I would have liked to submit China as a ready-made work that evokes our future, but as the event does not provide financial support for submissions and as I am not sure how I would transport or install the work I think this might be a little too ambitious.
Best Simon On 20/12/2010 13:29, "info" <[email protected]> wrote: > Call for Submissions. > > The Presence of Future > http://www.divisionofhumanworks.org/now.html > > Division of Human Works is accepting submissions for a > curated show dealing with ideas of future and how it has > inundated into our society and environment. Feel free to > submit completed works or submit a proposal for the creation > of new work. Relevant off-site work may also be submitted > for promotion via the event. > > We are nearing the end of 2010, the year portrayed as a futuristic > utopia in the classic animated sitcom, The Jetsons. We are five years > away from 2015, the farthest year ahead Marty and Doc Brown traveled to > in Back to the Future. The years of our future, anticipated for decades, > are here. How similar are our present times to what was imagined? We do > have some very fancy gadgets and nuclear physicists working with a Big > Bang replicator, the Large Hadron Collider, at the Cern research center > in Switzerland. Yet, we are certainly not traveling in personal > hovercrafts and many of us are living in old decrepit buildings. What do > you think Joseph Beuys would think about the current state of the Green > Party? > > Things are not quite what we had expected them to be. Yet then again, > things are definitely in an extreme state of flux. Change is on a steep > exponential rise. Some things are parallel with this acceleration and > some things are being dragged along for the ride. > > What are your interpretations of our current evolutionary or de- > evolutionary status? What are your reactions to how far we¹ve come, why > do you think our present times have turned out as they have, and what > may or may not change current trends. > > > *** ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY 1/15/11. > > We are accepting works of all types of media. You may submit up to 3 > pieces. You may include up to 5 images (or other media samples) for each > submission. For those submitting proposals for new work, please include > images of relavant past work. > > Send all submissions via email to [email protected] > > Please make a brief artist statement addressing how your work addresses > the topic for this show. > > Please include your artist CV and any installation requirements. > > All submissions shall receive a reply by 1/25/11. The show will take > place in February for two weeks. There will be an opening and closing > reception along with viewings by appointment. Please acknowledge that we > cannot accommodate all submissions. > > Artists are responsible for all installation and de-installation of > artworks. > > [*]For out of town artists that are unable to attend the show, whom > would like to submit, we are willing to perform the installation of > artworks. Please be prepared to send works ready for presentation, e.g., > ready to hang, formatted for presentation, etc.. with instructions and, > if applicable, necessary hardware. > > > **Division of Human Works does not provide any financial assistance for > artists or the creation of artworks. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
