Research project about the media art history
Conception: UNESCO
Type: Portal Digi Arts online
Speciality: Knowledge and Research in Media Art
Development: MECAD/ESDi

MECAD/ESDi works together with UNESCO in the project of the portal DIGI ARTS. In the framework Knowledge and Research, MECAD is generating the web contents devoted to the media art history. We start from the idea that the known history has large information lapses, because it does not mention an important part of the production from countries outside Europe and the USA axis. That is why this research is focused on artist from Eastern Europe, Latinamerica, Carib, Africa, Asia and Oceania, who have a representative role in the media art context. Moreover, the proposal is not to generate a conventional or lineal history, but offer a hyper textual structure, which allows the easy access to the information.

Production project for Streaming Media contents
Title: Playing Field
Type: Streaming Media online works
Concept and development: Netherlands Media Art Institut Montevideo/TBA, Amsterdam (Holland); Institut für Mediengestaltung und Medientechnologie, Mainz (Germany), MECAD/ESDi, Barcelona (Spain).
With the support of Culture 2000 of the European Community
MECAD/ESDi participants: Iván Marino; Mariela Yeregui; Mariana González.
TBA and IMM participants: Kirkwoolford; Station Rose; Peter Mertens; Slateford; Hartmut Jahn; Tjark Ihmels and Kay Märthesheimer
Place: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Mainz and e Internet
URL: http://www.playingfield.net

In the framework of the support culture program of the European Commission "Culture 2000" and as result of the collaboration of the three European Institutions, the Playing Field project invites artists and groups of students in The Netherlands, Germany and Spain to create new artistic contents using the streaming media technology specially for the Internet. Trough those tools, the aim is to go beyond the Internet restrictions using the platform in a creative and innovatory way. During the project, nine artistic productions will be created, which final results will be showed at the end of May 2003.

Art Project by Zhang Ga art project titled the “Peoples' Portrait” conceived by media simultaneously in nodes around the world during Singapore's SENI Art collaboration with Multimedia Art Asia Pacific and the Dutch and DEAF04 commissioned Zhang Ga's global networked internet as the underlying mechanism to create a global portrait of displayed instantly and simultaneously throughout its global both on large public video walls and web sites. The Whitney Media Art Portal, artport, and the Media Center for Art and web portals for this project. It will also be presented as a special Center in Linz , Austria . All nodes draw images from the same Parsons School of Design in New York City into which portrait set up around the world in conjunction with public video walls Times Square, on the world's largest digital display system at the Headquarters in New York City; in the Central Business District of Library, the Netherlands; in the QUT Cultural Center, Brisbane, Center in Linz, Austria during the MAAP in Singapore Festival th 2004 and the Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2004 from 2004. The kiosk will consist of a camera that allows passersby to will then be transmitted via the internet to an image database on seconds, the video walls in different locations will retrieve from the and display them first in time stamped order, then randomly instantaneity of the network, those freshly taken portraits from shown immediately and sometimes juxtaposed in subtle as a viewer in New York City watches a picture of portrait from Singapore follows subsequently; or as a viewer in York, one from Rotterdam takes over in the next few seconds. transcendent moment. rendered on colossal video walls in public spaces and only viscerally empowers ordinary people of all walks of life but and women of different races and cultures. the playfulness of a game console; but rather, in the global simple click of a button, which evokes a solemn moment of elevation unimaginable. for a visual language and cultural metaphor in the age of internet artist utilizes network and communication infrastructure as the image making process to create a collective and instantaneous unprecedented effect, therefore opening up a new discourse for the visual perception at large. In bringing about a self-endorsed, realized through technologically produced artifacts in relation to the speed and time, local and trans-local, the artist also questions authorship and expresses a humanist concern in the age of curator and co-director of agent.netart, a public media art program and netart Initiative. Zhang Ga studied art in China at an early at the Berlin Academy of Arts in Germany (HDK) with a DAAD Parsons School of Design in the US . He has exhibited in domains as well as in tangible spaces, curated exhibitions, salons, written on new media art practice and criticism, and grants. In his own art practice he is more interested in the signs than displaying the currents of electricity. York City where he teaches at the Program @ Parsons School of Design; he also is Graphics and Interactive Media @ Pratt Institute. He was New Media Arts Fellowship and a recipient of the National Art Curatorial Initiative. He is the co-artistic director of the First Arts Exhibition and Symposium. Most recently, he co-curated a Passage of Mirage" which opened at the Chelsea Art Museum in City . Zhang Ga Instinet), Peter Lavery (Creative Industries), Kim Machen (MAAP), Frederick Jules (Professor Emeritus), Eddie Nelms (Times Square June Yap (Singapore Art Museum) Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica), Christiane Paul (Whitney), Technology, Parsons School of Design Lin, Christina Rueegg Kaehr (firstGate) Engineering: Marc Lin, Frank Lin MFA Students, Design and Technology Program, Parsons Christina Rueegg, Tia Ji Young Kim, Miao Wang, Ming-Chun Sarafan) Creative Industries, Queensland, Australia Electronica Center, Linz, Austria The Rotterdam City Library, The Netherlands Technology Program, Parsons School of Design