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Welcome to DIGITAL WEEKEND – your micro-festival guide to the digital arts and culture of the 21st Century.

During the DIGITAL WEEKEND of 12-14 April 2002 in Sofia you will be able to take part in a host of Bulgarian premiere events including digital film screenings, Internet audio streaming, as well as a micro-conference of lectures, talks and debates. Join us and meet leading artists, critics, art historians and curators from Bulgaria, England, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland.

This year’s DIGITAL WEEKEND is the first of a series of art and technology events, bringing together the Red House Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia and New Media Scotland, Edinburgh. This new partnership takes place in the unprecedented climate of increased interest towards digital culture in Bulgaria and the rising need for furthering the critical debate across the country. We would like to acknowledge the legacy of pioneering media art events held across Bulgaria recently – such as Computer Space, Crossing Over, Communication Front, VideoArchaeology, PHARE-reaching Academy, Urban Cycles and Net User to name but a few – yet we are proud to compliment them with a new focus.

The DIGITAL WEEKEND is a micro-festival, which celebrates the creative achievements of digital culture from various corners of Europe, hoping to help the dream of a digitally integrated Europe come true.

We also aim to provide you with a technical and theoretical understanding of digital art practices. Hopefully, the DIGITAL WEEKEND will open up aesthetic, philosophical and political questions arising from digital art and culture. The micro-festival will ultimately ask how great a contribution is made to cultural understanding and dialogue by artists whose work involves exhibiting or promoting their national cultures? Is contemporary media art yet another product that is in the process of being branded in an age of globalised capital? Are the countries, which used to be behind the Iron Curtain facing a Digital Divide or Digital Opportunity?

We hope you will enjoy an eye-opening festival weekend of digital culture.

Iliyana Nedkova
Curator