[spectre] Digital Fringe 2008 international call for artworks

[Simeon Moran]

Digital Fringe 08 Call for submissions

*Digital Fringe* is now accepting entries (video, stills or audio).

Ferret around your hard drives, dig out those gems and have your work 
seen on hundreds of public screens.

Uploaded content will play on an extensive network of screens around the 
world: from the web to retail television display walls to huge urban 
screens, hospitality venues, galleries, libraries and many other public 
nooks and crannys.

Visit www.digitalfringe.com.au to submit your works, and for more 
festival info.

Artist retain copyright of their works and have the option of utilising 
the Creative Commons licensing scheme.

Digital Fringe is also chasing *more screening venues* - so if you know 
of any idle screens in need of interesting art content in your area (in 
bars, shops, ....wherever) put them in touch with us or let us know at: 
people at digitalfringe.com.au

Digital Fringe is produced by *Horse Bazaar* as part of the Melbourne 
Fringe Festival (September 24 - October 12)




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DF08 Press Release - for immediate release

Horse Bazaar in association with Melbourne Fringe & Film Victoria presents

DIGITAL FRINGE 08

1's & 0's in your eyes. Digital Fringe pixels will catch your eyeballs 
somewhere this festival season. Digital Fringe is the digital arts arm 
of The AGE 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival. Digital art from all over the 
world will be streaming into all sorts of nooks and crannies, across the 
Melbourne, Victoria & the world. See international emerging artists in 
your local pub, library, or shops. Have your eyeballs hijacked by MPU's 
guerilla projections as you wander through the cityscape at night.

Digital Fringe is a web based digital art festival that links to 
Melbourne and regional Victoria through site specific streaming of 
artistic digital content. Produced by Horse Bazaar, Digital Fringe 2008 
will load up, stream out and shine across Melbourne, Regional Victoria 
and the world from Wednesday 24 September to Sunday 12 October as 
Melbourne Fringe Festival swings open its artistic carrel for the 26th 
year.

Digital Fringe provides artists with access to a network of 100’s of 
public screens and non-traditional audiences through-out the state (and 
the world). A continual playlist of digital art plays on a multitude of 
screens. This curated playlist is a compilation of silent, G rated 
visual works of animation, abstract, video art, short film, motion 
graphics, photography or other stills. It is the cream of the crop of 
1000’s of submissions that results from an extensive local, national and 
international callout. Submissions are received from all around the 
world; from professional artists to bedroom doodlers and everybody in 
between.

Screening venues range from busy bars and cafes, bustling shopping 
centres, walls of TV’s in Harvey Norman, JB Hifi & Retravision stores, 
State and regional libraries and art galleries, suburban shop fronts and 
on massive public screens like Federation Square. All works are also 
available via the Digital Fringe website www.digitalfringe.com.au

Digital Fringe once again features the Mobile Projection Unit (MPU). 3 
weeks of public projection shenanigans and culture jacking feature as a 
centre piece of the festival. As the MPU rolls through the streets of 
Melbourne, guerrilla pixels alter buildings and billboards, and hijack 
public audiences across the city.

Key features of the MPU van include realtime GPS map positioning of the 
van viewable on the Digital Fringe website, live video hookups to the 
artists in the van, text interaction between the MPU and the Web, and 
real-time monitoring of what the MPU is projecting. The MPU allows local 
artists to take their work to the streets and interact with the inner 
urban built environment, and the general Melbourne public at large.

Check out www.digitalfringe.com.au for info on the range of digital 
activities finding their way in from the fringe.

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-- 
Simeon Moran
0402 514 017
simeon at horsebazaar.com.au 

Horse Bazaar 
397 Lt Lonsdale St
Melbourne 3000
03 9670 2329

www.horsebazaar.com.au 
www.digitalfringe.com.au