iDEAs - Call for Participation

iDMAa iDEAs is a showcase for creative projects, works of art, and thought-provoking applications of digital media in both artistic and cutting-edge industrial contexts that reflect novel approaches to the relationship between media tools and content. The exhibition is something between an art gallery, a showcase of new ideas, and a playroom, with some resemblances to a ward for brilliantly unstable people. iDEAs is what it is named – a platform for ideas - art and projects that go beyond the medium and into the realm of creative thought that will provide fodder for interaction with iDMAa attendees.

Last year, projects for iDMAa iDEAs included a virtual interactive landscape, a roaming robot poet better known as the Electro-Linguistic Imaginator, desktop interactive poems, an artistic video game, a hand made book, wall hung images, and an online documentary of folk artists, to name a select few.

We will consider:

• desktop interactive works
• self contained web works
• time based work (video, 2d and 3d animation, stop action)
• digital installation, both interactive and not
• performance
• sound installations
• framed wall hung images
• sculptural works
• kiosks

Special Note: Although we encourage complex and innovative constructs, participants are responsible for providing all necessary equipment and labor.

Specifications:

• DEADLINE TO RECEIVE PROPOSALS: JANUARY 10
• Notification by January 28th

To enter, email a statement, explanation, or proposal along with one of the following:

• An email containing a link to an on-line portfolio or sample.
• An email with attached jpg images. Attached images should be no larger than 2 MB each and no more than two per email. Images may be sent over a series of emails.
• A CD, DVD, video, or slides to:

Prof. Dena E. Eber ( ideasChair@idmaa.org )
School of Art
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA

Upon Acceptance:

• Installations: Participants must arrive to set up their project or art in Orlando on March 14th, 15th, or 16th to be ready for the opening at 6pm on the 16th. Exhibitors may ship equipment ahead, details to follow.
• Framed work: Exhibitors showing framed and ready to hang 2D work or small sculptural pieces may be shipped to arrive in Orlando between March 10th and 14th. Shipping details will follow. This work may also be hand delivered no later than noon on March 14th.
• Desktop work: Exhibitors showing desktop works may arrive between March 14th and March 16th to install their work to be ready for the opening at 6pm on the 16th. These works may also be shipped on CD or DVD directly to Prof. Dena E. Eber by February 20th or directly to the exhibition. Shipping details will follow. Artists may show desktop interactive works on their own machine or request one. There are a limited number of computers available.
• All Participants: Provide us with one publication ready image and statement or explanation by February 4th. Details to follow.