Call for entries: artist-made karaoke videos

Xeni Jardin 12:22 am Wed Jun 23, 2004

Paging William Hung…

CONTRABAND, STOWAWAY LOUNGE:ARTIST-MADE KARAOKE VIDEOS

For screening at ISEA2004 CRUISE AND LOS ANGELES FREEWAVES FESTIVAL

Deadline: July 26, 2004

We are soliciting short videos for a global karaoke jukebox on a ferry between Helsinki and Stockholm as part of ISEA2004 Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. Videos for CONTRABAND, STOWAWAY LOUNGE should re-invent the pop-cultural medium of karaoke. From Tokyo to Tallinn, the ubiquitous, democratic form of entertainment activates national identity, nostalgia, sentimentality, and glimmers of rock-stardom. Individual performances transform this generic format into ironic, campy, critical and individualized meanings. Erupting within the entertainment-industrial complex, these do-it-yourself appropriations recode the corporate into the personal. We invite artists to create musical video-dramas for the crooners of ISEA2004, and later, Los Angeles Freewaves Festival.

Videos the length of pop songs should be submitted with vocals-free music. Read along lyrics preferred. Midi files, if necessary, can be downloaded for free off the web.

For more info, e-mail this woman. (Thanks, Mara!)

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