 The fourth edition of the Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting, amongst the most important events concerning contemporary electronic/digital based arts, will take place from the 6 th to the 10 th of December. Organized by the Artificialia network, the P.E.A.M. is conceived to be an international meeting and confrontation point for those artists, intellectuals, experts, and others who work in an electronic context or make use of electronics as a basic means of expression.
This edition will showcase a large and refined selection of visual artists, performers, musicians amongst the most innovative of the field. The leit-motiv of the whole event will be "the Diamond", an attempt to gather artists and experts coming from as many disciplines as possible (sculpture, dance, theater, literature, music, visual arts, etc.), all with a marked high-tech approach, and to extraordinarily have them converge to the stimulating location of Ecoteca, in Pescara.
"The choice of 'The Diamond' as the central theme of the Meeting is due to at least two specific reasons. The first one taking into consideration the philosophy of the 2k6 Meeting itself, thought to be small and precious, built with thousands of different faces that become perceivable in a single place, Ecoteca. The second one regarding the deep sense of dichotomy implicit in the object itself. The diamond is able of hosting so many dichotomies, contradictions and double senses, in a completely transparent way, such as very few other things can. An invaluable stone for some, a mere pebble to others, the diamond has always represented never ending love, for the former, and eternal hate, coming from war, for the latter; a joyful vow and death; luxury and richness, imprisonment and misery. An artifact through which the sun rays reflect to the highest degree and, at the same time, the symbol of the deep, tenebrous darkness of the deadly mines from which it gets extracted. An emblem of absolute authenticity, and of the false masterpieces, as well. Alone, with its thousands of faces, it's to be kept in secret places, yet it is owned to be shown in public. It is something that unites people in love and, when needed, it becomes the most merciless of surgeons. Amazingly hard, sharp and full of inner energies, it is often beloved by the most fragile and poor spirited personalities. It is something that rejects, repels and, inevitably, attracts, because the diamond is, in more than one way, the proof of existence of the universe, with all of its good and bad components, and this is something that can be understood by those who deeply love art." (Luigi Pagliarini)
Therefore, the idea is to let many intellectuals (critics and curators) converge and present one (inimitable) or two (dichotomy) artists in a single place (the diamond), and, as a consequence, the whole Peam2006 edition will be centered onto unicity and dichotomy - such as war and peace, big and small, good and bad, love and hate, cleverness and stupidity, beauty and ugliness, close and far away, fear and comfort, real and virtual, and so on - and onto their sense of existence. In other words, the meaning itself of the concept of opposites, defining different representations of an unique symbolic system, will be put to a test, artistically. more info:
http://www.artificialia.com/peam2006
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