Call for participation>>>New Forms Festival 2005: ecologies

New Forms Festival 2005: ecologies (September 15-24, 2005)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
NFF 05: Ecologies

The Festival is comprised of five sections:
Low art, Film, Exhibition, Performance and Conference.

NFF 05 Ecologies explores the complex interconnections in our inhabited
world. With a focus on the ecologies of technology and beyond; we
examine past, present and future models and ways of seeing, hearing and
feeling our environment.

This year's festival recognizes the wisdom that nature provides in
terms of the technological world around us, and how these
interpretations play out within arts, activism and culture. The
physical environment, the embodiment of technologies that we create,
and environmental issues all play a part in this larger discourse.

These include issues of sustainability, inter-relationships, variety,
complexity, balance, organism, spirit, non-linear approaches to space
and time, and non-linear relationships.

Systems and ecologies are expansive and all around us, and impact
everything from the programming we use in the virtual world, to our
sacred environments. As technology interconnects with our themes of
'Ecology' and 'Environment', we ask where will this
interconnection lead us? This year's festival will look at this question
in a
multitude of ways, bridging different interpretations on these themes
into one greater ecological perspective.

The selected sub-themes for each section of this year's festival will
be drawn from:

- Media ecologies
- Acoustic ecology
- Eco Systems: Negotiating Natural, Cultural and Technological Systems
in a Post-traditional Ecology
- Visual ecology
- Systems
- Cybernetics
- Complexity/chaos
- Natural Elements to Performance
- The Natural Environment
- Cultural ecologies
- Network ecologies
- Politics of nature
- Interacting with live instrumentation.
- Home and inhabited world
- Location and dislocation.

All submissions for the festival should identify the specific event in
the festival that they are submitting to. Further to the word
application, which can be downloaded through our website at
www.newformsfestival.com, all submissions for
exhibition/performance/low art should be accompanied by a hard copy of
works being submitted for the festival, with an entire
performance/installation in full. All conference submission guidelines
accompany this call, and can be sent via email to
submissions AT newformsfestival.com.

Email all submission forms and pdf/word documents to
submissions AT newformsfestival.com.

Accepted media for preview: Quicktime on CD/DVD ROM, TAPE(NTSC), CD92s,
websites. No demo versions please - only finished works will be looked
at. Where appropriate, an explanation should be given as to which
aspects of the works the jury should consider in particular. Please
send all applications to :
New Forms Festival 05. #200-252 East 1st Avenue. Vancouver, B.C.
V5T-1A6. For any inquiries please email curatorial AT newformsfest