Deadline:
31.05.2016


Artists from around the world working in any medium are invited to submit work to Black Box 3.0.


Black Box is an annual international arts and technology festival produced by Aktionsart in multiple locations throughout Seattle. The festival presents new work and ideas that explore how technology is transforming the arts, culture, and public life.

Challenging our ideas about what art is and what art can be, Black Box transmits energetic ideas across disparate industries and disciplines. The festival cultivates engaged communities who think creatively and critically about emerging technologies and digital culture.

Black Box is a platform for artists, filmmakers, designers, curators, technologists, hackers, and makers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The festival features new work by contemporary artists who are collected by major museums and routinely featured on the international art circuit. It is also an essential voice for emerging talent and ideas. Black Box is open to all arts disciplines and mediums, including visual art, performance, design, fashion, music, folk and traditional arts, literature, media, film, research, theater, and more.


World and North American premieres are given priority.

There is no overarching festival theme beyond the umbrella of “arts and technology”, which is intentionally open. Attention will be closely paid to intellectually rigorous and socially urgent ideas, emerging technologies, and experimental projects that present new modes of creating and thinking. Black Box is a place for creativity and criticality.

We are interested in works that respond to the following themes, tools or mediums: augmented/virtual/mixed reality, gaming, expanded and immersive cinema, social media, architectural mapping, generative software, systems, mobility and mobile apps, wearables, digital labor, interactivity, data visualization, experimental and interactive documentary, surveillance, biotech, holography, space exploration, 3D printing, robotics, production and distribution tools/platforms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, hypercompliance, deep web, blockchain, digital culture, sustainability, innovation, disnovation, transmedia, utopia.

Technology disrupts the arts, but how do the arts disrupt technology? What is the role of artist and creator in an increasingly mechanized world? How can artists leverage new tools to produce, distribute, create access, and build audiences for their work? How does technological innovation and disnovation shape public life?

Works must have been created after January 1, 2014

Entry Fee: $10.59

Details:
http://www.aktionsart.org/submissions