Jurors:
Max Kazemzadeh,and Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Screen­ing Dates:
April and May, 2012 (exact dates TBA)
Screen­ing Loca­tions:
The Phillips Col­lec­tion, Wash­ing­ton, DC and Arti­sphere, Arling­ton, VA
Sub­mis­sion Dead­line: Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 10, 2012, 5pm
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Wash­ing­ton Project for the Arts announces an open call for video-based art­works to be screened at The Phillips Col­lec­tion and at Arti­sphere, in April and May of 2012. From the videos selected for the screen­ing, one work will be awarded the 2012 Kraft Prize for New Media, a cash prize of $750.

The video series is part of Exper­i­men­tal Media 2012, a broader WPA pro­gram that also includes an exhi­bi­tion at Arti­sphere and a series of free pub­lic work­shops. The exhi­bi­tion, screen­ing series, and sur­round­ing pro­gram­ming will explore recent devel­op­ments in the field of art and tech­nol­ogy, includ­ing the growth of open source soft­ware and hard­ware, the emer­gence of grass­roots do-it-yourself hacker com­mu­ni­ties, and the increas­ing ubiq­uity of net­worked devices in daily life. While high­light­ing the cre­ative poten­tial of this new tech­nol­ogy, Exper­i­men­tal Media 2012 also seeks projects that explore the broader social and cul­tural impli­ca­tions of these rapid changes.

Within the broader con­text of devel­op­ments in art and tech­nol­ogy, this call seeks video work address­ing the ever-increasing flood of infor­ma­tion and data in con­tem­po­rary life and the ten­dency to make con­nec­tions and exchange infor­ma­tion across dis­parate fields of thought. These may include but aren’t lim­ited to exchanges and con­nec­tions that are phys­i­cal, trans­mit­ted, infor­ma­tional, emo­tional, cog­ni­tive, social, polit­i­cal, eco­nomic, cul­tural, chem­i­cal, mol­e­c­u­lar, elec­tric, fluid, sonic, quan­tum, vir­tual, or identity-based.

While the Exper­i­men­tal Media Exhi­bi­tion will fea­ture inter­ac­tive works that employ tech­nol­ogy, arti­fi­cial, and nat­ural sys­tems to build expe­ri­ences through manip­u­lat­ing the flow of infor­ma­tion, the Exper­i­men­tal Media Video Screen­ing will include works that use video as a medium to sim­i­larly explore char­ac­ter­is­tics of this new land­scape of data flow, per­cep­tion, and exchange between sys­tems, whether human, ges­tural, cul­tural, chem­i­cal, polit­i­cal, or virtual.

For sub­mis­sion guide­lines and addi­tional infor­ma­tion, see the full call.

ABOUT THE JURORS
Max Kazemzadeh is an elec­tronic and emer­gent media artist engi­neer and Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Media Art & Tech­nol­ogy at Gal­laudet Uni­ver­sity in Wash­ing­ton, DC. His work focuses on how con­structed, semi-conscious inter­faces influ­ence human inter­ac­tion. In addi­tion to widely exhibit­ing his own work, he has expe­ri­ence orga­niz­ing and curat­ing fes­ti­vals and exhi­bi­tions. Kazemzadeh orga­nized the con­fer­ence Tex­elec­tron­ica ’06 (Dal­las), served as the chair of the elec­tronic media art ses­sion at the 2008 Col­lege Art Asso­ci­a­tion Con­fer­ence, served as a juror for SIGGRAPH 2007, and has given annual inter­ac­tive hardware/software work­shops at the Cen­tral Acad­emy of Fine Art in Bei­jing since 2004.

His work has been exhib­ited inter­na­tion­ally in such venues as the Microwave Fes­ti­val (Hong Kong), the Boston Cyber­Arts Fes­ti­val, Mediala-Prado’s Inter­ac­tivos 08 (Mex­ico City), Dashanzi Inter­na­tional Art Fes­ti­val (Bei­jing), IDMA IDEA’s Exhibition/Symposium (Ohio), Fotofest (Hous­ton), Mace­do­nia Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Art (Greece), Maker Faire (Austin), LA Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Art (Los Ange­les), The Ger­ald Peters Gallery (New York), and the Dal­las Con­tem­po­rary. Kazemzadeh is cur­rently a Ph.D can­di­date at the Plan­e­tary Col­legium, Uni­ver­sity of Ply­mouth (United King­dom). He holds an MFA in Design and Tech­nol­ogy from Par­sons School of Design and a BFA in Draw­ing and Paint­ing from the Uni­ver­sity of North Texas.

Dr. Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and writer based in New York, NY. He received his Ph.D. in the Dis­rup­tive Design Team of the Net­work­ing and Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Research Group (NTRG), Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin (Ire­land). He is cur­rently an adjunct assis­tant pro­fes­sor at Par­sons MFA in Design & Tech­nol­ogy and Par­sons School of Art, Design, His­tory, and The­ory (ADHT). From 2001–2004 he was a Research Fel­low in the Human Con­nect­ed­ness Group at Media Lab Europe and from 2006–2007 he was an R&D Open­Lab Fel­low at Eye­beam Cen­ter for Art and Tech­nol­ogy in New York City.

His work and the­sis focuses on the theme of “Decon­struct­ing Net­works” which includes over 77 projects that attempt to crit­i­cally chal­lenge and sub­vert accepted per­cep­tions of net­work inter­ac­tion and expe­ri­ence. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Tech­nol­ogy Asso­ci­a­tion (DATA Group), recip­i­ent of the ARANEUM Prize spon­sored by the Span­ish Min­istry of Art, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy and Fun­da­cion ARCO, and was a 2006 and 2008 Rock­e­feller Foun­da­tion New Media Fel­low Nom­i­nee. His writ­ing has appeared in numer­ous inter­na­tional pub­li­ca­tions includ­ing WIRED, Make, Neural, Rhizome.org, Art Asia Pacific, Giz­modo and more, and his work has been pre­sented at events and orga­ni­za­tions such as Trans­me­di­ale, Insti­tute of Con­tem­po­rary Art in Lon­don, Tate Mod­ern, Whit­ney Museum of Amer­i­can Art’s Art­Port, Ars Elec­tron­ica, Chelsea Art Museum, ZKM Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Museum of Mod­ern Art (New York), San Fran­cisco Museum of Mod­ern Art, and Palais Du Tokyo.