Machinista 2004 - call for participation

Call For Entries -� DEADLINE: 28th February 2004

MACHINISTA 2004 - http://www.machinista.org

Submissions for any of the following three themes are
welcomed in any media.

1. "Art from the Machine: gleams of the inhuman" 
Workscreated completely or mostly by a machine or an
artificial intelligence system.

2. "Artists Against Machinic Standards"
Breaking, destroying, hacking, unexpected
(non-utilitarian?) usage of customary programs/devices
as an art experiment.

3. "Full-Screen Robovision" 
Moving image works (experimental/scientific imaging,
audiovisual code, short films, animation and VJ mixes)
illustrating "the world as seen by machines" 

see http://www.machinista.org for more details

Machinista is a yearly unmediated open-submission
online exhibition.
Creative and technological practices including visual
and software art, science and design projects, moving
image, experimental music and performance are featured
in various scales and stages of development ranging
from documentation of prototypes and exploratory
installations to fully operational systems.
In 2003 there were 128 submissions featured in
Machinista plus offline events in Moscow and Perm in
the Urals.

MACHINISTA GLASGOW*
An offline festival each year in a different host city
showcases key entries to the online exhibition.
Participants in www.machinista.org are commissioned to
travel and present/ exhibit/install/ perform to wide
audiences.� This year, Machinista talkes place in
Glasgow, Scotland on the weekend of May 7-9 2004 with
some additional events later in the year in Perm,
Urals. 
Also a number of participants in the online Machinista
2004 will be awarded artist's residencies in Latvia,
St Petersburg and Vienna.

Machinista 2004
http://www.machinista.org

Machinista 2003 
http://www.machinista.ru� (Russian)
http://www.machinista.ru/en (English)

*Supported by the Scottish Arts Council & CCA Glasgow 

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