerer, member of ATR.
MAY 6 - 11 Fifth International World Wide Web Conference Paris, F	For users, developers and researchers working with the World Wide Web. About technology, tools and applications.
MAY 3 - 5 Virtual Futures 1996: Datableed University of Warwick, Coventry, UK	'Cyberrevolution', the 95 event, is over, 'Datableed' is coming up next. Participants: Kodwo Eshun (i-D, The Face), Global Communication, Sadie Plant etc.
APRIL 25 - 28 Console-ing Passions 5th Annual Conference University of Wisconsin-Madison	Conference theme: "Fighting back-lashes: global and local perspectives." There is a listing for TV related informations featuring Laurie Anderson, Mary Tyler Moore etc.
APRIL 24 - 29 42.Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Oberhausen, Germany	Animationfilm program: 40 years of Zagreb Film Theme for 1996: "weg zum nachbarn"
MARCH 30 - APRIL 3 IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium 1996 Santa Clara, California	VRAIS '97 Call for Participation !
MARCH 27 - 30 The Sixth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Since its inception in 1991, the series of CFP conferences has brought together experts and advocates from the fields of computer science, law, business, public policy, law enforcement, government, and many other areas to explore how computer and telecommunications technologies are affecting freedom and privacy.
APRIL 11 - 13 AFC Multimedia Conference THE LANGUAGE OF INTERACTIVITY Sydney, AUT	The Australian Filmcommission invites to a three day conference "examining the emerging language of interactive media". Toshio Iwai, Agnes Hegedüs and Tony Oursler present 'Phantasmagoria: Pre-Cinema to Virtuality' - an exhibition inspired by the work of the pioneer French film magician Georges Méliès.
MARCH 2 - APRIL 14 Electra Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo Project for Electronic Media	Electra focuses on interactivity and realtime technology in art, obviously not on networking. Most of the information is in Norwegian, now, lets hope for gradualy updating !
MARCH 1 - 3 KWT96 - Time after Media Schloss Hagenberg bei Linz, A	Lectures and workshops about digital communication and its social impact.
FEBRUARY 21 - 23 IMAGINA '96 Monaco, F	The forum of images beyond imagination SeeUself.
FEBRUARY 15 - 25 9th VideoFest '96 Berlin, Germany	"art becomes more sensual through digital media and breaks away from the ghetto of galleries and symposia" that's how they`d like it to be.
JANUARY 20 - February 25 The Butterfly Effect The Coordinates of the Moment before Discovery Budapest, H	The theme: "Fundamental to chaos theory is the phenomenon of sensitive dependence on initial conditions, commonly referred to as the Butterfly Effect." Very nice site featuring art exhibitions, conference, lectures and much more.
JANUARY 18 - 21 Next 5 Minutes : Tactical Media Conference and Exhibition Amsterdam & Rotterdam, NL	The Institute for New Culture Technologies / Public Netbase organized e~scape a Hypermedia-Event at Paradiso featuring Nonja, the famous Orang Utan Lady from the Zoo in Vienna.

1 9 9 5 events - frequently updated
NOVEMBER 6 - 11 1995 Doors of Perception 3: A meeting between info and eco communities Amsterdam/NL	How might information technology and design help us live more lightly on the planet? How can faster information help us de-materialize products and services and slow down our consumption of matter and energy?
NOVEMBER 4 - 6 1994 Doors of Perception 2 @HOME Conference, Amsterdam, NL	featuring ...Peter Lamborn WILSON and Virtual Enclosures
NOVEMBER 1 - 3 1995 Interface 3: Netzwerk Hamburg, Germany	"Labile Ordnungen - delicate constructions"
FIVA ONLINE 95 The First Festival of Independent Audio/Visual Arts Online	"FIVA ONLINE 95 gives artists a huge, public forum of exhibition; no entry fees, no parking problems just the best digital art - online."
ACM SIGGRAPH Online!	For those who are really into it: Calendar of Computer Graphics Events

1 9 9 5 - unforgetable
DECEMBER 6 - 12 1995 Interfiction @ 12th Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest Kassel, Germany	Perspektiven und Mythen von Gegenoeffentlichkeit in Datennetzen Watch out for the 1996 event !
NOVEMBER 21 - 26 1995 DEAF95 Rotterdam/NL Dutch Electronic Art Festival - Festival on Art and (media)Technology	With: Expositions; Music and Interfaces; World Wide Web; CD-ROM and CD-I; Symposium; Adventures Night with film, performances, and music. V2's stuff is good, period. Have a look at their event-series: WIRETAP.
NOVEMBER 17 - 19 1995 FUSE95 - The Forum for Experimental Typography Berlin, Germany	Conference:Exhibition:Internet:Fuselab:Fusenight
NOVEMBER 3 - 12 1995 TELEPOLIS Exhibition and Symposium on the Interactive and Networked City Luxemburg
NOVEMBER 1 - 3 1995 interface 3 Symposium Hamburg, Germany	Themen: Netze Denken - Kunst Verkehren - Verbindlichkeiten
OCTOBER 1 - 22 1995 The Cyberfringe: The Melbourne Fringe is on-line. Melbourne, Australia	This is what I call a real Cyberconference, at least as far as I can judge from the distance... beautiful site !
OCTOBER 6 - 8 1995 METAFORUM II NO BORDERS/HATÁROK NÉLKÛL/ Budapest Networking Conference	NO BORDERS, organized by the Media Research Foundation and the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Fine Arts Academy, will take place on October 6th, 7th, & 8th, 1995, at the Academy of Fine Arts as a part of Budapest's annual Autumn Festival of the Arts. Thanks to the organizers, it was great...hopefully you'll be able to roam through their lecture-archive soon.
AUGUST 30 - SEPTEMBER 9 1995 La Biennale di Venezia Venice, I	Best part:Japanese virtual pavillion. Even better: 52nd INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL,Venice Lido
MAY 13 - 21 1995 zkm salon digital - Multimediale 4 medienkunstfestival des zkm karlsruhe Karlsruhe, Germany	Salon Digital - Journal Digital - Virtual Communities - Artists Playground

AUSTRIA 1 9 9 5
DECEMBER 1 - 8 1995 DIAGONALE 95 Salzburg	The major national filmfestival featuring austrian productions. The partner-country 1995 was switzerland.
OCTOBER 12 - 22 1995 V'iennale '95 Vienna	"Die V'IENNALE, Wiens internationales Filmfestival, findet heuer bereits zum 33. Mal statt - unter der Leitung von Alexander Horwath, mit einem gegenüber dem Vorjahr im wesentlichen unveränderten Team. Sie wird zehn menschenwürdige Großkampftage dauern, von 12. bis 22. Oktober 1995." (Originalzitat)
SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 22 1995 Steirischer Herbst 1995 Graz	"Art is over - the game is on" is the motto of Austria's avant-garde festival par excellence. The site is pretty yak, but Min Tanaka's Video makes it worth visiting it.
AUGUST 19 - SEPTEMBER 1 1995 Alpbach Technologie Gespraeche Alpbach	An Austrian attempt to be global, see for yourself whether they' ve done it. Some of their guests though are virtual stars: (and have material on our server) Peter Lamborn WILSON, Mitsuhiro TAKEMURA.