The International Guerrilla Video Festival is looking for new single channel videos based on the specific conditions of the areas where the festival will be held. Artists are invited to work directly on site where the festival will be shown or at locations with similar conditions in other cities. The International Guerrilla Video Festival (IGVFest) is a mobile festival integrating video art with the urban and social environment. The festival removes the technologically complex medium of video out of the institutional situation re-positioning it as open and reflexive in the public domain. The artworks have site-specific thematic relations to the space where they are shown, engaging and reflecting upon the unique architectural, historical, and interpersonal context of each area the festival travels to. One of the aims of the festival is to create a continuous dialogue from the videos into the community, focusing on lapses in the current framework such as an absence of communication or invisible components of the area. Open to local and international artists, the festival widens the panorama of the discourse to include the perspective of communities elsewhere that have parallel circumstances. A self-contained, transportable GPU (Guerrilla Projector Unit) facilitates the incursions into the public realm. Transforming public space into a fertile ground for experimentation toward new possibilities in the relationship between art and society. For additional information go to the festival website at http://www.igvfest.com

Submissions should include: a DVD (NTSC or PAL) a completed entry form any supplemental information DOWNLOAD SUBMISSION FORM All entries must be received by Monday 9 June 2008 International Guerrilla Video Festival Milan 2008 2438 N. Burling St. Chicago, IL 60614 USA All submissions will be retained and enter into the IGVFest archives, with the possibility to be included in future festival locations.

 

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