[artinfo] Open call Impakt Online 2004: TRANSLATION

[Impakt Online]

Open call Impakt Online 2004

The Impakt foundation invites to artists to send proposals for their online 
art project Impakt Online. Impakt would like to show six projects by 
artists who use the Internet as medium as a starting point for their work 
(net. art).

The Impakt foundation started in 1988 by organising the Impakt Festival in 
Utrecht, the Netherlands. At this festival Impakt presents its audience 
with the newest developments in the audiovisual arts, film, video, new 
media and music.

Impakt Online
Since 2003 Impakt expanded their terrain with Impakt Online. Impakt Online 
gives artists the opportunity to realise their net.art projects. Each year, 
Impakt Online selects six artists and supports them in accomplishing and 
presenting their net.art projects. Impakt deliberately chooses projects 
which use specific elements of the Internet. Next to projects that 
exclusively exist on the Internet, Impakt Online actively looks for 
projects which connect the Internet to the real world and vice versa.

During the past year Impakt Online has worked with three themes which were 
used as a starting point for the artists. Different artists have developed 
projects within these themes, some of these projects include Beadgee by 
Tamar Schori, E-bay Longing and the Inhabitants by Marika Dermineur.

Impakt Online 2004: Translation
Impakt Online has chosen the theme: 'Translation' for the projects that 
will be realised this year. In the world of the Internet, translation is a 
daily practice. It can be a computertranslation from Russian to English, 
from one programming language to another, or a transformation of data 
relating to physical and tangible occurences to virtual and digital data.

The intention of Impakt Online is to research in which matter translation 
plays a role for artists who produce art on the Internet, or make use of 
its structure.

The way in which artists make use of the Internet to develop its own 
aesthetics and means of translation is important for the realisation of the 
themes. Impakt Online wants to use the term translation to investigate the 
use of the Internet in a critical and fundamental way.

The practical implications of translation can take different forms. A 
possible form can be a translation between real and virtual worlds. These 
are projects in which elements from the real world are being translated to 
a virtual environment or vice versa. Of course a translation between 
virtual environments, (like translation of online user input) can also be a 
possibility. Translation of this tangible, often quantitative data between 
environments can lead to new points of view.
Another form can be the translation of more qualitative data, such as 
transferring exisiting cultural, aestethic or social themes, into various 
medial online formats.

Procedure
Since Impakt runs a tight schedule, we urge artists to hand in their 
proposals as soon as possible. Our deadline for submission has been set on 
juli 1st.

Only proposals that are relevant to the theme will be taken into account. 
Projects that have already been publicly presented are excluded from 
participitation.

A proposal has to consist of the following parts:

- an abstract of the concept. (200 to 400 words)
- a summary of the technical and productional plan. (200 words max.)
- a summary of the relation between the project and the theme 'translation' 
or one of the subthemes. (200 words max.)
- information about the phase the project is in at the moment, the steps 
which have to be taken to finishing the project, pertaining to the current 
project phase, and the estimated budget that is needed to finish it.

Please note that all proposals must be in English. The final project should 
also be in English unless of course the use of other languages is part of 
the concept of the proposed project.

Please send in your proposal by email to: online at impakt.nl

Impakt Online is looking forward to your proposal!