Call for Submission:
First call closes on 23rd September, but we keep on reviewing works.

Dear Artist,


First call closes on 23rd September, but we keep on reviewing works.

1. Etta Gerdes and Per Pegelow from the interactive arts media network
are organising in the moment the media art exhibition “WORK IN MOTION –
migration, mobility and labour".

2. The exhibition is planned for this gallery: Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria.

3. We need: your provisory submission of adequate work to get approval
for the funds. Please submit net art, interactive works or video art.
Please submit via e-mail but without attachments. Please include: a
short biography (less then 250 words), a short description of the work
(less then 250 words) and a link to a webpage or an online PDF that
describes the work and its needs to be exhibited. Please tell us who
recommended you, too.

Please submit works to this e-mail address: submit@interactive-arts.info


Timeframe for the exhibition: sometime between September 2008 and
February 2009


Of course, if we get approval for the funds, there will be a contract
that covers the safety and insurance of your works, the copyrights and
all other relevant aspects. At the moment there are no commitments on
either side.

Please let us know which of your works you would like to submit for our
exhibition.

Please find current information at this address:

http://www.workinmotion.info/

4. Concept Exhibition:


WORK IN MOTION - migration, mobility and labour

The industrial revolutions set man in motion again after agriculture had
made him settle down.

Farmers and farm workers moved into the cities to find a better life
there.(Im)migrant workers came a long way, gave up their roots and
homelands, to find wealth working in an industrial nation. Some
industrial countries even invited them over since they were in need of
more workers.

Through this process of migration, foreigners and their religions and
ideas join a nation. They have to be accepted, sometimes controlled and
at best integrated in a productive way. Migration has always been a part
of European history.

Prospering regions attract job-seekers, who dream of wealth and better
circumstances. Big cities emerge due to the flow of migration and as a
consequence, traffic and public transport increase.

Today, flexibility is the keyword to describe the situation of the
working population. A lot of employees commute daily over long
distances, or move houses every few years. For some of them, it is the
only way to stay employed; others take their chances to improve.

At the same time, whole branches move their factories to countries where
wages are low. Sometimes, whole production plants are deconstructed and
rebuilt in other countries. These migrations of jobs often leave workers
unemployed, and the industrial nations are now in need of new jobs. The
products that are produced in low-wage countries find their way back to
industrial countries. This flow of goods is accompanied by the
international flow of money.

Specialists and scientists are enticed away by other industrial
countries, which is called brain drain, and dreamers often look for
their El Dorados in foreign countries. Employment enables people to
climb the social ladder, whereas unemployment may lead to decline.
Employment is a chance to develop, both for men and whole countries.

The Media Art Exhibition “Migration – Work in Motion” intends to pool
various artistic approaches in a pulsating art show. This exhibition has
a strong reference to Sofia itself. The selling of the steel works
Kremikovtzi to a subsidiary company of the giant, Indian-based Mittal
Steel Group gives a concrete local example for various European and
global phenomena that are shown within the exhibited art. It is a
subject of some exhibits.

This exhibition promises an inspiring discourse about “WORK IN MOTION -
migration, mobility and labour” before the background of a constantly
changing economical landscape that is in a global flow.

please find the current exhibition details:
http://www.workinmotion.info

Source : NetBehaviour