[spectre] Transitio_MX05 new media art festival: open call for artworks

[Joanna Zylinska]

OPEN CALL FOR ARTWORKS

The New Media Art and Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX, taking place 
bianually in Mexico City, is one of the most important events in Latin 
America that facilitate the presentation and analysis of contemporary 
artistic practices by means of technology and digital culture. The 
event's main objective is to support, recognize and disseminate current 
research and production around artistic media technology through an 
exhibition, a competition, a symposium and a series of workshops. The 
first edition of the festival was held in 2005. Since then each edition 
of TRANSITIO_MX has had a specific theme. TRANSITIO_MX05 in 2013 will 
address the issue of Biomediations. Joanna Zylinska of Goldsmiths, 
University of London, will be its first ever international Artistic 
Director.

The Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), through 
the Centro Multimedia of Centro Nacional de las Artes (CENART), has 
issued an open call for a competation that will be part of 
TRANSITIO_MX05. Submissions are accepted for the following awards:

TRANSITIO_MX PRIZE

Open to all artists aged 18 and over, Mexicans and foreign, and to 
artistic collectives, it solicits works in the area of technological and 
digital media artistic production as well as hybrid productions 
generated at the intersection between art, science, technology and the 
human.

• First prize valued at $120,000.00 (One hundred and twenty-thousand 
pesos 00/100)
• Second prize valued at $80,000.00 (Eighty thousand pesos 00/100)
• Third prize valued at $60,000.00 (Sixty thousand pesos 00/100)
• Honorable mentions

• TRANSITIO_MX PRIZE FOR YOUNG MEXICAN ARTISTS

Targetting young Mexicans residing in Mexico or abroad (between 18 and 
25 years of age on the closing date of this announcement).

• Prize valued at $40,000.00 (Forty-thousand pesos 00/100)
• Honorable mentions

The awards ceremony will take place as part of the New Media Art and 
Video Festival TRANSITIO_MX05, to be celebrated in Mexico City through 
September 20 to 29, 2013.

*** Although the festival itself is themed, this open call competition 
accepts all kinds of works, as long as they: (1) are related to 
electronic/new media arts, either on a conceptual or technical level; 
(2) have an interdisciplinary and/or experimental character. ***

Further details, in English and Spanish, about the submission process 
are available here:
http://transitiomx05.conaculta.gob.mx/

-- 
Professor Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net

Curator of Photomediations Machine
http://photomediationsmachine.net

Artistic Director of the Festival of New Media and Video Transitio_MX05 "Biomediations" in Mexico City in 2013

New book: Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/life-after-new-media-0