The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, with the support of the Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (the City Historian), HIVOS, ENET / ETECSA Cubasí Portal, and the collaboration of the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema (ICAIC), and the Consejo Nacional de Artes Plásticas, announces the VII Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital (Seventh International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium) with the purpose of promoting artistic and cultural values created with new technologies.
The "Art Exhibit", which will open on June 21, 2005, will once again show the current work in this field and favor exchange and reflection among creators and specialists engaged in these new forms of expression.
The event covers two areas; the "National Art Exhibit", of a competitive nature, and a non-competitive "International Art Exhibit", where works by artists from other countries will be shown.
INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ART EXHIBIT
The Centro Pablo calls on artists from foreign countries to participate in the "International Digital Art Exhibit" that will be held at the same time of the "National Digital Art Exhibit". Various artistic views within this expressive modality will be brought together, thus facilitating debate and considerations on their languages and poetics.
This year the "International Digital Art Exhibit" will accept proposals for the category of Printing Works. The art pieces must have been created using digital tools and reproduced by any printing machine.
Each participant may send up to three works of any size. The works initial inscription will be accomplished by filling and sending the form appearing in the following Internet address:
The printing works must arrive to the Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau before April 15, 2005. The postal address to send the proposals is:
VII Salón Internacional de Arte Digital
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor
La Habana Vieja, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
Besides the printing works, the participant must include in this postal sending the high resolution image of the art work in CD or zip disk (only PC format), and a file text with the same information previously sent through the Internet form.
These works may be found at the "Sixth Digital Art Exhibit Portal", developed by the Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau and the ENET / ETECSA Cubasí Portal.
The admission jury will work on the curatorship of the submitted art works that will be included in the Jury Selection Exhibit and the Participants Exhibit to be shown through June and July in cultural centers of La Habana Vieja.
The works will be shown also in the web site of the "VII Salón Internacional de Arte Digital (Seventh International Digital Art Exhibit)", that will be developed by the Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau and the Cubasí Portal of ENET / ETECSA by June, 2005.
The "Art Exhibit" cannot return the art works submitted for consideration and requests participating artists to donate them for future non-profit exhibits and showings.
The "International Exhibit" will also include a video section to be shown in Centro Pablo, the Office of the City Historian, and ICAIC. These shows, that will include programs submitted by cultural centers and art schools of several countries, will be announced by May, 2005.
Next international digital art edition, in June, 2006, will include the category of Time-based Works.
INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Art and/in Body
An "International Colloquium" will be held on June 22-23 to present the Memoria magazine with information about the "VI Salón de Arte Digital (Sixth International Digital Art Exhibit)" and discuss the winning works of the "National Exhibit" and the themes of the lectures delivered under the title Art and/in body.
Outstanding artists that have been winners or jurors in our recent "International Digital Art Exhibits" will be in charge of these conferences.
The request to participate in this "International Colloqium" should be sent to Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau by filling the form that can be found before May 15, 2005 in the following Internet address:
A fee of 50 pesos cubanos convertibles (CUC) is required from all participants in the "International Colloquium". Participants from abroad will pay their inscription fee to the "International Digital Art Colloquium" at the Centro before the beginning of the event.
The inscription will allow participants to receive all the printed information about the "VII Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital (Seventh International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloqium)", including the poster created by the VI Salon winners, and to attend the debate sessions and exhibits openings during the first week of this cultural event.
Travel Arrangements
Artists, critics, professors, journalists, students and specialists from other countries interested in taking part on the "Seventh International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium" may make their arrangements through:
HAVANATUR Travel Agency
Tel.: (537) 203-9772 — 204-2054
Fax: (537) 204-2877 — 204-6037
E-mail: ivanhdez@cimex.com.cu
Or directly at:
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor
La Habana Vieja, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
Tele-fax: (537) 8666585 — 8616251
E-mail: centropablo@cubarte.cult.cu
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