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The
Electronic Arts and Video Festival, Transitio_mx is the
most relevant platform in Mexico for the expression and analysis
of the contemporary artistic practices with electronic media and
the digital culture.
The title for the current edition of the festival is Nomadic Borders,
making reference to the electronic/media arts through two metaphors:
on the one hand, the border as the symbolic site that lies in the
limit itself; on the other, the nomadic as an image of what is mobile,
that which lacks a specific location. At the nomadic frontier there
is no belonging, the communities developed there are always about
to be built. From that idea, the conceptual axes of the festival
are derived: Communities in Process and Processes in Community.
The main objective of the Festival is to support, recognize and
spread production and current research around the artisticelectronic
media, in an inclusive and expansive environment, by means of an
exhibition, a symposium and a competition.
The competition is open to all individuals, groups and associations
involved in the creative production using electronic media like
videoart, sound art, net-art, installations, performing arts, performance
actions and other related manifestations.
In the current edition, the National Council for Culture and the
Arts, through the Multimedia Center of the National Center for the
Arts, opens the calling for the following awards: |
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TRANSITIO AWARD. The national and international community is called
to participate in the Second Electronic Arts and Video Competition
that will be carried within the Festival framework from October
13th to 19th, 2007.
During the Festival the following prizes will be granted as a recognition
to produced work:
A single prize worth $ 120,000.00 Mexican pesos or its equivalent
in U.S. dollars.
The honorary mentions that the Jury considers pertinent.
Proposals for this award will be taken in from the publication of
this announcement and until July 27th, 2007 6:00 p.m. (GMT -6).
No proposals will be taken in after this deadline. The shipping
date can be taken into account as long as the shipment is done using
express mail and not ordinary service. In case of international
shipments, the package or envelope should be clearly labeled as
“Cultural Material with no Commercial Value”. The FESTIVAL
WILL NOT COVER SHIPPING OR CUSTOMS TAXES COSTS.
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SIZIGIA AWARD. The national and international community is called
to send its electronic art proposals for the SIZIGIA project, coordinated
by Laboratorio Curatorial 060.
SIZIGIA is an island in the middle of the Usumacinta River, in the
border between Mexico and Guatemala. After its claim as an independent
territory by the members of Laboratorio 060, the island was mapped
and transferred accurately to the virtual world of Second Life (www.secondlife.com).
By working as an independent zone in two planes of interaction,
real and virtual, SIZIGIA is self-assumed as a micro-State possible
of socio-imaginary confluences. The project impels the application
of a biopolitical engineering through different interaction methods
between real structures and virtual developments. As a part of their
curatorial proposal for Transitio_mx 02, and to be presented in
the international exhibition, Laboratorio 060 will coordinate the
following awards:
Up to three virtual residences lasting 2 months for the
development of the winning projects, which include the amount of
265.000 Linden dollars (approx $1000 USD).
Proposals for this award will be received from the publication of
this call and until July 20th, 2007 6:00 p.m. (GMT -6).
They can be sent through the Internet, or directly by courier to
the Multimedia Center. No proposals will be taken in after the deadline.
Proposals after the deadline will not be received. The shipping
date can be taken into account as long as the shipment is done using
express mail and not ordinary service. In case of international
shipments, the package or envelope should be clearly labeled as
“Cultural Material with no Commercial Value”. The FESTIVAL
WILL NOT COVER SHIPPING OR CUSTOMS TAXES COSTS.
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TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AWARD. Granted by the US-Mexico Foundation
for Culture, Inc., Fomento Educacional, A.C. and Fundación
Cultural BBVA Bancomer.
The award will recognize transnational communities that link Mexico
and the United States and that have been able to translate their
presence onto the Internet, thus recreating their social dynamics
through the web, shortening geographic distances, and trascending
cultural confl icts by innovation. The emphasis of the award is
set on digital projects that creatively use the technological and
conceptual tools available in the net to improve the communitarian
communication and interaction channels, giving rise to online spaces
in which common stories and practices are shared.
During the Festival, the following prizes will be granted to conformed
digital communities:
A first prize of 3.500 U.S. dollars.
The honorary mentions that the Jury considers pertinent.
Proposals for this prize will be received from the publication of
this call and until 6:00 p.m. (GMT -6) on July 27th, 2007. No proposals
will be taken in after this deadline. The shipping date can be taken
into account as long as the shipment is done using express mail
and not ordinary service. In case of international shipments, the
package or envelope should be clearly labeled as “Cultural
Material with no Commercial Value”. The FESTIVAL WILL NOT
COVER SHIPPING OR CUSTOMS TAXES COSTS.
The application should be done online in the address: http://transitiomx.net/concurso
The participants accept the conditions of this call. The Planning
Council of the Festival will attend any case not previously foreseen.
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DOCUMENTATION: To obtain the information on the specific participation
guidelines for each prize as well as the Application Form and all
the information on the documentation that must be included, please
go to the Festival’s webpage http://transitiomx.net
or the Multimedia Center webpage:
http://cmm.cenart.gob.mx
For further information and delivery of documents please
refer to: Centro Nacional de las Artes Centro Multimedia Avenida
Río Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club, C. P. 04220, Coyoacán,
México, D. F. Office hours are from 10:00 to 15:00 hours
Contact: Ana Villa by phone 1253 9400 Ext. 1290 or by email: concurso@transitiomx.net
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