Deadline: 14 January 2020
\nCall for entries<\/p>\n
FILE 2020 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Open Call<\/strong><\/p>\n July\/August 2020 – FIESP – Digital Gallery of SESI-SP (Paulista Avenue, 1313, S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo) FILE 2020 | Call for Entries FILE 2020 | GENERAL REGULATIONS<\/strong> 1 ON THE EXHIBITION 2 ON THE CATEGORIES 3 ON REGISTRATIONS 4 ON THE SHIPPING OF WORKS 4.3 4.4 ENTRY FORMS 5 ON THE SELECTION 6 ON THE PARTICIPANT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S RESPONSIBILITY 7 AUTHORIZATIONS OF USE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, COPYRIGHTS AND RELATED RIGHTS 8 FINAL DISPOSITIONS
\n NO entry fee <\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c <\/p>\n
\nRegistrations are opened to the 21st edition of FILE \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Electronic Language International Festival, from October 15, 2019 to January 14, 2020.
\nSince 2000 FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. With annual exhibitions in S\u00c3\u00a3o, in addition to participations in national and international events, FILE is the biggest electronic art event in Latin America. For 2020, artists and researchers can submit their works in the main categories: Interactive Art, Digital Language, Electronic Sonority, Workshops, Symposium and Led Show*.
\n* FILE Led Show consists of a public art show in the large Led panel located on the Fiesp building\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fa\u00c3\u00a7ade, at Paulista Avenue, 1313. FILE Led Show gets interactive and non-interactive proposals to be presented at the Digital Art Gallery.
\nTo participate, you need to fill out the entry forms (attached below), being in accordance to the General Regulations of FILE.<\/p>\n
\nIn these regulations are included the terms and conditions that govern the participation in the exhibitions of FILE to be produced by FILE Electronic Language International Festival (from now on denominated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Organizer\u00e2\u20ac\u009d). We recommend the reading, with maximum care, of each item of the terms and conditions below, and their full acceptance is essential for the participation in the exhibitions of FILE.<\/p>\n
\n1.1 FILE is promoted by the cultural nonprofit organization FILE Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletr\u00c3\u00b4nica, established in the city of S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo, state of S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo, at Rua Dona Veridiana 521\/06, registered in the CNPJ under the no. 03659709\/0001-91, endowed with an exclusively cultural character, devoid of any modality that might involve chance.<\/p>\n
\n2.1 FILE includes the following specific categories:
\nDigital Language: As digital language are understood all the research and experiences in the wide scope of the multiple disciplines that uses digital media.
\nElectronic Sonority: As electronic sonority are understood all research and experiences in the wide scope of sounds, having therefore a wider comprehension than the ambit of music, and open to possible transversalities with other disciplines.
\nInteractive Arts: As interactive arts are understood all research and experiences in the ambit of art that uses interactive media and which take into account the relationship between the work and its viewer; works inserted in the intersecting fields of art and science, technology, among others \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nLed Show: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In situ\u00e2\u20ac\u009d installations, of public character, to be displayed in LED facade of the FIESP-SP building
\nSymposium: Talk proposals that have the aim to expand an international discussion on electronic digital culture in its interdisciplinary extension.
\nWorkshop: Projects that has the main purpose of transferring knowledge and also the research on the use of computing \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and other technological languages \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for creative purposes<\/p>\n
\n3.1 Only registrations made through the website file.org.br will be accepted.
\n3.2 To register, it is necessary to complete and send the online Registration Form (attached below).<\/p>\n
\n4.1 All works should be available for consultation online through video documentation. In the specific case of video or\/and audio works, it should be provided a link to download the file (.mp4 or .mp3 extension), as specified in the following item (4.2.). In the specific case of works made for internet, the work\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s online address should be indicated.
\n4.2. Copies of the artworks (from now on denominated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153works\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) should be sent to the Organizer, in case of video and music works, through a link for download that must be indicated in the Registration Form, observing the following rules:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Materials should be sent in the following formats: MOV, MPEG-4, mp4 or .mp3.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c In the specific case of animations and other video works, only the following file types are accepted: MOV or .mp4 (High resolution, HD \/ Full HD \u00e2\u20ac\u201c codec H.264) .
\nIn the specific case of works enrolled in FILE Led Show, the following conditions must be met:
\nFILE LED SHOW:
\na) Interactive works:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Any software that runs in MAC or PC is accepted, as long as they generate an image with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and a working area of 214 x 168 pixels.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The artist is responsible for the installation of the work and the provision of technical solutions to any special needs, such as the required licenses for the operation of the software used.
\nb) Non-interactive works (video or animations):
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The files must be MOV, Motion JPEG A codification.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The image\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s resolution must be of 1024 x 768 pixels, with a working area of 214 x 168 pixels.
\nc) In both cases:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The LED platform is made up by a network of approximately 24,000 pixels embedded in three surfaces of the FIESP building \/ Digital Gallery of SESI-SP (Paulista Avenue, 1313, S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo).
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Textual elements won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be allowed \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Including general presentations and credits.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The mov. file must follow the mask rules that are attached to the Led Show Technical Specifications.<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c Each participant may send up to 3 proposals of works that have been accomplished in the last 3 years (2017, 2018, 2019) for FILE 2020.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c In the act of registration and in the respective field of the Registration Form, the work\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s descriptive documentation must be included, as well as the biography of the participant and\/or group and other components.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c In the case of Installations, Performances and Public Art Projects (such as in FILE Led Show), in the respective field of the Registration Form, an URL must be included, in which should be available for download a file (PDF) with the detailed description of the work, information on the necessary equipment, physical space requirements, form of interaction, a link to a demonstrative video of the work, the participants\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 role in relation to the interface, illustrations or sketches, transportation needs and any details that may be important to the full understanding of the proposal.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The participant must submit a PDF document which shall contain specifications for assembly and disassembly of the work, as well as the use of objects and equipment loaned by the participant to the festival.
\nThe festival is responsible for: the assembly of the work along with its technical specifications sent in advance to the production team of the festival; the disassembly in the absence of the artist through detailed technical roadmap; and the return of objects and equipment loaned by the artist as long as it has the prior instructions and the detailed list of specific items. Such instructions are paramount and full responsibility of the artists; the festival disclaims any problems resulting from their absence.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c It should be informed, in the the Registration Form, a web address \u00e2\u20ac\u201c URL, in which will be available for download at least one high-resolution image (21 cm x 29,7 cm, 300 dpi) of the registered work, in TIFF or PNG format. This image will be used in press releases on the work, and FILE does not assume the responsibility for its reproduction from the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s publications. If the images should be credited someone, such credits should be specified by the participant in the respective field of the Registration Form.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c In the case of exclusively sound works, a link should be sent in which there is an extract during up to 5 minutes. These edited extracts may serve as a compressed remix of different musical areas of several compositions, or the participant may simply choose a continuous representative piece.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c In the case of an interactive work, it should be available online an additional video exemplifying the interactive interface of the work.<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c The participant, in the act of shipping the works, authorizes FILE to exhibit those works in its events.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201c If the work was accomplished by more than one person, only one person will be responsible or the Registration Form. The other members and\/or collaborators should be indicated in the respective field of the Registration Form, as well as the group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name and corresponding biographies. FILE doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t assume the responsibility for including in its exhibition and\/or publications data which have not been informed in the Registration Form by the responsible participant.<\/p>\n
\n5.1 The works will be analyzed by an internal judging commission, which will select the works that will be part of FILE exhibition.
\n5.2 The notification about the selection will be made individually by the FILE team to each participant, through the e-mail address specified in the Registration Form, as well as any posterior contact.<\/p>\n
\n6.1 The participant will be the only person responsible for the authenticity of the supplied data, for the work\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s authorship and\/or content, being, therefore, the only liable person for such creations, answering before civil and criminal law for the practice of plagiarism or any other act which may hurt copyrights or the intellectual property of another person. It is of the participant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s total responsibility the use of images from third parties that may be part of the works\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 content.<\/p>\n
\n7.1 The participants hence authorize the Organizer, in a free, definitive, universal and irrevocable way, to use the works produced by them for participation in FILE events, as well as their names, images and voice sound, in all and any type of advertising, transmitted through electronic, digital, and\/or printed media, including magazines, posters, television, radio and internet broadcasts, and any other type of media and\/or promotional pieces, in the way that the Organizer considers suitable, without the incidence of any liability for the Organizer, having all the copyrights of their respective authors reserved. The participants authorize the Organizer the use of image and sound display of their works in any and all activities connected to its events.<\/p>\n
\n8.1 The Organizer, at any moment, may at its exclusive discernment, to complement and\/or modify the present document partially or totally. All modifications or complements will be taken to the general knowledge through publication in the site file.org.br, and such changes or complements will only be valid 24 (twenty-four) hours after their publication in the site.
\n8.2 The judging commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision is sovereign, not subject to any resource.
\n8.3 Upon filling the online Registration Form, the participants totally agree with the articles of this regulation, as well as with the use of their names, images, voices and photos for publicizing the selection\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s result, besides their use in advertising, exhibitions, without any additional liability for the Organizer, or third parties indicated by it, during the legal period of copyright protection.
\n8.4 The participation in this selective process is FREE. Participants are not subject to any type of lottery or similar operation.
\n8.5 All doubts and\/or questions derived from the present selective process will be solved by the Organizer, always considering the current norms of consumer protection. There will be no resource of any type to the Organizer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decisions.
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\nENTRY FORMS:
\nDIGITAL LANGUAGE: https:\/\/file.org.br\/inscricao\/en\/digital-language<\/a>
\nELECTRONIC SONORITY: https:\/\/file.org.br\/inscricao\/en\/electronic-sonority<\/a>
\nINTERACTIVE ART: https:\/\/file.org.br\/inscricao\/en\/interactive-art<\/a>
\nLED SHOW: https:\/\/file.org.br\/inscricao\/en\/led-show<\/a>
\nSYMPOSIUM: https:\/\/file.org.br\/inscricao\/en\/symposium<\/a>
\nWORKSHOP: https:\/\/file.org.br\/inscricao\/en\/workshop<\/a><\/p>\n