Present your cross-over project from (media)technology, art, research and creative industry during the E-Culture Fair 2010 in Dortmund.

The E-Culture Fair 2010 will take place at the new U - Centre for Art and Creativity in Dortmund from 23 to 25 August 2010 as part of RUHR.2010 cultural capital of Europe and ISEA2010 RUHR (16th International Symposium on Electronic Art). It is an initiative by and a collaboration between BAM Belgium, Virtueel Platform from the Netherlands, and Medienwerk NRW from Nordrhein-Westfalen and is hosted by Hartware MedienKunstVerein.

WHAT IS THE E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 ABOUT?

• E-Culture Fair 2010 is an international event and meeting place for the exchange and showcasing of new projects for those who work at the intersection between art, (media) technology, culture, design research and creative industry.
• The E-Culture Fair consists of an exhibition of selected works, demos, live presentations, workshops and an open art lab.
• In the social setting of the beautiful U-Centre for Art and Creativity in Dortmund you will present your own work and meet a worldwide, European, regional and local audience (ISEA2010 RUHR, RUHR.2010, participants from the Ruhr area, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as from the city of Dortmund), many other interesting cultural and creative people and organisations, makers and developers as well as a selection of the best recent e-cultural projects developed in the Netherlands, Belgium and NRW.
• The event will highlight the huge innovative potential of collaboration between art, research and creative industry in an accessible manner. Visitors will have the opportunity of meeting the people behind the projects. In addition, the event will provide an impulse for more cooperation between the various actors and organisations in the densely populated regional triangle between the Netherlands, Belgium, and North Rhine Westphalia (NRW).

What are we looking for? PARTICIPANT'S PROFILE:

• This call is intended especially for organisations, schools of higher education, universities, companies and individuals who wish to present their projects at the E-Culture Fair 2010.
• By projects we mean creations, work-in-progress, products, methods or services that are culturally relevant and result from a collaboration between culture, research, science and/or industry. The projects can be tools, methods, products or services developed by artists; coming out of research and development from experimental labs; out of creative industries; higher education or universities.
• We are looking specifically for projects where cooperation and exchange is valuable for the participating parties and for the project they realise together. As working title we are using "For more than one". We are especially interested in projects for multiple users, interesting combinations between the possibilities of (networked) mediatechnologies and the physical space. We look for interesting projects that bring social interaction, (inside or outside) to tangible interfaces, and new ways of playing and learning.
• The projects do not have to be necessarily high-tech, but were made using, or made possible by, digital media or other new technologies.
• Projects should be inspiring and appealing: in the end we seek a good balance between projects of interest to everyone, and projects for a specialist public.
• In our selection we look at the degree of innovation, the feasability of presentation, to creativity, and cultural, social, or artistic relevance.
• This call is specifically intended for Belgian participants. Similar calls are being spread in the Netherlands and Germany.

HOW TO SUBMIT A PROJECT?

With this call, you can propose a project to be showcased during the E-Culture Fair 2010, either as part of the exhibition that will be permanently open to the public for three days or as a continuous demo at a stand, a programmed project presentation, or a live performance. You may also use this call to propose a workshop, but please note that the number of workshops is limited.

If you believe your project should be presented at the e-culture fair, please provide brief answers to the following questions and send them  to Nele Samyn at nele@bamart.be:

• Name and contact information of organisation(s).
• Name and contact information of contact(s).
• What is the necessary or desired number of persons for your presentation at the e-culture fair?
• Why is it important for you to present yourself at the e-culture fair?
• Why is it important for the e-culture fair to present you?
• Please provide a brief project description (100 words max.)
• Please provide an elaborate project description (500 words max.)
• For which presentation form is your project suitable:
• brief live presentation
• continuous demo set-up at stand
• exhibition as a work of art
• workshop about tool or method
• Please include any links to on-line documentation: websites, pictures and/or videos

BAM, Virtueel Platform and Medienwerk NRW will thoroughly review all proposals, make a selection and decide in April which projects will be eligible for the exhibition format, the presentation format or the performance format. As soon as the selection is complete, all applicants will receive a response. We will first contact the selected projects in order to check the feasibility of the presentation.

Info
E-Culture Fair, from 23 to 25 August 2010 in the U - Centre for Art and Creativity, Dortmund, Germany
Deadline 20th of March 2010
You will find more information about the E-Culture fair on the websites of the individual partner organisations.
Contact: Nele Samyn (nele@bamart.be or +32(0)9 267.90.47).

E-Culture Fair 2010 is an initiative of BAM, Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art,  Virtueel Platform, the Netherlands and Medienwerk NRW, Germany and is hosted by Hartware MedienKunstVerein.
Supported by the Flemish Government, the Minister President of North Rhine Westphalia, the City of Dortmund, the U - Centre for Art and Creativity, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of OC&W in the Netherlands, Flanders DC.