Studio courses, and cycle of conferences, talks and meetings [local and networked] with media experts, curators, managers, authors, writers and researcher, offered within the graduate curriculum for the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago [UIC], and Electronic Visualization Laboratory [EVL]. The guest shared their experience with the students, speaking about their work, methods, and modus operandi, which enriched the student’s knowledge and information in diverse areas of specialization. In addition, representatives from cultural centers, galleries, and museums were brought into the seminar to give a view of their respective institutions, their opinions about tendencies in the digital sector, and the opportunities that their organizations can provide to artists. The seminar aspired to foster a dynamic and open dialogue exploring conceptual, artists tic, and technological aspects related to art, the Net, society, the electronic media, and current artistic/ technological tendencies seen from various viewpoints. Designed and organize by Franz Fischnaller.

Guest-Speakers

Sara Diamond, Curator, producer, critic and writer, Artistic Director of Media and Visual Arts at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada; Mary Antonakos (USA), responsable for the I-SPACE Gallery, Chicago, USA; Roberta Bosco, Curator and art journalist, working for "Sette", “Agostini-Rizzoli, "El Periodico del Arte", "Il Corriere della Sera", "El Pais", etc; Manuel Viñas Limonchi, writer, media theoretician, researcher, producer and author of the books, 21th Century: The Prefaces of Digital Humanism; Maurice Benayoun, media artist and producer of Virtual Reality, Animations, Networking projects. Co-director of the CITU (Création Interactive Transdisciplinaire Universitaire), Professor at the Université de Paris, Video Art and New Images; and Paul Marino, Emmy award-winning director and artist, Executive Director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences at New York.