[spectre] FILE ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE

geert lovink geert at xs4all.nl
Sat Nov 22 08:36:52 CET 2003


From: "new media" <bookbook20032003 at hotmail.com>

FILE ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Launches its 2003 edition book bilingual : "NOVAS MÍDIAS/NEW MEDIAS"

www.file.org.br

In the last four years FILE, a Brazilian initiative, is constituted of: FILE
Exhibition, FILE Symposium and FILE Hipersonica. This event has been showing
what is happening in the world nets related to the digital and electronic
arts since the year 2000. Constituting an international and national
reference of study and research today for the electronic culture and the
digital culture the event shows webarts, netarts, artificial life,
computerized animations, tele-conferences in real time, virtual realities,
interactive films, and-videos, robotics; it was administered  national and
international lectures during the FILE SYMPOSIUM, a rich contribution to
the digital culture  discussion in Brazil; also several national and
international performances were presented during FILE HIPERSONICA, an event
that emphasizes the area of the electronic sonority.

FILE is now launching its book entitled "Novas Mídias / New Medias", with
texts of different authors such as:  Ricardo Barreto, entitled
"anarco-culture" a philosophical stamp about the current condition of the
digital culture where the author theorizes the world net information
considering the nature of its time (catatonic time);  Paula Perissinotto,
"traveling through the new media" with the intention of contacting the
development of the new media the author narrates a trip through several
exhibitions and European institutions of contemporary art included the
Kassel Documenta XI; Artur Matuck, "mediamatic manifest for a  webvirtual
proto-art" is treated of a contemporary manifesto of the current situation
among the art, the science and the technology; Ricardo Rosas, "symptoms of a
sonic contamination" the author discusses the new situation  that the music
lives in the breast of  Internet. The book gathers about 260 digital works,
with their respective URLs (electronic addresses), besides several texts
presented in Symposium and of resonant works and musical participants of the
Hipersonica event.

If you have interest in order the book  send an email to:
periss at terra.com.br

More detail: http://www.file.org.br/file2003/english/file_livro.htm





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