Call for Soundart

call: soundart for SoundLAB VI

February 27, 2008 at 10:03 am · Filed under calls: internal, soundart

Call for proposals
Deadline 30 November 2008

For its 6th edition, planned to be launched in March 2009, SoundLAB would like to demonstrate the power of sound as a tool for artistic creations, and is therefore looking for soundart works, or more precise, sound compositions which represent a real challenge for human imagination.

SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
is happy to launch the call for its next edition, entitled:

SoundLAB VI - soundPOOL
sound compositions - a challenge for imagination

In 2004, SoundLAB was launched as a corporate part of the global networking project [R][R][F]200x—>XP - http://rrf200x.newmediafest.org
on occasion of BEAP - Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia 2004
but started soon also acting individually as an environment for sonic art.

Edition IV was launched in October 2006 under the title
“memoryscapes” - incorporating 144 artists and 235 soundart pieces
dealing with “memory and identity” in most different ways,
and it became corporate part of the media art show
://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
http://self.engad.org - presented in Palestine, Poland, Italy and Argentina, as an individual project it participated 2007 in FILE Hipersonica Sao Paulo
and FILE Rio 2008.

Edition V - soundSTORY - sound as a tool for story telling
was launched 2007 in the framework of NewMediaFest2007
presented online and on Int. Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina 2007 and
DIGITAL MEDIA 2008 Valencia/Spain

SoundLAB Editions I - V - can be visited on http://soundlab.newmediafest.org



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Please download regulations and entry form as PDF

Regulations for
sound compositions to be submitted

1. Theme: soundPOOL - sound compositions a challenge for imagination
2.. one single piece of soundart may be submitted
3. exclusive soundformat: mp3
4. duration: minimum 3 min, maximum 15 min
5. each submission has to accompanied by an artists statement
about the creation of the sound work, used tools & concepts
6. the artist/author keeps all rights on the submitted soundwork and statement
7. the work to be submitted has to be posted on a webpage for download,
including artist bio and statement
7a. –> if no own website is available, alternatively the film can be submitted via an upload/download service, for instance, SENDSPACE - www.sendspace.com - a free service, after upload send the link, and CologneOFF downloads the film then.
8. the complete entry form including the requested info material
has to be submitted via email

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Entry form
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artist/author

full name
email
URL
short biography/CV (not more than 300 words in English)

Work

title (one work only)
year
duration
URL for download
statement (no more than 1000 words in English)
.
Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter declares and confirms
that he/she is holding all author’s rights
and gives permission to include the submitted work
in “Soundlab” until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)
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Please cut and paste this form and send the complete submission, including artist bio and statement in plain email, RTF file format or WORD. doc

to
soundlab@newmediafest.org
subject: Soundlab edition VI
.

Deadline: 30 November 2008
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