MACHINISTA FESTIVAL - artificial intelligence in art -

The Machinista festival celebrates artificial intelligence in the arts,
presenting an international selection of works where the machine plays an
essential role in the creative process.

The first Machinista in 2003 featured
- over 120 artists/filmmaker/programmers on the festival website and CD ROM.
- offline events in Moscow and Perm City in the Urals.
http://www.machinista.ru/en

Machinista 2004 is set to be an even more significant event.
- The Russian team are collaborating with major cultural and alternative
venues in Glasgow, Scotland to create a significant offline festival to
complement the 2004 CD-ROM and website.
- In a few months a widespread call for participation will begin soliciting
submissions from artists, designers, programmers, inventors, musicians,
filmmakers, VJs, performers etc, who have work they wish to showcase in any
of the following themes / categories:

1. "Art from the Machine: gleams of the inhuman".
Works created completely or mostly by a machine.

2."Artists Against Machinic Standards".
Breaking, destroying, hacking, unexpected (non-utilitarian?) usage of
customary programs as an art experiment.

3."Full-Screen Robomania". Moving image works featuring: robots, cyborgs,
artificial intelligence, life of machines, etc. single screen videos, film,
animations, VJ mixes and visualiser software.

Two AI /arts experts (one UK based and one Russian based) oversee each
theme.
The six supervisors will collaborate remotely to critique entries and
explain AI issues to a non-expert audience.


2 VACANCIES:

UK BASED SUPERVISOR: CATEGORY 1. " Art from the Machine: gleams of the
inhuman".

UK BASED SUPERVISOR: CATEGORY 2. "Artists Against Machinic Standards".

A Category Supervisor's role is to...

- Briefly define and explain the themes for the call for participation in
collaboration with Russian counterpart
- Assist/advise in distributing the calls for participation (for circulation
from Oct/Nov 2003 onwards)
- Engage in dialogue with the offline festival event curators
- Evaluate their favourite entries in a short written report for the
festival publication (also distributed on CD ROM & website)
- Present a summary of their categories during a panel/ forum at CCA Glasgow
in May 2004

The fee for each position is £150 + travel and expenses.

Note: "Artificial Intelligence in Art" is taken to include not just visual
arts but also music, performance, dance, architecture, design and crafts
etc. applicants with knowledge of AI in any such field are welcomed.

To apply for these jobs please send resume/CV/biography with brief
supporting statement to [log in to unmask]

DEADLINE : 30 September 2003.


Links

Machinista 2003 is at
http://www.machinista.ru/en

For more on Machinista Glasgow 2004 keep an eye on
http://www.machinista.org.uk


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