Call for Art: Pen and Sword
This is a general call for new work (completed in the last two years) or proposals for new work for the second annual Games and Art exhibition featured at the 8th annual Games+Learning+Society (GLS) conference to be held in June of 2012.
Narrative is an essential tool of understanding and communication of ideas. Humanities from history to politics to science are understood and disseminated through narrative tools. Characters and bildungsroman are the flesh and blood of narratives, which link us to our past and help guide our vision of the future. Narrative is a thread which represents, interprets, and shapes our world. Our narrative is often truth for lack of capital-T-Truth as we manipulate it so it may manipulate us. Perhaps most importantly, it is a double-edged sword which grants us access to experiences which may be beyond our reach--independent of space, time, and reality. This exhibition seeks to explore the power of character and narrative through games and art. It is open to virtually any form from traditional practices in painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, to new media, performance, film, and digital video, as well as new playable games, game art, and game-like forms.
The one month exhibition takes place in June at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It is a featured event during the week of the Games+Learning+Society Conference 8.0. The submission deadline is March 15th, 2012. All submissions of finished work should consist of no more than five images or five minutes of video and a written statement of formal and conceptual description of the work. Proposals should include five images or video of previous work along with the written proposal which should not exceed 800 words. Submissions can be made at https://precisionconference.com/~gls/ using the provided submission template. Any questions or video submissions can be sent directly to the exhibition organizer and curator Arnold Martin (arnie.martin@gmail.com).
