Experimenta New Visions Commissions 2006
Call for applications
For the 2007 exhibition Experimenta Play, Experimenta is commissioning new interactive works that allow the audience to play, and be played upon.
Up to $6,000 per project is available for emerging and mid-career Australian artists to create new interactive media art works for an exhibition of Australian and international media artworks to be launched in Melbourne in September 2007.
Extending ‘play’ beyond the realm of games, Experimenta is looking to commission works that have humorous and unexpected outcomes, involve an element of chance, toy with preconceptions and assumptions, provide a journey or an opportunity for discovery. Within this playfulness lies the potential for deviousness, trickery, teasing, surprise, humour, inversion/subversion and delight. What are the possibilities for playful new media artworks? How can we play with technology to create new experiences?
Sources of inspiration might come from traditional narratives, labyrinths, puzzles, everyday environments, re-imagined objects or activities, re-purposed toys. The commissions are for interactive media artworks that can be: audio/visual, installations that play with scale and perspective, immersive environments or small, intimate and object based.
Please visit www.experimenta.org to download the Guidelines and Application Form. Contact Emma McRae, Experimenta’s Curatorial and Project Coordinator to discuss your projects. emma@experimenta.org
There is no cost to apply and applicants need not be members of Experimenta Media Arts.
The closing date for applications is Friday 21 July 2006
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Experimenta is supported by the Australia Council, Australian Film Commission, Film Victoria, Arts Victoria, The City of Melbourne and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory governments.
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PUSHING BOUNDARIES – MELBOURNE FRINGE CHALLENGES ARTISTS ACROSS VICTORIA
Melbourne Fringe is actively encouraging artists from outside Melbourne’s metropolitan area to participate in the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival - Victoria’s largest annual celebration of independent arts.
Through its new initiative, Fringe Without Boundaries, the festival is challenging artists, venues and councils throughout Victoria to consider the essence of Melbourne Fringe – new ideas celebrating creativity and artistic expression – and to present works as part of this major event in their local community.
Melbourne Fringe Festival is completely Open Access - any artists can participate either in their local area, or in the city of Melbourne. Artists should contact Melbourne Fringe and the cultural services division of their local Council to flag interest, learn more about registering an event and find out about other Fringe Without Boundaries activities in their city.
Registrations for the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival open on 29 May and close on 16 June. To find out more about registering your event visit
www.melbournefringe.com.au for free access to resources and helpful information.
BIENNALE of ELECTRONIC ARTS PERTH
ANNOUNCEMENT
dear colleagues, please kindly distribute to relevant forums
and groups of interest. apologies for any accidental cross-postings.
CALL FOR PAPERS
perthDAC 2007 The Future of Digital Media Culture
7th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference
15 -18th September 2007, Perth, Australia
http://www.beap.org/dac
KEYWORDS:
computer games, hypertext theory and literature, new media
narrative, streaming media, interactive and networked performance, digital
aesthetics, interactive cinema, theory, art, bio-art, nano-art, augmented
reality, cyberculture, electronic fiction, electronic music, electronic art,
games culture, games system design, games theory, interactive architecture,
cinema and video, MOOs, MUDs, RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
ABOUT perthDAC
perthDAC is the seventh iteration of Digital Arts and Culture. DAC was the
first conference to attract and present the work of researchers,
practitioners and artists working across the field of digital arts,
cultures, aesthetics and design.
In September 2007, DAC will be hosted as the key international conference in
the Public Program of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) in
Perth, Australia. BEAP celebrates and critiques new and novel technologies
(digital, bio, nano, other) by showcasing artworks made with, or that are
about, new technologies. perthDAC's conference program will be closely
inter-woven with BEAP's exhibitions.
perthDAC's academic program is being developed with the close co-operation
and support of the fibreculture forum, who will also be active on the
perthDAC conference steering committee.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are sought for PerthDAC 2007 that will illuminate both the near and
long term Future of Digital Media Culture. Papers which present research
outcomes, track trends or developments, describe case studies or works in
progress, are speculative projection, challenge existing paradigms or record
a history, are all welcome. Submissions are encouraged from any
professional, craft or scholarly field that relates to communications
art/design, cultural expression, practice and aesthetics, and the technical
means by which they are enabled.
perthDAC 2007 accepts submissions from fields such as the humanities, social
sciences, human-computer interaction and computer science studies, as well
as those working both practically and theoretically in specific areas such
as: digital/interactive art, digital/electronic literature, game studies,
online communities, new media studies, affective computing, experience
design, virtual environment design, etc.
Topics of interests may include, but are not limited to, computer games,
hypertext theory and literature, new media narrative, streaming media,
interactive and networked performance, digital aesthetics, interactive
cinema, theory, art, bio-art, nano-art, augmented reality, cyberculture,
electronic fiction, electronic music, electronic art, games culture, games
system design, games theory, interactive architecture, cinema and video,
MOOs, MUDs, RPG, virtual reality, virtual worlds.
Artists, early career scholars and PhD students are particularly encouraged
to submit.
All abstracts and then full papers will be double blind peer reviewed by an
international panel, and will be published in the proceedings. Some papers
will be published as a special themed journal edition.
Dates for the submission of 500 word abstracts and then full papers are:
Abstracts: 14th August 2006
Full papers: 4th December 2006
See the perthDAC website ³method² page for more details on the abstracts,
papers and presentations process.
perthDAC website http://www.beap.org/dac
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