Just a reminder that this closes today - let's call it early tomorrow
morning before I get around to checking my email...
(and though I didn't think to point this out in the original mail, we
are looking for projects that have some connection / relationship with
New Zealand...)
Call for Projects: Electrosmog International Festival for Sustainable
Immobility
March 18-20, 2010
Deadline Feburary 5 2010
Dear ADA
As part of Aotearoa Digital Arts' participation in the electrosmog
festival, we invite you to submit plans for projects that engage with
one or more of the festival's themes (listed below).
The projects can take any appropriate form: distributed, networked,
self-contained, globally participatory, localised, mobile, immobile,
object-based, immaterial, grandiose, self-effacing, high-tech, low-
tech, strategic, tactical, audio, visual, tactile...
The projects need to be carried out on or before the weekend of March
18-20 2010, and able to be documented online on or before the end of
the festival (for international appreciation).
We (the ADA Trust) have a small amount of money available as seed
funding for a small number of projects for the festival, so if you
would like to propose something please send me the following details
by February 5 2010:
- A brief description of the project and how it responds to one or
more of the Electrosmog themes
- A brief description of the participants involved / required (and how
you will locate participants if you need to)
- A list of technical and other requirements, indicating what you have
access to, and what still needs to be sourced (and how you will source
things)
- A budget outline indicating outstanding costs
Basically we need to know what you need to make it happen, and an
indication of how realistic it is!
We will inform successful applicants by Feb 12, leaving 5 weeks to
realise the project in time for the festival.
Send project applications and any questions etc to me: [email protected]
Festival themes and details of the global festival are below - we'll
announce more of what will happen here in NZ in the next couple of
weeks.
(also the electrosmog design competition announced on the list a few
weeks ago is accepting submissions until Feb 15: http://electrosmogblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/electrosmog-international-design-competition/)
best
zita
Themes explored during the festival include:
- Global Views on the Crisis of Mobility
- The Promise of Ubiquity: Being everywhere at once, while staying home
- Designing for Immobility
- The Changing Path of Food to our Kitchen Table: Food and Global
Mobility
- Do-It-Yourself Telematics: Technologies for everybody else
- Aesthetics of Distributed Space
- ElectroSmog is Good for You!
- Tyrannies of the Real-Time
- Going Slow: Private Agency Towards a Sustainable Immobility
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ElectroSmog
International Festival for Sustainable Immobility
Amsterdam / New York / Madrid / Helsinki / Riga / London / Banff /
New Zealand / Munich / & on-lIne
March 18 – 20, 2010
www.electrosmogfestival.net
About the Festival:
ElectroSmog is a new festival that explores the concept ‘Sustainable
Immobility’ in theory and practice. Sustainable Immobility is first of
all a critique of the growing global crisis of mobility. Current forms
of hyper-mobility of people and products in travel and transport are
ecologically increasingly unsustainable. The will to slow down,
however, seems thoroughly absent. The economic crisis may have
temporarily slowed matters down, long term projections still point
towards exponential growth of worldwide mobility and exploding energy
needs. Alternatives for the current state of hyper-mobility need to
be designed urgently.
The exploration of Sustainable Immobility is a quest for a lifestyle
less determined by speed and constant mobility. A lifestyle that
celebrates stronger links to local cultures, while at the same time
deepening our connections to others across any geographical divide by
means of new communication technologies, instead of physical travel.
The ElectroSmog festival will engage one of the main promises
information age: that communication technologies can replace the need
for physical mobility and thereby contribute directly to ecological
stability. Our increased tele-connections would lead to a more
rewarding deep local lifestyle (homework in the electronic cottage)
and to richer connected experiences with the rest of the world (the
global village). While these promises have existed since the dawn of
the information age, they were never fully realised. The expanding
mobility and energy crisis requires us, however, to re-examine these
promises and find out how to turn them into viable life-style choices.
ElectroSmog will not take the underlying premises of the information
age for granted. We want to ask questions such as:
Are increased electronic connections truly more energy efficient and
ecologically sustainable?
Do they lead to new forms of electromagnetic pollution (electrosmog)?
How can the revitalisation of the local be combined with a responsible
global consciousness?
How can remote connections become a truly rewarding experience in and
of themselves?
Technology alone is never the answer. We are looking for both
technological and non-technological solutions to the central question
of the festival: How can a sustainably immobile way of life be achieved?
Bringing Together a Broad Coalition:
The ElectroSmog festival brings together a broad coalition of
designers, environmentalists, urban and spatial planners,
technologists, artists, theorists, and engaged and concerned citizens,
to explore and ‘design’ sustainable immobility.
ElectroSmog is a truly international festival, with everything you
might expect: international debates and discussions, performances, art
projects, exhibits, site specific projects, screenings, a design
competition, and more. ElectroSmog stakes its claim for a radical
break with the current systems of hyper-mobility not simply by
discussing the issue, but by actually implementing it.
No Travel Allowed!
Connecting the Local Off-Line with the International On-Line:
The very concept of an international festival and its traditional
conventions has been rethought and redesigned from the ground up. This
has lead us to a few basic ground rules that will apply for all
festival events:
- No presenter will travel beyond their local or regional boundaries
to participate in this event.
- All festival events will always take place in at least two locations
connected in real-time.
- A crucial dimension of the festival will be its on-line presence,
where audiences from basically anywhere with an internet connection
can follow events on-line, join in discussions and debates, visit
virtual theatres in metaverses such as second life, and contribute to
the program.
A network of accomplished cultural and new media centres, labs,
theatres and other public venues work together to create the local
‘hubs’ that will inter-connect on-line for the festival.
Beyond the Broadband Enclaves:
ElectroSmog acknowledges from the start that bandwidth is not equally
distributed across and within societies. Therefore remote connection
to lower bandwidth spaces, do-it-yourself telematics, and information
technologies for the majority world will be one the central concerns
the festival will address.
Themes explored during the festival include:
- Global Views on the Crisis of Mobility
- The Promise of Ubiquity: Being everywhere at once, while staying home
- Designing for Immobility
- The Changing Path of Food to our Kitchen Table: Food and Global
Mobility
- Do-It-Yourself Telematics: Technologies for everybody else
- Aesthetics of Distributed Space
- ElectroSmog is Good for You!
- Tyrannies of the Real-Time
- Going Slow: Private Agency Towards a Sustainable Immobility
The preliminary festival program will be published on February 1st.
Updates on festival preparations and news will be published at the
festival news-blog and website at:
www.electrosmogfestival.net
International Design Competition
ElectroSmog has initiated its own design competition for young
designers, artists, students, and professionals to come up with design
scenario’s, life-style proposals, prototypes or demo-designs for
sustainable immobility.
The competition invites proposals, scenario studies, demos, prototypes
or other innovative ideas to in response to the question: How can we
design sustainable immobility?
The winner will be awarded eternal fame and a fully equipped
residency, generously hosted by the Banff New Media Institute, to
execute her or his ideas.
For details please refer to:
http://electrosmogblog.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/electrosmog-international-design-competition/
Technology Transfer and Content Follow-up:
ElectroSmog will make extensive use of existing and open source
technologies that will be integrated in a re-useable web environment,
developed in collaboration with the Cool Mediators Foundation and De
Balie in Amsterdam.
The technical processes will be documented in a post-festival
documentation workshop organised with the innovative Floss Manuals
organisation, resulting in a freely downloadable manual and a print on
demand publication available from the Floss Manuals website.
The outcomes of the discussions, debates and theoretical seminars will
lead to an international follow-up publication, currently under
negotiation and planned for the Fall of 2010.
ElectroSmog Partner Organisations
De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics, Amsterdam
ADA – Aotearoa Digital Arts Network, New Zealand.
Eyebeam – Art + Technology Center, New York.
Banff New Media Institute, Banff.
Medialab Prado, Madrid.
RIXC – Centre for New Media Culture, Riga.
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
m-cult- centre for new media culture, Helsinki.
REFRAMES, Munich
Hivos – Humanist Institute for development Cooperation, The Netherlands.
Floss Manuals – Free Manuals for Free Software, (international network).
Engage! Tactical Media, Utrecht.
Cool Mediators Foundation, Amsterdam.
Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
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