[spectre] ORGAN VIDA OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS

[Klara Petrović]

ORGAN VIDA International Photography Organization based in Croatia invites
artists from all over the world who work in the medium of photography as
such or in an expanded form, video and sound, installation, collage to
apply to this open call and respond to the given topic: HESITANT IMAGES.
Members of an international jury (*Christian Siekmeier, Katrina Sluis,
Steph Kretowicz, Mirjam Kooiman, Vesna Mestric*) will have the task of
evaluating and selecting 10 artworks that respond to the questions raised
in the open call.

The selected artists will exhibit their work at the main curated exhibition
during the 11th ORGAN VIDA — International Photography Festival at the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, opening *June 17th 2020.*

Send your artwork (at least one project with up to 25 photographs, images,
sketches) via the Picter platform.
> https://contests.picter.com/organ-vida-open-call-2020-hesitant-images
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*OPEN UNTIL: 24 March, 11:59 PM*

: : : : : : HESITANT IMAGES : : : : : :

The accessibility and continuous development of digital imaging
technologies and the drastic popularization of social media, especially
those that are visually-based, have defined the previous decade and led to
the pervasiveness of the photographic image – from private communication,
marketing and video game industries, to contemporary art. "Networked
technologies," writes Astra Taylor, were supposed to "put professionals and
amateurs on an even playing field, or even give the latter an advantage,"
and to enable artists and writers to "thrive without institutional backing"
and "reach their audiences directly." But the initial optimism, based on
the presumed democratic but also aesthetic potential of digital culture,
subsided once it became apparent that market interests were hindering a
radical transformation of digital cultural production and distribution.

Reflecting on the crisis of representation, Hito Steyerl suggests that the
popularization of visual representation through digital technologies has
caused a serious crisis of political representation: "Visual representation
matters, indeed, but not exactly in unison with other forms of
representation. There is a serious imbalance between both. One the one
hand, there is a huge number of images without referents; on the other,
many people without representation."

Furthermore, visual culture has, to some extent, been homogenised by
computer-generated images, digital filters and other image manipulation
methods, which have also created new types of images that cannot be
understood in terms of the existing aesthetic categories. Images that tend
to replicate rather than represent. Should representation be replaced with
replication, writes Steyerl, "what emerges is not the image of the body,
but the body of the image on which the information itself is but a thin
surface or differentiation, shaped by different natural, technological or
political forces."

The 11th edition of Organ Vida focuses on the materiality of the image. We
are interested in images that are political primarily in terms of how
rather than what they represent. Images that offer a specific form of the
intersection of facts and fiction, that are simultaneously explicitly
"fake", "unreal", "falsified" and "authentic", but whose authenticity is
manifested by showing the tensions and contradictions of contemporary
digital culture. Images that aim to expand not the spectrum of the
represented, but representation itself. Images that count upon their own
commodification, using artistic intervention to semantically complicate and
compound and bring to light precisely those processes that had led to its
commodification, but without depriving us of fantasy. Images that
self-reflect and encourage reflection. Images that unhesitatingly display
hesitation.

We are interested in innovative photographic forms, but also various visual
art projects – videos, installations, performances – that proceed from the
photographic image, but at the same time relativize and/or expand it, step
out into the space or transform into motion.

References:
Steyerl, Hito. “Ripping reality: Blind spots and wrecked data in 3D“. URL:
https://www.eipcp.net/e/projects/heterolingual/files/hitosteyerl/index.html
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Steyerl, Hito. “The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation“,
URL:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/32/68260/the-spam-of-the-earth-withdrawal-from-representation/
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Taylor, Astra. 2014. The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture
in the Digital Age. Random House Canada.


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*Curator and project manager at KONTEJNER <https://www.kontejner.org/>|
bureau of contemporary art praxis and ORGAN VIDA <https://organvida.com/>*
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*ORGAN VIDA FESTIVAL / JUNE 2020*
*TOUCH ME FESTIVAL / SEPTEMBER 2020*
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