*"Visions"
Festival for Sound and New Media Arts
Organised by GEMART and Musik und Medienkunst e.V.*
Partners: Hannoverschen Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, Künstlerhäuser
Worpswede e.V.
Call for Works / Competition
Hannover, Germany; May, 2012
Media Arts Festivals are rapidly becoming an integral part of the
cultural landscape -- with music often reduced to a secondary function
despite its near ubiquitous inclusion in most forms of media art. In its
initial 2012 iteration, the biennial "Visions" Festival engages this
discrepancy by presenting leading international artists in Germany in a
forum that also addresses the theoretical foundations of the
relationship between music and media arts. The festival aims to offer
both artists and art theorists a platform for the presentation of their
works, ideas and use of new technologies to the general public.
"Visions" also offers young composers an open forum in which they can
engage with new media art forms and, in particular, with the interaction
of music with the visual arts. The 2012 "Visions" Festival is therefore
calling for submissions of works in Music and Media Arts which feature
video and music: video art, visual music, animation, contemporary or
electronic music with visual components, experimental video.
The works shall feature the combination of sound and moving images or
visual displays in a contemporary or experimental aesthetic direction.
Duration: 3-10 Minutes
Video Format: 4:3 or 16:9, HDV, DV Pal, DVD Pal
Audio Format: Stereo (16, 24 or 48 Hhz)
Deadline: March 31, 2012
Application Materials:
Composer Biography
Program Note
DVD (Pal) Stereo
Technical Directions for Performance of Work
The winning entry will be presented as part of the 2012 "Visions"
Festival in Hannover,
Germany. A prize of 1000 € will also be awarded, and the winner will
have the opportunity to present their work as part of the "Zeit-lupe"
concert series, an offering of the Hannover Society for New Music. The
winner will also receive a one month residency at the Künstlerhäuser
Worpswede near Bremen, Germany.
Please send applications to:
*MUM e.V,
De-Haen-Platz 12, 30163 Hannover, Germany.*
*Contact: info(a)gemart.de*
The legal process is excluded. The organizers reserve themselves the
right to change the call of Works/competition in every phase or to break
off or to recant; this in particular if the means promised for this by
the public authorities are not made available or by not sufficient height.