[artinfo] CALL FOR ART-SCIENCE PROJECTS

[myriam at kareron.com]

From 13 to 30 April 2016
Brussels

Coding and decoding borders at the dawn of the 
21st century is an event encompassing art, 
research and practice. Combining an exhibition 
and an international conference, it will host, at 
the Faculty of Architecture and the Faculty of 
Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Free 
University of Brussels, and at the Headquarters 
of the World Customs Organization (WCO), 
researchers, artists and experts who will discuss 
the growing technologization of controls of 
persons, goods or capital which cross borders.
As with the previous events organized by the 
antiAtlas of Borders, this conference/exhibition 
truly breaks away from compartmentalization of 
the fields of knowledge, creation and practice. 
By offering different levels of lecture and of 
participation, it opens up beyond academic, 
political and professional circles to reach the 
public at large.

The call for projects is for the exhibition which 
will be held from 13 to 30 April at the Espace 
Architecture La Cambre Horta on the Flagey campus 
of the Free University of Brussels.

The exhibition curators and the Scientific and 
Artistic Committee are seeking diverse works 
(net.art, installations, videos, documentaries, 
video games, plastic arts, etc.) that reflect the 
processes related to the technologization of 
border controls, whether relating to persons, 
goods or capital. For the past 20 years, many 
stakeholders (researchers, journalists, NGO 
workers and activists, elected politicians, 
employees of national administrations and 
international organizations, etc.) have been 
observing, documenting, studying and at times 
condemning the technologization of border 
controls. Alongside the militarization of 
borders, traditional control systems are now 
complemented by the deployment at state borders 
of increasingly sophisticated technologies 
(biometrics, robots, walls, integrated 
surveillance systems, data mining, big data, 
etc.) to control movements of population groups, 
goods, capital and information. Analysts of this 
intensive deployment of technology generally tend 
to look at the objects of control separately: 
persons, goods and capital. Yet we should also 
look into the question of the possible movement 
and transfer of knowledge and techniques from one 
of these objects to another. Any analysis of 
border controls, whatever the object, needs to 
look at the same questions, namely efficiency, 
"fraud" and diversion.


Deadline for receipt of applications: 15 January 2016
Date of selection of works by the scientific and 
artistic committee: 30 January 2016

The projects should be submitted in the form of 
PDF files, comprising a presentation of the 
project and the visuals, to the following 
address: antiatlas.contact at gmail.com 
(antiAtlas is unable to finance the production of 
new works, but the projects selected will receive 
EUR 500 for the distribution rights)

antiAtlas web site: http://www.antiatlas.net/en

Exhibition curators: Isabelle Arvers (antiAtlas, 
Kareron) and Nathalie Levy (ULB Free University 
of Brussels)

Communication: Myriam Boyer (antiAtlas, Kareron)

Organizing Committee
Andrea Rea (ULB Free University of Brussels), 
Thomas Cantens (WCO, antiAtlas), Patricia Revesz 
(WCO), Cédric Parizot (IREMAM, CNRS/Aix Marseille 
University, antiAtlas), Anne Laure Amilhat-Szary 
(PACTE, CNRS/University of Grenoble, antiAtlas), 
Jean Cristofol (Ecole supérieure d'art 
d'Aix-en-Provence, antiAtlas), Federica Infantino 
(ULB Free University of Brussels, antiAtlas), 
Julien Jeandesboz (ULB Free University of 
Brussels), Antoine Vion (LEST, CNRS/Aix Marseille 
University)

Scientific Committee
Anne Laure Amilhat-Szary (PACTE, CNRS/University 
of Grenoble, antiAtlas), Didier Bigo (King's 
College), Thomas Cantens (WCO/antiAtlas), Jean 
Cristofol (École supérieure d'art 
d'Aix-en-Provence, antiAtlas), Federica Infantino 
(ULB Free University of Brussels, antiAtlas), 
Dirk Jacobs (ULB Free University of Brussels), 
Julien Jeandesboz (ULB Free University of 
Brussels), Christian Olsson (ULB Free University 
of Brussels), Cédric Parizot (IREMAM, Aix 
Marseille), Andrea Rea (ULB Free University of 
Brussels), Patricia Revesz (WCO), Antoine Vion 
(LEST, University Aix Marseille)

Partners
Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the 
Free University of Brussels, Group for Research 
on Ethnic Relations, Migration & Equality 
(GERME), World Customs Organization, antiAtlas 
des frontières, Institute for Research and Study 
on the Arab and Muslim World (CNRS/Aix Marseille 
University), LabexMed project (Aix Marseille 
university, Fondation A*midex), Mediterranean 
Laboratory of Sociology (CNRS/Aix Marseille 
University), Labour Economics and Sociology 
Laboratory (CNRS/Aix Marseille University), PACTE 
(CNRS/University of Grenoble), Kareron and the 
Ecole supérieure d'Art d'Aix en Provence.