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<h1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Future Places 2009 </span></h1>
<h1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4">Digital Media Festival</font></span> </h1>
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<h2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">October 12 - 17, 2009 </span></h2>
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<h2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Porto, Portugal</span> </h2>
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<h2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.futureplaces.org/" target="_blank">www.futureplaces.org</a></span> </h2>
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<h2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Call for Entries</span> </h2>
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<h2 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Entry deadline: May 31, 2009</span> </h2>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">The FUTURE PLACES Festival is an international competition celebrating digital media work. FUTURE PLACES explores the potential of Digital Media when applied to specific cultural and social environments.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">The festival features exhibitions, conferences, workshops, concerts, performances and parties. We are interested in creative and new languages for interactive and media expression, and their impact on local cultures, society and public space.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">We want to reach a generation of creators who are breaking conventions. We are addressing this call to those who are blurring the lines not only between disciplines, but also between the real and the virtual and between the commercial, the artistic, and the academic arenas. Mainly, we want to explore the impact of new technologies in "real life". How can new technology build local communities, create new identities, new narratives, and new forms of public interaction?</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Workshops and conference panels will be facilitated by national and international figures in Digital Media; names will be announced in May. The Future Places website will be available by mid-March; the online submission process will begin March 20.</span> </p>
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<h3 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Awards:</span> </h3>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">First prize: 3000€</span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Second prize: 1000€</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">FUTURE PLACES recognizes the authors of the best works presented at the festival with two cash prizes, and the opportunity to participate in a three-month residential program at the University of Porto and/or at the University of Texas at Austin. The winner will be offered airfare and three months’ lodging at the residency site. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Eligibility:</span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">The submission of entries is open to all those who work in the Digital Media field. No particular nationality or academic affiliation is required.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Rules:</span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">1) Projects in any media may be entered. The exhibition is content-based, so submissions will be primarily evaluated for their suitability to the Festival theme: The impact of Digital Media in Local Cultures. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">2) Entries should refer to work produced between 2007 and 2009.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">3) Any works currently in production may be submitted as rough cuts or drafts. However, if selected, authors must provide work in final form by September 25th, 2009. Works that have been selected but whose authors have not sent work in their final form by September 25th will be excluded from the festival. In the case of installations or performances, “final form” refers to photos, illustrative of the project.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">4) Every submission must include a detailed synopsis of the work (maximum 1000 words) as well as illustrative pictures and/ or video, when appropriate.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">5) Submissions must be made online at <a href="http://www.futureplaces.org/" target="_blank">www.futureplaces.org</a>, which will be accepting entries from March 2009. Emails and postal deliveries will not be considered. More instructions regarding submission of image, video and audio entries will be available on the website.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">6) Submissions sent after 11:59pm on May 31, Porto local time, will not be considered.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">7) A jury composed by three independent commissioners will select the final projects that will be exhibited and will compete at the festival.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">8) The decision of the judges is final.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">9) Material submitted to the festival – even if not selected - will not be returned to the author(s). Material not selected will not be used in any way.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">10) The Future Places festival retains the right to display accepted submissions, as well as photographs, sound recordings, and videos of accepted submissions, both online and offline. These displays will be non-commercial, and may be used to promote the festival and its organization.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">For more information about festival rules and policies, please see the website <a href="http://www.futureplaces.org/" target="_blank">www.futureplaces.org</a></span> </p>
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<h1 style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4">Future Places 2009 Submission Schedule:</font></span> </h1>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">March 20: Submissions will be accepted at <a href="http://www.futureplaces.org/" target="_blank">www.futureplaces.org</a></span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">May 31: Submission deadline. All submissions made before the deadline will be acknowledged via email.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">August 15: Prospective festival entries are informed of acceptance or rejection.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">September 25: All final supporting materials must be submitted.</span> </p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">For inquiries, please contact</span> </p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Karen Gustafson: <a href="mailto:futureplaces.kgustafson@gmail.com" target="_blank">futureplaces.kgustafson@gmail.com</a> </span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Fátima São Simão: <a href="mailto:fssimaofp09@gmail.com" target="_blank">fssimaofp09@gmail.com</a></span> </p></span><br><br><br><br></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<td style="WIDTH: 100%; HEIGHT: 50px"></td></tr></tbody></table><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Fátima São Simão<br><br>UTAustin I Portugal<br><a href="http://www.utaustinportugal.org/" target="_blank">www.utaustinportugal.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.futureplaces.org/" target="_blank">www.futureplaces.org</a><br><br><br>