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A reminder that the deadline for letters of interest is May 31, 2000. 

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OPEN CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST
ISEA2002, ISEA2004, ISEA2006

The Board of ISEA is now accepting bids for future symposia in a series known as the International Symposium on Electronic Art. These symposia bring together artists, scientists, and theoreticians involved in the electronic arts for a week of workshops, exhibitions, performances, panels, roundtables, and other related events in different venues around the globe. Each Symposium is organized by an independent agency, in cooperation with the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts.

ISEA and the Symposium are dedicated to the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural communication/ cooperation between the arts and the fields of technology, science, education, and industry. ISEA and the ISEA Symposium create platforms for:

- the exchange of ideas and critical discourse
- connecting communities and facilitating access
- research, presentation and exhibition

ISEA will realize this mission through organizing international symposia and local events, developing partnerships, implementing culturally diverse initiatives, and through publishing and archiving. ISEA is committed to collaboration, membership participation, creation of new work, and multilingual communication.

Through these means ISEA and the ISEA Symposium both shape, and are responsive to, the evolving nature of the relationship between the arts and technology.

ISEA is particularly interested in candidates outside of Western Europe and North America for ISEA2002.

ISEA Symposia have taken place in the following cities:

1. Utrecht, Netherlands (FISEA, 1988)
2. Groningen, Netherlands (SISEA, 1990)
3. Sydney, Australia (TISEA, 1992)
4. Minneapolis, USA (FISEA, 1993)
5. Helsinki, Finland (ISEA94)
6. Montreal, Canada (ISEA95)
7. Rotterdam, Netherlands (ISEA96)
8. Chicago, USA (ISEA97)
9. Liverpool & Manchester, UK (ISEA98)
10. Paris, France (ISEA2000) - 10th edition

Potential hosts are strongly encouraged to visit the Symposia archives and to carefully read the Symposium Guidelines. This information is available on the ISEA website:
http://www.isea.qc.ca/symposium/information.html

LETTERS OF INTEREST
ISEA currently invites those interested in hosting a future ISEA Symposium to manifest their interest. Letters of interest indicating location, host organization, year, and (if possible) dates of the proposed Symposium will be accepted from April 1 to May 31, 2000.
 
Symposium bids will be accepted from:

Category 1:
(Educational) institutes (universities, art schools, museums etc.), (artistic, cultural scientific) organizations, government bodies, etc.;

Category 2
Congress organizing bureaus;

Category 3
Umbrella organizations created for the purpose of hosting an ISEA Symposium.