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FiST · 22nd February 2004

Machinista

A yearly unmediated open submission exhibition of creative and technological innovations relating to the ideas of "artificial intelligence in the arts" and "new human-machine interactions".

Creative practices including visual and software art, science and design projects, moving image, experimental music and performance are featured in various scales and stages of development ranging from documentation of prototypes and exploratory installations to fully operational systems.
Associated critiques and discussions support the exchange of ideas and the potential for exciting future collaborations.

In 2003 there were 128 submissions featured in Machinista >>

Machinista Migrating Festival
An offline festival each year in a different host city showcases key entries to the online exhibition. Selected participants are
commissioned to travel and present/ exhibit/ install/ perform to wide audiences.
A full programme provides an opportunity for practitioners to exchange ideas face to face and share the fruits of their endeavours with the general public.
Educational events inform and broaden the audience for both the online and offline festivals.
Last year offline events took place in Moscow and Perm City (Urals).
Glasgow, Scotland is the host city for Machinista 2004 with some additional events in Perm, Russia.
We are welcoming proposals for hosting Machinista 2005.

To subscribe to the Machinista mailing list, send a message to:
list-subscribe@machinista.org

Call for entries - deadline 28th february 2004
Submissions for the following three themes are welcomed in all media.

"Art from the Machine: gleams of the inhuman" Works created completely or mostly by a machine or an Artificial Intelligence system.
more about this category
"Artists Against Machinic Standards" Breaking, destroying, hacking, unexpected (non-utilitarian?) usage of customary programs as an art experiment.
more about this category
"Full-Screen Robovision" Moving image works (experimental/scientific imaging, audiovisual code, short films, animation and VJ mixes) illustrating "the world as 'seen' by the machines.
more about this category
Recommended submission formats:
Participants are encouraged to link their own webpage documenting their entry (URL link such as www.mywebspace.net/machinista_submission/). Machinista isn't a web design competition so these files can be as simple as required and include text, images, sound, software and any other supporting media you feel is needed.
Submissions based on Open Source browsers or unusual plug-ins should include appropriate viewing instructions from standard Mac/ PC browsers. If you don't have your own webspace email us your work (2Mb max) and we'll send you a link to our server which you will include in your submission.

All submissions will be viewed by the category supervisors, members of the Machinista team as well as the general public, please be considerate of low bandwidth users.
Please read the disclaimer
Category supervisors retain the right to remove submissions.
Category 1:
ART FROM THE MACHINE "Gleams of the Inhuman"
THEME:
We are looking for art systems that are able to demonstrate some traces of self-awareness. These must not be systems whose world-view is identical to the artist who created it, but rather systems which are able to respond to and process their environments on their own terms. The artist becomes a client rather than administrator of the system, introducing interesting questions concerning authorship, ownership and intentionality. The artwork becomes responsible for its own representation, perhaps constructing its own emergent "life tasks".
These systems are not limited by genre, and so can be online or offline, installation, proposal, networked, robotic, performance, sound, software, etc.
Category supervisors:
James Coupe (UK) >>
Roman Arefiev (KZ) >>

Category 2:
ARTISTS AGAINST MACHINIC STANDARDS
THEME:
"Breaking, destroying, hacking, unexpected (non-intentional?) usage of customary programs as an art experiment."
We are looking for creative, mechanical, technological or computing practices that challenges our expectations through, or results from, unusual, imaginative and unexpected uses of technology. We are interested in work that does not solely rely on the functionality of the machine or code - that is, work that can function (or dis-function) as a generative symbolic system.

We expect to receive works that adjust, de-construct, modify, destroy or create software or hardware as part of a process of experimentation for artistic or social purposes. We would like to see conceptually and technically strong work with aims such as: deconstruction of meaning, reversion of practice, hacking of the system.

We consider that polemics of artists towards machinic standards raise aesthetic, political and social issues. Thus, we welcome work that is socially, politically and/or environmentally conscious. Also, work that addresses cultural and aesthetic concepts of software and technology, and challenges the current status quo [whether this refers to established software, established governments or established art forums].

Last but not least, we welcome work that expands itself in forms and practices beyond hardware, allowing for overlappings between virtual and physical, art and life to occur. This could also be work that aims at creating or supporting social spaces through networked communication, free media initiatives and sharing.

We will accept all types of current manifestations of computer and software art e.g. screen-based work, installation, performance, both on and off line. We are very open to collaborative creation/destruction.

The call is open to all software artists, programmers, artists, computer geeks, net workers, hackers and other creative individuals/groups/communities.

Category supervisors:
Maria X (UK) >>
Rustam Sabirov (RU) >>

Category 3:
FULL SCREEN ROBOVISION "The world as seen by the machines"
THEME:
We are looking for short video works (10 min. max) with or without sounds to fit the following genres:

Short films, animation and VJ mixes representing "the world as 'seen' by the machines". These may contain machines, robots, cyborgs , mechanical/ electronic junk as their main character or provide an alternative viewpoint on human-machine interaction. (Works containing spoken words should include English subtitles).
Artworks featuring "audio-visual code" : abstract or symbol based motion graphics representing the machine's internal data flow or translation of environmental monitoring. We are particularly interested in video material created by AI, A-life and emergent systems.
Science labs projects:
- images produced from unusual sensors (radar, microscope, thermal imaging etc..) , visual data representation and experimental image capture devices.
- documentation of original robots and mechanical devices.
CAD and graphic design visualisation experiments using 3D and enhanced video imaging as the computer's "understanding" of its surroundings.
Documentation of video performances proposing original human/machine interaction, new control interfaces, VJ tools, automated visualisers and mutated hardware. Also enter demos for prospective performance commissions at the final event.

Category 3 only: video files

Minimum size for online preview/ assessment: 160x120px
If possible, also provide a high-res version.( The supervisors may contact you requesting a DV quality file for inclusion in the Machinista DVD).
Recommended video compression formats: MPEG, AVI... Other compression formats (Open Source etc..) should include clear instructions on how to operate the relevant codecs.
If your entry isn't available as a download, you can:
email us an AVI or Quicktime extract of your piece (max 20 Mb)
send us your submission by post on CD/ DVD/ DV or VHS.
Address:
MACHINISTA FESTIVAL
CCA
350 Sauchiehall street
G2 3JD
Glasgow
UK

Machinista

FiST · 23rd February 2004

sorry about the late notice, to anyone who wants to submit anything, there is still time tho, i still have to throw together my submission this week before berlin.

the actual events will be very tasty and anyone remotely near glasgow at the time should try and make it along.

22nd February 2004	#1
FiST twat farm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: g¬asg*w Posts: 4,502	:: Machinista 2004 :: Machinista A yearly unmediated open submission exhibition of creative and technological innovations relating to the ideas of "artificial intelligence in the arts" and "new human-machine interactions". Creative practices including visual and software art, science and design projects, moving image, experimental music and performance are featured in various scales and stages of development ranging from documentation of prototypes and exploratory installations to fully operational systems. Associated critiques and discussions support the exchange of ideas and the potential for exciting future collaborations. In 2003 there were 128 submissions featured in Machinista >> Machinista Migrating Festival An offline festival each year in a different host city showcases key entries to the online exhibition. Selected participants are commissioned to travel and present/ exhibit/ install/ perform to wide audiences. A full programme provides an opportunity for practitioners to exchange ideas face to face and share the fruits of their endeavours with the general public. Educational events inform and broaden the audience for both the online and offline festivals. Last year offline events took place in Moscow and Perm City (Urals). Glasgow, Scotland is the host city for Machinista 2004 with some additional events in Perm, Russia. We are welcoming proposals for hosting Machinista 2005. To subscribe to the Machinista mailing list, send a message to: list-subscribe@machinista.org Call for entries - deadline 28th february 2004 Submissions for the following three themes are welcomed in all media. "Art from the Machine: gleams of the inhuman" Works created completely or mostly by a machine or an Artificial Intelligence system. more about this category "Artists Against Machinic Standards" Breaking, destroying, hacking, unexpected (non-utilitarian?) usage of customary programs as an art experiment. more about this category "Full-Screen Robovision" Moving image works (experimental/scientific imaging, audiovisual code, short films, animation and VJ mixes) illustrating "the world as 'seen' by the machines. more about this category Recommended submission formats: Participants are encouraged to link their own webpage documenting their entry (URL link such as www.mywebspace.net/machinista_submission/). Machinista isn't a web design competition so these files can be as simple as required and include text, images, sound, software and any other supporting media you feel is needed. Submissions based on Open Source browsers or unusual plug-ins should include appropriate viewing instructions from standard Mac/ PC browsers. If you don't have your own webspace email us your work (2Mb max) and we'll send you a link to our server which you will include in your submission. All submissions will be viewed by the category supervisors, members of the Machinista team as well as the general public, please be considerate of low bandwidth users. Please read the disclaimer Category supervisors retain the right to remove submissions. Category 1: ART FROM THE MACHINE "Gleams of the Inhuman" THEME: We are looking for art systems that are able to demonstrate some traces of self-awareness. These must not be systems whose world-view is identical to the artist who created it, but rather systems which are able to respond to and process their environments on their own terms. The artist becomes a client rather than administrator of the system, introducing interesting questions concerning authorship, ownership and intentionality. The artwork becomes responsible for its own representation, perhaps constructing its own emergent "life tasks". These systems are not limited by genre, and so can be online or offline, installation, proposal, networked, robotic, performance, sound, software, etc. Category supervisors: James Coupe (UK) >> Roman Arefiev (KZ) >> Category 2: ARTISTS AGAINST MACHINIC STANDARDS THEME: "Breaking, destroying, hacking, unexpected (non-intentional?) usage of customary programs as an art experiment." We are looking for creative, mechanical, technological or computing practices that challenges our expectations through, or results from, unusual, imaginative and unexpected uses of technology. We are interested in work that does not solely rely on the functionality of the machine or code - that is, work that can function (or dis-function) as a generative symbolic system. We expect to receive works that adjust, de-construct, modify, destroy or create software or hardware as part of a process of experimentation for artistic or social purposes. We would like to see conceptually and technically strong work with aims such as: deconstruction of meaning, reversion of practice, hacking of the system. We consider that polemics of artists towards machinic standards raise aesthetic, political and social issues. Thus, we welcome work that is socially, politically and/or environmentally conscious. Also, work that addresses cultural and aesthetic concepts of software and technology, and challenges the current status quo [whether this refers to established software, established governments or established art forums]. Last but not least, we welcome work that expands itself in forms and practices beyond hardware, allowing for overlappings between virtual and physical, art and life to occur. This could also be work that aims at creating or supporting social spaces through networked communication, free media initiatives and sharing. We will accept all types of current manifestations of computer and software art e.g. screen-based work, installation, performance, both on and off line. We are very open to collaborative creation/destruction. The call is open to all software artists, programmers, artists, computer geeks, net workers, hackers and other creative individuals/groups/communities. Category supervisors: Maria X (UK) >> Rustam Sabirov (RU) >> Category 3: FULL SCREEN ROBOVISION "The world as seen by the machines" THEME: We are looking for short video works (10 min. max) with or without sounds to fit the following genres: Short films, animation and VJ mixes representing "the world as 'seen' by the machines". These may contain machines, robots, cyborgs , mechanical/ electronic junk as their main character or provide an alternative viewpoint on human-machine interaction. (Works containing spoken words should include English subtitles). Artworks featuring "audio-visual code" : abstract or symbol based motion graphics representing the machine's internal data flow or translation of environmental monitoring. We are particularly interested in video material created by AI, A-life and emergent systems. Science labs projects: - images produced from unusual sensors (radar, microscope, thermal imaging etc..) , visual data representation and experimental image capture devices. - documentation of original robots and mechanical devices. CAD and graphic design visualisation experiments using 3D and enhanced video imaging as the computer's "understanding" of its surroundings. Documentation of video performances proposing original human/machine interaction, new control interfaces, VJ tools, automated visualisers and mutated hardware. Also enter demos for prospective performance commissions at the final event. Category 3 only: video files Minimum size for online preview/ assessment: 160x120px If possible, also provide a high-res version.( The supervisors may contact you requesting a DV quality file for inclusion in the Machinista DVD). Recommended video compression formats: MPEG, AVI... Other compression formats (Open Source etc..) should include clear instructions on how to operate the relevant codecs. If your entry isn't available as a download, you can: email us an AVI or Quicktime extract of your piece (max 20 Mb) send us your submission by post on CD/ DVD/ DV or VHS. Address: MACHINISTA FESTIVAL CCA 350 Sauchiehall street G2 3JD Glasgow UK Machinista
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23rd February 2004	#2
FiST twat farm Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: g¬asg*w Posts: 4,502	sorry about the late notice, to anyone who wants to submit anything, there is still time tho, i still have to throw together my submission this week before berlin. the actual events will be very tasty and anyone remotely near glasgow at the time should try and make it along.
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