This is an inusual kind of festival: a non-stop workshop-festival which runs permanently from midnight november 6 to midnight november 8

The 8th edition of L'arte dell'Ascolto ("Listening to the Mediterranean") will take place in Rimini, november 7-8, 1998, and it will have as a starting platform the writing of Predrag Matvejevic'.
The Festival - traditionally linked with the area of the neighbouring countries of Italy - becomes from this year on, permanently focused on the realization of projects within the sphere of the Mediterranean.
Master of the Sardinian music Luigi Lai, together with other fine musicians will be present, ready to jam with realaudio streams coming from many cities.
Physical venue in Rimini will be the ground floor of a public building from the beginning of the century located few hundred metres from the Adriatic Sea. The space will be fully equipped with sound and videoprojection systems and a permanent connection to/from the net.
Sound and video artists will create a permanent environment mixing all kind of materials both from the net and the place here.
All direct links with participants will be organised in LADA homepage. Images from webcameras will be also mixed and screened in Rimini in order to have a dynamic visual environment created after all the places connected.

Eight years after its first edition L'Arte dell'Ascolto now further investigates its plan to define the town as place of total and unconditional hospitality: the town-refuge. In this sense the town is proposing itself as a place where to cultivate the only possible ethics: the ethics of hospitality (Jacques Derrida).

One of the main purposes of the Festival is the development of artistical projects based on the utilization of telecommunication technologies in order to create communities of people operating simultaneously in electronic space and in the real world and to relate traditional cultures to modernity. Making the most of a culture that naturally and everywhere is becoming multi-ethnical is to us fundamental and so is the need to aggregate those who are interested around events able to conjugate entertainment with research.
The project is based on exchange and on the reciprocal influences between the various worlds. As tradition and vanguard are at the same time human and poetical reservoir, so our cultural differences take us towards a new way of thinking about our time and our space, that become time and space of enlarged communities.

An adventure that combines art with scientific research. A project aiming to define the chances of wireless communication with special regard to those areas of the Mediterrenean which are disadvantaged under the point of view of the systems of communications; and for which, therefore having access to Internet through the radio could be of great importance.