Open call paraflows .10 - Festival for Digital Art and Cultures
Published by katja date 09 May 2010 23:07
MIND AND MATTER
Going into its 5th year, the paraflows festival in Vienna will focus on the interconnection between the programme and the object. Information technology is based on the distinction between hardware and software, and more often than not both systems are treated and discussed as independent of each other. paraflows .10 – MIND AND MATTER seeks to put on display how hard- and software, content and object in contemporary art not only co-exist, but also condition and shape each other.
What role does hardware play for media infrastructure – how is the net set up, what are the real pillars on which virtuality rests? How does the sculptural process look like, from a technological point of view? What are the effects of technological prospects on physical representation?
What are the challenges that digital art must face, when it comes to conserving its works? Additionally to the applications in question, the corresponding hardware needs to be preserved as well. But how does time affect technology-based works, their conditions of production and their archives?
Mind and body are inextricably tied to each other, yet we are tempted to regard mental processes as independent of their bodily basis. Can thoughts, personality or intelligence exist without a body? Or how does the aesthetic image of technology relate to its context, what kind of interconnections are made?
Our exhibition MIND AND MATTER will present works from the very beginning of media art and also give an overview of current developments that combine programmes with sculpture.
For more information on paraflows .10 - MIND AND MATTER visit http://www.paraflows.at
We are looking for artistic positions dealing with the issues as afore mentioned.
Pls send your application as pdf file via e-mail to: mind_and_matter(at)paraflows.at
or ship to:
paraflows
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
AUSTRIA
Mandatory information for submissions:
1) name, institution (if existing), address, e-mail, phone number, website/s
2) submitted work: title, medium, author/artist, year of production
3) work description: 1 DIN A4-page maximum
4) technical explanation, room/space requirements (hardware, operating system, additional software)
5) biographies
7) documentation of earlier projects, e.g. a link to your website
Language: all submissions have to be in English or in German or need to have subtitles in one of the two languages. Works in any other language have to include a text list in either German or English. We especially encourage international submissions.
DEADLINE: June 15th, 2010
paraflows CONTACT
office(at)paraflows.at
Festival management: Guenther Friesinger
Exhibition management: Judith Fegerl
Office: MQ Musumsquartier
paraflows headoffice
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
Austria
paraflows .10 is supported by the City of Vienna, MA7 digital art and culture.
Festival HAIP10 // Submission deadline prolonged until May 9th
Published by katja date 20 April 2010 17:07
We are announcing the submission deadline for 4th international multimedia festival HAIP 2010 has been prolonged until May 9th. We are looking forward getting your contributions along our this years topic New Nature!
Festival HAIP10 // NEW NATURE // Call for applications //
We are happy that we are able to announce that 4th international multimedia festival HAIP 2010 will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 23rd –26th November 2010. We are announcing call for participation. Please read the submission guidelines before filling out the form for HAIP10 until 9th May 2010. You can find more information and application form hereFestival HAIP10 // Call for applications //
Published by katja date 02 April 2010 18:13
//HAIP10: NEW NATURE//
23.–26. November 2010
The festival
The idea for the HAIP festival arose within the Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre team which operates within Zavod K6/4 in Ljubljana. HAIP is a biannual festival that emerged in 2004. The festival is conceived to be socially active and through it we attempt to reach the very core of the issues and themes in the field of intermedia art and contemporary scientific communication technologies. On the international level the HAIP festival presents the works of young perspective as well as already established artists, theoreticians, creative engineers and groups that are oriented into top artistic practices that are supported by open standards (regardless whether this is from practical or ideological reasons). Thus the festival will present individuals and groups who creatively and critically deal with social development and progress that includes us all due to the bloom of the variety of possibilities and choice. With this focus the HAIP festival supports the research and creation of those contemporary artistic and scientific practices that surpass the borders of specific forms and contents. This is also shown by the name of the festival, i.e. »HAIP« - which is an acronym for »Hack-Act-Interact-Progress«.
/ The festival encompasses: /
- lectures
- workshops
- exhibition of artworks/ spatial interventions
- performances
- club event
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/On the festival theme/
New nature
Data processing through the synthesis, manipulation and characterization of matter on the atomic and molecular level (which enables the creation of so-called nanostructure materials) opens a line of thought as regards the new levels of autonomy and life of a certain matter. In the attempt to understand the use of matter that is in the process of being modified on its atomic level (as a multidirectional medium) the focus turns towards the specifics and (non)materiality of the intermediate spaces – towards contents, quantumly transformed through these spaces. This means that the artistic medium is established on an entirely new – atomic and subatomic level. In the poetic and performative sense we encounter the idea that we can (trans)form reality through the manipulation of matter on the atomic level. However, the motif for our research of this scientific field is not based on the fascination we show for the fairytale qualities of the ‘fantastic’ images that can be achieved with such processes. It is also not based on the monotonous connection between science and art, in which art is often used merely to illustrate science, while both fields fail to establish a dialogue as regards their reciprocal potentials. Our motif emerges from the intention to establish an analytical discourse on the basis of the paradigm that it is possible to link the artistic concept, creative programming, DIY electronic systems and (inanimate) nature into a new expressive content.
Nanocrystals can be understood as ready-mades that are not manifested in the form of uniquely selected static objects, but are constantly changing manipulative situations/information/samples. Such feasible unpredictable dynamics and hybrid crossbreeding of various (un)organic matter with various other - mechanical and software - media activates the consciousness on nano-cybernetic reality. Through this we witness the establishment of a new domain within which the Cartesian perception of the world has ceased to exist, for the knowledge of the world has become an oscillating variable between the known (visible) and the unknown (invisible).
These phenomenological processes have transformed the relations in contemporary life and do not present a type of nature and culture in themselves. In order for art to function subversively in relation to the (monitoring) mechanisms (as enabled by informational technologies), it has to be experienced as a constant anti-culture that is available to all. This is why we attempt to democratise art in relation to nano technology and science, for here it is possible to transform matter in real time (on the level of their atomic operation). On a certain level these actions are therefore linked to political actions or with the affirmative and utopic gesture that breaks away from the established aesthetic taste and opens the field of the unknown, still unarticulated and unreflected, where we confront the need to reorganise our perception and consequentially operation.
Such processes represent medium personification which is established in the relation between the abstract space of the data and the real space of the matter. The chemical equation (as a scientific model) no longer functions as a hermetic scientific medium, instead it becomes an auto-poetic feedback system and a virtual space for open/multidirectional communication, which is (trans)formed, (re)programmed, synthesised and freshly characterized by the user/artist. With the absence of the tactile the interactivity is manifested in the transcendence of the »senses as monocular images in binocular perception« (Maurice Merleau-Ponty). Such a perceptive frame opens a multidimensional reality, in which reality (as an actual organic and inorganic presence) reveals the new characteristics of spatial dimensions that can transform and redefine the understanding of our existence.
Through the development of the new nature - which also represents the potential starting point for the development of a new artistic expression - we are (on the theoretical and empirical level) interested in the multimedia quantum/chemically generated nanosystem – (in)organic kinetic nano-cybernetic sculpture, which has performative characteristics in itself. The directness of this experience through the broadening of the perception within the merger of scientific discoveries and the visual communication of multimedia art expression and patents/equations/systems/data from these researches should be offered for the potential (co)development and (co)use of intermedia art by similarly thinking authors, for this represents the main condition for the establishment of a qualitative artistic production, which would aid the development, pluralisation and expansion of intermedia cultural and art fields.
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APPLICATION:
The application has to include the following:
- Filled in application form
- Photo documentation of the project (max 10 jpgs, min 180 dpi)
- Video documentation (DVD, CD, USB flash drive or internet connection – in avi, mov or ogg format)
- Technical plan of the project
Candidates may also attach additional documentation (catalogues, texts and similar).
Original works, incomplete and late applications will not be considered in the selection process. The attached documentation will not be returned, but will remain in the Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre/ HAIP10 Festival archive.
Application deadline: 30th April 2010
Invitation and application can be downloaded in .odt, .pdf in .doc format on HAIP website: slo, eng
The application form should be sent to the following address:
Contact person: Maja Smrekar
- By mail:
Zavod K6/4, Kiberpipa
Kersnikova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
With the text: “Application for HAIP10 festival”
- By e-mail:
haip@kiberpipa.org
The selection of the projects that will be realised and presented at the HAIP10 festival will be concluded in May 2010. Only successful candidates will be notified.
Information about application and festival also available on:
http://www.haip.cc
Open Call LiWoLi 2010 Linz
Published by katja date 11 March 2010 16:34
Posredujemo poziv za prijavo k LiWoLi 2010 Linz. Rok za oddajo prijave je 19. marec 2010, Linux Wochen Linz pa bo potekal od 15. do 17. aprila 2010 na Kunstuniversitaet Linz. V okviru LiWoLi 2009 je potekal tudi del Kiberpipinega festivala HAIP 08 - "Haip Goes Hype", v organizaciji mednarodnih partnerskih organizacij.
Open Call LiWoLi 2010 Linz
We are happy that we are able to announce that LiWoLi 2010 is taking place once again at the Kunstuniversitaet Linz 15 - 17 April 2010!
We are looking forward getting your contributions along our this years topic The Art of 'doing it together' (DIT)
Please read the submission guidelines before filling out the form for Liwoli 2010 until 19/03/2010 and send it to: call2010-liwoli@servus.at
Submission form: http://linz.linuxwochen.at/content/open-call
Submission form: http://linz.linuxwochen.at/de/content/open-call
Your LiWoLi Team!
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The Art of 'doing it together' (DIT)
15 - 17 April 2010 - Kunstuniversitaet Linz
LiWoLi 2010 is an open lab focusing on Free /Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and open contents in digital art and culture. This event will offer workshops, lectures, presentations and performances. For anyone interested in these subjects, participation in the entire program is free.
O P E N C A L L
The Art of 'doing it together' (DIT)
With the development and the use of free and Open Source Software and Hardware the cultural practice of DIY (Do it yourself) emerges. DIY often means to those who practice it to see one's self-believe and the own strength as a driving force for changes.
LiWoLi raises the question of whether a practice of 'doing it together' (DIT) might be a more successful formula for developing free tools (FLOSS tools) for art & culture, learning & teaching. This also implies examining the motivation of active producers and making room for the aspect of "unpaid work".
We are interested in contributions from groups that have realized projects 'successfully' or even 'less successfully' under the aspect of DIT in the field of Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS), open hardware, art & culture, learning & teaching, and want to make their 'tools and works' freely available and distribute them.
C a t e g o r i e s
Free and Open Source Tools
# FLOSS (free/libre Open Source Software), Open Hardware tools.
Projects developed by groups or projects in search for cooperation
# Free and Open Source Software - Sharing, Learning & Teaching
Models and forms of organization for cooperation in Open Source Software and Open Hardware at universities, within organizations or companies and outside of institutions.
# Hack Reality
Pointed as well as entertaining contributions on the subject of art, plagiarism, the end of art, interventions analog or digital, plagiarism copyright / copyfight, existence, world improvement,...
Fill out the Submission Form
english Version: http://linz.linuxwochen.at/content/open-call
german Version: http://linz.linuxwochen.at/de/content/open-call
