Call to Artists and Researchers      

Deadline: May 14th, 2004

The New Forms Festival is an annual event highlighting emerging forms at the
junction of art, culture and technology. It includes performances, panel discussions, workshops, and interactive exhibits on contemporary Media Arts
issues. The NFF environment encourages new forms of Media Art to be created,
experienced, and understood. NFF04 will be held in Vancouver, BC, from
October 8 to 31. The theme is TECHNOGRAPHY: the inscription of culture in
technology. www.newformsfestival.comCall to Artists and Researchers      

Deadline: May 14th, 2004

The New Forms Festival is an annual event highlighting emerging forms at the
junction of art, culture and technology. It includes performances, panel discussions, workshops, and interactive exhibits on contemporary Media Arts
issues. The NFF environment encourages new forms of Media Art to be created,
experienced, and understood. NFF04 will be held in Vancouver, BC, from
October 8 to 31. The theme is TECHNOGRAPHY: the inscription of culture in
technology. www.newformsfestival.comNFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY is a forum to explore and embody these inscriptions in
the form of artistic expression and discourse.

NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY looks at the ways in which cultures inhabit and
transform media spaces and technologies.

NFF04:TECHNOGRAPHY will bring together practitioners and theorists from
across grassroots, gallery academy and academic contexts and provide a
platform for conversations among the diverse voices of contemporary digital
regionalism.

NFF04: TECHNOGRAPHY programming incorporates the principles found within an
ecological model of the cultural sphere: complexity, variety and balance.
Like nature, culture is also a changing phenomenon, affected by the ways in
which technology inhabits the environment and relates to it.
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PROPOSALS
Artists, scholars, developers and practitioners working in New Media Art are
invited to submit proposals for projects, performances, presentations,
papers and panels by May 14, 2004.

Projects, presentations and performances
Proposals are invited for four areas of the festival: the Conference, the
Exhibition (digital art, performance, installation, immersive environments,
Net.Art), Performance Series (sound art, performance art, live film/AV) and
Late Night Events (music, visuals, post-digital, laptop, group performance,
screenings).

Conference
The NFF04 Conference, Old And New Forms, negotiates new global parameters
for contemporary media culture, as it charts a post-traditional
'technography' of world Media Arts. The post-traditional is what remains of
modernism and postmodernism when modernization is abandoned as an unfinished
and unachievable project. While the post-traditional view is clearly
meaningful in the post-colonial and developing spheres, Old And New Forms
posits that it is equally germane to the global post-industrial scenario as
a whole. For more details, see conference details .
Gallery Exhibition/Events/Workshops
This year the Exhibition (Gallery and Net Art), Performance Series, and Late
Night Events will present a range of works that embody and interpret the
theme of TECHNOGRAPHY as defined above.  

Works selected will fall into the following Festival sub-themes or
categories:
‚¬ Acoustic ecology
‚¬ Alternative narrative
‚¬ Artificial Reality
‚¬ Collaborative design
‚¬ Cultural Ecology
‚¬ Culturally reflective computing
‚¬ Cyberfeminism
‚¬ Cyborg Fashion
‚¬ Digital Animation
‚¬ Digital Regionalism
‚¬ Electronic Gaming
‚¬ Expanded Cinema
‚¬ Grassroots media culture
‚¬ Immersive Environments
‚¬ Indigenous media initiatives
‚¬ Interaction design
‚¬ Interface Design and Development
‚¬ Live club performance
‚¬ Mediated Movement
‚¬ Networked Art
‚¬ Online communities
‚¬ Online Video
‚¬ Poetics of technology and development
‚¬ Post-media or networked activism
‚¬ Post-traditional Theory
‚¬ Robotics
‚¬ Sacred art and digital technology
‚¬ Sound art
‚¬ Sound Sculpture
‚¬ Technology and embodiment
‚¬ Technology and the natural environment
‚¬ Telematic Performance
‚¬ Wireless and wearable computing

Artists and media artwork selected for The New Forms Festival should
manifest multiple themes, mediums, and modes of expression, exploring a
distinct genre.

Some genres should explore collaborative and improvisational components or
'live' artworks, created for the festival.

The festival also encourages artworks that are process-oriented, continually
evolving and in transformation, which are facilitated through technological
and ideological means.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Festival Programming Committee and
those chosen will be contacted by June 30, 2004.

‚¬ Applications must be submitted via the online form (see below).
‚¬ Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
‚¬ Due to limited resources we are only able to review submissions written in
English.
‚¬ Supporting documents: Audiovisual, photographic and written media must be
submitted via the online application form (see below).

We ask artists/researchers to demonstrate the following:
‚¬ A strong portfolio of media arts pieces that demonstrate their ability and
involvement in the New Media Arts community
‚¬ Computer knowledge
‚¬ Basic knowledge of Media Arts processes (e.g. digital audio or video,
electronic formats)
‚¬ Strong artistic quality
‚¬ Interest in the themes of the festival

We offer:

‚¬ Some computer and tech facilities
‚¬ Technical and organizational assistance
‚¬ Presentation space
‚¬ International dissemination of the work via the Internet
‚¬ Participation in presentations and panels, and in some cases a
performance.

SEE SUBMISSION RULES HERE

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Digitalis 3.5: Ethno-Techno: An Exhibition of Digital Print

In collaboration with the New Forms Festival 2004, the Digitalis Digital Art
Society (www.ddas.ca) announces Digitalis 3.5: Ethno-Techno: An
Exhibition of Digital Print. Our theme Ethno-Techno refers to the
convergence of ethnology and technology, or the expression of ethnicity or
ethnicities in the form of digital print. Artists are encouraged to play in
their own ethnicity or in the ethnicity of other cultures.

Subject matter can be related to racial, national, tribal, religious,
linguistic, or cultural origin or background. Images submitted must have
been manipulated in some way by the computer.

FOR DIGITALIS ONLY: send all proposals by email with ,attached images in JPEG
format and a short bio to Digitalis curator James K-M at electric@telus.net
by May 14, 2004.

There is no entry fee and the New Forms Festival 2004 will pay return
shipping costs. The exhibition will take place October 12 ­ 26, 2004 in
Vancouver, Canada.