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Digital Zoo - OPEN CALL Furtherfield Commission interactive mobile artwork.

Deadline 5pm 6 January 2014

http://furtherfield.org/blog/furtherfield/furtherfield-open-call-digital-zoo-commission

Commission Award: £2,000

Deadline 5pm 6 January 2014

Launch: 11 February 2014

We are commissioning a new interactive mobile artwork to feature in 
Digital Zoo, an art exhibition that will tour to 6 shopping centres 
across the UK in 2014.

In this exhibition shoppers will be invited to experience the wonders, 
delights and fascinations of contemporary life in the “world wild web” - 
through art installations, projections and workshops.

The commission will be a new or existing work that engages people 
through their mobile phones – taking the everyday activities and 
environments of the different shopping centres as their context and 
playground.

The commissioned work will need to have a distinctive character in each 
different location.
We are interested in critical and playful works that change shoppers 
normal experience by connecting them with each other in unusual ways in 
their natural habitat – momentarily or for ever.

The work may take the form of an app, a game, an interactive sms, a 
treasure hunt, citizen documentary or choreography, psychogeography or 
ethology. It should work well across all mobile devices to enable the 
widest possible participation and would ideally include some interface 
that makes visible the live interaction.

Why Digital Zoo?
A trip to the zoo is still considered a good day out for all the family- 
its unique mix of experiences and encounters- surprising, smelly, tragic 
and beautiful.

By exchanging personal information with increasing frequency in every 
moment, on the move, we perform our daily digital lives in public for 
each other, as if in a public zoo. We are the animals and the visitors, 
the hunters, trackers, observers, naturalists, zoo-keepers, and 
educators and pundits.


The social effects of this collective public performance are still 
unknown. Digital Zoo invites everyone to take a few moments out from 
their shopping to marvel at the new ecology of human and digital 
behaviours as they come into existence.

Digital Zoo is curated and produced in partnership with CultureCode and 
Land Securities.
Digital Zoo is supported by Arts Council England through the Strategic 
Touring Funding Scheme.

More about the Digital Zoo Touring Show

Commission Award: £2,000

Key dates
Deadline for application: Monday 6 January 2014, 5pm
Announcement: Monday 13 January 2014
Production period: 15 January – 10 February 2014
Delivery: 11 February 2014
Launch: 13 February 2014
Public opening: 14 February 2014

The Application Process

Please send an application in the form of a single PDF document to include:
- a project outline (600 words max), describing the artwork you would 
like to deliver, your approach and how it addresses the touring 
exhibitions themes.

- a CV with selected links to interactive works and relevant previous 
experience.
- timeline: briefly describe how you will ensure that the project is 
delivered on time
- budget: include a breakdown of all expected costs
- maintenance plan/arrangements

Send the application electronically to Alessandra Scapin at 
aleATfurtherfield.org by 5pm on Monday 06 January 2014.

Please enter 'Digital Zoo commission' in subject header.

If you have any questions please contact Alessandra Scapin by email. 
Applicants will be notified about the success of their proposal by 
Monday 13 January 2014. Upon entering your proposal you will receive a 
confirmation email. Sorry but we will not be able to offer any feedback 
to unsuccessful applications.