Karl Kuhn on Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:00:02 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Version>02 :: Digital Arts Convergence in Chicago (New Call) |
The following is the latest call for artists for Version>02 a Digital Arts Convergence exploring the digital commons, April 18-20 @the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and beyond.............. Cheers, Karl ____________________________________________________________________ VERSION>02 [DigitalArtsConvergence] presents an exploration of the digital commons :: Commons:: a resource that belongs to or is used by the public :: Digital Commons:: in the digital sphere, new technologies with access for all :::Calling all artists, designers, activists, multimedia producers, information architects, tactical media agents, programmers, musicians, filmmakers, concerned citizens and critical thinkers::::: We are interested in your ideas, projects, sounds, films, papers and proposals concerning the present, future and past of the digital commons, and invite you to share them with us during our three-day convergence, This April 18-20 Select Media, OVT Visuals and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago will present Version>02, a digital arts convergence, as a forum for artists, performers, and critical thinkers to present, review and celebrate works and ideas. For three days and three nights, Version>02 will examine ideas on where we are and where we going through: ::Feature Performances ::Film and Video screenings ::Symposia ::Installations ::Writing ::Net Art ::Net.cinema ::Sound Art ::Other demonstrations from the active minds of the emergent culture. Version>02 is an exploration of our digital commons and an opportunity to meet those who tend to its gardens, fences, and pathways. It is an investigation into maintaining, expanding and designing the commons, while ensuring the continuation of shared resources and information in all facets of communications. We are looking for works to fit within these areas: SCREEN VERSION: A festival of video works that will explore the issues surrounding the notion of the digital commons and/or show innovative use of video/filmmaking technologies. There will be an audience choice award for each short program of the fest.. Version>02 will showcase work from all genres (including live action, animation or any combination in between, narrative, documentary, experimental and/or design-oriented). Entries can be shot or created in any format (film, analog/digital video, animation etc.) Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2002. *Due to the high volume of submissions, we cannot guarantee that your tape will be returned, send us a SASE if you want your tape returned. Submit a copy of your work in NTSC, Beta Sp, Mini-DV or VHS) NET VERSION: Net art, audio art, and net cinema will be represented on the Version web platform. We are seeking works that comment or examine the Version>02 themes. Deadline for submissions: March 14, 2002. VERSION LAB: The lab will feature a second stage for performers, workshops and presentations, and viewing stations to view interactive or web art. Deadline for submissions: March 14, 2002. PRINT VERSION: Lumpen magazine will publish a special Version>02 magazine of radical and critical texts on the issues surrounding the ideas of a Digital Commons. http://www.lumpen.com Deadline for submissions: March 14, 2002. 500-2000 words Select Magazine will feature works and interviews with artists participating at Version>02. Original works, videos, designs, music accepted for possible inclusion. http://www.select-media.com Deadline for materials: March 1, 2002. PROJECT VERSION: Includes site-specific and off site projects to be exhibited or unveiled during the festival, including installations. Deadline for proposals: March 1, 2002. There is no funding available for projects or proposals. All submission inquiries: submissions@select-media.com or mail work to: Version>02 C/o Ed Mar 960 w 31st st Chicago il 60608 U$A Some help.. COMMONS: A commons is a place, a real physical space or a more ephemeral information space, that is not privately owned. Natural commons include the oceans and the atmosphere. Garrett Hardin's famous essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" (Science 162:1243, 1968) argued that such commons would inevitably be degraded and used up - like a village commons where everyone would feed their livestock until there was no grass remaining. Information commons hold the shared history of our cultures, such as myths and folksongs. Information commons are unique, because as ideas are taken from them to provide inspiration, they are not used up. Those ideas remain for the use of future generations of creators. ---- PANELS:: Symposium Themes during Version>02 Public>Version: The enormous impact that the worldwide digital communication infrastructure has had on the way we access and act upon information has been a favorite subject of pundits of all persuasion. Version>02 hopes to focus the lens on this issue in a series of symposia that examine media access and control from the perspective of the media producers themselves. The concentration of media conglomerates after the recent merger and acquisition spree of the dot com boom and its impact on independent news and creative media groups will be examined. Version>02 will also feature groups that are using the multi-media tools presented by this communication revolution to invigorate democratic involvement in issues of daily and global concern. A tour of the songs, stories, community review and engaged democracy on the digital commons. Features: Tactical_Media>Version Alt.Media>Version DotCom>Version (maybe) __________________________________________________________________ Display>Version: Version>02 tours the digital commons to engage with those who use the tools and language there to create situations and pieces that map our dreams, fears and ways of understanding ourselves. The conversations that we have historically had about who we are as people, how our relationship to community is formed and develops, has often found itıs best expressions from the artists of the community. The ability to present, through works, a vast personal/cultural dialogue in a few brush/mouse strokes, a series of plotted pixels, or manipulated sine waves is reviewed to examine how we craft the language of culture, self, finality and the infinite. Features: Display>Version User>Version ________________________________________________________________________ Version>Control The easiest and most tangible expression of the digital commons is the internet. Since itıs infancy as a non-proprietary protocol for sharing research papers across phone lines it has bloomed into a near limitless cornucopia of affinity groups, financial management systems, information gathering and representational paradigms. As the opportunities for sharing and learning grow, so do concerns of loss of privacy, monopolization of information, issues of access and concentrations of power beyond the grasp of democratic review. Version>02 looks at the delicate balance between security and freedom on the digital commons with the architects, the cause champions and monkey-wrenchers from both sides of the digital divide. Features: Version>Control- Sub>Version _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold