Machinista is a yearly unmediated open submission exhibition of creative and technological innovations relating to the ideas of "artificial intelligence in the arts" and "new human-machine interactions" developped by the Russian Machinista team and curated online.
In 2003 there were 128 submissions featured on www.machinista.ru
In 2004 there were 259 submissions featured on www.machinista.org

Machinista Migrating Festival
An offline festival each year in a different host city showcases key entries to the online exhibition. Selected participants are commissioned to travel and present/ exhibit/ install/ perform to wider audiences.
in 2003 offline events took place in Moscow and Perm City (Urals).
in 2004 the offline events took place in Glasgow (UK). www.machinista.org.uk

We are currently looking for host organisations to curate the 2005 and 2006 offline events.
The host organisation should be able to work independently, plan the events and raise the nescessary funding, whilst retaining close connection with the machinista core-team to help develop and co-ordinate each new event's theme.
Please send proposals and enquieries to Sergey Teterin: teterin@pisem.net

Support material, reports and webcounter stats are available to assist with the project development.