New Media Art and Video Contest

Transitio_mx 03: Autonomies of disagreement New Media Art and Video International Festival

Guidelines

Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA) through its Centro Multimedia of the Centro Nacional de las Artes, calls artists to the Third New Media and Art Contest whose winner will be awarded on October 2009 in the New Media and Art Video International Festival.

• 1. The contest is open to any individual, group and association engaged in the production of artwork created with new media technologies, including video art, sound art, net-art, installation, composition, performance and related disciplines.

• 2. Artwork submitted for consideration must date from 2006 onwards, except for installation, which must date from 2004.

• 3. Artworks must meet the following requirements:

• • i. They must be created with new media technology (electronic or digital).

  • ii. They must result from the interaction and exploration of new elements in which new media technologies generate distinctive aesthetic works.

  • iii. They must be finished, fully running and able to be exhibited when this call meets its deadline.

• 4. Each individual, group or association is able to register solely one artwork. If a member of any artistic collective registers an individual work, both projects will be annulled.

• 5. Candidates may participate in any of the following categories:

  • i. Residual topography. This category seeks to reveal the discourses pronounced by means of obsolete technology (electronic and digital) and those articulated when contrasting local technologies with high technology appropriations. It is open for installation; interactive, immersed or sound environments; robotic art; hardware hacking; circuit bending; physical computing; site intervention; or any other related disciplines.

  • ii. Unusual displacements: the scope of the moving images. In order to analyze the moving images technological reconfigurations (and/or its possibilities) and consider its unusual territories, this category is intended to welcome artworks who use moving picture in any of its modes, be it lineal presentation or interaction: single channel video, 16mm, live cinema, Vj´s, videogame, mobile video, interactive animation, augmented reality, or any other related disciplines.

  • iii. Dissident territories: the emergence of technology. In order to explore technological developments that differ from industrial ones, this category looks for research and technology development projects who seek for innovations in the use of digital tools and electronic circuits with expressive and experimental means: free hardware and software, bioethical technology, gadget development, applications, devices or any other related disciplines.

  • iv. Concealed order: viral construction of web contents. This category will welcome those works whose poetics distinguish or surpass conceptions regarding mobile interfaces and information networks. Those who bear important contributions on distribution, expression and collaboration will be more privileged: internet, bluetooth, GPS, radiofrequency, mobile telephony, infrareds or any other related disciplines.

• 6. All creative content must meet the previously established requirements.

• 7. The Festival’s theme will not be key in the selection of successful candidates.

• 8. Proposals must be duly authored. In the case of multi-authored works, a sole director (participant in the project) must be chosen for legal matters.

• 9. If the proposal is submitted by a duly recognized Civil Association, that association must be in possession of a valid CLUNI, as established by the “Ley Federal de Fomento a las Actividades Realizadas por Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil”.

• 10. The contest’s official languages will be Spanish and English. If necessary, the artworks must be subtitled or dubbed in any of these languages.

• 11. Works will be pre-selected by a Committee consisting of renowned experts, who will evaluate all of the registered works, and will decide whether they will make it to the second and last round.

• 12. Those works whose authors are connected through blood ties (up to fourth generation; including civil partners) to the Selection Committee or Jury are not eligible to participate. This also applies to those authors related to the Selection Committee or Jury through professional, social, or other sort of civil relationships.

• 13. Those works whose authors serve as administrative or academic staff in CONACULTA are not eligible to participate.

• 14. Those works chosen to be part of the final selection will be published in any national newspaper and in the Festival’s website: http://transitiomx.net

• 15. The finalist works will be evaluated by an international jury who will award the prizes according to each category:

• i. Residual topography. Under this category a single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the amount of honorable mentions granted.

• ii. Unusual displacements: the scope of the moving images. Under this category a single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the amount of honorable mentions granted.

• iii. Dissident territories: the emergence of technology. Under this category a single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the amount of honorable mentions granted.

• iv. Concealed order: viral construction of web contents. Under this category a single prize will be awarded worth $35,000 (Thirty five thousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the amount of honorable mentions granted.

• 16. The Jury waives its right to announce an unfulfilled category.

• 17. All prices and mentions will be awarded during the Festival.

• 18. All works will be received after this notification is made and no later than June 19th at 15:00 hrs.

• 19. Should applications be submitted thorough express mail, the package must reach our offices at least five working days past the application deadline. Works postmarked after that date will not be reviewed.

• 20. International submissions must be clearly labeled as “Material cultural sin valor commercial”. The Festival will not cover mailing or other customs fees.

• 21. Fax or e-mail submissions will not be accepted.

• 22. Those applications who present false or altered information will be discarded. The applicants will be banned from future CENART’s contests.

• 23. Applicants must register online. After registration please print the electronic form and enclose it in duplicated of the required documents. Not any proporsal without all required documents will be accepted.

• 24. All participants authorize CONACULTA to present their works in the Festival and to reproduce them in any audiovisual form as established by Copyright Laws. Rights on the works are by all means property of the authors.

• 25. Participants exempt CONACULTA and its Media Center from any controversy related to the copyright status of the work during the contest.

• 26. Once submitting the signed registration form, participants agree on requirements and guidelines here mentioned.

• 27. Those candidates whose work is not selected will have ninety days after the Festival’s conclusion in order to fetch it. It will only be delivered when presenting the registration form or by claiming authorship of the said work in weekdays from 10:00 to 15:00 hrs in CONACULTA’s Multimedia Center.

• 28. All decisions rendered by the pre-selection Committee and the Jury will be definite.

• 29. Eventualities shall be resolved by the Festival’s Planning Committee

DOCUMENTATION

For any additional inquiries and document claims please visit:

Centro Nacional de las Artes / Centro Multimedia
Avenida Río Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club,
C. P. 04220, Coyoacán, México, D. F.

Ana Villa. Tel. (+52 55) 41 55 00 00 Ext. 1207 //
From 10:00 to 15:00 hrs.