A Call For Web Based Art | Writing

Initiated by digital eARTh
http://www.digearth.bcit.bc.ca/dedocs/
co-curated by Thecla Schiphorst & Oliver Hockenhull
supported by the Canada Council for The Arts and BCIT

digital eARTh announces a call for web based art and writing under the
theme of Transverse Worlds. This is an invitation to construct web work
based on notions of cultural, personal, theoretical, political, and
physical transversal.

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Transverse Worlds converge and are based in the complexities and graces
of transverse anarchies. Transverse Worlds meet in web-based,
architecturally-based, body-based, data-based and de-based constructions
of language and self. This referral to the transverse is linked to
notions of the diverse, inverse, perverse & converse. Transverse Worlds
is informed by interpretations and interpenetrations: intersection,
crossbreeding, including all verse.

digital eARTh disputes the singlular detached evaluation by
re-presenting production as an evolutionary and multiple voiced
practice. Transverse worlds subverts the singular detached viewpoint
with the intrusion and juxtaposition of alternate perspectives voiced
from within the links, text, image, and essays.

Transversal includes the subjective alongside the theoretical.

Transversal invites discourse which frames artists' work in the context
of their own histories and other parallel histories. Ficto-criticism is
the notion of combining the personal with the objective. Web based art
that transverses is a program of immersion into the subtleties of links
between various dimensions of electronic cultural production and
consumption, between various mediums, artists, aesthetics, practices,
politics and sites.

The deadline for Projects review is JANUARY 1 1997. Projects must be
Web based and creatively use the potential of the Web medium. All media
is acceptable (projector files, animation, prose, poetry, photobased,
graphics, QT, audio, etc.). Projects must be related to the theme of
Transverse Worlds. At least four honorariums will be given to Canadian
artists. Projects must be completed and available by May 1st l997.
Projects cannot have been presented on the Web before. Copyright will
remain with the artist, however artist must grant Digital Earth
exclusive *web broadcast* rights, and print publications rights for a
period of at least 24 months.