[Nettime-bold] Medi@terra 2001 / athens / Call for projects

["Dimos Dimitriou" <addfield@ath.forthnet.gr>]

Medi@terra 2001

International Art and Technology Festival
http://www.mediaterra.org

De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing Culture

14 September - 15 October 2001

Lavrion-Athens >> Sofia - Plovdiv >> Maribor >> Frankfurt

call: http://www.mediaterra.org/mediaterra2001/files/calleng.html
entry form: http://www.mediaterra.org/mediaterra2001/files/form.html



The Medi@terra Festival is among the cultural events which are organised in
the context of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens.




CALL FOR PROJECTS

The annual Medi@terra Festival is changing form. Under the title
De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, the Festival is travelling from the South
to the North in the form of a microMuseum.

Medi@terra, having developed an intense activity around the questions posed
by digital culture, has been included among the events which are organised
on the opportunity of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens. Its inclusion in
the Cultural Olympiad for the years 2001 - 2004 has recently been announced.

Medi@terra supports and puts into practice the view of a continuously
evolving festival, both in terms of its form and ideas. As such, it invites
all those with an interest in research and experimentation around the new
conditions that are now being shaped to take part in its new effort: a
moving Festival that will start off from Greece, travel through the Balkans
and end up in Germany.
This movement will be made through a microMuseum: a small, adaptable
structure which, making use of new technology, can contain a large number of
works of art, views, proposals and presentations, as well as systems and
friendly areas for communication and meetings. The works that will travel
with the microMuseum are ones which experiment with the new platforms for
the production and exhibition of the modern art work through different
creative media. The microMuseum is based on the logic of the kiosk that one
finds mainly in Greece (peripteron), with a reference at the same time to
the concept of the 'small museum,' an idea which began in the 16th century
and continues among today's artists.

In each host city, the events of Medi@terra will be set up within and around
the microMuseum: CD-ROM art, net art, computer art, digital photography,
interactive objects and "hand luggage-sized" installations, sound
environments and electronic music, screenings, an archive with printed
matter, texts in digital form, audio-visual propositions and presentations
as well as cultural events organised by the artists and art centres of each
city. A debate on the subject of the other side of globalisation will round
off the activities of the Festival.

An art centre in each city-stop will undertake the setting up and
realisation of the microMuseum in collaboration with its various associates,
and will participate as a co-organiser in the preparations and making of
decisions. In addition, each centre will be able to take part in
Medi@terra's journey as a member of the "Observing Cities' Net" via the
Internet. Through the Internet it will be possible to follow the path of the
microMuseum and participate in its events from a distance, from every point
on the globe. The "Observing Cities' Net" is initiated by the network of
centres which co-organise the festival, while all the members of the network
can observe, guide, disseminate information and participate with work and
activities in the unfolding events of the journey.

The microMuseum will start from the city of Lavrion, famous from the
antiquity for its silver-mines that have supported the Hellenic Democracy of
the Golden Age, whilst in the 19th century the first industrial unit was
created there. Today, this unit has been turned into a technological park
and the Municipality is participating in a programme for the "smart city."

Medi@terra will continue its journey through the cities of Sofia & Plovdiv
(Bulgaria), Maribor (Slovenia), ending up at the International Book Fair in
Frankfurt where the honoured country this year is Greece. Here, the
microMuseum will present, along with all the things experienced on the
journey, material with information (videos, photographs, texts, etc.) which
artists will have produced throughout the duration of the journey.


Important Dates

Submission of:

VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION
NET ART & CD ROM
DIGITAL SOUND ART & ELECTRONIC MUSIC
COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Material for the ARCHIVE & E-BOOKs
20 July

Submission of proposals for INTERACTIVE OBJECTS / INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS
31 June




VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION

Conditions of participation:

The work should be in mini DV or VHS format, PAL system

It can be in any language. English sub-titles essential.
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


INTERACTIVE OBJECT / INSTALLATION

Conditions of participation:

The work, when packed, should have maximum dimensions those of an item of
hand luggage so as to be transportable (61 x 25 x 41 cm)
It should be interactive
It should be packed in a wooden or metal case or container "hand
luggage-sized" (it should not require extra packing)
It should be technologically autonomous
It should be easy to set up by someone without specialised knowledge
It should weigh up to 20 kilos
It should be accompanied by guidelines for its use/exhibition
Submission Deadline for Proposal/Design: 31/06/2001

In the case that the proposal is selected, the work must be completed by 25
August 2001.


INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA

INTERNET
CD-ROM
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


DIGITAL SOUND ART AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Conditions of participation:

The work should be in wav audio format (stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16bit) AND in mp3
format (96 or 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, stereo), on CD-ROM
It should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes
It should have been created within the last two years
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Conditions of Participation:

The work should have maximum dimensions 10 x 15 cm
It can be printed on all kinds of paper
It should be unframed
Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


ARCHIVE of the microMuseum

- This can include electronic books, proposals, biographies, portraits,
testimonies, etc. in digital, internet or printed form (video, CD-ROM,
internet, printed matter). The content can be: a message from the creator, a
presentation by an artist, a demo, a documentary or a proposal. More
specifically:

For VIDEO
- The work should be in mini DV format
- It should have a maximum duration of 5 minutes

For CD-ROM, INTERNET:
- The work should be PC compatible

For PRINTED MATTER:
- The printed matter can be in any language, so long as it is accompanied by
a summary of the contents in English.

For e-BOOKS
- The texts must should be on one of the following themes: a) journey from
the South to the North, b) from the other side of globalization, c) from the
small to the large, d) from the single to the multiple
- It can be scientific, literary, an essay, personal, a diary, thoughts,
suggestions, even a comic, in digital form
- It should be forwarded in English
- It can be from 500 to 10,000 words


For DIGITAL MUSIC
- The work should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes
- It should be designed to function adequately if reproduced by the
multimedia hardware available on an average computer (medium sized desktop
stereo speakers and sound blaster class audio / mini card).

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001


HOW TO DECLARE YOUR PARTICIPATION

Fill in the Entry Form that you will find at www.mediaterra.org and send it
along with the material required for each category, as described above, to
the Fournos Centre for Art and New Technologies

by post: 168 Mavromichali Street, 114 72, Athens
by fax: +301 6470 069
by e-mail: info@fournos-culture.gr
For more information, contact Daphne Dragona, In Charge of Communication and
Co-ordination of the Festival by telephone on +301 6460 748 or +301 6420 451
or Email daphne@fournos-culture.gr


Medi@terra 2001 International Art and Technology Festival
Is organized by:

Fournos Center for Art and New Technologies
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural Olympiad 2001 - 2004
Lavrion Municipal Development Enterprise
Is co-organized by:

ArtToday Foundation [Bulgaria]
Student Computer Art Society [Bulgaria]
Multimedia Lab KIBLA [Slovenia]
Intima Virtual Base [Slovenia]
European Media Art Festival [Germany]
CICV Pierre Schaeffer / next-movies [France]




MEDI@TERRA 2001 - STEERING COMMITTEE

Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of Fournos
Dodo Santorineou, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the
Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Zoe Kazazaki, Head of the International Organizations Department, Hellenic
Ministry of Culture
Maria Theodorou, Adviser of the Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural
Olympiad 2001 - 2004
Andreas Nefeloudis, President of the Lavrion Municipal Development
Enterprise


MEDI@TERRA 2001 - PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE

Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi@terra & Director of Fournos
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi@terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of the
Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Pierre Bongiovanni, Director of the CICV Pierre Schaeffer, France
Peter Tomaz Dobrila, Director of the KIBLA Multimedia Lab, Slovenia
Alfred Rotert, Co-Director of the European Media Art Festival of Osnabruck,
Germany
Dimitrina Sevova, Curator of the Communication Front Festival & Member of
the ArtToday Foundation, Bulgaria
Rosen Petkov, President of Student Computer Art Society & Director of the
ComputerSpace Festival, Bulgaria







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