CALL TO ARTISTS and RESEARCHERS
The New Forms Festival is an annual festival of digital arts and technology,
including: digital art, music and film, performance, installation, immersive
environments, and conference. It covers four days of performances, panel
discussions, workshops, and interactive galleries on contemporary media arts
issues. In its third year, The New Forms Festival 2003 will be held in
Vancouver, BC, from Thursday July 24th to Sunday 27th.
The New Forms Festival will create an environment that encourages new forms
of media art to be created, experienced, and understood. The theme for 2003
is ³inter[se/ac]tion², a response to the technological and artistic
convergence that have been occurring in the fields of arts, science and new
media in recent years.
The conference will provide avenues for critical perspectives, discoveries,
learning and engagement in current and evolving discourses, ideas, and
transformations in new media arts and technology. Each of the sub-themes
explored during the conference series will be led by invited artists and
researchers from the Canadian and International media arts community.
Call for projects, proposals, presentations and performances
Artists and media artwork selected for The New Forms Festival should
manifest multiple themes, mediums, and modes of expression, exploring a
distinct genre.
Works selected will fall into the following categories:
* Alternatives in narrative, digital cinema and video;
* Post-digital and electronic sound art and music;
* Net art;
* Performance art, installation and technologies;
* Immersive and online environments;
* Electronic gaming art;
* 3D animation;
* Artificial reality art and installation;
* Sensor technologies and telematics.
Some genres should explore collaborative and improvisational components or
³live² artworks, created for the festival.
The festival also encourages artworks that are process-oriented, continually
evolving and in transformation, which are facilitated through technological
and ideological means.
Festival Sub-themes:
(a) New directions in digital cinema and video
(b) Sound art, audio and music innovations
(c) Technology-based performance art and
(d) Other new inventions in arts and technology convergence.
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.
* Computer knowledge;
* Basic knowledge of digital video processing;
* Strong artistic quality;
* Interest in the themes of the festival.
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, in some case a
performance.
PROPOSALS
Artists, scholars, developers and practitioners working in New Media Art are
invited to submit proposals for projects, performances, presentations,
papers and panels by February 15, 2003.
All contributions will be reviewed by the festival curatorial committee and
those chosen will be contacted by March 15, 2003.
PROJECTS, PERFORMANCES, AND PRESENTATIONS
Proposal description must be no longer than 500 words and should include:
* A description of conceptual content and technical issues;
* A brief description of your activities or an artist biography, with
documentation and a portfolio of your previous projects;
* A detailed CV or CVs (note that the CVs are not counted as part of the 500
word limit);
* A brief description of your project and its implementation;
* A brief description of the people or partners involved in your
project/paper;
* A time schedule: description of the work that has to be done and whether
it can be done on site or will be done ahead of time;
* Equipment list, including production materials and supplies needed;
* A description of technical and organizational assistance needed;
* A list of production materials and supplies needed; accompanying
collaborators (technician, programmer, performer); documentation (video or
audio recording).
*All proposals must be written in English.
PAPERS
Papers are presentations that reflect any of the festival themes. Proposals
for papers must be no longer than 500 words and should give the curatorial
committee an indication of your major argument or arguments, and your
theoretical approach to one of the festival themes.
PANELS
Panels are themed discussions that concentrate on any of the conference
themes. Panels are to consist of a position statement (that may or may not
be collectively authored) that panel members respond and contribute to,
related to festival themes. Panel proposals ought to include a draft
position statement (maximum of 500 words). Panels are expected to make a
constructive and original contribution to debate and ideas related to New
Media art and research.
Paper and panel submissions must be completed and submitted by February 15,
2003 consideration. All accepted work will be published in a full festival
catalogue and proceedings.
Invited applicants will then be asked to write a full paper, panel proposal,
or presentation description for review by the festival curatorial committee.
Only complete project proposals, papers, panel submissions and presentation
descriptions will be considered for acceptance.
SUPPORT MATERIAL
Please include an example of past works, such as:
o A maximum of one videotape (VHS format), or
o One audio tape, or
o 10 slides or photographs, or
o One CD-ROM or DVD-ROM (for PC), or
o A URL (specify which aspect to examine).
You may also send in one item of support material related to the project for
the festival. Donıt send more than two items.
Include the title of the work, the author, the applicantıs role, the medium,
the format, the length, the completion date, and a brief explanation of the
content with your support material. Proposals that do not include support
material are automatically rejected. (See the sections below.)
Model for presenting your support material:
Please send a short description (100 words maximum) of the two items of
support material.
PROJECT
Title: My work
Applicant's role: Performer, composer, programmer, etc.
Production medium: film
Format: VHS, CDROM, etc.
Running time: 15 minutes
Completion date: 2001
Track number or segment: 3
Explanation: a short description of the excerpt in relation to the proposal
(50 words maximum).
Please note that:
* Applications must be typewritten. Handwritten or incomplete applications
are not accepted;
* Only submissions written in English are considered;
* Only one submission per individual is accepted each year.
THE SELECTION PROCESS
STAGE 1
After receiving the proposals, individual New Forms Festival curators will
evaluate them and determine which will move on to the second stage. The
selection is based on the criteria listed below and the eligibility criteria
mentioned earlier. Within one to two months after the application deadline,
all applicants will be notified whether their proposal was selected to be
presented at the festival. Selected applicants may be asked to send in
additional information if necessary.
STAGE 2
In the second stage, a committee of all New Forms Festival curators and some
local experts will then evaluate the selected projects. This committee will
be made up of specialists in the artistic and technological disciplines and
themes of the festival and in the projects under consideration. New Forms
Festival curators may occasionally call on independent evaluators to assess
specific aspects of certain projects.
Committee evaluations and the curatorsı decisions are based on these
criteria:
* The project's potential or significance;
* The project's relevance to the mission and values of the New Forms Media
Society;
* The benefit to the artists, the community, the audience/participants of
the festival, and the specific artistic milieu the project takes place
within;
* The project's contribution to advancing art and knowledge in areas of
interest to the New Forms Festival curators and the New Forms Media Society.
Any decisions by the New Forms Festival curators and the selection committee
are at their absolute discretion and are final.
Candidates at stage two can expect an answer two to three months after
submitting their initial application.
SUPPORT MATERIAL
Audiovisual, photographic and written documents will not be returned to
applicants after the evaluation process unless without a self-addressed
stamped envelope included in the initial proposal. New Forms Festival policy
is to protect the copyright of artists and other copyright owners and to
prevent any unauthorized copies from being made. Any other use of these
documents is subject to a specific agreement with the copyright owner. New
Forms Festival is also committed to protecting the personal and confidential
information you provide, such as mailing and e-mail addresses and phone
numbers.
SENDING DOCUMENTS
New Forms Festival will not send back any material without a self-addressed
stamped envelope. You are responsible for including this envelope with your
original application. For return shipment, note the following:
* New Forms Festival accepts a completed waybill from a courier service
(such as Fedex or UPS);
* If you live outside Canada, consider using a courier service or
international reply coupons (available at the local post office);
* Do not affix local postage to the self-addressed envelope if you live
outside Canada;
* Do not send personal cheques to cover the return postage.
New Forms Festival will not pay any customs duty on couriered submissions
(Fedex, UPS, etc.) and will automatically reject any such packages.
Therefore, be sure to check the box indicating who will be charged for
customs duty. If this box has not been checked, the Foundation will be
charged and your package refused.
ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS
Be sure to include your proposal information with your electronic
submission.
E-MAIL OR FTP
1) To e-mail your proposal, send it to the New Forms Media Society, Malcolm
Levy, at [log in to unmask] Any document over 3 MB must be sent via
our FTP site. Otherwise, your proposal will be rejected. For information on
the FTP procedure, send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
2) Send e-mail submissions in the body of the e-mail or as an attachment. If
using an attachment, write its full name, including extensions, in the body
of the e-mail.
3) New Forms Festival works on both PCs and Macintosh, so both file types
are acceptable. The accepted file formats (extensions) for attachments are
listed below.
Text: .doc, .pdf, .txt, .rtf
Images: .jpg, .tif
Compressed files: .zip, .sit (for PC)
4) E-mail and FTP submissions are accepted until midnight (EDT) on February
15/2003. No exceptions are made under any circumstances.
NOTE THAT IF YOU E-MAIL YOUR PROPOSAL, YOU DON'T NEED TO MAIL A HARD COPY.
HOWEVER, YOU MAY E-MAIL THE TEXT AND THEN MAIL OR COURIER YOUR SUPPORT
MATERIAL.
OTHER ELECTRONIC FORMATS
The New Forms Festival accepts support material in most, if not all,
electronic formats, including Macintosh files. However, for the text portion
of your proposal, we accept only paper submissions (sent by regular mail or
courier) or e-mail submissions. We can also receive a support version of
your proposal on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, diskette, Zip disk, or other such formats.
All proposals for projects, performance, papers, presentations and panels
must be submitted to:
New Forms Media Society, New Forms Festival 2003
Camille Baker, Conference Director/Lead Curator - <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
#1202- 207 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1H7
www.newformsfestival.com <http://www.newformsfestival.com/> 604-648-2753
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Camille Baker
Interactive Conference Director/Lead Curator
New Forms Festival Vancouver
www.newformsfestival.com
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(604)708-0997
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