[spectre] NETMAGE 02 Bologna

[Andreas Broeckmann]

XING
presents

NETMAGE 02
CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE IMAGES ON ART, MEDIA, COMMUNICATION

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
produced in collaboration with Diesel

Bologna  December 6th - 9th, 2001


>From the 6th through the 9th of December,  the city of Bologna will host =
the
second edition of Netmage, an international festival dedicated to
celebrating innovation in the vast field of contemporary visual arts.

Netmage 02 will focus primarily on multimedia design =AD on images and on
cutting-edge =B3styling.=B2  Our aim is a celebration of the new, the
innovative, the talented.

A multiscreen projector, developed explicitly for this event, will enable
the viewing of original audiovisual materials produced ad hoc for the fir=
st
ever European prize in video-jing, the artistic medium which utilizes web=
,
CD rom, dvd, and video clips in exciting live performances before an
audience.

Over the course of its four days, Netmage will serve as the meeting point
for young creative minds and talented multi-media artists from all over
Europe.

The 2001 edition is produced in collaboration with Diesel, thus enabling =
the
creation of the Netmage Diesel Award.  This prize will be awarded on the
fourth day of the festival by a jury of experts.  The first and second pr=
ize
consist in the funding to produce an original showreel of the artists=B9 =
work.

Every night, special guests will perform live electronic and eletroacoust=
ic
music.  Specifically, three international groups, renowned for their fame=
 in
this field, are invited: the Dat Politics (Paris), the Monolake (Chain
Reaction =AD Colonia) and the Farmers=B9 Manual (Mego =AD Vienna).  For a=
ll three,
it will be their first ever performance in Italy.

Performances which make innovative use of images are also in store. The
theatrical group Motus will debut the new edition of their Rooms project
(Room 101), an experiment in digital imaging.  Rooms is installation; at
once theatre and cinema; real, hyperreal and fiction.  In this performanc=
e,
Motus creates for us two parallel worlds: a hotel room and a second
=B3digital=B2 room, which changes and interacts with the first.

Netmage will also host a series of afternoon workshops (illustrating
international scenarios, involving screenings and discussions) led by
specially invited production teams.  Among these, London=B9s Onedotzero a=
nd
Paris=B9 Batofar.  We will close with a workshop illustrating the birth o=
f the
new Italian art scene.

Every day, the curious festival-goer will have the opportunity to browse
materials related to artists and guests in a special consulting library.

Netmage was created and realized by Xing, a team active in Bologna, Milan=
,
Rome and Paris, dedicated to celebrating the arts without
artificially-imposed boundaries:  music, performance, visual arts, cinema=
,
and communications media.

Sponsors Diesel, Tele + D+, AFAA, The British Council, ZeroEdizioni,
Grassili Audio


Where
Palazzo Paleotti -  Piazza Verdi
Garage Parcheggio VIII Agosto - Piazza VIII Agosto

XING
Netmage festival
Via Fioravanti 14
40129  Bologna  Italy
telfax ++39.051.352330
e-mail   info@xing.it       info@netmage.it
website   www.xing.it      www.netmage.it
for the Netmage Diesel Award: bando@netmage.it

press office Xing
Silvia Fanti
tel ++39.335.5727161
e-mail   pressoff@xing.it

press office Diesel
Monica Salmaso
tel ++39.02.70151123
e-mail  Monica_Salmaso@diesel.com