<div>Sorry for any cross posting...<br></div><div><br></div><div>State Machines launches an open call for a new commissioned artistic project<b style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br></b><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.6px" class="size">Open Call for works</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.6px" class="size">Deadline: 31/01/2018</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.6px" class="size">State Machines is a programme of activities devoted to the investigation of new relationships between states, citizens and the stateless made possible by emerging technologies. Focussing on how such technologies impact identity and citizenship, digital labour and finance, the project joins five experienced partners – Aksioma (Slovenia), Drugo more (Croatia), Furtherfield (UK), Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands) and NeMe (Cyprus) together with a range of artists, curators, theorists and<span> </span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://audiences.www.statemachines.eu/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://audiences.www.statemachines.eu&source=gmail&ust=1516964575304000&usg=AFQjCNEqDEIzgNBCw0_YuCho3ovuCKM35w" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">audiences.www.statemachines.eu</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.6px" class="size">Every time a smartphone powers up, their user is tied inextricably into data, laws and flowing bytes to different countries. Their every personal expression is framed and mediated by digital platforms which now include those operating new kinds of currencies, financial exchange, and labour relations that bypass corporations and governments.Meanwhile these same technologies increase governmental powers of surveillance, allow corporations to extract ever more complex working arrangements, and, although seemingly the epitome of globalization, they do little to slow the construction of actual walls along actual borders.</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.6px" class="size">We ask how might the digital subjects of today become active, engaged, and effective digital citizens of tomorrow?</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.6px" class="size">State Machines now launches an open call for a new commissioned artistic project.</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)" class="highlight"><span style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34)" class="colour"><span style="font-family:arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.6px" class="size">See here for details</span></span></span></span><br></div><div><a class="m_1912076943325465540moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.statemachines.eu/projects/open-call-for-works/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://www.statemachines.eu/projects/open-call-for-works/&source=gmail&ust=1516964575304000&usg=AFQjCNGNSZzPfhcit8hrmrQN7oUq_8NtLQ" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://www.statemachines.eu/projects/open-call-for-works/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user"><div>Marc Garrett<br></div><div><br></div><div>Co-Founder, Co-Director and main editor of Furtherfield.<br></div><div>Art, technology and social change, since 1996<br></div><div><a href="http://www.furtherfield.org">http://www.furtherfield.org</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park<br></div><div><div>Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ<a href="http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery"><br>http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery<br></a></div></div><div>Currently writing a PhD at Birkbeck University, London<br></div><div><a href="https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett">https://birkbeck.academia.edu/MarcGarrett<br></a></div><div>Just published: Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain<br></div><div>Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones, & Sam Skinner<br></div><div>Liverpool Press - <a href="http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK">http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton">Sent with <a href="https://protonmail.com">ProtonMail</a> Secure Email.<br></div></div><div><br></div>