Digital Media Screening

Imagina (France), Milia (France), Siggraph (USA), Industrial Light&Magic (USA)Fundació "la Caixa" (Barcellona, Spain), Transom Technologies
(Ann Arbor,USA), Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta, Canada), BRC Imagination Arts (Burbank,USA), ART + COM (Berlin, Germany), High Techsplanations, Inc. (Rockville, USA), INRIA (France), ROBOTIC, MEA Public Relations Ltd. (U.K.), M.I.T. (USA), Education Film Centre (Annadale, USA), VRAIS (USA), ART FUTURA 94 (Spain), Siggraph (USA), Ex Machina
(Paris, France), EVL- Josephine Anstey/Dave Pape (Chicago, USA), TOSHIO IWAI (Japan), ARS Electronic Center (Linz, Austria), Mediartech 98 (Florence, Italy), MIRALab University of Geneva, (Switzerland),Computer Animation festival, Miralab (Swizerland), Foundation of the Hellenic World (Athens, Greece), La Villette, Cite des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Paris, France), National Library of Medicine, Visible Human Project (USA).

Digital media, games, animation, effects,behind the scenes!!! This section will display info+video of the most interesting producers wordlwide in the cinema, digital effects, festivals, Labs, universities, Centres, Interactive museums. The visitor will get a glimpse of what is going on around the world in this field and enjoy the innovation, experimentation, who is doing what and when in the field... having a general vision of this world of animation and digital art.

Video projection of animation, issues of great producers world wide, demo videos of festivals, events where technology and cultural comunication join together.

YEARLY EVENTS IN DIGITAL FIELD:
animation festivals, conferences, Tradeshows

Address: Reed Midem Organisation-BP 572
11 Rue Du Colonel Pierre Avia
75726 Paris Cedex 15
tel: 33 (0) 14194480
fax. 33(0)147904470
info@milia.com
www.millia.com
Millia/Games
Executive Director Laurrine Garaude
contact:
Oliver Milcent
tel: +33(0) 1.41904473
fax: +33(0)1.41.90.44.70
Olivier_MILCENT@MIDEM-PARIS.CCMAIL.compuserve.com

The New Talent Pavilion showcases a selection of international projects in all domains including games, interactive media and online technologies. The competition's mission is to bring awareness to new innovative talent and projects from around the world. A true job-bank and talent pool, the goal of the New Talent Pavilion competition is for the winners to find jobs within the industry, investments to fund their projects or, ultimately, publishers for their work.

This year, more than 240 projects were received from 25 countries representing a growth of 52% compared to Milia '98. Among the candidates, 123 are European and 119 come from the U.S., Japan, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Israel, Brazil, China, Colombia, India and Korea.

For its 5th edition, the New Talent Pavilion was open to professional and amateur creators for the first time: 72% of projects were submitted by students, 23% by interactive media professionals, and 5% by amateurs.

Milia -the International Content Market for Interactive Media- co-organiser of the New Talent Pavilion in partnership with Media Programme of the European Union France Telecom and INA, announced in December the names of the 27 lucky winners among students, freelance professionals and amateurs who competed in this international contest.

The selected projects originating from 11 countries worldwide (Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom and the USA) were presented during Milia - Milia Games in the New Talent Pavilion, a special area within the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, February 9-12, 1999.

Bernard Tani, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, France Telecom Multimédia declares, "By participating in the New Talent Pavilion, what interests France Telecom is to imagine the multimedia of tomorrow, by providing the necessary means to young talent to create high quality products and introduce them to the public."

"Through our support, the Media Programme of the European Union aspires to promote and create opportunities for young talent, essential to the development of an interactive media industry in perpetual evolution," declares Jacques Delmoly, manager of the Media Programme.

Serge Lafont (INA) declares, "What's incredible is the realisation that cultural diversity is able to resist the uniformity of most development tools. The world has become a global village full of neighbourhoods which have retained their distinct cultural and social identity: multimedia tools allow us to visit these neighbourhoods effortlessly.'

An international jury presided by Serge Lafont, Deputy Chief Executive Officer of INA and including the following international experts, viewed the projects on December 2nd and 3rd to determine the final selection:

Nicolas BARANDIARAN (Anaya Interactiva), Oscar CLARK (BT Wireplay), Franz FISCHNALLER (F.A.B.R.I. CATORS), Olivier HECKMANN (Multimania), Tsuji HIROKO (Freelance Journalist), Andrew CLARKE (Kinonet / New Talent Pavilion '98 member), Arne PETERS (INTEL GMBH), Mark WEBLEY (Lionhead Studios Limited) and Ron ZAMIR (Israel Multimedia and Internet Forum).

Milia, The International Content Market for Interactive Media launched by Reed Midem Organisation in January 1994 is the world's only truly international event dedicated to interactive media and content regardless of the platform. Milia / Milia Games will take place from February 9-12, 1999 in Cannes, France.

Milia's aim is to bring together, over a five day period, key decision makers and professionals in the interactive media industry to buy and sell rights, form strategic alliances, identify global market trends, negotiate distribution agreements and scout new talent.

Address:
INA-Imagina
4,avenue de l'Europe
94366 Bry-sur-Marne Cedex-France
Tel: +33 (0) 149832693/149832562
Fax +33(0)149833185
imagina@ina.fr
http://www.ina.fr/imagina

Contact:
Gilbert Dutertre
Tel. +33149832565
fax +33 1 49833185
gdutertre@ina.fr

Imagina, the forum for images beyond imagination, is an event produced by INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel) and the Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo and which covers the following areas:
-computer graphics and animation
- digital cinema and special effects
- games and virtual communities
- intelligent agents and augmented reality
- virtual worlds and cyberspace
- webcasting
- synthesized sound
- architectural design
- medical imaging

Ø A cycle of conferences featuring international specialists in the most outstanding and innovative computer graphics technologies and their applications in television, cinema, games, the internet, medicine and architecture.

Ø An international competition, the Prix Pixel-INA where, every year, the public and a jury of professionals rewards the best productions world-wide using these new creative tools.

Ø An industrial exhibition, the European rendez vous for animation and data graphics professionals, designers, performers, cinema professionals, service providers, research workers, scientists and academics, etc.

Ø An alternative space, the Innovation Village where is presented innovative installations, experiments, applications and products created by companies, laboratories and universities as part of their development programmes.

This event also provides an arena for innovation and the presentation of new experiences and previews:
- virtual reality televised from Cluny Abbey: reconstruction and virtual tour of the abbey.
- America's Cup: direct broadcast with long shots and virtual images of the races being held in San Diego, California.
- Spider-Renault: real time virtual image tracking of the car over part of the Monaco circuit.
- Stade de France: virtual crowd simulation providing the opportunity for pre-planning access to the site.
- Virtual fashion show by Thierry Mugler.

This event is underwritten by a raft of institutions and enterprises:
Official Partners: Canal +/Canal + Espagne, CNC (Centre National du Cinéma), EDF (Electricité de France), Infogrames, FNAC, Media, Ministère de la culture et de la communication, Philips, Silicon Graphics.

Gilbert Dutertre: Manager of the National Institute of the Audio-visual, In charge of the general organization of Imagina, at Virtuality&Interacitvity II presents the prestigious international review of digital productions, the Prix Pixel-INA '99 (Imagina, France).

ART FUTURA was born with the decade, in January 1990. In an incisive and sometimes polemic way,ART FUTURA attempted tospeculate about the art of the future in the present.Among the participants of previous occasions on which this festival has been held, we could mention:

William Gibson, Laurie Anderson, Moebius, David Byrne, Timothy Leary, Javier Mariscal, Monika Fleishmann, La Fura dels Baus, Orlan, Industrial Light & Magic, Stelarc, Survival Research Laboratories, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Karl Sims, Max More, Vicente Verdú, Arthur Kroker , and others. The main subjet of ART FUTURA previous editions were: Virtual Reality (90), Cibermedia (91), Global Mind (92), Artificial Life (93), Ciberculture (94), Virtual Communities (95), Robots & Knowbots (96), The Future of The Future (97), and The Second Skin (98) .

This coming edition will be held the last week of september in Seville, and will have "DIGITAL LEISURE" as its main theme. Throughout the last seven years, ART FUTURA has tried to show that nowadays, at the end of the millenium, art and science flow more than ever in parallel ways. It is no longer possible to understand art sepparated from the media and new technologies.

Conference Managment-
siggraph98@siggraph.org
SIGGRAPH 99 Conference Chair Warren
Waggenspack chair-s99@siggraph.org
Marketing and Media /
Registration Smith, Bucklin, & Associates, Inc.
cmsba@siggraph.org

SIGGRAPH is the Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. In the span of 30 years, SIGGRAPH has grown from a handful of computer graphics enthusiasts to a diverse membership including artists, engineers, animators, filmmakers, software and hardware developers, scientists, mathematicians, and other professionals in the field of computer graphics.

In addition to its annual conference, SIGGRAPH serves the worldwide graphics community with the sponsorship of focused conferences, professional chapters, awards, grants, educational resources, online resources, public policy, and the SIGGRAPH Video Review. Additional member benefits include its quarterly newsletter, Computer Graphics, and discounts on registration and publications for the annual and other conferences.

Address:
26 Acland Street, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia 3182
PO Box 1102, St Kilda South, Victoria, Australia 3182
tel (+61 3) 9525 5025
fax (+61 3) 9525 5105
email: experimenta@experimenta.org
URL: http://www.experimenta.org
Contact Names:
Keely Macarow : Program Director
Miki Oikawa : Project Coordinator

Experimenta Media Arts is one of Australia's most highly prolific and dynamic media arts organisation. Experimenta fosters innovation in Australia's media arts by providing a creative and intellectual context bringing together artists and audiences in new cultural environments. Experimenta Media Arts seeks to extend the current parameters of media arts exhibition and practice in Australia and supports and exhibits multiple media including digital media, film, video, installation, performance and sound art through a variety of projects.

As one of its ongoing projects, Experimenta Media Arts curates exhibitions of CD ROM artworks for several venues around Australia including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne, Victoria), Insititute of Modern Art (Brisbane, Queensland), Arts Victoria Foyer Gallery (Melbourne) and Contemporary Art Services Tasmania (Hobart, Tasmania). A selection of innovative, artistic and experimental CD ROM works are made from submissions from mostlyAustralian but also international artists and presented to the exhibition venues.

What we are submitting to Virtuality & Interactivity '99 is a small example of the types of works we present in these CD ROM exhibitions. The works are:
SHOCK IN THE EAR by Norie Neumark
THE GOOD COOK by Michael Buckley
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS by Lindsay Colborne

During a long night of insomnia, a cook reflects about who he is. A stream of consciousness of the internal ramblings of a frustrated cook unfolds as the viewer wanders through and explores the work. Different qualities of the Cook evolve as layers of his personality are revealed. He continuously hears voices from his past. He tries hard to remember events, the phantoms of his reveries are silhouettes and sound loops, that repeat and continue to appear and haunt him in the interactive. The computer in essence becomes the brain of the cook, in which the viewer hears a series of monologues from the Cook, as his insomnia feeds his own anxieties.

Michael Buckley is a highly regarded documentary and experimental filmmaker and animator, who has more recently begun to work in digital media.

In 1996 his internationally acclaimed CD ROM The Swear Club won an ATOM Award and was shown at the Young Talent Pavillion in MILIA, France. He is currently working on an interactive CD ROM documentary entitled 'The Divided Self' with the East Timorese community in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been a member of the sound performance group Arf Arf.

Shock in the ear sounds the traces of deep and abrupt physical, psychic, and cultural changes: from culture shock to electric shock and reverberating beyond into shock aesthetics. This sound-centred CDROM evokes shock and its aftermath through interactive stories, performances, music and sounds, as well as screens. The user explores the moment after the event-- a dislocated time/space of shifted perceptions and senses.

The work disrupts the usual articulation of art and interactivity, with its hierarchy of vision over sound. It thus expresses the shocking concept that sound is the medium most appropriate to interactivity, as a new and engaging artistic form, because sound goes beyond the interface, into time, into the body of the audience/user, and into the imagination.

Norie Neumark is a sound/radio artist, who has recently been working with multimedia. Her recent sound pieces have been commissioned and broadcast by the Listening Room, ABC Classic FM, and include Into the Interface (1994) Shock,(1995), and Separation Anxiety: not the truth about alchemy (1996). All three were rebroadcast in the U.S. by New American Radio and the Performing Arts. Her latest work for the Listening Room was "Vital Emissions: a Tale of Visceral Travels," l997/8. Her current work for multimedia grew out of Shock and was funded as an installation by the New Media Arts Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts and as a stand alone CDROM by the Australian Film Commission.

She also works as a lecturer in Sound and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has given papers about sound and multimedia at Sound Culture 96, and at 3 ISEAs. Her published works include articles in Essays in Sound 2, Leonardo. and Media Information Australia.

Ever wanted to lose a few inches around the middle, strengthen up those abs, and get a wash board ripple stomach just like on TV? Well in just 10 minutes a day with "The Pursuit of Happiness" you're guaranteed never to want to waste you're time in front of another bloody infomercial.

Nothing is predictable. Everything is non-permanent and therefore good, and everything begins and ends with a fire engine red '59 Cadilac convertable. Albert Einstein new this to be true but obviously felt a bit silly saying so. The Pursuit Of Happiness has no such reservations and is not afraid to tell it the way it is. Because it is. And here we are. 24 frames a second of unadulterated bliss. This interactive experience hints at an absolute reality beyond which nothing can be said...

Lindsay Colborne was born in 1956 in Brisbane and has spent the last 43 years just pottering around doing God only knows what, probably wasting his time in front of the television set, drinking scotch, and dreaming about some stupid thing or other. He's a bone lazy, good for nothing layabout, so if there's any work to be done you may as well do it yourself. His CV is a blank piece of A4 plain copy, and basically, he knows bugger all. Now at last he's putting all that unique experience together in one beautifully bound almighty attempt to SAVE THE WORLD and achieve spiritual enlightenment for every soul on the planet, in his silvery shiny interactive CDRom entitled "The Pursuit of Happiness".

"Experimenta Media Arts gratefully acknowledges the support of its sponsors, the Australian Film Commission, Arts Victoria and Cinemedia."

International Competition for Computer Arts
(Linz, Austria)
Organizer Osterreichisceher Rundfunk (OERF),
Landesstudio Oberosterreich
Idea: Dr Hannes Leopoldseder
Conception Dr. Christine Schoof
Liaison Office Prix Ars Electronica,OERF, Europaplatz3
A-4010 Linz .
Tel 0043/732/6900267
Fax 0043/732/6900-2770
info@prixars.orf.at

AEC ARS ELECTRONIC CENTER LINZ
Managing Director- Director Gerfried Stocker
Haupttstrase 2, A-404 Linz,
tel: +43 732 71 21 21-0
fax+43 732 7121 21-2
info@aec.at
http://www.aec.at
Managing Director- Director Gerfried Stocker
gerfreid@aec.at
Assistance Iris Mayer
iris@aec.at

Ars Electronica - a Festival for Art, Technology and Society - was initiated in 1979 and focuses on electronic art and media theory, it provides an open meeting-place for artists and reserachers, has since developed into a world-famous forum for the arts, technology and society. From the beginning Ars Electronica has been characterised by its accessiblity and its rejection of artificial frontiers. Jointly with Austrian Broadcasting Company (ORF) Upper Austrian Studio, it organises symposia, exhibitions, concerts, events and a wealth of arts projects, and puts the latest trends and developments in the field of digital media on public display. This year's theme of the Festival is "Life Science". The Festival '99 takes place from the 4th -10th of September 1999.

In keeping with the rapid changes in the area of digital media, the Prix Ars Electronica has presented itself in an altered overall format each year since it was established in 1987. The Prix Ars Electronica was initiated in 1987 by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Upper Austrian Regional Studio, as an international competition within the framework of the Ars Electronica Festival. The categories at that time were graphics, animation and music.

Throughout the years, in keeping with the dynamics of the computer branch, the Prix Ars Electronica has opened up new competition categories such as interactive art and was the first major international competition to introduce the Net category. Both the categories and the entry regulations have been continuously adapted to meet changing conditions.

A space filled on five levels with teh technologies of the 21st century - to be dicovered, tried out, played with, and used as a basis for interactive learning. In a way that is entertaining, user-friendly, and matched to the level of knowledge of each individual visitor. An interface between art, culture, technology and society. The museum's own hardware and software, its presentation and seminar rooms, and the expertise of its staff are at the disposal of artists as much as of businesspeople and research scientists.

In the Form of its Future Lab, the Ars Electronica Center provides an interdisciplinary workshop environment for industry, the arts, the sciences, and entertainment. The infrastructure of the Ars Electronica Center, unique in Europe, is made available to artists, technologists and businesspeople for the purposes of research, development and presentation. Seminars and workshops promote the exchange of ideas and critical reflection.

art director of Ars Electronica Festival and manager of Ars Electronica Center (Linz, Austria), at Virtuality & Interacitvity II presents the Ars Electronica Festival.

Computer Animation Film Festival was created in Geneva in 1988 together with the international conference in Computer Animation. This event took place for the first time in Palexpo (congress house) and was open to the public. People came from all over the region and far exceeded the number of available seats. Today, Computer Animation is a unique Festival dedicated to the specialists, the end-users and the public. Films are submitted from all over the world and a jury selects the best films of the year. About 40 films are selected for the Festival among several hundred submitted.

At "Virtuality & Interactivity II" will be shown some of the films which won a prize:

FILM TITLE AWARD GIVEN BY COMPANY
ALIAS RESEARCH Award given by Sony Switzerland Alias Reseach and Silicon Graphics Co-Production
LES AVENTURES DE PHILOMENE Jet d'Or City of Geneva Fantome
NCSA SCIENTIFIC VISUALISATION Award given by Silicon Graphics International The National Center of Supercomputing
FILM TITLE COMPANY LENGHT
ALIAS RESEARCH Alias Reseach and Silicon Graphics Co-Production 1m50s
LES AVENTURES DE PHILOMENE Fantome 3m56s
NCSA SCIENTIFIC VISUALISATION The National Center of Supercomputing 1m05s

Then. at "Virtuality & Interactivity II" the Computer Animation Film Festival presents a review of the last 10 years computer animation.

Created in 1991 as a result of the merger of two old foundations, the Fundació "la Caixa" is responsible for managing the resources, which the financial institution devotes to its social and cultural work.

The Foundation works to contribute to the improvement of the life of the community. Its educational activities, which are open to public participation, are organised throughout Spain. These activities are intended to promote access to knowledge from an overall point of view and also to foster a change of attitude and values towards the environment. With the objective of responding to problems faced by children and the elderly, or to social questions, such as AIDS, which require an urgent response, the Foundation involves itself with preventative and welfare work.

The Foundation encourages pilot projects, which because of their experimental nature lie outside the realm of public administration, and acts as an intermediary in initiatives, which require the Cupertino of individuals and companies from different spheres. These projects are implemented with an eye to the future and constitue veritable test-beds for eventual comprehensive initiatives. They help to identify and define new social needs and look for possible mid-and long-term solutions.

Social Project The Fundació "la Caixa" performs its task in the social field both by promoting its own projects and giving support to innovative initiatives originating from society large.

Project for senior citizens. The Foundation has put into operation a large-scale project which addresses senior citizens' new requirements in modern society: an increasingly hitech society which makes the elderly feel inadequate and out of place: a society aiming to reduce the role of the welfare state; a society, in short, very different to the one knew when they retired.

Alzheimer's Disease: information, support of social initiatives and scientific research.. The Foundation promotes a programme dealing with neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Alzheimer's disease, which affects over 400.000 people in Spain. The Foundation organises a wide range of training and informative activities. As regards scientific research, the Foundation has launched a competition for research grants on neurodegenerative diseases. Children's Project: The Foundation backs a programme devoted to Childhood and the Quality of Life with projects providing abandoned children with temporary housing or homecare to children with cancer. The most recent of these projects is AIDS and paediatrics .

Science and the environment
The Science Museum, in Barcelona, is a center devoted to scientific and technical information. The museum offers three different sections: the permanent exhibition rooms, the temporary exhibitions and the educational and informational activities.

The Museum also hosts lectures and debates in which the public is informed of scientific opinion is shaped; and there is also a center which offers information courses and lecture programmes on specific subjects.

The Museum is about to being the refurbishing which will take it into the twenty -first century as one of the most modern centres of scientific dissemination in Europe. With its 15.000 m2 of public space, 6.000 m2 of exhibition space, three auditoria and some attractive installations outside, the New Museu de la Ciència represents the Foundation's most ambitious project in the field of cultural infrastructures.

Cultural Project
The Foundation thinks of its art exhibition as a means of putting knowledge at the disposition of the public. They are designed to throw light on specific aspects of cultural history from a thematic perspective, and to propose and popularise new approaches to historical movements and periods.

The large exhibitions devoted to ancient civilisations and the retrospective modern and contemporary art shows not only aim to display the output of a certain period, but also to simulate an open reflection on cultural and social history. In short, to reflect the way in which the forms of human expression evolve in a constantly changing society. The Foundation sponsors exhibitions of contemporary art and acquaints the public with the work of young Spanish and foreign artists. It has one of the most important collections of contemporary art in Spain, which is the source for selective exhibitions on specific topics to be exhibited throughout the country.

Photography is given a specific treatment, which stems from the need to preserve, document and show the Spanish photographic legacy in its international context and presents the latest trends in photography and photojournalism. As far as music is concerned, the Fundació "la Caixa" dedicates its energies to training (through courses for young musicians, whose most outstanding example is the Chamber Music Course) and the popularisation of little-know musical periods and forms (such as ancient or 2oth-century music).

To implement all of these activities the Fundació has a series of facilities. Barcelona Cultural Centre. The exhibitions organised by the Fundació "la Caixa" generate a large number of activities: guided tours, music and photography workshop for school parties, lectures, educative courses and sessions for visually expressing the ideas inspired by the works on show. On the weekends these activities are also aimed at families who want to share with their children the experience of visiting and exhibition or attending a concert. The Cultural Centre of Barcelona is set in a Modernista building designed by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. It has exhibition rooms, areas to host concerts and lectures, meeting rooms, an Arts Laboratory, devoted to educational activities and a Mediateca Multimedia library.

Mediateca
With over 8.000 members and 80.000 users in 1998, the Mediateca has consolidated itself as one of the permanent attractions of the Barcelona Cultural Centre. It seeks to encourage the public use of technology and introduce the public to the latest trends in contemporary and multimedia art.

Other centres:
Palma Cultural Centre, Madrid Exhibition Centre, Montcada Exhibition Centre and other cultural centres in several Catalan towns.

Staff
Director of Social Work and Deputy Chairman of the Fundació "la Caixa": Alejandro Plasencia García
Director General: Luis Monreal Agustí
Deputy Director General: Antoni Aliana Magri
General Secretary: Luis Reverter Gelabert
Director of Programmes: Carme Guinea i Comas
Director of Social and Educational Projects: Isabel Martínez Torralba
Director of Social Assistance Projects: Gloria Trias Salas
Director of Resources and Services: Juan Ignacio Vivanco Sanchez
Director of Communications: Cristina G. Langarica