Call for Submissions. Narrative Lab 2008 Screening Programme
Event: The Av Social Late at the Tate Britain
Event Date: Friday 4th April 2008
Submission Deadline: February 22nd 2008
Summary
The narrative lab is a creative and conceptual lab interested in
exploring all forms of storytelling and narrative within VJing and
Audiovisual performance/production. Over the past five years we have
presented symposium events, lectures, performances and VJ events
across Europe and the UK and we are honoured to be presented the
opportunity to screen a programme of work at the next AV Social event
being held at the Tate Britain in London.
VJs have been telling stories on the video-screen for many years now,
but in the world of narrative and VJing, there is much to explore!
The world of digital media is changing, and VJing is being constantly
redefined in terms of technical development, people’s awareness and
sensitivity to what’s on the screen. We find that narrative is a way
of mediating images and their meaning and so wish to make use of its
application to structure the wider issues of development in the
field. As a part of our continuing research we wish to survey and
document examples of these techniques in the field of VJing.
Further info: www.nlab.org.uk
Submission Requirements:
Brief: We are seeking VJ and Audiovisual works that in some way
respond to the idea of narrative and storytelling in performance,
whether it conforms to traditional storytelling models, subverts
narrative and aims to use more hybrid approaches, or seeks to
intentionally deny it all-together. Submitted work maybe produced in
the studio or be recorded from a live performance.
Duration: Submitted works should be between no longer than 10 mins in
total duration.
Format: Work may be submitted either on DVD, DV Tape or made
available as a digital download from an FTP server as high Quality
MPEG2 or DV Pal QuickTimes.
Web Submission: Online movies will be accepted for viewing purposes
only on the basis that all final High Quality versions will be
supplied by the 31st of Januray 2008.
Additional: All submitted works should include between 2 and 5 high
quality stills together with a 100-word description about the work
and how it responds to narrative and storytelling in VJing and
Audiovisual performance.
Send Submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 19 Kenilworth Road, London, E3
5RH.
Event Summary:
NE1CO Presents: The Av Social / Late at Tate. Featuring Hiraki Sawa,
Black Out Arts, Bopa, Bruno Tait and The Narrative Lab. Friday 4th
April 2008. The Tate Britain.
As part of the Late at Tate Series of events the audiovisual
collective NE1CO present a very special ambient edition of London's
#1 audiovisual event, the AV Social. Setting up camp amongst the
dramatic backdrop of neo-classical sculptures and renaissance
paintings at the Tate Britain you'll find installations, performances
and screenings from some of Europe's finest VJs and audiovisual
artists. As an ambient soundtrack washes throughout the building your
invited to come and explore both the Tate exhibits and modern works.
Contemporary video artist Hiraki Sawa will be showing his very own
playful and sensitive blend of miniature worlds in domestic
environments, Rod Maclachlan and Jem Noble from Black Out Arts will
be performing a live audiovisual work using live cameras and live
sampling techniques, while Bopa and Bruno Tait present a
collaborative slide and video installation using moving head video
projections. Also featured is a specially curated screening and
presentation by the Narrative Lab, inviting the Editors of the
VJTheory book to show and tell some experimental works alongside
screened material from artists all over Europe including Solu, Visual
Kitchen, Girrafentoast, Ben Sheppee, Visualnaut, Oxygen, ZooZooZoo,
Spark and Lucidhouse.
