Deadline: August 7, 2022
The 17th edition of the SIMULTAN Festival will take place between September 10-18, 2022 in Timișoara and aims to channel ideas and generate new perspectives in the context of the (post) global pandemic and its consequences, as well as the reverberations caused by the war in Ukraine, actively elaborating through artistic and theoretical productions themes and subjects such as the future and the potential of art in a period of massive transformations.
The title of the 2022 edition, The Changing and The Indeterminate, aims to memorize, explore and build on this state of transition through speculative reflection, a type of heuristic simulation as a conscious reactivation of past behaviour stored in memory.
The Changing and The Indeterminate, is an excerpt from a study by Ted Nelson on the structuring and processing of information, in which he first mentions the term hypertext and hypermedia, the idea of a complex system of interconnected elements. This idea was born more than 50 years ago, today there are already complex interconnected systems that give us access to information through the Internet, but it has also created other close connections with the physical world, on different levels, economic, social or scientific.
The world economy is a complex system composed of a multitude of interconnected but distinct networks – networks of people, goods, money or even bits. These networks are in constant motion, people are moving, goods are moving, money is being transferred and data is moving – as has always been the case. Under Capitalism this movement takes on a new form. Movement becomes the precondition for growth, which in turn is the precondition for the stability of Capitalist social relations. In essence, the system cannot survive without movement. But what happens when this system crashes and major, irreparable ruptures occur?
In this sense, it is important to design and inaugurate this ambiance conceptual framework, of speculative orientation.
The festival functions as a transdisciplinary platform dedicated to emerging media projects (audio-visual), experimental music and sound arts, in order to facilitate a meeting and presentation point for the local artistic community in relation to the international one.
SIMULTAN Festival is an annual event built around an artistic concept, which channels current situations caused by various changes in contemporary society, whether socio-political, economic or technological.
The program of the event, during the nine days, includes a series of events and actions, such as live sound and audiovisual performances, video art screenings, exhibitions, conferences and workshops in which some themes and methods are: stylistic eclecticism, relationship between man and technology, recycling or ecological themes, dry – digital lyricism, the fusion of acoustic and electronic instruments, expanded cinema, jovial sound collage, as well as the reflection on the political valences of sound.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The call is open for emerging and established artists, new authors and/or students. We are looking for submissions of innovative video works related to the festival motto, produced in the last two years (2020-2022).
TYPE OF WORKS
video/experimental video; narrative; digital/generative, documentary/experimental documentary; motion graphics/experimental animation.
NUMBER OF WORKS
A maximum of 2 per author
DURATION
10 minutes max. / work
AWARDS
We will honor four video works (two Romanian artists and two international artists) with a 250 Euro artist fee.
All works will be reviewed and selected by the festival’s curatorial staff. Only those accepted will become part of the Festival screening program. The jury’s decision is final.
We would be happy to answer your questions, if any. Please do not hesitate to contact us
at simultanfestival[at]gmail[dot]com
SIMULTAN Festival 2022 is funded by the Municipality of Timisoara, through Center of Projects. Co-funded by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund / AFCN.