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FILE 2004 electronic language international festival
Call for entries
April 12th until June 15th- 2004.
http://www.file.org.br/file2004ins/english/index.htm
FILE 2004 is open for registrations to new media works such as webarts, netarts, artificial life, hypertext, web cam art, computer animation, digital design, tele-conference, virtual reality, interactive films, e-videos, on line robotics and others please visit: http://www.file.org.br/file2004ins/english/index.htm
The FILE SYMPOSIUM 2004 is open for new media theoretical papers, work presentation, performances digital-techno to read the guideline please visit: http://www.file.org.br/file2004ins/english/index.htm
FILE HIPERSONICA 2004 is open for entry works that explore the electronic sonority: electronic music, erudite electronic music, pop electronic music such as techno; drum'n'bass; trance; hardcore techno; break beat and others, biologic music, genetic music, sound installations, performances, dramaturgy music and resonant poetry. More information at: http://www.file.org.br/file2004ins/english/index.htm
FILE-GAMES 2004 is opening for the first time registrations to all the producers and developers (creators) of digital games. FILE-GAMES will be happening simultaneously with FILE 2004, FILE-SYMPOSIUM 2004 and FILE HIPERSONICA. To participate, you must read FILE 2004's guideline at: http://www.file.org.br/file2004ins/english/index.htm
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===CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OF VIDEO WORKS===
Video as Urban Condition: VIDEOpool
Deadline: 7th of May, 2004
===Video as Urban Condition===
… examines the ways in which video has become part of the urban fabric: the omnipresent screen and the watchful eye that inhabits private and public space. Here, video is the ubiquitous equipment of the home, the street and the work place: the tube, the box, the telly, CCTV, info-screen, electronic billboard, in-store advertising, mobile, terrestrial, cable, satellite, pay-per-view, downloadable, for sale, to rent.
Video as Urban Condition http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/
===VIDEOpool===
…is the videotheque attached to the symposium and future touring exhibition. The Pool aims at expanding the range of positions presented in the show and symposium by giving access to related video work. During opening hours, visitors have access to the Pool and viewing facilities (DVD and MiniDV). Work which has been submitted to the Pool will be indexed, documented and promoted online at the project website. The contents are intended to help set the agenda of the symposium and provide concrete points for discussion.
VIDEOpool is online at http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.html
entry form at http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf <http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf>
===Special focus: Urban road movies===
February 2003: the Congestion Charge is introduced in London. The fee applies to all vehicles that drive in the 21 sq kms of central London. Compliance is ensured by a surveillance apparatus that records vehicle registration plates. Every vehicle is monitored over its entire journey through the charging zone. In medieval times, city walls signified to those entering them that they were approaching the centre of political, economic, and religious power. Today’s guardians, closed-circuit TV cameras that peer down from posts on every street corner, ensure that modern citizens are no less aware of this fact.
In 1995, at the Telepolis symposium in Luxemburg, an attempt was made to redefine urbanism for an emerging digital age, in which trade, communication, and information exchange would be increasingly carried out by means of e-commerce, video conferencing, and chat- and newsgroups. Today, media convergence is a reality, but the predicted decline in the physical movement of people has not occurred. The increase in traffic is not just across national boundaries, but also across the economically more significant city borders. Former inhabitants leave older European and American city centres, now turned into lifeless zones of speculation. The influx of people into newer urban centres in Asia and South America is creating mega-cities.
The European city plan is medieval; its nodes of activity are crossroads. The new Asian media cities (attached to Dubai, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur) are growing around an infrastructure of data highways, and their nodes of activity are the access points to these highways. To what extent can electronic media impose or create an urbanism? What kind of urbanism will this be? could this be? Or, will the urban accrete only in the interstices, despite the planners’ best intentions?
Media convergence and the diffusion of digital technology, coupled with increasing anxiety and paranoia in the city, has greatly expanded the realm of video. The telephone conversation, the journal entry, the eyewitness account, the infant’s room, – all have enhanced, supported, substantiated, monitored, or otherwise qualified by the use of “moving” image. Video is most prevalent not in any “pure” form, but in such hybrid manifestations.
This symposium and exhibition will examine the extents to which mediation forms our urban experience, and urban experience influences video culture. We invite work that throw light on the place of video in the city, and of the city in video. Works that situate urban experience around networks of traffic (human, vehicular, or data), or that examine the relationship of newer, developing cities to media, would be of particular interest.
Manu Luksch (march 2004)
[http://www.ambientTV.NET]
===REQUIREMENTS===
Send work and entry form to:
“VIDEO AS URBAN CONDITION”
Manu Luksch
ambient space, Regent studios Unit 76
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
post stamped: 7th of May, 2004
video formats: DVD or MiniDV (pls no VCD or VHS)
form download: http://www.vargas.org.uk/projects/video_as/pool.rtf
inquiries: manu@ambientTV.NET
===EVENTS===
The VIDEOpool will be launched at the symposium end of May 2004, London. The artists will be informed about all subsequent exhibition participations or screenings of VIDEO AS URBAN CONDITION on tour.
===BEHIND THE SCENES===
The project was initiated by Anthony Auerbach in collaboration with architect and filmmaker Clare Gerrard for the ACF Visual Arts Programme. The project is managed by Vargas Organisation, London. The project team consists of Anthony Auerbach (artist, ACF visual arts co-ordinator), Diana Baldon (curator), Manu Luksch (film-maker and media artist, founder ambientTV.NET) and Mo-Ling Chui (assistant).