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CODED CULTURES -Exploring Creative Emergences
Binational Festival / Austria - Japan 2009
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: www.codedcultures.net

The team of 5uper.net (www.5uper.net) is happy to announce the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for
the binational festival »CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences«, which is taking
place in Austria and Japan in the year 2009 (Austria - Japan Year 2009). The second edition
of CODED CULTURES (first edition online at: http://codedcultures.5uper.net) is exploring
new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures
and digital media related art, focusing on Japan and Europe.

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*FESTIVAL DATES

Festival Austria (Vienna): 27th – 31st May 2009

Festival Japan (Yokohama): 14th – 18th October 2009

*CALL DEADLINES:

The CALL is announced for the festival in Vienna (Austria). Some of the selected lectures, presentations
and artworks will be presented at the festival in Yokohama (Japan).

- Call for Symposium (Lectures and Presentations)

Symposium Language: English / German

DEADLINE: 15th of December 2008

- Call for Exhibition (Artworks and Projects)

DEADLINE: 15th of December 2008

Those interested may apply via submission form and file upload at: www.codedcultures.net
For any questions please contact: [email protected]
No application fee required!

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*CALL OUTLINE

The festival »CODED CULTURES – Exploring Creative Emergences« addresses questions regarding
the codes of creative cultures and artistic practices, which are based on new transdisciplinary and
hybrid developments of culture and art under the conditions of a post-contemporary digital media-age
and transformations of related artistic developments. Therefore, the festival creates a surrounding in
which new ways of emerging arts, creativity, theories, projects and ideas can be explored in the field
of digital media related forms of creative delineation and arts. The particular aim is to present, discuss
and criticize topics, which are situated on the intersection of disciplines and activities in order to enforce
new potentials of artistic practices and positions. By these means, persons from the field of digital media
related art and culture, who derive joy from discovering ways to circumvent limitations are welcome to
submit their works, projects, theories and ideas. Regarding this, CODED CULTURES is mainly searching
for projects, which shape new vectors of creation and art, situated between: e.g. Science & Art,
Technology & Art, Design & Art, Fashion & Art, Economy & Art, a.s.o.

*FESTIVAL TOPICS:

- DESIGNING COMPLEXITY

Seeking for: Concepts, Visions, Project Designs, Theories

- ASSEMBLING THINGS

Seeking for: Artifact Modding, D.I.Y. Media, Circuit Bending, Device Art

- EXPANDING LOCALITY

Seeking for: Locative Media, Geo-Spatial Art, Playful Environments

- CREATING PROTO CULTURE

Seeking for: Micro Communities,Counter Cultures, Knowledge Clusters, Selforganized Networks

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*SELECTION COMMITTEE:

- Masaki Fujihata
Graduate School for Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts

- Yukiko Shikata
NTT-InterCommunicationCenter, Tokyo

- Christa Sommerer
Interface Culture Department, University of Art and Design Linz

- Manfred Faßler
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt a.M.

and the curational team of CODED CULTURES (Georg Russegger, Matthias Tarasiewicz, Michal Wlodkowski)

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ABOUT CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences

The second edition of CODED CULTURES is a binational festival (Austria – Japan) in the year 2009
to explore new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures
and digital media related art, focusing on Japan and Europe.

Through the establishment of new creative cultures, enabled by digital media and global communication
networks, new practices and ability profiles for creative and artistic delineation and exploration are gaining
new grounds. Furthermore, synergies of symbolic values of cultural and economic programs dealing with
the potentials of »creativity« can be observed. At the moment these profiles are roughly subsumed
(e.g. as »creative class«), but at the present day it is still difficult to predict which catalysts and draft programs
will be put into effect for creative innovation processes or artistic entrepreneurship. This global phenomena,
which is being set up via nodes of creativity (e.g. networks, communities, organizations, projects, etc.) is
becoming more and more uprooted from disciplinary guidelines and permitted structures of local traditions.
Therefore, new ways of cooperation and development of socio-cultural production paradigms have been introduced.

In this context »new« things happen based on cultural conditions of transformation, which have departed from
the usual mechanisms of production and distribution and create an innovation-fabric, which does not yet have
any adequate surface for the presentation of the observation and mediation of such transformation processes.
The concept of »CODED CULTURES – Exploring Creative Emergences« presents artistic-creative production
mechanisms, which are based on digitally linked media-cultural organizations, and actively integrate these into
the delineation process of their innovational operating level. Thereby, new options of coherence emerge on the
further development of the parameters of art / culture / economics / knowledge development / idea aggregation /
intermediation / participation, for digital communication and media technologies, as well as their conditions of
participation, are being integrated.

Therefore, the festival creates a surrounding in which new ways of emerging arts, creativity, theories, projects
and ideas can be explored in the field of digital media related forms of creative delineation and arts. The particular
aim is to present, discuss and criticize topics, which are situated on the intersection of disciplines and activities in
order to enforce new potentials of artistic practices and positions. By these means, persons from the field of digital
media related art and culture, who derive joy from discovering ways to circumvent limitations, are welcome to
submit their works, projects, theories and ideas. Regarding this, CODED CULTURES is mainly searching for
projects, which are shaping new vectors of creation and art situated between:
e.g. Science & Art, Technology & Art, Design & Art, Fashion & Art, Economy & Art, a.s.o.

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