[spectre] Mobile Exposure 2006 Call for Works

[Stephanie Martz]

Mobile Exposure
http://www.microcinema.com/index/mobile2006 

An international touring exhibition of moving image art made by and for
mobile devices
Presented by Microcinema International
Curators: Patrick Lichty and Microcinema International
Judges: Addictive TV (United Kingdom)
Excerpts to premiere at San Francisco International Film Festival
Deadline: Received by March 31, 2006
Screenings: worldwide
Grand Prize: Panasonic AG-DVX100A 1/3" 3-CCD 24P/30P/60i DV Cinema Camera
Fees: US$5
More information write: submissions at microcinema.com
Online call at www.microcinema.com/index/mobile2006

TWO SCREENING PROGRAMS

-Mobile Exposure 2006 (moving images made by mobile devices)
-Mobile Exposure 2006 Video Ringtone Festival (on-line/on-mobile device)

Mobile phones, PDA's, i-pods, and other hand-held devices have already
gained widespread acceptance as tools to capture as well as experience
music and photographs. Now these devices are being further designed and
equipped with video capabilities - both for viewing as well as
capturing. What are the potentials of the handheld device as a cinematic
tool for expression, activism, experimentation, and exhibition? With the
recent announcement of the i-pod video device and the Emmy Awards
creation of a new mobile film category, the advancement of this medium
is now a foregone conclusion...the train has left the station that is
for sure, but on what track is it heading?

How will viewing images on the small screen change our perception of the
moving image arts? How will the moving image arts change to present
works on a hand-held device? These are some of the questions that Mobile
Exposure 2006 hopes to address.

CONCEPT Mobile Exposure 2006 is looking for works that address mobile
culture and/or are made WITH or to be EXHIBITED ON mobile/handheld devices.
Our criteria are very broad; reflect on the mobile and locative through
the medium or the concept. We encourage hybrid works as well (for
example: imagery made with hand-helds and then post produced, mixed with
sound in a classic filmmaking procedure).

CALL FOR WORKS The Mobile Exposure 2006 handheld moving image program is
an exploration of the potentials of mobile video and culture.
Practitioners are invited to submit all genres of work, less than 15
minutes in length. Video Ringtones should be 2 minutes or less in length.

WHAT WE WANT: We are looking for two types of works:

Made for viewing on a mobile device and
Made WITH a mobile device for viewing on the big screen (or little
screen too if possible).

We are looking for works made using cell phones, obsolete video cameras,
wrist cams, toy (NON-vhs/dv/hi-8) video cameras, PDA's, and even small
cameras that create mpg moving images. Please do not send any material
using conventional video cameras unless it specifically relates to
mobile culture.
For films destined FOR the small screens of hand-held devices, any
method of filmmaking is acceptable.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES and CHECKLIST see our Submission FAQ
see the Submission Checklist at www.microcinema.com/index/checklist

You must fill out the on-line form found here: Submission Form at
www.microcinema.com/submissionform.php (for all calls).
FEES: US$5.00 payable by check, money or credit card/Paypal online.
Please send check with submission or PAY ONLINE at
www.microcinema.com/index/subpay.

Please send us your screeners on VHS, CD, mini-DV, or DVD, readable on
PC. PAL or NTSC accepted for screeners. DVDs region 1 or 0 only.

For exhibition we will require works on mini-DV (preferred) or
unauthored DVD (mpeg, avi, or mov files only). Mini-DV PAL or NTSC OK.
Unauthored data files must be in NTSC. We may also accept some video
ringtone submissions via upload. DVDs region 1 or 0 only.

Must be 15 minutes or less, including all titles...NO EXCEPTIONS.
Ringtones 2 minutes or less.

For works destined for the big screen please make sure that frame rates
and screen size are "viewable" (720 x 480 format preferred for NTSC,
analogous for PAL).

A brief synopsis of the work(s) of up to 150 words and a short biography
of the artists of up to 50 words maximum is also requested. Still .jpeg
or .gif (PC formatted) should be included on a CD along with
biographical materials and synopses.

Please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard that we will send back
to you as indication of reception of your film.

ALL SUBMITTED ITEMS (papers, DVDs, tapes, cards, etc) MUST HAVE THE
ARTIST NAME, NAME OF THE WORK, CONTACT, AND WHICH SECTION OF THE
FESTIVAL YOU ARE SUBMMITING TO PRINTED CLEARLY.

Deadline: March 31, 2006 (arrival at the address below)

Please mail all submissions to:
Independent Exposure 2006
c/o Microcinema International
1528 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
USA
+1-415-864-0660
FAX: +1-509-351-1530

Please address all inquiries to:
Stephanie Martz, Associate Curator
submissions at microcinema.com

SCREENINGS - VENUES - AWARDS:

Mobile Exposure 2006 will be comprised of TWO SHOWS - presented in two
screenings and formats:

1. RINGTONES: Online (films for the little screen). Film program will be
available for download to mobile devices
2. On-screen: A traveling theatrical festival

Screenings will be held worldwide

We are pleased to announce our collaboration with the 49th San Francisco
International Film Festival. Mobile Exposure 2006 will premiere at the
Festival as part of a special program devoted to mobile moving images.

Selected artists receive a US$50 honorarium and will be eligible for our
awards program.

Addictive TV to judge Independent Exposure 2006, Curate "best-of",
Panasonic Grand Prize

We are also pleased to announce our collaboration with Panasonic Broadcast.
For our 2006 Independent Exposure season, a grand prize will be awarded
to a filmmaker selected by United Kingdom audiovisual artsts and VJs
ADDICTIVE TV www.addictive.com. The grand prize will be a Panasonic
AG-DVX100A 1/3" 3-CCD 24P/30P/60i DV Cinema Camera. Other prizes will be
announced at a later date.

Addictive TV will curate a "Best of Independent Exposure 2006" which
will then screen in San Francisco in fall of 2006. Addictive TV will
also select a grand prizewinner.

Winners will be selected and notified by September 1, 2006.

TERMS see Full Terms at www.microcinema.com/index/ieterms

Upon acceptance, practitioners will be awarded a $50 honorarium. Artists
will be contacted by Microcinema International regarding the exposure of
works through festival exhibition, online screenings, promotional
materials, and on print media (prints/catalogues) for gallery showings.
All filmmakers agree, when submitting, that they have secured the
necessary rights to screen the works in this touring festival, and that
Microcinema is granted a non-exclusive 3-year license to screen work(s)
at any one of Microcinema's Independent Exposure 2006 or Mobile Exposure
2006 screening tours and Microcinema's on-line festival website as well
as on www.microcinema.com and www.independentexposure.com for
promotional, archival and other non-commercial uses). All artists retain
copyrights.

About Patrick Lichty Lichty is an artist, scholar, and curator in New
Media and technological arts, and is noted for his expertise in arts
using mobile technologies. He is Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Agent
Magazine.

About Addictive TV www.addictive.com

"If there ever was a truly groundbreaking bunch of guys in the VJ world,
it's certainly this lot" said DJ Magazine, voting Addictive TV number
one in their first ever worldwide VJ poll in 2004. The London based
group of DJs, VJs and producers have been championing the art of the VJ
and pushing it into mainstream media for a decade now.

Performing internationally, crisscrossing the art and club worlds,
Addictive TV have played at venues from the Pompidou Centre in Paris and
the roof of the National Theatre in London to Tokyo superclub Ageha and
the UK's Glastonbury Festival. Recent audiovisual performances include
the 2005 Roskilde festival in front 20,000 people. and Sven Vath's
amazing Cocoon Club in Frankfurt, using 25 projectors. And as VJs, in
the past the guys have mixed live visual sets for artists including
Howie B, Andrew Weatherall, Goldie and Fatboy Slim.

On the flipside, producing for television, Addictive TV were the first
to put VJs on TV back in 1998 with their Transambient series for Channel
4 (UK), and in the last five years have produced four seasons of the
ITV1 music series Mixmasters, commissioning over 300 artists worldwide
including many of the best names in electronic music from Miss Kittin
and DJ Spooky, to Plump DJs and Derrick Carter plus a whole host of
international VJs. In 1999, they set up what is acknowledged as the
worlds first VJfocused DVD label, releasing compilation DVD albums
fusing music and visuals; Releases include Audiovisualize, cult classic
in the genre Transambient and the Mixmasters series.

This year, Addictive TV judged the VJ category at the 2005 Diesel UMusic
Awards, the Radio 1/BBC archive Superstar VJs competition and DJ
Magazine's TScan Awards. Also in 2005, the team broke new ground
organising the sellout music and visuals hybrid festival Optronica at
the National Film Theatre and bfi London IMAX cinema; the first festival
dedicated to the audiovisual genre plus the first time the IMAX venue
has been used for live performances in such a way. Currently Addictive
TV are working on the Rapture Riders video mashup for EMI, remixing
Blondie Vs The Doors, for release in November 2005.