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Call for submissions Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art 2007

2006-09-06T08:53:48Z

Spark Festival of Electronic
Music and Art 2007

CALL FOR WORKS
University of Minnesota School of Music, Noel Zahler, Director Announces

2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art

Douglas Geers, Director West Bank Arts Quarter, University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

Minneapolis, MN February 20-25

CALL FOR COMPOSERS, ARTISTS, and PRESENTERS Submission Deadline: September 30, 2006 (postmark)

The University of Minnesota School of Music is proud to present the 2007 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, February 20-25. The festival will be held on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota (USA) and neighboring Minneapolis performing arts venues, and will feature guest artists Morton Subotnick, Richard Devine, and others to be announced.

Now in its fifth year, the Spark Festival showcases the newest groundbreaking works of digital music and art. Last year's festival included innovative works by over one hundred international composers and artists, including featured guest artists Alvin Lucier and Scanner. Leading scholars and technology specialists also presented papers relating to new technology and creativity. Audiences for the concerts, installations, and lectures last year totaled approximately 4,000 people and garnered multiple mentions in local and national media.

Spark invites submissions of art, dance, theater, and music works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres.

Spark also invites submission of scholarly papers on Collaborative Arts, Interactivity, Cognition, Compositional and Artistic Process, Social and Ethical Issues in the Arts, Art, Music, Video, Film, Animation, Theater, Dance, Innovative Use of Technology in Education, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality , intermedia composition, performance, human-computer interaction, software/hardware development, aesthetics, and history and all topics related to the creation of new media art and music. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings. Please see http://www.spark.cla.umn.edu/media.html for a PDF copy of the Spark 2006 proceedings and program.

MUSIC SUBMISSIONS
Music submissions will be accepted in four categories:

1. Concert works: Interactive works for acoustic instruments and electroacoustics (performance forces are available, TBA) Electroacoustic works with and without performers. Performance venues will accommodate 2-8 channel works and works with video. Although there is no strict limit of duration, pieces of fifteen minutes or less are encouraged.

2. "Spark Nitelife": Experimental electronic performances in a "club-style" venue. Performers of various styles will be considered, including those influenced by IDM, hip-hop, glitch, jazz, and etc. Selected performers will be given sets of 15-30 minutes. Performance venue will accommodate stereo sound and video.

3. Installations: [See "Art Works" below]

4. Music with video [See "Art Works" below]

New!
Bob Dylan Events
In collaboration with the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in conjunction with its exhibition "Bob Dylan's American Journey 1956-1966," we are inviting submissions in two special catagories:
Bob Dylan Remix Submissions: Submit your remix of a Bob Dylan work. Selected submissions will be programmed throughout the festival.
Bob Dylan Themed Installations: We are looking for installations that relates to the theme of "Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956-1966." Selected installations will be installed at the Weisman Art Museum and elsewhere throughout Spark Festival event locations.

To submit in either of these catagories, enter the online submission system and follow the instructions.

Software
A new submission catagory for software has been added. We are looking for applications that create, enrich, enhance, or contribute to the digital arts or the teaching of the digital arts. Selected applications will be given a demonstration area and poster presentation. Additionally, programmers may be invited to give a paper demonstration on their work.
To submit enter the online submission system and identify your submission as a Software Poster Presentation.

ART WORKS
Submissions will be accepted in three categories:

1. Installations and gallery works: A number of installation and gallery exhibitions will be mounted in various spaces on the UMN campus, including the Weisman Art Museum. Please include technical and space requirements with submission. Installations may be physical objects, video and/or sound projections, or combinations thereof. Artists may be required to provide some or all of necessary technology to mount installations.

2. Video: Experimental video works will be screened at multiple Spark events. Videos featuring digital music compositions (two-channel or Dolby 5.1) are welcome, but this is not required. Although there is no strict limit of duration, pieces of twelve minutes or less are encouraged. Please submit on DVD (NTSC) or DVD data disk in mpg, mov, or avi file format.

3. Theater/Dance: A number of theatrical and dance works incorporating new technologies will be programmed at Spark 2006, with a special interest in shorter works that can be integrated into programs with music and video works. In addition, although not confirmed as of this writing, we hope to produce at least one performance in a dance theater with video projection and an Internet 2 connection. Please include performance venue and technical requirements with submissions.

PAPERS
Technical papers, lecture/demonstration, and workshop submissions that deal with topics relating to creating arts and music with new technology are encouraged, including Collaborative Arts, Interactivity, Cognition, Compositional and Artistic Process, Social and Ethical Issues in the Arts, Art, Music, Video, Film, Animation, Theater, Dance, Innovative Use of Technology in Education, Scientific Visualization, Virtual Reality , intermedia composition, performance, human-computer interaction, software/hardware development, aesthetics, and history. Paper presentations will consist of a twenty-minute presentation and five minutes of Q/A, and all accepted authors must attend to present their papers.

Submissions should consist of a two-page abstract with bibliography. Camera-ready papers will be due on November 1, 2006.

Individuals may submit a maximum of one paper and one lecture/demonstration, and these will be submitted online. More information about the submission process will be available soon on the Spark 2007 website when the online submission procedure has been activated. All accepted papers will be published as part of the Spark proceedings.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants are invited to submit one work per category in up to three categories for consideration. All applicants must complete an online submission form on the Spark Festival website and include their submission number(s) with any physical media sent via postal mail. The submissions website will be at http://spark.cla.umn.edu/submissions.html and will be activated in late August. More details about the submission process will be available on the Spark 2007 website when the online submission procedure has been activated.

Regarding music and other performance works: Performing resources will be drawn from the University of Minnesota and Twin Cities area musicians. However, availability of musicians will be taken into consideration when selecting works, and therefore applicants are encouraged to bring their own performers when possible. More information about available performers will be posted on http://www.sparkfestival.org when the online submission procedure has been activated.

Composers and artists whose works are selected for inclusion are strongly encouraged to attend the festival. Scholars whose papers or demonstrations are accepted will be required to attend Spark to deliver their presentation.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
Selected works will be announced by November 1, and travel and accommodations information will be posted on http://www.sparkfestival.org by the same date.

Submission deadline is September 30 (postmark). More information and the online submissions procedure will be posted soon on the Spark 2007 website at http://www.sparkfestival.org . Questions can be directed to the Spark hosts at sparkfst@umn.edu .

***Deadline possibly will be extended, watch website or contact sparkfst@umn.edu for info***

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arts vs crafts : edmonton, ab : march 4-5

2006-03-05T00:30:52Z

http://members.shaw.ca/artsvscrafts

if you are here, you should be here.

i am :)

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princess sequoia's new jewels

2005-11-15T23:28:08Z

she is going to love it soo much
Its absolutely perfect for sucha goddess like herself

So I also wanted to share this with you,
I was wearing one of your peices at the string cheezz showin brooklyn and this randome guy out of the crowd came forward and started madly raving about my Hippy Bling Bling
From then I was known as the Hippy Bling Sista

Thanks Dylan for helping me rock the Hippy Bling!

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classes!

2005-11-09T18:01:39Z

i have been offered an opportunity to teach some wirecraft classes at the local lapidary shop, did anyone here take any of my workshops at re:union or anywhere that could offer some feedback?

i need to create a class description and project outline, so any idea that can spur that thought process will i be most gratefull for.

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september new work, university of alberta market place

2005-10-13T15:45:06Z

i'm doing a weekly day at the students union building at the u of a,
anyone happen to be in alberta should check it out. thursdays for the forseeable future, but get in touch with me to make sure...

i've been getting all extreem with my wire lately, the last fiveish pieces in the album are some of the better ones. i keep thinking this is it, this is as good as it gets. then it gets better. oh well there's worse fates ;)

there are plans and dreams floating around town here for an intercraft workshop, a place where all of us mastercrafters can work togeather, share skill and do intermedia projects that are so much more than the sum of the parts.

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my pieces

2005-10-12T03:15:06Z

Hey Dylan!
have you found my pieces yet?

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jay street market, dumbo, brooklyn, ny

2005-05-21T15:14:52Z

i'm setting up at the jay street market next two sundays, (may 15 and 22) so, come on by!

its at about the corner of jay and water, in dumbo, brooklyn.
for those of you not familliar with new york, dumbo is an acronym for down under the manhattan bridge overpass. charming place.

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new work!

2005-04-29T18:54:35Z

in the gallery.

?

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on the road again

2005-04-07T03:23:40Z

this time i am driving east. attempting to arrive in new york by the 27th of april, for a festival i am performing at. (bent05)

i will probably be going through calgary, saskatoon, winnapeg, chicago, then (? i could use some advice on this part ) then nyc.

sometime in may i will be driving back north to canada, montreal, ottawa, and then toronto.

anyone who thinks i should visit, say!

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faern, your bracelet

2005-03-23T18:09:34Z

http://louvre.tribe.net/tribe/upload/photo/8c6/01e/8c601e0a-7354-4b6d-8211-8830465988ff

is ready.

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Tucson Throwdown Tonight! (march 5/05)

2005-03-06T00:58:48Z

hey everybody,

figured that i should post this here for posterity and such.

TONIGHT

potluck, fire dancing, art, drums.

bring it, i am.

http://tucson.tribe.net/template/pub%2CViewPhoto.vm/context/tribe?page=1&currentoffset=0&parentid=153e64cd-ea01-4059-8dc6-0a93c5093102&sortby&rows&r=10382

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considering Vancouver

2005-02-24T23:48:01Z

I've been thinking about visiting Vancouver, BC. Anybody live in Vancouver? This is a city of 2 million people. What's a good neighborhood for an old hippie to hang out? How about street artists and parks? Are there any?

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vancouver, bc, 1 april

2005-02-06T04:21:08Z

is my goal.

cause of the recompression party.

my excuse is usually an artshow,
but i want to see other peoples stuff.
so... how easy does that sound?

community craft show?
i'm going to post this in umic and tribal harmonix
but i'd like some feedback from my west coast friends first please and thankyou ;)

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plots and plans

2005-02-02T19:00:01Z

and what do i really want to do with tribe?

i'm guessing that i want to let people know what i need help with and what i have to offer, so that everyone does what they enjoy and gets what they like.

so i need
places... i can go anywhere, (and want to go everywhere) if i am hooked up with some kind of art show there. so i'll visit if you can help with a venue.

shops... you know that really cool place with the committed staff? that's what i'm looking for, anywhere.

enginnering and electronics expertise = more cooler stuff.

and to offer,
people who help me out get rad stuff. and i cook.

i tend to carry around a lot of rocks, if you are a magpie, i can get your fix.

as a traveler i'm connected to a lot of different places, and can pass on some introductory hooks to those spots.

...
ta da
.d

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this is so number 1!@@##

2005-01-31T03:17:09Z

yeah, brand new tribe, no members, one post. this begins here. i declare this tribe open.

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