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Call out for Artists Participation in the 6th International Video Poetry Festival Athens

 

 

The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network present the 6th International Video Poetry Festival 2017

Winter 2017 at Free Self-Organised Theatre EMBROS / Athens / Greece

The yearly International Video Poetry Festival 2017 will be held for sixth time in Greece in Athens. Approximately 2500 people attended the festival last years.

This year there will be one zone of the festival. The unique zone will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). We are inviting the artists – poets, video artists, directors, producers – who want to visit the festival to present their art project at the Theatre. We can provide to them accommodation for 3 days (one day before the festival, during the festival and one day afterwards).

 

The International Video Poetry Festival 2017 attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry.

It is very important to notice that this festival is a part of the counter-culture activities of Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts] and will be non-sponsored, free entrance, non commercial and non profit event. The festival will cover the costs (2000 posters, 15.000 flyers, high quality technical equipment) from the incomes of the bar of the festival. All the participating artists and the organizing groups will participate voluntary to the festival.

This year the Institute [for Experimental Arts] invites the artists and creators of video poems to participate from their side in our effort to cover the expenses of the festival without private or state sponsorship. For this reason we propose to the artists  the suggested donation of 5 euro for the submission of their video poems.The participation is free and each artist can send more than one work ( 1 to 3 video poems for free). You can add  the suggested donation of 5 euro (or more) to the following bank account

National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA

Void Network started organizing multi media poetry nights in 1990. Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] believe that multi media Poetry Nights and Video Poetry shows can vibrate in the heart of Metropolis, bring new audiences in contact with contemporary poetry and open new creative dimensions for this ancient art. To achieve this, we respect the aspirations and the objectives of the artists, create high quality self organized exhibition areas and show rooms, we work with professional technicians and we offer meeting points and fields of expression for artists and people that tend to stand antagonistically to the mainstream culture.

International Video Poetry Festival photos:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/98573745@N03/albums/72157636930950693
You can look here for some photos of previous poetry nights
organized by Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts]:
http://voidnetwork.gr/2/5th-international-video-poetry-festival-sat                                                                   http://voidnetwork.gr/2015/10/20/speak-no-evil-poetry-even

for more photos from Void Network art, events and actions :http://flickr.com/photos/voidnetwork

APPLICATION FORM CLICK THE BELOW LINK :

https://docs.google.com/forms/

DEAD LINE FOR SUBMISSION: no later than November 20, 2017(date of postmark)

SUBMIT YOUR POEM(S)

Submit your poem(s) in three simple steps:

  1. Click here to download and complete the submission form
  2. Your participation is FREE. Please you can add  the suggested donation of 5 euro (or more) to the following bank account

National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA

  1. Please, send the submission material via email as following:
  2. a)via email:
    your video poems in mp4 or mov file (all video poems in a single we transfer file)
    the submission form and photos in .jpg file

Email: theinstitutecontact [at] gmail.com
*please replace [at] with @ symbol to send email

APPLICATION 2017

HOW TO SUBMIT A WORK

  1. Complete the application form. You have to send it back to the email account   theinstitutecontact@gmail.com
  2. Attach 1 to 3 images (jpeg, tiff) of your artwork to the email containing this application form.
  3. Send the digital file of your video poems through internet using the email account theinstitutecontact@gmail.com.

We propose the following Definition and File Type

Definition:720 x 576, 1280 x 720, 1920 x 1080

File Type:mp4, mov

You can use wetransfer.com or any other FREE SERVICE to send us big files.

  1. It is very important to name your files (videos and still images, photos) as set out below:

Title of video poem    Artist’s name         Country                                                                                                                                                         

  1. Be careful, you have to send only one email with
  2. the application form
  3. the link to download the video poems or the video poems archives
  4. the still images of the video poems
  5. any website of your art work projects

6.We recommend you to add English or Greek subtitles to your video poems even if the spoken language is in English as it will be easier for people outside the English spoken world to understand it.

We suggest you to send your video poems through internet. Otherwise you can also post your DVD file in the following address INTERNATIONAL FILM POETRY FESTIVAL

TASOS SAGRIS
159 KREONTOS
SEPOLIA ATHENS
GREECE 10443

Please post it not later than November 20, 2017(date of postmark) to the International Film Poetry Festival, Athens.

+ the Institute [for Experimental Arts] will inform you about your participation in early December 2017.

Source: http://theinstitute.info/?p=2092

 

Location
Embros Theater, Athens, Greece
English