Art experienced through the exhibitions, videos, information and conferences by young critics from different cities trroughout the world. Four exhibitions and eight conferences from the new nevralgic centres of the international artistic and cultural system. The curators will focus on an environment, a cultural thelos and the life surrounding it, each city giving life to an online community.

EXHIBITIONS
Openspace, Milan City Council, Via Marconi 1 (Mezzanine level) Each curator was free to chose the artists and works on exhibit - slides, magazines, videos - to convey his/her city's artistic and cultural dimension.

3rd November - 5th December 1999
New York New York: Big City of Dreams curator Franklin Sirmans. Franklin Sirmans is curator for the Studium Museum of Middletown, New York and since 1993 edits publications of the DIA Center of the Arts, New York. Between 1996 and 1998 he was editor of ''Flash Art International''. He teaches at the New York School of Visual Arts. He has organized a number of exhibitions and edited catalogues.
11thJanuary -6th February 2000
Milan curator Roberto Pinto
Between 1989 and 1996 Roberto Pinto was editor and subsequently chief editor of ''Flash Art''. He works as curator and consultant for the ''Progetto Giovani'' of the Milan City Council. Amongst the events curated by him figure La Generazione delle Immagini , a cycle of conferences on the most important artists in the contemporary art scene, and Subway (art, literature, comics, theatre in the train and subway stations of Milan) summer 1998.
14th March - 16th April 2000
London curator Gilda Williams
Gilda Willimas is editing director of the publishing house Phaldon. She collaborates with a number of international reviews and has curated exhibitions such as the recent Strange Days on contemporary British photography.
16th May - 18th June 2000
Johannesburg curators Kendell Geers and Clive Keliner Kendell Geers is artist and curator, Clive Keliner is an art critic. They have actively contributed to opening the cultural scene in South Africa which after years of isolation is a multiethnic meeting point undergoing rapid transformation different.

CONFERENCES
La Generazione delle Immagini, Triennale, Palazzo dell'Arte, Via Alemagna 6

The sixth edition of La Generazione delle Immagini will take place within the METROPOLITAN ATMOSPHERES project with the possibility of meeting eight young curators who will describe the contemporary cultural scene through its production centres.The conferences will be held every Tuesday from 18th January to 7th March 2000 at 5.30 pm.

WEB SITE
http://www.undo.net/atmosfere


As well as providing information on the project the web site constitutes a parallel event guiding visitors through the twelve cities studied by the exhibitions and the cycle of conferences held by the critics (from November 3rd, continually updated until 18th June 2000).

For Information: Lorenza Perelli: mobile 0348/38.38.860
Milan City Council
Youth and Sports Department
Tel - 02. 62.08.37.13
Organizing Office: Fortarezza & Harvey -
Tel. 02.34.53.85.52 (9.00 am to 12.00 am)