[artinfo] VIPER Basel | Competition 2004 - Call for entries

[VIPER Basel Competition]

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VIPER Basel | Competition 2004
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Call for entries
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VIPER Basel | International Festival for Film Video and New Media
18 - 22 November 2004
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IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: April 15, 2004 (date of the official postal stamp)
Works and projects which are not ready by the closing date for entries can
be entered in the form of indicative documentation material or as a concept
description.
Acceptance decision: July 2004
Master Setting due: October 1, 2004
Festival dates: November 18 - 22, 2004

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Entry is free of charge.
Regulations, registration form, and further information can be downloaded
from 
http://www.viper.ch/

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VIPER Basel 
is one of the major European film, video and new media festivals. It offers
a highly-regarded platform for presenting innovative works and projects,
attracting Swiss and international filmmakers and producers, artists,
curators, critics and purveyors of ideas from the media, research and
politics. 
In addition, VIPER Basel's International Forum provides annually an
up-to-date podium for presenting and discussing forward-looking positions,
models and scenarios - a Think-and-Do-Tank for 21st century media, culture
and society. 

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VIPER Basel | Competition 2004

The VIPER Basel | Competition 2004 is an international competition. An
independent jury will nominate and award the works and projects submitted in
the categories [imagination | processing | transposition].

[Imagination]
This category is open to works and projects dealing with traditional and
future forms of the moving image.
Possible submissions include analogue and digital films/videos, experimental
films (including sound/video), 2D and 3D animations, extended forms of
traditional cinema, linear and non-linear narrative image sequences, mobile
and innovative screen formats, split- and/or multiple-screen arrangements.
They may be complemented by modes of individual and collective interaction
if wished. 

[Processing]
This category is open to works and projects that are characterised by
processes and live elements.
Installations or systems can be submitted that are devised to involve a
local situation and/or an audience actively, thus emphasising the ability to
interact and improvise when handling digital information systems. This
includes performances, immersive and hybrid (real/virtual) environments,
'play- and social software' applications, 'smart objects', intelligent and
ambient systems as well as interface and interaction design.

[Transposition]
This category is open to works and projects emphasising acting and
communicating within technologically defined networks.
Applications, prototypes and concepts can be submitted that use or
specifically apply network architecture that functions independently of time
and place. This includes for example location-related and distributed
systems (LAN/WAN/WIFI etc.), mobile computing, GPS applications, infra-red
and Bluetooth connections. The key feature in each case is an unusual and/or
experimental use of technologically defined network topographies.
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VIPER Basel | International Festival for Film Video and New Media
PO Box, CH - 4002 Basel
competition at viper.ch, www.viper.ch
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