[artinfo] Studio XX - Calls for Submissions (fwd)
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From: Karen Wong <programmation@studioxx.org>
Subject: Studio XX - Calls for Submissions
Studio XX: Call for Submissions
1. Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06
Active Agent / Radicale libre
2. Studio Residencies
Thematic Residency: Home
3. Virtual Garden
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1. Maid in Cyberspace Festival 06
Active Agent / Radicale libre
Montreal, February 2003
Deadline for submissions: September 20. 2002
Introduction: In the politico-geographical arena, heavily
charged with oppressive discourses, how does one raise
courageous and bold voices, voices which dare and act in the
drifts of cyberspace? How does one practice resistances, not
according to parameters imposed by others, but by those
originating from the ingenuity of individuals and networks,
based upon a necessary and critical solidarity, and a desire
to counter domineering dogmas and regimes?
For the 6th edition of the Maid In Cyberspace Festival, and in
continuity with its critical investigations on women and their
appropriation of technologies, Studio XX focuses on subversive
acts by 'intelligent agents' and cultural hackers who strive
for original languages in order to redefine the stakes in
question.
From such acts come questions on notions and protocols of
access, the numerous strategies that women use to invest
virtuel spaces to impose their own realities. The
possibilities evoked in the proposed examinations include
programming languages, hacking, frontiers, privilege, open
source, accessibility and transgression.
There is also question of alternative customs and uses,
nonetheless valuable and born out of the economic divide which
widens increasingly; localised strategies which mix into the
composition of immediate, polymorphic and planetary
phenomenas.
Living flux and new alliances, mobile in the magma of active
data, behind which we discover these operators, resolutely
insolent, active agents, radical and free=D6
Artists / Collectives
Artists are invited to submit their proposals on-line at
www.studioxx.org/maid2003/call_e.html
There are no entry fees for this festival.
Works will be selected by a jury and artists will be notified
subsequently.
Studio XX favours interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes proposals by
collectives comprised of artists working with other professionals.
Independent Curators
Studio XX is seeking proposals for curated new media programs inkeeping
with the festival's theme.
Independent curators are invited to make submissions, accompagnied by a
critical essay (500 words maximum).
Application may be submitted on-line at
www.studioxx.org/maid2003/call_e.html
All projects will be reviewed by a selection committee.
For further information:
E: festival@studioxx.org
Studio XX will be closed for the summer period between July 15th and
August 18th, 2002.
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2. Studio Residencies
Deadline: Ongoing
Studio XX is accepting applications for creative,
self-directed residencies by women artists and collectives
working with new medias and technologies. The residencies are
6 weeks in length (maximum) and offer an a unique opportunity
to explore and create new works. Artists are invited to submit
a completed application form (available on-line July 25th at
www.studioxx.org/residence/residency.html ), including a
project description, letter of intent and technical
requirements.
All proposals are reviewed by a selection committee.
Thematic Residency: Home
Deadline: October 15, 2002
The real relations of women to technology reflect their
ongoing rapports to public and political spheres. With
electronic progress and the consequent dominance of economic
and financial flux, the arena of 'important' work shifts once
again to the home, a territory still associated with women.
However, if there have been social, cultural and political
transformations and a certain disintegration of the frontiers
between private and public, how have they manifested
themselves in relation to the domestic context? What impacts
have these new technologies had in the renegociation of the
home's association with public spaces and how are women
adapting to these new socio-spatial conceptions? The social
dynamics of virtual networks applied to physical conditions
(and vice versa), as well as sequential modifications of media
spaces are becoming a platform for new artistic, conceptual
and communication-based collaborations. What are the emerging
definitions and practices of networked communities and
prototypical and future lifestyles?
In keeping with its annual theme for the year 2002-2003,
Studio XX is seeking submissions for residencies which explore
notions of home as related to women's and feminist realities.
Artists and collectives may apply. It will also be possible
for applicants to effect a virtual residency, where they will
be allotted a certain amount of server space and a password in
order to publish their projects on-line.
The residency will take place between January 28 and March 9,
2003.
www.studioxx.org/residence/res_thematic.html
For further information on residencies:
E: programmation@studioxx.org
Studio XX favours interdisciplinary approaches and welcomes proposals by
collectives comprised of artists working with other professionals.
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3. Virtual Garden
Deadline: September 5, 2002
Studio XX , in conjunction with Les Journ=E9es de la Culture, is seeking
submissions around the theme of virtual gardens. We are looking for
digital works - splash pages, animations (images, text/poetry), CD-Roms,
sound pieces.
Selections will be presented during the Journ=E9es de la Culture -
September 27, 2002 - and participants and the public will be invited to
view them on-site and on the Web at www.studioxx.org .
Submissions may be made on-line at www.studioxx.org/garden/garden.html .
For further information:
E: programmation@studioxx.org
U: www.studioxx.org/garden/garden.html
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Studio XX is Montreal=EDs foremost women=EDs digital resource centre.
Through a variety of creative activities and initiatives, the Studio
works with women to demystify and facilitate access to digital
technologies, to critically examine their social aspects and to create
and exhibit women=EDs new digital works.
338, Terrasse Saint-Denis Montreal QC H2X 1E8
T: 514.845.7934
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