amber'11 Art and Technology Festival and Conference
4-13 November 2011, Istanbul
NEXT ECOLOGY
call for artworks and papers
deadline for submissions: 10th of August 2011
submit your work >
amberFestival is interested in interactive installations that explore the theme
of “NEXT ECOLOGY” in today's world.
We see the theme as a tool to think and work with, and the festival as an
opportunity to raise an artistic voice. You alone will define that voice.
The works selected among the applications to this international call, will be
exhibited at amber'11 Art and Technology Festival. We also encourage outdoor
interactive installations.
the theme:
NEXT ECOLOGY
New technologies are far more important then ever before not only as a tool but
primarily as a framework. By means of new technologies and with increasing
acceleration we have changed the world in which we live in: we changed nature,
we changed our environments, we changed our bodies. We have created a new and
global habitat, which is different from where we started. On the one hand, we
cannot return to the starting point where no technology rules. On the other
hand, the current situation is not sustainable neither socially nor
environmentally.
We have changed our environments and ourselves, but we have not understood the
change that we have caused nor have we acknowledged the overall results and
effects of these changes. Today we need to reconsider all the paradigms we rely
on: nature, bodies, economics, politics, environment, and communication to name
a few. In sum, we need a new framework.
The abnormal natural disasters, the global social problems, the antagonism
between the consumption economy and energy resources, the revolutionary
movements in Middle East and many other places on Earth designate the
un-sustainability of the current stand and the need for a change. Examples such
as these point to one thing: we must have a new conceptualization of ecology as
the environment that we live in, which does not exist without today’s
technology.
Taking ecology as a conceptual framework, which entails the relationships of
the natural and artificial environments of mankind, we believe that we need a
new holistic ecology which internalizes the transformative power and
possibilities of technology and covers all aspects of possible relations among
the living and non-living surroundings, from politics to love, from
environments to health, from economics to media. We call this framework Next
Ecology.
With the theme title Next Ecology, amber’11 calls on artists to interpret the
life forms, production and consumption patterns and politics of Next Ecology
from the vantage point of arts and technology.
for more information:
www.amberplatform.org
www.amberfestival.org
www.amberconference.org
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