[microsound] Open Call for Circuit Bending Artists/Performers

[mike <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Tank Center for Performing and Visual Arts is currently accepting
submissions for the BENT 2004 Circuit Bending Festival. The festival will
take place from April 3-10th at our venue on 42nd street in New York City.
It is our hope that the festival will be as diverse in its programming as
possible, with performances, installations, lectures, workshops, etc, and
that it will represent as accurately as possible the interests and talents
of the circuit bending community. This will be a large festival, with people
coming from all over to check out the scene. Also a Headlining Performer to
be announced shortly. So let us know if you should be on board, and feel
free to forward this along.

This call falls into two categories:
Musicians/Performance Artists
Installation Artists

Musicians/Performance Artists:
We are seeking bands, musicians, and performance artists who somehow
incorporate the tools, aesthetics, or ideas of circuit bending into their
live performance. We are putting together three weekend nights of circuit
bent performances and are interested in as diverse an array of performances
as possible. Please send a brief description of your live show, and/or any
links to mp3s/photos/websites etc. No attachments will be read or
considered.

Installation Artists:
The venue for the festival includes a basement gallery space, and as such we
are seeking 3-4 artists-in-residence who will each receive 15-20 hours of
gallery/studio time and as many tools and resources as we can provide to
complete a circuit bent installation during the festival. All studio hours
in the gallery will be open to the public, and we are most interested in
artists who don¹t mind chatting about what they are doing and explaining
circuit bending to gallery visitors who wander through. Please keep in mind
that this is a smallish gallery space and your work and your working
attitude will have to co-exist with the other artists and their work. Be
excited about interacting!
We will have a wide assortment of standard circuit bending tools/equipment
(soldering irons, pots/wires/capacitors/resistors/etc/etc/etc) and as much
random materials as we can pull together. The festival is being sponsored,
so we will have a small budget for this sort of thing. We will also
facilitate a trip to Materials for the Arts to help gather more supplies.
Please submit a written proposal of a circuit bent project that can
reasonably be completed in the time allotted with a modest but flexible
amount of supplies. See the floorplans of the gallery space at
http://www.thetanknyc.com/spaceworks/floorplans.html

Submission Deadline Feb 23.
Send all submissions to:
spaceworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Or via mail at:
Spaceworks
C/O The Tank
450 W 42nd Street
NYC, NY 10036

http://www.thetanknyc.com
http://www.thetanknyc.com/spaceworks






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