Callout: New Forms Festival 2007

Call for Proposals: New Forms Festival 2007

The New Forms Festival is an annual cross-disciplinary festival
exploring installation, performance, music, film, and electronic arts.

The theme for NFF07 is Re·Use

To use something again, often for a different purpose and usually as an
alternative to throwing it out.

NFF 07 looks at the ideas of reuse in the media arts. These forms have
been able to come from different areas all around us. Whether involving
the recycling of equipment, the change in its use, reprogramming
material, the sample and mash-up of sound/images and reconstruction of
ideas; the concept of reuse has become one of the major entities behind
invigorating, changing, and growing media and electronic arts.

Over history art has always seen recontextualization at its very core.
Warhol once asked if there was ever really an original idea.
Shakespearean tales become modern films, ancient sounds become
electronic music anthems. Pop culture drives home sounds and imagery
that have changed, grown, and evolved over time. Within this we have
seen our cultures mix, grow, and shape shift as ideas get
recontextualized and reapproapriated from generation to generation, and
culture to culture.

For Re:Use NFF is looking for pieces that challenge these models and
trends, recognizing shifts that have taken place as well as new and
innovative works that re:use works on formats and in ways not yet seen.
As the amount of information we receive on a daily basis increases at a
pace far faster that at any other time in history, NFF 07 will become a
platform for this mixed media world, and a indicator of what might lie
ahead in the years to come.

NFF EXHIBITION 07
Re-Use: Everything Knows Itself
The world is round.- Gertrude Stein

Clocks are thinking, Earth is spinning, people are ticking...

Furthering the New Forms Festival’s 2007 direction of exploring things
unseen the exhibition will centre on the theme of re-constructing,
re-shaping and re-mixing the already extant. The aim of this
reincarnation is to reflect the sameness and the difference of things
revealed by repetition, iteration, rhythm and phase.

Sameness requires difference; the very regularity of a beat, of
drumming, can be enhanced and overwritten. The second repetition is
invariantly different then the first by being second. Difference
resolves into more complex kinds of sameness.

We are interested in form as much as content. We shall invite works
that are spare, astringent, and display a simplicity of means coupled
with transparency of technique. Works purged of metaphor and stripped
down to their most fundamental features. "Less is more, more is less.
The eye is a menace to clear sight." [Ad Reinhardt]. We would like to
show self-contained works that shed light on the underlying systematic
action of their construction, exhibiting regularity of behavior in the
elements they use. We welcome audio/visual installation, kinetic
sculpture, networked and telematic art submissions. The key words,
again, are: repetition, iteration, rhythm and phase.