[spectre] ARANEUM Jury Announced - NET ART PROPOSALS WANTED

[Andreas Broeckmann]

ARANEUM Jury Announced

The organization of the ARANEUM prize for artistic and research Internet
creativity is pleased to announce the members of the jury for the prize.

The jury is composed of JosÈ Luis Brea, Rachel Greene, Olia Lialina and two
institutional representatives; one from the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Technology another from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.

20,000 Euros will be awarded towards the realization of a net- art project.

10,000 Euros will be awarded towards the development of a research project.

The application deadline is December 15th, 2003.

For more information: http://araneum.es


JosÈ Luis Brea. Professor of Aesthetics and Contemporary Art Theory at the
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine
Estudios Visuales. Founder and director of the net-art magazine and server
Aleph. He is the Director of the 1st International Visual Studies
Conference, to be held during ARCO¼04, and a consultant to public and
private institutions including Spain¼s Ministry of Science and Technology
and FundaciÛn TelefÛnica. As a freelance critic, he has written many
articles and books, and is currently ARTFORUM¼s Spanish correspondent.

Rachel Greene. Executive Director of Rhizome.org and a Curatorial Fellow of
the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Greene rejoined Rhizome.org in
June 2002 as Editorial Coordinator, having spent a couple of years writing
freelance and serving on the boards of Rhizome.org and PARTICIPANT Inc,.
while developing television properties at Funny Garbage. Prior to Funny
Garbage, she worked at America Online while attending the Whitney
Independent Study Program as a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow.
Rachel was Editor at Rhizome.org from 1997 through 1999 and has written
about art for publications including ArtForum, Frieze and Bomb. She was
educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Sussex.
Rachel's book on Internet Art for Thames & Hudson's World of Art series will
be out in Spring 2004.


Olia Lialina. Net Artist & Curator. Finished Journalism Department of Moscow
State University in 1993. Director from 1995 to 1998 of Moscow experimental
film club CINE FANTOM. Director of the First Real Net Art Gallery, Last
Real Net Art Museum. Author of The Most Beautiful Web Page, co-author of
Zombie&Mummy episodes. Since 1999 Professor for Electronic Media Design at
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.



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