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Sunday, January 26, 2003
Call for submissions for media art and cyberart.
INTERRUPT
The theme of the interrupt describes a perspective where technology is a
tool - it is the system, the action, the switch, from which the event
occurs. The interrupt is the occurrence where technology becomes visible
only to then become invisible again, leaving after the change does or does not
happen. From the tool perspective, the technology itself is not the object,
rather it is a starting point. An interrupt from a technological perspective is
a system call, when attention is diverted to an interaction by a user,
triggered by a process or embedded within a structured programme.
Focusing on the tool-driven (not tool) perspective of technologically
enhanced/entrenched cyberart and media art, technology becomes invisible in so
far it is an underlying set of instructions, a conceptual potential, or the
self-perpetuating generative meme imbedded in the work either via propogation
(through access/copying/linking) or collaboration
(interactivity/participation/distribution). However it is also visible as a
means of transport, it trafficks its content, its narrative, its footprint, and
then at times emerges as the content McLuhanesque style. The blurring of the
boundary of visible and invisible, becomes a site of tension for the technology
and the art. The technology as tool also creates the opportunity for the
blurring of other boundaries, allowing for the manipulation of hybrids of
expression , issues and content.
The terms media art and cyberart above allow for a wide spectrum of
expressions that create a disjuncture through technological intervention.
The Singapore Art Museum cyberart & media art gallery welcomes submissions of
existing media and cyberart works, and proposals of new projects, reflecting on
the theme of the interrupt, for consideration.
Call for submissions and proposals
Submission of existing cyberart and media art works and new proposals
referencing and engaging in technologies, the politics of aesthetics in
technology, code, hacktivism, networks and communities, technology
economies, utopian dreams, multiuser environments and micro geographies,
physical/virtual switching, would be considered for presentation at the
gallery. Proposals of existing and new works may be standalone or within
the framework of an installation.
Work may be in the formats of:
Digital art, web art (HTML, Gif, JPEG)
Video or Animation (DVD, Video, Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, MPEG)
Software & interactive programmes (including network/internet works)
Audio broadcasts and installations (MP3, Real Audio)
Combinations of the above.
For submissions and queries, email to: nhb_cyberart@n... (email
attachments should not exceed 2MB)
Or mail to us at: Cyberart & Media (Programmes Division), Singapore Art
Museum, 71 Bras Basah Road, Singapore 189555.
Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2003
Terms and conditions:
All proposals and submissions must be submitted in English and include:
- a description of the content / artist statement
- technology requirements if any
- the artist biography
- resume of previous projects
- existing works submitted should be in the ownership of the artist, and
list presentation in previous exhibitions if any
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