Accessible Arts / arts + disability NSW

The 2011 Screengrab New Media Arts Award invite digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of the Nostalgia.

Nostalgia runs deep in the network.

The clean lines and coded purity of interface culture and consumer electronics belies a deeper yearning for the origins of new media. 8 Bit games, glitch art, stop motion video, audio distortions and retro stylings are cropping up throughout the networked landscape as artists unpack, smudge, melt, data-mosh and retrace their steps back to the early halcyon days of digital media. Tactile, fluid, fuzzy analogue aesthetics are emerging in surprising places as the origins of our streamlined relationship with technology and the world around us is interrogated, encoded and telegraphed into our livings rooms, browsers and pockets.

Jaron Lanier in his text, You Are Not A Gadget, calls for a more humanist approach to the way we participate in network culture and insists we must seek always to preserve our individuality in such exchanges. Retro leanings and nostalgic turns speak to this desire. It reveals the human in the electronic interface. It celebrates the mistake, the error, the uniqueness and the beauty of the digital aesthetic at a critical time in the evolution of media arts practice.

All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D & 3D animation.

New Media Arts Award: AUS $2000
Exhibition opening & Award announcement: Friday 12 August 2011.

Online Application / submission guidelines and entry form.

When: Deadline Friday, 22 July 2011.

Where: Open Nationally. The exhibition is sponsored by eMerge Media Space and the School of Creative Arts at James Cook University, QLD, Australia.

Who: New Media Artists

Cost: NA

Contact: All enquiries can be forwarded to screengrab@jcu.edu.au or tel: 07 4781 3142.

Website: http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/soca/JCUPRD1_062493