*"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@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.