The European Digital Media Network (EDMN)

From 3 to 7 May 2000 the European Media Art Festival presents a cross section of the variety of innovative and experimental media art.
The digitalization of the media opens endless possibilities to new formats, contents and distribution. Thus, the EMAF has initiated the European Digital Media Network (EDMN), a project sponsored by the EU, which will install a European media channel on web-television. Members of ten European countries will discuss the concrete realisation during the congress.

In addition, a series of interesting cultural projects will be presented, for example i2TV, an interactive Internet television project developed by Mars Lab of GMD, Bonn, presented by Jasminko Novak and Wolfgang Strauss, the online Encyclopedia New Media created by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva, presented by Christine van Assche, or the web-project Digital Film-Festival from San Francisco, introduced by Jonathan Wells.

David Guez and Anais Lemignan, Paris, will present the project TV-ART.Net, which as a web-TV project has a special focus on arts and culture. New projects of the Ponton Media Art Lab, Hannover will be presented by Benjamin Heidersberger.

Cross platform projects and the development of interfaces between interactive media, the web and TV are the focus of a presentation by Susan Kennard from the Banff Centre of the Arts, Canada.

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