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Revolution. Now.
This world is not enough.

Revolution, or better, a victory of new ideological systems , creative and productive over the traditional social model. In the contemporary world everything can be expressed through the sharing of concepts, democracy, autonomy and interconnection.  In the arts, in particular, the action is no longer just a product of a single individual, but the sum of joint actions, the construction of an opera using more than one pair of hands.
In a world of creators, where does intellectual ownership finish and the collective knowledge begin? And where will this revolution lead us? How will the digital homo habilis live in this Sci-Fi cyber soviet? Will a new “Metropolis” be created in which the machines will conserve the control of man over man, of his body and mind, or will a new-age golden rule  be created, meaning that the rules the way we know them today will no longer exist? Which new inventions will make a mark in history?
roBOt asks it’s participants to design new possible worlds, empowered realities providing collective opportunities in which to imagine, live and build a possible tomorrow, prophesying an “Invisible City”. 
Which rules will govern the physics of the future? How will the inhabitants who build them be defined? And which customs will be consolidated in order to perpetuate survival for centuries to come?
Again this time round, roBOt  is involving art to foresee frames of future societies, analyzing new concrete and likely languages also in their precognitive visionaries: : like the Radical architectonical schools and the Space Age aesthetics did for the Sixties, the year 10s of the Third Millennium cross the anarchic upheavals of the Third avant-garde, to build new bridges beyond the present day and to imagine a new technological routine, penetrated by a social dimension of living.
A dimension represented by a futuristic art, animated by a positive spirit, in which the action will come back to be revolutionary and the message will be the breaking point.
Once again: the medium will be the real message.

roBOt FESTIVAL IN SEARCH FOR NEW PRODUCIONS

• Scenography and preparation
• Installations
• Video and animations
• Performance
• Photography
• Architectonical and urban projects
• Design and interior design

RULES: PARTECIPATION AT THE SELECTION METHOD AND CONDITIONS

1)  The participation at the selection, targeting the projects which will be present during the 2011 edition of roBOt Festival, and the admission at the festival is free
2) Submission for participating at the Festival will be validated after the successful compilation of the form present on the website www.robotfestival.it by and not after the 1st of June 2011, and it must be accompanied with the following documentation:
o Presentation of the project;
o Demo video of the work, performance or project to be admitted in the Festival, or as an alternative, providing the content is fully comprehensive to the proposed project, photos and/or presentation links;
o Brief description of the author(s) previous artistic experience.
o Detailed technical file
3) Among all the participants, a technical committee composed of roBOt Festival staff themselves, will select the best projects which will then be admitted for the roBOt04 program.
4) All the demos sent will be acquired free of charge and will be part of the Festival archives.
5) Only by successfully completing the form will submissions be formally valid.
Any participation request sent via ordinary mail post will not be evaluated and will not be returned to the sender

INFORMATION

Marcella Loconte - marcella@shape.bo.it
Federica Patti - federica@shape.bo.it