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New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.|Turbulence is pleased to announce
the winners of Comp_04: Each
team will receive $5,000. The commissioned works will be launched in spring 2005.
Eighty-seven collaborative applications involving several hundred individuals
were received, many of which were highly competitive. Grafik Dynamo will use XML and RSS feeds to load live images from blogs and news sources on the web into a live action comic strip. The images will be accompanied by narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded into speech and thought bubbles and randomly displayed. The strip will run indefinitely, fed forever by events in the world. The only interactive function allowed to the user is a single button, "POW", which, when pressed, takes a snapshot of Grafik Dynamo at that exact moment. The user may have this image emailed as keepsake of a moment in narrative time that has passed. Mystery
House Taken Over The artists will reverse engineer Mystery House, the first graphical adventure game; reimplement it in a modern, free language for interactive fiction development; and make a kit freely available to the public so that others may modify Mystery House Taken Over as they see fit. The artists will create their own modified versions and commission ten such games from the interactive fiction community and from other creators of net.art and electronic literature. Thus, the project will also introduce several novel games, all with identical structure, which will be artistic contributions themselves. Imprimatur Imprimatur is a free, easy-to-use tool for producing posters. Users contribute, in real time, to a poster layout. Creativity becomes a shared process, as unpredictable as the people who are passing through. The artist, rather than providing images, provides a system intended to activate the viewer's thought and expressiveness. Against the backdrop of a mass media culture that promotes conformity and passivity, Imprimatur... encourages "viewers" to choose themes and produce their own messages. It propels on-line expression out of the ink jet and into the streets. Fallout Fallout
is an on-screen wrestling match that employs the history between Nicaragua and
the United States to define the match, a history of intervention and resistance,
dating back to the mid-19th century. The game will offer at least four characters
for the player to choose from; each character will be modeled after specific physical
stereotypes from Nicaragua and the U.S. and each character will feature moves/abilities
pertaining to the history of that stereotype. Although the game will simulate
a wrestling match, it will alternate between free-style wrestling and gift giving,
depending on the choices made by the user and the capabilities programmed into
the game's characters. Players will be able to chat with one another and if possible
view one another via web cams. This team will create an online identity who will embody specific aspects of Chinese culture and society. The public will not only be able to communicate with this character by all possible online means, but will be able to adopt and make use of his/her personality to express themselves online and to the world. Custom-designed software specifically created for this website will allow for the collective sharing of this virtual character by any registered user, who will remain anonymous and therefore able to express their opinions freely. | ||
| Application Guidelines | ||
| AVENUES OF INVESTIGATION: Projects that experiment with new forms of interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity and engage the user as an active participant. Collaborations may be between visual artists, sound artists, programmers, scientists, and others. Proposed works may include the use of wireless devices such as cell phones and palm pilots to access and add to the experience of the net.art work. CRITERIA: (1) artistic merit of the proposed project; (2) originality; (3) degree of programming skill and technological innovation; and (4) extent of collaborative and interdisciplinary activity. GUIDELINES: Proposals must be in the form of a web site that includes: | ||
| (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) | Your
name, email address, country, and web site URL (if you have one). A description of the project's core concept (500 words maximum). Details of how the project will be realized, including what software/programming will be used. Specs for the Turbulence server are available here. You may request additional software but we cannot guarantee it. Names of collaborators, their areas of expertise, and their specific roles in the project. A project budget, including other funding sources for this project. Your résumé/CV and one for each of your collaborators. Up to five examples of prior work accessible on the web. | |
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PROCESS: Email your proposal URL to turbulence with the following in the subject field: Comp_04 Proposal. Deadline: March 31st, 2004. Notification: Winners will be contacted
after May 15, 2004. JURORS: Luci Eyers, Marc Garrett, Eduardo Navas, Norie Neumark, and Helen Thorington. Luci Eyers is an artist based in London, UK. She works mainly on collaborative media arts projects and was one of the editors of Everything Magazine. She initiated and is a member of low-fi art collective, an online art/curatorial project focusing on net art. Her latest work, "Cyberskiving" was recently commissioned by New Media Scotland and exhibited at The Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre. low-fi.org cyberskiving.co.uk Marc Garrett is a net artist, writer, activist, curator, and musician. He is also co-founder & co-director of Furtherfield.org. Furtherfield is an online platform for the creation, promotion, criticism and archiving of adventurous digital/net art work for public viewing, experience and interaction. furtherfield.org Eduardo Navas is an artist and writer whose work has been featured in several online exhibitions. He is founder, contributing editor, and webmaster of Net Art Review and is currently a Cota Robles Graduate Fellow in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism Ph.D. program at the University of Califorina in San Diego. netartreview.net • navasse.net Norie Neumark is a sound/new media artist who is also a professor of Media Arts and Production at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She makes radiophonic, net.art and installation work, as well as having made the internationally acclaimed and award winning CD-Rom, "Shock in the Ear" (1998). She works in collaboration with Maria Miranda as "out-of-sync." Neumark was a juror for Thaw 2000, has given papers and published articles on sound and new media, and is co-editor of "At a Distance: Precursors to Internet Art and Activism" (forthcoming, MIT Press). out-of-sync.com Helen Thorington is a writer, sound composer, and media artist. Her documentary, dramatic, and sound art compositions have been aired nationally and internationally for the past twenty-two years. She has created compositions for film and installation that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, the Whitney Biennial, and the Whitney Museum's annual Performance series. Thorington recently performed her own compositions with the Bill. T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company at The Kitchen, New York City. Her 9_11_Scapes won two international radio awards in 2003. Thorington is both founder and executive director of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc (1981-present), New American Radio and Turbulence. new-radio.org/helen • somewhere.org | ||
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