Bangalored Open Call: World Information Exhibition Bangalore ******************************** You are invited to submit a proposal to participate in an exhibition, which is to be part of the World Information City program to be held at Bangalore from 14th to 19th November 2005.
About the Event --------------- The event will constitute of a conference, workshops, a public campaign, and an exhibition, addressing or incorporating concerns such as Electronic/Public media, Open Source culture, the Public Domain, and Information Politics. The city of Bangalore will also be looked at as an example in the context of the increasingly trans-located nature of cities in the age of the electronic network and how this influences its life and culture. Eligibility ----------- Individual artists, cultural activists, media practitioners and collectives in India (not necessarily of Indian Nationality) are eligible. Schedule -------- The exhibition will be on from 14th November to 19th November. Participants can start installing work on the 12th if required. Location -------- The exhibition, workshops and conference are to occupy a range of public and cultural venues around Shivajinagar including Cubbon park, Center for Film and Drama, Colab, the Lawyers' Collective office, Elgin Talkies and Russel Square, forming a 2 km walk through the city. The walk is an integral part of the exhibition, and takes you through the chaos and confusion of Shivajinagar - one of the oldest parts of Bangalore, previously known as Black Pallya. Through the narrow lanes with old cinema halls, small tea stalls, shops that refurbish stolen vehicles, the walk then enters into another aspect of the new vision of Bangalore as a cosmopolitan, affluent city on Cunningham Road – a vision fuelled by the belief in Bangalore as the IT city. Projects/exhibits that engage with the city of Bangalore and specifically the walk as it is designed will be encouraged. Participants are also welcome to create work on the streets along this walk. Projects/ Exhibits ------------------ The event focuses on cultural transformations that are being undergone in the digital age, its promises for the new, and threats to older forms of cultural engagement and social interaction. The exhibition also hopes to function as a collective platform for recent cultural activities that seek legitimization, to appropriate from the past and to produce freely shareable cultural content. We wish to promote: * Means of artistic production negotiating for premises forbidden by law. * Cultural activities aspiring to engage or invite the participation of passers-by through public media or live interaction. * The Old and the Not-So-New arts critically addressing the New. * Artistic productions employing new technologies. * Artistic/media productions around the changing city (of Bangalore and generally) using ethnographic material. * Works that engage with piracy as a phenomenon, mode of production or otherwise. E.g., found footage films, accounts of piracy etc. * Works that explore forms of surveillance and information control and regulation in India. * Works that deal with the ethical and proprietary issues emerging around biotechnology. Support ------- * Participants will be provided with production and presentation expenses of up to Rs 3000. Projects requiring more funds will be supported if the proposals are promising enough. Expenses will be reimbursed only for bills produced. * Accommodation and up and down 3T A/C train fare will be provided for outstation participants. * Living expenses of Rs.300 per day will be paid for the duration of the participants stay at Bangalore. * In addition artists/collectives will receive a participation fee of Rs. 5000 if their project(s) are selected for production/exhibition. Proposals --------- * Proposals must be concise and clear and can include images, audio and other media if required. * Only 2 proposals per party will be considered. * Include as precise a budget as possible for the production and presentation of your project. * Include a bio-data or a brief about your past projects along with your proposals. * Email attachment should not exceed 2MB. * Proposals can be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Hard-copy proposals (optional) can be mailed to: Aiysha Abraham / Lawrence Liang / Namita Malhotra Alternative Law Forum #4, 3rd Cross 8th Main Vasanthnagar Bangalore 560052 India Material submitted may not be returned. *************************************** Deadline (has been extended) -------- Project/exhibit proposals should be sent by 25th September, 2005. Selected participants will be notified by email by 1st October, 2005 Please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions. We look forward to your participation. **************************** WORLD INFORMATION EXHIBITiON http://world-information.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organizers: t0/ Institute for New Culture Technologies [Public Netbase] http://www.t0.or.at Mahiti Infotech Ltd http://www.mahiti.org Alternative Law Forum http://www.altlawforum.org **************************** -- Anivar Aravind GAIA __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix. -- __ __ gnu /noo/ n. Ox like antelope; (abbr.) /gnoo/ n. (recursive acronym) Gnu's Not Unix.
