[spectre] [fwd] OUT VIDEO call - 3-d International video-art festival in public spaces

[Darko Fritz]

www.artpolitika.ru/outvideo

E-mail:     arsush at gmail.com
             arseny_s at hotbox.ru
             outvideo at pochta.ru
             arseny at artpolitika.ru
Tel./fax    +7 (343) 374 73 18

Art in Pro Creative group
Kominterna 20 app. 43
Yekaterinburg
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Organizers & festival team are Invite artists working with video,  
animation
and new media to participate in the project:

3-d International video-art festival in public spaces
Festival dates, June 5 - July 5, 2006

Festival place Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh, Irkutsk,
Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Riazan', Samara, Sochi,  
Ufa,
Yaroslavl', Yekaterinburg and Surgut [Russia]


The idea of the festival is to integrate contemporary video art into the
public spaces.

International Festival of Videoart in public spaces “OUT VIDEO ‘06” is  
the
only one around the world shown on large-sized LED video screens within  
the
urban environment. For two years it was held in Yekaterinburg (in
2004-2005). In 2006 “OUT VIDEO” is for the first time emerging the
All-Russian stage and is to be demonstrated in 16 cities by the outdoor
video network consisting of 39 large screens. This festival aims at
full-scale integration of actual videoart into the urban environment and
promotion of public art strategies in Russia.

Within the framework of the festival, the programme includes lectures,
workshops, presentations and round tables of experts from Belgium,  
Germany,
Great Britain, Netherlands, France, Russia, Serbia. These activities are
intended to share experience and update possibilities and problems of
interaction between actual art and urban electronic media, aspects of  
actual
art integration into general audience and topical art practices of this
field.

The festival public screenings will happen on outdoor video screens  
networks
of CityVision & "IgRek Cinema" companies, 39 city screens located in the
most busy spots. Selected video art works will be shown during one month
each day in the pauses between commercial blocks, altogether around 240
screenings per day on each screen.

There are only two formal requirements to video works: LENGTH - 30  
SECONDS,
NO SOUND.

The festival will end with two nights video screenings of the entire
festival program on all 39 city screens.

The closing ceremony will include presentation of the best works in a  
cinema
theaters.


Awards:
Authors whose works will be chosen for day program screenings on the  
outdoor
video screens network will receive by mail special edition of DVD  
catalogue
with registration of translation theirs works on outdoor video screens
network in “documentation” section & CD with photo & video registration
files ready to use
After the end of the festival all participants will receive the  
festival DVD
catalogue by mail.

Conditions
The amount of the applications from one participant is not circumscribed
(please see ENTRY FORM section to download application form & technical
guidlines).
Only one work from one author can be selected for public outdoor  
screening
in day program.

All necessary information and application forms you can receive  also by
e-mail outvideo (a) pochta . ru or by telephone/fax +7 (343) 374 73 18
Contact person: Arseny Sergeyev – curator of festival




Deadline for works sent via post
May 15, 2006 (‘sent‘ postmarked)
Deadline for works sent via fast post [DHL, UPS, City Express etc]
May 24, 2006 ("sent" postmarked)
Deadline for works sent via e-mail & FTP
May 31, 2006