[syndicate] LAST CALL: Film, Video and Multimedia Projects - URBAN SCREENS 08

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From: Mirjam Struppek <mirjam.struppek at urbanscreens.net>
Date: May 23, 2008 5:39:08 AM GMT+02:00
To: USM08 <exhibition at urbanscreens.net>
Subject: LAST CALL: Film, Video and Multimedia Projects - URBAN  
SCREENS 08

Dear colleagues,
we are especially looking for more projects reflecting on the topic  
of today's communities, please help us once again to distribute our  
call reminder,
Best,
Mirjam

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08
Conference “mobile publics” 3 – 5 October 2008
Multimedia exhibition 3 – 8 October 2008
http://www.urbanscreens08.net

Deadline for submission: 31st May 2008

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Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking  
international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of  
worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital  
infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the  
official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and  
will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne.  
Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented  
multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED  
screen complemented with other digital elements.


CALL FOR FILM&VIDEO and MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS ********************

The Urban Screens 08 exhibition is looking for Artists, Filmmakers,  
Multimedia and Interaction Designers and Urban Poets,  to submit film  
and videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen based  
projects. A large diverse urban screens infrastructure is available  
at Federation Square.


CRITERIA

We are mainly looking for potentially adaptable projects that  
interrogate screen media as a medium|content and tackle the  
festival’s key themes of issues of either community building and  
reflecting on today’s communities or sustainability in relation to  
water. These two complex themes aim to provoke discussion and spark  
questions such as:

What is a community in times of the high-speed, global flows of the  
new media scape? Are we a step closer to the idea of a global  
community, a global public sphere?  What are the places where a  
community can meet today? The event will explore the various  
possibilities to engage with Urban Screens for community building.  
But also how we can utilize the screens to support the promotion of  
social and environmental sustainability.

The theme of water is bridging and connecting both of these concepts.  
Water is an essential element for a liveable public space. Wells,  
fountains and riversides are all social meeting places that create an  
engaging urban environment for all ages, as well as influencing the  
urban microclimate. Fresh water is essential for human wellbeing but  
has threatened to become a scare resource. How can we explore the  
diversity of water, an element, essential to the existence of life on  
earth?

For a detailed description of the curatorial framework see: http:// 
www.urbanscreens08.net/art-+-events
For a detailed description of Fed Squares infrastructure see: http:// 
www.urbanscreens08.net/technical

The projects should preferably employ one or more of the listed  
existing infrastructure of urban screens of Fed Square and should  
consider and adapt to the special circumstances of outdoor public  
spaces, transforming urban spaces to foster dialogue and community  
engagement. We are looking for:

A) Film and video such as

-    Video art, text art, animation, animated slideshows, or  
fictional advertisements and community information (under 3 min.)
-    Silent works especially for the joint broadcasting or daily  
screenings in-between (under 3 min.)
-    Short experimental films, documentary and journalistic content  
(under 15 min.)
-    Small curated programs of the mentioned type of works

B) Interactive, performance based or participatory projects such as

-    Interactive software applications for urban screens
-    Participatory community projects using creative digital practices
-    Live media art merging performance and new media
-    Community displays for education and exchange
-    Virtual/real world hybrid projects using streaming content
-    Real-time generated content
-    Screen related sound experiments
-    Digital storytelling projects
-    Mobile games using urban space as social and educative playground
-    Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban screens


APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL

For the detailed call and submissions use the relevant online  
application form provided under:
http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects

Submission are due: May 31st 2008
Selected projects due for installation/testing: September 1st 2008

Fim&Video submissions should include a preview (resolution ca.  
320x240) no longer than 5 minutes, or a clear storyboard of stills  
suitable for an online review process. Selected producers/artists may  
be eligible for a small honorarium, where deemed appropriate, to  
adjust their project to the program and site or travel to Melbourne.


CONTACT

exhibition at urbanscreens.net
(please use the subject “USM08 - CALL”)


MAYOR EXHIBITION SPONSORS

The event is brought to you by the International Urban Screens  
Association.
www.urbanscreens.net

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through  
the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.
www.australiacouncil.gov.au

Fed Square Pty Ltd - www.federationsquare.com
Barco ‘visibly yours’ - www.barco.com
Film Victoria - http://film.vic.gov.au
Circus - www.circusexp.com
Pinnacle ‘Production Services’ - www.pinnacleps.com

Media Partner:
ARS HyperMedia - www.simultaneita.net
australian-architects - www.australian-architects.com



Best regards,
Mirjam Struppek
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URBAN SCREENS MELBOURNE 08
www.urbanscreens08.net
Artistic Director

International Urban Screens Association
www.urbanscreens.net


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