IDEAS is an exhibition of artistic and innovative digital installations, interactive pieces, web sites, games, digital images, film and video and much more.
You are invited to submit digital art and essays to IDEAS10: Art and Digital Narrative. IDEAS is an exhibition of artistic and innovative digital installations, interactive pieces, web sites, games, digital images, film and video and much more. The IDEAS exhibition coincides with the eighth annual International Digital Media and Arts Association (IDMAA) conference, The Digital Narrative: Deconstruction/Reconstruction, to be held on the campus of Emily Carr University in Vancouver B.C. Deadline for submission is September 19, 2010. You will be notified of your acceptance by October 4, 2010.
[caption id="attachment_283" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Digital Art Piece from 2009 IDEAS exhibit"][/caption]Like the conference, IDEAS10 will explore the digital narrative, or how we are telling artistic stories and reshaping them, especially in light of digital media. Communication through story is nothing new for humans. From the earliest cave paintings such as those in Chauvet, France and various forms of hieroglyphics, to biblical stories depicted in medieval church windows, visual imagery and music have carried narrative through centuries and millennia. The advent of the Gutenberg press in the late 15th century marked the next revolution in communication when not only imagery, but text, became progressively easier to disseminate. The ability to quickly and relatively cheaply print text soon placed the bulk of narrative in the realm of words. Since 1989 when the official internet came into use and its gradual popularization throughout the 1990’s, the narrative paradigm shifted again and in this case, came full circle to borrow visual story aesthetics from its pre-Gutenberg beginnings. However, digital media puts much more than visual imagery and sound back into the mix, it gives us process.
Contemporary technologies not only make the design of non-text based story accessible to most people in wealthier societies, but the dissemination is instant, networked and global. Because of social networking, mobile media and faster Web and phone systems, we have become a society that consumes imagery in a much different way. We have come to expect sound, picture and text instantly available in the palms of our hands and have thus started the process of reshaping story.
Given the changes in digital media and the networking of it, how has (or hasn’t) narrative changed? Do we expect more or less from an image and have the aesthetics changed? Do we expect sound or video to tell us about our world? How do we see our world differently because of new media? Most importantly, how do we tell stories and what are they about, how are they the same or are they qualitatively different? It is these questions and more that the IDEAS10 exhibition will explore.
IDEAS10 will display art and accept essays that present narrative in any sense of the definition, or make comments about contemporary story that considers new digital media, such as digital images, time based works or installation. We will consider narrative in the broadest sense and anticipate works that are linear or nonlinear and literal or metaphorical. The story can stand alone in an image or can rely or a series or an interaction. Story can be found in a multitude of frameworks, from contemporary ideas, emotions, philosophies, new artistic techniques, or custom software or hardware. Works may address narrative directly or indirectly and may include traditional media with the use of digital media.
Exhibition
The exhibition will be on view at Emily Carr University during building hours from November 2nd through November 7th at noon.
Screenings
We will have a dedicated screening area close to the gallery. Please consider submitting animations and videos appropriate for a venue of this type.
Art Panels
We will have a specific conference panel dedicated to artists presenting their work and one for authors speaking about (not reading) their theoretical essays (see essays, below). Note that the essays have a separate submission deadline. If you are an artist who wants to present your work, you may indicate it on the submission form.
Essays- DEADLINE AUGUST 30th
We invite essays that address the theme, to be published online with the conference materials. A few selected works will be published in the iDMAa journal. Abstracts should be submitted using the Chicago Manual Style Upon acceptance, final papers will be due on November 1.
Specific essay details
1. Submit your abstract and essay online as a word document (file should use .doc extension) by August 30th. Please select “Art Essays” as your submission type from the pull down menu on the submission form.
Initial Abstract Registration Form
All authors participating in the conference will have their abstract posted in the online conference proceedings. Abstracts and essays must be formatted according to Chicago Manual Style
2. Authors will be notified via email of acceptance by approximately September 15th
3. Authors should confirm attendance by October 1st.
4. Final versions of all accepted essays must be sent in by November 1 to be reviewed for possible publication in The Journal of the International Digital Media and Arts Association.
SUGGESTED ART SUBMISSION FORMATS
• Framed wall-hung images
• Screen based games
• Desktop interactive works
• Web sites and Internet art
• Short (1-5 minutes) time-based pieces (film and video, 2d and 3d animation, motion graphics, stop action)
• Installations (digital and traditional)
• Sculptural works
• Kiosks
• other possibilities not listed
Submit your ART via IDEAS Submission Form
SUBMISSION PROCESS:
Timeline:
• Deadline to receive proposals: September 19th, 2010
• Notification by October 4th, 2010
We will also review documents, videos, CDs and DVDs as supplemental to the digital submission. These materials may be sent to:
IDEAS Curator
Dena Elisabeth Eber
School of Art
Room 1000 Fine Arts Center
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403
Work: +1 419.372.8526
Fax +1 419 372 2544
email:
Jurors:
Dena Eber
Associate Professor of Art
Bowling Green State University
Heather Elliott-Famularo
Associate Professor of Digital Arts
Bowling Green State University
Rafael Fajardo
Associate Professor, eMAD + DMS + GAME
University of Denver
Special Note:
Although we encourage complex and innovative constructs, participants are responsible for providing all necessary equipment and labor. Works will be insured in the gallery. We are not responsible for damage to work during shipping and we recommend you purchase shipping insurance.
Work that is not presented in a professional matter or that is poorly printed or represented will not be displayed.
Artists shipping work are responsible for the cost of shipping to and from the exhibition. Details available upon acceptance.