INVITATION
To electronic artists of any nationality
CITY / MEDIA / NATURE
Type of work Internet projects
Subject Relationship of city-media-nature
Deadline for preliminary proposal 2 December 2002
Deadline for finished project 14 March 2003
Prize $500
DESCRIPTION
Electronic artists of any nationality are invited to reflect on the
relationship between the city and nature through electronic art represented
in Internet projects. Your proposal should invite the spectator to reflect
on nature in cities. We are looking for work which represents a real-life
city, not an abstract one. The project should contain recognizable features
such as parks, a tree, canals, aqueducts etc. i.e. the environment in which
the work is developed should be a representation of real natural features
and not simply an artificial space created by demonstration software. The
work may be based on considerations of the environment (climate, water,
hills or other geographical points of reference, flora, nature in the city).
Other features (cultural social or political) may form part of the subject
matter, provided that they are interwoven with the impact that they have on
nature.
CONDITIONS
Q. What should I send by 2 December?
A. 1. Send the Pre-Project Form and a demo of an initial and a secondary
page. The Pre- Project form can be downloaded from out webpage
http://www.goethe.de/hn/bog/ or clicking here.
Explanation. Complete the Pre-Project Form with a complete description,
including a script of content, a small demo with an initial page and a
secondary page, a list of software tools to be used and an estimated
completion date (not later than 14 March 2003). This information may be used
in any way the Committee thinks fit in connection with the evolution of the
event.
Limitations

2. Projects which document work materialized in the open air will not be
considered.
3. Work based on photographic documentation of natural processes will not be
considered. The starting point of the project may be a natural image but its
development must be virtual. For example, a project which provide
photographic documentation of the effect of the August winds on a line of
trees in a Bogota avenue, i.e. which collects up photographs taken every
three days to see the changes in the tree, with the photos digitalised and
intervened, will not be acceptable. But a project which starts with a
photograph of a tree and virtually describes the life-cycle of that tree,
would be acceptable.
4. The two parallel events 'City Art Nature