2003 September 19-20, the section of National art museum of
M. K.Čiurlionis, Information Centre for Contemporary Art (ICCA)
together with artists group RÜT RÜT present the second festival
in Lithuania for multimedia art and music Centras3. The first
multimedia art and music festival was opened on 2002 September
14 at M. Žilinskas gallery in Kaunas. This year the festival
will continue for two days and the artists will introduce the
artworks produced with means of new technologies.
In resistance to the stereotyped attitued, nearly raised
and euphoric, to the new technologies, mainly integrated in
the sphere of the businesses and research plus the coordination
of the information society the organisers tend to overstep
the limits.
The aim of this festival is to strecht the line in search
for the new, creative environment with the new ways of expression
and new unacquianted perception and philosophy; to induce
the artists spurt out the steady ways of produce with the
using the new technologies as the main tool of the expression.
The first multimedia art festival Cenras2 had participants
from different Lithuanian towns, more or less known to the
audience: Giedrius Kuprevičius (Kaunas), Donatas "Donis"
Bielkauskas (Jurbarkas), Ernas Šimkūnas (Klaipėda), Saulius
Arlauskas (Kaunas), Allan Davies (Milton Keynes, Anglija),
Saulius Paliukas (Kaunas), Titas Petrikis (Kaunas), Simonas
Slučka (Kaunas), Emanuelis Ryklys (Šiauliai), Paulius Sluškonis
(Kaunas), Kristijonas "Driezhas" Lučinskas (Plungė).
It characterized the variety of the artistic projects starting
from nowadays popular tridimentional digital space constructions,
jazz music, soft visuals arrangement and ambient music pieces.
The festival Centras2 engaged the audiences and massmedia.
The cultural program Culture House" of the national
television prepared a special report. The biggest newspapers
Lietuvos rytas", Laikinoji sostinė" and Kauno
diena" reflected the appearence of the festival as well.
The festival's main ideas, participants and their works were
presented outside Kaunas at Multimedia League" organised
by Infobalt", the association of the information technologies
and telecommunications and the festival of multimedia art
in Klaipėda city Multimedia ART'i".
The second multimedia art festival Centras3 aims to present
the bigger scale of the art sections and ways of expressions.
The awaited musicians and visual artists's list will be supplemented
by the video, digital graphics, photography, media design
artists' works, looking for the new possibilities of the expression
of the new technologies. The theoretical presentations and
commentars will be held on the festival.
The location of Centras3 expands in the centre of Kaunas
where is situated M. Žilinskas gallery (cinema hall, lobby,
and the yard in the open air) furthermore in the other locations
fo the city.
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