[spectre] Call for Entries: Turbulence New England Initiative II (Corrected)

[Turbulence]

Apologies for leaving out the minor detail of the commission amount!: three
commissions at $3,500 each.

Call for Entries: Turbulence New England Initiative II

Turbulence.org is pleased to announce its “New England Initiative II,” a
juried, networked art competition. Three projects by New England artists
will be commissioned and exhibited on Turbulence (http://turbulence.org) and
in real space (venue to be announced). Each award will be $3,500. The jury
consists of Julian Bleecker, Michelle Thursz, and Helen Thorington. This
project is made possible with funds from the LEF Foundation.

PROJECT CONCEPT: Net art projects are “art projects for which the Net is
both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/ expressing/
participating” (Steve Dietz). They live in the public world of the Internet.
Recently, however, wireless telecommunications technologies have enabled
computation to migrate out of the desktop PC into the physical world,
creating the possibility of “hybrid” networked art, works that intermingle
and fuse previously discrete identities, disciplines, and/or fields of
activity such as the Internet and urban space. (See the
networked_performance blog—http://turbulence.org/blog—specifically the
categories “Locative Media” and “Mobile Art and Culture.”) Borders are
disintegrating and new identities are emerging. We encourage applications by
net artists and artists working on networked hybrid projects.

PROJECT TIMELINE:

Proposal Deadline: February 28, 2006
Selected Projects Announcement: March 15, 2006
Project Launch/Exhibition: October 1, 2006

SELECTION CRITERIA: (1) artistic merit of the proposed project; (2)
originality; (3) degree of performativity and audience participation; (4)
level of programming skill and degree of technological innovation; and (5)
extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity.

PROPOSAL GUIDELINES:

(a) Your name, email address, and web site URL (if you have one).
(b) A description of the project's core concept and how it will make
creative use of digital networks (500 words maximum).
(c) Details of how the project will be realized, including what
software/programming will be used. Specs for the Turbulence server are
available at http://www.turbulence.org/comp_05/server.htm. You may request
additional software but we cannot guarantee it.
(d) Names of collaborators, their areas of expertise, and their specific
roles in the project. 
(e) A project budget, including other funding sources for this project, if
any.
(f) Your résumé/CV and one for each of your collaborators.
(g) Up to five examples of prior work accessible on the web. 

Email submissions (the web site URL) to turbulence at turbulence.org with NE 2
in the subject field.

JUROR BIOGRAPHIES:

Julian Bleecker [http://www.techkwondo.com/] Julian Bleecker has been
involved in technology design for over 15 years, creating mobile, wireless,
and networked-based applications across a diversity of project idioms
including entertainment, art-technology, brand marketing, university
research and development, interactive advertising and museum exhibition. His
expertise is technology implementation, innovation and concept development.
Bleecker is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of
Southern California's Interactive Media Division and Critical Theory
departments, and is participating in a research group at the Annenberg
Center's Institute for Media Literacy exploring the future of mobile
technology applications. He has a Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness
Board at the University of California Santa Cruz, a Masters of Engineering
from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Cornell University.

Helen Thorington [http://new-radio.org/helen] is co-director of New Radio
and Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Ether-Ore), the founder and producer of the
national weekly radio series, New American Radio (1987-1998), and the
founder and producer of the Turbulence and Somewhere websites. She is a
writer, sound composer, and radio producer, whose radio documentary,
dramatic work, and sound/music compositions have been aired nationally and
internationally for the past twenty-three years. Thorington has created
compositions for film and installation that have been premiered at the
Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and in the Whitney Museum’s
Annual Performance series. She has produced three narrative works for the
net, and the distributed performance Adrift which was presented at the 1997
Ars Electronica Festival and at the New Museum in New York City, 2001, among
other places. Thorington has also composed for dance and performed with the
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at Jacob’s Pillow, MA in 2002, and at
The Kitchen, New York City in 2003. She won two radio awards in 2003 for her
9_11_Scapes composition; and was recently commissioned by Deep Wireless, a
Toronto radio festival, to create Calling to Mind. Thorington has lectured,
presented on panels, and served as a juror on many occasions. Her recent
articles on networked musical performances include “Breaking Out: The Trip
Back” (Contemporary Music Review, Vol 24, No 6. December 2005, 445-458); and
“Music, Sound and the Networked_Performance Blog” for the Extensible Toy
Piano Symposium at Clark University, Massachusetts, November 5, 2005.

Michele Thursz (http://www.michelethursz.com) is an independent curator and
consultant for art-makers and distributors. Her current project is Post
Media Network; Post Media is a term and action demonstrating the continuous
evolution of uses of media and their effect on artists practice, and
culture-at-large. In 1999 she co-founded and directed the Moving Image
Gallery, NYC. Moving Image Gallery was one of the first galleries to show
electronic and computer-based mediums, exhibiting such artist as Golan
Levin, Cory Arcangel and Yael Kanerek. Thursz’ recent curatorial projects
include “Copy it, Steal it, Share it”, Borusan Gallery, Istanbul, and
“Nown”, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh; “public.exe: Public Excution”, Exit
Art, NYC, and “Democracy is Fun”, White Box, NYC. She has written essays
about contemporary art for catalogues and has lectured on contemporary art
and curatorial practice. Thursz’s actions and exhibits have been reviewed
and featured in the New York Times, Forbes Best of the Web, ArtByte, Wired
News, Art Forum, and many international periodicals and web publications.

Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: http://new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 • Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: http://turbulence.org
New American Radio: http://somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: http://turbulence.org/blog
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