[-empyre-] cfp: forget it! don't trust your archives

[honor <honor@va.com.au>]

Hi empyreans,

[ Apologies for cross-posting! ]

Given the theme of the discussions this month, I thought you might be
interested in the theme of this year's Garage festival in Stralsund,
Germany.

It is 'forget it! don't trust your archives'.

The Garage Festival is a brilliant small festival focussing on electronic
art and culture, with a strong music and sound art flavour.  I attended
last year and found it one of the most interesting festivals I've been to
in some time.

Best

Honor Harger




Call for Entries:
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9th festival garage in August 2005 in Stralsund / Germany
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forget it! don't trust your archives
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Data, images, sounds, terms, definitions, signs, contacts, biometrical
information, stamps ... Our culture is determined by the urge to collect and
to archive, to save and to index, to systemise and to codify. Thanks to
digitisation we are relieved of the tedious obligation to decide what is
worth preserving - we therefore save everything and decide later what we
need.

The confidence we have in the perfection of recording technologies, database
systems, search algorithms and collaborative filter mechanisms change our
reception of reality. The awareness of the ability to save and recall
everything for later use reduces our willingness to concentrate on the
moment. Not the event is important but the condensed information in a
practical storage format.

Reference is security. To leave the field of what is considered secure is a
risk. Imperfection, coincidence, spontaneity - what cannot be saved,
recorded and documented? What is the quality of the non-permanent? What
sense makes an archive nobody is looking at? How productive is oblivion?

Rewriting of rules, breaking off processes, selecting and deleting - garage
05 is searching for artists' approaches and positions that critically
discuss the technologies and mechanics of saving, archiving and forgetting.
Send us your proposals and concepts for presentations, installations,
performances, projects, papers, and workshops.

Submission deadline for materials and proposals is 2nd May 2005.
application forms and info: http://www.garage-g.de/call05

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all proposals should be submitted to:

Festival garage
Kastanienallee 73
10435 Berlin
Germany

questions?
+49 (0) 30 441 20 15
info@garage-g.de
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honor harger

email: honor@va.com.au

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