Invitation / Call for posters
Dear artist, scientist and/or organization
In facing the new environmental challenges we are presently dealing with and experiencing in our daily lives, it is important to understand what scientists, artists, designers and organizations involved in improving environmental conditions are thinking about and doing to create change. Art & Science Collaborations (ASCI) is developing an online exhibition of digitally prepared posters to point out positive and inspiring approaches about the environment and our planet. Environmental sustainability also depends on new perspectives and new points of view about issues related to cities, transport systems, food, forests, drinkable water, ocean resources, endangered species, etc., which propel public and institutional debate.
This special CALL for posters is made to people or organizations located in economically less fortunate parts of the world to get their unique perspective on this matter. We encourage people to use their imagination to develop graphical approaches in digital format, and to participate in this online exhibition that intends to promote new points of view on how to ensure a better future for our planet.
Art & Science Collaborations is a twenty-year old, international, nonprofit organization based in New York City. Its programs and international symposia [1998-2002] on art-science collaborations were instrumental in re-invigorating this field in the United States. ASCI is an open-membership organization with the purpose of raising public awareness about artists and scientists using science and technology to explore new forms of creative expression, and to increase communication and collaboration between these fields. It’s website receives approximately 40,000 visitors/month.
Guidelines
• Theme:
“Imagination On Behalf Of Our Planet:”
• Organizing entity:
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc: http://www.asci.org
• Curator:
Rui Pedro Fonseca [Portugal]
Short Bio: http://www.asci.org/artikel991.html
• Maximum number of images to submit:
Each creator/organization can submit one [1] digital image
• Places & Schedule of Exhibition:
The online exhibition will launch at the ASCI website on October 4, 2008 and a link to it will be featured on the ASCI homepage until January 25, 2009. After that time, the exhibition will be permanently archived on the ASCI website. Additionally, this online exhibition, will be mentioned [including web-link] in the “wall-signage” for an international digital print exhibition [of this same theme] to be held at the New York Hall of Science between October 4, 2008 – January 25, 2009.
• Theme definition
- The Environment. An important characteristic of this exhibition consists of perceiving environmental issues not in a negative way, but in a positive and constructive perspective through the use of creativity: "What possible solutions might there be for environmental sustainability"? [based on reality, fantasy, sci-fiction, etc.] This exhibition intends to create eventual "changes in individual and global consciousness recognizing and respecting the interconnection of humans and nature". It is a structural intention equivalent to a strategy for change.
- The images should be presentable to a public that is mainly composed of families, so images cannot contain any "explicit sexuality".
• Image submission
- There is no entry fee or fee for image submission for creators or organizations located in economically less fortunate parts of the world.
- In the “Subject Line” of the email put: “Imagination” + [your name]
- Send image and text submission to the e-mail: ruipedro.fons@gmail.com
• Image/Size/Resolution
- Save images in “jpg” format
- Image size: maximum 350-pixels (width) ; approx. 450-pixels (height) ;
- Save image at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch.
- Image title: save image using the following system: first the name of the creator or organization and then the title of the artwork: [example: OliveiraCA_MoleculFuel1.jpg]
• Text needed from creator/organization:
[Create one .TXT document with the information below]
- Creator/organization complete name
- Year of work creation
- Identification of media used
- Country of the creator and/or organization
- URL website where other images can be found by this creator/organization
- Image description and how it fits in the exhibition theme “Imagination On Behalf Of Our Planet”. [maximum: 100 words]
- Creator/organization’s Bio [maximum 1000 characters]
- NOTE: texts should be written in good English [ask a friend to help if needed]
• Deadline for email submission of image and required text)
September 1, 2008
• E-mail notification of selected images
September 17, 2008
Submission by creator/organization and selection of your image provides ASCI with the legal right to reproduce your image + text in this online exhibition project and also in their permanent, online Exhibition Archives at: www.asci.org/artikel62.html
• Non-selected images
Non-selected JPG images will be erased after the selection process.
