The aim of this festival is to stretch the line in search for the new, creative environment with the new ways of expression and new unacquainted perception and philosophy; to induce the artists spurt out the steady ways of produce with the using the new technologies as the main tool of the expression.

The main theme for this years festival was interpretations of BLACK vs WHITE. The participants could speculate on this theme and follow their own philosophy of the BLACK vs WHITE message. You could decode BLACK vs WHITE as you wanted – DARKNESS vs LIGHT, SADNESS vs HAPPYNESS, NEGATIVE vs POSITIVE, NOISE vs SILINCE, etc.

The third multimedia art and music festival Centras4 presented the bigger scale of the art sections and ways of expressions. The awaited musicians and visual artists’s list were supplemented by the video, digital graphics, photography, media design artists’ works, looking for the new possibilities of the expression of the new technologies.

The festival seeks to strengthen the roots of Lithuanian multimedia creators, but as being open event it searches for the input from all over the world. This year among Lithuanian artist festival lineup was filled with creators from Latvia, Italy, GB and Finland.

For the first time children were involved in new media creating process in CENTRAS4 festival. They had opportunity to express their fresh visions with the help of digital forms by using software. In some cases these were their first steps to the world of multimedia. Almost 200 works of children reached the organizers of the festival.

The festival has a tradition to relocate the main ideas, participants and their works outside Kaunas. This year will not be an exception and CENTRAS4 should visit Vilnius, Klaipeda and maybe some other cities of Lithuania.

CENTRAS4
Mutimedia art music festival in Kaunas
Date: October 1st – 3rd, 2004
Place: Information Centre for Contemporary Art (ICCA)
https://www.smic.lt/centras4/