[spectre] Sixth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium (La Habana, Cuba)

[Jose-Carlos Mariategui]

Sixth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium


The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, with the support of the
Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (the City Historian), HIVOS, ENET /
ETECSA Cubasí Portal, and the collaboration of the Union of Cuban Artists
and Writers (UNEAC), the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema (ICAIC) and the
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum), announces the VI
Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital (Sixth International Digital
Art Exhibit and Colloquium) with the purpose of promoting artistic and
cultural values created with new technologies.

The Art Exhibit, which will open on June 21, 2004, will once again show the
current work in this field and favor exchange and reflection among creators
and specialists engaged in these new forms of _expression.

The event covers two areas; the National Art Exhibit, of a competitive
nature, and a non-competitive On-Line International Art Exhibit, where works
by artists from other countries will be shown.



ON-LINE INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBIT

The Centro Pablo calls on digital artists from foreign countries to
participate in the On-Line International Art Exhibit that will be held at
the same time of the National Art Exhibit. Various artistic views within
this expressive modality will be brought together, thus facilitating debate
and considerations on their languages and poetics.

Two-dimensional, interactive and audiovisual digital works will participate
in the International Art Exhibit with Internet as their only support. These
works may be found at the Sixth Digital Art Exhibit Portal, developed by the
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau and the ENET / ETECSA Cubasí
Portal.

The International Art Exhibit will also include a Video Section that will be
shown in the Centro Pablo, the Office of the City Historian, ICAIC and the
National Fine Arts Museum.

All the works received before April 1st, 2004, chosen by the admission jury,
may participate. Artists of chosen works will be notified before April 15,
2004.

On-line works: two-dimensional, interactive, and audiovisual

Each participant may send up to three works using the form appearing in:

www.centropablo.cult.cu/form/formularioonline.htm

Artists participating in Internet categories (art and communication, netart,
webart, network, software art, video, animation, computer graphic) should
notify the links where their works are located in Internet.


Video Section 

This category covers video and digital animation.

Artists sending their works for the Video Section should fill the form in:

www.centropablo.cult.cu/form/formulariovideo.htm

and send their works by postal mail to:



Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor,
Habana Vieja, Ciudad de La Habana,
Cuba 

Each participant may submit up to three works in the following supports and
formats: VHS (NTSC or PAL), DVD (Zone 1 or Multizone), MiniDV (NTSC).

The Art Exhibit cannot return the works submitted for consideration and
requests participating artists to donate them for future non-profit exhibits
and showings. 



INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Digital Art: Languages and Poetics

An International Colloquium will be held on June 22-24 to discuss the scope
and limitations of these new forms of artistic creation. Discussion will be
based on the following topics:

Challenges and Techniques of Digital Art
Digital Art, Tradition and Originality
New Languages, New Subjects?

Papers should be sent before May 1st, 2004 to the Centro Cultural Pablo de
la Torriente Brau, using the form appearing in:

www.centropablo.cult.cu/form/formulariocoloquio.htm

A US$50 fee is required from all participants in the International
Colloquium. Participants from abroad will pay their inscription fee to the
International Digital Art Colloquium at the Centro when the event begins.


Travel Arrangements

Artists, critics, professors, journalists, students and specialists from
other countries interested in taking part on the 6th International Digital
Art Exhibit and Colloquium may make their arrangements through:
HAVANATUR Travel Agency
Tel.: (537) 203-9772 and 204-2054
Fax: (537) 204-2877 and 204-6037
e-mail: roman at cimex.com.cu
Or directly at
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, Habana Vieja, Ciudad
de La Habana, CubaTele-fax: (537) 866-6585 / 861-6251
E-mail: centropablo at cubarte.cult.cu
For more information, please visit the websites:
www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu / www.centropablo.cult.cu /
www.centropablonoticias.cult.cu