[spectre] Fwd: Liedts-Meesen Award for Art and New Technologies

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Press release:
Initiation of the "New Technologies / Fondation Liedts-Meesen Award"


The "New Technologies / Liedts-Meesen Foundation 
Award" will be bestowed upon an artwork 
exploiting state-of-the-art technology and media 
in its quest for creativity and renewal. Ten 
projects will be chosen by an international jury. 
The composition of the jury and the competition 
rules may be found on the website: 
<http://www.zebrastraat.be>www.zebrastraat.be.

The presentation of the selected works will take 
place at the same time as the « Update II » 
exposition of interactive artworks from the 
Centre for Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe 
(Germany); the ZKM is internationally known as 
the leading museum of new media. Professor Peter 
Weibel, Director of the ZKM, will choose artworks 
from this prestigious collection.

During the "Update II" exposition (from 20/4 to 
6/7/2008), to be held at the Zebrastraat Ghent, 
one of the projects presented will be awarded a 
cash prize of 5000 euros by the "New Technologies 
/ Liedts-Meesen Foundation Award". A People's 
award will also be given based on visitors' 
assessments of this double exposition.

Practical information:

Launching of the "New Technologies / Liedts-Meesen Foundation Award"
Tuesday, 4th December at 12h30 at Lineart in Ghent
Deadline date for submitting projects: 15/1/2008
General information: stand "Zebrastraat", Lineart 
and <http://www.zebrastraat.be>www.zebrastraat.be

Conference:

"New media: rupture or continuity" by Stef Van 
Bellingen, Fortis Lecture Lounge: Tuesday, 4th 
December from 15h to 15h20 at Lineart 2007.

Consultation:

From 30/11/2007 to 4/12/200: come and join us on 
our couch at the Flanders Expo.
"Who's afraid of contemporary art; who's afraid 
of new media?, Stef resolves your problemsŠ" by 
Stef Van Bellingen, commissioner of contemporary 
art expositions for the Liedts-Meesen Foundation 
(Zebrastraat) at the stand "Zebrastraat" during 
Lineart 2007".

In 2004, the Liedts-Meesen Foundation Fondation 
Liedts / Meesen took the initiative of renovating 
a historic site built by Charles Van 
Rysselberghe. Since then, "Zebrastraat" has 
become more than the name of a street ; it is now 
an ambitious project merging housing, culture and 
economy.