Tweak is two! Currently in its second edition, Tweak is an interactive art and live electronic music festival taking place in Limerick City between the 21st and 26th of September 2009. Its aim is to promote understanding of the use of technology within our culture and to explore contemporary issues (social, economic, psychological, aesthetic and functional).
The festival will consist of a 5-day exhibition, (interactive artworks, robots and installations) comprising of artworks from international and local artists, 3 days of workshops and many evenings of live electronic performance.
Digital technology has become a medium that has redefined the arts broading horizons and changing practices. New works that explore interactivity and the possibilities opened up by multimedia and electronic technologies to create immersive experiences bring physicality and play to the digital medium.
We call for submissions from artists and designers who’s work has been labelled as ‘new media’, ‘physical computing’, ‘tangible interfaces’, ‘digital media’, ‘techno craft’, amongst other titles which attempt to define the field.
We are currently accepting proposals for the following categories:
Exhibition
Workshops
Live Electronic Performance
Cinematic Works
Listening Post
The call for submissions is open from April 15th to July 20th, 2009. All submissions should have the participants name, work title and technical specifications as well as a work abstract in English (maximum of 200) and a brief biography(max of 200 words) about the author. Group works should have all members listed on the entry form. Please include links to video and photo documentation.
Submissions are open to professionals, researchers and design groups of the digital medium.
To find out more visit www.tweak.ie email: [email protected]
Tweak 2009
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Type: opportunity
- Location: IE
- Deadline: Jul 24 2009 at 12:00AM
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Comments
Hi Scott,
"For the first time at Tweak, we are holding a listening post for electronic music where people can pick up headphones and listen to new Irish Electronic music whenever they wish during the festival. We are looking for pieces of pure electronic music, no longer than 30 minutes in duration, to be played during the exhibition. Composers must be Irish or currently residing in Ireland. The deadline is July 20th 2009."
I'm not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing - if the rest of it is open to outsiders, other nationalities. Although, I can appreciate how problematic it is. Especially if you think about recent anti-foreigner antics that Ireland is dealing with at the moment, the racist attacks etc…
Yet at the same time I'd love the chance to hear music and sound that is specifically Irish, they good tunes you know :-)
Hi Scott
This is the first time we are featuring a listening post in the exhibition.
We had just planned on keeping it small and local this year to see how it would be received.
It's not an attempt to exclude other nationalities from the Listening Post but rather to put a focus on composers that are currently resident in Ireland. I'm sorry if you gather some sort of anti-foreigner sentiment from this but it really wasn't intended to come across as this.
We do plan on expanding on this next year and those entries will not be limited.
I do hope this clears up any negative feelings surrounding this part of the exhibition but if you feel that strongly about it feel free to submit
regards
tweak