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http://sparkfestival.org

For one week each year, the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and
Arts gathers creators and performers of new media arts from around the
world to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul, USA to showcase
their work to the public.
The Spark Festival was founded by composer Doug Geers seven years ago.
Now in its eighth year, the Spark Festival showcases groundbreaking
works of music, art, theater, and dance that feature use of new
technologies. Spark invites submissions of art, dance, theater, and
music works incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert
music, experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works,
installations, kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-
traditional genres. Past Spark Festivals have featured a diverse array
of guests, including Paul Demarinis, Richard Devine, Alvin Lucier,
Morton Subotnick, DJ Spooky ,Wafaa Bilal, Kanta Horio, Scanner, Smith/
Wymore Disappearing Acts, Phillipe Manoury, Paul Lansky, and others.
This coming year, the Spark Festival will take a leave from
Minnesota's winter and move to the fall season. The next Spark
Festival will take place in October of 2010. The Bedlam Theater, home
of Spark 2009's Nightlife programming, will be the Spark Head-
quarters. The call for works for the 2010 Spark Festival will be
announced April 1st, 2010 and submissions deadline will be May 1, 2010.
Submissions / Call for Works
Spark invites submissions of art, dance, theater, and music works
incorporating new media, including electroacoustic concert music,
experimental electronica, theatrical and dance works, installations,
kinetic sculpture, artbots, video, and other non-traditional genres.
Submissions are accepted in the following categories:
Installation+Visual Art
Composer+Performer
Night Life
Improvisation
Noise+Industrial
Theater+Dance
Works for Outdoor Public Spaces
Animation/Video
While the festival provides technical support for the accepted works,
we do not provide musicians. Submissions are therefore limited to
works that are performed by the composer or by musicians/performers
congregated by the composer.

Spark receives submissions strictly through the online system. We
encourage submitters to provide a URL to supporting audio/video media
in the highest quality possible. In cases where high quality audio is
not available online, file uploads are accepted (.wav or .aif, less
than 128 MB in size). Video file uploads are not accepted.

All submissions must be received by May 1, 2010 at 11:59PM Minneapolis
Time (CST)

For audio and video documentation last year's festival please see the
2009 Spark Festival Documentation site.

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Michael Duffy
Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
Assistant Director and Co-curator
http://sparkfestival.org

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