Germany | Cynetart Festival 2014

From November 13 - 19 the CYNETART festival is an invitation to diverse spaces, where we, together with musical birds, clever organised ants, performance artists, a virtual intelligence and a holographic avatar system, meet at the Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden. CYNET ART testifies to the life of intertwined species and shows options of connectivity with specifically designed perception architectures. The modelation of coexistence reflects our understanding of ourselves. Our demand for contact among each other and to other species, so it be purely energetic or mediated, is ongoing. As a central point in the Grand Hall of the Festspielhaus there will be to experience a fulldome hemisphere: an extra built large spherical segment as a temporary zone of art. Artists play encircling 360° hemisphere filling projections and surround sound and thus combine the latest technological possibilities with artistic practice. The self-built "Planetarium" is an area, in which the quest will be: plunge and immerse.

CYNETART AWARD WINNER 2014

The award winners 2014 will be publicly announced at the start of festival, 13th of November 2014. An international jury chooses the winners of the following four awards: I. Grant from the Saxon State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts: 10,000 EUR II. The Artist-in-Residence Grant from the Saxon State Minister for for Higher Education, Research and the Arts 2015 awarded in cooperation with the Office of Cultural and Historic Preservation, City of Dresden: 10,200 EUR III. CYNETART Award in cooperation with HELLERAU (European Centre for the Arts): 5,000 EUR IV. CYNETART Award in cooperation with Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden: 5,000 EUR V. CYNETART ARTE Creative Commission in cooperation with ARTE Creative: 2,500 EUR