Calling all Budding Northwest Filmmakers & Photographers

 Calling all Budding Northwest Filmmakers & Photographers
 
The AND Festival is offering an exciting opportunity to work with artist Mark Amerika, pioneer of internet art and creator of the world's first feature-length mobile phone film Immobilite (www.immobilite.com). Amerika's work experiments with transmedia narrative, live VJ performance, mobile media applications, and Web-based forms of interactive art. Immobilité interfaces low-tech methods of video making with more sophisticated forms of European art-house movies and asks the question, "What is the future of cinema?"
 
The AND festival is commissioning Mark Amerika to make a new project and he will be in the UK in May to begin shooting. We are looking for an enthusiastic, creative and responsible individual to support the artist in his shoot across the Northwest region and document this unique film making process.
 
You will need to;
-be available between 16 - 23 May (not necessarily all days)
-have experience in film making or photography
-own transport would be an advantage (as some locations will be difficult to reach via public transport)
-a passion and knowledge of new media art and emergent artists' practice would be preferable, but not essential
Travel and expenses will be covered by the festival.
 
To apply send an e-mail with short text detailing you interest in the project (max 300 words) and your C.V., DEADLINE 10am on 9 May 2011
For further details contact Ruth McCullough, AND Festival Producer, ruth@andfestival.org.uk, +44 (0)161 228 7621 / +44 (0)7730585568
 
Mark Amerika – Biography
Born in Miami in 1960, Mark Amerika is one of the pioneers of Internet art. His art and writing has influenced a new generation of artists using digital processes to create emerging forms of art that intersect at the boundary of visual art, live performance, and experimental literature. His artwork has been exhibited in many venues including the Whitney Biennial of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Denver Art Museum. He has had five early career retrospectives including the first two Internet art retrospectives ever produced, one at the ACA Media Arts Plaza in Tokyo, Japan, and the other at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. In 2009-2010, his large-scale retrospective, UNREALTIME, was exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece. He is the author of many books including his recently published collection of artist writings entitled META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (The MIT Press, 2007) and the forthcoming remixthebook (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). In 1993, he started the Alt-X Network, one of the premiere digital art and literature sites on the web. Author of two avant-pop novels, The Kafka Chronicles and Sexual Blood, Amerika has exhibited his Internet art such as GRAMMATRON and FILMTEXT in over forty international venues. Amerika is a Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Principal Research Fellow of Media Studies at La Trobe University.
www.markamerika.com