[spectre] Fwd: New Forms Festival 05: Ecologies

[Inke Arns]

Subject: New Forms Festival 05: Ecologies
From: malcolm <malcolm at capitalmag.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:06:36 -0800


New Forms Festival 2005: Ecologies (September 15-24, 2005)
Ecologies Callout NFF 05 : Deadline May 1st.
www.newformsfestival.com

  NFF 05: Ecologies

  NFF 05 Ecologies explores the complex 
interconnections in our inhabited world. With a 
focus on the ecologies of technology and beyond; 
we examine past, present and future models and 
ways of seeing, hearing and feeling our 
environment.

  This year's festival recognizes the wisdom that 
nature provides in terms of the technological 
world around us, and how these interpretations 
play out within arts, activism and culture. The 
physical environment, the embodiment of 
technologies that we create, and environmental 
issues all play a part in this larger discourse.

  These include issues of sustainability, 
inter-relationships, variety, complexity, 
balance, organism, spirit, non-linear approaches 
to space and time, and non-linear relationships.

  Systems and ecologies are expansive and all 
around us, and impact everything from the 
programming we use in the virtual world, to our 
sacred environments. As technology interconnects 
with our themes of 'Ecology' and 'Environment', 
we ask where will this interconnection lead us? 
This year's festival will look at this question 
in a multitude of ways, bridging different 
interpretations on these themes into one greater 
ecological perspective.

  The selected sub-themes for each section of this 
year's festival will be drawn from:

  - Media ecologies
  - Acoustic ecology
  - Eco Systems: Negotiating Natural, Cultural and 
Technological Systems in a Post-traditional 
Ecology
  - Visual ecology
  - Systems
  - Cybernetics
  - Complexity/chaos
  - Natural Elements to Performance
  - The Natural Environment
  - Cultural ecologies
  - Network ecologies
  - Politics of nature
  - Interacting with live instrumentation.
  - Home and inhabited world
  - Location and dislocation.

  The Festival is comprised of five sections:
  low art, Film, Exhibition, Performance and Conference.

  All submissions for the festival should identify 
the specific event in the festival that they are 
submitting to. Further to the word application, 
which can be downloaded through our website at 
www.newformsfestival.com, all submissions for 
exhibition/performance/low art should be 
accompanied by a hard copy of works being 
submitted for the festival, with an entire 
performance/installation in full. All conference 
submission guidelines accompany this call, and 
can be sent via email to 
submissions at newformsfestival.com.
Please see the website at www.newformsfestival.com for more details.


malcolm levy
artistic director: nff05 ecologies
@ the studio
#200-252 east 1st avenue.
vancouver, b.c. v5t-1a6 / 604.648.2752


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