Chris Joseph

Athens Video Art Festival is the official festival of Greece in the field of video art and new media, and covers the demands of people from the complete spectrum of creativity. It is a place of promotion of digital culture and a link between creators and organizations and at the same time an intriguing multi-dimensional event.

Each year Athens Video Art Festival evolves, becomes enriched and sets new goals raising the stake even higher, brings out its academic character and strengthens it through important collaborations and retrospectives, offers motives for creativity and presents the latest international developments in the field of digital media, and communicates them to the public.

Athens Video Art Festival celebrates the completion of five successful years and aims higher than ever. Building on its four previous impressive materializations, it is preparing its most ambitious edition yet, which will take place at “Technopolis”, of the City Of Athens.

To this grand celebration of digital culture, you are invited to participate in the following categories: video art, animation, digital image, web art and installation art.

The call for entries is open to foreign and Greek artists alike.

Postmark deadline: 31st January 2009.

Athens Video Art Festival is organized by the urban non profitable company Multitrab Productions, with the co-organization of the City of Athens and the General Secretariat For Youth.

Extensive information and entry forms can be found at www.athensvideoartfestival.gr

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Collaborate on scripting a piece of new media literature – interactive, multimedia, transliterate – and a riveting read. We’ll look at blogs, podcasts, games and animations, see the best of what’s creative on the web, clear our heads of technophobia and make something special together.

Tutors:

Kate Pullinger
Kate Pullinger works both in print and new media. Her most recent novel was A Little Stranger (Serpent’s Tail) and digital fiction projects include her collaboration with Chris Joseph on ‘Inanimate Alice’, an award winning piece of multimedia episodic digital fiction. Visit www.katepullinger.com.

Chris Meade
Chris Meade is Co-Director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, deviser of innovative creative reading projects and collaborator on writing comedy, cartoons, community poems and on-line experiments. Visit www.futureofthebook.org.uk, www.bookfutures.blogspot.com and www.insearchoflosttim.net

Guests:

Chris Joseph
Chris Joseph is a Suffolk-born electronic writer and artist whose past projects include ‘Inanimate Alice‘ (with Kate Pullinger); the bike-powered multimedia installation ‘NRG‘; and ‘Animalamina‘, a collection of interactive multimedia poetry for children. He is editor of the post-dada magazine and network 391.org, and was the first Digital Writer in Residence at De Montfort University, Leicester from 2006-2008. Visit www.chrisjoseph.org.

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