INTRODUCTION

This seminar was designed to cover the following issues:

To establish a dynamic dialogue about new media, the borderline between art and technology, and current artistic tendencies with an emphasis in digital art, virtual reality, electronic arts, animation and cinematography.

”Tendencies and art forms:”From the pre-renaissance to the electronic era": Overview and comparative analyses of the esthetic principles, forms of visualization, representation and tendencies from the Pre-Renaissance to the Electronic Era;

Evolution and innovation of the visual representation in the Arts. Exploring new forms for art making - When classical arts and the new media overlaps.

Guest-Speakers

Derrick de Kerckhove, writer, philosopher, director of the McLuhan Program in Culture & Technology, Toronto, Canada; Mark Pesce, inventor of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), chair of he Interactive Media Program at the University of Southern California; Daniel J. Sandin, Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (UIC); Maxine D. Brown, Associate Director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (UIC); Julia Fish, artist and professor (UIC); Marco Monzani, Director of Elekton; Allen R. Brown, Consul of Canada in Chicago; Elysia Borowy, Audience Development Manager, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA); Ed Mar, curator for Version 03, Chicago’s new-media arts festival; Jon Cates, Instructor, Art Institute of Chicago; Antonia Simo, Marketing Director of DOCUMENTA, Kassel; Anne Nigten, manager of the V2_lab Holland and the Consul of the Netherlands in New York.