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<p align="justify"><strong><font color="#808080">T h
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<p align="justify"><font color="#808080"><font size="2">.</font><br><font size="2">In a globalised world, dominated by
communication technologies, with countless questions concerning a future
</font><font size="2">that affects our everyday life, it is essential to
make this analysis and to consider, from different perspectives, how our
polyhedral, altered reality is being effected by the widespread use of new
technology as a support for new ideas and possibilities that are almost
infinite. We need to investigate how this occurs in different societies
and cultures and to propose models that may go beyond what has been known
until now. </font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">The First
International Art Tech Media Congress has been set up in order to reflect
upon and analyse questions currently being raised about art and new
technological media within an international context.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">Within this
context, an intensive debate needs to take place on the influence and
transformations that new media is producing in art, there needs to be a
greater understanding of the foundations for more effective cooperation
between the different sectors linked to digital art, and proposals need to
be devised for the development of national and international collaborative
networks in order to improve production, research, exhibition and
promotion. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">Last year, Art
Tech Media 06 encounters had been held at nine Spanish museums, and given
the great participation and the opinions collected, its seems clear that
this is an ideal time to celebrate the First International Art Tech Media
Conference. It represents a great opportunity to hold a transversal debate
in order to devise proposals that will lead to greater and better
coordination among the different sectors of art, aimed at strengthening
its development. </font></p>
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<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">Art Tech Media
06 headquaters: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Museo Domus
Artium 2002, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo Artium, Fundación
BilbaoArte, Centro Párraga, Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo
EsBaluard, Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona.</font></p>
<p align="justify"><strong><font color="#808080" size="2">T h e
F i r s t I n t e r n a c i o n a l
A r t T e c h M e d
i a C o n g r e s s </font></strong></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2"><font color="#808080">The
Conference will focus on three clearly complementary regions: <DEFANGED_span><strong>national, international and
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<p align="justify"><strong><font color="#808080" size="2">Round
tables, invitation to send lectures and communiqués.</font></strong></p>
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<p align="justify"><font size="2"><font color="#808080">The
Conference will be held at three venues: <strong>Ministerio de Cultura,
Instituto Cervantes & Casa de América
(Madrid).</strong></font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><strong><font color="#808080" size="2">Dates:
8, 9, 10 & 11 th may 2007</font></strong></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2"><font color="#808080"><strong>The directors:</strong> Montse Arbelo & Joseba
Franco </font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><strong><font color="#808080" size="2">Main
Objectives of the Congress</font></strong></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">1. To reflect,
analyse and debate by sectors the current situation in art and new media
to gain a better understanding of its different realities and
necessities.<br>2. To present proposals that will energise and improve the
relationship between the different sectors in order to stimulate and
promote Spanish digital art both nationally and internationally.
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<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">3. To favour
the presentation of proposals related to the opportunity and need to
create an "Institute of Digital Arts", how it may be organised, its
functions, objectives and its relationship with other Institutes and
international institutions. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">4. To optimise
the creation of more Centres of Production and Research in collaboration
with institutions and the private sector for the development of an
innovative industrial and economic infrastructure. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">5. The
presentation of the book Art Tech Media 06, of selected lectures and
communiqués as well as a survey made among various sectors related to
digital art. </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font size="2"><font color="#808080"><strong>International call Art Tech Media 07</strong> :
Calling on all creatives of the world to participate, from the following
categories:</font></font></p>
<p align="justify"><strong><font color="#808080" size="2">- Video
art- Net-art- 2D & 3D Computer Animation- Blog, videoblog - Creation
for mobile platforms- Digital Music </font></strong></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#808080" size="2">- Digital
Communities- Geospatial storytelling - Artificial Life, Software art,
Transgenic art, Generative art </font></p>
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