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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;"><b>ArtUP! Media art in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey<br></b><br><b>OPEN CALL for projects<br>'Home/s', media art exhibition</b><br><font style="" color="#AC193D"><br></font><font style="" color="#AC193D">Deadline for submissions: Friday, July 26, 2013</font><br><br>After
the exhibition 'Neighborhood X.0' (2012) in Ankara and a series of
exhibitions under the title 'PARABOLE' (running until 25/07/2013) in
several cities in Bulgaria, ArtUP! is preparing the next exhibition
'Home/s' in collaboration with the Benaki Museum in Athens.<br><br><span style="display:inline;">ArtUP!
invites artists from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey to submit their work
for the exhibition 'Home/s' that will take place in Athens and will be
curated by Daphne Dragona and Katerina Gkoutziouli. <br><br>'Home/s'
will aim to explore the notion of 'home' in times of constant
connectivity and to discuss its emerging relocations and
transformations. Influenced by Vilém Flusser's writings, the
exhibition's starting point will be home's fundamental contradiction.
Offering us the essential sense of belonging, home provides us with a
context through which we recognize the world but at the same time it
prevents us from really seeing it. Made 'not of conscious rules' but
rather of 'unconscious habits' which cover us as 'a fluffy blanket', it
provides a comforting ground which safe as it may be, unavoidably it
allows little room for shifts and changes. But where is home today?
Which habits tie us to it? How we perceive our habits through
technology? And how can we overcome their constraints? <br><br>The new
ARTUP! exhibition wishes to offer possible answers to these questions
and to comment on the different ways of 'feeling at home' in the
networked era. It will particularly examine how a new sense of belonging
has been shaped with the proliferation of networked technologies, which
is enabled by our mediated presence and empowered by affect. Are these
innumerous connections built among citizens from different countries in
periods of insurrection and unrest the new home for the many? Are the
possibilities given for borderless communication the answer for the ones
that need to be on the move? Are we really home within the networks?
And how can technology capture, affect or change our feeling of
belonging? <br><br>A redefinition of the notion of home will be
attempted through the presentation of different art projects and
creative practices from the three participating countries. <br><br>The
exhibition 'Home/s' will take place from October 11 to November 17, 2013
at the Benaki Museum (Pireos Annex) in Athens. 'Home/s' will be also
presented online on the ArtUP! website. <br><br>Detailed information about the submission process and the exhibition is available at the following link: <br><br><a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/lp/prj/art/opc/enindex.htm" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(59, 89, 152);text-decoration:none;">http://www.goethe.de/ins/tr/<wbr>lp/prj/art/opc/enindex.htm</a></span></span> </div></body>
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