[artinfo] Call for Entries // Transitio_mx 2005, International Video and Electronic Arts Festival // MEXICO

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Call for Entries // Transitio_mx 2005, Internationa l Video and Electronic 
Arts Festival // MEXICO 
(<http://transitiomx.cenart.gob.mx>htt<http://transitiomx.cenart.gob.mx>p://transitiomx.cenart.gob.mx)

Transitio_mx 2005 International Video and Electronic Arts Festival is a 
place for the expression of contemporary artistic creative practices 
through electronic media. The main focus of this festival is showing the 
current production and research in the field, in function of the constant 
mobility of its epistemological, technological, cultural, aesthetic and 
social boundaries.
These dissolutions invite us to explore the nature, scopes and conflicts 
between, art, technology, sciences and humanities making the Festival a 
permanent site for the expression and reflection of the above mentioned 
relationships.

This first edition of the Festival has chosen the “Imaginaries in transit: 
poetics and technology” as its main theme. The thematic proposes to go deep 
into the paradigm that provides of contents and expands technology right 
from the poetics or sign’s site, rather that emphasizing the research 
concerning technological support itself. “Imaginaries in transit: poetics
and technology” seeks to explore the aesthetic and cultural 
re-signification modes that accompany electronic art production and 
research, inviting the participants of the contest to reflect about 
production within this context.

Transitio_mx will count with the presence of well known personalities such 
as Marina Grzinik, Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Arlindo Machado, Jorge Laferla, 
Príamo Lozada, José Luis Barrios, among others. The jury for the First 
Video and Electronic Arts Contest will also be made up of important artists 
and theoretitians in the electronic arts field. Three prizes will be 
awarded: first prize consisting in N$120,000.00, second prize consisting in 
N$90,000.00 and third prize of  N$75,000.00. The previous amounts are in 
Mexican pesos.

The National Culture and Arts Council, through the  Center for Multimedia 
of the National Center for the Arts, invites all artists of this field to 
participate in the First Video and Electronic Arts Contest that will take 
place within the framework of this
Festival from December 6 to 11, 2005.

The deadline for the contest is September 30, 2005. For information on the 
required documents, and in order to complete the entry form visit: 
<http://transitiomx.cenart.gob.mx>http://transitiomx.cenart.gob.mx
or write an email to:Ana Villa 
(<mailto:concursoae at correo.cnart.mx>concursoae at correo.cnart.mx)