[artinfo] SIMULTAN FESTIVAL 2022—CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS!

[Simultan Festival]

SIMULTAN FESTIVAL 2022—CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS!

DEADLINE: July 30, 2022

The 17th edition of the SIMULTAN Festival will take place between September
10-18, 2022 in Timișoara and aims to channel ideas and generate new
perspectives in the context of the (post) global pandemic and its
consequences, as well as the reverberations caused by the war in Ukraine,
actively elaborating through artistic and theoretical productions themes
and subjects such as the future and the potential of art in a period of
massive transformations.
The title of the 2022 edition, The Changing and The Indeterminate, aims to
memorize, explore and build on this state of transition through speculative
reflection, a type of heuristic simulation as a conscious reactivation of
past behavior stored in memory.
The Changing and The Indeterminate, is an excerpt from a study by Ted
Nelson on the structuring and processing of information, in which he first
mentions the term hypertext and hypermedia, the idea of a complex system of
interconnected elements. This idea was born more than 50 years ago, today
there are already complex interconnected systems that give us access to
information through the Internet, but it has also created other close
connections with the physical world, on different levels, economic, social
or scientific.
The world economy is a complex system composed of a multitude of
interconnected but distinct networks - networks of people, goods, money or
even bits. These networks are in constant motion, people are moving, goods
are moving, money is being transferred and data is moving - as has always
been the case. Under Capitalism this movement takes on a new form. Movement
becomes the precondition for growth, which in turn is the precondition for
the stability of Capitalist social relations. In essence, the system cannot
survive without movement. But what happens when this system crashes and
major, irreparable ruptures occur?
In this sense, it is important to design and inaugurate this ambiance
conceptual framework of speculative orientation.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The call is open for emerging and established artists, new authors and/or
students. We are looking for submissions of innovative video works related
to the festival motto, produced in the last two years (2020-2022).

SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO:
http://opencall.simultan.org

TYPE OF WORKS:
- video/experimental video;
- narrative;
- digital/generative;
- documentary/experimental documentary;
- motion graphics/experimental animation.

NUMBER OF WORKS: 2 max. / author.
DURATION: 10 minutes max. (each)

APPLICATION
Upload a preview version of your video to youtube (can be unlisted) or
vimeo (optional with password) and include the link in the application form.
The video must contain the title of the work author’s name and year of
production.

AWARDS
We will honor four video works (two Romanian artists and two international
artists) with a 250 Euro artist fee.

JURY
All works will be reviewed and selected by the festival’s curatorial staff.
Only those accepted will become part of the Festival screening program. The
jury's decision is final.



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