[dropbox] Leonardo Call for Posters



From: Roger Malina, Julien Knebusch





I would like to bring to your attention this opportunity:

Colloque Melilla / Melilla Symposium
18-20 July 2004

Call for Poster Presentations and Invitation to attend:

A Colloquium on Art/Science/Spirituality Reconnections Within Emerging
Planetary Cultures

Web site with further information: http://www.olats.org

Persons wishing to attend the Colloquium: http://www.melillafestival.org

Host: First International Festival of Cultures, Melilla, Spain

Poster Submission Deadline: June 20, 2004

Leonardo is pleased to announce a collaboration with the City of Melilla
and the Al Andalus Foundation, for a colloquium on the reconnection of
art, science, and spirituality. This intercultural dialogue is offered as
one contribution towards cultural developments within the new planetary
context.

Modern cosmology and physics emphasize the interdependence of complex
systems on scales from the microscopic to the macroscopic. Contemporary
genetics reveal the underlying shared genetic identity not only of all
human beings, but the genetic relatedness of all life on earth. Current
scientific discoveries reconnect science to a number of philosophical and
spiritual traditions. These reconnections offer the promise of the
development of new philosophical and value systems appropriate to new
emerging linked planetary cultures.

Artists and scientists have been at the forefront of the use of these new
systems to build life enhancing cultural developments in linked planetary
contexts.

This colloquium, with 20 participating artists, scientists and
philosophers, (see http://www.olats.org for a list of participants) is
intended to be a listening post, an opportunity for inter-cultural
dialogue and a specific step towards magnifying and amplifying emerging
new planetary cultural practice.

The choice of the City of Melilla as the host for this colloquium is not
an accident. Melilla has a millennial history of multi-cultural,
multi-lingual synergy and dialogue within the Mediterranean context. The
city offers itself as a podium to communicate outcomes of this first
colloquium: to make real the opportunities for the reconnection of art,
science and spirituality for the building of new 21st century planetary
cultures.


Call for Posters

Leonardo is issuing a call for posters for the colloquium from artists,
scientists, engineers and philosophers.

A poster presentation lasts at maximum 5 minutes. Posters will be also
displayed during 3 days in the colloquium public spaces. If you cannot
attend the Colloquium in person, you may send a VHS cassette which could
be displayed for 5 minutes.

There is no funding available for participation in the symposium, but
there is no registration fee and there are reduced hotel rates and travel
on Iberia. If you are interested in presenting a poster, please contact
the following email address: julien_knebusch@xxxxxxxx and submit an
abstract  (500 words maximum). You are encouraged to submit also website
addresses where any texts on your work could be found.

We are seeking presentations that present specific scientific and artistic
projects, and make visible the cultural/philosophical/religions situations
that set a priori conditions and constraints on approaches and specific
work.

The official languages of the colloquium will be English and Spanish, with
simultaneous translation also into French.

Examples of topics:
- Planetary cultures as new creation of worlds
- Planetary consciousnesses: towards spiritual developments
- Experiences of networks (collaboration, artistic and scientific work,
community building) in different cultural contexts
- Scientific discoveries and artistic work which cast new light on humans
as inhabitants of a single planet

Partial Funding for this Leonardo project has been provided by the Ford
and Rockefeller Foundations and UNESCO DIGIARTS.

For Further Information: http://www.olats.org click on Melilla button.

Send email poster proposals to: julien_knebusch@xxxxxxxx 500 words and URL.

To attend: http://www.melillafestival.org/


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