Call for Entries (other organizations, overseas)

Dislocate 07 - Exhibition and Symposium - Tokyo

23 rd July ? 5 th August

Ginza Art Laboratory

www.dis-locate.net

info@dis-locate.net

Deadline for proposals 7 th May

A mesh of infinite connections engulfs the very point at which we stand, longitude and latitude weave in and out, an entanglement in which our coordinates constantly shift and each footstep is one of endless displacement. Fibres of technology cocoon us in indeterminate spaces, layer our realities and transport us to elsewhere.

Enveloped in our personal technologies, we are able to escape the limitations of our surroundings, but when we emerge from our enclosure do we know where we are?

2006 saw the launch of Dislocate a project exploring the relationship between art, technology and our locality.

This year the events will focus on our ability to reconnect with our location, seeking to explore, question and debate how can technology be used to heighten our engagement with our surroundings instead of isolating us from our immediate space. When numerous places converge in one site, how do we navigate such space? How does our interaction within a given space formulate identity and how can this be communicated effectively to elsewhere?

Dislocate aims to explore the potential new media has to increase our awareness of our environment, enhance participation in our locality and community and transform our perceptions of the space we inhabit.

Does new media enable us to plug into our locality, or is disconnection inevitable?

As mobile and wireless technologies increasingly enable us to transcend space, our electrical roots are dug up, but are the roots which bind us with a place also cut?

Dislocate will call into question the necessity of an intermediary to our immediate surroundings, asking if mediation is a means of connecting or distancing, an expansion or an obstruction?

Dislocate offers the space to investigate the creative and social potential of new media to engage us with our direct locality and to ask what is the importance of where we are now?

Exhibition

Ginza Art Laboratory Yogashi West 2F 7-3-6 Ginza Chuo- ku Tokyo 104 0061

Koiwa Project Space 7-2-7 Minami- Koiwa Edogawa- ku Tokyo 133-0056

Taking place over two sites, of contrasting locality, this exhibition aims to present a particular relationship to its surroundings, revealing new perspectives of our immediate space, engaging with and investigating this site while also fusing with spaces beyond.

Works will include:

Installation, image, video, audio, performance, locative, mobile, interactive and web-based media and more

Dislocate is particularly interested in presenting works which extend beyond the gallery space.

Symposium

Dislocate presents an international symposium with confirmed delegates from UK , Germany , Republic of Korea , Indonesia and Japan further contributing to the discourse surrounding the interplay of art, technology and location.

Artists and researchers will have the opportunity to present their recent projects but will be encouraged to relate this to a wider context and engage in a critical debate, relating their own perspectives on these issues.

Discussion and dialogue between all participants, both speakers and audience is key to this event.

This symposium aims to explore what is meant by ‘locality', how does new media impact upon our notion of space, our interaction with our surroundings, and how this can be used to transform communities, both virtual and physical.

The conflicts and integrations which emerge as separate spaces collide in one site will be examined raising concerns of homogenization and de-contextualisation alongside the awareness of local identity and culture.

This will include a scrutinization of sensitive, meaningful exchange between different localities facilitated through new media and the manifestations which reconnection or further connection with our environment can take.

Workshops

In a series of workshops to be held through these events artists will have the opportunity to present concepts and products to the public and investigate with them in an active form of research and collaboration.

The focus of these workshops will be upon the exploration of the surrounding environment, investigating its many layers and connections with other spaces.

Workshops will enable direct participation and engagement with the locality and may also draw attention to our simultaneous interaction with elsewhere.

How to submit

If you are interested to participate in any of the above events please send proposals to:

Dislocate
Ginza Art Lab
Yogashi West 2F
7-3-6 Ginza Chuo- ku Tokyo 104 0016
Japan

Deadline is 7 th May

Please state clearly in your application ?

Name:
Address:
Phone Number:
Email address:
Website:
Project Title:
Outline of Project:
Technical Requirements:
*moving image works should be sent in mini DV format or avi data DVD format

Please contact info@dis-locate.net with any further enquiries

Dislocate is supported by The Asia-Europe Foundation www.asef.org and The Sasakawa Foundation www.gbsf.org.uk

residency program in Shanghai

http://www.duolunart.com/residence/residence_e.html

The call is for the 2007 Signal & Noise Festival.

Signal & Noise takes place in Vancouver, BC, Canada at Video In Studios.
The submission deadline is: November 3 , 2006
The festival will take place in April 2007.

Signal and Noise
A Celebration of Sonic and Media Inspirations
April 19- 21, 2007
www.signalandnoise.ca

VIDEOHM (click on the link for more details)

Deadline: on going for 2006/2007 programming year.

Abrasions: Architecture and Accident

Studio 27, a microcinema showcasing experimental media in the San Francisco Bay Area,
is looking for short videos and films for our next screening, scheduled for late October.
This show will focus on work dealing with the architectural landscape and space as re-envisioned through time.

Possible themes might include: topography and the cartography of desire, architecture and the missing,
fragments, disposession, and the architectural disaster. We are also interested in work that questions
the relationship between buildings and their occupants, such as the role individuals hold in transforming space.

For more information on our ongoing quarterly series visit www.studio27.org

We are requesting work less than 30 minutes in length on playable DVDs (all region),
MiniDVs (NTSC), or data DVDs (as a Quicktime movie file, especially for digital animations).

Submission Deadline (received by): September 30, 2006

Include with your submission a brief written description of the work, and a short filmmaker bio.
Also include a SASE if you would like your materials returned to you (only U.S. mail will be returned).
Please indicate where you saw our call.

Mail to:

Jessica Allee
Studio 27
588 Sutter Street, #11
San Francisco, CA 94102
U.S.A.

Please direct questions to: jessicaallee@studio27.org

Sweden, gallery VERKLIGHETEN
One minute short films with the theme, "borders"
www.verkligheten.net


France, ART CHANNEL broadcast program
satellite television program in Europe.
See the URL below for the project description and the entry form.
www.artchannel.info

New York
DIGITAL ART PROJECTS
looking for a participating artist for future projects.
please e-mail list@digitalartprojects.net for participation.
www.field-of-vision.net/NewYork
http://www.digitalartprojects.net