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[Jessica Coates <j2.coates AT qut.edu.au>]

Title: CALL - URBAN SCREENS 08 - for film, video and projects and posters presentations

Hey all

 

Call for input to Urban Screens Melbourne 08 below - just in case anyone has a multimedia project that 'interrogates screen media as a medium and tackles the festival’s key themes of issues of building community and sustainability in relation to water' lying around.

 

Jessica Coates

Project Manager

Creative Commons Clinic

Queensland University of Technology

 

ph: 07 3138 8301

fax: 07 3138 9598

email: j2.coates AT qut.edu.au

 

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From: Mirjam Struppek [mailto:mirjam.struppek AT urbanscreens.net]
Sent: Monday, 14 April 2008 6:11 AM
To: exhibition AT urbanscreens.net
Subject: CALL - URBAN SCREENS 08 - for film, video and projects and posters presentations

Dear Friends and 
colleagues, 
I would very much appreciate it if you could help distribute our 
calls.
Thank you!
Best regards, Mirjam


Calls for Urban 
Screens Melbourne 08 – film&video, multimedia projects and poster 
presentations


******************************************************************** 
Urban Screens Melbourne 08 
Conference “mobile publics” 3 – 5 
October 2008
Multimedia exhibition 3 – 8 October 
2008
www.urbanscreens08.net

Deadline for 
submission (poster presentations): 24. May 2008
Deadline for submission (fim&video/projects): 31. May 
2008

******************************************************************** 

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking 
international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide 
events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving 
images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International 
Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation 
Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented 
multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED 
screen.


CALL FOR FILM&VIDEO and MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS 
********************

The Urban Screens 08 exhibition is looking for 
Artists, Urban Poets, Filmmakers and Multimedia and Interaction Designers to 
submit film and videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen based 
projects. A large diverse urban screens infrastructure is available at 
Federation Square.

Criteria

We are looking for existing and 
potentially adaptable projects that interrogate screen media as a medium| 
content and tackle the festival’s key themes of issues of building community and 
sustainability in relation to water. These two complex themes aim to provoke 
discussion and spark questions such as: What is community in times of the 
high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? How can we explore the 
diversity of water, an element, essential to the existence of life on earth? 

For a detailed description of the event and curatorial framework see 
www.urbanscreens08.net/art-+-events
For a detailed description of Fed 
Squares infrastructure see 
www.urbanscreens08.net/technical

The 
projects should preferably employ one or more of the listed existing 
infrastructure of urban screens of Fed Square and should consider and adapt to 
the special circumstances of outdoor public spaces, transforming urban spaces to 
foster dialogue and community engagement. We are looking for:

A) Film 
and video such as

-    Video art, text art, animation, 
animated slideshows, or fictional advertisements and community information 
(under 3 min.)
-    Silent works especially for the joint 
broadcasting or daily screenings in-between (under 3 min.)
- 
   Short experimental films, documentary and journalistic content 
(under 15 min.)
-    Small curated programs of the mentioned 
type of works

B) Interactive, performance based or participatory 
projects such as

-    Interactive software 
applications for urban screens
-    Participatory community 
projects using creative digital practices
-    Live media art 
merging performance and new media
-    Community displays for 
education and exchange
-    Virtual/real world hybrid projects 
using streaming content
-    Real-time generated content
- 
   Screen related sound experiments
- 
   Digital storytelling projects
-    Mobile 
games using urban space as social and educative playground
- 
   Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban 
screens


CALL FOR POSTERS ********************

To bridge 
the Conference and the Multimedia Exhibition, we are looking for posters about 
the latest development of Urban Screens. They will be displayed in a public 
exhibition in the Atrium next to the conference venue. Conference will be 
encouraged to get in exchange with the authors during the breaks. Eight 
submissions will be additionally shown in an experimental presentation on the 
four outdoor I-sites around Federation Square. These are equiped with an 
integrated screen, which offer the possibility to present remotely via scheduled 
skype sessions, while the audience gathers in groups around 
them.

Criteria

Posters are aimed at presenting the latest 
development in this interdisciplinary field of Urban Screens. Posters are ideal 
for presenting speculative, late-breaking results of ongoing research projects, 
drawing important conclusions from practical experiments, for giving an 
introduction to innovative art works or new practical design applications, 
reports on cutting edge technologies and content management systems under 
development. 

Posters will be reviewed by the Poster Committee, soon to 
be announced. Authors of accepted submissions must provide a one or two page 
summary for publication in the conference proceedings. Selected submissions will 
also be published on-line on the International Urban Screens Association 
website.


APPLICATION AND DETAILED CALL 
********************

Please have a look at the detailed calls and the 
official online forms for application,  available at: 
http://www.urbanscreens08.net/callforprojects

CONTACT

exhibition AT urbanscreens.net 
 
(please use the subject “USM08 - question concerning the 
CALL”)


MAJOR EXHIBITION SPONSORS 

International Urban 
Screens Association - www.urbanscreens.net
Fed Square Pty Ltd - 
www.federationsquare.com
Barco ‘visibly yours’ - www.barco.com
Circus - 
www.circusexp.com
Pinnacle ‘Production Services’ - 
www.pinnacleps.com.au


Best regards,
Mirjam 
Struppek
_______________________________________
URBAN SCREENS MELBOURNE 
08
www.urbanscreens08.net
Artistic Director 

International Urban 
Screens Association 
www.urbanscreens.net
Rheinsberger Str. 68
D-10115 
Berlin