[Reader-list] Shankar Barua interview on JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project

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  [week 3-9 April]
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JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11
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is featuring this week the following 5 interviews with
Sharkar Barua (India), Päivi Hintsanen (Finland), Enrico Tomaselli (Italy),
Carlos Katastrofsky (Austria), Humberto Ramirez (Chile/USA)
further  the first answers on 10 questions by Jeremy Hight & Ian Page-Echols
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Shankar Barua
has for many years been networking e-Creative Practitioners globally 
with The IDEA [Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts], The AeA [Academy 
of Electronic Arts] and CeC & CaC [Carnival of e-Creativity & 
Change-agents Conclave]. He is Managing Trustee of The Academy of 
Electronic Arts, Special Advisor to Public Affairs Management, The 
Electronic Music Foundation and EMF-Institute, Co-Curator and also 
Archives & Documentation Associate of the Thailand Media Art Festival, 
and Honorary Committee Member of the Digital Art Guild and Museum of the 
Living Artist International Digital Exhibition, 2006.

Paivi Hintsanen**
Päivi Hintsanen (Jyväskylä, Finland, born in 1970) has worked as 
freelancer in net projects for different art and culture related 
organizations since 1996. She also has made several independent/own net 
projects of which the most important are the online art gallery Spirited 
Herring / Henkevä Silakka - started in 1997; with one month theme 
exhibitions, open and free for all) and Coloria project.  Independent 
works include f.ex. large hyper narratives (like The Book of Days and 
Silence/1940) and also small image based miniprojects.

Carlos Katastrofsky
(aka. Michael Kargl), born on 08/13/1975 in Hall/ Tyrol/ Austria. Lives 
and works in Vienna, Salzburg and Tyrol.
He studied sculpture at the University 'Mozarteum' of Salzburg since 
1998, graduation in 2004 with a work on virtual architecture and 
cyberspace. Since 2004 teacher at the University Mozarteum, and 
JavaMuseum participant.

Humberto Ramirez
is an artist originally from Chile. In addition to painting, since the 
mid nineties, Humberto has been involved with electronic explorations in 
sound, video and streaming media. Humberto's work presently is concerned 
with social issues and the power of language in shaping our values and 
perceptions. This new body of work is being shown electronically on line 
as well as at traditional screening venues such as art galleries, 
museums and film/video festivals across the country.

Enrico Tomaselli
is originating from a Sicilian family of artists, his great grandfather 
Onofrio was a famous portrait and landscape painter of 19th century. 
Enrico followed the Art Academy of Palermo and later the European 
Institute of Design in Rome. Currently he is living and working as both, 
webdesigner and Internet based working artist, who participated in 
numerous national and international exhibitions, also in JavaMuseum.
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About JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project

JavaMuseum -
Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art
www.javamuseum.org/start1.htm
is currently preparing a new project, entitled:
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://jip.javamuseum.org
to be launched in September 2006 online.

Agricola de Cologne, director of JavaMuseum
invites for an interview a number professionals & artists active in the 
field of Internet based art
who participated in the "1st phase",
the 18 JavaMuseum showcases 2001-2004,
in order to spotlight their professional background, activities and visions.

JIP further issued an open call
including 10 questions on Internet based art addressed to
professionals and "amateurs", in order to enable a broader discussion
about the still undervaluated genre of Internet based art
through a variety of different approaches, definitions and opinions.
The entry rules and the questions  (cut & paste) are available on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11&cat=80

Once completed -
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project will release the collected interviews
and the selection of the most interesting answers
a)  online on the new project site - http://jip.javamuseum.org , but
b) immediately also in form of one interview per week on the new weblog -
JIP - JavaMuseum Interview Project
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=11
and
c) to be published as a printed book, later as well..

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