{"id":5056,"date":"2013-05-04T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T08:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmartproject.net\/netex\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2013-05-04T10:56:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T08:56:44","slug":"call-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/?p=5056","title":{"rendered":"call: amber&#8217;13 Art and Technology Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call for entries<br \/>\n<strong>Deadline: 20 May 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>amber&#8217;13 Art and Technology Festival<br \/>\nDID YOU PLUG IT IN? Fool Your Smartness<br \/>\ncall for artworks and papers<\/p>\n<p>Smart phones, smart tickets, smart cities, smart cars, smart buildings, smart living, smart economies, smart moves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Smart abounds in the market-speak of today&#8217;s technologically sophisticated conditions. The ever-growing inflation of smartness, fostered in large part by the pervasiveness of digital technologies, hails us from all directions. Smart appears as a strategic device that qualifies all sorts of acts and objects under the hegemony of the economy-political logic of consumption, profit and control. New and ever-smarter products of all kinds pop-up regularly and one risks being left behind by not heeding the call, the constant invitation to try out and to consume the latest.<\/p>\n<p>While smartness is praised and suggested as a sort of power to be possessed, foolishness becomes those moments and spaces in which we encounter with critical interrogation, creative thinking and deconstruction. We suggest foolishness as a category of thought and a tactical positioning to bring out the subversive potential of smart technologies.<\/p>\n<p>We invite artworks and papers that rethink, open up a<br \/>\namberFestival is interested in interactive installations and papers that explore its title<\/p>\n<p>With the subtitle of &#8220;Fool your smartness&#8221;. We are suggesting several discussions around the theme from market-speak of todays sophisticated -so called- smart technologies to foolishnes, from the &#8220;drama&#8221; of being unconnected to commedy of it.<\/p>\n<p>We see the theme as a tool to think and work with, and the festival as an opportunity to raise an artistic voice. You alone will define that voice.<\/p>\n<p>The works selected among the applications to this international call, will be exhibited at amber&#8217;13 Art and Technology Festival. We also encourage outdoor interactive installations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amberplatform.org\/en\/festival\/510\/announcement\/amber%2713-calls-are-open-did-you-plug-it\">http:\/\/www.amberplatform.org\/en\/festival\/510\/announcement\/amber%2713-calls-are-open-did-you-plug-it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for entries Deadline: 20 May 2013 amber&#8217;13 Art and Technology Festival DID YOU PLUG IT IN? Fool Your Smartness call for artworks and papers Smart phones, smart tickets, smart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-general","category-new-media","category-papers","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netex.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}