Syndicate: call for GMI projects |jump in or pass on

[iliyana nedkova <vr@fact.co.uk>]

dear syndicalists,

there is something quite exciting coming up at leicester square, london.
please do consider jumping into the spotlight with your works in this
...partly architectural feature, partly communications forum; the largest
and most dynamic permanent visual interface yet established between
cyberspace and the real world...

do contact fee plumpley on gmi@fact.co.uk who is just across from my desk
at FACT and is quite happy to consider any of your video, cd or web-based
works.

if in doubt do drop me a summery e-mail.

-illie_________________________________________________________________________




Global Multimedia Interface, Leicester Square, London

Call for projects

Take an LED screen the height of a 4-storey building....place it in
Leicester Square, in the heart of London, where 4 million people pass
through every month.... leave it running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for
an entire year - run it simultaneously on a live webcast to a potential
further audience of 180 million
....Now stand back and watch...

...Welcome to the Global Multimedia Interface...

Built into the architecture of London's newest and most innovative
entertainment complex, 'Home', the GMI should be perceived as more of an
evolving artwork than an exhibition screen. Part architectural feature,
part communications forum; the largest and most dynamic permanent visual
interface yet established between cyberspace and the real world.

In the first year alone approximately eight thousand eight hundred and
sixty hours of screening time will be packaged into themed bundles; from
one minute animations to three hour movies.

The Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) is working in
collaboration with Big Beat - the people responsible for 'Home' - to
commission new work and to curate and programme a wide range of existing
work for the GMI.

We need your help in assembling material for the GMI.
I wondered therefore whether you may be able to recommend artists' work
that would benefit from exposure in this context? If you have a showreel or
showreels of recent single-channel material that we could view it would
help us enormously. We are particularly keen to create opportunities for
emerging artists and to ensure new commissioning contexts for established
artists, designers and image makers.

Please note that all of the work presented will be re-configured for the
screen format only with the consent of the artist or the artist's
representative.

If you would like further information on the project, or if you have
showreels and artists recommendations, please contact:

Fee Plumley, Project Co-ordinator,
Foundation for Art & Creative Technology,
Bluecoat Chambers, School Lane, Liverpool. L1 3BX.
Tel: +44 (0) 151 709 2663.  Fax: +44 (0) 151 707 2150. gmi@fact.co.uk

Submissions on VHS (PAL or NTSC) only, please.


* FACT is one of Britain's leading independent commissioning agencies for
artists working with moving image art and media. It is responsible for the
Video Positive Biennial, the Collaboration Programme (commissions made by
artists and communities) and MITES (The Moving Image Touring & Exhibition
service) which is the national exhibition technology resource for artists
and exhibitors in the UK.



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Fee Plumley	Project Co-Ordinator	Global Multimedia Interface

Foundation 	for 	Art 		& Creative 	Technology
Bluecoat Chambers 	School Lane 	Liverpool 	L1 3BX

		+44(0) 151 709 2663	+44(0) 151 707 2150
gmi@fact.co.uk 						www.fact.co.uk

iliyana nedkova       			e: vr@fact.co.uk
t r a n s l o c a l   p r o j e c t s  at FACT, liverpool/uk t:+44 151 709
2663 | f:+44 151 707 2150 | www.fact.co.uk
v i r t u a l  r e v o l u t i o n s  | www.yourserver.co.uk/vr



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2663 | f:+44 151 707 2150 | www.fact.co.uk
v i r t u a l  r e v o l u t i o n s  | www.yourserver.co.uk/vr


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