Terms Of Participation	Discussions	Jury	Organizers	Exhibition	Winners and Prizes

	History
		"Da-Da-Net" (Russian art-resources festival) - SCCA third big initiative in the sphere of Russian new technologies art. First initiative (1993-1994) Moscow New Media Art Lab Exhibition "NewMediaTopia" Simposium "NewMediaLogia" Second initiative (1995-May 1997) X-media studio

Moscow New Media Art Lab

Moscow, 1993-1994

Curators of the lecture course:
Tatyana Mogilevskaya, Olga Shishko

Curators of the practice course, preparation and production of the projects for final exhibition "NewMediaTopia":
Vladimir Mogilevsky, Philippe Estienne (France), Sergey Shutov, Christine Meierhofer (Austria)

Organizers:

Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Center for Contemporary Art

Institute for Contemporaty Art

Institute of Technology Art

"ORTA" Company, Moscow

Animation Foundation "Pilot"

With support and under the aegis of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

International Simposium "NewMediaLogia"

The artist in the world of the new technologies Ways and results of interactivity
November, 1994

Curators of the lecture course:
Olga Shishko, Tatyana Mogilevskaya, Anatoly Prochorov, Kathy Rae Huffman

Organizers:

Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

"ORTA" Company, Moscow

Institute of Technology Art

Association of the new screen technologies of the Union of the Cinema workers

Russian State Tele-Radio-broadcasting Company

With support and under the aegis of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation

Program
"New Media Art in Russia":

Vladimir Levashov, Tatyana Mogilevskaya
Media-art in the exhibitions and artistic events. Moscow, 1993-1994

Vladimir Mogilevsky
Practice in the New Media Art Lab, Moscow

Alla Mitrofanova, Sankt-Petersburg
Strategies of subjectivity and new media

Tatyana Didenko
Video - artist - television

Anatoly Prochorov
The history of Russian theory of the new technologies. 1989-1994

Oleg Aranson
Dziga Vertov, Alexander Dovzhenko and perspectives of computer animation

Alexei Orlov
Russian video: Peculiar features, aesthetics, constructions, sense

Sergei Novoseltsev
The history of the technical development of video and computer studios in Russia

Eugeny Peskin
Hypertext, nets, communication projects

Kathy Rae Huffman, Austria - USA
A Western view on the development of the Russian new media art

Michail Kamensky
Marshall McLuhan and Pavel Florensky
"Theoretical, philosophical and technical aspects of new media functioning"

Lev Manovich, USA
An archaeology of a computer screen

Geert Lovink, Holland
A general view of hypertext and hypermedia

Erkki Huhtamo, Finland
The historical roots of interactive art

Louis Bec, France
Structure and contents of the educational programs in the field of art and technology

Ryszard Kluszczynski, Poland
Interactive art: problems and perspectives

George Legredy, Hungary - USA
Interface metaphors in the digital archive

Michail Kuznetzov
Virtual reality. Hypertext versus text

Jolanta Ciesielska, Poland
Media-active; some notes about virtual reality (freedom or limitation)

Alexei Orlov
Computografy and multimedia; virtual aspects

Sergei Gurko
Virtual reality and the phonetic alphabet

Presentation of western media festivals:

Katarina Gsolpointner, Austria. "Ars Electronica"

Maria Pallier, Spain. "Infographic Bilbao"

Piotr Krajevskij, Poland. "WRO" festival

Alfred Rotert, Germany. "Osnabruck European Media Art Festival"

Erkki Huhtamo, Finland. "ISEA'94" and the "MUU Media Festival"

Andre Iten, Switzerland. "Saint Gervais Geneve"

The catalogue "NewMediaTopia/Logia"

(Russian-English, 500 pages., colour) Edition - 1000 copies. Editor - Irina Alpatova, compiled by - Olga Shishko, concept-design - Alexei Isaev.
The catalogue is the first in Russia professinal english-russian edition, absorbing in it theoretical and practical discussion experience on history and development of new art technologies in Russia. This edition includes cultural research, made by 50 well-known western and Russian critics, theoreticians, philisophers and artists, history and bibliography of video- and media-art.
The following members participated in this catalogue: Geert Lovink (The Netherlands), Erkki Huhtamo, Minna Tarkka (Finland), Kathy Rae Huffmann (USA-Austria), Esther Dyson,Woody Vasulka, Gohn Hanhardt , lev Manovich (USA), Alfred Rotert (Germany), Lois Bec (France), Piotr Krajevsky (Poland), Michael Bielicky (The Chezh Republic) and many others. The catalogue "NewMediaLogia/Topia" is the final part of SCCA big project i n Moscow -New Media Art Laboratory. It includes educational course of the Laboratory "New MediaTopia" exhibition and "NewMediaLogia" international Symposium.

X-media studio - 1995 - June 1997