onedotzero

call for 2008 international touring festival submissions

deadline: 18 july 2008

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onedotzero introduces new festival categories; seeking moving image + digital art excellence for international showcase of progressive visual talent

onedotzero is now extending an international call for submissions to receive visually progressive moving image work for their 2008/09 global touring festival. onedotzero?s open submissions scheme is one of the few that remains free to enter, enabling the best up-and-coming talent from around the globe to be presented alongside world-leading creative luminaries.

this year?s ambitious programme will bring the best of previous programme strands alongside new categories and activities based on the theme of citystates, which will engage audiences, industry and media with an in-depth exploration of city life, insights and culture.

“more people than ever before are living in cities bringing with it a greater socio-cultural mix, sense of movement and transition than previously experienced. now more than ever it is important to understand and interact with the broad spectrum of what the city offers us - how we inhabit it, how we engage with its? cultural make up, and how we view and influence its future.”

shane walter, ceo / creative director, onedotzero

onedotzero are looking for direct responses to the themes and categories listed below.

submission themes

core programmes central to our ethos; explorations of new creative expression, visionary moving image and progressive visual ideas. categories that are open to submissions include:
wow + flutter: the vital force and driving impulse of onedotzero, the pioneering home for exploring motion graphics, motion typography, visual code, processing, animation, enhanced digital and short experimental works

* wavelength: dedicated to exploring innovative, visually progressive music videos and rarely screened promos and unofficial versions.
* extended play: a select international programme of critically acclaimed, digitally inflected short films and animations, which extend way beyond the boundaries of traditional storytelling and style
* j-star: the latest survey of music videos, motion graphics and shorts from some of japans finest moving image-makers and young talent.

new categories: onedotzero is developing new categories based around the overarching theme of citystates. onedotzero seeks inspired views of contemporary city culture based on the following

* innovative moving image work that explores the collisions, myths, relationships, sensory overloads, and multiple layerings of contemporary city life, within individual, the communal and global contexts
* evocative interpretations of all types of terrain, environments, architecture
* urban street art and graffiti
* thought provoking work that targets social, environmental, and political concerns and issues.

other: onedotzero is also interested in receiving proposals for installations, interactive works and live performance in addition to single screen works and explorations of typography for current and future project plans. please send proposals as printed documents with supporting visual / moving image / audio materials on cd / dvd.

* 100 word approx project concept / description
* artist / collective biography / cv
* technical specifications [hardware and software]
* set up considerations / on site management / technical support considerations
* estimate budget / timescale
* physical environment considerations
* has this project previously been performed or existed?
* if installation / interactive: does it allow single or multi-use?

festival details
* premieres at onedotzero_buenos aires, argentina: 26-28 september 2008
* onedotzero_ch, zurich, switzerland: october 2008
* the extensive global tour will continue across the uk, europe, the baltics, the americas, asia and oceania

http://www.onedotzero.com/submissions.php