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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: NEW FORMS FESTIVAL 2004: TECHNOGRAPHY
<http://www.newformsfestival.com/>
EXTENDED Deadline: May 28th, 2004
The New Forms Festival is an annual event highlighting emerging forms at the
junction of art, culture and technology. It includes performances, panel
discussions, workshops, and interactive exhibits on contemporary Media Arts
issues. The NFF environment encourages new forms of Media Art to be
created, experienced, and understood. NFF04 will be held in Vancouver, BC,
from October 14 to 28, 2004. The theme is TECHNOGRAPHY: the inscription of
culture in technology.
NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY is a forum to explore and embody these inscriptions in
the form of artistic expression and discourse.
NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY looks at the ways in which cultures inhabit and
transform media spaces and technologies.
NFF04:TECHNOGRAPHY will bring together practitioners and theorists from
across grassroots, gallery academy and academic contexts and provide a
platform for conversations among the diverse voices of contemporary
digital regionalism.
NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY programming incorporates the principles found within an
ecological model of the cultural sphere: complexity, variety and balance.
Like nature, culture is also a changing phenomenon, affected by the ways in
which technology inhabits the environment and relates to it.
Projects, presentations and performances
Proposals are invited for four areas of the festival: the Conference, the
Exhibition (digital art, performance, installation, immersive environments,
Net.Art), Performance Series (sound art, performance art, live film/AV) and
Low Art Events (music, visuals, post-digital, laptop, group performance,
screenings).
Conference
The NFF04 Conference, Old And New Forms , negotiates new global parameters
for contemporary media culture, as it charts a post-traditional
Œtechnography¹ of world Media Arts. The post-traditional is what remains of
modernism and postmodernism when modernization is abandoned as an unfinished
and unachievable project. While the post-traditional view is clearly
meaningful in the post-colonial and developing spheres, Old And New Forms
posits that it is equally germane to the global post-industrial scenario as
a whole.
Gallery Exhibition/ Performance Events
This year the Exhibition (Gallery and Net Art), Performance Series, and Low
Art Events will present a range of works that embody and interpret the theme
of TECHNOGRAPHY as defined above.
For further information on the details of events, curators, galleries and
conference, please see the website at:<http://www.newformsfestival.com/>
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Sonic Art Evening
³[Music] is a tremendously privileged site for the analysis and revelation
of new forms in our society.²
Jacques Attali, Noise: The Political Economy of Music.
The sonic art event will present works that make use of audible technologies
and acoustic materials in an aural cultural context that explores the
spectrum of the living ambient in volumes, atmospheres, resonance, aural
surfaces and textures, as well as breaking through to relations with other
senses .
Sound in the current global scene is more promiscuous than ever. The
musician is a viral agent‹both carrier and host‹accumulating a lifetime of
influences across a dizzying variety of sources from the funky beats of the
body drumming to the internal networks of psychoacoustic phenomena‹the
subtle nuances of the richest traditions of the planet come into contact
with the digital techniques of a recombinant poetics.
The performer is challenged by the technical apparatus of digital
reproduction‹an apparatus that reproduces not just the sound of the music
but its inner mechanisms‹an instrument that has transformed itself in the
hands of a musician into a proposition for a new form of the world in
relationship to technology‹a technology come to life and agency, at its best
a partner in the moment of sound making.
PROPOSALS
Artists, scholars, developers and practitioners working in New Media Art
are invited to submit proposals for projects, performances, presentations,
papers and panels by May 14, 2004.
We ask artists/researchers to demonstrate the following:
€ A strong portfolio of media arts pieces that demonstrate their ability and
involvement in the New Media Arts community - although emerging artists are
encouraged to apply.
€ Computer knowledge
€ Basic knowledge of Media Arts processes (e.g. digital audio or video,
electronic formats)
€ Strong artistic quality
€ Interest in the themes of the festival
€ Applications must be submitted via the online form at
<http://www.newformsfestival.com/>
€ Due to limited resources we are only able to review submissions written in
English.
€ Supporting documents: Audiovisual, photographic and written media must be
submitted via the online application form at
<http://www.newformsfestival.com/>
All submissions will be reviewed by the Festival Programming Committee and
those chosen will be contacted by June 30, 2004.
We offer:
€ Some computer and tech facilities
€ Technical and organizational assistance
€ Presentation space
€ International dissemination of the work via the Internet
€ Participation in presentations and panels, and in some cases a
performance.
€ A letter of acceptance to help obtain travel funds
Contact us only if there are concerns or difficulties concerning this call
or the submission form, at:
New Forms Festival 2004
Programming Committee
Suite 200, 252 East 1st Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia
CANADA V5T 1A6
T: +1 604-648-2752
F: +1 604-648-2754
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Camille Baker
Exhibition/Events Producer/Curator
New Forms Festival 2004
Vancouver's International Festival of Media Arts
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(604) 708-0997
(604) 607-5339
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