Each award will be $3,500. The jury
consists of Julian Bleecker, Michelle Thursz, and Helen Thorington. This project is made possible with funds from the LEF Foundation.
PROJECT CONCEPT: Net art projects are “art projects for which the Net is both a sufficient and necessary condition of viewing/ expressing/ participating??? (Steve Dietz). They live in the public world of the Internet. Recently, however, wireless telecommunications technologies have enabled computation to migrate out of the desktop PC into the physical world, creating the possibility of “hybrid??? networked art, works that intermingle and fuse previously discrete identities, disciplines, and/or fields of activity such as the Internet and urban space. (See the networked_performance blog—http://turbulence.org/blog—specifically the
categories “Locative Media??? and “Mobile Art and Culture.???) Borders are disintegrating and new identities are emerging. We encourage applications by net artists and artists working on networked hybrid projects.
PROJECT TIMELINE:
Proposal Deadline: February 28, 2006
Selected Projects Announcement: March 15, 2006
Project Launch/Exhibition: October 1, 2006
SELECTION CRITERIA: (1) artistic merit of the proposed project; (2) originality; (3) degree of performativity and audience participation; (4) level of programming skill and degree of technological innovation; and (5) extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity.
PROPOSAL GUIDELINES:
(a) Your name, email address, and web site URL (if you have one).
(b) A description of the project's core concept and how it will make creative use of digital networks (500 words maximum).
(c) Details of how the project will be realized, including what software/programming will be used. Specs for the Turbulence server are available at www.turbulence.org/comp_05/server.htm.
You may request additional software but we cannot guarantee it.
(d) Names of collaborators, their areas of expertise, and their specific roles in the project.
(e) A project budget, including other funding sources for this project, if any.
(f) Your résumé/CV and one for each of your collaborators.
(g) Up to five examples of prior work accessible on the web.
Email submissions to turbulence@turbulence.org with NE 2 in the subject field.
Jo-Anne Green, Co-Director
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: new-radio.org
New York: 917.548.7780 • Boston: 617.522.3856
Turbulence: turbulence.org
New American Radio: somewhere.org
Networked_Performance Blog: turbulence.org/blog
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