INTRODUCTION

ARTMEDIA VIII IN PARIS

THEMES

PROGRAMME

PROCEEDINGS

PARTICIPANTS

• Roy Ascott
  (Angleterre), artist,
  and theoretician,
  Navigating Consciousness : Art and Transformative Technologies

• Olivier Auber
  (France), artist,
  The Aesthetic of the Digital Perspective

• Jean-Pierre Balpe
  (France), artist,
  Toward a DiffractedLiterature

• Roberto Barbanti
  (France/Italy), artist and theoretician,
  Ultramediality and Ethical Issue

• Stéphan Barron
  (France), artist,
  Ozone, o-o-o-, Contact"… Technoromantic Artworks Between Presence and Absence

• Maurice Benayoun
  (France), artist
  

• Bruno Beusch & Tina Cassani
  (France/Swiss), curators,
  Games Unlimited

• Samuel Bianchini
  (France), artist,
  Interactive Image: Manipulation Strategies

• Maurizio Bolognini
  (Italy), artist,
  "SMSMS (Short Message Service Mediated Sublime)": Art and Technological Sublime in the Urban Environment

• Andreas Broeckman
  (Allemagne), theoretician,
  Reseau/Resonance - Connective Processes and Artistic Practice

• Annick Bureaud
  (France), art critic, theoretician
  

• Anne Cauquelin
  (France), philosopher
  

• Christophe Charles,
  (Japan/France), artist,
  Practice of (de)(com)position

• Daniel Charles
  (France), philosopher,
  About John Cage's "Imaginary Landscapes"

• Grégory Chatonsky
  (France), artist,
  Programmatic Fiction

• Mario Costa
  (Italy), philosopher,
  "Communicating Bloc" and Flux Aesthetics

• Edmond Couchot
  (France), theoretician,
  From Communication to Commutation

• Luc Courchesne
  (Canada), artist,
  The Discovery of the Horizon

• Vincenzo Cuomo
  (Italy), theoretician,
  Tele-cum-Being-Here. Topology of Impersonality

• Matteo D'Ambrosio
  (Italy), theoretician,
  A Semiotic Approach to Cyberpoetry

• Steve Dietz
  (USA), theoretician,
  Translocations and How Latitudes Become Forms

• Reynald Drouhin & Jean-Paul Fourmentraux
  (France), artist,
  / sociologist,
  Backstage in the Making of the Net.Art Piece Des_Frags Process

• Mariapaola Fimiani
  (Italy), philosopher,
  Aesthetics and Ethics: the Force of Things

• Monika Fleischman & Wolfgang Strauss
  (Germany), artists,
  Metaphors of Online Navigation : netzspannung.org - a Collaborative Knowledge Space for Art and Technology, a Community-based Internet Platform

• Fred Forest
  (France), artist,
  and theoretician,
  Small journey in the past: by going back from the Net art to the historic foundations of the aesthetics of the communication

• Eduardo Kac
  (Brazil/USA), artist,
  and theoretician,
  Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art

• Natan Karczmar
  (France), artist,
  The Vidéocollectif

• Derrick de Kerckhove
  (Canada), theoretician,
  The Digital Arts as External Mental Objects

• Sophie Lavaud
  (France), artist,
  The Involvement of the Body in Interactive Scenographies

• Dominique Lestel
  (France), theoretician,
  Elements of a Phylogenesis of NetworkAesthetics: Expressive Rationality and Creative Regression

• Louis-Josè Lestocart
  (France), theoretician,
  Emergence - Art in Shared Space

• Pierre Lévy
  (Canada/France), theoretician,
  Cultural Design, a New Form of Conceptual Art: The Project of Collective Intelligence

• Jean-Paul Longavesne
  (France), artist,
  Aesthetics and Rethorics of Technological Arts : The Art of the Machines

• Roger Malina
  (France/USA), theoretician
  

• Mit Mitropoulos
  (Greece), artist and theoretician,
  Articulation of Electronic Spaces, and Behaviour in them --as compared to Semi-private/public Spaces and Minimal Design for Remote Sites

• Pierre Moeglin
  (France), theoretician
  

• Enrico Nuzzo
  (Italy), philosopher
  

• Karen O'Rourke & Sharon Daniel
  (France/USA), artist,
  Mapping Databases: Online Representation of Spatiotemporal Experience

• Frank Popper
  (France), theoretician
  

• Louise Poissant
  (Canada), theoretician,
  The Media Arts Dictionnary

• Gilbertto Prado
  (Brésil), artist,
  Recent Experiments in Multiuser Virtual Environments in Brazil

• Nicolas Reeves
  (Canada), artist,
  The Terrifying Trouble with Lucidity: Essay on Pseudo-Infinite Worlds

• Jemima Rellie
  (UK), curator,
  Intervention and subvention, collaboration and communication - Net Art's contribution to the transformation of the museum

• Pierre Restany
  (France), art critic
  

• Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié
  (France), theoretician,
  Artwork's Pathes beyond Utilisability (Whitin Net Range: Which Kind of Proximity?)

• Anolga Rodionoff
  (France), theoretician,
  Network Architectures, Architectures of Interactivity?

• Timothée Rolin
  (France), artist,
  Presentation of the ADaM project

• Eric Sadin
  (France), theoretician,
  Urban Surfaces/Textual Territories >Signs, Bits & the City

• Bruno Samper, Panoplie
  (France), artist,
  Creators of Persistent Worlds: Artists as Forces for Convergence

• François Soulages (France), theoretician
  

• Angelo Trimarco
  (Italy), historian and art critic,
  Criticism in the Age of the Virtual

• Victoria Vesna
  (USA), artist,
  Mind Shifting and Future Bodies: from Networks to Nanosystems

• Marie-Claude Vettraino-Soulard
  (France), theorician

• Benjamin Weil
  (USA), curator of media arts,
  From Object to Process: the Dematerialization of the Art Idea and its Effect on Curatorial and Conservation Practices