netEX - networked experience

call: Riders on the Train

Call for entries
Deadline: 31 July 2009

RIDERS ON THE TRAIN, organized by Boston-based artist Nancy Davies, is an art project seeking your creative work made while [or in response to] riding on public transportation [subway train or bus]:

http://ridersonthetrainproject.blogspot.com/

Adressed to:
VISUAL ARTISTS [Video, 2D Imagery (photos, prints, drawings, mappings etc.)]
SOUND ARTISTS
PERFORMANCE ARTISTS [Actions, Interventions etc.]
WRITERS
and any intermedia / interdisciplinary mixes of the above

Several works from the first call for the “Riders Project” were included in the Text and Video show at Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media in Boston, MA, Aug-Sept 2008. A second, expanded version will occur at Axiom’s Fall 2009.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

RESPOND to your experience riding the subway train [or bus] with:
Video [with or without sound] [1 - 5 min; high quality .dv files, codec DV/DVCPRO - NTSC]

Sound Art [1 - 5 min; .wav or .aif files; 16 bit 48 kHz]

Visual Imagery [photos, prints, drawings, mappings etc.; for submission: .jpgs, 600 x 800 dpi]

Proposals: Performance / Actions / Interventions

Text Pieces [poetry, prose, journal entries [500 words max]

Performance-related Proposals

ALL TEXT FILES (Text Pieces, Proposals, Bio & Contact Info)
[doc, .rtf or .txt files]

SUBMIT on CD or DVD [MAC FRIENDLY]

SUBMISSION DEADLINE by USPS: July 31, 2009 [postmark date]

MAIL TO:

AXIOM Gallery
Attn: Riders Project
141 Green Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
USA

FOR MORE INFORMATION about the Riders Project & how to submit:

email: Nance Davies [artist / coordinator] ridersonthetrainproject@comcast.net
visit: the project blog at: http://ridersonthetrainproject.blogspot.com/