Juried International Net Art Competition
Deadline: March 31, 2005

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is pleased to announce that with the
support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 5 net art
projects will be commissioned for the Turbulence web site in a juried
international (open to everyone) competition.

Each commission will be $5,000 (US).


http://turbulence.org/comp_05/guidelines.htm



AVENUES OF INVESTIGATION: Projects that experiment with new forms of
interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity and engage the user as an
active participant. Collaborations may be between visual artists, sound
artists, programmers, scientists, and others. Proposed works may include the
use of wireless devices such as cell phones and palm pilots to access and
add to the experience of the net art work. Note: while collaborative
projects are preferred they are not a requirement.

CRITERIA: (1) artistic merit of the proposed project; (2) originality; (3)
degree of programming skill and technological innovation; and (4) extent of
collaborative and interdisciplinary activity.

GUIDELINES: Proposals must be in the form of a web site that includes:
- Your name, email address, country, and web site URL
(if you have one).
- A description of the project's core concept (500 words maximum).
- Details of how the project will be realized, including what
software/programming will be used. Please answer all of these questions. -
- Specs for the Turbulence server are available here. You may request
additional software but we cannot guarantee it.
- Names of collaborators, their areas of expertise, and their specific roles
in the project.
- A project budget, including other funding sources for this project.
- Your résumé/CV and one for each of your collaborators.
- Up to five examples of prior work accessible on the web.

PROCESS: Email your proposal URL to turbulence with the following in the
subject field: Comp_05 Proposal.

Deadline: March 31st, 2005.

Notification: Winners will be contacted after May 15, 2005.

Terms: Each winner will be asked to sign an agreement with Turbulence
governing the terms of the commission.

Time Frame: Works must be completed within 9 months.

JURORS: Wayne Ashley, Arcangel Constantini, Sara Diamond, Melinda Rackham
and Helen Thorington.

JURORS BIOGRAPHIES

Wayne Ashley is an independent new media creator, curator, and consultant.
Presently, he holds the position of Curator of New Media & Public Programs
at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) where he commissions work and
organizes public programming around art and technology issues. He
orchestrated LMCC¹s Future of War Conference in collaboration with The New
School, and is currently spearheading Downtown Digital Futures, a multi-year
program that brings together media events, conferences, performances, a
think tank and web portal, to critically explore and demonstrate the role of
information technology (IT) and interactive media in re-imagining the future
of Lower Manhattan. From 1999 to 2001, Ashley was the first Manager of New
Media at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), one of America's foremost
presenters of contemporary music, opera, theater, dance and film from around
the world. Downtown Digital Futures ? The Future of War ? Under_score: Net
art, Sound, and Essays from Australia ? Before and After Geography ? LMCC

Arcangel Constantini explores a wide range of media and alternative
resources to fuse his ideas and concepts, both in the context of concrete
objects and digital processes which include the exploration of sound and
noise performance, as well as the art of hacking. He is obsessed with all
types of objects and their re-contextualization in temporal spaces, and
reconsiders their aesthetics and connections to questions about our
existence. Constantini has received numerous awards, including first prize
in the Festival vid@rte 1999, first prize with Atari-noise.com in the
Interference Festival (France, 2000), Honorary Mention of bacteria.org in
Cinetart (Dresden, Germany 2001), and Bronze prize to the project
123456789px by Machita Museum of Graphic Arts (Tokyo, Japan 1999). He is a
recipient of Jovenes Creadores, FONCA, Rockefeller, and MacArthur
fellowships. Constantini is a member of the collectives hell.com, OFFline,
igloo and KHORA. He is currently curator of the Cyberlounge, a gallery
dedicated to new media exhibitions, at Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City,
Mexico. bakteria.org ? atari-noise.com ? encuentros efimeros ? inmerso
cyberlounge museo tamayo ? no-such.com ? khora.org ? unosunosyunosceros.com

Sara Diamond is an award winning television and new media producer/
director, video artist, curator, critic, researcher, teacher and artistic
director. Born in New York City, Sara has resided in Western Canada and has
represented Canada at home and internationally for many years. Her video
installation and video works reside in the collections of the National
Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in
New York City, and many international galleries, universities, and colleges.
She was honoured by a retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada in
1991. She is a theorist and public speaker and has recently published essays
on new media curatorial practice, science and art aesthetics, collaboration
and new media, collective authorship, and reviews of new media exhibitions
with Routledge, MIT Press, and other presses, as well as Flash Art. She
initiated HorizonZero and is its editor-in-chief. She is a member of the
editorial board of Leonardo and Convergence, peer review publications in new
media. Diamond is currently the director of research and artistic director,
Banff New Media Institute, at The Banff Centre. In 2002, she won the
Canadian new media educator of the year award (Canadian New Media Awards)
and women of vision award (Women in Film and Television and Wired Women).
horizonzero ? Banff New Media Institute ? CodeZebra

Melinda Rackham is a Sydney based artist, curator, and writer. Over the last
decade she has investigated the technological and psychological aspects of
online identity, locality, sexuality and community, as well as trans-species
relations in multi-user environments. Her web works have been shown in
Beyond Interface, Arco Electronico, Transmediale, Cybercultures, File, Art
Entertainment Network, The Montreal Biennale, European Media Art Festival,
Hybrid Life Forms, Perspecta, Biennial of Buenos Aires, lab3D and ISEA.
Prizes include the SoundSpaceVirtual Worlds Award at Stuttgart Filmwinter,
and the Faulding Award for Multimedia at Adelaide Festival. Rackham is
widely published both online and in print. She recently curated
2004/networked at the Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI), and is
producer of -empyre- online forum. subtle.net ? 2004/networked ? empyre

Helen Thorington is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her
documentary, dramatic, and sound art compositions have been aired nationally
and internationally for the past twenty-two years. She has created
compositions for film and installation that premiered at the Berlin Film
Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum's annual Performance
series. Thorington recently performed her own compositions with the Bill. T.
Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at The Kitchen, New York City. Her
9_11_Scapes won two international radio awards in 2003. Thorington is both
founder and co-director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc
(1981-present), New American Radio and Turbulence. new-radio.org/helen ?
somewhere.org




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