Please submit to participate in the vBrooklyn video festival, running in December 12 to 14, 2008.

vBrooklyn is a video-festival about Brooklyn as a place and video as an art-form. Complete information at http://www.vBrooklyn.org, including submission
guidelines and contact information.

The event will take place at Polytechnic University, through the Integrated Digital Media Institute (IDMI).

The deadline for proposing performances or works is July 15, 2008. The deadline for delivering accepted works is October 1, 2008.

vBrooklyn Overview

vBrooklyn is a video festival about Brooklyn as a place and video as an artform. It documents the current, evolving state of Brooklyn, NY, through contemporary video art. The festival creates a forum exploring Brooklyn as inspiration. With Brooklyn itself the subject of the festival, we hope to create symbiosis between it and the resulting works.

We want to visually record Brooklyn’s skyline, architecture, activities and experiences before the current wave of development and population influx permanently change them — Our goal is video-artists building Brooklyn’s historic record through personal interpretation and factual documentation

vBrooklyn focuses on urban landscape while including works about the people and experiences that make Brooklyn a uniquely strong, identifiable city within a city.

vBrooklyn represents video through live performances, screenings and installations.

Criteria

Our major criteria is original video footage shot by the artist of Brooklyn’s cityscape, people and activities.

We seek pieces, performances and installations expressing what Brooklyn is — A place, a physical location, a landscape; A unique set of qualities defining people and an urban culture.
We seek pieces that approach video as an art form.

We are looking for personal expression. The underlying footage will provide the documentary element the festival wants to incorporate.

We are looking for new pieces showing Brooklyn in 2008 as well as older pieces exploring what Brooklyn once was.

Screened-pieces should be less than 10 minutes long. Performances should be less than 20 minutes long. If these limits are a problem, please email to discuss.

Logistics

Pieces will be presented through live performances, screenings and installations on IDMI’s 9 channel video system.

Submissions Guidelines - Information to Include
All submissions should include:

• A short description of the completed or proposed performance, piece or screening
• The locations or subject-matter the piece will include (if not sure, indicate that)
• Location and dates of footage if using footage that predates the submission
• A short description of the video techniques and technologies used
• Duration
• A short bio/artist background
• Contact information including an email address (all contact will be by email)
• For completed works, a copy or documentation of the completed work
• For proposed works, a work sample

Performance submissions should also indicate:

• If the performance will include audio or other media aside from video
• Performance partners

Installation submissions should also include:

• A list of technical/infrastructure requirements

Physical Submissions:

Materials cannot be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

• Deliver video on DVD, VHS tape, MiniDV tape, or a file on disk playable by QuickTime on Windows and Macintosh
• NTSC format (where relevant)
• Send to:
  vBrooklyn
  473 4th Street, #4L
  Brooklyn, NY 11215

On-Line Submissions:

Please do not include media files in your email. Have them available for downloading as per instructions below.

• Send an email Here
• All written material and documentation must be included in the body of the email or attached as a PDF
• Include the URL or FTP address (including necessary login information) for a downloadable, on-line work-sample
• File must be a compressed format playable by QuickTime on Windows and Macintosh