Deadline: December 13, 2019
Archiver le présent, the international and interdisciplinary research group, is launching a call for proposals for its upcoming online exhibition titled Re|Search (May 2020).
Re|Search aims to capture the rise of the all around impulse to search of the digital age. As early as 2008, Geert Lovink, in his seminal essay “The society of the query and the Googlization of our lives” (Eurozine, September 2008), addressed our state of information overload and dependence on search engines like Google. As data management is entrusted to web giants, accessibility, security, surveillance, and privacy become growing challenges.
At the present time, the impacts of encyclopedic pressure extend to all fields of society . The internet and social networks are our essential means of research and access to knowledge. Googling, copying and pasting, collecting, and sharing are now part of our daily routine. What are the effects of this activity on personal and collective imaginations?
The online exhibition Re|Search focuses on how artistic, literary, and cultural practices reflect and thwart this technological pressure. How do these practices allow us to think about widespread data management, online research methods, and tools? What types of alternative actions and stories do they offer? By what means do they occupy the very place of these concerns: the web?
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We invite submissions of artistic, activist, or hacktivist projects that take place in online spaces and make use of digital technologies through a critical and socially engaged approach. We particularly encourage projects that come from cultural diversity, equity-seeking groups, and underrepresented communities. Our call seeks out both in progress net-based art and finished works. Whether you are the creator of a project or an internet user who wants us to discover a practice that fascinates you, all proposals are welcome!
To submit your own work as a creator
Please send us an email ( aln-nt2@uqam.ca ) using “CALL FOR PROPOSALS – CREATOR” as the subject line.
In the body of the email, please enter the following information:
– Name or pseudonym;
– Title of the work;
– Year of production;
– URL link of the work or description of the work in progress (350 words maximum);
– Biographical note or artistic approach (150 words maximum) – optional.
To submit a work that you did not create
Please send us an email ( aln-nt2@uqam.ca ) using “CALL FOR PROPOSALS –
COLLABORATOR” as the subject line.
In the body of the email, please enter the following information:
– Title of the work;
– Year of production (if available);
– URL link of the work;
– Name or pseudonym if you wish to be included in our list of collaborators – optional.
*Please contact us concerning the submission of proposals in other formats or for any questions related to this call.
SELECTION PROCESS
The team of Re|Search curators will select projects according to their quality and their relevance to the exhibition’s themes. Creators and collaborators will receive a response within two months of the submission deadline.
INFO
Archiver le présent ( http://www.archiverlepresent.org ) is dedicated to the analysis and promotion of contemporary artistic, literary, and cultural practices that present a systematic approach to their object and play therefore with the idea of exhaustiveness. The project is interested in works that respond to the digital context and to widespread data management. We favor an interdisciplinary analysis in order to understand how arts and culture document the present by pushing the act of archiving to its limits.
CONTACT
aln-nt2@uqam.ca
(514) 987-3000, ext. 1931
