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March 15 - 19
Budapest, 6.International Villem Flusser Symposium

Intersubjectivity: media metaphors, play & provocation on Flusser's oeuvre and on media metaphors is the topic of discussion at the two-day symposium, held at the Mucsarnok. The annual symposium, each time held in a different location, will be accompanied by an exhibition of works by artists reflecting on Flusser. Although he is dead, he has inspired tremendous contemporary theory and reflection. What we recommended --for sure-- are the lectures of Marie-Luise Angerer "The Body as Interface"; Marina Grzinic "The Net Called Human Relations"; Hans Ulrich Reck "Immersive Environment" as well as the performances by Gusztav Hamos, Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak, Janos Sugar and Miklos Peternak.

March 16 - 20
Budapest, Spring Festival

The Spring festival in Budapest brings together a new surge of exhibitons and events in the field of media art in Budapest. Although a detailed program is just coming out, we can recommend the following:

1. Artpool Art Research Center, Mamax - Art created in collective Praxis, Internetprojects/CD-Roms and a live needleprinting performance from the gallery balcony, Liszt Ferenc ter10, March 19, 17.30 Artpool

2. Konsum Budapest, Servercommunication Workshop, Media Research Foundation, Intermedia Department, Academy of fine Arts, March19-23, 10.30-12.30 Konsum

3. During a week of late night gallery presentations, dont miss "I Love Amerika, Amerika Loves Me", an interpretative event by Szacscva y Pal, Eva Wohlgemuth and Kathy Rae Huffman, featuring fotos, internet research and food. Studio Galeria, Kepiro utca 6., March 20, 10.00 - 12 midnight.

4. TRANS VER SALE Text/Textur, a DJing lecture act of force, REmarks/VOGUEwords/theRRorizing based on a tech-conception. A netheory/visuals/audio performance with the theorizer F.E. Rakuschan and Superfem. The event is at the Aula of the Fine Arts Academy 69-71 Andrassy ut, March 21, 19.30 - 12 midnight.

April 4 - 6
Glasgow, Scotland, VWO - Virtual World Orchestra

An interactive Internet event by nva_organization, that combines artists and musicians with on-line participants worldwide. A collection of stories from over 180 countries is the basis of the text, and there is still time to submit picture files (any format) and sound files that relate to the place the sender lives. Details are on the website.

April 11 - May 18
Liverpool and Manchester, UK, Video Positive Festival of Electronic Art and LEAF97* www.fact.co.uk/VP97.htm

Video Positive97: Escaping Gravity, is the UK's major international festival of art and creative technology.

Liverpool East European Electronic Arts Forum takes place Sunday, April 13 & Monday, April 14, 1997, organised by: Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, UK (in collaboration with V2_organization, Rotterdam, NL).

The working theme for LEAF97: 'Virtually Transformed Europe - Recent East European Revolutions in Society, Culture, Technology, Art'. LEAF97 will take as a starting point the ISEA98 broad topic of Revolution and introduce an ISEA context well in advance for ongoing discussions and debates that could be further explored off- and on-line. Moreover LEAF97 would eventually aspire to bring the East European Electronic Arts awareness to ISEA98 agenda.

LEAF97 is a continuation of the V2_East Meeting initiative which aims to foster the understanding of the process of cultural transformation specific to Eastern Europe and the role of the media art and artists. Please refer to the V2 website for additional information on the V2_east syndicate, as well as a good reference to media art festivals. V2

April 30 - May 4
Wroclaw, Poland , WRO 97 - 6th International Sound Basis Visual Art Festival

An international biennale of media art that presents new technologies and new experiences - video, installation, performance, multimedia. Wroclaw is a friendly town, inexpensive accomodations, and great conversations with festival guests.

May 7 - 11
Osnabrueck, EMAF - European Media Art Festival

Last year, Telepolis had very good experiences with an experiment of live web-editing at the Telepolis Newsroom. This year, some experiments can be expected as well. Alfred Rotert has invested a lot of energy into an interesting program on Hong Kong, a focus that should prove important in relation to the actual political change to be expected two months later. Also expected are net opinions, CD-Roms and multi media installations. This festival is somehow a must if you are interested in international Media art that spans several disciplines. You still can submit work until March 3, 1997!

May 24 - 27
Bonn, IFIP-WWC 97 - the 6th International Conference on Women, Work, and Computerization

Spinning a Web from Past to Future is the topic of discussion. This is the right conference for woman concerned with Internet and computer technology, and computer science. We are curious, and will attend and hope to contact female net theoreticians, webmasters and female orientated community server setups.

May 25 -June 1
Berlin, Transmedia 97 (formerly Berlin Videofest) We wish we could be two places at once, because we have always held the Videofest high on the list of international media events. This is the first year as Transmedia, and it signifies a change of time, and existance apart from the Berlin Film Festival. We wish Mediopolis tremendous success in 1997.