[spectre] N[ever]land Festival in Roma - June 5-9, 2002

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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N[ever]land
A route through a new technology

Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni June, 5-9 2002

This event offers an intensive 5 days schedule meetings concerning the
state of digital art specifically concerned with the communication-related
business.

The birth of the new media industry together with the continues
developments in computer and digital technologies, has been producing
significant social, cultural, political and economical changes, that have
been yet to be explored.

Despite the undeniable allure, of these technological advances, the
development of the digital revolution continues to be faced with ignorance
and scepticism from the world's philosophy, still deeply rooted in the last
century.

Neverland's conferences are meant to offer a multinational forum where to
discuss the needs for an updating on the state of the digital technology.

N(ever)land is not meant to be a festival nor a market exhibition, instead
it intends to show- through the investigation of its applications-the human
side to a technology often considered cold and incomprehensible, in a sort
of humanistic approach to a complicated scientific thought which is still
absolutely in progress.

N(ever)land offers a chance to investigate whether, and to what extent
digital technology is nowadays able to meet modern visual arts as well as
live performing, editing and the dynamic on-
line communication, searching for a possible harmony in the continuous
rebounds between production bridles and creative effervescence.

Mindful of our Old Continent's ancient roots, N(ever)land suggests a path
that can rejoin the apparent fracture between ancient and modern thought,
trying to avoid a highly technical approach, then exclusively reserved to
the professional society.





N[ever]land
percorsi al digitale

The program has been structured in order to combine the didactics-related
institutions and the reality of the professional world, wanting to promote
a constructive production of ideas and a stimulating analys is.

Furthermore it is an important chance for the City of Rome to host the very
first international forum, by presenting with great enthusiasm such event,
giving its full support to the many routes of investigation of the digital
revolution that are taking place in the other parts of Europe and
especially in the Unites States.


N[ever]land  Program:
Morning: Desk area
The desk area is a meeting point between technology and its instruments,
wanting to and between professionals of this field and the didactic
dimension (and the world of didactics). Through meetings, seminars and
debates, an overview on didactics in Italy and Europe, with regards to the
developement of new ways of communicating, probing issues and questions
linked to the birth of new professions.

Afternoon: Frame area
A frame to introduce products and intruments of digital technology, applied
to different aspects of communication and art, through an encounter with
leading firms of this field, with special attention to the national and
European production reality.

Evening: Screen area
An area to come into contact with representative works concerning the issue
that is being dealt with, through projections, exhibition, live
performances and presentation of the achievements of workshops and seminars
promoted and/or hosted by the event.

Once estabilished this first schedule/division/distribution, these three
moments confine and overlap, ensuing a programme consciously/deliberately
oriented to foster the encounter/ clash among different phases of
application of this technology.