"Networked City 2013" – Call for Proposal

Connecting Cities – a transnational project about urban media facades and their potential for future cities

In 2013 the Connecting Cities Network will discuss the question of how urban media facades can become a catalyst for shared encounters in an identity-building temporary field of interaction across the borders of time and distance. How can art projects be used to connect the local public virtually with remote places? What are the expectations and visions of our European neighbours? The Networked City 2013 intends to connect local neighbourhoods through participatory Processes.
– Application deadline: November 2nd, 2012
– Curators selection deadline: November 17, 2012
– Artist work production will finish by April, 2013
– Artist’s work will be shown within live events between May and November 2013.
– Project website: www.connectingcities.net
The Connecting Cities Events allow artists to communicate and present their projects virtually to a great number of European public in ‚Joint Broadcasting Events’ which are real-time city-to-city interventions that aspire to share demands of the different cities and report about local issues and exchange peoples’ stories and ideas. The media facades will be transformed into local stages and open a global window for the public audience to create a dialogue and connect the local public virtually with the other places throughout Europe and beyond.
The Connecting Cities Events within May and October 2013 will present simultaneously especially developed artists’ projects in all partner cities. The artists’ work will circulate within in the network and connect different cities with each other. All Connecting Cities Events will be followed by a research of audience and community development.
For in-depth information about procedure and curators, as fees and production budgets, timing and deadline as well as technology requirements please consult this (pdf, 840 kB).
Connecting Cities is a project initiated by Public Art Lab / Berlin in cooperation with Ars Electronica GmbH Linz, BIS Body Process Arts Association Istanbul, FACT Liverpool, iMAL Brussels, m‐cult Helsinki, Medialab Prado Madrid, Media Architecture Institute Wien, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Riga 2014, Videospread Marseille, in association with University of Aarhus, Marseille‐Provence 2013, MUTEK Montréal. Connecting Cities Network is funded by the Culture Programme 2007-2013 of the European Union.