06 Apr 2011

Call for Applications: Pixilerations [v.8]: New Media Fringe Festival

PIXILERATIONS gathers and showcases cutting-edge new-media artworks through an annual festival in Providence, Rhode Island (USA). This unique forum investigates the rapidly-developing field of new media arts through installations, performances and film/video screenings. It forms part of the larger FirstWorks Festival (www.first-works.org), a multi dimensional performing arts festival that celebrates cultural “firsts” as avenues for strengthening community and creativity.

Pixilerations is overseen by FirstWorks, a non-profit dedicated to connecting art with audiences. FirstWorks produces in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Brown University, and the City of Providence's Department of Art, Culture + Tourism. Now in its eighth year, Pixilerations is a leading venue for new media artworks in New England.

Since its inception in 2004, Pixilerations has grown to present 369 national and international new media artists. Artists have responded to our thematic �?Call4Works’ such as Pairings [v.7], “The Great Disruption [v.6], Fragments and Wholes [v.5] and Stories+/-Ornaments [v.4]. Pixilerations has featured convention-defying guest artists in exhibitions, performances and residencies including DJ Spooky, Ulrich Maiss, Liz Phillips, Laurie Anderson, SKIF++, Myriam Thyes, Gail Wight, Heidi Kumao, Dar-Kuen Wu, Pauline Oliveros, Dean & Britta, and Mark Cetilia & Joe Cantrell’s CallSpace, a Creative Capital Project.

The Pixilerations festival aims to attract diverse audiences; it includes a blend of traditional venues such as art galleries, auditoriums, recital Halls, with non-traditional spaces such as cinemas, cafes and outdoor areas in Providence’s historic Arts District.

In an era of Facebook/Twitter-inflamed revolutions, biotechnology ethics wars, and youtube-generated museum exhibitions, this year's festival seeks to examine the question "Where – and what – is New Media Art today?" New Media art traditionally held a role at the intersections of art, science, technology, and social realms, yet artists who do not identify as New Media artists now make free use of the same tools as video game programmers, robotics engineers, and DJs. Pixilerations [v.8] seeks work that broadly explores these identity questions of art/not art, new/old. We invite artists, musicians, performers, film/video makers, and new media practitioners to submit their work for Pixilerations [v.8] to the following website:
http://pixilerations.org/2011/submission.html.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED TO APRIL 19, 2011.
Questions about the submission process and Pixilerations should be directed to pixilerations@first-works.org

PIXILERATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE FROM SEPTEMBER 22nd to OCTOBER 2nd, 2011.