Communikey Festival Call for Projects
www.cmky.us/submissionsFor the 2012 Communikey Festival, we will be accepting submissions for three exhibits. Each exhibit is described below. The deadline is February 18th. Thank you for your interest in submitting your project for Communikey!
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1. Artifacts of the Future
"Over the last decade the awareness of anthropogenic climate change has emerged in parallel with global digital communication networks. In the context of environmental and economic collapse people around the world are seeking alternative visions of prosperity and sustainable ways of living. While the legacy of the carbon fuelled Industrial Revolution plays itself out, we find ourselves grappling with questions about the future implications of fast-evolving global digital infrastructure. By their very nature the new tools, networks and behaviours of productivity, exchange and cooperation between humans and machines grow and develop at an accelerated rate." - Futherfield
Calling all Inventors of the Future! Communikey is opening up submissions for Artifacts of the Future, an exhibition that invites artists and technologists to create potential visions or solutions to the complex problems of a sustainable future in a digitally driven world. This project will draw from a multidisciplinary framework between the arts, culture, design and science to explore the impact of digital culture on sustainability era issues such as climate change and natural resource scarcity. Very real physical constraints on natural and human systems leave us with a frustratingly paradoxical range of options for the future. This is a call to use creativity to transcend these dichotomies and seize this profound opportunity to design a possible world beyond these roadblocks.
Projects must address one or more of the following imagination frameworks:
Imagine what Digital Culture can look like:
In a post-fossil fuel economy
Coming to grips with climate change
In a world of scarce mineral resources
In a world with shrinking water reserves
Amidst growing divides between the world's rich and poor
Amidst growing centralized control of the world’s communications channels by corporate and government entities
Preference will be given to the those projects which:
Inspire possibility and a new way of seeing these potential futures
Offer a combination of innovation and practical solutions for the current day
Have collaborative, participatory, or performative elements
Work with an interdisciplinary methodology or presentation
Are made from post-consumer, recycled and/or reclaimed materials
Other information:
Technological inventors and digital, multi-media artists working in 2-D and 3-D media, including but not limited to drawing, painting, pastel, printmaking, photography, mixed media and sculpture are all welcome! Interactive, participatory performance is also a plus.
We encourage teams as well as individuals to apply to this project. A small stipend is available for selected projects in order to help support basic project costs.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -Buckminster Fuller
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2. Design a Zero Waste Experience for Communikey Festival Headquarters
For the past five years, Communikey Yes, And...? program has had a Zero-Waste program during each festival. In 2011 alone, we diverted 80% of our 3,525 lbs. of waste from the landfill. We are placing a call to artists to design and build an installation for our permanent Zero-Waste station that will be located at our festival headquarters in the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Communikey hopes that this project will not only draw attention to our Zero-Waste program, but that it will also capitalize on the opportunity to take bland bins and turn them into beautiful works of art.
Please note: submissions must include a full description of concept, project details and a basic project timeline. A small stipend is available from Yes, And...? to help support basic costs associated with the project.
To be eligible, projects must follow these guidelines:
All designs need to be comprised of 100% reclaimed or recycled materials
Installations must be designed to not obstruct but to fit around the 3 bins (20x11x30’’) at the Zero-Waste station
Strive to radically alter and inspire our festival goers’ recycling experience
3. Reclamation of Time
In the post-industrial age we have emerged a society in which people have been subordinated to technologies and transformed into commodities. The perceived time in a day has been shrinking due, in large part, to our perception of convenience, while the actual time remains the same as it’s ever been. This perception has led to a shoring up of our language itself, both internal and interpersonal, so that even our thoughts are co-opted for efficiencies sake. The animal and deeply human response to this usurpation of mind is (when not acquiescence) rebellion; in the form of slow food movements, meditation, yoga, grassroots music festivals, etc.
As technologies of “convenience” drive us away from ourselves and each other; we have to find ways to reconnect to our experience, to reconnect to our shifting language landscape. With so many infinite places to go and infinite things to do, where do we begin to re-find ourselves?
Communikey Festival is calling for submissions for a gallery art exhibition that invites painters, photographers, printers, drawers, and other 2-D artists to explore the places we return to reclaim our human/animal selves. How do frameworks from a pre-digital world relate to innovations in a potential post-digital world? And how can we use these frameworks to develop the future of human connection?
Project Principles and Guidelines:
Art works must be on flat medium and ready to hang on a wall.
Pieces must be a minimum size of 36" X 48" and maximum size of 48" X 48"*
*Exceptions can be made for triptychs or other multiple canvas pieces. However, rectangular formats are best.
Artists will work collectively with other
Artists selected to formulate compositional guidelines in order to ensure exhibition cohesiveness.
Thematic presence in the work is crucial for a cohesive show.
Color work is preferred over black & white.
Resume including (3) examples of previous work, as well as artist’s statement.
| WHAT: | Art Opportunities, Multidisciplinary | |
| WHEN: | Deadline: Feb 18th for Projects April 25th - 29th 2012 | |
| WHERE: | , Boulder, CO | |
| COST: | Free | |
| CONTACT: | info@communikey.us | |
| WEBSITE: | communikey.us/submissions |
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