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amber'13 calls are open: "Did you plug it in?" </h1><div>1-10 NO<span class="tab">VEMBER</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab">ISTANBUL 2013<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span class="tab"></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span class="tab"><br></span></div>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> <div><strong><em>call for artworks and papers </em></strong><br>deadline for artworks & papers: <strong><span style="background-color:yellow;">20th of May 2013 </span></strong><br>submit your work on <a href="http://submissions.amberplatform.org/" target="_blank">http:// submissions.amberplatform.org</a></div>
<div>amberFestival is interested in interactive installations and papers that explore its title</div>
<div><big><strong><br></strong></big></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;"><big><strong>"DID YOU PLUG IT IN?"</strong><br> Fool Your Smartness</big></div>
<div>Smart phones, smart tickets, smart cities, smart buildings, smart living, smart economies, smart moves...</div>
<div>Smart abounds in the market-speak of today's technologically
sophisticated conditions. The ever-growing inflation of smartness,
fostered in large part by the pervasiveness of digital technologies,
hails us from all directions. Smart appears as a strategic device that
qualifies all sorts of acts and objects under the hegemony of the
economy-political logic of consumption, profit and control. New and
ever-smarter products of all kinds pop-up regularly and one risks being
left behind by not heeding the call, the constant invitation to try out
and to consume the latest.</div>
<div><br></div><div>While smartness is praised and suggested as a sort of power to be
possessed, foolishness becomes those moments and spaces in which we
encounter with critical interrogation, creative thinking and
deconstruction. We suggest foolishness as a category of thought and a
tactical positioning to bring out the subversive potential of smart
technologies.</div>
<div>We invite artworks and papers that rethink, open up and resist
foolishness in this year’s festival entitled, “Did you plug it in?”</div>
<div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">We see the theme as a tool to think and work with, and the festival
as an opportunity to raise an artistic voice. You alone will define that
voice. The works selected among the applications to this international
call, will be exhibited at amber'13 Art and Technology Festival. We also
encourage outdoor interactive installations.</div>
<div>For more information <span>see: www.amberplatform.org</span><a href="mailto:info@amberplatform.org"></a></div>
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