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 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Fine Arts Museum), announces the VI Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital (Sixth 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, 2004, 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 On-Line International Art Exhibit, where works by artists from other countries will be shown.
On-line International Art ExhibitThe Centro Pablo calls on digital artists from foreign countries to participate in the On-Line International Art Exhibit that will be held at the same time of the National Art Exhibit. Various artistic views within this expressive modality will be brought together, thus facilitating debate and considerations on their languages and poetics.
Two-dimensional, interactive and audiovisual digital works will participate in the International Art Exhibit with Internet as their only support. 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 International Art Exhibit will also include a Video Section that will be shown in the Centro Pablo, the Office of the City Historian, ICAIC and the National Fine Arts Museum.
All the works received before April 1st, 2004, chosen by the admission jury, may participate. Artists of chosen works will be notified before April 15, 2004.
On-line works: two-dimensional, interactive, and audiovisualEach participant may send up to three works using the form appearing in: http://www.centropablo.cult.cu/for
m/formularioonline.htm
Artists participating in Internet categories (art and communication, netart, webart, network, software art, video, animation, computer graphic) should notify the links where their works are located in Internet.
Video SectionThis category covers video and digital animation.
Artists sending their works for the Video Section should fill the form in:
http://www.centropablo.cult.cu/for
m/formulariovideo.htm and send their works by postal mail to:
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, Habana Vieja,
Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
Each participant may submit up to three works in the following supports and formats: VHS (NTSC or PAL), DVD (Zone 1 or Multizone), MiniDV (NTSC).
The Art Exhibit cannot return the works submitted for consideration and requests participating artists to donate them for future non-profit exhibits and showings.
International Colloquium Digital Art: Languages and PoeticsAn International Colloquium will be held on June 22-24 to discuss the scope and limitations of these new forms of artistic creation. Discussion will be based on the following topics:
Challenges and Techniques of Digital Art
Digital Art, Tradition and Originality
New Languages, New Subjects?
Papers should be sent before May 1st, 2004 to the Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, using the form appearing in:
http://www.centropablo.cult.cu/form/formularioonline.htm
A US$50 fee 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 when the event begins.
Travel ArrangementsArtists, critics, professors, journalists, students and specialists from other countries interested in taking part on the 6th International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium may make their arrangements through:
Agencia de Viajes HAVANATUR
Tel.: (537) 203-9772 y 204-2054, Fax: (537) 204-2877 y 204-6037
e-mail: roman@cimex.com.cu
Or directly at
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, Habana Vieja, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
Tele-fax: (537) 866-6585 / 861-6251
E-mail: centropablo@cubarte.cult.cu
For more information, please visit the websites:
http://www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu / http://www.centropablo.cult.cu / http://www.centropablonoticias.cult.cu
