Call for Submission: Confetti Machine 2018

Due April 6
CONFETTI MACHINE: REALTIME MEDIA FESTIVAL
Theme: Networks, (Dis)embodiment and Disruption
http://confettimachine.com
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Confetti Machine is a networked exhibition framework showcasing emerging forms of media, performance and score.

The Confetti Machine festival is a celebration of Realtime Media performance and its community of practitioners. The festival intends to create a space for Realtime Media that contextualizes it within an art-historical context, framing it as an alternative mode of radical media practice.

Confetti Machine will take place between June 1 - 3, 2018, at Outpost Artists Resources in Ridgewood, Queens. The festival will showcase the diversity and breadth of emerging media performance in New York City and beyond, and will feature three nights of performances by electronic media artists using modalities such as video, original software, interfaces, and novel uses of hardware and sound.

For the 2018 festival, we are looking for works that deal with themes of network, (dis)embodiment and disruption.

How do networks both fortify and disrupt our relationships? Do these networks empower or isolate us? What types of network feedback loops do we find ourselves in, either cognitive, social, environmental, political? What new forms and structures are idiomatic to the digital echo chamber?

We are looking for new media performances that cross boundaries between digital and physical space, embodiment and disembodiment, and probe the relationship between the individual and the network. We are looking for challenging works that broaden the definition of exhibition and performance, informing our relationship to new technologies, as well as the history of media as an artform.

Please send us a submission by April 6 for consideration.

A small artist fee will be paid to participants, however due to budgetary constraints, we cannot pay for travel or lodging expenses for artists coming from outside of the NYC area. Please reach out for for further inquiries.

Contact:
Eric Barry Drasin
Director
[email protected]