Impakt Webgallery Update: Friday, Feb 21, 2003 http://www.impakt.nl
----Contents---- 1) Winners of the "Art of the Narrative" Commisssion 2) Call for Proposals: "Out of the Box [Net.Art and the 'Real World']" Commission 1) Winners of the "Art of the Narrative" Commisssion Launch Date: April 1, 2003 ---Ramesh Srinivasan: "Village Voice" ---Tamar Schori: "Beadgee" Impakt is proud to announce the the two winners of the latest net.art theme, "Art of the Narrative". This theme was chosen to reflect on the new ways in which the internet can be used to tell stories, use language and change perceptions. These projects will be launched on the Impakt website April 1. Ramesh Srinivasan's "Village Voice" is an online video database filled with stories from the Somali refugee community of Boston, Massachusetts. The stories can be accessed by various themes, including government & legality, beleifs & religion, cultural adaptation and traditional customs. Far from being an ethnographical survey, "Village Voice" allows these Somalis to speak for themselves, in their own language, about their transition into a new society. Tamar Schori's "Beadgee" is a whimsical project taking its inspiration from a series of drawings made by Alexander Calder for a collection of 19th Century nursery rhymes entitled "Three Young Rats and other ryhmes". Schori has created a new library of drawings, which can be exploded and rearranged by the user. Rearranging the drawings also rearranges the nursery rhymes, and a strange language game ensues. Users will also have to opportunity to enter both their rearranged drawings and new words and phrases into the database for others to play with. 2) Call for Proposals: "Out of the Box [Net.Art and the 'Real World']" Deadline: April 1, 2003 No longer content with pure formalism and self-referentiality, and unwilling to be dismissed into the simple catagory of "graphic design", net.art is redefining itself in the realm of social critique and commentary. The old elements of hyperlink, the embedded images and sounds, the database and the live stream all remain in place, as do the digital pranks, parasitic spoofs and deliberate 'errors' which gave early net.art its timeliness and humour. Their scope, however, has been refocused and their use redefined in recent years to a razor-sharp critique of technological "progress", globalization, and the ever-present machinery of surveillance and control which the internet has helped to usher in. Working from this position, the "Out of the Box" theme for the Impakt Web Gallery seeks to examine how technology and the internet manifest themselves on the human level by asking such questions as; where do such on-line concepts as navigation, avatar, or algorithm find their place in the "real world" outside the computer? And, similarly, how can such physical activities such as performance, protest, or love maintain their "real-ness" in a virtual environment? In short, we seek the point where real life affects the internet,and (more importantly) where the internet affects real life. Impakt will commission two projects for this theme. The accepted commissions for this project will be invited to produce a hybrid project involving a website and a live, "real-world" intervention [performance, action, prank, interface, etc] which will take place during the Impakt Festival this coming spring, between June 3 and 10. Depending on the submissions we receive, we may invite the accepted artists to collaborate on a single project. Because this is a commission for new works, previously exhibited projects will be immediately disqualified. However, as we realize the timeframe is somewhat short, we are happy to support projects already under development with an eye towards their premiere at the Impakt Festival 2003. Applicants are urged to submit their proposals early so that the editorial team has a chance to go over them and contact with artist with questions and suggestions. Final Deadline: April 1, 2003 Launch: June, 2003 *Proposals must be written in English, and the project accessible to an English-speaking audience *They should include a project description: ---description of content ---technical implementation ---time line ---relation to the theme *They should also include an artist[s] biography: ---short CV ---documentation + URLs of previous projects *Previously exhibited projects will be immediately disqualified Impakt will provide webhosting for the project for 1 year, and pay a fee to the accepted artist[s] of EURO 1000. The winning commission[s] will also be invited to submit a budget for the live event which will take place during the festival. 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