Netmage: Live Media

Creative and innovative images in art, media, communication.
4th edition.
Bologna, 21-24 January, 2004
International Live Media Floor

Applications for the International Live Media Floor section of Netmage are now open. Netmage will take place in Bologna from the 21st to the 24th January 2004.

With this next edition we want to reinforce the presence of Netmage as an international meeting point dedicated to Live Media: a series of performance practices that use, and integrate, audio-visual devices (digital, electronic, cinematographic, technological, pre technological etc.) to construct an active relationship with the audience.

With Netmage 03 we wanted to introduce the term ˜Live Media" to best describe the wide range of instruments and solutions that are used by artists, musicians, technicians and crews from vastly differing starting points: going beyond, though obviously not excluding, the forms of mixing sound and image that are covered by the term Vj-ing.

The results from the previous edition of Netmage proved this method correct; a multiplicity of approaches, aesthetic orientations and live performance procedures emerged providing a field of lively and varying research that we believe important to respect, support and disseminate.

We are aiming for innovation and originality, for forms that reflect the pleasure of risk-taking, a taste for experimentation, originality.

The Live Media Floor, as part of the festival’s programme of special events, workshops and conferences, is the heart of Netmage. It represents an international point of reference for the area of live media and Vj’ing; it is, above all, an instrument open to research, for the gathering of new productions and projects in the attempt to describe the contemporary aesthetic and audio-visual scene.

Abandoning the competitive mechanics of contests we have turned instead to Live Media Floor, an open stage and gathering point for confrontation, meeting and confirmation between performers and audience.

Announcement

The Live Media Floor is open to all comers who want to try their hand at the art of generating and/or mixing live sound and image in whatever shape or form.

To this end the participating candidates must provide
- A detailed list of technical elements involved
- A list of participating technicians
- A demo tape (VHS, DVD, CD-rom, cd audio)
- A detailed schedule for the presentation of the project

The projects selected by the Festival’s artistic panel will make up the programme of events.

Deadline for application:

Material should be sent to:
Netmage, via cà Selvatica 4D, 40126 Bologna
No later than 10th November, 2003.

For information and application on line:
www.netmage.it _____________ bando@netmage.it

Participating projects:

Those selected will be advised by the 10th December, 2003. Following selection the candidates will agree with the Festival the definition of the technical requirements needed to execute their project in performance.

Those selected will receive a contribution of €1,000 towards accommodatio
The Festival will provide organisational assistance for the period those selected are required to be in Bologna.

Netmage, via cà Selvatica 4D, 40126 Bologna
Fax (+39) 051 220900
bando@netmage.it
www.netmage.it

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Application Form:

Name of artist/group/crew
Composition of the group/crew
Name of musician or musical support
Site address:
Email
Tel
Fax
Support used
Technical requirements
Attachments
Description of project (as attachment where possible)
Brief biographical note of artist/group/crew

Authorisation for the use of brief extracts from the work for publicity and promotional purposes on TV and radio.

Please note that material sent will become part of the festival archive and will not be returned.

Please make sure that all parts of the application form have been filled out.

Posted by sfisher at September 9, 2003 01:10 PM