[spectre] (fwd) Call: transitio_mx festival, october 2009, mexico city

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:40:56 -0500
Subject: "Re: pdf Centro multimedia, México"
From: Cuauhtémoc Sentíes <cuautecno at gmail.com>

http://transitiomx.net


Call for submissions

In order to support, acknowledge, and promote 
current research and production in new media art, 
the Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes 
(CONACULTA) through its Centro Multimedia of the 
Centro Nacional de las Artes, calls the local and 
international artistic community to the Third New 
Media and Art Contest which will take place in 
the New Media and Art Video International 
Festival.

The contest is open to any individual, group and 
association engaged in the production of artwork 
created with new media technologies, including 
video art, sound art, net-art, installation, 
composition, performance and related 
disciplines.The Third New Media and Art Contest, 
Autonomies of disagreement, provides a setting of 
located practices, where disagreement allows for 
dialogue and exchange in the realms of local and 
international new media art. This international 
contest is concerned with acknowledging those 
distinct technological displacements and art's 
current status, bearing a particular emphasis on 
those artworks whose technological innovations 
and contributions are supported by means that can 
be used for creation, stressing above all a 
critical perspective.

This international contest is concerned with 
acknowledging those distinct technological 
displacements and art's current status, bearing a 
particular emphasis on those artworks whose 
technological innovations and contributions are 
conceived through creative means. The following 
categories are thus open:"


#1Residual topography

This category seeks to reveal the discourses 
pronounced by means of obsolete technology 
(electronic and digital) and those articulated 
when contrasting local technologies with high 
technology appropriations. It is open for 
installation; interactive, immersed or sound 
environments; robotic art; hardware hacking; 
circuit bending; physical computing; site 
intervention; or any other related disciplines. A 
single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty 
thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the 
honorable mentions granted.


#2Unusual displacements: the scope of the moving images

In order to analyze the moving images 
technological reconfigurations (and/or its 
possibilities) and consider its unusual 
territories, this category is intended to welcome 
artworks that use moving images in any of its 
modalities, be it lineal presentation or 
interaction: single channel video, 16mm, live 
cinema, Vj´s, videogame, mobile video, 
interactive animation, augmented reality, or any 
other related disciplines. A single prize will be 
awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican 
pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable 
mentions granted.


#3Dissident territories: the emergence of technology

In order to explore technological developments 
that differ from industrial ones, this category 
looks for research and technology development 
projects who seek for innovations in the use of 
digital tools and electronic circuits with 
expressive and experimental means: free hardware 
and software, bioethical technology, gadget 
development, applications, devices or any other 
related disciplines. A single prize will be 
awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican 
pesos). The Jury will decide the honorable 
mentions granted.


#4Concealed order: viral construction of web contents

This category will welcome those works whose 
poetics distinguish or surpass conceptions 
regarding mobile interfaces and information 
networks. Those that bear important contributions 
on distribution, expression and collaboration 
will be more privileged: internet, bluetooth, 
GPS, radiofrequency, mobile telephony, infrareds 
or any other related disciplines. A single prize 
will be awarded worth $35,000 (Thirty five 
thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the 
honorable mentions granted.


National category

#5Prize for creative young adults: potential talents

This award is directed to people excelling in 
creative production involving the use of 
electronic and digital media in Mexico. The prize 
seeks to promote and foster creativeness among 
college undergraduates, self-taught people, and 
young artists primarily interested in the use of 
technology with an emphasis on art-oriented 
discourses. Only Mexican citizens (residing in 
Mexico) aged 18-25 up to the application deadline 
are eligible to participate. Desired content 
includes but is not limited to, computer-produced 
works such as: digital graphics, animation, 
sound, hardware and software applications, 
videogames, websites, or other related materials.
A single prize will be awarded worth $20,000 
(Twenty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will 
decide the honorable mentions granted.


Information

Centro Nacional de las Artes
Centro Multimedia
Avenida Río Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club,
C. P. 04220, Coyoacán, México, D. F.

Ana Villa
Tel. (+52-55) 41 55 00 00 Ext. 1207: concurso03 at transitiomx.net
From 10:00 to 15:00 hrs.