Received 03. 01. 2005 -- 11:41 from from
Tsunami - call for submissions
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 [dot] 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 [dot] net
--
lieber dr. grether, Ich möchte bald zum ersten mal mit meiner freundin
schlafen. meine freundin hat mir gesagt, daß dabei das netz der
signifikanten platzt. nun habe ich angst, daß meine eltern durch den
knall wach werden und uns erwischen!
