:60 Leap Second Festival CALL for WORKS
Leap Second Festival 2016 Open call: Projects and works lasting one second or less. Submission deadline: 24.12.2016 Contact info: leap...@noemata.net The festival takes place New Year's Eve, 31th December 2016 23:59:60 UTC on the extra leap second squeezed in between 2016 and 2017. During this second all the projects and works will be exhibited, performed, and executed. LEAP SECOND FESTIVAL 2016: "JUST A SEC..." - AN UNTIMELY INTERVENTION For the 2016 festival we are looking for works that emphasize a collaborative, experimental, project-based approach that in various ways embed the leap second idea and function as events in themselves. With its awkward and impossible format, the focus of the festival is a questioning of art and its appearance, materiality, objecthood, phenomenology, or their negations or impossibilities, leading to an exploration of media in search of itself as an appearing/disappearing form or questioning/rejecting it. How can an artistic practice catch/reflect/express such a precarious situation, an uncertain non-event, an immaterial/virtual moment, an untimely, unsuitable intervention? And how can it challenge exhibition models and force new ways of disseminating works? We're also looking for projects and works exploring deviation, glitch, and wobble; interventions in and hacking of the machination of time; reality check and celebration of natural cycles alining systemic/conceptual cycles; precarity as an unpredictable and insecure condition of a technology of time and production affecting material/physical and social/psychological welfare; a marginal and intermittent existence, short and discontinuous, autonomous and freely self-inserted/-exploited/-realized/-precarizated; untimely art, out of time, out of order, out of line, a defiant leap. ABOUT The Leap Second Festival is a distributed, decentralized event for art, technology and precarity, coordinated on the net. This is the third festival in the series. The festival is held on leap seconds announced by IERS (International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service). The previous festivals in 2015 and 2012 saw more than 100 works worldwide, from split-second videos, audio and musical works, to conceptual- and instructional art, network- and timespecific performances, and sculpture. The festivals have support from the Arts Council Norway. The Leap Second Festival 2012 and 2015 catalogues are available at http://noemata.net/leapsec26/ and http://noemata.net/leapsec/ Deadline submission: 24.12.2016 Leap Second Festival 2016: 31th December 23:59:60 - 1st January 2017 00:00:00 (UTC) Contact/Submit proposal: leap...@noemata.net ORGANIZERS Ars Publica/noemata - http://www.noemata.net BrowserBased group - http://www.browserbased.org [Link to this call: http://noemata.net/leapsec/2016/ - http://www.browserbased.org/leap-second-festival-2016/ ]
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