NEW YORK.- To celebrate its tenth anniversary, The New York Digital Salon and The World Financial Center Arts & Events Program present Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time at the World Financial Center Courtyard Gallery and Winter Garden April 22 through May 25, 2003. Events include a new media art exhibition, performances, gallery tours, an art and technology family day, computer animation and digital video screenings, presentations by emerging artists, and panel discussions. The new media art exhibition will include selected works from the international survey of digital art by new media curators from around the world recently published in the New York Digital Salon special issue of Leonardo, Web site kiosks with net art, a sound art room, and a timeline of the history of digital art.

A Digital Art and Culture Symposium will be held April 22 and 23 at the MoMA Gramercy Theater with Roger Malina, Executive Editor of Leonardo, as the Keynote Speaker on Tuesday morning. Panel discussions on new media art will look at theory and aesthetics, new uses of space, the role of artist as programmer, the museum and art gallery in the 21st Century, new narratives, and new media performance and music. Free and open to the public. Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time is co-presented by the New York Digital Salon and the World Financial Center Arts & Events program. It is sponsored by the School of Visual Arts and Pace University, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional support provided by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Embassy Suites Hotel New York City, Canadian Consulate General, New York, the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes New York, and the Embassy of France in the United States.