Athens Digital Arts Festival (0)

Festival start: 21 May 2015      Festival end: 24 May 2015

Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) is an International Festival which celebrates digital culture through an annual gathering bringing together a global community of artists and audiences. Athens Digital Arts Festival aims to encourage, stimulate and promote all aspects of digital creativity by hosting local as well as international artists and communities.

Through its multidisciplinary program Athens Digital Arts Festival offers a wide range of Exhibitions, Screenings, Live Performances, Workshops and International Tributes showcasing artworks that display distinctive characteristics of the digital medium and reflects on its language and aesthetics.

Athens Video Art Festival was founded in 2005 with the intention to offer a platform to video art, installations and live performances. Within the following 10 years, the Festival gradually evolved and included more art forms, such as web art, interactive installations, animation, digital image, performances, applications and workshops, exploring creative aspects of technology and digital culture. In 2012, the Festival introduced the subtitle “International Festival of Digital Arts & New Media” in order to communicate the wide spectrum of its activities and events. As of January 2015, the Festival changed its name into Athens Digital Arts Festival.

ATHENS DIGITAL ARTS FESTIVAL

CALL FOR ENTRIES | Public space_s

The International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece invites you to submit proposals for its next edition taking place in late spring in Athens. Deadline for submissions is 4 March 2015.

In our times, the notion of public space appears to be one of the most contradictory concepts. With the rise of network and communication technologies, our experience of public space has changed. Public space is not only characterised by physical space and architecture but also by networks and knowledge distribution.

While public space is mainly being interpreted through urban planning, digital public space is organised through IP locations, URLs and protocols. Their cartographies, as distinct as they may seem, are both informed by network dynamics that add new layers of interpretation. Squares, parks, streets and the Internet are all potential public spaces that are activated through participation and engagement in order to acquire meaning.

The multiple interconnected spaces within which we act have redefined and affected our perception of everyday life as well as our social and cultural imaginaries. On the other hand, real-time data circulation and information exchange have created new patterns of communication allowing communities to surpass their localities and explore new modes of engagement and collaboration.

However, inhabiting at the same time a plethora of spaces that are potentially public the question that arises is: how open and free are these spaces? Have the visions regarding open access to public space and eventually public data been fulfilled?

Through this call, the festival invites proposals to explore the notion of “public” both in the digital and physical space.

ONLINE SUBMISSION FORMS

VIDEO ART
ANIMATION
INSTALLATIONS
APPLICATIONS
PERFORMANCES
MUSIC
WEB ART
DIGITAL IMAGE
WORKSHOPS

Applicants should follow the next simple steps:

ONLINE

Read and accept the terms of participation for your category/ies of choice
Fill out the corresponding application form/s or via Festhome.com
Your submission must include: 4 photo stills, video files should not exceed 1GB, accepted formats .mov, .avi, .mp4, .mpeg
(Those who wish to submit more than one works should follow the same process for each work)

BY POST

Follow steps 1-3 and export the online form/s
Send one (1) DVD including your work (1 DVD per work), one (1) CD including four photo stills for each work and the application form to the following address: Athens Digital Arts Festival
Miltiadou 18, 10560, Monastiraki, Athens Greece

Please write “cultural sample/no commercial value”