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Sorry, applications no longer accepted.
Deadline for proposals: July 19, 2002
Gallery 9/Walker Art Center (WAC) announces a third round of net art
commissions: "Emerging Artists/Emergent Medium: Translocation" (EAEM3). With
support
from The Jerome Foundation, WAC will commission three new net art projects.
The fee for each commission will be $5,000 plus a budget of up to $4,000 for
technical support. A writer will also be commissioned to write a critical
essay in relation to the project, and completed commissioned works will be
presented
as part of a global (translocal?), online exhibition to be presented in
February 2003.
The Walker Art Center's Gallery 9 (http://gallery9.walkerart.org) is an
online platform for project-driven exploration, through digitally-based
media, of all things "cyber." Past commissions in the Emerging
Artists/Emergent Medium series have gone to: 0100101110101101.org, Natalie
Bookchin and Alexei
Shulgin, Auriea Harvey, Ochen K, Diane Ludin, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy,
r a d i o q u a l i a, and Vivian Selbo.
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The theme of EAEM3 is the "translocal." There is, potentially, an important
difference between what has been termed McGlobalization and the translocal.
If one version of globalization is the transnational ubiquity of global
brands and the dominance of global capital, can the translocal be a
counter-example, specifying an individual, local environment yet situating
it in a global
context? If the topology of the network is one of connected nodes, every
node is global. Is any node local? No node is the center. Is every node is a
center?
These and many other questions are raised by the notion of the translocal.
In the spirit of project-driven exploration,
EAEM3 encourages proposals that broadly explore and interpret translocal,
particularly in relation to issues of situatedness, embodiment, and agency
in a connective, global context. Projects must be able to be experienced
compellingly online.
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Emerging Artist/Emergent Medium 1
Emerging Artist/Emergent Medium 2
Gallery 9
Jerome Foundation
Walker Art Center
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EAEM3 is specifically aimed at emerging artists. At least two of the three
commissions will be awarded to artists or artist groups based in New York
City or Minnesota (USA).
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Proposals will be reviewed by a jury consisting of Steve Dietz, Walker Art
Center; Douglas Fogle, Walker Art Center; Gunalan Nadarajan, Dean, Lasalle
College, Singapore; and
Yukiko Shikata, Independent Curator, Tokyo. Selected artists will be
contacted on or after August 30, 2002. Each artist will be asked to sign an
agreement with Walker Art Center governing the terms of the commission.
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Notification to the Walker of a proposals for a Emerging Artists_Emergent
Medium commission is accepted via
the submission form (above) only. Notification will be accepted until 5:00 pm CST on Friday,
July
19, 2002. Proposals must take the form of a web site that includes the
following key
elements:
- Project description (500 words maximum) that discusses your project's core
concept, how you will realize your project and your project's feasibility.
If you plan to work with assistants, consultants or collaborators, their
roles and (if possible) names should be included.
- Project thematics (500 words maximum) that discusses the relation of your
project to the translocal.
- A production timeline and a project budget. These can be modified on
acceptance, but projects must be doable with available funding. If you have
other funding sources for your project, please
indicate this in your budget.
- Your resume or Curriculum Vitae. For collaborative groups, provide either
a collective CV or the CV's of all participants.
- Up to 5 work samples. Note: more is not necessarily better. You should
include only work samples that are relevant to your proposal. Please provide
contextualizing information (title,
date, medium, perhaps a brief description) to help the jury understand what
they are looking at. The work sample can take any form, as long as it is
accessible via the web.
When designing your web-based proposal, please note that the jury will have
limited time, so try to make your site clear and concise.
When your web-based proposal is ready, complete the submission form above.
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Winners will be announced on or before August 30, 2002. Commissioned
projects must be
completed by January 13, 2003.
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If you have any questions about the Emerging Artists_Emergent Medium:
Translocation commissions, please contact Steve Dietz at
steve.dietz@walkerart.org.
*Thanks and acknowledgment to Rhizome for the example of its excellent
commission submission format.
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