Fresh Media October Event October 24, 2009

A FRESH MEDIA OCTOBER EVENT.

On Saturday October 24, 2009, FreshMedia will be hosting a one-day forum to re-imagine media and celebrate innovation in the 21st century. We will bring together media innovators, artists, citizens and the online community, and provide an engaging, generative and interactive space where we can create media together. Our ultimate goal is to inspire, inform, motivate, share practices and skills and create visions and practices for moving media forward.

This unconference-style event will involve several elements, all happening at once in an exciting, collaborative cacophony of creation and idea-sharing!

1. Hands on how-to workshops (arts/ new media) - these will inspire participants to create their own new forms of media and information-sharing.

2. Rapid Fire Showcases: these will be a series of presentations 5 minutes or under in length, on an innovative media/arts project, product or practice.

3. Media Arts Exhibition: An interactive art-sharing and collaboration space for artists to exhibit their new pieces and create new crowd-sourced pieces on the spot.

4. What is Media Now? - A live streamed interactive panel and discussion about media, journalism and art in the 21st century with some of media/journalism’s biggest doers and thinkers.

5. Meet a Blogger corner - a series of featured bloggers will share their blog in a ‘world-cafe’ style format — displaying new ideas, philosophies, design, and content — for brief time slots of 15-30 minutes.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Are you an artist, media-maker, journalist or new media creator?

Fresh Media is seeking talented journalists, new media artists, bloggers, visual artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, street artists, photographers, tech savvy’s, media mentors and social media enthusiasts to showcase their work or teach others the skills required to make fresh, innovative media in the five areas listed above.

This will be a unique opportunity to present your work to a broad-based community of individuals interested in creative approaches to a changing media environment.

DETAILS:

New forms of media are being created today that are innovative and fresh. What are you doing to keep media fresh? We’re going to be asking some key questions about media’s role in the 21st century. What is journalism today? How can media be more participatory? What do we want media to look like in the future?

Fresh Media will have SEVERAL COMPONENTS:

* An interactive exhibition showcasing the works of media innovators and artists that will engage the public through live art and media arts installations, on-the-spot media and art creating, displays of recent or current works, interactive and educational booths pertaining to media and media arts, film screenings, music, information booths etc.;
* Engaging workshops, panels, roundtable discussions etc.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

* Journalists, new media artists, bloggers, visual artists, writers, performers, filmmakers, street artists, photographers, tech savvy’s, media mentors, social media enthusiasts etc.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

* How-to sessions from skilled media innovators and artists
* 2-5 minute presentations on exciting innovative media and arts projects
* Live/on-the-spot/interactive art installations and showcases
* Short films/short docs
* Participatory and integrative new media
* Panel, roundtable, workshop suggestions
* Feel free to suggest your own exciting or innovative ideas

TO SUBMIT your session or artwork for the event, fill out the online form at: http://tinyurl.com/freshap or email us with the following at [email protected]:

* A statement (under 400 words) describing your work/session, how it qualifies as a fresh approach to media, and how you’d like to present it at the event (i.e. screening, installation, talk, workshop, panel, performance, virtually etc.)
* Any supporting documents crucial to conveying the nature of your work (photos, audio files, links to videos or websites etc.)
* A brief (under 100 words) explanation of how you’d plan to teach your skills to others, present your project etc.
* A list of any equipment you’d need, or other special requirements (wall or floor space, silence, a certain number of participants, flip chart, projector, Internet Access and etc.)

For more information, email Jacqueline McDonald at [email protected]

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