24 Jun 2012

amber art and technology festival: call for artworks and papers

call for artworks and papers
deadline for artworks / amberFestival: 31st of August 2012
deadline for papers / amberConference: 31st of August 2012


amberFestival is interested in interactive installations that explore the theme of 'PARATACTIC COMMONS' in today's world.

We see the theme as a tool to think and work with, and the festival as an opportunity to raise an artistic voice. You alone will define that voice.

The works selected among the applications to this international call, will be exhibited at amber'12 Art and Technology Festival. We also encourage outdoor interactive installations.


The theme:
Paratactic Commons

The decade that followed 9/11 witnessed a radical regression of communal energies, forcing us to live strictly in individual spheres; the fear and control society in the guise of a war on terror, the tendency of nation-states to impose their ideological agendas onto everyone and everything under their control and the conflicts and collaborations of a global consumerist economy that urges the rapid privatization of public goods have all taken a toll on the common values of human societies around the Globe. The commons that we need to regain entail a broad spectrum. They range from ecological unbalances, which result from the privatization of natural resources, to the 'de facto' privatization of judicial systems, which has led to the degradation of a justice that is common to all.

Meanwhile, the ever-popularizing digital media, beginning with the Internet itself as a common resource, has been a major source of inspiration in revitalizing the idea of the commons. More specifically, the capacities offered by new media have helped to re-understand that information is a 'common' as well as the right to access information.

amber'12 selects as its theme 'Paratactic Commons': Can digital commons be an alternative platform to launch a political thought whose main aim is sharing, transparency, and freedom to access information? What can we learn from free software's, copyleft movements, peer-2-peer systems, the logic of open source, and creative commons? Could the digital-commons help for the creation of another form of economy and ecology? Could humans share their common resources rather than exploit them? What kind of paratactic artistic strategies could digital commons consist of?

for more information:
www.amberplatform.org
info@amberplatform.org