Maker Art 2018

Scratch Built

The New Art Fest '18 lança feira de arte tecnológica

Dando seguimento à ideia de promover, em cada edição The New Art Fest, lugar e tempo para o encontro de fazedores de arte tecnológica e os seus públicos e clientes (entre os quais se encontram artistas que não computam, mas que precisam da computação ;) iniciaremos no festival deste ano uma coisa a que chamámos Maker Art.

O conceito é auto-evidente, creio ;)

Para este efeito chegámos a acordo com a Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (SNBA), a qual disponibilizará gratuitamente o seu grande salão durante uma semana (26-30 de novembro), para aí se instalar o Maker Art 2018, como um dos eventos The New Art Fest.

Neste espaço serão mostradas e experimentadas obras de arte, montadas bancadas de trabalho, e balcões de vendas de serviços (por exemplo cursos e workshops de computação e tecnologia), bem como uma dúzia de sofás velhos para conversar, combinar projetos, ou até realizar negócios!

Esta feira de arte tecnológica será ainda o lugar ideal para concertos e performances experimentais, demonstrações de hardware e software, e aulas espontâneas.

Será ainda o sítio ideal para anunciar novos projetos e trocar ideias.

A presença de artistas, tecnólogos, associações criativas e empresas de tecnologia é bem-vinda.

Uma das iniciativas previstas para este Maker Art 2018, é a instalação de um espaço dedicado à história dos videojogos, com recurso à emulação dos mesmos. Quantos videojogos foram criados até hoje? Tente adivinhar.

The New Art Fest '18 - Call

Black Raven - The New Art Fest Award

Made in smartphone

The New Art Fest ‘18, Lisbon, November 2-30

OPEN CALL_1

You are terrified of your own children since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. John Perry Barlow, 1996

Not only digital natives, also known as the Generation Z (1995-2009), use more smartphones than desktop/laptop computers and tablets. We all do! But if we look at what statistics say (Pew) than we’ll learn that post-millennials will probably spend most of their communication, social and creative time online. At least for now, smartphones are the most advanced convenient mobile device to interact with location-based media and mixed reality. It follows from here that asking for made in smartphone art seems only natural, don’t you think?

This is a call for art made for/with mobile devices—made by smartphones, made with smartphones, made for smartphones, or not. Smartphones are as open as any digital device can be. Any art proposal for this section of the festival should only take this new realm into consideration.

Twelve artworks will be selected for exhibition on everyone’s smartphone.

A prize committee will decide which of these twelve nominees will receive the Black Raven for the best artwork made for/with smartphones.

Contact: geral@ocupart.pt

Bit Street 2018

The New Art Fest ‘18, Lisbon, November 2-30

OPEN CALL_2

48 interactive displays @ TOMI Lisboa Smart City

Only original videos accepted. Artworks cannot publicly endorse any store, restaurant, brand, company or politician. Since these videos are primarily for public view on a street level, participants should consider this condition when submitting. Sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, racist and other offensive, or extreme-violent content will be automatically excluded. Nudity not allowed (TOMI’s policy).

Open call: non-anonymous artists, non-anonymous artworks

Deadline: September 30/ 2018

Venue: 48 electronic indoor and outdoor interactive street displays, Lisbon

Screening: November 2 thru 30 (24/7)

Only twelve artworks will be selected for public screening

No screening fees

Please include:

1) Your name
2) Country of origin
3) Phone, e-mail, website, social networks
4) Title
5) Brief description (max: 800 char)

Technical rider

TOMI (vertical screen)
-Duration: 10 seconds (TNAF credits: 2 seconds)
-Format: mp4
-Codec: H264
-Widescreen (16:9)
-Resolution: 1080 x 1920 px (Full HD Vertical)
-Bitrate: Up to 6 Mbps
-Size (max.): 100 Mb each spot

TOMI (horizontal screen)
-Duration: 20 seconds (TNAF credits: 2 seconds)
-Format: mp4
-Codec: H264
-Widescreen (16:9)
-Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD Horizontal)
-Bitrate: Up to 6 Mbps
-Size (max): 100 Mb each spot

A prize committee will decide which one of the twelve selected artworks will receive the Black Raven for the best TOMI short video.

Contact: geral@ocupart.pt

Ouverture

Charlotte Moorman. Photo: Peter Moore, 1971.

The New Art Fest ’18
America Online
the media imperative & the net generation
Lisbon, November 2-25, 2018

More than seventy American-based authors
Twenty-two databases
Twelve labs
Sixteen social networks

It all started in Europe and America by the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries and went on as almost parallel worlds since the end of the Great War (1914-1918). Asian influences entered Western visual culture, if not before, during Impressionism, and went deeper into American culture after the Second World War. This is a show about the fusion between art, life, and technology in the American continent, since the middle of the 1960’s. By and large, it is a database collage that can be explored as a ‘borgean’ labyrinth, or as the Mammoth Cave mapped by Patricia and William Crowther! Though a personal view, a manifold of possibilities is offered for study and interpretation. It is also an homage to the fundamental struggle of women artists for a fair place in the world of art and in the world of technology. I owe to Claire L. Evans a decisive bending in the investigation that supports the coherence of this curatorial work.

Antonio Cerveira Pinto