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Newsletter Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.

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CYNETart_06humane :: Call for entries for the CYNETart award 2006

International competition for computer-based art (deadline for
submissions March 20, 2006)

CYNETart has been showing new trends of cultural developments in the
media arts since 1997. The consequences of the prevailing progress of
civilisation and the introduction of new information technologies in all
fields of social life lead to the disembodiment of perception triggering
the examination of a new sensitivity for physical experience and for the
perception of one’s own body. The international festival focuses on the
changed perception of the body caused by new information technologies.
At this, the performance of the new technologies is less important, it
is rather about their cultural potential for mediation. This applies
f.i. to linkages between existential questions of humankind and their
perception. It also applies to a more sensual approach to scientific
methods of research and the interconnections between the arts.
CYNETart_06humane is devoted to the theme of Body-images – Image-body ::
the bred, contstructed, staged, cultivated, homemade and self-designed
human being.


CYNETart award 2006
CYNETart 2006 presents three awards. The CYNETart award donated by the
Stiftung für Kunst & Kultur der Stadtsparkasse Dresden is endowed with
5,000 Euros. The CYNETart award donated by T-Systems Multimedia
Solutions is endowed with 5,000 Euros. The sponsorship award of the
Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts is endowed with 10,000
Euros.


Categories
realtime processing
dance and technology :: choreography :: stage design :: performance ::
installations :: virtual environments :: computer games
The submitted project focuses on the integrated body and its medial
“embodiment” in dance pieces, installations, computer games or
performances. The transposition is using suitable interfaces and
software (f.i. camera motion sensing-systems), which allow for the
realtime linkage of physical movement with auditory/visual processes.

new cultures
net culture platforms :: concepts :: social movements based on new
technologies
You may submit strategies or blueprints which understand the net as
extended social interaction/cooperation; utopian drafts of societies
with the inherent attempt to include them into active social life. How
is technological and intellectual knowledge applied to the practice of
an electronic culture of awareness?

audio processing, visual processing
sound design :: Netzmusik :: audio-visual compositions ::
vj-performances
Digital processing, alteration, linkage or process generation are
topical parts of the work. You may submit sound compositions,
audio-visual compositions, performance applications (f.i. in the field
of vj-ing), or applications with an open structure.

graphics, animation, net art
screen interaction :: graphics :: animations :: software art ::
generative tools :: net art
Your work focuses on the presentation on a monitor or a screen. The
category subsumes alternative streams of narration such as graphics,
video pieces and DVD productions from the fields of internet, design and
film, and also software tools which go beyond the daily use of standard
menu applications.

Transcategorial projects are welcome and can be submitted. However,
please choose a category according to the main focus of the project.


Artist in residence-grant of the Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine
Arts
The jury of CYNETart also suggests the winner of the 2007 grant of the
Saxon Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts in cooperation with the City
of Dresden. The jury makes two further suggestions, in case an
alternative is needed. The grant may be awarded to a younger artists who
lives in Germany or to a younger German artist who lives abroad. The
participants of the CYNETart competition are included in the group of
artists from which the jury chooses the winner of the grant.
The grant is designed to allow for the artist to focus fully on his or
her work for a certain amount of time. The main interest of the artist
should be located in the field of realtime processing. The artist in
residence is selected on the basis of his or her method of working and
previous projects. The duration of the residency in Dresden is subject
to individual arrangement. However, it cannot exceed six months. The
artist in residence receives a monthly grant of 1,000 Euros and, if the
case may be, additional expenditure. Accommodation can be provided. The
possibilities of work are arranged in accordance with
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau.

transNATURALE
Please make sure you specify transNATURALE on your application form, if
you would like to submit a project for the locations of transNATURALE
festival. Find more information on www.transnaturale.de

Jury
The international expert jury names the award winners and about 10
participants who receive recognitions. The jury suggests the winner of
the artist in residence grant of the Saxon Ministry of Science and the
Fine Arts, wherefore it suggests a list of three artists, in case an
alternative is needed.

Presentation
The award-winning works are presented at CYNETart_06humane (November
15-19, 2006). Thus, the presentation of the work must be possible at
that time. The organiser also aims at presenting all works at the
festival which received the recognition of the jury. In addition to
that, the organiser selects works for presentation from the submissions.
This also applies to the transNATURALE festival which premiered last
year in the Lausitz region. All award-winning works and all works
presented at CYNETart festival are featured in the festival catalogue.
The authors of the works presented at CYNETart receive their festival
pass free of charge.

Organiser
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. and The City of Dresden
in cooperation with the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau

Information, regulations and application form on:
www.cynetart.de

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Susanne Bochmann
(projects/PR)
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.
Festspielhaus Hellerau
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 56
D-01109 Dresden, GERMANY

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