[spectre] Call: Dédale , Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

Sat Jun 7 18:18:05 CEST 2008

Newsletter | Smart City | June 2008

SMARTCITY | NEW URBAN STAKES, NEW ARTISTIC PRACTICES

SmartCity is an artistic project of research and 
production on the theme of the European city of 
the future. It aims at exploring the new 
possibilities of artistic intervention in the 
urban space.
At the forefront of new practices, SmartCity 
invites artists, architects, designers, 
researchers, engineers and groups of citizens to 
operate on a rereading of urban space. The 
project offers a vision of a balanced and 
sustainable city, centred around the citizen.

SmartCity is an European program of meetings, 
production and experimental workshops, production 
of artists' projects in the urban space and 
events: monumental audiovisual installations, 
performances, locative art, sound design, 
ephemeral or interactive architectures, projects 
involving inhabitants, urban game art, 
installations in the shops, etc.

The call for projects SmartCity 2008 is already 
closed. You were many to send us your 
propositions and we thank you for it. The 
selection is in progress. The answers will be 
communicated in the course of July.
Within the framework of our permanent day and 
activities 2009, you can thus continue to send us 
your propositions.

Besides, Dedale appeals to specific projects in 
partnership with the 
<http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm>Cité 
internationale universitaire de Paris / 
<http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm>CitéCulture<http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm>.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - DEDALE / CITE INTERNATIONALE UNIVERSITAIRE DE PARIS

In the frame of the SmartCity project, Dedale and 
the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris 
jointly invite artists to realise an art project 
on the Cité territory.

Objectives :
>  To propose to a wide public a second reading of 
>urban space and territorial issues, working on 
>the modification of territory perception.
>  To present projects directly connected with the 
>inhabitants daily, their practices and urban 
>environment, based on territorial 
>characteristics (architectural, social, 
>historical and geographical).

:: Art fields concerned ::
Visual arts, live art, architecture, sound and interactive design.

:: Action territory > the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris ::
The Cité internationale is located on a wooded 
park of 34 hectares in the south of the French 
capital and represents the largest concentration 
of residence halls in Paris and the Ile-de-France 
region: 5 500 beds in 37 residences.
The residents - students, researchers, artists, 
etc. - come from more than 130 nationalities. 
From its creation, these has contributed to make 
the Cité a space of encounters and cultural 
exchanges. The strong artistic activity of the 
Cité enables to enhance this intercultural mix.
Identified as a laboratory of architectural 
innovation from its first building phase around 
1925 and during the second wave in the 60's, the 
Cité has to face the challenge of a new urban 
planning today.
The Cité site presents many various communication 
axes, having for effect to produce several 
nuisances. The most important is the south ring 
road, made up of 5 lanes. There is also the RER 
line, the David-Weill avenue, an aqueduct 
underground line, etc. The harmonisation of the 
site and the regulation of the generated 
pollutions are right now the main priority for 
the Cité.
Further information on 
<http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm>www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm

:: Thematic ::
In the south park, the ring road cuts the Cité 
in! to two parts: Paris part and Gentilly 
district part. For the moment, the only way to 
join the two sides by foot is limited by two 
narrow footbridges. Around the main topic of the 
ring road integration, artists are invited to 
shape new connexions between the Cité 
internationale and Gentilly.

:: Nature of the researched projects ::
- Monumental audiovisual installations
- Strolling projects and artistic tours, connexions between residence hall
- Installations / ephemeral and interactive architectures
- Art project involving nature
- Sound design of public spaces, infrastructures, buildings
- Art projects involving the residents of the 
Cité and the inhabitants of the Gentilly city
- Urban game art
- Locative art
- Projects using mobile technologies, interactivity and ICT
- Projects connected with urban pollutions: 
sound, visual, atmospheric, electromagnetic 
pollutions

:: A minimum 10 000 ¤ will be given to the project ::

:: Deadline for project submission:: 30 July 2008

:: How to apply ::
You need to send by post :
- a project presentation and a production budget
- an artist biography
- CD-ROM or DVD for illustrating your project

At the following address:
Dedale
23, rue Olivier Métra
75020 Paris
France

:: Presentation of the call to projects' carriers ::

Dedale :
Dédale is a platform of search, production and 
distribution(dedicated to the art and to the new 
media in Europe. It organizes, particularly since 
2002, the Emergences festival, an international 
meeting of the new artistic forms and the new 
technologies in Paris (meetings, shows, 
installations, electronic musics).
<http://www.festival-emergences.info>http://www.festival-emergences.info

CitéCulture / Cité internationale
CitéCulture is the cultural center of the Cité 
Internationale. It intervenes mainly in the 
domains of music, architecture and visual arts. 
Centred on the artistic experiment and the 
exchange between the cultures, CitéCulture 
welcomes foreign artists, manages working spaces, 
makes students and Parisians discover the 
contemporary creation and sensibilize them to 
architecture and urbanism.
<http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm>http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm

:: More information ::

<http://www.festival-emergences.info/old/_objets/newsletters/site-160.pdf>Map 
and pictures of the Cité Internationale de Paris 
(format pdf, 628 ko)

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