RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES ART CINEMA / VIDEO / ORDINATEUR are a major international tri-annual event focusing on the moving image as visual art. Launched in Paris in 1990, it has been breaking new ground by bringing together all forms of screen-based arts, such as film, video and computer art, and by viewing contemporary art forms through a historical perspective. On the dawn of the Third Millenium, RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES ART CINEMA / VIDEO / ORDINATEUR seek to cultivate an awareness of 20th century technological media, and to propose critical and comparative approaches to contemporary aesthetic phenomena.

Curated by artists Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES are unique in the investigation of a proposed concept and in their trans-technological, trans-historical approach to programming. This year's third edition raises the issue of MEDIA ECOLOGY: an "ecological" equilibrium between mechanical, optical, electronic and digital media. Presenting some forty thematic screenings and panels involving more than a hundred artists and scholars from twenty-five different countries(*), they have received an extremely enthusiastic response from the press, the public, artists and institutions internationally.

Selected projections and a panel discussion at the Lux will address some of the questions issued in Paris, such as creating links between low and high-tech practices, linear and interactive art works; acknowledging earlier artistic traditions of synaesthesia and projection devices; and raising questions surrounding the position of the media artist in the contemporary technological environment.