CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Stranger of the Month (Next Wave Festival 2008)

// Call for Expressions of Interest
// Stranger of the Month (Next Wave Festival 2008)
// Deadline: 12th October 2007


Combining the collaborative impulse in contemporary art with
user-centric trends in new media, Stranger of the Month draws upon the
wisdom of the crowd.

Taking the stranger as its subject, artists conduct a viral marketing
campaign throughout media platforms to engage and produce a community of participants. Through this process, it becomes apparent that publics
emerge by virtue of being addressed; they are relational, not static.

Interaction with its publics will be entirely mediated; artists may
either inhabit social networking sites to contact their participants,
such as Facebook, or 43Things, or alternately, they may use traditional
spaces for public broadcast, such as the classified sections of the
local newspaper or community bulletin boards.

Written instructions may stand-alone for their critical merit, or
alternatively invite a variety of responses from participants. Both
written instructions and generated responses will be presented
throughout public spaces such as Federation Square, during the 2008 Next Wave Festival, and be reproduced in an online instructional manual.


Expressions of interest should include:

- A 200 word paragraph describing what you'd like to do
- Two JPEG images of the artist's most recent work
- A 200wd bio and one-page CV


Interested? Send your questions or applications to
curator[at]strangerofthemonth.com , or mail a
letter to our postal address.

Our mailing address is:
Stranger of the Month
PO Box 171
East Melbourne
Victoria 3002
Australia

Find Out More:
An information session will be held at the Meat Market, North Melbourne,
Thursday, September 6, 2007, from 6-8pm.