[NetBehaviour] WPA Experimental Media Series Call for Entries

[Niels Van Tomme]

WPA Experimental Media Series:

OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES

*WHEN ABSENCE BECOMES PRESENCE*
Curated by Sonja Simonyi and Niels Van Tomme

Date: December 4, 2008
Deadline: September 17 (postmarked)


Calling all video and sound artists

For *When Absence Becomes Presence*, the next installment of the WPA's
Experimental Media Series, curators Sonja Simonyi and Niels Van Tomme have
organized an exhibition of international sound and video art at the WPA's
new headquarters. Dealing with issues of memory, meaning and representation,
the exhibition is a play between two separate, but inherently linked
conditions: absence and presence. Both states can be mediated through
representations in images and sound; what is absent can become present and
presence can be experienced through the realization that something is not
there.
*
"We have known at least since Magritte that when we look at an image of a
pipe, we are regarding not a real pipe but one that has been re-presented.
The pipe as such isn't there, it isn't present; instead, it is depicted as
being absent."* (Boris Groys)

For a screening accompanying this exhibition, the curators are calling all
video and sound artists to submit works that explore these notions in
innovative ways. A selection of the received video and sound works will be
presented along with works from the show on December 4, 2008 in the
framework of a public screening. Selected artists will be notified during
the last week of October. Additionally, two artists submitting the most
compelling entries, as reviewed by the curators and based on overall quality
and innovation, will be awarded the *Kraft Prize for New Media* of $750 and
the *WPA Experimental Media Prize* of $750 on the night of the event. Please
note that the WPA Prize will go to an artist living and working in the
Mid-Atlantic region.


Sonja Simonyi is a film researcher, currently pursuing a PhD in Cinema
Studies at NYU. Previously, she has worked at the National Gallery of Art's
film department where she organized the film series Modernity and Tradition:
Film in Interwar Central Europe, which traveled to the Guggenheim Museum in
New York, among other venues.

Niels Van Tomme is a curator and researcher. His exhibitions and screenings
are shown internationally and investigate the sociopolitical aspects of
contemporary audiovisual culture. Since fall 2007, he is the Curator and
Director of Arts and Media at Provisions Library in Washington, DC.


DOWNLOAD FULL CALL FOR ENTRIES AND ENTRY FORM HERE:
http://www.wpadc.org/pdf/EXMSCall_for_Entries_WPA.pdf
For more information please call the WPA office at (+1) 202.234.7103.
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