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Digital Zoo - OPEN CALL Furtherfield Commission interactive mobile
artwork.
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Deadline 5pm 6 January 2014
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Commission Award: £2,000
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Deadline 5pm 6 January 2014
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Launch: 11 February 2014
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We are commissioning a new interactive mobile artwork to feature
in Digital Zoo, an art exhibition that will tour to 6 shopping
centres across the UK in 2014.
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In this exhibition shoppers will be invited to experience the
wonders, delights and fascinations of contemporary life in the
“world wild web” - through art installations, projections and
workshops.
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The commission will be a new or existing work that engages people
through their mobile phones – taking the everyday activities and
environments of the different shopping centres as their context
and playground.
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The commissioned work will need to have a distinctive character in
each different location.
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We are interested in critical and playful works that change
shoppers normal experience by connecting them with each other in
unusual ways in their natural habitat – momentarily or for ever.
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The work may take the form of an app, a game, an interactive sms,
a treasure hunt, citizen documentary or choreography,
psychogeography or ethology. It should work well across all mobile
devices to enable the widest possible participation and would
ideally include some interface that makes visible the live
interaction.
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Why Digital Zoo?
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A trip to the zoo is still considered a good day out for all the
family- its unique mix of experiences and encounters- surprising,
smelly, tragic and beautiful.
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By exchanging personal information with increasing frequency in
every moment, on the move, we perform our daily digital lives in
public for each other, as if in a public zoo. We are the animals
and the visitors, the hunters, trackers, observers, naturalists,
zoo-keepers, and educators and pundits.
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The social effects of this collective public performance are
still unknown. Digital Zoo invites everyone to take a few moments
out from their shopping to marvel at the new ecology of human and
digital behaviours as they come into existence.
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Digital Zoo is curated and produced in partnership with
CultureCode and Land Securities.
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Digital Zoo is supported by Arts Council England through the
Strategic Touring Funding Scheme.
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More about the Digital Zoo Touring Show
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Commission Award: £2,000
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Key dates
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Deadline for application: Monday 6 January 2014, 5pm
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Announcement: Monday 13 January 2014
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Production period: 15 January – 10 February 2014
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Delivery: 11 February 2014
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Launch: 13 February 2014
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Public opening: 14 February 2014
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The Application Process
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Please send an application in the form of a single PDF document to
include:
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- a project outline (600 words max), describing the artwork you
would like to deliver, your approach and how it addresses the
touring exhibitions themes.
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- a CV with selected links to interactive works and relevant
previous experience.
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- timeline: briefly describe how you will ensure that the project
is delivered on time
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- budget: include a breakdown of all expected costs
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- maintenance plan/arrangements
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Send the application electronically to Alessandra Scapin at
aleATfurtherfield.org by 5pm on Monday 06 January 2014.
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Please enter 'Digital Zoo commission' in subject header.
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If you have any questions please contact Alessandra Scapin by
email. Applicants will be notified about the success of their
proposal by Monday 13 January 2014. Upon entering your proposal
you will receive a confirmation email. Sorry but we will not be
able to offer any feedback to unsuccessful applications.
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