Call for Work

Attention Student Artists:

Columbia is looking for proposals in response to the upcoming multimedia exhibition Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity and Interactive Media, through a Critical Encounter’s Fact & Faith lens.

Digital Incarnate explores the moving body in relation to technology in a multimedia exhibition featuring pioneering new media works by Luftwerk, The OpenEnded Group, and Troika Ranch, as well as the Synchronous Objects interactive web kiosk created by William Forsythe, Norah Zuniga Shaw, and Maria Palazzi. Presented by The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, the Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces, and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, the exhibition investigates how notions of the body and identity come into play in human and digital (re)incarnation.

Explore the intersection of fact & faith in a work that combines movement and technology in an installation, projection, or time-based performance / experience.

Points of Inquiry:

• What happens when we encounter the body in its technological double?
• Are gender, race and other identity signifiers distilled/extracted/erased/emphasized in digital form?
• Is there such a thing as double nature?
• What is objective truth or fact in works such as this?
• When flesh becomes lines, and lines of electricity become flesh, how do ideas of fact & faith/truth & belief intersect in the projection of the body?
  

Proposals should be innovative and thought-provoking; touch on themes of Critical Encounters Fact & Faith and Digital Incarnate; and engage viewers through technology or interactive media.

Interdisciplinary collaborations are highly encouraged.

For more information and application forms, please contact:

Alycia Scott, ascott@colum.edu / 312.369.8341

Sara Slawnik, sslawnik@colum.edu / 312.369.8845

Accepted work will be presented at the Interactive Arts & Media Project Room from April 8th – 29th, 2010.