"net_condition" is a four-country networked event organized
under the "steirischer herbst" art festival hosted by
the city of Graz, the provincial capital of Steiermark, Austria.
Media centers in Austria, Germany, Spain and Japan will be participating
in this event. The event will be under the overall direction of
Peter WEIBEL, a distinguished theoretician in the field of art and
media technology and organizer of numerous projects.
The following four institutions will be organizing a number of installations
and Net.art exhibitions: steirischer herbst (Graz, Austria: Peter
WEIBEL); ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, Germany:
Jeffrey SHAW; MECAD (Barcelona, Spain: Claudia GIANNETTI); and NTT
InterCommunication Center (Tokyo, Japan: ITO Toshiharu ).
The emergence of photo media ("The Photographic Condition")
changed the art of painting, video has changed film, and digital
technology has changed film and video. Now the question is: "How
will the emergence of networks (the net condition) affect and change
conventional media ?"
This event will link art and media centers in four cities of the
world in a cross-matrix of real space and virtual space while focusing
on the animation of human consciousness in the net.
The ICC event features four artists in an experiment in interactive
communication and the merging of real and virtual space to create
a networked heterotopia (interactive dislocation).
"However, reality consists of the co-resonance and merging
of actual images and virtual images."
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