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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