<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Dear All, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">I would like to inform you and at the same time invite you to artMUSE Media Art Festival. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">You find a brief description of the project below, for further information please follow the link: <a href="http://artmuse.eu/">http://artmuse.eu/</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">all the bests, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Lívia</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><br>
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">artMUSE –
Alliance of Media Art Events in Europe</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:35.4pt 70.8pt 106.2pt 141.6pt 177.0pt 212.4pt 247.8pt 283.2pt 318.6pt 354.0pt 389.4pt 424.8pt 460.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">“Facing
the future – from industrial to post digital revolution”<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:35.4pt 70.8pt 106.2pt 141.6pt 177.0pt 212.4pt 247.8pt 283.2pt 318.6pt 354.0pt 389.4pt 424.8pt 460.2pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:35.4pt 70.8pt 106.2pt 141.6pt 177.0pt 212.4pt 247.8pt 283.2pt 318.6pt 354.0pt 389.4pt 424.8pt 460.2pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">15.07.2011 – 17.07.2011</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">artMUSE </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">is an alliance of autonomous media art events, taking
place parallel in time but far from each other in five different European
countries. The live performances, participative media art events, screenings
and exhibitions taking place from the 14<sup>th</sup> -17<sup>th</sup> of July
2011.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">artMUSE</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> is dedicated to the creative energy, which uses
earlier developments to realize ideas about the present and the future.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The project’s aim is to join industrial
history and digital culture in media art. In <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">artMUSE</b> the historical effects face the contemporary tendencies of
art of our times of digitalization, as they have been rarely presented
together. The project <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">artMUSE</b> opens
up new vistas of discussion and cooperation between both fields. It supports
this process by combining common industrial heritage with common themes of the
present and future. The inclusion of media, programming and informatics in
applied media art and artistic techniques is an emblematic feature of our
contemporary society in Europe: the connection
between art and technology is an initial point and at the same time motor of
present-day social and cultural initiatives. The integration of new media in
cultural processes builds up a base for the latest media art.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Beside the technical developments the new
user-culture tools playing an important role in artistic praxis as well, e. g.
in its certain way of perception, aesthetics, interaction with the viewers and
participation of them. These could be seen as inducements of nowadays artistic
processes, the matter of perception and reflection or the communication with
the beholder. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Therefore
the artworks will be presented in a new context, of course in real, but also
their documentations will be virtually available. Additionally, beside the six
live events artMUSE has an online festival part /artMUSE – Online/, showing
video and net art pieces only virtually.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">artMUSE</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> is a cooperation between the LWL - Textile Museum
in Bocholt, Germany,
the Nordwolle Delmenhorst Industry Culture Museum, Germany, the National Polytechnic
Museum in Sofia,
Bulgaria, the City Museum of
Bitola in Macedonia, the
Museum for Industrial Archeology and Textile in Ghent,
Belgium and the Gdansk City
Gallery, in Poland.
In all the institutions a festival event related to the above mentioned topic
will take place.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>These institutions
dedicate their activity, partly or in it’s entirely, to industrial history and
all of them are interested in presenting new media art. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The artistic Projects are curated by an international
board of experts: Jürgen Amthor (DE), Iwona Bigos (PL), Eline Chalmet (BE),</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> Ann </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Van
Nieuwenhuyse (BE), Svetozara Kararadeva (BG), Martin Koplin (DE), Hans-Hermann
Precht (DE), Lívia Rózsás (HU), Irena Ruzin (MK), Nadine Schober (DE),
Hermann-Josef Stenkamp (DE), Ekatarina Tsekova (BG).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">artMUSE</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> activities, as well as the exhibited artworks and the
live performances will be documented, and uploaded to the European Corner’s
system, to make them permanently available after the festival events in the
participating institutions. The European Corner is an interactive media
installation, which enables a long term connection between the participating
museums. The audience can browse on three touch screens the collections of the
museums and also the contents of the Art Channel, where the documentation of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">artMUSE</b> live and online events will be
available. The European Corner is developed in the framework of MaX – Museums
at Public Access and Participation project founded by the European Commission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">artMUSE</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> furthermore incite its guests to communicate and work
together with each other, by encouraging the local artists and the audience to
participate. For instance in Bocholt in the LWL Textile Museum with the guidance of a group of Polish
artists, Share:Krakow an Open Share Jam.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The alliance
of the festival events are organized, together with the participating
institutions, the <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Arial">M2C
Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture, and the University of Applied
Sciences Bremen. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Festival
venues:</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">LWL - Textile Museum
in Bocholt, Germany</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Nordwolle Delmenhorst Industry Culture Museum</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">,
Germany</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">National</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> Polytechnic Museum
in Sofia, Bulgaria,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Museum for
Industrial Archeology and Textile in Ghent
(MIAT), Belgium</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Gdansk City Gallery</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">,
Poland</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span></p><br>-- <br><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt"><u> </u></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u><br></u></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt">Lívia Rózsás, M.A.</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt">Kunsthistorikerin</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt">Kulturmanagement, EU Projekt artMUSE</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt">M2C Institut für angewandte Medienforschung an der Hochschule Bremen</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">M2C Institute for Applied Media Technology and Culture at the University of Applied Sciences Bremen</span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Flughafenallee 10, Raum 304, D-28199 Bremen, EU, Tel.: +49-421-5905-5470, Fax: +49-421-5905-5484</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">HRB 24697 <a href="http://m2c-bremen.de/" style="color:rgb(28, 81, 168)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://m2c-bremen.de</span></a> <a href="mailto:info-m2c@hs-bremen.de" style="color:rgb(28, 81, 168)" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">rozsas@m2c-bremen.de</span></a></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">_____</span></p>
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