[dorkbotaustin-announce] Call for art: Electronic Arts and Video Festival -- Mexico

[David Nunez]

// CALL FOR PROJECTS
// TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES AWARD
// Electronic Arts and Video Festival Transitio_mx 02
// Deadline: July 27th, 2007

http://transitiomx.net

granted by the US-Mexico Foundation for Culture, Inc.
Fomento Educacional, A.C. and
Fundación BBVA Bancomer

TRANSNATIONAL COMMUNITIES
The configuration of transnational communities corresponds to the  
continuous and increasing flow of people, goods, technology and  
information. In the context of this exchange, social networks are  
conformed linking daily and permanently the origin communities with  
the destination ones, creating social pluri-local and inter-cultural  
spaces.

In the specific case of the Mexico-United States relation, the  
migratory phenomenon constitutes a central inexhaustible subject in  
the territorial displacements debate. The Transnational Communities  
Award sets out to explore artistic, cultural and social articulation  
projects that take place in virtual space, the arena in which the  
global and the local converge.

GUIDELINES
The award will recognize transnational communities that link Mexico  
and the United States and that have been able to translate their  
presence onto the Internet, thus recreating their social dynamics  
through the web, shortening geographic distances, and transcending  
cultural conflicts by innovation. The emphasis of the award is set on  
digital projects that creatively use the technological and conceptual  
tools available in the net to improve the communitarian communication  
and interaction channels, giving rise to online spaces in which  
common stories and practices are shared.

The Transnational Communities Award is directed towards artistic,  
cultural and social projects for which the Internet is a necessary  
tool to express and present diverse visions of a changing world.  
Special consideration will be given to such projects that are  
committed to extend the access to production and distribution of  
contents in the Internet and that prioritize the horizontal  
communication among their members, setting into practice the culture  
of participation that defines the new generation of digital  
technologies by becoming virtual platforms of collaboration and  
collective development.

PARTICIPATION CRITERIA
I. The call is open to individuals, groups, associations,  
organizations and institutions that develop communitarian projects of  
a cultural, artistic and social character by using media convergence  
to create new social narratives that respond to transnational issues.  
Proposals working in the following formats will be accepted, as long  
as they use the internet as their main communication and interaction  
medium: video (communitarian video, documentary, videoart, video  
clip, videomails, soap operas, etc.), net.art, civil journalism,  
digital communities, online forums, weblogs, social networks, online  
videogames, online artistic collaboration projects, electronic  
literature, digital narrative, musical collaborations, communitarian  
radio, and pod casts, among others.

Special attention will be given to projects that tackle subjects  
related to identity, the borders, diversity, diasporas and  
hybridizations, as well as those which resort to the collective  
intelligence and creativity to generate open source tools, giving  
place to open contents and distribution.

II. Projects that work with the following tools, among others, will  
be able to participate:

Social Software

Web 2.0 Applications

System of social networks

Development of open source tools for creative collaboration

III. It will be possible to participate with up to 3 projects.

IV. The projects will have to be registered by their author. In case  
that the project has been made by a group, it will have to designate  
a representative.

V. The official languages of the award will be Spanish and English.

VI. Participation in this award implies the authorization to the  
National Center for the Arts to present the work within the framework  
of the Festival; and the authors grant permission to use images of  
the work for diffusion and dissemination of the event, according to  
the Federal Copyright Law. The rights of the work remain the sole  
property of the author.

VII. Participants release all announcing institutions of any  
controversy regarding copyright matters that the work in competition  
may lead to.

VIII. Decisions made by the Committee and the international Jury will  
be unquestionable.

IX. Participants accept the conditions set on this call. The Planning  
Council of the Festival will solve any case not foreseen earlier.

ELEGIBILITY CRITERIA

X. The projects will be pre-selected by a Committee that will  
evaluate all submitted works and decide if they are suitable to  
continue to the second and last stage.

XI. Such works chosen to go on to the final selection will be  
published in a national circulation newspaper and on the Festival’s  
webpage, http://transitiomx.net, on August 19th, 2007.

XII. The jury’s recognition will be given to projects that:

a) their activity, pertinence, and vitality is evident at first sight

b) give priority to the horizontal participation of their members

c) offer the possibility of inclusion and participation for agents  
external to the community

d) present effectiveness and functionality characteristics in  
dialogic processes

e) companies with exclusive profit-making aims are excluded

APPLICATION

XIII. All the proposals must be presented as an Internet website

XIV. Proposals will be received from the publication of this  
announcement and until 6 p.m. (GMT -6) on July 27th, 2007. The date  
of shipment will be taken into account as long as the shipment is  
done using express mail and not ordinary service.

XV. DOCUMENTATION:

To obtain the participation guidelines for the award; as well as the  
Registration Form and all the information on the documentation that  
must be included, please check Festival’s webpage http:// 
transitiomx.net or the Multimedia Center webpage http:// 
cmm.cenart.gob.mx

PRIZE
Finalist works will be evaluated by an international jury who will  
determine the following prizes:

a first prize of 3,500.00 U.S. dollars
the honorary mentions considered pertinent

The prizes and mentions will be presented and awarded within the  
Festival framework.

For further information and document delivery, please refer to:
Centro Nacional de las Artes
Centro Multimedia
Avenida Río Churubusco 79, Colonia Country Club,
C. P. 04220, Coyoacán, México, D. F.
Office hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Contact: Ana Villa, by phone 1253 9400 Ext. 1290 or by email:
concurso at transitiomx.net
http://www.transitiomx.net

CONTACTS
Mariana Delgado
Communication and Public Affairs Coordinator
US-Mexico Foundation for Culture, Inc.
Col. Juárez
06600 México, DF.
Ph.  (52 55) 5535 6735
Fax. (52 55) 5566 8071
mariana [at] contactocultural.org
www.contactocultural.org