[spectre] call for proposals: Impakt Online

[derek]

Impakt Online Update: Friday, Feb 21, 2003

http://www.impakt.nl

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1) Winners of the "Art of the Narrative" Commisssion

2) Call for Proposals: "Out of the Box [Net.Art and the 'Real World']" 
Commission



1) Winners of the "Art of the Narrative" Commisssion

Launch Date: April 1, 2003

---Ramesh Srinivasan: "Village Voice"
---Tamar Schori: "Beadgee"


Impakt Online is proud to announce the the two winners of the latest 
net.art theme, "Art of the Narrative". This theme was chosen to reflect 
on the new ways in which the internet can be used to tell stories, use 
language and change perceptions. These projects will be launched on the 
Impakt website April 1.

Ramesh Srinivasan's "Village Voice" is an online video database filled 
with stories from the Somali refugee community of Boston, Massachusetts. 
The stories can be accessed by various themes, including government & 
legality, beliefs & religion, cultural adaptation and traditional 
customs. Far from being an ethnographical survey, "Village Voice" allows 
these Somalis to speak for themselves, in their own language, about 
their transition into a new society.

Tamar Schori's "Beadgee" is a whimsical project taking its inspiration 
from a series of drawings made by Alexander Calder for a collection of 
19th Century nursery rhymes entitled "Three Young Rats and other 
ryhmes". Schori has created a new library of drawings, which can be 
exploded and rearranged by the user. Rearranging the drawings also 
rearranges the nursery rhymes, and a strange language game ensues. Users 
will also have to opportunity to enter both their rearranged drawings 
and new words and phrases into the database for others to play with.



2) Call for Proposals: "Out of the Box [Net.Art and the 'Real World']"

Deadline: April 1, 2003
http://www.impakt.nl

No longer content with pure formalism and self-referentiality, and 
unwilling to be dismissed into the simple catagory of "graphic design", 
net.art is redefining itself in the realm of social critique and 
commentary. The old elements of hyperlink, the embedded images and 
sounds, the database and the live stream all remain in place, as do the 
digital pranks, parasitic spoofs and deliberate 'errors' which gave 
early net.art its timeliness and humour. Their scope, however, has been 
refocused and their use redefined in recent years to a razor-sharp 
critique of technological "progress", globalization, and the 
ever-present machinery of surveillance and control which the internet 
has helped to usher in.

Working from this position, the "Out of the Box" theme for the Impakt 
Online seeks to examine how technology and the internet manifest 
themselves on the human level by asking such questions as;  where do 
such on-line concepts as navigation, avatar, or algorithm find their 
place in the "real world" outside the computer? And, similarly, how can 
such physical activities such as performance, protest, or love maintain 
their "real-ness" in a virtual environment? In short, we seek the point 
where real life affects the internet,and (more importantly) where the 
internet affects real life.

Impakt will commission two projects for this theme. The accepted 
commissions for this project will be invited to produce a hybrid project 
involving a website and a live, "real-world" intervention [performance, 
action, prank, interface, etc] which will take place during the Impakt 
Festival this coming spring, between June 3 and 10. Depending on the 
submissions we receive, we may invite the accepted artists to 
collaborate on a single project.

Because this is a commission for new works, previously exhibited 
projects will be immediately disqualified. However, as we realize the 
timeframe is somewhat short, we are happy to support projects already 
under development with an eye towards their premiere at the Impakt 
Festival 2003. Applicants are urged to submit their proposals early so 
that the editorial team has a chance to go over them and contact with 
artist with questions and suggestions.


Final Deadline: April 1, 2003
Launch: June, 2003

*Proposals must be written in English, and the project accessible to an 
English-speaking audience
*They should include a project description:
---description of content
---technical implementation
---time line
---relation to the theme
*They should also include an artist[s] biography:
---short CV
---documentation + URLs of previous projects
*Previously exhibited projects will be immediately disqualified

Impakt will provide webhosting for the project for 1 year, and pay a fee 
to the accepted artist[s] of EURO 1000. The winning commission[s] will 
also be invited to submit a budget for the live event which will take 
place during the festival.

Address for submissions:
online@impakt.nl

http://www.impakt.nl

IMPAKT
PO Box 735
3500 AS Utrecht
The Netherlands