Impakt Online: Call for Proposals, Previous Commission Winners

[Impakt Online]

Impakt Webgallery Update: Friday, Feb 21, 2003

http://www.impakt.nl

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1) Winners of the "Art of the Narrative" Commisssion

2) Call for Proposals: "Out of the Box [Net.Art and the 'Real 
World']" Commission



1) Winners of the "Art of the Narrative" Commisssion

Launch Date: April 1, 2003

---Ramesh Srinivasan: "Village Voice"
---Tamar Schori: "Beadgee"


Impakt is proud to announce the the two winners of the latest net.art 
theme, "Art of the Narrative". This theme was chosen to reflect on 
the new ways in which the internet can be used to tell stories, use 
language and change perceptions. These projects will be launched on 
the Impakt website April 1.

Ramesh Srinivasan's "Village Voice" is an online video database 
filled with stories from the Somali refugee community of Boston, 
Massachusetts. The stories can be accessed by various themes, 
including government & legality, beleifs & religion, cultural 
adaptation and traditional customs. Far from being an ethnographical 
survey, "Village Voice" allows these Somalis to speak for themselves, 
in their own language, about their transition into a new society.

Tamar Schori's "Beadgee" is a whimsical project taking its 
inspiration from a series of drawings made by Alexander Calder for a 
collection of 19th Century nursery rhymes entitled "Three Young Rats 
and other ryhmes". Schori has created a new library of drawings, 
which can be exploded and rearranged by the user. Rearranging the 
drawings also rearranges the nursery rhymes, and a strange language 
game ensues. Users will also have to opportunity to enter both their 
rearranged drawings and new words and phrases into the database for 
others to play with.



2) Call for Proposals: "Out of the Box [Net.Art and the 'Real World']"

Deadline: April 1, 2003

No longer content with pure formalism and self-referentiality, and 
unwilling to be dismissed into the simple catagory of "graphic 
design", net.art is redefining itself in the realm of social critique 
and commentary. The old elements of hyperlink, the embedded images 
and sounds, the database and the live stream all remain in place, as 
do the digital pranks, parasitic spoofs and deliberate 'errors' which 
gave early net.art its timeliness and humour. Their scope, however, 
has been refocused and their use redefined in recent years to a 
razor-sharp critique of technological "progress", globalization, and 
the ever-present machinery of surveillance and control which the 
internet has helped to usher in.

Working from this position, the "Out of the Box" theme for the Impakt 
Web Gallery seeks to examine how technology and the internet manifest 
themselves on the human level by asking such questions as;  where do 
such on-line concepts as navigation, avatar, or algorithm find their 
place in the "real world" outside the computer? And, similarly, how 
can such physical activities such as performance, protest, or love 
maintain their "real-ness" in a virtual environment? In short, we 
seek the point where real life affects the internet,and (more 
importantly) where the internet affects real life.

Impakt will commission two projects for this theme. The accepted 
commissions for this project will be invited to produce a hybrid 
project involving a website and a live, "real-world" intervention 
[performance, action, prank, interface, etc] which will take place 
during the Impakt Festival this coming spring, between June 3 and 10. 
Depending on the submissions we receive, we may invite the accepted 
artists to collaborate on a single project.

Because this is a commission for new works, previously exhibited 
projects will be immediately disqualified. However, as we realize the 
timeframe is somewhat short, we are happy to support projects already 
under development with an eye towards their premiere at the Impakt 
Festival 2003. Applicants are urged to submit their proposals early 
so that the editorial team has a chance to go over them and contact 
with artist with questions and suggestions.


Final Deadline: April 1, 2003
Launch: June, 2003

*Proposals must be written in English, and the project accessible to 
an English-speaking audience
*They should include a project description:
---description of content
---technical implementation
---time line
---relation to the theme
*They should also include an artist[s] biography:
---short CV
---documentation + URLs of previous projects
*Previously exhibited projects will be immediately disqualified

Impakt will provide webhosting for the project for 1 year, and pay a 
fee to the accepted artist[s] of EURO 1000. The winning commission[s] 
will also be invited to submit a budget for the live event which will 
take place during the festival.
Address for submissions:
online at impakt.nl

http://www.impakt.nl

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