Call for Projects for P.Art.y 2007 Festival, Seoul

Subject: Call for Projects: P.Art.y 2007 Festival, Seoul

P.Art.y 2007 Festival
People, Art & Technology
Organized by art center Nabi, Seoul

P.Art.y 2007 Festival _ Call for Projects:

We're currently organizing a festival P.Art.y for this coming September.
This kind of event is happening for the first time in Korea and hope many people
from abroad would get interested and involved.
P.Art.y 2007 festival’s open call is particularly searching for proposals for 'network performance.'

Please circulate this announcement to any interested individuals and organizations.
Thank you!

Best wishes,

Sang-min Ha

SANG-MIN HA
ASSISTANT CURATOR | ART CENTER NABI
OFFICE: +82-2121-0915
FAX: +82-2121-0914
[email protected]
WWW.NABI.OR.KR

**Please refer to the following website for further
information on participation and submissions:
www.nabi.or.kr/party2007

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[CALL FOR PROJECTS]


P.Art.y
People, Art & Technology
3 days' festival for live performance, media arts and electronic music


Organized by ART CENTER NABI
Seoul, Korea
September, 2007

www.nabi.or.kr/party2007
_This competition is a part of P.Art.y 2007 festival.
_The official website of P.Art.y2007 festival is coming soo.
_Competition deadline: May 31


Art Center Nabi, a leading media art institute in Seoul, Korea, is organizing P.Art.y, 3 days’ festival for live performance, exhibition, screening, seminar, and workshop in September 2007. All the creative energies at the intersection between arts and technology will gather and explore new landscape of arts in technological era.

Highlighting live and multi-modal experience in arts making and its reception, P.Art.y will present media performances by Korean and internationally-renowned sound, visual, and performing artists. Responding to a changing data flow and the real-time transmission of information, works of our time are often dynamically open-ended. This open structure of arts foregrounds the live, here and now, and improvisational aesthetics, which harks back to the early network art, Global Grove by Nam June Paik in 1973.

Opening up new artistic and cultural outlets in Seoul, P.Art.y will be a platform for gathering, networking, exchange and inspiration for the people who are in the fields of media arts, electronic music, performing arts, popular culture and other cross-disciplinary creative practices emerged in the networked environment.



CATEGORY

‘Network Performance’

Physical world and virtual space meet and bring out new interactions. The concept of ‘here and now’ has been questioned, reinterpreted, and reconstructed. Especially the technological progress in so-called ubiquitous computing and pervasive network has opened up new creative platforms for the performative experiences. At P.Art.y, artists, audience and all other participants will share the moment of live event where the existing notions of space and time are put in flux and new communities evolve.

We are looking for fresh and original projects that are relating but not limited to the following examples:
_Live performance with real-time communication, impromptu actions, interactions, audience participation
_Sound-visual performance using diverse network technologies such as radio, internet, mobile, and wireless
_Performative project that explores multi-sensory experience
_Investigations onto the city streets and alternative use of public spaces
_Project incorporating street culture such as skate boarding, graffiti, or derive activity
_Mobile or locative media-based performance
_Telematic or mixed reality gaming
_Performance using interactive instrument and participatory installation


PRIZE & JURY

_PRIZE
1. 1st winner will be awarded with $ 5,000 USD. Traveling and technical support will be additionally offered for the realization of the proposal at P.Art.y 2007 in Seoul.
2. Other selected works (total numbers not determined) will be invited to P.Art.y 2007. Traveling and technical support will be offered.

_JURY
An international panel of jurors will conduct selection procedure.

_SELECTION CRITERIA
1. Theme relevance
Project should relate to the theme of network performance.
2. Originality
Project should address unique issues and take original approaches.
3. Creative use of the medium
Project should make creative re-use of high and low technologies. Interactive and participatory aspects will be highly scored.
4. Practical feasibility
Project should be in realizable and reasonable scope financially as well as technically.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

_HOW TO APPLY
1. All the applicants must register and submit materials via online platform.
2. Biography, project proposal, and other supporting materials (image, sound, movie files) should be uploaded in appropriate format indicated in each section.
Go to http://www.nabi.or.kr/party2007_submission to complete your submission.

Note1: Pre-realized work will be also taken into account only when it is redesigned, upgraded or in different version. In this case, previous versions should be clearly indicated with the information about the exhibitions or events of its previous presentation.
Note2: Awarded works in other festival or competition are not eligible for apply.
Note3: Submitted materials shall not be returned.

_IMPORTANT DATES
Competition deadline: May 31
Announcement: June 30
(Winner and selected works will be contacted by email and announced at the website.)
P.Art.y 2007: September 14-16, 2007


CONTACT
For more information about the competition, please visit www.nabi.or.kr/party2007 .
General info: [email protected]
Tel: +82-2-2121-0915 and +82-2-2121-0906
Fax: +82-2-2121-0914
Art Center Nabi
99 Seorin-dong, Jongro-ku, SK bldg. 4th fl. Seoul, Korea 110-110
www.nabi.or.kr