CURRENT CALL

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Please submit to participate in the Video Composition Workshop happening at Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, in January and February 2011.
     
OVERVIEW

The Video Composition Workshop (VCW) is dedicated to writing performative video pieces in a workshop environment.

VCW explores concepts, issues and techniques that help artists create and notate performative video pieces while contributing to the discipline's larger body of knowledge.  Core to VCW is discovering and organizing personal and universal compositional elements of video and accompanying notational techniques.

VCW provides a structured salon setting in which multidisciplinary artists discuss concepts, learn historical precedents, demonstrate their work, and potentially collaborate.  VCW culminates in a public performance of the resulting pieces, works-in-progress, and experiments.

You can read VCW's objectives in more detail HERE.

CRITERIA

Major criteria for artist participation is:

-      Interest in working with performative video
-      Interest in creating pieces with a tangible compositional logic and notation method
-      A background in their own discipline of composing / choreographing / architecting / writing / etc.

Technical knowledge of or direct experience with video is helpful but not necessary.

LOGISTICS

There is no fee to participate.

VCW's goal is to provide participants with extensible systems and strategies for creating and notating performative video pieces, both within the workshop and for future compositions.

VCW is a structured salon environment.  Participants discuss and share ideas, educate others about how composition is treated in their discipline, and discuss how to realize their concepts for video.

VCW focuses on notation/scores (primarily printed, but also digital and other mediums) to be performed by the composer and/or others.

VCW runs for six Mondays: January 10, 17, 24, and 31, and February 7 and 14.  The sessions are from 7pm to 10pm at Diapason Gallery in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The 6 sessions are organized as follows:

Weeks 1, 2 and 3:  Structured evenings in which Adam Kendall or Michael Schumacher present specific topics for discussion.  Kendall or Schumacher will pull from various sources to illustrate the topics and will tie the discussions to the works and ideas of the VCW participants when possible.  Participants are encouraged to begin work on their pieces during this time.  There will be time for free-form conversations and work-critiques tied to the workshop-topics being discussed.

Weeks 4, 5 and 6:  Focus on pieces the participants are working on.  Each evening will have presentations, discussions and critiques of the participants' pieces and ideas as they evolve, as well as general discussions.

Performance:  There will be a public performance approximately 3-6 weeks after the final session.  It will present finished pieces, works-in-progress, or demonstrations of concepts.  It will maintain VCW's salon approach.

You can read more details about VCW's topics and curriculum HERE.

DEADLINE

Submissions to participate are due by Wednesday, December 1, 2010.  We will respond to submissions by Wednesday, December 15.

SUBMISSIONS

All submissions and contact will be by email. 

Send an email to submit(at)videocw(dot)org that includes the following information in the body:

-      Your contact information (Name, Email Address, Phone Number)
-       Your primary discipline
-      A brief bio/artist background describing what you do in general and what you've been doing lately
-      A brief statement about why video-composition interests you and what you hope to gain from VCW
-      Links to online samples of your works

NOTE: Please do not attach any work-samples or documents.  All work samples must be available online, and all information must be submitted in the body of the email.