transmediale09 - Call for Entries

Dear all,

transmediale - festival for art and digital culture has opened its call 
for entries for the *transmediale.09* and *Vilém Flusser Theory Awards*. 
As one of the leading international venues for the exchange and dialogue 
on art and digital culture transmediale pursues the advancement of 
artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and 
economic impact of new technologies.

With *DEEP NORTH* transmediale looks to peer beyond the evolving 
alarmist scenarios of catastrophe prevalent in the often contradictory 
global warming debate. transmediale.09 shifts this focus to the global 
artistic, cultural, societal and philosophical consequences that the 
presumed imminent collapse of the polar ice barrier may trigger. Are we 
about to reach another historically succinct moment of unavoidable and 
cataclysmic change – a point of no return leaving in its wake 
uncontrollable global transformations? Does climate change elicit 
cultural change, a shifting of extremes or a collapse in established, 
systemic and network norms? *DEEP NORTH* becomes not a fixed location, 
but a paradigm transforming loss, scarcity, inertia and rivalry into 
urgent and revealing states of being and expression.

Until *September 5, 2008* we invite the submission of works and projects 
that respond to these challenges and embody contemporary notions of art 
that embrace, question and enrich digital culture. While the festival 
aims to reflect excellence in artistic production and inquiry 
internationally we explicitly encourage submissions from artists, 
activists and media researchers working in 'non Western' contexts, those 
active in pioneering new forms of digital and visual expression in deep 
or silent zones, particularly in regions experiencing rapid and