Emergences

SmartCity | New urban stakes, new artistic practices

In the frame of the SmartCity project, Dédale and the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris jointly invite artists to realise an art project on the Cité territory.

SmartCity is an artistic project of research and production on the theme of the tomorrow city. It aims at exploring the new possibilities of artistic intervention in the urban space.
At the forefront of new practices, SmartCity invites artists, architects, designers, researchers, engineers and group of citizens to operate on a rereading of urban space. The project offers a vision of a balanced and sustainable city, centred around the citizen.


Objectives
> To propose to a wide public to operate a rereading of urban space and territorial issues, working on the modification of territory perception.
> To present projects directly connected with the inhabitants daily, their practices and environnement, projects which are based on territorial characteristics (architectural, social, historical and geographical).

:: Art fields concerned ::
Visual arts, live art, architecture, sound and interactive design.

:: Action territory > the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris ::

The "Cité internationale" is located on a wooded park of 34 hectares in the south of the French capital and represents the largest concentration of residence halls in Paris and the Ile-de-France region: 5 500 beds in 37 residences.
The residents - students, researchers, artists, etc. - come from more than 130 nationalities. From its creation, these has contributed to make the Cité a space of encounters and cultural exchanges. The strong artistic activity of the Cité enables to enhance this intercultural mix.
Identified as a laboratory of architectural innovation from its first building phase around 1925 and until the 60's, the Cité has to face the challenge of a new urban planning today.
The Cité site presents many various communication axes, having for effect to produce several nuisances. The most important is the south ring road, made up of 5 lanes. There is also the RER line, the David-Weill avenue, an aqueduct underground line, etc.
The harmonisation of the site and the regulation of the generated pollutions are right now a major priority for the Cité.

>> Further information on www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm

:: Thematic ::
In the south park, the ring road cuts the Cité into two parts: Paris part and Gentilly district part. For the moment, the only way to join the two sides by foot is limited to two narrow footbridges.
Around the main topic of the ring road integration, artists are invited to shape new connexions between the "Cité internationale" and Gentilly.

:: Nature of the researched projects :: 
- Monumental audiovisual installations
- Strolling projects and artistic tours, connexions between residence hall
- Installations / ephemeral and interactive architectures
- Art project involving nature
- Sound design of public spaces, infrastructures, buildings
- Art projects involving the residents of the Cité and the inhabitants of the Gentilly city
- Urban game art
- Locative art
- Projects using mobile technologies, interactivity and ICT
- Projects connected with urban pollutions: sound, visual, atmospheric, electromagnetic pollutions

:: A minimum 10 000 € will be given to the project ::

:: Deadline for project submission:: 30 October 2008

:: How to apply ::

You need to send by post :

- a short presentation (synopsis) and a production budget
- an artist biography
- CD-ROM or DVD for illustrating your project if possible

At the following address:

Dédale | Festival Emergences
Call for proposals
23, rue Olivier Métra
75020 Paris
France

If necessary, we'll ask you for a more detailed application.