NO RNC >>> OPEN CALL: Transparent Transformations wants visual manifestos...

Aug. 26, 2004

Type: discussion

cool!

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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 15:01:02 -0400
From: Visual AIDS Info <[email protected]>
Subject: FYI: NO RNC calls

FYI–

Immediate CALL for time-based visual media speaking out against the Bush
Administration.
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> Transparent Transformations:
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> Big Picture
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> Windows
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> Two BIG second story windows facing
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> 23rd Street at Avenue of the Americas. Beginning
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> with the Republican Convention until the elections on
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> November 2, Transparent Transformations will become
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> projection screens for images and messages of
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> deliverance–from the Bush Administration's assault on
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> democracy.
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> These windows will be a private
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> speaker's podium projecting into public space.
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> Say what you have to, say what you can–at a busy
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> intersection only 12 blocks away from the Republican
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> Convention. Count on considerable exposure for your
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> images and messages.
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> We are calling for slide-shows, poetic narratives,
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> visual essays, flash manifestos, tele-novelas,
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> power-point presentations, animations, statistical
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> graphics, anecdotes, allegories, raps, rants, chants,
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> and other imaginative forms using any combination of
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> text and image. We expect to mobilize two screens
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> (window projections) at the same time.
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> Creative constraints:
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> No Sound: Text and Image Only
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> Pieces must be visual or text-based as there will not
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> be any sound.
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> Six minutes maximum.
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> No Computer? If you don't have digital tools, you can
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> still submit a text of your own, or suggest a text in
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> the public domain. We will arrange to compose your
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> text into a scrolling graphic, as time allows.
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> Don't equivocate; throw something together! Find
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> something from the archives!! Dig shit out of the
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> hijacked Constitution!!
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> The deadline is immediate: we will begin projections
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> for the first night of the Republican Convention and
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> continue until the elections.
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> entertain, inform, enlighten, complain, puke it out,
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> argue, convince, present evidence, suggest new
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> possibilities.
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> Deadline: Ongoing until Halloween
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> Submission:
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> Pieces can be submitted via:
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> Snail Mail: (mini-DV, CD, DVD, slides)
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> to Larsen , 115 W. 23 St. #23 New York NY 10011
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> Email: [email protected]
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> (swf, quiktime, etc. up to 10MB, compressed as needed)