CALL FOR ENTRIES: EXPERIMENTAL MEDIA 2013 VIDEO SCREENING
JUROR: Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media,
Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, New York
SCREENING DATES: Thursday, September 12, 2013, additional screening dates TBA
SCREENING LOCATION: The Phillips Collection, 1600 21
st St, NW, Washington, DC 20009
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, May 31, 2013, 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 on
September 12, 2013 with additional screenings dates and locations TBA.
The screening series is part of
Experimental Media 2013, a broader WPA program that includes the exhibition
Cyber In Securities
at Pepco Edison Place Gallery and a series of discussions bringing
together artists, technologists, and policy experts to discuss privacy,
security, and surveillance.
WPA is particularly interested in works that explore and examine
privacy and surveillance in contemporary society, from satellite
surveillance down to patents on human genes, from government watch lists
to exhibitionism in the age of social networking, from anonymity in
Internet culture to the growth in corporate micro-targeting. As moving
images play an integral role in our contemporary surveillance regimes –
whether government-run, corporate, or self-inflicted – video provides an
ideal medium to delve into the changing nature of privacy and
surveillance in our digital age.
One artist whose work is chosen for the screening will be selected to win the Kraft Prize for New Media, a $500 cash prize.
Submission Guidelines
The call is open to all artists regardless of geographic location.
Artists may submit up to three works of single-channel video, with a
maximum duration of 5 minutes per video, along with a CV. The selected
videos will be screened sequentially in an auditorium to a seated
audience. It is recommended that artists consider the viewing context
when selecting work to submit.
Videos can be submitted as links to work on file sharing websites
(Vimeo, YouTube, etc) or on a personal website. Videos may be password
protected and a password supplied in the submission form. The full
length of each work submitted should be less than five minutes. Selected
artists will be required to submit a file of the video to WPA so it may
be included in the screening.
The final submission deadline is Friday, May 31, 2013 at 5pm. Work may be submitted through
WPA’s website.
Artists with questions regarding the call or who prefer to submit
their work via mail should contact Blair Murphy, WPA Program Director,
at 202-234-7103 x 1 or bmurphy@wpadc.org. For more information,
download the full call.
About the Juror
Jason Eppink curates events and exhibitions, creates interactive
experiences, and throws raging art parties as the Associate Curator of
Digital Media at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. When he’s
not doing that, Eppink teaches digital art at New York University and
makes mischief in public space and online. GOOD Magazine proclaimed him
one of the top 100 most important, exciting, and innovative people
making our world better and changing the way we live.
