[spectre] Call for Artists : Screengrab (Australia)

[Goodwin, Mitch]

Deadline : Monday July 02
2012 Theme :  Control
Prize  :  AUS $5000
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The 2012 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.

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                    2012 Award Theme
The contemporary media milieu would suggest an evolving devolution of the traditional notion of the "society of control".  The boundaries of enclosures and spaces are no longer the rigid and defined perimeters they once were.  The browser, the mobile camera/screen are new enabling simulations the user canexploit to navigate alternative pathways, to experience new modes of expression and to participate in global cultural exchange.
This is reflected online and on the street. In our political discourse and our social interactions. And it is most visible when repatriated via the mainstream media and traditional news editorials coupled with wild proclamations of “new freedoms” accompanied by “real change”.
Yet what has reallychanged?  What do these new counter measures look like on the ground?  Where do the subversions play out? What new questions are we asking of our environment and of ourselves?
In the same evolving moment new far less visible forms of control are emerging that use these very same technological platforms: surveillance networks, social media, data mining algorithms, privacy interventions, sophisticated image gathering techniques and drone technologies. These aggregators of data and network traffic are rapidly translating our private, public and social lives into valuable sets of relational data – re-writing the notion of identity, weaving new paradigms of control.
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                       The Call Out
SCREENGRAB is now entering its fourth year with an international call out for the AUS$5000 New Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition in August 2012 for short listed applicants. We invite digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.
All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D & 3D animation.
Existing worx and those specifically designed for the award must address the theme of CONTROL to beeligible for the New Media Arts award.
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Prize Money:  AUS $5000
Artefact deadline:  July 2
Exhibition Opening & Award announcement : August 10
Application Form : http://screengrab.info

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug."
- John Lithgow

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This project is sponsored by James Cook University's School of Creative Arts and the eMergeMedia Space.

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