Deep Structure: Deep Play; funding available

Soil Digital Media Suite
New Commissions: Call for Proposals
"Deep Structure: Deep Play"

Soil is calling for proposals to fund 2 new media works to be
completed in 2007. We are looking for net.art projects to respond
to the statement;

"Combining experimental visual art with conceptual new media,
entertainment, immersive environments and post-pop
narcissism constitutes an aesthetic travesty of the highest order."

You may approach the thematic in any way you wish but
may include ideas around the following;

-connectivity, the impact of new media and the Internet
-geo-political boundaries in the age of and after globalism
-celebrity and the formation of identity, performing gender
-popular culture, populist art, smart pop
-online cinema, experimental video
-audio art, music and the presence of absence
-copyright/copyleft & intellectual property

Two works will be supported with C$2,000.00 honorariums.
We provide Web server and hosting, permanent archive,
and a one year membership to Soil, lab access if you are local
or wish to visit us!

Artists will maintain copyright of their productions which will be
posted on the Soil site and presented at public screenings, events or
as part of a gallery installation at Neutral Ground - if applicable in your
application.

Please send proposals by January 15, 2007. Include previous
work as support material, CV, artist statement, technical description,
production timeline (estimate), and any technical needs to;

"Deep Structure: Deep Play"
Soil Digital Media Suite
#203 - 1856 Scarth Street
Regina, SK
CANADA
S4P 2G3

Online proposals ok to;
[email protected]


About Soil;

Now entering its 10th year of opeartion, Soil is a not for profit
production and presentation facility in Canada's prairie
region organized to serve artists working with interactive and
digital media. The programs operate on a project to project
basis and have included residencies, commissions, training programs,
an online gallery and archive of net.art projects funded by Soil, a gallery
exhibition and screening program, each of which have received support
from one or more of the following; the Canada Council for the Arts, the
Saskatchewan Arts Board, SMPIA, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts,
the City of Regina and the Department of Canadian Heritage.

We have presented work by David Rokeby, Peter Horvath, Jocelyn
Robert, Adam Hyde, Jen Southern, Jen Hamilton, Robert Saucier, KIT,
COCOSOLIDC1T1, FutureSonic, Valerie Lamontagne,
Garnet Hertz, Wayne Dunkley, Steve Heimbecker,
Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya, Guillermo Gomez-Pena,
Roberto Sifuentes, Edward Poitras, Paul Wong, Istvan Kantor,
Jillian Mcdonald, Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew (co-founder), Marc Fournel,
Ken Gregory, Dr. Sheila Petty, Camille Turner, _badpacket_, Battery Operated,
Deidre Logue, Lynda C. Surjik, Steve Reinke, Ian Birse & Laura Kavanaugh,
Queer City Cinema, The Skeleton Crew, Guy van Belle, Peter Courtemanche
and presented work or participated in ISEA Cartographies, Bridges II, REFRESH,
LIVE2005, ZeroOne, Independent Media Arts Alliance, Subtle
Technologies, and many, many others.



Soil engages critical practices and dialogue at the intersection of
the arts, sciences and technology to stimulate research and facilitate
production of new media projects made possible by new technologies by;

Facilitating artistic creation by providing access to technological
and artistic resources in the context of fine arts practices and discourses.

Providing professional development and access to cultural resources
for new media artists.

Developing new and knowledgeable audiences for new media practices.

Facilitating research and development of the art form of new media
and technology-based artistic practices.

Promoting contact between artists, technicians and specialists.

Fostering exchange between artists in different geographical
communities, overcoming geopolitical limitations with a translocal
agenda and network.

Broadening theoretical, technical and artistic knowledge in the field
of media art through multiple lines of programming, research and curation.


http://soilmedia.org
http://neutralground.sk.ca