Machinista 2003 (Russia) - Call for Participation

[eXhale]

[Just reposting this email I received]

MACHINISTA 2003 - Call for Participation

We invite you to participate in "MACHINISTA 2003"
media art festival, organized and coordinated in Perm
City, West Ural, Russia. Main subject of the festival
is "Artificial Intelligence in Art: Faces of Machinic
Ingenuity". The focus is on the new interaction of
machinic and human in art and culture.

Categories of accepted works:
- "Machine as the artist's co-author"
- "Machine in place of the artist"
- "VJ's vs. visualizers"

Accepted are all media art works without genre
limitations: video-art, music and sound, vj demos,
multimedia installations, net-art and web-art,
software art, graphical and 3D experiments etc. Works
are accepted on the festival web site and published
automatically.

International jury: Hauska Tietokone (Helsinki,
Finland), Alexei Andreyev (Saint-Petersburg, Russia),
Vadim Epstein (Moscow, Russia).

All necessary information and submission form can be
found on the festival web site:
http://www.machinista.ru/en

Deadline: January 31, 2003.
Director: Sergei Teterin (Perm City, Russia)
<super@teterin.ru>

[eps]

thanks for reposting this, exhale

just would like to encourage everyone who is interested somehow in such a game to go on and participate

[i am jury/curator for the third part - vjs vs visualizers - and also wish it gathered and covered big and diverse enough auditory and participants to present modern state of visual motion art and especially the topic of festival]

thanks & possibly see your stuff there

[Rovastar]

Sounds interesting.

What actaully is the VJ vs visualizers thing? Clips being played and comparing them to automated stuff.

I presume visualizers are the automated stuff from your discriptions. As this is my next of the woods I am interested in knowing more.

Which ones are you using/have an interest in?

I am not aware of many new authors/releases in the last year so I wonder what stuff you are refering too.

(edit: ALso are any of teh articles from the context page available in english eg MAN VS. ROBOT: YOU'VE ALREADY LOST lol sounds like my initial post here)

[eps]

as for automated stuff, we're interested in everything that can produce visuals stunning enough to stare at for a while ::]

note only that it probably should not be professional vj prog [e.g. no specially premastered clips or postproduction treatment must be involved to produce final visuals - only that app]

surely this fest is not going to become exhibition of previously-totaly-unknown fundamental new apps [don't u think authors would wait for some fest to release them ::]. more probably shortlist will consist of home-made art pieces. though some of such pieces from the previous fest - http://www.macros-center.ru/read_me/abouten.htm - appeared pretty useful

i'll ask sergey about translation of the articles [hope it can be done better than overall translation of the site ::]

[Rovastar]

Ummh I still do know what sort of stuff you have in mind and examples of previously released stuff/programs. What do you plan to show at the moment. I am curious to see what I may have missed too. :)

Would the visualizations stuff like from here:

http://www.milkdrop.co.uk/links.htm

be relevant.

Is that the sort of thing you are after.

:) from the section I am involved there is hardly anything coming out anyway so you are unlikely to see any really new stuff.;)

edit - Your english is mostly better than my awful quick typing attempts for the posts in Vjforums. :)

[eps]

rovastar, i'm out of my mail for the moment so posting my reply here (since it may concern the others too, i hope it's ok with you).

please feel free to mail me too [eps@here.ru]

> So what vizualizers to you plan to use

any that are submitted to the fest

> If I do understand correctly I can submit loads of works
> and many more from other people I know in this small scene.

YES please.

if you know some "very special" settings for such programs, please include them too [it would help not to miss there specialities]

[eps]

question:
"i want to come to russia to participate in your fest and play live,
do you have funds/budget for that?"

answer:
machinista is online festival, not a on-stage contest. that means
that the whole process of works collection as well as jury work takes place remotely. "participation" means submission of your works as produced/recorded pieces of media or software to the site of machinista [or by snail mail]; they will be evaluated as become available.
the only live event during this festival will be final award
ceremony/party. best pieces will be demonstrated there; there is also an option that the winner[s] will be invited to that party and play live, but this is yet only an option [it depends on the fest results et cetera].

so - there are no funds just to bring you to russia to play live.
if you rather want to participate in the fest, prepare demo and sibmit it as described on the machinista.ru site.

regards
eps

[eps]

please be informed that submission period for Machinista 2003 (http://machinista.ru) is over

if you occasionally missed this deadline but wished to apply yet, please write to me and we will sort it out. otherwise, good luck and see you on the next one

eps