[spectre] MULTIPLACE festival 2011 / Call for REMAKEs of performances/events/collaborations

[slavo krekovic]

MULTIPLACE FESTIVAL 2011 // 2 – 8 May 2011 // culture & creativity after 
the digital // Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Cluj, Nantes, Reykjavik…

+ OPEN CALL FOR NEW MEDIA ART REMAKES: PERFORMANCES, ARTWORKS, EVENTS, 
COLLABORATIONS
Multiplace festival 2011 invites artists, groups and cultural workers to 
submit „REMAKE“ artworks / events / performances / installations / ideas 
such as (online, audiovisual, sound, …) performances, streaming and 
radio projects, collaborative networked projects, lectures and workshops 
that are INSPIRED BY PIONEERING experimental pieces of NEW MEDIA ART 
HISTORY in different European countries.

Submitted projects will be proposed to participating venues and 
organisers in several cities (Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Cluj, Nantes, 
Reykjavík and others). These will assist in providing the infrastructure 
(technical equipment, internet connection, material, staff, etc) for the 
project (if needed).

+ HOW TO SUBMIT
You are welcome to submit your proposal via email: projects at 
multiplace dot org, or at http://multiplace.org.

+ DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
Please note that your submission has to be posted by March 18, 2011.


+ DETAILS / WHAT IS:

+ REMAKE
We are looking for artistically challenging projects and artworks 
INSPIRED BY PIONEERING experimental pieces of (new) media art history in 
different European countries. Use of digital technologies is not a 
crucial requirement. Submitted works do not have to be explicit and 
literal REMAKEs of older pieces, but should present an innovative, 
up-to-date approach to the particular historical artistic concepts / works.

+ NEW MEDIA ART
„New media art is a genre that encompasses artworks created with new 
media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer 
animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art technologies, 
computer robotics, and art as biotechnology.“ (Wikipedia)

+ REMAKE PROJECT
The REMAKE - REthinking Media Artworks in C(K)ollaborative Environments 
project is building upon MONOSKOP, a collaborative research on media art 
and culture in Europe, conducted in the recent years. Monoskop examines 
the social context of historical developments in media arts in Europe 
(with special focus on Central and Eastern Europe). Its analysis of 
sociopoetic conditions of art and technology crossings from 1960s to 
2000s draws upon the undertakings in experimental and avantgarde film, 
performance art, computer art, video art, experimental music, sound art, 
and media theory. The project (2010-2012) is supported by the Culture 
program of the European Union.
Monoskop research: 
http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Media_art_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe
Remake project website: http://www.remakeme.eu

MULTIPLACE
Multiplace is a decentralized network of people and organisations 
interested in interaction between media, technologies, art, culture and 
society. Network activities culminate every year into the festival, that 
is happening parallely at several locations in the world. Its program is 
open to workshops, installations, discussions, concerts, performances, 
exhibitions, presentations, screenings and especially new forms of 
creativity. Original focus on the new media culture has been evolving 
since 2002 and besides the technological aspect of digital media in art, 
the focus shifted also to questions related to its aesthetical, social, 
cultural, legal and political issues.
http://multiplace.org

CONTACT
For more information about the call, specification of the artwork and 
proposal submissions please write to: projects at multiplace dot org / 
or / babuta at 34 dot sk