[NetBehaviour] CAPTURING UTOPIA

[marc]

*_CAPTURING UTOPIA_*

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*_CALL FOR PROJECTS_**__*

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Fournos, Center for Digital Culture organizes in September which is the 
Month of Photography for Athens,  the event *Capturing Utopia *and 
invites* *creators to send their works [*d**igital phot**o**graphs and 
**images*] that have *utopia* as their theme.* ***

 

The term utopia has been used in philosophy, art, literature, 
architecture even in politics to describe ideal situations that are 
impossible or very difficult to implement. These approaches may have a 
financial, political or social basis but  in any case utopia is always 
strongly connected with an optimistic, idealistic or almost impossible 
perfection. The references to the utopia are   innumerable, the most 
famous examples standing out are: Plato's /Republic/, /New Jerusalem/ by 
Augustine of Hippo, /Utopia/ by Sir Thomas Moore [that first used the 
word utopia], /New Atlantis/ by Francis Bacon, the /Brave New World/ by 
Aldous Huxley, /Andromeda Nebula/ by Ivan Efremov and the /Cloud Of 
Maggelan/ by Stanilav Lem.

Which are the most familiar forms of utopia for today's world? Utopia is 
a temporal and spatial illusion that examines reality and transforms it. 
It is connected to the facts and the conditions of each period 
converting them to something higher, idealized. Today's utopias are 
connected to contemporary technology and science, their fast development 
and their possibilities. They leave behind the images of ideal paradises 
and societies close to nature. They are inspired and they use material 
from the internet, the mobile and wireless technologies for new 
conditions of social and political co-existence. Other forms of utopia 
are shaped into virtual environments from the fields of creation and 
entertainment.

 

Fournos aims with this event to form in its venue a utopian environment 
as this is captured and expressed by digital images. Images that might 
be realistic or fake. Snapshots from real and virtual worlds. Utopian 
reflections inspired from the social, political and aesthetical 
environment or personal everyday moments. Comments, proposals and 
personal manifestations visualized will adjoin one another to describe 
the different identities of utopia today.

 

 

 

 

Images should be

- sent as attachments via email utopiacall at yahoo.gr 
<mailto:info at fournos-culture.gr> or saved in a CD ROM by post at the 
address Fournos, Center for Digital Culture, 168 Mavromichali str, 
11472, Athens Greece

- *72 dpi*, *800**?**600 pixels*, in *jpg format*

*-* accompanied by a title/ comment on the work, by the name of the 
artist, a small CV of his/her, and contact details.

- original works of the senders.

Only one work can be submitted per sender.

*DEADLINE: **2 SEPTEMBER 2005*

 

The selected works will projected in the venue of Fournos and will be 
hosted in a special designed page in Fournos webpage. The event will 
take place from the *18^th till **the 25^th of September 2005*.

 

 

For more information please contact Daphne Dragona via email 
daphne at fournos-culture.gr <mailto:daphne at fournos-culture.gr> or call us 
at +30210 6420451 / 6460748.

 

 

/PS// //«//Yet, when Utopia misunderstands itself as something real it 
is, if anything, even worse. As Bourdieu realises and history teaches, a 
real existing Utopia is invariably horrific for human beings/./.»  
(//taken from the article //Mobile// Utopia //by// Charles Esche 
http://artefact.mi2.hr/_a02/lang_en/write_esche_en.htm)/

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