OPEN CALL: CulturaDigital.Br Festival

2-4 December MAM-Rio and Cine Odeon in Rio de Janeiro

Deadline: September 30th

More than an event for the exhibition of ideas and projects, the CulturaDigital.Br Festival is a space for encounters between agents of digital culture from Brazil and all over the world — producers and activists who operate in the intersection between culture, politics, technology.

From December 2-4^th, MAM-Rio and Cine Odeon in Rio de Janeiro will be taken by keynote sessions, debates, meet-ups, workshops, exhibitions and performances. Our goal is to articulate a debate between some of the most expressive global specialists, networks and the public, concerning the national and global conjuncture of digital culture – the role of intellectual property in the digital age and the advances in free software development.

In its 3^rd edition, the CulturaDigital.Br Festival emerges in the context of massification and appropriation of technology by young independent producers who don’t necessarily fit in organizations nor have rigid ideological affiliations. Mostly, they are concerned with the practice and process of changing the cultural reality.

In this debate, technology and politics can’t be observed separately. It’s not about the denial of politics, but the confrontation of old structures. The CulturaDigital.Br Festival is produced byCasa da Cultura Digital, a creative cluster located in São Paulo that holds over 15 organizations.

The scheduling of activities of a festival like CulturaDigital.Br is an ever going process. Through the Open Call we expect to give a collaborative character to our scheduling, as well as to map some of the projects, ideas and networks that operate in the intersection between culture, politics and technology around the world to share this information on our website.

A team of curators will be in charge of analyzing each submission and tracing the common and complementary points between the projects in order to contemplate the multiple perspectives of digital culture.

The selected projects will count on coverage of transportation to Rio de Janeiro and accommodation costs during the event. Food and other expenses should be borne by each participant.

We welcome submissions from producers and collectives from all over the world in the following categories:

Network Meet-ups

Redes CulturaDigital.Br, people, groups, collectives and institutions that want to present their ideas can meet to discuss and broaden their fields of action. This section is dedicated to digital culture experiences and will embrace both already active networks and projects of prospective networks in a space for dialogue and the exchange of ideas and experiences.

Workshops

Workshops and practical activities will lead the section HandZone CulturaDigital.Br. Our goal is to promote the critical appropriation of technology and foment the use of free digital tools. A basic infrastructure – internet, desks, chairs, projectors, microphone and screen – will be provided. In case your project requires additional equipment, it’s necessary to specify it in the submission form.

Experience Exchange

At MAM-Rio’s movie theater, the representative members of projects and initiatives of global expression will have 15 minutes to present their work. This section aims at the following subjects and their relation to digital culture: education, public policies, art, communication, social development, new productive arrangements, activism, digitalization of cultural assets and free culture. There will be a special round for the presentation of academic researches to which we’ll issue certificates of participation.

Visualities

In a tent seat at the free space of MAM-Rio, Vjs, Djs and multimedia producers can show their work. During the festival, this will be a space dedicated to collective creation and audiovisual experiments that bring in the various aspects of digital culture.