Fragments Video Art Collaboration Project 2011

Synopsis
Fragments is a collaborative video art project headed by Michael Chang (DK) and Marty McCutcheon (US). Chang initiated the project in 2009 when he invited fifteen artists to collaborate on three threads of video art while adhering to specific rules. Fragments had its premiere in July 2009 in Berkeley, California at the community screening center run by McCutcheon, Berkeley Commonplace. During the event, three threads of video were projected onto a screen composed of the white-washed fragments of broken objects. Junk! The event featured music from the Californian band Slowness’ pre-release debut EP as well as live experimental video performances by visitors and members of the Commonplace Community. In April 2011, the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York will host a new version of Fragments as part of a Museum series focusing on collaboration. There is currently an open call for participation in the Fragments project.

Project history
Fragments , ephemeral installation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira New York, USA, (Upcoming, April 6 and 7, 2011)
Meeting in the Middle, panel discussion, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira New York, USA, (Upcoming, April 6 and 7, 2011)
2009 Fragments , world premiere screening, July 25, Berkeley Commonplace, Berkeley, California, USA





Support
Fragments is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts' Decentralization Program, administered locally by the The ARTS Council of the Southern Finger Lakes
Fragments Video Art Collaboration Project 2011



Open call for participation in an ephemeral installation of Fragments at Arnot Art Museum, Elmira New York, USA, April 6 and 7, 2011

What to submit
For the projection at Arnot Art Museum in 2011 we need excerpts of video art with the duration of 1 to 5 minutes.

The project
Chang and McCutcheon will build a site-specific screen and install it in one of the upstairs galleries at Arnot Art Museum. Your work will be organized into folders, with your name on it, on a computer desktop (hopefully on two computers). The computer(s) will be connected to a projector and aimed at the screen.

The event
The event at Arnot Art Museum will feature live projection performances by Chang and McCutcheon onto the screen. Visitors and invited guests will be encouraged to experiment by projecting your work onto the screen. The event will be followed by a panel discussion about art and collaboration.

Policy
Fragments is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. By submitting work to the Fragmentsproject you are representing that you own all copyrights to the submitted work and have authorization to submit it. By submitting work to theFragments project you agree that your submissions will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License.

Participate
If you want to participate in the project contact the project manager, Michael Chang, after reading and agreeing to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Project manager
Michael Chang
E-mail: michael@michaelchang.dk

Deadline
The show is in April 2011. We accept submissions until 31 December 2010. As an early Happy New Year present (according to the Gregorian calendar) the deadline for submissions has been extended to January 31, 2011. Happy holidays. Submit your work when you feel good and ready.

Curation
Your work is not evaluated artistically, but it is curated in order to sustain a shared curatorial vision for the installation at Arnot Art Museum. Your work is curated in collaboration by Chang, McCutcheon and Jan Kather (US). Know, that we won’t feel obliged to provide you with feedback for having submitted work accepted, or not. Your name will appear on this page under the headline Project participants 2011 when your work is accepted. A blue dot  will appear after your name when we have received your video files and it has been tested and approved. Everyone with a blue dot will be credited in the project.

Technical specifications
We accept video files that will run smoothly from the desktop of a Macintosh computer using the application QuickTime. We do not accept .avi files or other files that can’t run in the application QuickTime on a Macintosh. Unless otherwise agreed upon with the project manager, the duration of the video files should be from 1 to 5 minutes. The video files can be any dimensions from tiny to large (176x144 to 720x540) You can use NTSC, PAL, 16:9 Widescreen, or what ever as long as the video file play smoothly in the application QuickTime on a Macintosh. You can use sound, but you don’t have to.

Project participants (credited alphabetically):
Aditi Kulkarni (India), Hypnosis 
Alberto Guerreiro (Portugal), Haiku#1 
Alison Williams (South Africa), Threshold 
Antonio Pinto (France), Time between Collapses 
Assangni Kisito (Togo), Wall Dancing 2 
Dave Swensen (USA), Devan and Jeremiah 
Doug Anderson (USA), Herakles Fragment Selection 
Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg), Das Glasperlenspiel 
Joas-Sebastian Nebe (Germany), Strassenmaschine 
Kai Lossgott (South Africa), Read these Roads 
Larry Caveney (USA), Dance Series 
Ludovic Sauvage (France), Eden’s Bloom 
Osvaldo Cibils (Italy), Fiorella 100 Years 
48073 (Holland), 10221 Progress 2