CYNETART Competition 2014
CYNETART – 18th international festival for computer based art and transdisciplinary media projects
13th to 19th November 2014
in Dresden (Location: Festspielhaus Hellerau and others)
Deadline: 15th March 2014
http://www.cynetart.de/cfp/2014/
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau (DE) announces CYNETART Competition 2014. Young media artists, artist collectives, creatives and scientists working in the field of new media are invited to hand in their projects.
The CYNETART Competition is held every two years and comprises the Grant and the Artist-in-Residence Grant from the Saxon State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, the CYNETART Award in cooperation with HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts and the CYNETART ARTE Creative Commission. With a total value of about 30,000EUR the CYNETART Competition is considered as one of Europe’s most prestigious awards in the field of media art.
The winning projects will be presented within “CYNETART – 18th international festival for computer based art and transdisciplinary media projects” taking place from 13th to 19th November 2014 at Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden, Germany.
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau and HELLERAU – European Centre for the Arts engage with artists dealing with process-driven changes in our society, who pair their observations with new media technologies to produce their art projects. From 13th to 19th November 2014 Festspielhaus Hellerau will become a space for reflection about our medialized society. The transformative effects of digital technologies on our culture, experiences and individual perceptions will be explored throughout a variety of formats, including the exhibition, panel discussions and live performances.
Every two years the Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau and their partners announce the CYNETART Competition and with the historically and currently important Festspielhaus Hellerau it offers an extraordinary venue for public presentations and the performance of inter- and transdisciplinary media art investigations.
A reality structured by new media technologies and the consequent relational complexity, increasingly become a global challenge in our societies. For this reason the CYNETART festival is dedicated more and more to the public mediation of transdisciplinary experiments. Art is an ideal field in which interdisciplinary mediated approaches in interrelated disciplines can be combined and made perceptible.
Developed according to a hybrid methodology and largely executed in a prototypical form, these projects can be understood as a kind of research. They leave behind the traditional art context and take us forward into a new environment, one which could be further implemented in our everyday lives. These media projects offer the possibility of alternative means of perception as a potential instrument to undermine existing ontologies, and create the very space required for further reflection.
The Grant from the Saxon State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts and the Artist-in- Residence Grant from the Saxon State Minister for Higher Education, Research and the Arts are awarded in cooperation with the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts and the Culture and Monument Preservation Office of the State Capital Dresden. They are open to young artists and researchers who mainly live in Germany and whose work is dedicated to compelling and transdisciplinary initiatives at the intersection of art and science.
Further Information and application: http://www.cynetart.de/cfp/2014/