DIGITAL
ARTS & CULTURE 2001,
Brown University, April 27-29
Call for Proposals:
Art & Performance
Deadline: November 1, 2000
Digital Arts and
Culture 2001 seeks to create a stimulating environment for experiencing and
discussing art and performance related to digital culture. DAC 2001 will provide
a context for a broad variety of current work, as well as opportunities to see
the past anew. To this end, the Art and Performance committee invites proposals
of new and archival/recontextualized:
- objects, prints, kinetic sculptures;
- installations;
- performances;
- time-based recordings;
- hyperlit, netart, and games.
Selections will be made by the committee, which expects to complete its acceptances
by the end of calendar year 2000. Committee members include: Noah Wardrip-Fruin
(Chair, New York University), Espen Aarseth (University of Bergen & Brown University),
Kevin Duggan (arts/technology consultant), Carl Goodman (American Museum of
the Moving Image), Diane Gromala (Georgia Tech), Christiane Paul (Whitney Museum
& Intelligent Agent), David Reville (Brown University), Stephanie Strickland
(independent artist), Martha Wilson (Franklin Furnace Archive), and Adrianne
Wortzel (City University of New York & Cooper Union).
A keynote performance will be invited for the conference. Internet connections will be available for works. Shipping and other costs will not be covered. Limited computation and display equipment will be available for some accepted works, as will some support from student volunteers and technical staff. Conference registration fees will be waived for accepted artists (at least one free registration per accepted artwork, though no more than one per artist).
Proposal Instructions:
1) Submissions
must include *both* (i) a one-page statement of your purpose in proposing, and
(ii) a short (under 200 word) description of the work suitable for display at
DAC. Both the submission statement and work description must include the name
of the work, the names and affiliations of the artists involved, and dimensions
and materials information if appropriate. Submission statements must also:
- include all relevant contact information (email, phone, fax, snail-mail, url),
- make desired presentation mode clear (e.g., you may propose to read a web-based
hyperfiction aloud as a performance, or create a site-specific installation
for it, or make it available in a gallery/reading room setting, etc.),
- state if piece is currently completed (incomplete pieces must include expected
completion timeline).
2) Submissions
must also include (i) media documentation (e.g., images) of what you propose
to make available at DAC 2001, and/or (ii) access instructions for a copy of
the work itself. For work that has not yet been completed, please provide the
best documentation possible. Any special jurying requests will be considered,
however, proposers are encouraged to find a way to communicate with the jury
within the following guidelines:
- Images and files should be put up at an accessible web or ftp address. Free
space is available from a number of services (e.g., http://www.myspace.com,
http://briefcase.yahoo.com, http://www.xdrive.com, http://www.driveway.com).
Please provide
no more than 200 megabytes of files, please organize materials into one file
for efficient access (e.g., tar/zip them together), and please use artist initials
as first letters of top-level files/folders (e.g., use names such as "nwf_performance.mov"
rather than generic file names such as "dac.gif"). No slides will be accepted
and CD-ROMs are discouraged.
- VHS tapes will be watched for 10 minutes from the point cued. Tapes will not
be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE).
Digitized videos can be made available via the web or ftp (given appropriate
plugin/viewing instructions) and must be no longer than 10 minutes.
- Hyperlit, netart, and games for which files are made available will be experienced
for 10 minutes by the jury. Proposer may provide an interaction "script" for
this experience. Instructions must be provided for any needed technologies,
which must be freely and readily available or provided by the proposer.
- Installation and performance proposals must include floor plans with complete
measurements, electrical and lighting requirements, network and computation
needs, audio and video schematics, and any special requests (e.g., a sprung
floor).
3) The submission statement, work description, and access instructions (for media documentation or a copy of the work itself)must be submitted via the DAC 2001 website on or before November 1, 2000. The web submission form, and any final proposal instructions, will be available at http://www.dac2001.org in October.
About the Conference The fourth international Digital Arts & Culture Conference is jointly sponsored by the Scholarly Technology Group (Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island) and the Department of Humanistic Informatics (University of Bergen, Norway).
DAC 2001 will be held April 27-29, 2001 in Providence, Rhode Island. This conference aims to embrace and explore the cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural theory and practice of contemporary digital arts and culture. Seeking to foster greater understanding about digitalarts and culture across a wide spectrum of cultural, disciplinary, and professional practices, the conference cultivates an eclectic and collaborative forum. To this end, we cordially invite scholars, researchers, artists, computer professionals, and others who are working within the broadly defined areas of digital arts and culture to join in the DAC discourse community by submitting proposals for presentations at DAC 2001.
Further Information DAC 2001 website (which includes Papers and Forums CFP): http://www.dac2001.org
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Art and Performance Chair noah@dac2001.org