A call for video submissions from a friend's project. Get more info at: http://virtualmemory.wordpress.com/call-for-submissions/
3 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS The Virtual Memory Project is calling for submissions : We are soliciting and collecting short films and videos documenting, describing, or otherwise acknowledging the analog-digital transition for a curated, traveling film program to coincide with the analog switch-off in February 2009. Farewell, Analog : Whats this all about ? In February 2009, analog broadcast television signals will cease. Somewhere back in the first half of the previous century, the first analog broadcast signal floated out across the air. Ever since, analog processes, technologies and aesthetics have shaped our existence - weve been sending and receiving analog, speaking to each other through these long, sinewy, unreliable analog waves - and now well officially replace them with digital packets, invisible streams of 0s and 1s that wouldnt know an antenna from a reel-to-reel. Will you miss it ? Does it matter ? Are you an analog purist ? Do you prefer celluloid to megapixels ? Or are you a digital prophet ? Streaming along above the fray - no rabbit ears for you Love it or hate it, analogs been a good friend to us - shouldnt we say goodbye ? Make something, and submit your work today ! Criteria : Submitted films dont have to reference the analog switch-off directly but should be closely related to the themes of : the quirks, pleasures and frustrations of analog technology (film, photography, vinyl, radio, magnetic tape, vacuum tubes, cathode ray television, etc etc) obsolescence (do all technologies have to end ?) digital future (utopia or apocalypse, you tell us) the difference between analog and digital the work of art in the age of digital reproduction, etc, etc All genres accepted - Documentary, Experimental, Narrative and Animation, etc Works may be newly created for the project, or be existing works. Work will be reviewed for thematic content, production quality, and programming viability. Length : No limitations, but length may affect submissions ability to be programmed Deadline : Submit work by January 23, 2009. Jen Simmons Milkweed Media Design http://milkweedmediadesign.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
