Call: A DIAMOND IN THE MUD seeks artists for "A Miniature Audio Exhibition of Stereophonic Soundscape & Horspiel Works"

A DIAMOND IN THE MUD


A Miniature Audio Exhibition of Stereophonic Soundscape & Horspiel Works

Call For SHORT STEREOPHONIC SOUNDSCAPE & HOERSPIEL WORKS: A DIAMOND IN THE MUD
Deadline: September 15, 2008

PROJECT CONCEPT: It is an Asian concept rooted in Buddhism that self-cultivation can be developed at home as a householder and is not merely confined to a temple or monastery. Buddhist believe that enlightened beings are those who "grew" out of the "mud" of the material world. So, like the lotus flower, which penetrates through sullied mud and water, but emerges unspoiled, enlightened beings are beautiful and pure even though they grow up in the material world. The phrase "a diamond in the mud" is an analogy for this and in keeping with it the Digital Art Weeks would like to issue this call to artists and to submit pre recorded works (Soundscape, Horspiel, Poetry) in regard to the beautiful and the sullied. The works will be chosen on their ability to transcend the listeners into a "moment of tranquilly" and out of the confines of the everyday, or as expressed in the Diamond Sutra: "Dwell upon nothing and produce the pure mind."

PLAYBACK SYSTEM: Constructed as a dock for Apple's famed iPod, the iCarta stereophonic audio playback system will be used to play back all of the selected works. The system not only offers an interesting solution for public pod-casting, but it also acts uniquely as a bathroom dispenser for the indispensable: Le papier toilette. - Art Clay, DAW, Artistic Director (c) 2008


DEADLINE: Monday, 15th September 2008. Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before Monday, 22nd September 2008.

APLLICATION FORM: http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/web/DAWPlus/SoundScape08

For more information regarding the call please write directly to: arthurclay@mac.com; for more on past Digital Art Weeks, please see: www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch; for technical information on the iCarta, please see: http://www.atechflash.com http://rhizome.org/announce/view/51857#comment

Call: LIMA'08: MAGIC AND TECHNOLOGY call for submissions

LIMA'08: MAGIC AND TECHNOLOGY


Open call for projects. Deadline: August 31, 2008

International Project Development Workshop October 10 through 24, 2008 At the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima (Peru)

Organized by Medialab-Prado (The Arts Area - Town Hall of Madrid) and the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation - AECID)

Call for the submission of projects to be developed as part of the Interactivos? Lima'08: Magic and Technology workshop, led by Julian Oliver (New Zealand/Spain), Clara Boj (Spain), Diego Díaz (Spain) and Kiko Mayorga (Peru). At the end of the workshop, projects will be exhibited at the Cultural Center from October 24 through November 6, 2008.

The call is aimed at artists, magicians, engineers, musicians, programmers, designers, architects, hackers, psychologists, or any other person interested in presenting a project on this topic.

Goals: to propose strategies of magic and illusion, in order to harness some of the old and new technological resources to collectively build software pieces and interactive installations which can propose a rethinking of the usual scenario in magic tricks; to broaden the topic through the exploration of the meanings of the magic concept within the local context of Peru; to propose magic and illusion as an approach for experiments on perception and attention, behaviour and social relationships; and to propose a critical viewpoint on the seduction of technology and its application on the spectacle as a tool of persuasion and control.

The proposals will be carried out in multidisciplinary work groups comprised by the author(s) and interested collaborators, with conceptual and technical advice from the teaching staff.

For information, complete call guidelines and submissions:
interactivoslima@ccelima.org

interactivos08@medialab-prado.es

http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_lima08_magia_y_tecnologia

http://www.ccelima.org/

Open call for collaborators: September 15, 2008.