International Competition for Interactive Media Environment

Claudio Pinhanez (pinhanez@media.mit.edu)
Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:17:49 -0500 (EST)

This might interest some of you.

Claudio

> From: mia@viswiz.gmd.de (Monika Fleischmann)
>
> Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98
> International Competition for Interactive Media Environment
>
> WDR and GMD nominate international jury
>
> The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne, and GMD - German National
> Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, will present
> the Cyberstar in 1998 for the second time. Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98
> supports cooperation between artists, designers, media and computer
> experts. Innovative concepts for interactive scenarios in the categories
> television, internet and stage will be awarded. Entries presenting for
> example virtual communities, virtual classrooms or avatar performance
> worlds shall reflect and develop "Shared Visions".
>
> An international jury will meet in May 1998 and will decide upon monetary
> awards a total of DM 35.000. Furthermore, the main price will include a
> work term of several month at GMD to develop the submitted concept.
>
> The jury members are:
>
> Karin OHLENSCHLAEGER, journalist and freelance curator, head of Proyectos
> Culturales, Madrid
>
> Hans-Peter SCHWARZ, head of ZKM, Medienmuseum Karlsruhe
>
> Gerfried STOCKER, general manager of Ars Electronica Center and artistic
> director of Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
>
> Wolfgang STRAUSS, architect and artist, Bonn/Gargnano in Italy
>
> Georg TROGEMANN, professor for art and media sciences, Kunsthochschule fuer
> Medien Cologne
>
> Regina WYRWOLL, head of media division, Goethe-Institute headquaters, Munich
>
>
> Submisson deadline for Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98 ist March 31th, 1998.
>
> The award ceremonial will take place in connection with the Medienforum
> Nordrhein-Westfalen, June 1998 in Cologne. The event will happen at KOMED -
> Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum im MediaPark Cologne.
>
> Information and submission guidelines:
>
> WDR
> Cyberstar
> D - 50600 Cologne
> phone +49/221 - 220 6728, fax -6252
>
> http://www.wdr.de/cyberstar
>
> email: cyberstar@wdr.de
>
> Shared Visions - Cyberstar 98 is supported by Stadt Koeln and KOMED -
> Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum /MediaPark Cologne.
>
>
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