Bending Sound
Queer Experiments with Audio
Call for Work and Proposals
Deadline: June 29, 2007
Curator working with MIX NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival,
expanding
festival programs to include experimental music and audio component.
This is
a new project and therefore applicants should feel free to contact
curator.
MIX NYC’s 20th Anniversary Festival takes place in Lower Manhattan,
November
2007.
Application:
Looking for new innovative approaches to experiences of sound.
Individuals
are invited to submit:
- Proposals for performances working with sound and/or
multi-media
(up to 10 minutes) for inclusion in live audio event as part of the
festival
in November 2007.
- Less than 10 minute audio recording to be included in a
free
sound compilation with MIXnyc program book 2007.
- Or would like to collaborate and create with other
artists/musicians for inclusion in the above. Applicants will be
matched up
to work creatively based on either a live event or audio recording.
Basic A/V equipment will be available (TV’s, DVD player,
Microphones, LCD
projector, ect) will be provided but because this is a new project,
any
special technical equipment needed for the proposal (turntables,
special
effects, light activated sonar devices, ect) applicant will need to
provide.
Proposals should include:
1 – Contact Information
2 – Proposal Summary if proposing a performance (up to 500 words)
3 – Work Samples: VHS – NTSC Format, DVD, CD-Rom, Audio CD,
Cassette Tapes,
website, images (jpg, tiff, pdf) or audio files (mp3, wav, aiff)
4 – Work Sample Summary: A short description of each work submitted
including artist(s) name, title, date, medium, venue, duration, and
applicant’s role (if collaborative work).
5 – Optional Information (short bio, reviews, photos, ect.)
6 – SASE for return of materials if sending via snail-mail
For questions please contact Ethan Shoshan at disiterate@xxxxxxxxx
Send Materials
Via Email to Ethan Shoshan at disiterate@xxxxxxxxx (up to 8mb
emails)
Or
Snail Mail to:
Ethan Shoshan
MIXnyc Audio 2007
486 Greenwich St
New York, NY 10013
All applicants will be notified in July
You are encouraged to submit before the deadline!
MIX NYC promotes, produces, and preserves experimental media-from
film and
video to performance and music-that is rooted in the lives, politics,
and
experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and
otherwise
queer-identified people. Founded in 1987, MIX has earned a reputation
as a
crucible for artist-driven innovation with an established
international
influence on the world of experimental media. MIX is unique among
arts and
community-building organizations for its work on behalf of queer
experimental
media artists, supporting their production of new work, and making
that work
accessible to the public. For almost two decades, we have worked to
create a
home for queer experimental media. MIX is also unique among New York
City's
cultural institutions. The annual New York Queer Experimental Film
Festival,
our most visible and longest-running program, showcases films and
videos that
literally go unseen in other venues. We define "experimental" broadly
to mean
not only films made using unorthodox techniques, but also those that
deal
with subject matter outside of the mainstream. In this respect, the
MIX
festival stands literally at the avant garde-the forefront of artistic
innovation-and serves as a proving ground for new, socially conscious
film.
MIX NYC actively engages communities around the city and the nation
through
on-site local and touring screenings. We also preserve aging queer
experimental films, such as the early 16mm work of Marguerite Paris,
to
guarantee its endurance for the future; and we operate a summer-long
youth
media training program to provide a new generation of queer
filmmakers with
the tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information
on MIX
NYC and programs go to – www.mixnyc.org
About Curator:
Ethan Shoshan is a scientist, activist, writer, teacher, and artist
working
with various media (performance, video, sculpture, textiles, clothes,
dance,
technology, internet, & collaboratives) born in Brooklyn, NY. He is a
collaborator/co-founder of the it/EQ community arts collective,
working to
promote arts/artists in a community exchange through showcasing vital
unknown
artists, providing multicultural exchanges, and visibility to
minority or
underrepresented people. He has shown and performed at Collective
Unconscious, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Dixon Place, Andrea
Rosen
Gallery, Galeria De La Raza, 92nd St Y, the Kitchen and other
alternative
spaces in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and California. Media
attention
include articles in The Washington Post, NY Times, Manhattan Network
Neighborhood TV, Bronx Cable TV, Brooklyn Cable Access, and various
small
press magazines and web-articles. He has also received a grant from
the
Puffin Foundation for his
community based projects. For MIXnyc 2006, he helped organize/curate
TragicBride/FashionVictim –
www.mixnyc.org/April10Screening/April10.htm
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