Call for videos – 9th Cyberfest 2015/16, ‘Patterns of the Mind’ – deadline 15 August 2015

Curatorial team is now accepting submissions for the CYBERFEST’s Video Art Program. The upcoming CYBERFEST takes place Fall 2015-Spring 2016 in Bogota, St. Petersburg, and New York. For the 9th annual edition, CYBERFEST is excited to expand its programming to Latin America SOFA in Bogota, Columbia’s most influential festival celebrating art, technology, and engineering. Selections for The CYBERFEST Video Program will travel to SOFA (Bogota), The Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia) and the Made In New York Media Center (Brooklyn, New York) as part of CYBERFEST.

The 9th annual CYBERFEST theme is “PATTERNS OF THE MIND”. “PATTERNS OF THE MIND” explores the resurgence of the artist’s message across media and the complex new forms that have evolved to complicate the production and perception of art itself.

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the iconic phrase “the medium is the message” to reference the symbiotic relationship that develops between the form an idea takes and the way in which that idea is developed and perceived.

Today, the rapid expansion of digital networks disrupts, dilutes, and confuses the once-concrete category of medium, leaving behind a slippery field in which message finds its own footing absent of any media-specific relationship.

REQUIREMENTS

All submissions to the CYBERFEST Video Art Program should relate to the 2015/2016 curatorial theme, PATTERNS OF THE MIND” and must meet the listed criteria:

– Be an original creation of the artist with all copyrights for screening provided by artist.
– Been created after 2012.
– Not exceed a duration of 6 minutes.
– One video artwork per submission form.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK

Complete an application form provided for each submission and select two still images of your work to send (Images must be jpeg, no less than 1500 pixels in any direction).

Label the application file and supplement image files in the following format: LastName_Title_ImgNumber.jpg

Send the completed application form along with the required 2 still images to: videoarchive [at] cyland.org

Submissions selected to be included in the 2015/2016 CYBERFEST Video Program will be notified and asked to provide screen quality video files via ascribe.io. Selected video work will need to be provided by the artist MOV, H264, HD MP4; with a file size not large than 5GB.

Applications are due August 15, 2015. Notification will be sent to selected artist by September 1, 2015.

The full program will be published on the CYLAND MediaArtLab website after accepted applicants have been informed by email.

By submitting your work to CYLAND MediaArtLab you are authorizing the screening of your video work and distribution of still images for the promotion and production of CYBERFEST Video Art programming in Bogota, St. Petersburg and New York as well as in print and online by CYLAND MediaArtLab in reference to CYBERFEST.

The 9th annual CYBERFEST theme is “PATTERNS OF THE MIND”. “PATTERNS OF THE MIND” explores the resurgence of the artist’s message across media and the complex new forms that have evolved to complicate the production and perception of art itself.

In 1964, Marshall McLuhan coined the iconic phrase “the medium is the message” to reference the symbiotic relationship that develops between the form an idea takes and the way in which that idea is developed and perceived.

Today, the rapid expansion of digital networks disrupts, dilutes, and confuses the once-concrete category of medium, leaving behind a slippery field in which message finds its own footing absent of any media-specific relationship.