[spectre] transmediale Award 2010 - Call for Entries

[stephen kovats]

// transmediale Award 2010 //

// Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 //

transmediale.10
festival for art and digital culture berlin
03 - 07 February 2010

CTM - club transmediale.10
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
29 January - 6 February 2010

_Call for Entries_

:: Deadline: 31 July 2009
:: Award Ceremony: 6 February 2010, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

Complete call, registration information and online submission form at:

http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main


As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as  
well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively,  
transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to  
the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory  
Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that  
respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital,  
technological and networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks  
innovative, experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of  
form, process and practice that embrace, question and enrich our  
understanding and relationship to our immersed media and  
technologically driven society. Entries that exemplify new and  
critical forms of digital expression and interaction are encouraged,  
as are works from countries and regions in which digital art and  
culture are emergent. Submissions of art works for both festivals  
participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical  
abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the  
Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling 10.000 EURO.

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transmediale presents and pursues the advancement of artistic  
positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and creative  
impact of new technologies, network practices and digital innovation.  
As a festival aiming to define the contours of contemporary digital  
culture, it seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to  
scientific or technical developments, but that shape the way in which  
we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually  
all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands  
media technologies as cultural and aesthetic techniques that need to  
be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global  
societies.

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CTM (club transmediale) is dedicated to contemporary electronic,  
digital and experimental music and sound creation, as well as the  
diverse range of artistic activities and social practises that  
develop within and connect to those audio cultures. Thus, the  
festival reflects on the agency of contemporary sound creation within  
the cultural fabric of society and its technological and social  
transformations. It explores the intersections of contemporary music  
and audio art with other artistic forms and cultural fields. A  
special emphasis is put on the creative use of new technologies, the  
interplay of sound with other media formats, the situational  
potential of live performances, the formation of social networks, and  
the advancement of a positive form of globalization.

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Previous transmediale Award winners have included renowned artists  
such as Herman Asselberghs, Shilpa Gupta, Graham Harwood / Richard  
Wright / Matsuko Yokokoji, Zhou Hongxiang, Istvan Kantor, Thomas  
Koener, Julia Meltzer/David Thorne, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Netochka  
Nezvanova, schoenerwissen, ubermorgen.com, Adrian Ward, Herwig Weiser  
and 242.pilots. The Vilem Flusser Theory Award, in collaboration with  
the _Vilem_Flusser_Archive of the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin,  
has been awarded to Simon Yuill (2008), Denis Roio aka jaromil and  
Brian Holmes (2009).

Jury of the transmediale Award 2010 are Michelle Kasprzak  
(Edinburgh), Jose Luis de Vicente (Barcelona/Madrid), Li Zhenhua  
(Beijing/Zurich), Yves Bernard (Brussels), Doreen Mende (Berlin/ 
Karlsruhe).

Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 advisory committee members include  
Marcel Marburger (_Vilem_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau  
(Danube University Krems) and Sabeth Buchmann (Academy of Fine Arts,  
Vienna)

transmediale Advisory Board are Alex Adriaansens (Rotterdam), Dr.  
Marie Cathleen Haff (Berlin), Prof. Saskia Sassen (New York), Yukiko  
Shikata (Tokyo).

transmediale is a project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, in  
cooperation with the House of World Cultures and funded by the German  
Federal Cultural Foundation.
CTM is a project by DISK / club transmediale GbR funded by  
Hauptstadtkulturfonds and DISK Initiative Bild & Ton e.V.



We look forward to your proposals, and apologies if you have already  
received this announcement through other channels,


stephen kovats

artistic director
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transmediale.10 | 3 - 7 feb 2010
festival for art and digital culture berlin

transmediale Award 2010 submissions:
http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main
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