Urban Screens 08

The Urban Screens 08 exhibition is looking for Artists, Urban Poets, Filmmakers and Multimedia and Interaction Designers to submit film and videos or multimedia, interactive or participatory screen based projects. A large diverse urban screens infrastructure is available at Federation Square.

Callout closes 30-May-2008

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Full Description

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centered around a significant 38m2 public LED screen.

We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects that interrogate screen media as a medium| content and tackle the festival’s key themes of issues of building community and sustainability in relation to water. These two complex themes aim to provoke discussion and spark questions such as: What is community in  times of the high-speed, global flows of the new media scape? How can we explore the diversity of water, an element, essential to the existence of life on earth?

The projects should preferably employ one or more of the listed existing infrastructure of urban screens of Fed Square and should consider and adapt to the special circumstances of outdoor public spaces, transforming urban spaces to foster dialogue and community engagement.

A) Film and video such as
- Video art, text art, animation, animated slideshows and community information (under 3 mins)  
- Silent works especially for the joint broadcasting or daily screenings in-between (under 3 min.)
- Short  experimental films, documentary and journalistic content (under 15 min.)
- Small curated programs of the mentioned type of works

B) Interactive, performance based or participatory projects such as:
- Interactive software applications for urban screens - Participatory community projects using creative digital practices
- Live media art merging performance and new media
- Community displays for education and exchange
- Virtual/real world hybrid projects using streaming content
- Real-time generated content - Screen related sound experiments
- Digital storytelling projects - Mobile games using urban space as social and educative playground
- Connecting mobile culture of locative media with urban screens

For a detailed description of the event and curatorial framework see:
http://www.urbanscreens08.net/art-+-events>

For a detailed description of Fed Squares infrastructure see: http://www.urbanscreens08.net/technical