OPEN CALL: International Media Art Biennale WRO 07

Call for Works: Deadline for submissions 15.02.2007. WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw/Poland, announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication. The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation), installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network projects from all over the world. The main prize is 5000 euro and the total prize money awarded is 8000 euro.

Biennale: the new strategies and territories of digital artistic communication; Artists in the face of high culture's permeation with popular culture; global with local culture; commercial with independent culture; the role of individual artistic attitudes in the midst of global tendencies; the metamorphosis of an artistic experiment in the light of a spectacle society culture. Media arts that de-interpret the cultural context stemming from civilization as well as interferences into the code that steers behaviors within the social space. The creation and record of a changing picture of culture. The deadline date for entry submission is 15.02.2007.

Presentation of works selected to the very final along with the international jury's announcement of competition results will take place during public screening at the WRO 07 Biennale. Agenda:
16 - 20 May 2007 competition, special events, symposium;
16 May - 17 June 2007 exhibition
Places:
National Museum in Wroclaw;
WRO Art Center
The competition regulations and entry form are available in downloadable format at http://wro07.wrocenter.pl. Requests to receive the regulations and entry form by post can be made at print@wrocenter.pl. Contact: WRO Art Center, ul. Kuznicza 29a, 54-137 Wroclaw 16, P.O. Box 1385, Poland, tel.: + 48 71 344 83 69, tel./fax: + 48 71 342 26 91,
http://wrocenter.pl, info@wrocenter.pl