[artinfo] Tsunami - call for submissions

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Tsunami -
call for submissions
1st deadline 31 March 2005

The current Asian tsunami disaster made it again evident:
the human being cannot control the destructive powers of nature.

A Virtual Memorial
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
and [R][R][F]2005---XP
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005>
initiate on occasion of this disaster
and in solidarity with all affected people in this human tragedy
a net based art project environment, entitled: Tsunami.

The title: "Tsunami" does thematically not only refer to this or similiar 
disasters in Present or Past,
but beyond that "Tsunami" is primarily also understood as a symbol for the 
Inevitable, the Immutable,
for Powers of Nature, Powers of Destiny which cannot be controlled by the 
human being,
situations of helplessness the human being is irrevocably at the mercy of.
Has he any chance to escape or take influence?

Nearly everybody whereever he may live has made experiences of that kind in 
one or the other way already.

Artists around the globe are invited to reflect these traumatic conditions 
of human life and submit art works, documents, texts or any other material 
connected the thematical context
which can be submitted as digital file .

"Tsunami" -
this collaborative project will be published and featured on 
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
and www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005> 
simultaneously and will take part
in all coming physical events of [R][R][F]2005--->XP,
global networking project by Agricola de Cologne.

Following file typs are accepted:
Text: .txt, .rtf, plain email
Image: .jpg,.gif., png
sound: .mpg3
movie: .mov, .avi, wmv, .swf, .drc, .mpeg2

The submission can consist of different parts, works or documents but must 
not exceed 5MB.
All serious contributions will be accepted.

1st deadline 31 March 2005, afterwards ongoing,
but the project will be already launched on 1 February 2005 and from then 
on continuously updated.

Please use this form for submitting

1.Name, Email, URL
2.brief bio (not more than 50 words/English)
3.work(s) (number of entries, titles, year of origin, medium of original 
work, submitted media file types)
4. Short description for each submitted work (not more than 50 words/English)

Please send the submission
as individual files attached
to
info at a-virtual-memorial.org <mailto:info at a-virtual-memorial.org>
subject: tsunami
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A Virtual Memorial
www.a-virtual-memorial.org <http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org>
and
[R][R][F]2005--->XP
global networking project
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005 <http://www.newmediafest.org/rrf2005>
are corporate members of
[NewMediaArtProjectnetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net <http://www.nmartproject.net>

contact: info at nmartproject.net <mailto:info at nmartproject.net>