[ELECTRON] Fwd: Festival HAIP10 - open call for applications

[Simon Yuill]

4th International Multimedia Festival HAIP10 of open technologies and
art is coming this fall - multimedia centre Cyberpipe / Kiberpipa is
announcing call for applications. This year's festival theme is "New
Nature". Application deadline is 30th April 2010.

Information about application, festival and theme is available below
and on website http://www.haip.cc/ (where you can find application
forms). Thank you for spreading the word about this call for
participation.

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Festival HAIP10 // Call for applications //

//HAIP10: NEW NATURE//

23.–26. November 2010

International festival HAIP is coming to Ljubljana again this year. We
are announcing call for participation and kindly inviting you to apply
your projects.

The festival
The idea for the HAIP festival arose within the Cyberpipe Multimedia
Centre team which operates within Zavod K6/4 in Ljubljana. HAIP is a
biannual festival that emerged in 2004. The festival is conceived to
be socially active and through it we attempt to reach the very core of
the issues and themes in the field of intermedia art and contemporary
scientific communication technologies. On the international level the
HAIP festival presents the works of young perspective as well as
already established artists, theoreticians, creative engineers and
groups that are oriented into top artistic practices that are
supported by open standards (regardless whether this is from practical
or ideological reasons). Thus the festival will present individuals
and groups who creatively and critically deal with social development
and progress that includes us all due to the bloom of the variety of
possibilities and choice. With this focus the HAIP festival supports
the research and creation of those contemporary artistic and
scientific practices that surpass the borders of specific forms and
contents. This is also shown by the name of the festival, i.e. »HAIP«
- which is an acronym for »Hack-Act-Interact-Progress«.

/ The festival encompasses: /

- lectures
- workshops
- exhibition of artworks/ spatial interventions
- performances
- club event
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/On the festival theme/

New nature

Data processing through the synthesis, manipulation and
characterization of matter on the atomic and molecular level (which
enables the creation of so-called nanostructure materials) opens a
line of thought as regards the new levels of autonomy and life of a
certain matter. In the attempt to understand the use of matter that is
in the process of being modified on its atomic level (as a
multidirectional medium) the focus turns towards the specifics and
(non)materiality of the intermediate spaces – towards contents,
quantumly transformed through these spaces. This means that the
artistic medium is established on an entirely new – atomic and
subatomic level.

In the poetic and performative sense we encounter the idea that we can
(trans)form reality through the manipulation of matter on the atomic
level. However, the motif for our research of this scientific field is
not based on the fascination we show for the fairytale qualities of
the ‘fantastic’ images that can be achieved with such processes. It is
also not based on the monotonous connection between science and art,
in which art is often used merely to illustrate science, while both
fields fail to establish a dialogue as regards their reciprocal
potentials. Our motif emerges from the intention to establish an
analytical discourse on the basis of the paradigm that it is possible
to link the artistic concept, creative programming, DIY electronic
systems and (inanimate) nature into a new expressive content.

Nanocrystals can be understood as ready-mades that are not manifested
in the form of uniquely selected static objects, but are constantly
changing manipulative situations/information/samples. Such feasible
unpredictable dynamics and hybrid crossbreeding of various (un)organic
matter with various other - mechanical and software - media activates
the consciousness on nano-cybernetic reality. Through this we witness
the establishment of a new domain within which the Cartesian
perception of the world has ceased to exist, for the knowledge of the
world has become an oscillating variable between the known (visible)
and the unknown (invisible).

These phenomenological processes have transformed the relations in
contemporary life and do not present a type of nature and culture in
themselves. In order for art to function subversively in relation to
the (monitoring) mechanisms (as enabled by informational
technologies), it has to be experienced as a constant anti-culture
that is available to all. This is why we attempt to democratise art in
relation to nano technology and science, for here it is possible to
transform matter in real time (on the level of their atomic
operation). On a certain level these actions are therefore linked to
political actions or with the affirmative and utopic gesture that
breaks away from the established aesthetic taste and opens the field
of the unknown, still unarticulated and unreflected, where we confront
the need to reorganise our perception and consequentially operation.

Such processes represent medium personification which is established
in the relation between the abstract space of the data and the real
space of the matter. The chemical equation (as a scientific model) no
longer functions as a hermetic scientific medium, instead it becomes
an auto-poetic feedback system and a virtual space for
open/multidirectional communication, which is (trans)formed,
(re)programmed, synthesised and freshly characterized by the
user/artist. With the absence of the tactile the interactivity is
manifested in the transcendence of the »senses as monocular images in
binocular perception« (Maurice Merleau-Ponty). Such a perceptive frame
opens a multidimensional reality, in which reality (as an actual
organic and inorganic presence) reveals the new characteristics of
spatial dimensions that can transform and redefine the understanding
of our existence.

Through the development of the new nature - which also represents the
potential starting point for the development of a new artistic
expression - we are (on the theoretical and empirical level)
interested in the multimedia quantum/chemically generated nanosystem –
(in)organic kinetic nano-cybernetic sculpture, which has performative
characteristics in itself. The directness of this experience through
the broadening of the perception within the merger of scientific
discoveries and the visual communication of multimedia art expression
and patents/equations/systems/data from these researches should be
offered for the potential (co)development and (co)use of intermedia
art by similarly thinking authors, for this represents the main
condition for the establishment of a qualitative artistic production,
which would aid the development, pluralisation and expansion of
intermedia cultural and art fields.

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APPLICATION:
The application has to include the following:
Filled in application form
Photo documentation of the project (max 10 jpgs, min 180 dpi)
Video documentation (DVD, CD, USB flash drive or internet connection –
in avi, mov or ogg format)
Technical plan of the project
Candidates may also attach additional documentation (catalogues, texts
and similar).
Original works, incomplete and late applications will not be
considered in the selection process. The attached documentation will
not be returned, but will remain in the Cyberpipe Multimedia Centre/
HAIP10 Festival archive.

Application deadline: 30th April 2010

Invitation and application can be downloaded in .odt, .pdf in .doc
format on HAIP website: http://www.haip.cc

The application form should be sent to the following address:

Contact person: Maja Smrekar

- By mail:
Zavod K6/4, Kiberpipa
Kersnikova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
With the text: “Application for HAIP10 festival”

- By e-mail:
haip at kiberpipa.org

The selection of the projects that will be realised and presented at
the HAIP10 festival will be concluded in May 2010. Only successful
candidates will be notified.

Information about application and festival also available on:
http://www.haip.cc