October 03, 2005
free103point9 and Rhizome
Open Call for Transmission Art Web Projects
free103point9 and Rhizome are pleased to announce a collaborative call for web-based works that explore transmission as a medium for creative expression. Projects should practically and/or conceptually incorporate transmission themes and tools. Applicants are encouraged to visit free103point9's online Study Center resource for historical, technical, and cultural reference materials on Transmission Art.
Projects should have been completed within the last year of the opening of the exhibition: January 7, 2006. Projects that are in-development at the time of submission will be considered as long as their completion date seems to fit realistically with the exhibition timeline. A modest artist fee will be provided in support of selected projects. We welcome a wide range of interpretations and ideas.
Selected projects will be included in an online exhibition featured by both free 103point9 and Rhizome websites January-March 2006. A live performance and/or presentation event will also take place during the duration of the exhibition.
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2005
Notification: November 14, 2005
Online Exhibition: January-March 2006
Presentation/Performance: March 2006
APPLICATION
Please include the following items in your application materials. Proposals should be emailed to opencall[at]rhizome.org no later than midnight October 31, 2005.
Questions regarding your proposal should be directed to:
Lauren Cornell (laurencornell @ rhizome.org) and
Galen Joseph-Hunter (gjh @ free103point9.org)
Name of Artist/Collective
Contact e-mail
Contact phone
CV/Resume
Artist Statement: Without exceeding 500 words, please describe your current artistic practice.
Proposed Project Narrative:Without exceeding 1000 words, please describe your project.
Project Timeline: Please outline your development strategy in order to meet a launch date of January 1st.
Work Samples: Please provide a list of URL references to previous work.
Panelists:
Lauren Cornell, Rhizome Executive Director
Francis Hwang, Rhizome Director of Technology
Galen Joseph-Hunter, free103point9 Executive Director
Tianna Kennedy, free103point9 NYC Project Coordinator
Tom Roe, free103point9 Program Director
About free103point9
free103point9 is a nonprofit media arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating the genre Transmiss ion Arts by promoting artists who explore ideas around transmission as a medium for creative expression. These investigations include practices in AM and FM radio, Citizen's Band, walkie-talkie, generative sound, and other broad and microcasting technologies utilizing the transmission spectrum. free103point9 programs include a performance / exhibition / transmission series, an online radio station, a distribution label, an education initiative, and most recently an artist-in-residency program, and forthcoming study center and archive at free103point9 Wave Farm, located on 30 idyllic acres in upstate New York, 120 miles north of New York City.
Founded in 1997 as a microcasting artist collective, free103point9's goals during the formative years were focused on the microradio movement fight for the public's access to its own airwaves. free103's mobile operations made airtime available to community voices, local bands, and most significantly to a group of under-served artists shaping conceptual works specifically for radio transmission.
About Rhizome
Rhizome.org is an online platform for the global new media art community. Our programs support the creation, presentation, discussion and preservation of contemporary art that uses new technologies in significant ways.
Rhizome was founded in 1996 as a mailing list for some of the first artists experimenting with making art online. Since that time, Rhizome has established itself as a central hub for the new media art field and come to offer a variety of resources and services including archives of art and critical writing, new media arts-related publications, an annual Commissions program and a youth outreach initiative. Rhizome became a n onprofit in 1998, and formed an affiliation with the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 2003.
Posted by jo at October 3, 2005 08:36 AM
