State Library of Western Australia (LISWA), Alexander Library Building, Perth Cultural Centre, Perth

State Library of Western Australia (LISWA), Alexander Library Building,

Perth Cultural Centre, Perth

Conference and Exhibition timeline for BEAP 2004.

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

ONLINE PROPOSALS SUBMISSION INFORMATION
BEAP WORKS 2004
Closing 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.

Proposals An 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 page

Text: .doc, .pdf, .txt, .rtf

Images: .jpg, .tif, Mov

Compressed 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.org

Applications 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.

Culture and Technology begins with several useful and clear definitions of its key themes—technology and technique, culture and the intersection between these.

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/issue54/7044

The catalogue for the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth was designed by Milton Andrews Square Peg Design.

The Biennale of Electronic Arts, Perth actively embraces the opening of new technological frontiers.

Biennale of Electronic Art Perth 2002 from Paul Thomas on Vimeo.

BEAP is an international event which includes a conference,symposiums, forum and exhibition presenting the theoretical, cultural and philosophical basis of Electronic Arts practice. The inaugural thematic focus for BEAP is LOCUS, the place where we believe consciousness exists. The idea of place is being renegotiated through the developing biological relationships, effecting consciousness. These effects are further confronted through the external input of computer generated and augmented virtual realities. We find ourselves as the centre of this point of convergence, our senses become the portals, our skin becomes the screen between these immersive realties. This portal, this relocated screen, should now be at the forefront of minds, when the skin no longer defines the boundaries of our sense of self.

The Biennale examines these explosions of activities at the intersection of art, science, and technology, by practitioners in the field of developing electronic technologies from Australia and around the world. It will focus on the ongoing need for dialogue and contextualisation to represent the current states in which we will find ourselves.

BEAP shares an interest in the possibilities of using exhibitions and discussion to explore aspects of practice as well as developing networks to critically evaluate work. From Perth the concept of Locus is placed in the wider context of international forums, communicating with other groups and individuals in Australia and overseas.

The John Curtin Gallery and the Studio for Electronic Arts in the School of Art at Curtin University of Technology have sought expressions of interest from artists working either individually or in partnership with scientists to instigate an international electronic arts exhibition. This exhibition will feature cutting edge work from international, national and regional contemporary arts practitioners. The exhibited works will explore the boundaries of new technologies and present them to the public in a challenging and thought provoking way.

There has been a significant attitude shift in recent years with artists and scientists reaching out beyond their own domains and this comes at a time when global economics, fuelled by new developments in science and digital technology, is providing increasing opportunities for artistic and technological interactivity. Artists have always been among the first to apply technological advances to their work, and using electronic and digital technologies for seeing and expressing ideas is becoming commonplace in the scientific arena. This mutual interest in shared electronic and digital tools is fostering a common language between artists and scientists, and the Internet and email enable artists and scientist’s new access to one another. Given all these factors there is now an exciting opportunity for developing collaborative partnerships for informing and inspiring society with the artist and scientist working together in the field of electronic arts.

Director Paul Thomas

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Wednesday 5th to Friday 7th December 2001

Second Iteration : emergence is the event for anyone with an interest in the relationship between generative processes, creativity and artistic practice. The key theme will be emergence: the property of simple, interacting processes to acquire characteristics and form beyond those direct to the sum of the individual components. Second Iteration will investigate the discontinuities between poeisis and physis, and how these processes influence the development of creative ideas.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate/SI/index.html