[Leonardo/ISAST Network] Call for artists and scientists: e-MobiLArt: European Mobile Lab for Interactive Artists

[Leonardo/ISAST]

Leonardo Olats Co-sponsors e-MobiLArt: European Mobile Lab for 
Interactive Artists

Call for artists and scientists

http://www.media.uoa.gr/emobilart

Deadline : March 16th 2008

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La langue de travail pour ce projet est l'anglais

Il est fortement recommandé de lire la version intégrale de l'appel sur 
le site du projet avant d'y répondre ou de demander des compléments 
d'information.

Toutes demandes d'information doit être faite (en Anglais ou en Grec) à: 
emobilart at gmail.com

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European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists (e-MobiLArt) is a 
project tailored around the process of creating collaborative 
interactive installation artworks. Such interactive mediated 
environments may involve the use of multimodal interfaces, ubiquitous 
computing and mobile or locative media technologies.

The e-MobiLArt project aims to provide selected participants with an 
ideal context, that will allow them to travel, collaborate and exhibit 
their work. During this project, artists and scientists who are active 
in creating interactive media art or pursuing innovative 
interdisciplinary research will have the opportunity to:

- create interactive installation artworks

- collaborate with other artists and scientists from different countries

- get technical support and tuition from experts on using innovative 
technologies for creating interactive art

- meet, discuss and collaborate with curators and museum organizers

- exhibit their work in at least two different European countries

- document their work in a special issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac 
and the exhibition catalogue

- participate in an international network of artists, researchers, 
academics and theorists


Eligibility / requirements: Artists from all disciplines are encouraged 
to apply to e-MobiLArt: interactive installation artists, video artists, 
visual artists, net artists, as well as musicians, choreographers, 
performance artists and others who wish to experiment with the use of 
the interactive technologies.

Individuals with a scientific background and the willingness to 
experiment in a collaborative artistic project, as described above, are 
also eligible.

Selected participants will attend three (3) workshops. During (and in 
between) the workshops, participants will work in groups in order to 
develop their projects by:

- Following an open process of artistic creation and experimentation

- Getting support on technical and theoretical issues

- Complementing each other's skills within an interdisciplinary 
collaborative creative process by:
 
    ·         Enhancing their technical skills through hands-on creative 
activity
    ·         Creating artworks that will reflect the process of 
intercultural dialogue
    ·         Participating in an on-line network of communication
 
Dates of the workshops: (precise dates will be announced till the end of 
February)

- 1st Workshop: Athens June 2008

- 2nd Workshop: Rovaniemi August 2008

- 3rd Workshops: Vienna February 2009


Exhibitions:

After the workshops, the resulting interactive installation artworks 
will be exhibited in at least two museum / gallery spaces: the State 
Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece (possibly during the 
2009 Biennale) and the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, 
Poland. These exhibitions will take place in autumn 2009.


Deadline for applications: Sunday, March 16th, 2008.

Project partners and sponsors:

The e-MobiLArt Project is under the support of the CULTURE
2007 Program of the European Union.

It is co-coordinated by the University of Athens (Greece).

Co-organizing partners are: the University of Applied Arts Vienna 
(Austria) and the University of Lapland (Finland).

Associate partners are: Leonardo/OLATS (France), Group Haute Ecole ICHEC 
Saint Louis (Belgium), State Museum of Contemporary Art -- Thessaloniki 
(Greece), The Academy of Fine Arts - Katowice (Poland) and Cycling74 
(U.S.A.).

More information and the full application form for participation can be 
found at:
URL: http://www.media.uoa.gr/emobilart


Leonardo/ISAST is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Donations are 
tax-deductible in the U.S. To learn more about Leonardo/ISAST's 
projects, programs and activities, visit http://leonardo.info
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