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call: Media Poetry Competition

Call for entries
Deadline: 31 March 2010

International Biennale of Poets

Following the successful first edition (254 world record of more than 150 works created), for his eleventh festival (May 2011), the International Biennale of Poets (11 rue Ferdinand Roussel 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France), launches a second edition of its international poetry competition-media, in partnership with Radio Aligre, Poptronics magazine, The Cube, The House of poetry in Paris, XLR-project.

Be regarded as any poetry-media work involving modern technologies in the service of poetry whether as part of a performance or that of a work recorded and projectable: video poetry, digital poetry, multimedia poetry, sound poetry, poetry, interactive poetry installation on site or in any space, etc. Will not be regarded as such works which are merely illustrative as the setting to music or image of poetic texts. The themes and forms used are free.

The submitted work must not exceed a period of 15 minutes and will hearth made the contest registration form on a website or a collective site like YouTube or DailyMotion.

Candidates must declare the contest by mail of their intention to participate before March 31, 2010 at the following address:
media-poesie@biennaledespoetes.fr

The submission of works will take place before December 31, 2010 by communicating the Internet address of the website to the email address above.

A jury consisting of ten international artists (see list below) will examine the works and award the prize Poetry-media 2011, the award ceremony will take place in Paris in the festival during a day dedicated to poetry-media or in another place of Val-de-Marne.

The award recipient will be invited to Paris a week, all expenses paid to the eleventh biennial.

The participating artists agree to allow the public presentation of works created in the competition but, unless specifically approved otherwise, retain full ownership.

Members of the jury 2011 : Abrahams Annie, Baboni-Schilingi Jacopo, Balpe Jean-Pierre, Balzerani Margherita, Chevalier Miguel, Dumont Frédéric, Jaffrennou Michel, Kac Eduardo, Nisic Hervé, Piringer Joerg, Ticot Nicolas.

www.biennaledespoetes.fr