[Microsound-announce] Open Ear in Cardiff - Open Call for Works

[Garrett Lynch]

:: Open Ear ::

Open Ear (http://openear.wordpress.com/) is a loose collaborative  
group formed in 2006 by Paul Adams, Garrett Lynch and Matt Wright  
with the purpose of creating audio-visual art and organising live  
events within club, gallery, open air or site-specific venues.


:: Open Ear - Cardiff 13/06/08, open call for works ::

On June 13th 2008, Open Ear will host a free one night only event of  
experimental work in the ATRiuM Theatre at the University of  
Glamorgan's newly built ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural  
Industries, Cardiff, Wales (http://cci.glam.ac.uk/).  Curated by  
Garrett Lynch (http://www.asquare.org/) the event will present a  
series of interdisciplinary performances and projections by various  
artists.

Sound and visual artists / groups working across the areas of art,  
music, media and new technologies within live performance / projected  
contexts are invited to contribute to this event under an open theme.

What does this mean?

There is no imposed theme instead we want to present a selection of  
time-based work by artists based on their themes, their continuing  
research, as an event which will explore the diverse and  
interdisciplinary nature of audio-visual arts.  Proposed  
performances / projected works can be new or pre-existing works,  
improvised, dynamically generated (such as software art) or pre- 
composed, abstract or figurative, individual or collaborative,  
experimental, site specific and much, much more.  All proposals are  
required to be:

    1. time-based (remember this is a audience based event in a theatre)
    2. and ether audio-visual, audio only or visual only work  
(selection preference will be given to works which are audio-visual)

Works should aim to be a maximum of 30 minutes each however this is  
flexible.

As the event is free we are unable to offer individual payment to  
artists however we will provide access to reasonable requests for  
equipment (please include a list of requirements in your proposal and  
we will attempt to cater for this) at the venue and of course the  
opportunity to present work in one of Cardiff's newest cutting edge  
venues.

Proposals should take the form of a word / pdf / rtf / txt document  
(two pages maximum) with:

    1. A description of the work (500 words maximum).
    2. Images to give us an idea of the proposed work.
    3. A full list of required equipment (please note that the event  
will host several performers so complex configurations involving  
lengthy set-up times will not be catered for).
    4. Urls to previous examples of work online (videos or sound  
files online are particularly useful).
    5. A short bio (200 words maximum).
    6. Artist(s) / group / performer(s) name and full contact details.

Please email proposals as compressed attachments  
(.zip / .dmg / .sit / .sitx / tar.gz / .tgz) to Garrett Lynch  
(garrett [at] asquare dot org) no later than 12pm (GMT), Friday  
16/05/08.

To get an idea of the type of events we organise please see our  
website (http://openear.wordpress.com/) for full details of all past  
events and our YouTube account (http://ie.youtube.com/openeargroup)  
for videos of pasts events.


:: The Venue ::

The University of Glamorgan's newly built ATRiuM in Cardiff, Wales  
opened in 2007 and houses the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural  
Industries which comprises of Art & Design, Media & Communication and  
Drama & Music.  Situated in central Cardiff, Wales, this specially- 
designed building contains cutting edge technology and facilities  
including industry-standard studios, a theatre and cinema.

Address: ATRiuM Theatre, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN

Detailed information on how to get here can be found on the  
university website (http://www.glam.ac.uk/visiting#atrium).

Open Ear, audio-visual events and performances are supported by The  
University of Glamorgan, ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative &  
Cultural Industries, Cardiff, Wales.

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