[Air-l] CFP Medi at terra 2001

Thu Jun 7 07:20:29 PDT 2001

Medi at terra 2001
International Art and Technology Festival
http://www.mediaterra.org

De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing

14 September - 15 October 2001
Lavrion-Athens >> Sofia - Plovdiv >> Maribor >> Frankfurt

The Medi at terra Festival is among the cultural events which are 
organised in the context of the Olympic Games of 2004 in Athens

CALL FOR PROJECTS

The annual Medi at terra Festival is changing form.  Under the title 
De-Globalizing / Re-Globalizing, the Festival is travelling from the 
South to the North in the form of a microMuseum.

Medi at terra, having developed an intense activity around the questions 
posed by digital culture, has been included among the events which 
are organised on the opportunity of the Olympic Games of 2004 in 
Athens.  Its inclusion in the Cultural Olympiad for the years 2001 - 
2004 has recently been announced.

Medi at terra supports and puts into practice the view of a continuously 
evolving festival, both in terms of its form and ideas.  As such, it 
invites all those with an interest in research and experimentation 
around the new conditions that are now being shaped to take part in 
its new effort: a moving Festival that will start off from Greece, 
travel through the Balkans and end up in Germany.
This movement will be made through a microMuseum: a small, adaptable 
structure which, making use of new technology, can contain a large 
number of works of art, views, proposals and presentations, as well 
as systems and friendly areas for communication and meetings.  The 
works that will travel with the microMuseum are ones which experiment 
with the new platforms for the production and exhibition of the 
modern art work through different creative media.  The  microMuseum 
is based on the logic of the kiosk that one finds mainly in Greece 
(peripteron), with a reference at the same time to the concept of the 
'small museum,' an idea which began in the 16th century and continues 
among today's artists.

In each host city, the events of Medi at terra will be set up within and 
around the microMuseum: CD-ROM art, net art, computer art, digital 
photography, interactive objects and "hand luggage-sized" 
installations, sound environments and electronic music, screenings, 
an archive with printed matter, texts in digital form, audio-visual 
propositions and presentations as well as cultural events organised 
by the artists and art centres of each city.  A debate on the subject 
of the other side of globalisation will round off the activities of 
the Festival.

An art centre in each city-stop will undertake the setting up and 
realisation of the microMuseum in collaboration with its various 
associates, and will participate as a co-organiser in the 
preparations and making of decisions.  In addition, each centre will 
be able to take part in Medi at terra's journey as a member of the 
"Pilot Operating Net" via the Internet.  Through the Internet it will 
be possible to follow the path of the microMuseum and participate in 
its events from a distance, from every point on the globe.  The 
"Pilot Operating Net" is initiated by the network of centres which 
co-organise the festival, while all the members of the network can 
observe, guide, disseminate information and participate with work and 
activities in the unfolding events of the journey.

The microMuseum will start from the city of Lavrion, famous from the 
antiquity for its silver-mines that have supported the Hellenic 
Democracy of the Golden Age, whilst in the 19th century the first 
industrial unit was created there. Today, this unit has been turned 
into a technological park and the Municipality is participating in a 
programme for the "smart city."

  Medi at terra will continue its journey through the cities of Sofia & 
Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Maribor (Slovenia), ending up at the 
International Book Fair in Frankfurt where the honoured country this 
year is Greece.  Here, the microMuseum will present, along with all 
the things experienced on the journey, material with information 
(videos, photographs, texts, etc.) which artists will have produced 
throughout the duration of the journey.

Important Dates
Submission of:
VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION
NET ART & CD ROM
SOUND ART & ELECTRONIC MUSIC
COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Material for the ARCHIVE & E-BOOKs 
		20 July

Submission of proposals for  INTERACTIVE OBJECTS / INTERACTIVE 
INSTALLATIONS		31 June

 VIDEO ART & COMPUTER ANIMATION					  
Conditions of participation:
- The work should be in mini DV or VHS format, PAL system
- It can be in any language.  English sub-titles essential.

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001

 INTERACTIVE OBJECT / INSTALLATION
Conditions of participation:
- The work, when packed, should have maximum dimensions those of an 
item of hand luggage so as to be transportable (61 x 25 x 41 cm)
- It should be interactive
- It should be packed in a wooden or metal case or container "hand 
luggage-sized"  (it should not require extra packing)
- It should be technologically autonomous
- It should be easy to set up by someone without specialised knowledge
- It should weigh up to 20 kilos
- It should be accompanied by guidelines for its use/exhibition

Submission Deadline for Proposal/Design: 31/06/2001
In the case that the proposal is selected, the work must be completed 
by 25 August 2001.

 INTERACTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA
- INTERNET
- CD-ROM

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001

 DIGITAL SOUND ART AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC
Conditions of participation:
- The work should be in wav audio format (stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16bit) 
AND in mp3 format (96 or 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, stereo), on CD-ROM
- It should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes
- It should have been created within the last two years

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001

 COMPUTER ART & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Conditions of Participation:
- The work should have maximum dimensions 10 x 15 cm
- It can be printed on all kinds of paper
- It should be unframed

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001

 ARCHIVE of the microMuseum
- This can include electronic books, proposals, biographies, 
portraits, testimonies, etc. in digital, internet or printed form 
(video, CD-ROM, internet, printed matter).  The content can be: a 
message from the creator, a presentation by an artist, a demo, a 
documentary or a proposal. More specifically:

For VIDEO
- The work should be in mini DV format
- It should have a maximum duration of 5 minutes

For CD-ROM, INTERNET:
- The work should be PC compatible

For PRINTED MATTER:
- The printed  matter can be in any language, so long as it is 
accompanied by a summary of the contents in English.

For e-BOOKS
- The texts must should be on one of the following themes: a) journey 
from the South to the North, b) from the other side of globalization, 
c) from the small to the large, d) from the single to the multiple
- It can be scientific, literary, an essay, personal, a diary, 
thoughts, suggestions, even a comic, in digital form
- It should be forwarded in English
- It can be from 500 to 10,000 words

For DIGITAL MUSIC
- The work should have a  maximum duration of 8 minutes
- It should be designed to function adequately if reproduced by the 
multimedia hardware available on an average computer (medium sized 
desktop stereo speakers and sound blaster class audio / mini card).

Submission Deadline: 20/07/2001

HOW TO DECLARE YOUR PARTICIPATION

Fill in the Entry Form that you will find at www.mediaterra.org and 
send it along with the material required for each category, as 
described above, to the Fournos Centre for Art and New Technologies

* by post: 168 Mavromichali Street, 114 72, Athens
* by fax: +301 6470 069
* by e-mail: info at fournos-culture.gr

For more information, contact Daphne Dragona, In Charge of 
Communication and Co-ordination of the Festival by telephone on +301 
6460 748 or +301 6420 451 or Email daphne at fournos-culture.gr

Medi at terra 2001 International Art and Technology Festival
Is organized by:

 Fournos Center for Art and New Technologies

 Hellenic Ministry of Culture

 Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, Cultural Olympiad 2001 - 2004

 Lavrion Municipal Development Enterprise

Is co-organized by:

 ArtToday Foundation [Bulgaria]

 Student Computer Art Society [Bulgaria]

 Multimedia Lab KIBLA [Slovenia]

 Intima Virtual Base [Slovenia]

 European Media Art Festival [Germany]

 CICV Pierre Schaeffer / next-movies [France]

MEDI at TERRA 2001 - STEERING COMMITTEE
Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi at terra & Director of Fournos
Dodo Santorineou, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi at terra
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi at terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of 
the Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Zoe Kazazaki, Head of the International Organizations Department, 
Hellenic Ministry of Culture
Maria Theodorou, Adviser of the Hellenic Cultural Heritage SA, 
Cultural Olympiad 2001 - 2004
Andreas Nefeloudis, Director of the Lavrion Municipal Development Enterprise

MEDI at TERRA 2001 - PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
Manthos Santorineos, Artistic Director of Medi at terra & Director of Fournos
Maria X, Co-Director of Fournos and Medi at terra
Maria Roussou, Head of the Virtual Reality Department, Foundation of 
the Hellenic World
Dimos Dimitriou, Artist
Dimitris Kamarotos, Composer-Musicologist
Pierre Bongiovanni, Director of the CICV Pierre Schaeffer, France
Peter Tomaz Dobrila, Director of the KIBLA Multimedia Lab, Slovenia
Alfred Rotert, Co-Director of the European Media Art Festival of 
Osnabruck, Germany
Dimitrina Sevova, Curator of the Communication Front Festival & 
Member of the ArtToday Foundation, Bulgaria
Rosen Petkov, President of Student Computer Art Society & Director of 
the ComputerSpace Festival, Bulgaria