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| <nettime-ann> [call] medi@terra 06 - Call for Game Projects |
. medi@terra 06 international art + technology festival gaming realities October 4 - 8, 2006 Athens, Greece CALL FOR GAME PROJECTS The new edition of Medi@terra festival aims to explore all dimensions and developments in the field of games and entertainment and attempts a thorough examination of the data, the trends and the new conditions arising as a result of their widespread use and deployment. With this call for game projects, Medi@terra invites artists, independent creators, programmers and theorists from the gaming field to send their proposals to show their work in the context of the festival?s exhibition. The projects to be submitted may be - stand alone offline applications - on line applications, applets (eg Flash, Shockwave, Java) - mods & patches/ Modifications and enhancements of well known games (Quake, Unreal, Half-Life, Torque) - machinima / films made with the use of computer games - mobile phone games The games submitted shall be uploaded and hosted in a web address or sent in a CD/ DVD from which they can run on a PC or Mac. Also accepted can be the playable demos of games. Criteria for the selection of the games will be - their innovation in terms of development and application - the originality of their content - the new approaches introduce - their aesthetic artistic features - their theoretical approach A special interest will be shown to games with sociopolitical content as well as to games that constitute tools for education and other scientific fields. All games submitted must have an English version available. Important dates Deadline: 28 April 2006 Notification of the results: 9 June 2006 PLEASE VISIT www.mediaterra.org FOR THE ONLINE SUBMISSION OF YOUR PROJECT For any questions or more information please contact Daphne Dragona via email daphne@mediaterra.org or call us at +30 210 6460748. FESTIVAL COMMITTEES FOR 2006 Organizing Committee Dodo Santorineos, Director of Fournos Center and medi@terra Festival Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Fournos Center and medi@terra Festival, Assistant Professor in the Athens School of Fine Arts Daphne Dragona, Programme Curator & Coordinator of medi@terra Festival, Coordinator of Fournos Center, Museologist Nefeli Dimitriadi, Researcher and New Media Artist Maria Roussou, Researcher, makebelieve experience design and consulting Nikos Bubaris, Lecturer, Dpt. οf Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean Dr. Dimitris Charitos, Lecturer, Dpt of Communication and Media Studies National and Kapodistrian university of Athens Dimitris Delinikolas, New Media Artist, Filmmaker Panagiotis Delinikolas, New Media Musician, MMORPG-OD Fotis Hadginikos, Ph.D Computer Science, Programmer Yiannis Konstantinou, New Media Artist Maria Pesli, New Media Artist Alexandros Spiropoulos, Researcher, New Media artist, Member of the Personal Cinema collective Panagiotis Stathopoulos, Ph.D Computer Engineer Konstantinos Tiligadis, New Media Artist Stavroula Zoi, Ph.D Informatics, Research & Teaching Associate at the Athens School of Fine Arts Programme Committee Prof Espen Aarseth, Associate Professor and Principal Researcher at the Center for Computer Games Research at the IT-University of Copenhagen, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gamestudies.org Nikos Bubaris, Lecturer, Dpt. οf Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean Dr Dimitris Charitos, Lecturer, Dpt of Communication and Media Studies National and Kapodi strian university of Athens Prof Adrian David Cheok, Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Associate Professor in the Schools of Computer Engineering and Art, Design, and Media Julian Dibbell, Contributing editor, Wired magazine, Author, "My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World" Gonzalo Frasca, Academic and Professional Game Designer, Editor of www.ludology.org, and co-editor of www.gamestudies.org and www.watercoolergames.org, PhD programme in the Computer Game Research at the IT University of Copenhagen Dr Kenji Ito, Research _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann