Dear All,

This is to announce that The Communications Front 2000 will
be opening a virtual portal on Thursday 8 June, from our
base at The Mexican House in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.  Anyone
interested in the thematic of  'Crossing Points: East/West'
would be welcome to join us in an online chat and an audio
broadcast during the afternoon and evening.  Details below.

Best wishes

Honor Harger
for CFRONT2000


* Data* 

The chat room is kindly being supplied by Re-Lab in Riga,
Latvia who have invited us to use the Xchange online
discussion room for our conversations.

Via web:	http://irc.re-lab.net/xchange

Via IRC:	server: irc.re-lab.net
		channel: #xchange

Later on in the evening we will be creating a live
net.radio broadcast/performance, which will be an aural
composite of the ideas, texts and sounds created in the
opening days of the workshop.  Listeners should expect to
hear a melange of interviews, audio artworks created on
site, sonic collages, and ambient sounds from the
municipality of Plovdiv.

Connect to the stream via the website:
<http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront> at the time listed below.
Listeners will need the Real Player installed (G2 or
better).


* Schedule *

16:30 - 17:30 Bulgarian Time
1530 - 1630 CET
1330 - 1430 GMT
Chat room opens.  Chat will stay open all evening, and
people are encouraged to 'drop in' for a casual chat.

		
20:00 - 21:00 Bulgarian Time
1900 - 2000 CET
1700 - 1800 GMT
Online debate on the topic: 'Crossing Points: East/West'. 
This discussion will be lead by members of The
Communicatiosn Front, and is intended as a way of allowing
people to feed into the workshop remotely.  


21:00 - 22:00
Live Netcast
One hour 'net.radio' show, including interviews,
sound-mixes, collage and other audio matter.  


* Background *

The Art Today Foundation presents for the second time
THE COMMUNICATION FRONT? 2000 
http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront

Crossing points: East - West, as viewed in the context of
the New Media-Art Balkan Generation.

at the Centre for Contemporary Art in the Ancient Bath,
Plovdiv. 
and the Mexican House, Old Town, Plovdiv
June 1 - June 20

The Project comprises: 
June 1. to June 14: a theoretical seminar; a workshop,
centered around common web-based production;
 
June 1 to June 20: an exhibition section - installations
(interactive, video, net, sound)

The theoretical seminar and the workshop are meant to be
practically and conceptually interrelated with the
exhibition section of the Project. 

The Project will additionally include formal presentations
delivered before audience by the invited participants, as
well as meetings and discussions with the local media-art
community.

A group of 23-25 media artists, theoreticians, curators,
and activists from the UK, the Netherlands, Switzerland,
Macedonia, Rumania, Finland, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia,
Germany, New Zealand, and Bulgaria, who have all voiced in
their creative work a commitment to the development of
media and visual culture in South-Eastern Europe, have been
invited to work side by side on their individual projects.
The participants will be encouraged to hypothesize on the
possibilities of a common project aimed at provoking our
desire for dialogue and mutual recognition, thus appealing
for a tolerant overcoming of the boundaries imposed by our
cultural and political differences. 

To date the following participants already have been at
CFRONT:

Boryana Dragoeva, Bulgaria
Alexandru Patatics, Romania 
Marita Liulia, Finland 
Kalin Serapionov, Bulgaria
Marica Gojevic, Croatia & Switzerland 
Dimos Dimitrious, Greece 

The following participants are still at CFRONT: 

Emil Miraztchiev, Bulgaria
Dimitrina Sevova, Bulgaria
Honor Harger, New Zealand & UK
Ventsislav Zankov, Bulgaria
Igor Djordjevic, Zadruga, Serbia
Aleksandar Vasiljevic, Zadruga, Serbia
Radovan Popovic, Zadruga, Serbia
Rupert Francis, Australia & UK 
Alain Kessi, Bulgaria & Switzerland
Steve Bradley, USA 
Jen Southern, UK 
Jenna Collins, UK 
Jane Brake, UK 
Adele Myers, UK 
Natasa Radosavljevic, Serbia 
Nina Czegledy, Hungary & Canada
Stuart Nolan, UK 
Tapio Makela, Finland 
Susanna Paasonen, Finland 

Òhe following people will arrive in the coming days:

Eric Kluitenberg, Netherlands
Luchezar Boyadjiev, Bulgaria
Geert Lovink, Netherlands 
Ana Peraica, Croatia 
Kosio Minchev, Bulgaria
Mare Tralla, UK 
Dimos Dimitrious, Greece 

Through the theoretical seminar and the workshop, CF?2000
will grant the opportunity for creative activities directed
at compiling a unified body of theoretical and critical
texts, and small-scale artistic projects, to be later
included in a common web-project presenting the overall
idea of Crossing Points: East - West. 

CFront?2000 is interested in the crossing points within the
media-stream and information-flow of the Net that create
opportunities for bringing closer the communities and
media-artists from the Balkan region and Europe. These can
be crossing points between objective reality and the
interactivity of the Net, between history and utopia, the
state and the ethnic community, between the personal and
the socially-grounded, the physical and the technological,
between culture and politics, between the commercial and
the non-commercial, the local and the translocal, between
two epochs. Or perhaps, the crossing points of the subtle
interaction between past, present, and future, which
provides us with a starting point for a reflection upon the
neutral time of the year 2000 that anticipates the
challenges of the new century. 

CF?2000 has set as its aim the stimulating of
ideas-exchange and partnership between media-artists,
curators, theoreticians and activists from the Balkans and
Europe, who are all in search for the crossing points
between our cultures. We would like to find a common
language in the field of art and media-practices, while at
the same time retaining the rich blend of our cultural and
ethnic variety.

Along with that, CFront will centre around the shared
interests and problems of the media community in the
fledgling democracies on the Balkans. The historical and
political reminiscence of the past has long been one of the
main driving forces for the international and the ethnic
relations in our region. In the face of media-culture,
however, we hope to have found a new strategy. 

Moreover, it is our belief that a second edition of the
project will play a significant part in the stimulating of
Bulgarian media-culture, which has definitely started to
develop in the recent years, but due to the lack of
experience, is still in need of a more clear-cut
conception, social position and institution support.


Chief Organizer: 
The Art Today Foundation 
<arttoday@xxxxxxxxx> and <sevo@xxxxxxx> 

Curatorial Team: Mr. Emil Miraztchiev, Mrs. Dimitrina
Sevova 
Organizing Committee: Mr. Emil Miraztchiev, Mrs. Dimitrina
Sevova, Mrs. Monica Romenska, Ms. Nadya Ghenova 
Special On-site Organisational Miracle Worker: Alain Kessi
Co-curator: Honor Harger (New Zealand, UK)
<honor@xxxxxxxxx>

http://www.idea.org.uk/cfront


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