Fwd: medi at terra 06/Gaming Realities - Call for Game Projects/Extension of deadline

[claudia westermann]

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>  <http://www.mediaterra.org>
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>medi at terra 06
>international art + technology festival
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>gaming realities
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>October 4 - 8, 2006
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>Athens, Greece
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>CALL FOR GAME PROJECTS
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>EXTENSION OF DEADLINE: 5 MAY 2006
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>The new edition of Medi at terra festival aims to 
>explore all dimensions and developments in the 
>field of games and entertainment and attempts a 
>thorough examination of the data, the trends and 
>the new conditions arising as a result of their 
>widespread use and deployment.
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>With this call for game projects, Medi at terra 
>invites artists, independent creators, 
>programmers and theorists from the gaming field 
>to send their proposals to show their work in 
>the context of the festival’s exhibition.
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>The projects to be submitted may be
>- stand alone offline applications
>- on line applications, applets (eg Flash, Shockwave, Java)
>- mo ds & patches/ Modifications and 
>enhancements of well known games (Quake, Unreal, 
>Half-Life, Torque)
>- machinima / films made with the use of computer games
>- mobile phone games
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>The games submitted shall be uploaded and hosted 
>in a web address or sent in a CD/ DVD from which 
>they can run on a PC or Mac.
>Also accepted can be the playable demos of games.
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>Criteria for the selection of the games will be
>- their innovation in terms of development and application
>- the originality of their content
>- the new approaches introduce
>- their aesthetic artistic features
>- their theoretical approach
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>A special interest will be shown to games with 
>sociopolitical content as well as to games that 
>constitute tools for education and other 
>scientific fields.
>All games submitted must have an English version available.
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>Important Dates
>Deadline: 5 May 2006
>Notification of the results: 9 June 2006
>PLEASE VISIT www.mediaterra.org FOR THE ONLINE SUBMISSION OF YOUR PROJECT
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>For any questions or more information please 
>contact Daphne Dragona via email 
>daphne at mediaterra.org or call us at +30 210 
>6460748.
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>FESTIVAL COMMITTEES FOR 2006
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>Organizing Committee
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>Dodo Santorineos, Director of Fournos Center and medi at terra Festival
>Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of 
>Fournos Center and medi at terra Festival, 
>Assistant Professor in the Athens School of Fine 
>Arts
>Daphne Dragona, Programme Curator & Coordinator 
>of medi at terra Festival, Coordinator of Fournos 
>Center, Museologist
>Nefeli Dimitriadi, Researcher and New Media Artist
>Maria Roussou, Researcher, makebelieve experience design and consulting
>Nikos Bubaris, Lecturer, Dpt. ÉÕf Cultural 
>Technology and Communication, Un iversity of the 
>Aegean
>Dr. Dimitris Charitos, Lecturer, Dpt of 
>Communication and Media Studies National and 
>Kapodistrian university of Athens
>Dimitris Delinikolas, New Media Artist, Filmmaker
>Panagiotis Delinikolas, New Media Musician, MMORPG-OD
>Fotis Hadginikos, Ph.D Computer Science, Programmer
>Yiannis Konstantinou, New Media Artist
>Maria Pesli, New Media Artist
>Alexandros Spiropoulos, Researcher, New Media 
>artist, Member of the Personal Cinema collective
>Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Ph.D Computer Engineer
>Konstantinos Tiligadis, New Media Artist
>Stavroula Zoi, Ph.D Informatics, Research & 
>Teaching Associate at the Athens School of Fine 
>Arts
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>Programme Committee
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>Prof Espen Aarseth, Associate Professor and 
>Principal Researcher at the Center for Computer 
>Games Research at the IT -University of 
>Copenhagen, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of 
>Gamestudies.org
>Nikos Bubaris, Lecturer, Dpt. ÉÕf Cultural 
>Technology and Communication, University of the 
>Aegean
>Dr Dimitris Charitos, Lecturer, Dpt of 
>Communication and Media Studies National and 
>Kapodi strian university of Athens
>Prof Adrian David Cheok, Director of the Mixed 
>Reality Lab, Nanyang Technological University in 
>Singapore, Associate Professor in the Schools of 
>Computer Engineering and Art, Design, and Media
>Julian Dibbell, Contributing editor, Wired 
>magazine, Author, "My Tiny Life: Crime and 
>Passion in a Virtual World"
>Gonzalo Frasca, Academic and Professional Game 
>Designer, Editor of www.ludology.org, and 
>co-editor of www.gamestudies.org and 
>www.watercoolergames.org, PhD programme in the 
>Computer Game Research at the IT University of 
>Copenhagen
>Dr Kenji Ito, Research Associa te, Research 
>Center for Advanced Science and Technology, 
>University of Tokyo, Japan
>Prof Jesper Juul, Assistant Professor in the 
>Center of Computer Games Research at the IT - 
>University of Copenhagen, Game designer, Editor 
>of www.gamestudies.org
>Prof John Kontos, Professor of Artificial 
>Intelligence at the Department of Methodology, 
>History and Theory of Science, University of 
>Athens
>Kristian Lukic, Writer, artist, cultural and 
>game researcher, Founder of Eastwood - Real Time 
>Strategy Group
>Dr Frans Mayra, DIGRA president, Research 
>Director, Hypermedia Laboratory, University of 
>Tampere
>Julian Oliver, Free-software developer, composer 
>and media-theorist. Founder of 
>www.selectparks.net
>Prof Zhigeng Pan, Acting Director of the Digital 
>Entertainment and Animation Research Cener, 
>Zhejiang Univ., China
>Prof Narcis Pares, Assistant profess or of the 
>Technology Department of the Universitat Pompeu 
>Fabra, Researcher in the group for 
>Experimentation on Interactive Communication of 
>the Audio-visual Institute at the UPF
>Domenico Quaranta, New media Art Critic and Curator
>Maria Roussou, Researcher, Co-Founder of 
>makebelieve experience design and consulting.
>Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of 
>Fournos Center and medi at terra Festival, 
>Assistant Professor in the Athens School of Fine 
>Arts
>Dr Christa Sommerer, New media artist, Professor 
>for Interface Culture, Institute for Media, 
>University of Art and Design Linz, International 
>Co-editor of the Leonardo Journal
>Eddo Stern, New Media Artist, Game designer, Founder of C-Level
>David Surman, Lecturer in Computer Games Design 
>at the Newport School of Art, Media and Design, 
>Co-editor of Games and Culture, and Animation: 
>an Interdisciplinary Journal
>Eric Zimmerman, Game Designer , CEO and Co-Founder of gameLab
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