DANCE/VIDEO/PERFORMANCE/MULTIMEDIA/MUSIC
Posted in Master of Electronic Art, Electronic Art 2nd year, Electronic Art 3rd year on February 20th, 2008IV International festival of contemporary arts
The BODY NAVIGATION
DANCE/VIDEO/PERFORMANCE/MULTIMEDIA/MUSIC
10-13 July 2008 / St.Petersburg, Russia
Application deadline - March 10, 2008
THE BODY NAVIGATION is a cross-art festival for research the body as a medium for contemporary arts. Festival program provides collaboration with people coming from different cultural contexts, based on shared specific questions of the body and environment, and their multi-media exploration.
This year festival focuses on the issue of the perception of the body by new information technologies. HUMAN-INFORMATION WORKSPACE
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dance and technology choreography performance installations virtual environments realtime processing The submitted project focuses on the integrated body and its medial “embodiment” in dance performances, installations, or performances. The transposition is using suitable interfaces and software (f.i. camera motion sensing-systems), which allow for the real time inter/action/exploration of physical movement with audio/visual processes.
Festival will navigate from the urban environments of St.Petersburg and Kronshtadt to the theatre and musical club spaces.
Festival events include research projects and workshops, in and outdoor performances, audiovisual performances and screenings. 1-6 of July will be organized international MediaLab.
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MediaLab invites artists who research and work on /Technology and musical performance/Computers and music/ Dance and media / Performance and music/
Organizer of the festival is non-commercial partnership «ART NAVIGATION».
Submissions for the festival program and MediaLab should include: Viewing copy and / or supporting material on DVD or VHS Description of performance/project. Other relevant materials [press, photos, and promotional materials, technical information. Deadline to submit proposals by e-mail is 20th of February, 2008. And last day of getting documents by post is 10th of March, 2008.
Artists will need to consider travel, accommodation and visa costs, and to seek financial support from local funding sources. Festival committee provides you with letters and invitations to support individual funding applications. For more information please contact by e-mail: navigatsia@yandex.ru
We would like to ask you to spread this information around your community. If you are interested in participating at the Body Navigation 2008, please read carefully the information and send the application form and the info pack till March 10, 2008 to the following address:
The Body Navigation festival
(for Khabibulina Ludcia)
A/Box N102,St.Petersburg,190013, Russia
