Prix Ars Electronic

My system for keeping up with submissions seems to be effective - I've added it to my very evolved listmaking system by which I seem to live, keeping track of all the small and large things.

Sent my animation Personification to Prix ars electronica. 

prix ars electronica 

 Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society.


Often, I look for ways my work may fit in to a submission's catagories or agenda - most are a bit unsuitable, and they already have a clear idea of what they want, which is not necessarily what I have. And like all applications, each has it's own format, it's own preferred way of uploading work. When I make a piece of moving image, I finish off the processing by rendering it in different formats, file sizes, extracts, etc, to have it ready to send for different things. Everything takes longer than you'd think, but I have been methodical for a reason.


Following up Contraption showing at Grimbsy Minster in the Lightworks festival recently, I have been unable as yet to see any documentation or feedback of any sort, so although my piece was played there, I can only imagine it and any response. So far, it just counts as another notch in the CV.


One cannot live solely in the imaginarium of potential or theoretical exhibitions. Similarly, the process of art is not merely to imagine it, or talk about it, or plan it - it's all in the doing and manifesting. As a sometime tutor I have seen that and recognised it with students - fanciful ideas are the food of art, but must be made in concrete form, or plastic.


Memories of a short story (?) about a famous painter who had never painted, a poet who had never written. Reputation was all, anticipation of the works which may be produced, which would probably be produced, if process was not beneath them, and too lowly a task.


As artists we should have fanciful ideas, grand ambitious plans, a lifetime's gallery full of ideas to make and paint. To project our dreams intact, to capture our heightened feelings, to be driven by our intent. To make something, show something, do something. To get it out of our minds so that we can see it, and then have enter our minds anew.


Perhaps art is a sharing of the imagination.


28th March 2011