INTERACTIVE MEDIA FESTIVAL

THE ARC AWARDS

Tuesday June 6 8:00p.m.

VARIETY ARTS CENTER, LOS ANGELES

Ceremony :

Blue Man Group
Charles Fleisher, Arc Awards Host
Chris Galvin, President and COO, Motorola

Arc Gallery Clips Immersive Invironments

Ovation Award
The Gallery work that is most entertaining.

Digitai Vanguard Award
The Gallery work that most significantly forwards interactivity and establishes a new area nf exploration.

Arc Insight Award
Awarded to Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz of the Electronic Cafe in recognition of their
groundbreaking work in telematic space and networking.

Hurbie Hancock

Arc Gallery Clips: Digital life

Immersion Award
The Gallery work that engages participants to the greatest degree.

Mike Backes, Jury Process Explanation

Arc Gallery Clips: Signs ot Things to Come

Impact Award
The Gallery work that promises to have the greatest social impact.

Kobe Award
$5.000 awarded by the City of Kobe

The Kobe Award is being presented at the Festival as a show of synergy between the Festival's philosophy and Kobe's future as the multimedia center of Japan. The award is being presented to an exemplary work in the Arc Gallery that brings happiness and peace to people, and helps them to confront the trials in their daily lives.

Tony Childes, Dream a Dolphin Foundation

Arc Gallery Clips: Socal Commentary

ElectRenaissance Award
The Gallery work that has the deepest aesthetic value.

McLuhan Global Village Award
Awarded to Laurie Anderson by Dr. Eric McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan's ideas are seminal to the understanding of digitai media in the 1990s. Laurie Anderson has continually advanced the possibilities of muitimedia performance as a tool for her challenging artistic vision, winning international acclaim.
The presentation of the McLuhan Global Village Award via British Telecom videoconference from Los Angeles to London exemplifies the telematic connections that are joining the world, creating the Global Village that McLuhan predicted.

Arc Gallery Clips: Interactive Narritive

Archetype Award
Jury prize for overall excellence.

Motorola Imaginology Award
$10.000 awarded by Chris Galvin.
Motorola's history has demonstrated repeatedly that the creative breakthroughs of today become tomorrrw's industries. 0ur mission is to create whole new global industries. One of the ways we do this is by encouraging our people to think without boundaries. It is in the spirit of nurturing the imagination that we sponsur the Interactive Media Festival. It is in the spirit of rewarding innovation that we present the Motorola Imaginology Award. It is the combination of imagination and technology which will enable our success and the advancement of global human expression. The 1995 Interactive Media Festival marks the first presentation of the Motorola Imaginology Award.
Candidates for the Matorola Imaginology Award have been judged using the fallowing criteria

· The artist's "out of the box" thinkimg
· The artist's realization of concept
· The ability of the participant to truly interact with the work
· The synergy between the artist's work and Motorola's vision
for interactivity and multimedia development
· The positive impact the work will have on society
· The global application of the work

Gala Reception to follow at the Hotel Figueroa, pool side.

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