JavaMuseum & Computer Space Festival Sofia/Bulgaria: „Perspectives

határidődeadline: 2003. szeptember 1.

JavaMuseum –
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
http://www.javamuseum.org
in co-operation with
Computer Space Festival Sofia/Bulgaria

Competition and show \”Perspectives \’03\” –
Extended Deadline 01 September 2003

JavaMuseum goes physical!!
JavaMuseum is proud to announce the co-operation with Computer Space Festival Sofia/Bulgaria, the first festival in the East of Europe which was entirely focused on
computer based art.

This year, the 15 edition of this annual event will take place in October 2003.

The competition and show of \”Perspectives\’03\” will be organized in the framework of Computer Space Festival 2003, and will be supported by Goethe Institute Sofia (Bulgaria), which will also present another show of JavaMuseum as framing program:
\”Netart from German speaking countries\”.

The competition and show of the finalists, entitled \”Perspectives\’03\” will focus on the net based art production 2002/2003.
The competition will be open for all thematic and technological aspects which net based art allows. Like the competition of the previous two years, also \”Perspectives\’03\” will be a juried competition.
Particular interest will be how advanced media technologies take influence on contents and artists expression.

Entry Form
All artists working net based are invited to submit up to three works completed after 1 January 2002.
Only URLs may be submitted to the competition, the finalists will be invited to send their works also as digital files for an eventual offline display.

Extended Deadline 01 September 2003.

Please use this form for submitting:

1. firstname/name of artist, email, URL
2. a brief bio/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. title and URL of the max 3 projects/works,
4. a short work description for each work (not more than 300 words),
5. a screen shot for each submitted work (max 800×600 pixels, .jpg)

Please send the completely filled out form to

or go to JavaMuseum site

Extended Deadline 01 September 2003.

The JavaArtist of the Year Award will be given this year again to one or several outstanding artists working with Internet based media. The winners will be selected not only from the artists participating in the competition, but can also independantly nominated by the jury members.

The award will be given this year for the first time in physical space during the award ceremony of Computer Space Festival Sofia in October 2003.

Award winners of the previous years are:
*JavaArtist of the Year 2002: Calin Man, media artist from Romania.
*JavaArtists of the Year 2001:
MEZ – Mary Anne Breeze (Australia)
Jody Zellen (USA) and
late Tiia Johannson (Estonia)
who died at a young age nearly one year ago in Tallinn (Estonia).

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JavaMuseum –
Forum for Internet Technologies in Contemporary Art
(Java=Joint Advanced Virtual Affairs)
http://www.javamuseum.org