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The +Institute [for Experimental Arts] and Void Network

present

the 5th International Video Poetry Festival 2016

Winter 2016
at Free Self-Organised Theatre EMBROS / Athens / Greece

The yearly International Video Poetry Festival 2016 will be held for fifth time in Greece in Athens. Approximately 2500 people attended the festival last years.

There will be two different zones of the festival. The first zone will include video poems, visual poems, short film poems and cinematic poetry by artists from all over the world (America, Asia, Europe, Africa). The second zone will include cross-platform collaborations of sound producers and music groups with poets and visual artists in live improvisations.

The International Video Poetry Festival 2016 attempts to create an open public space for the creative expression of all tendencies and streams of contemporary visual poetry.

It is very important to notice that this festival is a part of the counter culture activities of Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts] and will be non-sponsored, free entrance, non commercial and non profit event. The festival will cover the costs (2000 posters, 15.000 flyers, high quality technical equipment) from the incomes of the bar of the festival. All the participating artists and the organizing groups will participate voluntary to the festival.

This year the Institute [for Experimental Arts] invites the artists and creators of video poems to participate from their side in our effort to cover the expenses of the festival without private or state sponsorship. For this reason we propose to the artists  the suggested donation of 5 euro for the submission of their video poems. THE PARTICIPATION IS FREE. Each artist can send more than one work ( 1 to 3 video poems FOR FREE). You can  add  the suggested donation of 5 euro (or more) to the following bank account

National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA

Void Network started organizing multi media poetry nights in 1990. Void Network and +the Institute [for Experimental Arts] believe that multi media Poetry Nights and Video Poetry shows can vibrate in the heart of Metropolis, bring new audiences in contact with contemporary poetry and open new creative dimensions for this ancient art. To achieve this, we respect the aspirations and the objectives of the artists, create high quality self organized exhibition areas and show rooms, we work with professional technicians and we offer meeting points and fields of expression for artists and people that tend to stand antagonistically to the mainstream culture.

We would like to thank Dave Bonta from the Moving Poems, a global site with the best video poems in the web that inspired us to create the International Video Poetry Festival in Athens and we cooperate since 2012 to spread out the announcement of the Festival each year so as to gather new video poems from all over the world.

International Video Poetry Festival 2013 photos:

You can look here for some photos of previous poetry nights
organized by Void Network and + the Institute [for Experimental Arts]:
voidnetwork.blogspot.gr/2007/12/void-history-words-environment.html
voidnetwork.blogspot.gr/2011/06/insurrectionary-poetry-poetry-night-in.html
voidnetwork.blogspot.gr/2007/12/words-environments-multi-media-poetry.html

for more photos from Void Network art, events and actions :
http://flickr.com/photos/voidnetwork

APPLICATION FORM CLICK THE BELOW LINK :

https://goo.gl/forms/r31CHizEjLWPbx7t2

DEAD LINE FOR SUBMISSION: no later than November 20, 2016(date of postmark)

SUBMIT YOUR POEM(S)

Submit your poem(s) in three simple steps:

1. Click here to download and complete the submission form

2. Your participation is FREE. Please you can add  the suggested donation of 5 euro (or more) to the following bank account

National Bank of Greece 04664860451 Iban GR2101100460000004664860451 Swift (BIC) ETHNGRAA

3. Please, send the submission material via email as following:

a) via email:
your video poems in mp4 or mov file (all video poems in a single we transfer file)
the submission form and photos in .jpg file

Email: theinstitutecontact [at] gmail.com
*please replace [at] with @ symbol to send email

APPLICATION 2016

HOW TO SUBMIT A WORK

1. Complete the application form. You have to send it back to the email account   theinstitutecontact@gmail.com

Συμπληρώστε την αίτηση. Θα χρειαστεί να την στείλετε στον ηλεκτρονικό λογαριασμό   theinstitutecontact@gmail.com

2. Attach 1 to 3 images (jpeg, tiff) of your artwork to the email containing this application form.

Χρειάζεται να επισυνάψετε 1-3 εικόνες (σε μορφή jpeg, tiff)  της δουλειά σας στο email μαζί με αυτή την αίτηση

3. Send the digital file of your video poems through internet using the email account theinstitutecontact@gmail.com.

We propose the following Definition and File Type

Definition:

720 x 576

1280 x 720

1920 x 1080

File Type:

mp4

mov

You can use wetransfer.com or any other FREE SERVICE to send us big files.

Στείλτε τα αρχεία με τα βιντεο-ποιήματά σας μέσω email στον ηλεκτρονικό λογαριασμό theinstitutecontact@gmail.com. Μπορείτε να χρησιμοποιήσετε το wetransfer.com ή οποιαδήποτε άλλο ελεύθερο διαδικτυακό ταχυδρομείο για να στείλετε μεγάλα αρχεία.

Σας προτείνουμε τις παρακάτω τεχνικές λεπτομέρειες

Definition:

720 x 576

1280 x 720

1920 x 1080

File Type:

mp4

mov

4.We recommend you to add English or Greek subtitles to your video poems even if the spoken language is in English as it will be easier for people outside the English spoken world to understand it.

Σας προτείνουμε να προσθέσετε αγγλικούς υπότιτλους στο βίντεο σας έτσι ώστε να μπορεί αυτό να συμπεριληφθεί σε προβολές του προγράμματος του Φεστιβάλ σε άλλες χώρες εκτός Ελλάδος.

We suggest you to send your video poems through internet. Otherwise you can also post your DVD file in the following address / Προτείνουμε η αποστολή των βιντεο–ποιημάτων σας να γίνει μέσω email. Διαφορετικά ταχυδρομήσετε το DVD με τα αρχεία σας στην διεύθυνση

INTERNATIONAL FILM POETRY FESTIVAL

TASOS SAGRIS
159 KREONTOS
SEPOLIA ATHENS
GREECE 10443

Please post it not later than November 20, 2016(date of postmark) to the International Film Poetry Festival, Athens.

Παρακαλούμε πολύ μην τα ταχυδρομήσετε αργότερα από της 20 Νοέμβρη2016.

+ the Institute [for Experimental Arts] will inform you about your participation in early December 2016.

Το +Ινστιτούτο [Πειραματικών Τεχνών] θα σας ενημερώσει για την συμμετοχή σας έως τις αρχές Δεκεμβρίου 2016.