[sensez] Call for Entries transmediale Award 2010

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Call for Entries
transmediale Award 2010
Vilém Flusser Theory Award 2010

transmediale.10
festival for art and digital culture berlin
03 - 07 February 2010

CTM - club transmediale.10
festival for adventurous music and related visual arts
29 January - 6 February 2010

Deadline: 31 July 2009
Award Ceremony: 6 February 2010

Find the complete call, registration and online submission form  
information at:
 > Call 2010 English:
http://www.transmediale.de/en/call2010-main

 > Call 2010 Deutsch:
http://www.transmediale.de/de/call2010-main

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well  
as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively,  
transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to  
the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory  
Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond  
to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and  
networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks innovative,  
experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of form, process  
and practice that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and  
relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society.  
Entries that exemplify new and critical forms of digital expression  
and interaction are encouraged, as are works from countries and  
regions in which digital art and culture are emergent. Submissions of  
art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award  
2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented  
positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes  
totaling 10.000 EURO.

transmediale presents and pursues the advancement of artistic  
positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and creative  
impact of new technologies, network practices and digital innovation.  
As a festival aiming to define the contours of contemporary digital  
culture, it seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to  
scientific or technical developments, but that shape the way in which  
we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually  
all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands  
media technologies as cultural and aesthetic techniques that need to  
be embraced in order to comprehend, critique, and shape global  
societies.

CTM (club transmediale) is dedicated to contemporary electronic,  
digital and experimental music and sound creation, as well as the  
diverse range of artistic activities and social practises that develop  
within and connect to those audio cultures. Thus, the festival  
reflects on the agency of contemporary sound creation within the  
cultural fabric of society and its technological and social  
transformations. It explores the intersections of contemporary music  
and audio art with other artistic forms and cultural fields. A special  
emphasis is put on the creative use of new technologies, the interplay  
of sound with other media formats, the situational potential of live  
performances, the formation of social networks, and the advancement of  
a positive form of globalization.

Previous transmediale Award winners have included renowned artists  
such as Herman Asselberghs, Shilpa Gupta, Harwood/Wright/Yokokoji,  
Zhou Hongxiang, Istvan Kantor, Thomas Koener, Julia Meltzer/David  
Thorne, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Netochka Nezvanova, schoenerwissen,  
ubermorgen.com, Adrian Ward, Herwig Weiser and 242.pilots. The Vilem  
Flusser Theory Award, in collaboration with the _Vilem_Flusser_Archive  
of the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, has been awarded to Simon  
Yuill (2008), Denis Rojo aka jaromil and Brian Holmes (2009).

Jury of the transmediale Award 2010 are Michelle Kasprzak (Edinburgh),  
Jose Luis de Vincente (Barcelona), Li Zhenhua (Beijing/Zurich), Yves  
Bernard (Brussels), Doreen Mende (Berlin).

Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010 advisory committee members include  
Marcel Marburger (_Vilem_Flusser_Archive, Berlin), Oliver Grau (Danube  
University Krems), TBA

transmediale Advisory Board are Alex Adriaansens (Rotterdam), Dr.  
Marie Cathleen Haff (Berlin), Prof. Saskia Sassen (New York), Yukiko  
Shikata (Tokyo).

transmediale is a project of the Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH, in  
cooperation with the House of World Cultures and funded by the German  
Federal Cultural Foundation. CTM is a project by DISK / club  
transmediale GbR funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and DISK Initiative  
Bild & Ton e.V.