Discussions	Jury	History	Organizers	Exhibition	Winners and Prizes

	Terms Of Participation
		Any Internet resource can participate in this competition, if they correspond to one of the below mentioned nominations Deadline for sending applications for participation is November 10, 1997 Deadline for sending your works is November 10, 1997

Nominations:

1. The best art project
2. The best cultural resource
3. The best educational resource
4. The best personal home page

Selection Criteria:

1. Originality of the idea
2. Usage of web's technical advantages (interactivity,information updating)
3. Inner unanimity and justification of artististic solution
4. Site's futurological potential

Schedule of the Festival:

1. Network conference - from September 5
2. Applications for participation in the festival - from September 5
3. Selection of works for competition - from September 20 to November 1
4. Work of International Jury and awarding - November-December 1997

Da-Da-NET

Soros Center For Contemporary Art

is one of the programs of Russian representation "Open Society" Institute (Soros Fund), the major activity of which is to promote free access to Internet informational resources. In 1992 several scientific institutions in Moscow has got free channel Moscow-Washington. Starting from the middle of 1994 three big projects were promoted in the frames of this program: in Moscow, Novosibirsk and Yaroslavl.

The aims of the program are as follows:

• to assist free information exchange in the sphere of science, culture , education and social sphere;
• to promote the development of local nets in institutions, presenting net associations;
• to train specialists while using new net technologies and working in worldwide informational space;
• to support initiative projects in the sphere of education, culture, art and medicine while using Internet.

Starting from 1996 a new mega program of "Open Society" Institute is being carried out - the development of Internet University Centers. "Open Society" Institute subsudized 100 million dollars for this longterm program. Russian government has financed this program for the nearest 5 years for approxiomately 30 million dollars. It is planned to open 32 Internet Centers in classic Russian Universities during five years. Five of such Centers has been opened by May 1997:

• Vladivostok
• Novgorod
• Novosibirsk
• Rostov-na-Donu
• Yaroslavl

Starting from 1993 Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow supports the development of new technologies art. In 1994 15 artists were trained in the frames of New Media Art Laboratory. NewMediaLogia" symposium for the first time united discussions of those who represent Fine Arts, cinematography and computer industry, philosophers and mediacritics. Video and mediainstallations exhibition "NewMediaTopia" has demonstrated for the first time all the creative possibilities of Russian mediartists. (link to history).

Starting from 1996 Moscow SCCA in cooperation with ArtInfo presents
Russian artists in Internet.

ARTINFO Multimedia Publishers

Starting from 1992 ARTINFO presents Fine Arts informational bank, access to which is opened in on-line mode. ARTINFO supports and develops WWW-server ,

"From Russia with Art"

which is the the biggest Internet resource on contemporary Russian art. By July 1997 625 artists were presented on the server. The day average quantity in May-June - more than 800.

Nautilus Pompilius
Alisa
"Internet payment systems"
SilencePro company site
"Zabriski Rider" electronic version

"Da-Da-Net" festival is a logical continuation of SCCA project "New Media Art Laboratory". Its aim is to find out creative possibilities of Internet Russian sector. Internet here is considered as new space for artistic expression. It includes not only new technology of creating art pieces, but also new conditions of its functioning in society - mechanisms of interaction of public, demonstrations, museums.

At present moment the notion of art-project in Russia is not generally accepted. However, there exist examples of new approach towards surfing Internet as artistic space: WWW ArtCenter is an example of cooperation of several authors, surfing only in Internet: Coronado gallery - is an example of Russian , Ukrainian and Moldovian videoart electronic archive (http://uchcom.botik.ru/~gilles/coronado/) Impetuous growth of Russian non-commercial resources, including those made by private persons, testifies that such Internet characteristics as free access to means of publications and information, wide auditorrium, relative simplicity and low price for this technology attract Russian users.

One of the main the tasks of the festival is to get acquainted with western resources, related to contemporary art as artistic project, made for Internet The aim of the festival is to find out among Russian-speaker users , those who are interested in contemporary art and to enable them to place their works in theme context; to take part in discussions, related to electronic society culture. We have chosen Da-Da-Net (from DADAISM) just to stress that net art appears to be innovating one rubbing out borders between art and life, popularizing freedom for opinions and views in informational space.

Russian Internet art-association only starts its work nowadays. The notion of Art-project in Net is only formulating now. That is why we invite to participate not only professional artists, but all those who wish.!!!