IMMEDIATE ART :: The Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia in Gdansk (PL) and curator Kasia Wozniak are happy to present the IMMEDIATE ART project: the IMMEDIATE ART project concerns a wide range of phenomena that deal with the modern mutual relationships between arts and new technologies. Our aim is to build a panorama of these artistic phenomena and offer an event dealing with these issues in an integral form and wide thematic scope.IMMEDIATE ART is a series of lectures given by the eminent theoreticians. In parallel to the above mentioned lectures, the invited artists will present their works, discuss the interconnectedness of art and technology and will talk about their art from the point of view of the latest technological changes. We are deeply convinced that these two complementary cycles will provide the public with an in-depth panorama of the fascinating phenomena in the body of New Media Art. We are very happy to invite You to the following lectures:

2008 02.08. Paul SERMON: Puppeteers, Performers or Avatars - A perceptual difference intelematic space

03.08. Oliver GRAU: MediaArtHistory - Image Science - Digital Humanities

04.08. Christian HÜBLER: Translocal Practices

06.08. Siegfried ZIELINSKI: On Variantology and Archeology of Media

09.08. Lev MANOVICH

10.08. Maurice BENAYOUN

11.08. Hans BELTING

12.08. Monika FLEISCHMANN

We have a great pleasure in announcing that the following Artists and Scholars accepted our invitation to hold lecture in the Laznia Centrenext year: Roy ASCOTT, Eduardo KAC, Martin KEMP, Roger MALINA, Christa SOMMERER.The year 2009 shall be inaugurated with Eduardo Kac*s exhibition *Lagoglyphs: the Bunny Variations* Opening: January 16th, 6 pm. It is necessary to add that this project couldn’t have been realised without generous support from our Partners:Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage; Ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen; American Embassy in Warsaw; Pro Helvetia Foundation**************www.laznia.pl **************Further information and contact:Kasia WozniakCentrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia Jaskolcza 1PL80-767 GdanskTel. 49.15207105297 or 48.791505210 Fax. 48 58 305 26 80E-mail. katarzyna.wozniak@laznia.pl