on behalf of Katerina Gkoutziouli" on behalf of
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>Dear List,
>
>The 12th Athens Digital Arts Festival has an extended deadline for
>submissions. New deadline is 14 February 2016.
>Athens Digital Arts Festival will take place from 19 to 22 of May 2016 in
>the historic center of Athens.
>
>Call for Entries
>
>
>*Digital POPWhat is Pop in the digital era?*
>
>Gene Swenson: "Is Pop a bad name?"
>Andy Warhol: "The name sounds so awful."
>Abstract from an interview, Art News (1963)
>
>Over the last few years, we experience a culture of excess where on one
>hand the overabundance of information has generated a wave of passive
>consumption and on the other has allowed many previously unseen trends and
>voices to emerge. Today, Pop may be as well defined by likes, shares,
>tweets, views or followers showing in a way the power of the people to
>decide about trends and attitudes but also highlighting the ephemerality
>of
>it, as the culture around us is changing at high speed. In that sense, we
>might as well say that what is considered Pop in 2015 might be outdated in
>2016 and so on.
>
>Back in 1963, Andy Warhol said that “everybody should be a machine” and
>that “everybody should like everybody”. Acting like machines or liking
>things is almosttypical behaviour and part of the everyday digital
>routine.
>Digital culture is omnipresent. It has changed our way of thinking. It has
>changed our habits and behaviours. The techno-culture that once was odd
>and
>distant is now part of most human activities from entertainment,
>lifestyle,
>business to art and politics.
>
>What is defined as Pop is characterised through the culture of here and
>now. The pleasure of sharing everyday life through online environments and
>digital devices manifests a new way of living where our collective
>identities and digital selves intersect. GIFs, memes, selfies, viral
>videos, the internet slang as well as sharing, posting, uploading,
>commenting are all practices that reflect the current cultural condition.
>
>What kind of digital content do we consume and what culture do we create?
>How are we “feeding” today’s digital markets? How ephemeral is digital Pop
>culture? How has digital pop culture affected our daily lives? What kind
>of
>aesthetics have emerged? How do artists respond to the current condition?
>
>Through this call, the festival invites proposals to unravel the notion of
>Pop in the digital era.
>
>For more info please see www.adaf.gr
>
>Greetings from Athens,
>katerina
>
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