PROJECT TERMS & REGULATIONS

The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Federal Agency for Culture and Film, Russian Federation) is proud to announce that the International Video Documentation Archives, «Contemporary Art in the Post-Biological Age» is currently compiling materials for its off-line collection. Art projects which use high technologies of the XXI century as a medium of implementation — robotics, bio- and genetic engineering, nanotechnology, etc — are being sought.

Regulations and criteria
* Video documentation of projects implemented with the use of technologies providing evolutionary «plasticity» of living creatures, acquiring artificial qualities and aiming at the organization of non-organic life are accepted;
* Video documents are selected based on their use of robotics, bio- and genetic engineering, nanotechnology, etc. as a art project medium of implementation;
* The Archives' activity is focused on the documentation of authors' ideas and projects but not on the documentation of arranged art exhibitions;
* Works of Video Art are not accepted;
* Each video documentary film must be entered in one of the following Archive categories:

— Limits of Modeling  (Artificial Life & Evolutionary Design)
— Shining Prostheses  (Robotics)
— Body as Technology  (Technobody modification, WearComp, Biomechatronics, Implantology)
— Nothing but Terminals  (Neuroengineering)
— More than a Copy, Less than Nothingness  (Bio- and Genetic Engineering)
— Semi-Living  (Tissue and Stem Cells Engineering)
— Post-Sodom and Post-Gomorrah  (Nanoengineering)

While compiling the Archives, close attention is being given to the evolutionary potential (possibilities of evolutionary augment) of the noted technological trends.

* Participation is free of charge;
* Video documents are selected by the Archives' curator and are based on personal letters of invitation or recommendation by members of the International Coordination Council;
* DV-AVI files in PAL format (720×576 px) on CD and DVD are acceptable;
* Duration of video document should not exceed 10 minutes (in particular circumstances, exceptions can be made);
* Video documentary films must be submitted with a detailed application form, 2-3 stills from the film in high resolution (publication quality) and a photo of the artist with consent for use (e-mail submissions are accepted); 
* Multiple submissions are accepted;
* If the original version of the video is not English, the document must be subtitled in English in order to cater to an international audience;
* All packages must be declared: «NO COMMERCIAL VALUE — FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY»;
* Video documents will not to be returned to participants but will be kept in the International Video Documentation Archives of the NCCA (Kaliningrad Branch, Russia);
* All entrants will be notified about final decisions;
* The materials sent to the Archives may be used for educational purposes on a non-commercial basis;
* All materials are subject to the author's consent.

All materials must be sent to the following address:
Dmitry Bulatov
The National centre for Contemporary Arts
Kaliningrad branch 
PO Box 1582, 236000 Kaliningrad Russia
e-mail: bulatov@ncca.koenig.ru

Additional info:
e-mail: videodoc@ncca.koenig.ru
Tel: +7 / (4012) 595106
Fax: +7 / (4012) 595105
E-mail: videodoc@ncca.koenig.ru
URL: http://videodoc.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/eng/

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