LANDSCAPE2023

INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL

SOUND TELLING | VIDEO TELLING

Zeugma Collective in collaboration with LAIKA aps is proud to be able to announce “Landscape2023” the third edition of the international call created to create an anthology of landscape through collaborations between sound artists and video artists.

Landscape2023 invites again this year to express themselves on the vast theme of landscape, specifically on these 3 elements:

  • The fragility of landscape;
    Forgotten Landscapes;
    Soundscape;

Sound must play a central role in the narrative of the submitted audiovisual product.

AWARDS

The first 10 works selected by our expert committee will represent the official selection of LANDSCAPE2023 and will then circulate within the activities promoted by Zeugma’s partners (events, screenings, reviews).

The authors of the 10 selected works will also be invited to the official award nights of LANDSCAPE2023. This will be an opportunity to get to know them better up close and have them tell us more about their work.

REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION

The requested works must be unpublished and accompanied by a copyright disclaimer (downloadable here) granting Zeugma and its partners the possibility to use the work for the purpose of being able to freely circulate its contents without economic constraints. The release refers only to the circulation of the work and not to authorship, which remains with the artist.

EVALUATION OF WORKS

A committee of experts consisting of professors and professionals from the world of culture will select the best 10 works based on the following criteria:

  • Adherence of the work to the proposed theme;
  • High technical and narrative quality;
  • Sound-Image Interplay;
  • Most innovative use of the audiovisual medium;

RUFA – University of Fine Arts in Rome, will also award a special mention to the best audiovisual product voted by the students.

HOW TO TAKE PART

To submit your work, it is necessary to complete the registration form on this page in its entirety by attaching the paypal receipt of the 10 eur participation fee (read “Payment Instructions” below) in the online form at https://collettivozeugma.it/landscape2023.

It will be essential to include a permanent link, i.e., files with no time limit and accessible by anyone who has the link, from the repository from which the work will then be downloadable (e.g., Mega, GoogleDrive, Dropbox).

You can participate individually or in pairs with another artist;

REGISTRATION FEE

  • Enter in your paypal profile – click on “send money” and add the paypal address “info@associazionelaika.it – type the amount of 10 euros and WRITE IN THE MESSAGE as CAUSE “Registration fee for Landscape2023 + Work Title +Artist Name and Artist Surname + possible Moniker”
  • Take a screenshot or save in any case the receipt of the transaction in jpg or pdf format and upload it to the form on the site at the time of registration.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMITTING THE WORK

Attention > Works that do not meet the following requirements will be automatically excluded.

Submitted works must have a minimum duration of 3 min and a maximum of 5 min (including any titles) with the following technical characteristics:

  • Video: MOV/MP4 – CODEC H264 1920x1080p (progressive);
  • VBR 2 pass (ideal);
  • Audio 2 CH – Stereo – CODEC: AAC 48,000 Hz, 320 Kbps – High quality;
  • Maximum file size 1gb;

DEADLINE

2023 May 15th

IMPORTANT

Not conform formats or incomplete submissions will not be accepted

INFORMATIONS

For info on participation requirements, technical details, or anything else please see the website page or write to info@collettivozeugma.it – 349.5012612
https://collettivozeugma.it/landscape2023/

Landscape2023 is a project curated by the Zeugma collective and Laika APS proudly self-funded with support from:

Cineclub Canudo, Vicoli Corti Festival, Shape Association, Kinetta, Rufa Rome University of Fine Arts, Acusmatiq Festival, Ambient Radio, Rumore Bianco Studio

Landscape is a project curated by the Zeugma Collective, with the supervision of Laika Association

Artistic Direction
Francesco Giannico, Anacleto Vitolo

Web Development
Rumore Bianco Studio

The Landscape2023 Selection Committee

Caterina Tomeo

Curator, Lecturer, Art Historian

Caterina Tomeo is an art historian and alongside her research activity a critical and curatorial practice. She deals with Contemporary Art with particular interest in interdisciplinarity and research in the field of New Media Art and Sound Art. She is director of MAD in "Multimedia Arts and Design" at RUFA - Rome University of Fine Arts, where she is also Representative of the Academic Council, professor of Contemporary Art and New Media, History of Electronic and Digital Art, Digital Video. You teach Multimedia Arts, Electronic Music and Music Festivals in the Master in "Economics and Management of Art and Culture" at the Sole 24 Ore Business School in Rome. She is a lecturer in the Master in "Management of Art and Cultural Heritage" of Giunti Academy-School of Management. Since 2021 she has been teaching in the Master in “Sonic Arts. Sound Technologies and Arts "of the Tor Vergata University of Rome. She was Art Director of the Arts & New Media section of Spring Attitude Festival. You currently collaborate as curator with international festivals dedicated to electronic music and contemporary culture. You founded the Sound Studies Forum, the first research network on sound studies in Italy, in collaboration with the University of Urbino. You are the Art Director of the “Sound Box” at the Mattatoio in Rome. Among the most recent publications are: Sound Art. Listening is like seeing, Castelvecchi (2017); Sonic Arts. Between perceptive experience and active listening, Castelvecchi (2019). The new volume Electronics is woman. Indeed trans-feminist will be published by Castelvecchi in March 2021.

Claudia Attimonelli

Professor of Visual Studies and Digital Culture and of Media

Claudia Attimonelli, PHD in Theories of Language and Sign Science; researcher in Media Studies and Visual Culture, professor of Visual Studies and Digital Culture and of Media, Visual Culture and Sound Studies at the University of Bari Aldo Moro; lecturer in Visual and Multimedia Studies at the Master's Degree in Journalism Order of Journalists at the University of Bari. Delegate to the Gender Equality Plan for ForPsiCom Uniba. Scientific manager of the Uniba Gender Archive.

Elisa Trento

Curator, Project Manager

She is a development and production ponsultant, project coordinator and organizer with more than ten years of experience in the audiovisual industry and cultural events. Main areas of expertise: documentaries, live performances, music, cultural events.
E' curatrice e project manager di SHAPE – Associazione che ha ideato e produce ROBOT - Festival internazionale di arte digitale e musica elettronica giunto quest’anno alla sua dodicesima edizione.
Per la società Kiné ha prodotto la serie tv ‘Stili Ribelli’ di Lara Rongoni, trasmessa nel 2020 da Sky Arte.
Nel 2012 ha co-fondato Kinodromo, Associazione di professionisti dell'audiovisivo dell’Emilia-Romagna.
Per 11 anni è stata responsabile nazionale di Doc/it - Associazione Documentaristi Italiani.
Attualmente per la società Bo Film sta seguendo la produzione del corto di animazione ‘L’Angoscia e L’Estasi’ di Niccolò Manzolini e Lucia Malerba.
E’ Direttrice di Produzione di Resilienze, festival ideato e prodotto da Kilowatt.

Karin Fink

Geographer and Relational Designer

Karin Fink (born in 1975, Bern, Switzerland) is a Geographer and Relational Designer, currently working as a scientific researcher and environmental policy advisor. As a relational designer she is focusing on community-driven projects. The thematic focus of her work is on sustainability transformations, food, mobility and housing systems, as well as social and technological innovations. Karin Fink contributes to several European expert networks, mainly in the field of environmental reporting and outlook studies. She also engages in various projects aiming at bridging between policy makers, innovators, activists and artists. Karin Fink has a strong interest in transdisciplinary collaboration processes and often, her projects happen at the intersection of art and natural science, the digital and the analog space.

Vincenzo Madaro

Artistic Director Vicoli Corti Film Festival

He grew up with a passion for cinema, he is one of the founders of "Il Serraglio", a non-profit association that organizes "Vicoli Corti Cinema di Periferia", now in its 14th edition, of which he is Artistic Director. He also deals with school projects such as CinemAscuola, reviews, thematic cineforums and educational workshops for students of all levels.

Paolo Bragaglia

Acusmatiq Festival Artistic Director

Paolo F. Bragaglia began his activity as a musician in the 80s as a guitarist participating in the prolific Italian and Marche new wave scene with the Dagon groups, Tzar's Re-Vox, 3B Unit. It was in this period that he began his interest in instruments such as synthesizers and drum machines, later devoting himself more and more to electronic instruments of an analog and digital nature. Since 2006 he has been in charge of the artistic direction of the Acusmatiq electronic music festival held at the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona and which saw the participation of artists such as Thomas Brinkmann, Chris Cutler, ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup, Gianpaolo Antongirolami, Fennesz, Luca Miti, Francesco Fuzz Brasini, Otolab, Roberto Paci Dalò, Robert Lippok, Howie B, Mouse on Mars, Biosphere, Chris & Cosey, rib of Throbbing Gristle and the realization of the Temporary Museum of the Marchigiano Synth within the festival.

Alfonso Amendola

Professor of Sociology of classical and digital media

Alfonso Amendola is Researcher in Sociology of cultural and communicative processes at the University of Salerno where he teaches Sociology of experimental audiovisuals; Sociology of the electronic arts; Sociology of the multimedia show; Theories and techniques of digital media.

Elio Martusciello

Musician, Composer, Teacher

Elio Martusciello (born 23 November 1959, Naples, Italy) is an Italian experimental music composer and performer, principally on guitar and computer. He has studied photography with Mimmo Jodice and visual art with Carlo Alfano, Armando De Stefano and Rosa Panaro. He is a self-taught musician/composer and teaches "electronic music" at Conservatory of Music, Napoli, Italy. His compositional aesthetics are derived from acousmatic issues, but in addition to acousmatic composition he composes for instruments and live electronics, sound installation, multi-media works, audiovisual art and computer music improvisation. He lives in Napoli, Italy.

Guido Max Calanca

Director and Editor, President of the CinemAvvenire Association

Videomaker, director, editor, operator, has been working for years in the film and audiovisual field making commercials, promos, corporate videos, event videos, backstage, video clips, videos in 2d animation, interviews, services for TV realizing projects with the association he chairs. He has also collaborated with Rai, Fandango and Freemantle.

Hernando Urrutia

Multidisciplinary Artist, Designer, Curator, Composer, Researcher and Professor of Multimedia and Digital Video Arts / Technologies - “Portucalense” University of Porto

Multidisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Designer, Composer, Curator and Cultural Manager, of Portuguese nationality (PhD) in Digital Media-Art. University Professor of Multimedia and Arts in Applied Informatics and Digital Video Technologies UPT - Porto, Portugal; Collaborating Researcher at CIAC - Arts and Communication Research Centre (UAb - Lisbon / UAlg - Faro, Portugal); Visiting Researcher at M-ITI - Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (UMA - Funchal, Portugal).
Curator in 34 artistic projects since 1996, with highlights: META-MORFO Portugal's Experimental Exhibition of Audio-visual Technology, in Brazil 2023; Video Art Exhibition on the Border, Portugal Section - FERIA TRANSFRONTERIZA DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO (Spain - Portugal) 2023-2024-2025; TRANSGRESSION art + technology of the 5th International Edition of THE WRONG BIENNALE 2021-2022 - Spain; TRANSGRESSION art + technology PRO2, 2023-2024 - Portugal; IMAGE PLAY International Video Art Festival 2019-2020-2021-2022-2023 - Portugal; EXPERIMENTA - International Video Art Exhibition, 2019-2020-2022 - Portugal; Curator and Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Video Art Festival OVER THE REAL, 2021- Italy, among many others.
Artistic Director of New Media/Digital Media Arts of APCA 2023-24; President of the + Art Contemporary AC. He has received 260 recognitions and 8 awards.

Cineclub Canudo

Cineclub Canudo, Curators and Organizers of "Avvistamenti" and "Sonimage"

Cultural operators mainly interested in the effects of the encounter between different artistic languages. In 2001 they founded the Cineclub Canudo, with which they carry out activities to promote film culture and author videos. With the project "A, B, Cinema" they are dedicated to audiovisual teaching also in schools. Since 2002 they have been directing "Avvistamenti (non) è un Festival", which explores the experimental filmography of young authors, alongside that of internationally renowned artists. In 2013 they gave life to a new project with the "Sonimage" project, whose goal is the meeting between directors and videomakers on the one hand and musicians and composers on the other. Since 2015 they have managed the Urban Laboratory of Palazzo Tupputi, a splendid Renaissance palace in the historic center of Bisceglie, taking care of numerous events, including exhibitions, reviews, performances and training activities in the artistic field.

Mirco Salvadori

Music critic

He was an independent DJ and radio host in the studios of historical broadcasters in north-eastern Italy, with "Nocturnal Emission", a broadcast conducted together with Massimo Caner from the beginning of the 1980s to 2010.
Writer and music critic, since 1983 he has been one of the longest-lived names of the monthly music magazine ROCKERILLA.
Freelance writer for various music webzines, he writes about music and not only on the blog DISERZIONI, hosted on SHERWOOD.IT.
He publishes on the literary blog NAZIONE INDIANA, on the European cultural magazine SOUTH with interventions on various literary and musical publications.
He is co-owner and art-director of the independent digital music labels LAVERNA.NET and FALERNA.ORG.
In 2016 he released his first literary collection entitled HAZKARA 'for the publishing house not only 13_Silentes. He appears, with a story written together with Francesco Forlani, in the collection "DEATHS IN VENICE" edited by Laura Liberale for Literary Correspondence.
He participated in the multidisciplinary project ALONE by and with Gianni Maroccolo, participating with his stories about him in the first four published volumes. He participated in the project by Arlo Bigazzi and Chiara Cappelli dedicated to Mayakovskij and participated with a story of him in the forthcoming volume "Fifth Landscape. Concerts of ideas in action".

SUBMISSION FORM

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You can use the repository files system you want but you can't use temporary links such as Wetransfer. Video files must be always available for downloading.
PLEASE RESPECT TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS Technical features: Video: .MOV/MP4 - CODEC H264 1920x1080p (progressive) - Audio 2 CH - Stereo - CODEC: AAC 48.000 Hz, 320 Kbps - Alta qualità. - Max File Size 1gb
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Project curated by Collettivo Zeugma and Laika Aps

Artistic Direction
Francesco Giannico, Anacleto Vitolo

Web Development
Rumore Bianco Studio