The4thScreen Call for Submissions
The4thScreen: a global festival of art & innovation for mobile phones
launches today with a call for works.
The4thScreen festival is the first event of its kind to focus on the
mobile phone as an emerging social, cultural and technological
phenomenon.
The festival was conceived by Tamas Banovich, curator, co-director of
Postmasters Projects and Postmasters Gallery, to bring together
artists, technologist and other creative thinkers from all over the
world working with mobile phone technologies.
The4thScreen focuses on both content created specifically for mobile
distribution, as well, as platforms and tools that will broaden the
scope of mobile technology.
Artists, designers, technologists, and all creative thinkers are
invited to submit their creations, inventions and revolutionary ideas
in one of two categories:
Moving images- including videos, animations, and games made
specifically for mobile delivery
Wise technologies ‘Äì including SMS based projects, sound, software
art, software and hardware projects proposing new or extended use of
mobile devices, applications that impact the life, the cultural,
social and economical conditions of people living in diverse cultures.
The image-enabled cell phone is at the center of a radical cultural,
technological, and social shift. With over two billion phones
currently in use and hundreds of millions added annually, the mobile
phone is not only becoming pervasive, but the shooting and sharing of
still and moving images and the exchanging of text messages is
similarly omnipresent. Once, a relatively simple communications
device, the cell phone is now an all-in-one personal media device,
enabling unprecedented access to the production, distribution and
reception of information, entertainment and art. The mobile phone is
bridging the digital divide.
The deadline for submissions is June 4, 2006
contact: Tamas Banovich, Festival Director
Tamas@The4thScreen.net
phone 212 229 9736 mobile 917 400 2381
www.The4thScreen.net
459 W19 Street New York, NY10011 USA
The4thScreen Festival’Äô06 is produced by Postmasters Productions in
partnership with the Museum of the Moving Image and Polytechnic
University, New York.
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