C A T- Communication, Art & Technology network
Authors: Monika Fleischmann, Wolfgang Strauss
BMBF Project: Bundesminsterium für Bildung und Forschung

Separated from everyday life two forces are defining the actual reality: Information Technologies and TIME-industries (Tele- and Info-Communication, Mass-Media, Entertainment). People remain in a gap in between. Competence based on Media Education, Culture and Arts will be build up through the CAT network stimulated by CAT agents. Snoopy CATs go everywhere - just crossing borders.

CAT - the Communication, Art & Technology network is the german internet based communication platform for digital art and media culture. Experts and entrepreneurs from the media arts and education, from TIME-industries and economy exchange experience and create cooperation strategies.

The relatively small but highly creative potential of media artists and experts needs an infrastructural as well as a financal support. Further training and education is essential for the CAT community. Governmental institutions like the DAAD and the Goethe institutes are involved in the CAT network.

CAT's major task is to survey and connect the unique infrastructure of new media in Germany so as to be able to convey new working relationships between media culture and the industry. The corporation between information technology and the arts - theater, dance, film, architecture, design and literature - will lead to new processes and productions.

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