netEX - networked experience

call: soundart for SoundLAB VII

Call for entries
extended Deadline: 31 December 2009

2010 - 10th anniversary of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne

SoundLAB - sonic art project environments
is happy to launch the call for its next edition to be part of this anniversary celebrations, entitled:

SoundLAB VII - soundCELEBRATION
sound compositions made for the 10th anniversary!

About SoundLAB
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org

In 2004, SoundLAB was launched as a corporate part of the global networking project
[R][R][F]200x—>XP - http://rrf200x.newmediafest.org
on occasion of BEAP - Biennale of Electronic Art Perth/Australia 2004
but started soon also acting individually as an environment for sonic art.

Edition IV was launched in October 2006 under the title
“memoryscapes” - incorporating 144 artists and 235 soundart pieces
dealing with “memory and identity” in most different ways,
and it became corporate part of the media art show
://selfportrait - a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
http://self.engad.org - presented in Palestine, Poland, Italy and Argentina,
as an individual project it participated 2007 in FILE Hipersonica Sao Paulo
and FILE Rio 2008.

Edition V - soundSTORY - sound as a tool for story telling
was launched 2007 in the framework of NewMediaFest2007
presented online and on Int. Digital Art Festival Rosario/Argentina 2007 and DIGITAL MEDIA 2008 Valencia/Spain

Edition VI - soundPOOL - sound compositions - a challenge for imagination was launched in 2009 and was presented on FILE - Hipersonica Sao Paulo 2009

SoundLAB Editions I - VI - can be visited on http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
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For its 7th edition, planned to be launched in March 2010,
SoundLAB would like to celebrate the power of sound as a tool for artistic creations and communications on occasion of the 10th anniversary of the global network it is embedded in and invites soundartists, musicians and composers to create for the 10th anniversary a special sound composition.

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Please download the regulations and entry form as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/SoundLAB7_entry2010.pdf

Regulations for
sound compositions to be submitted

1. Theme: soundCELEBRATION - sound compositions made for the 10th anniversary
2.. one single piece of soundart may be submitted
3. exclusive soundformat: mp3
4. duration: minimum 3 min, maximum 15 min (longer works possible, but only on request)
5. each submission has to accompanied by an artists statement
about the creation of the sound work, used tools & concepts
6. the artist/author keeps all rights on the submitted soundwork and statement
7. the work to be submitted has to be posted on a webpage for download, including artist bio and statement
7a. –> if no own website is available, alternatively the film can be submitted via an upload/download service, for instance, SENDSPACE - www.sendspace.com - a free service, after upload send the link, and soundLAB downloads the file then.
8. the complete entry form including the requested info material has to be submitted via email
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Entry form
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artist/author

full name
email
URL
short biography/CV (not more than 300 words in English)

Work

title (one work only)
year
duration
URL for download
statement (no more than 1000 words in English)
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Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter declares and confirms
that he/she is holding all author’s rights
and gives permission to include the submitted work
in “Soundlab” until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)
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Please cut and paste this form and send the complete submission,
including artist bio and statement in plain email, RTF file format or WORD. doc

to
soundlab@newmediafest.org
subject: Soundlab edition VII
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SoundLAB - sonic art project environment
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
is a corporate part of [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne,
the experimental platform for art and new media from Cologne/Germany