[NetBehaviour] OPEN CALL paraflows .7 EXHIBITION

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OPEN CALL paraflows .7 EXHIBITION


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paraflows .7 - REVERSE ENGINEERING

The topic of the seventh festival for digital arts and cultures in the city
of Vienna is REVERSE ENGINEERING

To achieve a system from an existing thing, to reveal the theory using 
an example. To reconstruct processes arbitrarily, to employ and 
reproduce them variably, to make them ready to go into mass production. 
The word „engineering“ contains the words engine – motor – the drive, 
and also the word engineer – the technician tasked with the 
implementation – the driven. Being driven and motivated, eternally 
progressing in creation, immersing oneself in a project, submerging 
oneself in new subjects – a sensuos devotion. The artist, as an 
explorer, as a researcher, experiences a renaissance because of the 
renewed fusion of the disciplines. The high velocity of the industry, 
however, causes artists to no longer be at the forefront of invention – 
they rather need to reinterpret, repurpose and augment existing 
technologies and make them accessible to cultural and sociocultural
projects.

Art has in fact become a corrective for industry and science. Technology 
is not only analyzed and used, but also thematized, documented and 
criticized. Reverse engineering therefore not only signifies 
understanding and (re)constructing an existing system, but also implies 
the yearning for improvement or more applicability, also for adaption to 
changing requirements.

paraflows .7 - REVERSE ENGINEERING is not only a festival that concerns 
itself with the analysis of existing systems, but it will also use and 
adapt an existing system in its own formation and structure. The topic 
of paraflows .7 permeates content and system.

We are looking for artistic positions dealing with the issues as afore 
mentioned.

Pls send your application as pdf file via e-mail to: office(at)paraflows.at

or ship to:

paraflows
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
AUSTRIA

Mandatory information for submissions:
1) name, institution (if existing), address, e-mail, phone number, website/s
2) submitted work: title, medium, author/artist, year of production
3) work description: 1 DIN A4-page maximum
4) technical explanation, room/space requirements (hardware, operating
system, additional software)
5) biographies
7) documentation of earlier projects, e.g. a link to your website

Language: all submissions have to be in English or in German or need to 
have subtitles in one of the two languages. Works in any other language 
have to include a text list in either German or English. We especially 
encourage international submissions.

DEADLINE: April 30th, 2012

For more information on paraflows visit http://www.paraflows.at

paraflows CONTACT
office(at)paraflows.at
Festival management: Guenther Friesinger
Exhibition management: Judith Fegerl
Office: MQ Musumsquartier
paraflows headoffice
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Vienna
Austria


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