As the three day symposium title suggests ("Arts of the Virtual: Poetic Inquiries in Time, Space and Motion"), organizers are interested in work incorporating innovative uses of digital technologies (virtual reality, telepresence, high performance computing, special sensing, data driven events, feedback systems, etc.) to deliver innovative aesthetic experiences. This acknowledges the increasing artistic interest at the University of Utah and elsewhere in pushing the limits of knowledge and expression as individuals and as a society. Such efforts often involve interdisciplinary collaborations with science and engineering.

Contributions from fields as diverse as dance, architecture, engineering, the visual arts, design, computer science, music, theater, mathematics, film, and others are encouraged. All submissions will be juried.


Work submitted must display at least one or more of the following characteristics:

• digitally-based (though it may/should include human activity/performance)
• interactivity
• real time behavior/response

Evaluative criteria will be:

• Uniqueness, judged as high level of innovation and creativity within the context of state-of-the-art electronic arts.
• Cohesiveness, judged as unity between concept, formal/structural integrity and technological rendering/realization.
• Interdisciplinary content, judged as collaboration among the arts and beyond (the sciences, engineering, etc.).

Three to five artworks, depending on submission diversity, quality and appropriateness to the symposium theme, will be chosen by the jury for inclusion in the symposium. Projects will be selected for one of two presentation formats:

1. A twenty minute project presentation as part of a scheduled panel of artists.
2. A poster session/project exhibition in which the work is displayed for informal walk through and discussion throughout the symposium.

The symposium will include figures of international standing in their fields.


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:

• Sample of creative work (in electronic format; DVD, CD, VHS etc.)
• Summary description not to exceed 1,500 words
• Technical and spatial presentation requirements (if any)
• Three page maximum Curriculum vitae.

DEADLINE: Postmarked Monday, May 31, 2004.
SUBMISSIONS to: Professor David Zemmels at david.zemmels@utah.edu -or-
Professor David Zemmels
College of Fine Arts, ART 250,
University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112


INFORMATION: Further inquiries should be sent to Professor David Zemmels, through email david.zemmels@utah.edu or US Postal service to: College of Fine Arts, ART 250, University of Utah, UT 84112