Technology is converting human experience into data streams at ever-quickening rates. And yet we still seem reluctant to let go of our analogue or ‘old world’ ways of visualising both ourselves and the world around us. It is this dichotomy that the exhibitions and conferences presented as part of BEAP04 will be exploring and interpreting in celebrating the complex relationships between the virtual and the real.
REalTime Education Feature: Anna Davis is an artist working with video, interactive technologies and performance. She is currently creating a series of sensor-driven environments inhabited by characters called a/proxy[mate]s.
SameDifference has been chosen as the theme for BEAP 04 in order to explore the collapse of difference in a world increasingly mediated by technology. Why should we be interested in difference? The concept of difference brings with it demarcation lines – be they technological, cultural and/or social. The loss ot difference—that which had previously been unique—through the dissemination of content throughout our increasingly digitised world represents a paradigm shift in how we define ourselves—both spatially and ontologically. Technology is converting human experience into data streams at everquickening rates. And yet we still seem reluctant to let go of our analogue or ‘old world’ ways of visualising both ourselves and the world around us. It is this dichotomy that the exhibitions and conferences presented as part of BEAP 04 will be exploring and interpreting in celebrating the complex relationships between the virtual and the real. I welcome you to BEAP 04 and to the challenging and exciting world of SAMEDIFFERENCE. Director Paul Thomas
MESH#17: Experimenta’s signature journal Mesh is its critically acclaimed online publication, for filmmakers, artists, writers and theorists working in Australian screen and media arts culture.
New Media Art in Australia and Asia attempts to create a partial and provisional map of the complex and at times fraught terrain of “new media art” in Australia and the Asian region.
ONLINE PROPOSALS SUBMISSION INFORMATIONBEAP WORKS 2004Closing date for new works: 12 December 2003
The Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, is dedicated to the development, production and promotion of experimental electronic arts research. BEAP is now also a mechanism to facilitate the creation and production of electronic art works. The Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth intends to become Australia’s peak organization promoting and showcasing contemporary experimental art practice of an International calibre. BEAP is committed to fostering work leading tocritical debate within these fields and will develop robust advocacy strategies. BEAP 2004 will investigate notions of ‘Difference’, which focuses upon: 1. Sonic-Differences; Re-sounding the World. Exploring sound art 2. Bio-Differences; Born and Bred. Exploring Bioloical art 3. Data-Differences; The dissolution of locale. Exploring net art 4. Perceptual-Differences; Vision systems. Exploring interactive images 5. Distributed-Differences; Cultures of conflict. Exploring networked art The theme ‘Difference’ and ‘Denial of Difference’ will explore the humanness of being human
as it confronts globalisation. The technological transformation, transcendence and transmutation of what we have based our knowledge upon are still stretching the boundaries of our consciousness. Call for works BEAP is looking for exciting and adventurous projects that primarily exploit the possibilities of Western Australian artists working with emerging technologies in the area of Time based Media, Broadband, and Screen based work. The work BEAP 2004 seeks to fund research and development in the broad context of screen based, gaming technologies and broadband which address the five main themes of BEAP2004. Grants of up to $10.000.00 will be available for new projects meeting these criteria. The committee will support and encourage original research and development projects that address these topics with anticipated exhibition outcomes in BEAP 2004. ProposalsAn online written proposal should include the following information:
1. Title of work
2. Project description no longer than 500 words (including its rationale)
3. Technical details:
3a) A brief description of your project and its implementation;
3b) A time schedule: description of the work that has to be done.
3c) Equipment list, including production materials and supplies needed;
4. Budget details(see online budget form. Please ensure quotes are accurate, maximum request $10,000 per project.)
5. Concise CVs (no more than two A4 pages each) of all key personnel/collaborators with contact details.
6. Your ABN number and GST registration. Applicants must provide an ABN in order to be eligible for support, OR evidence that the Australian Taxation Office has determined them ineligible for an ABN. Applicants must ensure that the name on the application form (for payment purposes) is the same as the name the ABN is issued in.
support material - please submit in the following formats Place all documentation into a folder then compress in to as zip or sit file.This file can then be uploaded using the upload button from at the bottom of the online submission pageText: .doc, .pdf, .txt, .rtfImages: .jpg, .tif, MovCompressed files: .zip, .sit (for Mac and PC)The support material should include Budget Concise CV Documentation of relevant work Applications will only be accepted from artists residing in Western Australia following the ArtsWA guidelines.Individual or group projects must not exceed requests for $10,000. Any questions or further information, email: info@beap.orgApplications will be assessed by the BEAP curatorial committee and members of Media-Space Perth Inc. The decision of the committee is final. ArtsWA will administer the grants.Proposals will be assessed on
The proposals potential or significance in relation to the ‘SameDifference’ themes;
The proposal’s relevance to the BEAP interest in the collaboration of Art and Science; through Time based Media, Broadband, and Screen based work.
The benefit to the artists, the community, the audience/participants in developing critical debate;
The project's contribution to advancing research in the area of Electronic art.
Financial responsibility and management competence;Clearly defined objectives and outcomes;All participants have confirmed their active involvement;Accuracy of costings.
Applicants will be contacted with results by 9 January 2004.
