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CALL FOR ARTISTS - PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS
WITH ELECTRICITY II:
The second annual dorkbot-sea
exhibition, People Doing Strange Things With Electricity
II, at Seattle’s Center on Contemporary Art
(CoCA)
will run from January 20th, 2005 – March 2nd,
2005, opening CoCA’s 2005 season. The first
People Doing Strange Things With Electricity show
was the most successful recent exhibit at CoCA, and
we are back by invitation in 2005. dorkbot community
members from the Pacific Northwest and beyond, and
artists working with electricity anywhere – from
kinetic sculptors to Tesla freaks to sound artists
to digital manipulators to light artists to roboticists
to videographers to nanotechnologists and every shade
of artist and technologist in between – are invited
to submit proposals for works of any size and scope
to dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org.
A People Doing Strange Things With Electricity Award
of US $1000 will be given to the creator(s) of exhibition
attendee’s favourite artwork, with the aim of
enabling and encouraging artists working with technology
to continue to push boundaries, experiment and grow
stranger.
ELIGIBILITY: PDSTWE II is open to all artists, local,
national and international, creating work which either
requires electricity in order to function or be displayed,
and/or where electricity has formed a significant
and intrinsic part of the creation of the work. There
are no processing or entry fees for proposals.
PRESENTATION: Proposals for artwork should be submitted
in the form of a paragraph (maximum 1000 words) describing
the work, including details of size/dimension, impact
on the venue and display requirements, special technical
requirements and relevance to the premise of the exhibition.
Artists must also describe any maintenance, set-up
or shut-down requirements for their work as understood
at the time the proposal is generated, and be prepared
to guarantee the robustness of their proposed artwork
under normal exhibition conditions. Proposals must
be accompanied by an artist’s statement or biography,
and images of either the work itself or past, similar
projects (if available). Digital images and emailed
proposals are strongly preferred, but 35mm slides
or prints (photographic or digital prints up to 8.5”
x 11”) will be accepted. Digital images may be
submitted on CD (NOT on floppy disks), but again,
email or pointers to an artist’s website are
preferred. All slides must be numbered and labeled
with the artist’s name and title of the work,
and all images in any format must be accompanied by
an image list. Video artists may submit a video tape
or DVD disc in lieu of images. A self-addressed, stamped
envelope (SASE) must be included with sufficient postage
for the return of your slides or prints – if
no SASE is enclosed, your materials will not be returned.
Emailed proposals must not exceed 1 megabyte in
size – this includes any documents, images,
sound files etc.. All digital files and emailed
proposals must be virus-free.
DEADLINE AND NOTIFICATION: The deadline for entry
for PDSTWE II is November 30th, 2004. Proposals postmarked
or emailed after this date will not be considered.
Artists will be notified of acceptance or non-acceptance
by December 5th, 2004. Notification will be made by
email (preferred) or, where email is not available,
using the SASE provided by the artist. Artists who
do not provide an email address or SASE will not be
notified unless they are accepted to exhibit.
PDSTWE AWARD: Exhibition attendees will be asked
to vote once for their favourite PDSTWE II exhibit.
An award of $1000 will be given to the creator(s)
of the artwork receiving the most votes. Votes will
be tallied on March 3rd 2005 following the close of
the exhibition. The winner of the PDSTWE award will
be notified by email (preferred) or mail by March
10th, 2005, and the funds sent on or before that date.
SEND PROPOSALS TO:
PROPOSAL CHECKLIST:
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Description of work (1000 words max)
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Artist’s statement and/or biography
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Artist’s contact details, including physical
address, email address, telephone and fax numbers
and URL if available
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Image(s) of the work or past projects in digital
or slide format
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Image list
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Video artists: video tape or DVD
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Artist’s contact details and email address
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SASE for return of materials if necessary;
email address preferred for notification
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Note: emailed proposals may not exceed 1MB
total in size.
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TIMELINE:
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Deadline for proposals: 30th November, 2004
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Deadline for notification: 5th December, 2004
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Exhibition opens: January 20th, 2005
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Exhibition closes: March 3rd, 2005
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Deadline for notification of winner of PDSTWE
Award: March 10th, 2005
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ALL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS to dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org
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CALL FOR SOUND ARTISTS: PEOPLE DOING STRANGE
THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY TOO
dorkbot-sea, in collaboration with Seattle-based
Net Label Comfort
Stand Records, is creating a combination
CD and online compilation of work by contemporary
experimental sound artists, musicians and composers.
The simultaneous release of the physical and
online versions of the compilation, called People
Doing Strange Things With Electricity Too,
will coincide with the opening of dorkbot-sea’s
People Doing Strange Things With Electricity
II exhibition at Seattle’s Center on
Contemporary Art (CoCA)
on January 22nd, 2005. The physical CD
will be distributed to exhibition attendees,
reviewers, press and exhibiting artists; the
online release will be freely available for
download from Comfort Stand Records.
The exhibition will run through March 3rd,
2005, and opens CoCA’s 2005 season.
The first People Doing Strange Things With Electricity
show was the most successful recent exhibit
at CoCA, and we are back by invitation in 2005.
dorkbot community members from the Pacific Northwest
and beyond, and experimental sound artists working
with electricity anywhere, are invited to submit
proposed works for inclusion on the compilation
according to the guidelines listed below. Note
that the deadline for proposals is November
30th, 2004!
ELIGIBILITY: the People Doing Strange Things
With Electricity Too compilation CD and online
release is open to all local, national and international
experimental sound artists, composers and musicians
where electricity forms a major component of
the creation and/or performance of their work.
There are no processing or entry fees for proposals.
ALL ARTISTS MUST BE PREPARED TO PUBLISH THEIR
WORK FOR THIS RELEASE UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS
ATTRIBUTION NON-COMMERCIAL SHARE ALIKE LICENSE
(see http://creativecommons.org/audio/
for full details).
PRESENTATION: Proposals for People Doing Strange
Things With Electricity Too tracks should be
submitted either on an audio or data CD (strongly
preferred) mailed per instructions below, or
as an MP3 file uploaded to http://www.dropload.com
– a site that enables upload of a file
up to 100MB that must then be downloaded within
a week. MP3 files must be encoded at the bitrate
of 192k/44.1. dropload.com email notifications
should be sent to dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org. NO
EMAILED AUDIO FILES OR ZIP FILES, PLEASE. All
proposals, whether mailed or submitted online,
must be accompanied by the artist’s name
and song title(s) and should include a paragraph
(maximum 1000 words) describing the work, and/or
must be accompanied by an artist’s statement
or biography. You may include pointers to URL(s)
and an image either of yourself or of original
artwork to accompany your track. Digital
images are strongly preferred, but 35mm
slides or prints (photographic or digital prints
up to 8.5” x 11”) will be accepted.
Digital images may be submitted on CD (NOT on
floppy disks). All slides must be numbered and
labeled with the artist’s name and title
of the work, and all images in any format must
be accompanied by an image list. A self-addressed,
stamped envelope (SASE) must be included with
sufficient postage for the return of your slides
or prints – if no SASE is enclosed, your
materials will not be returned. All digital
files MUST be virus-free.
DEADLINE AND NOTIFICATION: The deadline for
entry for the People Doing Strange Things With
Electricity Too CD and online release is November
30th, 2004. Proposals postmarked or emailed
notifications received after this date will
not be considered. Artists will be notified
of acceptance or non-acceptance by December
10th, 2004. Notification will be made by email
(preferred) or, where email is not available,
using the SASE provided by the artist. Artists
who do not provide an email address or SASE
will not be notified unless they are accepted
to exhibit.
SEND PROPOSALS TO:
PROPOSAL CHECKLIST:
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Artist Name
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Song Title
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Description of work (1000 words max)
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Artist’s statement and/or biography
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Artist’s contact details, including
physical address, email address, telephone
and fax numbers
and URL if available
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Digital image of artist, or accompanying
image for proposed track(s)
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SASE for return of materials if necessary;
email address preferred for notification
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TIMELINE:
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Deadline for proposals: 30th November,
2004
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Deadline for notification: 10th December,
2004
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Exhibition opens: January 22nd, 2005
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Exhibition closes: March 3rd, 2005
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ALL QUESTIONS, COMMENTS to dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org
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Show your work! - upcoming opportunities:
SeaTac International Airport: while
there are opportunities for artwork to be shown
at SeaTac courtesy of CoCA, only conventional
(i.e. non-electronic) artwork can be shown at
this time due to power restrictions. So, if
you have non-electronic work that you’d
like to show for a 3-month stint at SeaTac,
contact dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org
for more information.
dorkbot video screening opportunity
at 911 Media Arts Center: video artists are
strongly encouraged to contact Kate
if they'd like to include their work in
a dorkbot event at 911 Media Arts Center; date
TBD. When we have enough momentum, we'll be
able to start work on this in earnest.
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If you would like to speak
at a future dorkbot meeting, or dj
or perform music after the presentations,
please contact Kate
Seekings. Here's information on how
to sign up:
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What is the format of a dorkbot meeting?
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Each dorkbot-sea meeting consists of:
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Brief intros, announcements, administrative
details
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20 minute presentation followed by 10 minutes
of Q&A
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20 minute presentation followed by 10 minutes
of Q&A
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20 minute presentation followed by 10 minutes
of Q&A
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Opendork mic for anyone with anything to say,
show-and-tell etc.
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Performance, and time for mingling, networking,
work-in-progress
We will sometimes deviate from this formula
if you have a suitable special event that you’d
like to propose, but typically we like to have
three speakers for an evening as it gives more
of us a chance to show off and be shown off
to.
Imaginary presentation topics:
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A demo of the new motion tracking software you're
writing
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Playing a video you made
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An explanation of how you hacked your game boy
to get it to make cool bleeping noises
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Trouble shooting/brainstorming your remote-controlled
sandwich-making robot
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Bringing in some dancers you're working with
and having them demonstrate the interface
used
in your new mind-control ballet
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Discussing your approach to electronic sculpture
Demos of commercial software are not appropriate,
unless you wrote the software or you are making
it do something particularly novel or interesting.
On the other hand, presenting a piece that was
created using commercial software is fine.
No. We don’t charge admission and we don’t
pay speakers - dorkbot-sea is a free,
community event.
You are encouraged to provide most of the resources
needed for your presentation, including your
own computers and mixing equipment. Some CoCA/dorkbot-sea
equipment will be available, but do bring your
own wherever possible. We'll have:
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A video projector and screen
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A fast Internet connection
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A mixing board and powered speakers
We also have guidelines distilled from previous
dorkbot meetings that describe some ins and
outs of presenting to our audience that we'll
be delighted to forward as soon as you've committed
to a date.
Just email
Kate.
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