2002/2003: Entries, Panel: Esther Anatolitis, Web developer, testpattern.com.au, Melbourne, Gerald Ganglbauer, Publisher, gangan.com, Sydney, Sue Gill, Artist, Australian Geographic, Sydney, Heather Noakes, Art Director, IMPRESS DESIGN, Sydney, Sylvia Petter, Writer, sylviapetter.com, Geneva.

Call for Entries: July 2002
Submissions: July 2002 – June 2003
Deadline: 30 June 2003
Judging: July – September 2003
Awards Announcement: October 2003

2002/2003: Teilnehmer, Juroren: Esther Anatolitis, Web developer, testpattern.com.au, Melbourne, Gerald Ganglbauer, Verleger, gangan.com, Sydney, Sue Gill, Künstlerin, Australian Geographic, Sydney, Heather Noakes, Art Director, IMPRESS DESIGN, Sydney, Sylvia Petter, Autorin, sylviapetter.com, Genf.

The idea is still to promote intercultural arts on the Net to help making Marshall McLuhan’s “global village” a peaceful place. An idea growing slowly but steadily, with twice the entries of the first year, with a larger panel of experts from Europe and Australia, where everyone tended to select sites which exploit the medium to good effect, to carry out some kind of project or community (cross-)cultural development with the visitor. And the winners of the second annual Gangart Awards are ...

Gold

http://www.bzzzpeek.com
bzzzpeek is presenting a collection of ‘onomatopoeia’ from around the world using sound recordings from native speakers imitating the sounds of mainly animals and vehicles. this project focuses on the pronunciation and comparison of these sounds by presenting them side by side as each language expresses them differently. bzzzpeek.com is an interactive experience inviting everybody to contribute.

Silver

http://www.babel.ca/quebec/
‘protesters, police, politicians’ is a study of the Summit of the Americas and accompanying anti-globalisation protests that took place in Québec in April 2001. The dynamic ‘camera’ windows represent the three opposed groups (manifestants, police, politiciens), as observed by both the participants of the events and the omnipresent media, who made these the most photographed, filmed and discussed protests since the initial anti-WTO (World Trade Organization) actions in Seattle 1999. Behind the cameras, words are fractured and obscured, just as the arguments from all sides in Quebec City became lost in media overkill, reduced to meaningless soundbites and slogans.

Bronze

http://www.kaon.org
.kaon is a non profit-organization. kaon’s goal is to promote electroacoustic / experimental / concrete / environmental / electronic musics through the website, release of records and the organization of concerts, exhibitions, events... .kaon was founded in June 1996 in Limoges (France).

Special Mention

These sites deserve a special mention: http://www.brukenthalmuseum.ro (good to see entries coming from Eastern Europe), http://www.cristinacastello.com (journalism without mask, revelations and poetry from the City of Buenos Aires), http://www.boat-people.org (great use of medium, but not multilingual), http://mothermillennia.org (has the potential to be a lot more).

I nominate WogLife for the shortlist but declare at the outset that I am one of the editors. It is however an excellent example of a space for cultural exchange within the peculiarly Australian context. Its contributors use language and languages in a variety of ways and it’s genuinely multicultural and pluralistic.
Esther Anatolitis

Congratulations. We’re again looking forward to next year’s Gangart Awards and invite you to take part in the search for the best intercultural sites. Thanks to Esther Anatolitis, Sue Gill, Heather Noakes and Sylvia Petter for judging – and best wishes and many thanks to all the artists and creators for participating.

© 2001-2003 Gerald Ganglbauer, Sydney, Australia