[spectre] CALL FOR AUDIO-VISUAL ARTISTS: MADATAC 05

[info at transfera.es]

VIDEOART & NEW MEDIA AUDIO-VISUAL ART CALL

Spain and International/ It is left open without restrictions a call to 
select, by means of a criteria in which will be valued particularly the 
experimentation, the innovation and the risk, the creations of all those 
audio-visual artists who wish that their works are part of the 
TRANSMADATAC project. This project is dedicated to divulge Video Art and 
Audio Visual-Art in all its modalities, any processes of image-sound 
interaction without exclusion of experimental-expanded cinema, with the 
aim to disclose to the great public a view of the consolidated video 
artists and offer a platform for all those emergent video artists with a 
future projection who contribute with renewing proposals, avoid 
conventional visual language and does not find their place in other mass 
media spaces. All the received material will enter, unless the authors 
express the contrary, in the selection for the V Edition of MADATAC, the 
Contemporary Audio-Visual & New Media Arts Festival, that Transfera 
Media Arts will organize in December 2013 in Madrid, Spain. This event 
will serve to prize the best videos among the ones selected by an 
international jury.



MADATAC AWARDS
(Official International Competitive Section)

Five awards of a cutting-edge sculpture, with the internacional artistic 
and professional  recognition implicit in receiving this already 
prestigious award, besides forming part of the works selected to 
represent MADATAC in diverse worldwide special programs and events.

.BEST VIDEO ART WORK AWARD
.MOST INNOVATIVE WORK AWARD
.MOST PROMISING VIDEO ARTIST AWARD
.BEST VISUAL-AURAL INTERACTION AWARD
.SPECIAL AUDIENCE AWARD (voted by the festival audiences)


TRANSFERA AWARDS

MADATAC and the auction house, Subastas Segre will select three of the 
winning pieces to be sold at a public auction at 18, Calle Segre, Madrid 
on February 2013. The works will be exhibited from the first week of the 
same month. The starting price will be fixed by the auction house for 
editions of 3 copies on DVD. Artists will receive the final sale price 
less a percentage commission for administration and sale fees.


METRÓPOLIS SELECTION
The well-known TV programme, Metrópolis (shown on Channel 2 of Spanish 
public television) will select works from the Official International 
Section which will be shown in a special programme dedicated to MADATAC 
to be broadcast after the festival on TVE2.




. There are not restrictions for the age of the participants, nor for 
the amount of material desired to send.

. The participants must send their works, preferable not to exceed the 
20’ although we made exceptions if the video merits it, in mpeg, mov or 
similar files (at least 720x576 16:9 resolution, preferably HD, on a 
dvd, small hard disk or pen drive), with quality for broadcasting, 
mandatory Spanish subtitles if there are words, text or dialog in 
another language, two jpg stills of the video, a brief CV and a filled 
and signed form agreement for broadcast permission.


. The interested can also send a brief promotional video statement about 
themselves and their work (not more than 4’).


. There is no criteria as to the subject of the works, (we accept video 
art, digital art, computer art, media art, live cinema, found footage, 
video installation, audio-visual performance, human-machine interaction, 
technological art creation, bio-art, etc) though the IV edition of 
MADATAC will give preponderance to the concept:  TRANSmorph REALITY

. The submitted and selected works will not be shown or rewarded in any 
other festival or event that take place 6 months before in the Community 
of Madrid and 3 months before in the internacional arena, or during the 
celebration of MADATAC, in order to maintain some exclusivity of the work.

. Transfera cannot return the sent material.


. Participation in this project implies the acceptance of all its rules.


. This year deadline (post stamped) is June 28th, 2013.


. To receive more information on the call please write to: info at madatac.es


. All materials has to be sent to the following address:


MADATAC/TRANSFERA
C/Galeno 41
28232 Las Rozas
Madrid ESPAÑA (SPAIN)



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