The following conferences have been organised within the festival theoretical scope:
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- I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL REALITY. 1996
- INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM INTERACTION PERSON-MACHINE, 1997
- SYMPOSIUM EMERGENT FUTURES: ART IN THE POST-BIOLOGICAL ERA, 1998.
- INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM INCIDENCES / DISSIDENCES: UTOPIAS AND ANTIUTOPIAS OF     THE CYBERCULTURE, 1999.
- COMPUTER ANIMATION
- HOMAGES AND RETROSPECTIVES
- NET –ART
- STEREOSCOPIC WORKS,
- MULTIMEDIA DANCE AND ROBOTIC.
- INSTALLATIONS
- OPERA ON THE INTERNET
- ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC CONCERTS
 
 
 

 

  
    
 I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL REALITY 1996 [ menu ]
 
  (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 1996). With the followings speakers:
 
- Philippe Quéau:
  Director of the Computing and Information Division of the UNESCO. Telecommunication Engineer and former Research Director at the INA (French Institute de l'Audiovisuel). France.
- Monika Fleischmann:
  Artist and researcher. Responsible of the area of Computer Art of the GMD (German National Research Center for Information Technology). Germany.
- Zush: Multidisciplinary artist.
- Karin Ohlenschläger:
  Curator specialised in electronic art. Proyectos Culturales S.L. Madrid. Spain.
- Juan Millares:
  Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain.
- Sylvia Molina:
  Fine Arts Faculty at the UCLM. Spain.
- Judith Donath:
  MIT- Media Lab, Massachusetts. USA.
- Maurice Benayoun:
  Université Paris I, France.
- John Waterworth:
  Computing Department, University of Umea, Sweden.
- Craig D. Murray:
  Dept. Psychology and Speech Pathology. Manchester Metropolitan University. UK.
- Madelyn Starbuck y Vicente Forés :
  ACTLab, University of Texas, Austin. USA. And Universidad de Valencia. Spain.
- Grupo ARTEC:
  Institute of Robotic, Universidad de Valencia. Spain.
- Yee On Lo y Daniel Hitt:
  Composer and researcher on computing and electroacoustic music. University Palo Alto / Stanford. USA.
- C. Botella, M. Alcaniz, C.Perpiñá, R.M. Baños y A. Rey:
  Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Universitat de Valéncia E.G. Spain.
- Javier Sáez: Sociologist.
- Eloy Portillo:
  Department of Engineering and Telemathics Architectures at the UPM. Spain.
- Emilio López Galiacho:
  Architect and musician. I+D Arquimedia. Madrid. Spain.
- Diego Levis:
  Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Spain.
- John L. Beezer:
  Researcher in social interaction in virtual worlds. Founder of the Brazil Design Group. Seattle. USA.
- Marina Segarra y Eulalia Adelantado:
  Dept. Historia del Arte. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Spain.
- Julieta Aguilera:
  Artist and researcher in digital design and photography.
- Sheldon Brown:
  Visual Arts Dept. University of California San Diego. Artist. USA.
- Christa Erickson
  Fine Arts and Digital Media Area. Indiana University. USA
- Alan Dunning y Paul Woodrow:
  Alberta College of Art and Design / Fine Arts Faculty. University of Calgary, Alberta. Canada.
- Paul Margerison, Johan Riedel y Scott Forrest:
  Multimedia Artist. The Open University. Milton Keynes. UK.
- Jesús Alido y Rafael Jimenez:
  Instituto de Artes y Tecnologias de la Universidad de San Francisco of Madrid H.A.T. Spain.
- Alejandro Sacristan:
Realidad Virtual S.L. Spain.
- Richard C. MacKinnon:
  Advanced Communication Technologies Laboratory (ACTLab). University of Texas at Austin. USA
   
  INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM INTERACTION PERSON-MACHINE , 1997 [ menu ]
With the followings speakers:
- Thecla Schiphorst:
  Artist. Professor of Computer Art at the Simon Fraser University and at the Art and Design Institute Emily Carr in Vancouver.
-Wofgang Strauss:
  Architect and professor, Fine Arts Faculty of Saarbrücken.
- Javier Echeverría:
  Researcher at CSIC, Chair in logic and science philosophy at the University of Basque Country.
- Derrick de Kerckhove:
Director of the McLuhan Program, University of Toronto.
- Malcolm le Grice:
  Director of Research at the Central Saint Martir College of Art-The London Institute, pioneer in British experimental cinema.
SYMPOSIUM EMERGENT FUTURES: ART IN THE POST-BIOLOGICAL ERA. 1998, [ menu ]
With the followings speakers:
-Roy Ascott:
  Founder and Director of CAiiA-STAR, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts. UK.
- Eduardo Kac:
  Artist and writer, Assistant Professor of Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. USA.
- Bill Seaman:
  Media Artist, Professor of Imaging and Digital Art, Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland. USA.
- Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau:
  Artists and researchers. Professors at the IAMAS, International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences Gifu. Japan.
- Miroslaw Rogala:
  Multimedia Artist.
- Mike Phillips:
  Leads the Interactive Media Subject Group at STAR, School of Computing, University of Plymouth. UK.
- Charlotte Davies:
  Artist. In 1988 she became a founding director of the computer graphics company Softimage Inc. Montreal, Canada.
- Joseph Nechvatal: Artist.
- Victoria Vesna:
  Artist. Director of the AI Department, University of California in Santa Barbara. USA
- Kepa Landa
Researcher, artist and member of CAiiA-STAR UK.
- Chris Speed
  Professor in Interactive Media at the University of Plymouth. UK.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM INCIDENCES / DISSIDENCES: UTOPIAS AND      ANTIUTOPIAS OF THE CYBERCULTURE , 1999. [ menu ]
With the followings speakers:
- Lebbeus Woods:
  Architect, Scientific director and Co-Founder of the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture in Switzerland.
- Arthur y Marilouise Kroker:
  Professors at the Political Sciences Department of the University of Concordia.
- Hakim Bey:
  Writer, poet and philosopher. He developed in the seventies the theory called TAZ (Temporary Autonomous Zone).
- Fred Forest:
  Director of Information Sciences and Communication at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Artist pioneer in video-art in France.
- José Luís Brea :
  Director of the art web site ALEPH and director of the magazine ACCIÓN PARALELA.
-Jordi Claramonte Arrufat:
  In collaboration with the artists Domingo Mestre and Marcelo Expósito, he created the “Área Táctica” project of intervention on the Net.
- Mariano Maturana:
  Visual artist and cyber activist.
- Caroline Bassett:
  Has written on the gender, performance, online world and cyberfeminism.
- RTMark (USA):
Organization based on the Internet, uses computer sabotages with socials purposes.
- Ana Navarrete
  Facultad de Bellas Artes of the UCLM
COMPUTER ANIMATION [ menu ]
   CiberaRT has shown more than 500 computer animation works of international level.
 
HOMAGES AND RETROSPECTIVES [ menu ]
    to directors who have introduced and experienced New Technologies.
  - Homage to Basilio Martín Patino.
  - Retrospective of John Lasseter
  - Retrospective of Jean Pierre Jeunet y Marc Caro.
- Retrospective of the British experimental filmmaker Malcolm Le Grice.
  - Retrospective of the artist Maurice Benayoun.
  - Retrospective of the artist Michel Bret.
NET –ART [ menu]
            Presentation and selection of Net-Art works.
STEREOSCOPIC WORKS [ menu ]
            - AMAMANTA and PRIMARIO from the Dijo el Monje group.
MULTIMEDIA DANCE AND ROBOTIC [ menu ]
  - Premiere in Spain of the Communion spectacle, by the Canadian company Le Corps Indice, multimedia performance of robotic.
- Presentation of the spectacle Afasia by the artist Marcel-li Antúnez. 1999
 
INSTALLATIONS [ menu ]
     The festival has given in Spain the first public performance of:
   
  - - Interactive Installation Phototropy by the artists Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonnau.
  - Interactive Installation Bodymaps: Artifacts of touch, by the Canadian artist Thecla Schiphorst.
- Instalación Interactiva Aquarius, dby the valencian artist Miquel Jordá
  - The graphic artwork generated by computer Manhattan Toys, Making Noise, by the valencian artist Rafael Castro.
   
OPERA ON THE INTERNET [ menu ]
   
Presentation in Valencia of the opera “Honoria in Cyberespacio”, first opera in cyberspace, finalist in Sweden at the Bangemann Challenge, first "Nobel" for internet works, 1999. Carried out between the University of Texas in Austin, the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and the Universidad de Valencia E.G.
   
ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC CONCERTS (selection) [ menu ]
  - Collaboration with the Fundación Phonos (Universidad Pompeu Fabra).
  - Collaboration with the V International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, PUNTO DE ENCUENTRO.
  - Collaboration with the electroacoustic music association AMEE.
  - Concert of Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Bourgues (France).
  - Concerts of CDMC, Laboratorio de Informática y Electrónica Musical del Centro para la Difusión de la Música Contemporánea (Spain).
  - Concert-retrospective of Italian Electroacoustic Music curated by the composer Nicola Sani.
  - Homage to the Duets film music: Great Filmmakers / Great Musicians to the following directors and musicians: Pierre Henry / Walter Ruttmann, Nicola Sani / Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Cahen / Michel Chion, Robert Cahen / Pierre Boulez.. (Centro Cultural Bancaixa, 1999).
  - History of the Electroacoustic Music in Cuba.
  - The festival has organised with the L.E.A. (Laboratorio de Electroacústica del Conservatorio de Valencia) the International Competition of Electroacoustic Creation.
 
 
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