Call: boDig 08 – ara-yüz(süz) seeks installation art

boDig 08 – ara-yüz(süz)


http://www.bodig.org/bodig08/bodig08_eng.html

boDig 08 – ara-yüz(süz) :: September 15-25, 2008 :: Istanbul :: Call for Installations - Deadline: August 15, 2008.

Multidisciplinary artistic creation platform boDig is organizing a series of events called boDig 08 on bodies & technologies within the frame of the International Project Absent Interfaces Lab. The partners include L’animal a l’esquena (Celrà/Girona) and Centre for Drama Art (Zagreb).

boDig 08 includes stage performances, installations, artists’ labs, workshops, public meetings and club events around live arts and new media technologies. boDig focuses on innovative and experimental works without restricting the medium, and this year encourages the applying artists to approach the theme of “absent interfaces” in their installation works. The selection committee will give priority to artworks that use an intellectual and critical approach to the embodiment of current technologies. For more info and application form:
http://www.bodig.org/bodig08/bodig08_eng.html

Selection Committee: Dr. Bernhard Serexhe (Head Curator, ZKM- Media Museum); Philippe Baudelot (Multimedia Consultant); Defne Ayas (Curator, PERFORMA); Derya Demir (Art On Stage); Aylin Kalem (boDig).

boDig is an Istanbul based contemporary arts association founded in 2007, focusing mainly on the issues of the body in contemporary arts and digital culture. Its artistic understanding has a multidisciplinary scope, bringing a variety of fields together, like dance, performance, visual arts, design, architecture, new media, engineering and medicine, in order to bring forth a reflection and artistic creation around the issues of the body in its contemporary and technological context.