ISEA 2004, Call for proposals

[anna balint]

ISEA 2004 - 12th International Symposium on Electronic Arts
August 14th - 22nd, 2004

Tallin: Wearable experience - Stockholm: Networked experience -
Helsinki: Wireless experience


New media meets art, science, research, and popular culture at the leading 
international symposium held for the 12th time: ISEA2004 in Stockholm – Tallinn 
– Helsinki. For the first time an event of this scale is being organised 
between three cities in three countries. ISEA has previously taken place in 
Utrecht, Groningen, Sydney, Minneapolis, Helsinki, Montréal, Rotterdam, 
Chicago, Liverpool-Manchester, Paris, and Nagoya.

In the three Baltic cities international participants and local audiences 
attend thematic conferences, exhibitions, live performances, screenings, 
satellite events, concerts and clubs. Many events are also interfaced via 
television, radio, broadband Internet, and mobile networks making them 
available to the widest possible audience.

ISEA2004 kicks off in Helsinki, Finland with a pre-event on electronic music, 
digital sound technology, and sound art in collaboration with Koneisto, the 
largest festival of electronic music in Northern Europe. Both Koneisto festival 
and ISEA2004 pre-event participants board a cruiser ferry, enjoying electronic 
music performances and clubs. The electrified ferry travels to IseStockholm, 
Sweden, for the main launch of ISEA2004. From Stockholm the event continues by 
sea to Tallinn, Estonia, connecting the Nordic with emerging Baltic new media 
cultural scenes. ISEA2004 culminates back in Helsinki.

ISEA2004 will break new ground for new media culture, arts, and research. The 
event travels through new waters as a physical, critical, and creative 
experience. We invite you to propose, to participate, to become part of a new 
floating point in the process of creative new media culture.

Tapio Mäkelä
ISEA2004 programme chair, m-cult, Helsinki


We are currently inviting proposals for projects and papers for the 
exhibitions, conferences and associated programs during ISEA2004. Projects 
might include but not be limited to: workshops; installations, performances or 
events in public spaces; works for exhibition in a gallery; live performance; 
interfaced screenings; games or shared environments; projects which encourage 
remote participation - etc.

Our over all aim for ISEA2004 is to create an event which is thematically and 
critically coherent and provides new insight, so we really encourage you to 
submit proposals which engage in very direct ways with the themes for the 
event. We are also interested in work and ideas which explore the cultural and 
social aspects rather than technological determinants of new media art and 
cultural production.

Please note that ISEA2004 is a forum for artistic, academic, and culturally or 
socially relevant work that has not previously been presented in international 
forums (you may have showed/presented it in your local context).

All submissions are done via our website using a web form and stored into a 
database. This procedure allows us to have the proposals reviewed by 
International Programme Committee (IPC) members. When you make a submission, it 
is recommended to that you choose a theme/city/genre.

All queries are to be made via the main office until your project has  been 
selected into the programme. Once accepted into the programme, you are given a 
local contact e-mail.

All samples of your work must be submitted in a digital format, including sound 
and video. We accept existing web sites as support material, but if they are 
not operational at the time of review, the proposal is rejected. Unless we 
specifically request posted support material, they will not be accepted nor 
returned. We hope you understand our policy, which in the end guarantees that 
all work and support material are reviewed by the geographically diverse 
programme committee. We will also not handle submissions via e-mail: only 
proposals submitted through the web interface http://www.isea2004.net
are valid.

- Socially, critically and ecologically engaging work
- Networked projects that connect several sites
- Projects that bring the creative media to the streets
- Projects that are worn on or inside people
- Context sensitive work in the museums
- Projects that float, dock or sail
- Screen based media as it appears in 2004
- Sea Fair: technological gizmos for ferry travellers and future media 
archaeologists to discover
- Bridges between club scenes and art venues
- Most engaging works from performing arts that engage new media, users, and 
audiences
- Networks to network
 
http://www.isea2004.net
To keep us informed:
ISEA2004
C/o m-cult
P.O.BOX 110
00131 Helsinki

All queries about ISEA Inter Society for the Electronic Arts and its 
membership, please refer to info at isea-web.org