Seeking submissions in art and writing, of work that relates ideas of digital technology and culture to the Othered body.  We are looking for artists working from a culturally ‘outside’ perspective, engaging with ideas and modes of technological ‘progress’ and its impact on and potential for the Othered body.  Ideas explored in proposed works may include: dependence, resistance, engagement, functionality, subversion, abjection, waste, fusion, interface, body-lessness, the virtual body, the cyborg, the digitized subject, people as data, prosthetics, robotics, (...) and should ask questions and expand the discourse of how the technological age is being experienced by marginalized people and what it might mean for our future.

Selected works will be featured in a publication that will be made in conjunction with the show, in online and physical format, and will include images and writings on the theme.  This is a great opportunity for experience and exposure for emerging artists. Unfortunately artist fees will not be paid out, as this is an independent student curatorial project aimed at providing the opportunity for exposure to emerging artists.  The show will be held at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, a historic gallery located in the Granville Campus of NSCAD University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

WHO CAN APPLY: artworks: Undergraduate and Graduate fine arts students in Canada and the U.S. in their second-last or final year of a university program, and recent graduates of such a program.  writing: Undergraduate and Graduate students from any discipline, in Canada and the U.S., doing research/writing relating to the theme, in their second-last or final year of a university program, and recent graduates.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JULY 31, 2009

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: 3 to 7 digital images of the proposed work or related work if work is not yet realised (each image no larger than 500K, at 72 dpi, and approx. 5” x 7”), or video (format for Quicktime, H264 Codec, max. 15 frames per second), or sound files in WAV or AIFF format.  Writing submissions can be sent as Word, text, or pdf files.  Also included should be a description of the proposed work, a CV/resume, and a short bio on the artist/author. All images, video, sound and writing should be labeled clearly with artist’s name and title of the piece.  All physical submissions should include return postage if return is required.

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: (and enquiries) via email -  sol Legault at   OR     via post -

attn: sol Legault
Anna Leonowens Gallery
1891 Granville st.
Halifax NS B3J 3J6
CANADA

INFO ON CURATOR: sol Legault is an interdisciplinary photo-based student in his final year of undergraduate studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  sol has curated a variety of shows, notably Queerly Yours, a show of work by queer students, staff and faculty at NSCAD University, in November 2008.  His work involves exploration of identity, ambiguity, distortion, system, and artifice, moving between references to the altered human body and human-made architectural spaces, and stems from a queer perspective.