[spectre] Festival HAIP10 - Call for applications

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Subject: Festival HAIP10 - Call for applications
From: Katja Gucek <katja.gucek at kiberpipa.org>
Organization: Kiberpipa, Kersnikova 6, Ljubljana
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:28:20 +0200


//HAIP10: NEW NATURE//

23.-26. November 2010

4th International Multimedia Festival HAIP10 is 
coming this fall - multimedia centre 
"Cyberpipe/Kiberpipa" from Ljubljana is 
announcing call for applications. This year's 
festival theme is "New Nature". Application 
deadline is 30th April 2010.

Information about applications, festival and 
theme is available below and on HAIP website 
http://www.haip.cc/ (where you can download 
application forms).


The festival
The idea for the HAIP festival arose within the 
Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre team which operates 
within Zavod K6/4 in Ljubljana. HAIP is a 
biannual festival that emerged in 2004. The 
festival is conceived to be socially active and 
through it we attempt to reach the very core of 
the issues and themes in the field of intermedia 
art and contemporary scientific communication 
technologies. On the international level the HAIP 
festival presents the works of young perspective 
as well as already established artists, 
theoreticians, creative engineers and groups that 
are oriented into top artistic practices that are 
supported by open standards (regardless whether 
this is from practical or ideological reasons). 
Thus the festival will present individuals and 
groups who creatively and critically deal with 
social development and progress that includes us 
all due to the bloom of the variety of 
possibilities and choice. With this focus the 
HAIP festival supports the research and creation 
of those contemporary artistic and scientific 
practices that surpass the borders of specific 
forms and contents. This is also shown by the 
name of the festival, i.e. »HAIP« - which is an 
acronym for »Hack-Act-Interact-Progress«.

/ The festival encompasses: /

- lectures
- workshops
- exhibition of artworks/ spatial interventions
- performances
- club event
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/On the festival theme/

New nature
Data processing through the synthesis, 
manipulation and characterization of matter on 
the atomic and molecular level (which enables the 
creation of so-called nanostructure materials) 
opens a line of thought as regards the new levels 
of autonomy and life of a certain matter. In the 
attempt to understand the use of matter that is 
in the process of being modified on its atomic 
level (as a multidirectional medium) the focus 
turns towards the specifics and (non)materiality 
of the intermediate spaces - towards contents, 
quantumly transformed through these spaces. This 
means that the artistic medium is established on 
an entirely new - atomic and subatomic level.
In the poetic and performative sense we encounter 
the idea that we can (trans)form reality through 
the manipulation of matter on the atomic level. 
However, the motif for our research of this 
scientific field is not based on the fascination 
we show for the fairytale qualities of the 
'fantastic' images that can be achieved with such 
processes. It is also not based on the monotonous 
connection between science and art, in which art 
is often used merely to illustrate science, while 
both fields fail to establish a dialogue as 
regards their reciprocal potentials. Our motif 
emerges from the intention to establish an 
analytical discourse on the basis of the paradigm 
that it is possible to link the artistic concept, 
creative programming, DIY electronic systems and 
(inanimate) nature into a new expressive content.

Nanocrystals can be understood as ready-mades 
that are not manifested in the form of uniquely 
selected static objects, but are constantly 
changing manipulative 
situations/information/samples. Such feasible 
unpredictable dynamics and hybrid crossbreeding 
of various (un)organic matter with various other 
- mechanical and software - media activates the 
consciousness on nano-cybernetic reality. Through 
this we witness the establishment of a new domain 
within which the Cartesian perception of the 
world has ceased to exist, for the knowledge of 
the world has become an oscillating variable 
between the known (visible) and the unknown 
(invisible).

These phenomenological processes have transformed 
the relations in contemporary life and do not 
present a type of nature and culture in 
themselves. In order for art to function 
subversively in relation to the (monitoring) 
mechanisms (as enabled by informational 
technologies), it has to be experienced as a 
constant anti-culture that is available to all. 
This is why we attempt to democratise art in 
relation to nano technology and science, for here 
it is possible to transform matter in real time 
(on the level of their atomic operation). On a 
certain level these actions are therefore linked 
to political actions or with the affirmative and 
utopic gesture that breaks away from the 
established aesthetic taste and opens the field 
of the unknown, still unarticulated and 
unreflected, where we confront the need to 
reorganise our perception and consequentially 
operation.

Such processes represent medium personification 
which is established in the relation between the 
abstract space of the data and the real space of 
the matter. The chemical equation (as a 
scientific model) no longer functions as a 
hermetic scientific medium, instead it becomes an 
auto-poetic feedback system and a virtual space 
for open/multidirectional communication, which is 
(trans)formed, (re)programmed, synthesised and 
freshly characterized by the user/artist. With 
the absence of the tactile the interactivity is 
manifested in the transcendence of the »senses as 
monocular images in binocular perception« 
(Maurice Merleau-Ponty). Such a perceptive frame 
opens a multidimensional reality, in which 
reality (as an actual organic and inorganic 
presence) reveals the new characteristics of 
spatial dimensions that can transform and 
redefine the understanding of our existence.

Through the development of the new nature - which 
also represents the potential starting point for 
the development of a new artistic expression - we 
are (on the theoretical and empirical level) 
interested in the multimedia quantum/chemically 
generated nanosystem - (in)organic kinetic 
nano-cybernetic sculpture, which has performative 
characteristics in itself. The directness of this 
experience through the broadening of the 
perception within the merger of scientific 
discoveries and the visual communication of 
multimedia art expression and 
patents/equations/systems/data from these 
researches should be offered for the potential 
(co)development and (co)use of intermedia art by 
similarly thinking authors, for this represents 
the main condition for the establishment of a 
qualitative artistic production, which would aid 
the development, pluralisation and expansion of 
intermedia cultural and art fields.

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APPLICATION:
The application has to include the following:
- Filled in application form
- Photo documentation of the project (max 10 jpgs, min 180 dpi)
- Video documentation (DVD, CD, USB flash drive 
or internet connection - in avi, mov or ogg 
format)
- Technical plan of the project

Candidates may also attach additional 
documentation (catalogues, texts and similar).
Original works, incomplete and late applications 
will not be considered in the selection process. 
The attached documentation will not be returned, 
but will remain in the Cyberpipe Multimedia 
Centre/ HAIP10 Festival archive.

Application deadline: 30th April 2010

Invitation and application can be downloaded in 
.odt, .pdf in .doc format on HAIP website: 
http://www.haip.cc

The application form should be sent to the following address:
Contact person: Maja Smrekar

- By mail:
Zavod K6/4, Kiberpipa
Kersnikova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
With the text: "Application for HAIP10 festival"

- By e-mail: haip at kiberpipa.org

The selection of the projects that will be 
realised and presented at the HAIP10 festival 
will be concluded in May 2010. Only successful 
candidates will be notified.

Information about application and festival also available on:
http://www.haip.cc

Thank you for spreading the word about this call for participation!