The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in joint with the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) organise the first World Conference on Science in Budapest, 1999. Thousands of scientists and science policy makers will gather in Budapest from almost all countries of the world. The government of Hungary guaranteed to host the meeting, and asked the president of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences to form the local Organising Committee of the preparations. The presidium of the Academy turned to the public and asked in a Manifesto for the augmentation of the event's solemnity with satellite cultural programs what draw the world's attention to the arts related to science.

Let us make the convention of scientists also a fest of the arts. The programs should introduce overlappings of the human creativity on the boundaries of the arts and the sciences, works of artists engaged in science, and of scientists active also in the arts. They will fit in the series having been launched by the International Symmetry Foundation with the Ars (Dis)Symmetrica exhibitions. The organisers would like to establish the tradition of the science-art program series and to widen the scope from the concept of (dis)symmetry to other phenomena paving the bridges between the arts and the sciences. Over symmetry, historically such a bridging role was played in the arts - among others - by perspective. Therefore, the concept of the perspective and the related specialised exhibition (curator L. Beke) in the Palace of Art will be in the centre of the full program series. The project intends to emphasise the unity of human culture, the equal role of the arts and the sciences, the unity of the human creativity produced either by the dominance of the left hemisphere of the brain (rationality, science) or by the right one (impression, arts).

The program series will include: Exhibitions - Symposia - Concert

The title of the events expresses that they are organised on the occasion of the World Conference on Science. The exhibitions will be in the focus of the program series. The general title of the events means a stipulation for the invited artists to avoid becoming the exhibitions shoreless. At the same time it is wide enough to enrich - by the means of arts - the interdisciplinary ideas to be discussed at the 2^nd Forum of the World Conference: The Interactions of Science. The exhibitions have to present a picture of the main tendencies of the science-related arts in the nineties, and to give a perspective ahead to the art of the 21^st century. There will be preferred new artworks to be created just for this occasion.

In accordance with the main title and the aims of the event, there are welcome works which exemplify how science and arts mutually fertilised each other and catalysed processes in each other's domain. (The best known examples are the discoveries of the quasicrystals and the fullerenes in the history of art and science in the recent two decades, and there are several examples when artworks were created inspired by scientific discoveries of the 20^th century.)

The two concerned branches of culture enriched each other not only thematically, but also methodologically, by the means of modern technology. This encourages to display - besides the artworks created by the means of scientific instruments, methods - also the products of design made by the latest technology. Creations of scientists, like models of artistic value, etc. are also expected, which indicate how an association of thoughts in the arts effected the birth of scientific achievements.

There are no stipulations concerning the artistic forms: two and three dimensional, static and dynamic objects, traditional (e.g., oil on canvas) and virtual, electronic (e.g., computer, video) works can all be submitted.

Within the framework of the mentioned aspects, the following kinds of works are expected:

The above subject fields include - among others - the following specialised topics to be exhibited in separate sections:

Participation in the exhibitions is the privilege of invited artists. You are encouraged to propose other colleagues to be invited. Nevertheless, in these cases the curators and the Organising Committee keep the right to jury, and accept or reject the submitted works.

The local curators of the exhibitions:

The local Organising Committee:

Márton Tolnai (chairman, Director, Institute for Research Organisation, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), György Darvas (member of the UNESCO-ICSU World Conference on Science Program Committee), Ildikó Gimesiné Berencz (Hungarian Academy of Craft and Design), Anikó Kovács (Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts), Frigyes König (Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts), Katalin Papp (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest), Antal Vásárhelyi (painter).

International organisation:

György Darvas (chairman of the International Organising Committee, Secretary General, International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry)

Foreign curators:

Liz Ashburn (Sydney, Australia), Douglas Dunham (Duluth, MN, U.S.A.), Lorand Hegyi (Vienna, Austria), Fré Ilgen (Engwierum, The Netherlands), Itsuo Sakane (Ogaki, Japan), Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta (Lisbon, Portugal), Caspar Schwabe (Zürich, Switzerland), John Sims (Sarasota, FL, U.S.A.)

in Budapest, along the axis of the Andrássy Street (starting from the Danube bank, ending at the Heroes' Square):

Depending on the interest, there will be further satellite exhibitions (e.g., in foreign cultural institutions in Budapest).

Submission of the documentation of the proposed works: 16 March 1999

Notification of the acceptance of the proposals: 30 April 1999

Submission of the original works for the exhibitions: 7 June 1999

Opening of the exhibitions: 23-30 June 1999

Closing of the exhibitions: end of July 1999

Documentation should be received by the Organising Committee at least on the day of the deadline at the following address:

Postal address:

All artists are requested to submit the following documentation for the preparation of the catalogue:

The data of the artists:

In all categories only the most important items should be listed. Only the preferred categories should be filled, others can be omitted. The full text cannot exceed 2000 characters.

The data of the works to be exhibited:

All the listed documentation is preferred to be submitted both on hard copy and electronic (floppy diskette, e-mailed) versions.