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Call for Submissions for the Airport of Airports showing @ AIRPORT: some flying thoughts… Curated by LIN Hanjian Date: June 2 – Aug 8, 2007 Venue: SPACE E6 Add: Urbanus Outdoor Gallery & 2/F, E Block 2, OCT-LOFT @ Overseas Chinese Town| via Konka Group/ En Ping Road, MTR Exit A, Shenzhen URL: www.server-foundation.org/aoa/ Responding to AIRPORT: some flying thoughts… exhibition, Server Foundation will contribute a project entitled, Airport of Airports. Airports are often seen as nodes which process the mass movement of people and where everything in it is organized around the idea of movement. Server Foundation is interested in the information which airports produce from its processing of people, flights, identity and security. Information in the form of airport websites will be the starting point for the project. Airport of Airports will be based on the study and focus of 10 international airport websites (see the links below). For this project, Server Foundation will invite artists, airport fanatics and all netizens to respond to these 10 airport websites. The websites could be seen as raw materials or a starting point to investigate airport information culture. Works and responses can be in the following format: video, html, flash and image files. All works submitted will be hosted on the Server Foundation and will be shown in this exhibition and in future exhibitions held in connection with the project. Contributors retain the rights to their works. The 10 airport websites are: 1) Changi Airport http://www.changi.airport.com.sg/ 2) International Airport Domodedovo http://www.domodedovo.ru/index_en.asp 3) Shenzhen International Airport http://www.szairport.com/ 4) Perth Airport http://www.perthairport.net.au/ 5) Sans Francisco International airport http://www.flysfo.com/ 6) Cairo International Airport http://www.cairo-airport.com/ 7) Kuwait international airport http://www.kuwait-airport.com.kw/ 8) Aeroportul International Henri Coanda http://www.otp-airport.ro/www/index.html?&setLanguage=EN 9) Ras Al Khaimah International Airport http://www.rakairport.com/ 10) Tribhuvan International Airport http://www.tiairport.com/ Deadline: Deadlines which allow your work to be shown at Airport: come flying thoughts in Shen Zhen. 1st deadline: 30th May where your work can be shown in the opening. 2nd deadline: 8 Aug where your work can be shown within the time period of exhibition. How to submit If you are interested to contribute in Airports of Airports send an e-mail: [log in to unmask] Please state clearly in your e-mail so that we can credit your contributing work – Name: Email address: Title of work: Outline of work: Technical Requirements to install your work: Please contact [log in to unmask] with any further enquiries Thank you very much. Yours Wong Seng Kiang *Picturepurrfect Co-ordinator for Airport of Airports Server Foundation www.server-foundation.org The Server Foundation was established in 2006. It was founded in a chatroom on IRC, born out of a discussion about utopia. Server Foundation is an experimental collaborative platform which uses the metaphor of the computer server as a site (both physical and virtual). The project is culturally located in Singapore physically and virtually connected to the world through virtual and physical networks. Other micro-projects hosted by Server Foundation includes: Openbook, Virtual Office and The Wire.