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24. The artists, curators Beyond the Portuguese border, but close to it, the
and researchers who took work of curator António Cerveira Pinto encouraged the
part in these events included
JODI, Dora Garcia, José Luis appearance of projects by Portuguese artists outside
Brea, Marcel.lí Antúnez
Roca, Claudia Giannetti, the country, in this case at the Museo Extremeño
Karin Ohlenschläger, among e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) in
others, at MEIAC, and Cornelia
Sollfrank, Jon Ippolito, Badajoz, Spain. In 2000, the MEIAC participated in the
Joline Blais, Vivian Selbo,
Lia, Miguel Carvalhais, Miguel ARCO Madrid art fair with the virtual gallery ARCO’00,
Salazar, Nicholas Roope, curated by António Cerveira Pinto. In 2001, the
Filipe Preto, among others,
at the CCB. curator was again responsible for MEIAC’s presence
25. See Ćosić (2005). at the ARCO Madrid fair, with the group exhibition
26. See Cerveira Pinto (2005). de-juego. In the same year, António Cerveira
Pinto was also responsible for the organisation of
MEIAC’s 1 Art and Technology Seminar (SAT1) and the 1 Art and
st
st
Technology Conference (cAT) at the Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB)
in Lisbon . In 2005, the curator organised the exhibition Meta.
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morfosis. O Museu e a Arte na Era Digital, at the
MEIAC, whose catalogue included an essay by Vuk Ćosić on the early
years of net art , as well as an essay by himself in which he reveals
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his concern for the preservation of digital art .
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In general, however, the lack of resources and the country’s
peripheral nature made it difficult for Portuguese artists to regularly
participate in the international scene of the dynamic mailing lists
and platforms, as well as in important exhibitions, i.e. events that
promoted an open dialogue about the Internet in a multidisciplinary
and global context. Nevertheless, we can see that some artists have
stood out in the international new media scene. For example, Miguel
Leal presented The Revolting Museum at the 9 edition of
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the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 98 in Liverpool
and Manchester, and acted as a jury member at the Transmediale
Festival in Berlin. In collaboration with V_2 Rotterdam, Leal was
also responsible for the Links/Ligações/Liaisons award as part of
the Porto – Rotterdam European Capitals of Culture in 2001. In
2000, Galeria Zé dos Bois [curated by Cláudia Castelo, Francisca
Bagulho, Manuel Henriques and António Silveira Gomes] partici-
pated in the Sister Spaces exhibition project organised by
Southern Exposure in San Francisco, with the online exhibition Go
to Frisco, which involved thirty-seven Portuguese artists and the
creation of new works. Miguel Carvalhais has also been very active
outside Portugal with the @c project and the Austrian artist Lia, with
whom he curated, for example, Medialounge, the online section
of the exhibition, Abstraction Now at Künstlerhaus Wien in
Vienna in 2003. In recent years, Portuguese artists who have lived or
live outside Portugal, such as Filipe Vilas-Boas, Rui Filipe Antunes,

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