Pop~Events 98

A competition for Young Austrian media artists, for innovative design concepts in different media, interactive works, and multimedia productions. Amateurs and professionals are invited to compete for five cash prizes, issued to both commercial and art projects.

The Podewil hosts the second transmediale and the eleventh VideoFest. Associated again with the Berlin Film Festival, the VideoFest will attract thousands of visitors and hundreds of accredited FilmFest guests, thus making the Podewil an international meeting place for the creative talents in media. The festival will be organized by transmedia and Podewil, with support by the Senate of Berlin, the European Commission, and private sponsors.

An International competition and cash prize for concepts aimed at creating interactive ways of communication which reflect and utilize today's state of technology. Categories include Internet, Television, and State will be awarded prizes totaling to DM 35,000.

An exhibition and symposium, organized as a collaboration between Axis, De Balie, Maatshappij voor Oude en Nieuwe Media and Paradox, Amsterdam, it will be held in the Oude Kerk (a 12th C church in Amsterdam's red light district). The short listed program is extraordinary!

A multi-disciplinary, film, video, graphic design, and interactive media event. Lovebytes presents a 3 day conference and exhibition program that establishes a critical debate on the digital arts.

This years retrospective will celebrate the work of Pat O'Neill, West Coast Filmmaker. The International Student Forum , Virtual Festival, Special programs featuring Hong Kong and South America, as well as Eastern Europe will form the basic program. The symposium Net-Culture and the Exhibition create a large and friendly audience for discussion and exchange.

Held this year in The Casino, Lucerne's ultimate tourist paradise, a selection of media art, lectures, projects and performances will be featured. An innovative and very multimedia festival, Viper is a space to experience the cinema of the future.

A new French initiative that looks at virtual and artificial worlds, with papers, demos of applications. We don't know where it will take physically take place, hopefully as a virtual exhibition we can all attend.

The 6th Celebration of Independent Video and New Media, with screenings at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), an on-line exhibition on the Freewaves' website. Special projects will be screened on Billboard Live!, an outdoor large-scale video screen located on Sunset Strip. Many other events in L.A. will take place, too. Mac-compatible CD ROMs, NTSC 3/4 inch or VHS videotapes, or 1-2 page proposals for installations and performances, with support materials (video documentation, slides, etc.) can be sent.

The 3rd Palermo International Videoart + Film + Media Festival announces their summer deadline for the 1998 event. The ex-aequo winners of the '97 competition were female ! and that's good enough for us to list this festival (which we have never attended).

This new French website lists international media art and video festivals and competitions. It is dedicated to the new technologies, and is searchable by country and media. You should also check this site before making travel plans, you wouldn't want to miss the festival by one day!

Now combined with The Intelligent Agent, and available both as hardcopy and an an online version, great up-to-the-minute information on current events, new websites, and competitions, especially in New York and USA is available.

A website and mailing list of reviews, events, and fine art exhibitions. A standard resource for media artists.

If you are specially interested in Eastern Europe, we highly recommend that you subscribe to the Syndicate mailing list, which has a large subscriber base from all around the former east. You can review the archive of postings from April 1997, to see if it is your cup-of-tea. To subscribe, send email to: syndicate-request@aec.at with the word 'subscribe + your email address' in the message body.