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If anyone is interested in this, I'm happy to help connect you with Art or
IMS faculty or students who might complement your own expertise.
Jacob
On 6/21/12 3:13 PM, "Paul Catanese" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>Expanded Artists易 Books: Envisioning the Future of the Book
>CALL FOR COMMISSION PROPOSALS 〝 Two $10,000 commissions will be awarded
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>The Center for Book and Paper Arts, a program of the Interdisciplinary
>Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago, recently received a $50,000
>Arts in Media grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of
>a new electronic publishing initiative, Expanded Artists易 Books. This
>grant will support an award of two $10,000 commissions for new artworks
>for the iPad. These will have physical counterparts that intersect,
>modulate, or inform the digital components of the artwork.
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>ABOUT
>Artists易 books claim all aspects of the book (format, typography,
>structure, etc.) as potentially expressive. As immersive hybrid
>experiences for the reader/viewer, these works expand the limits of what
>we traditionally think of as a book. Simultaneously, we consider that
>tablet-based mobile platforms are emerging as a dynamic arena for
>investigation of the notion of the book. Expanded Artists易 Books utilize
>the rich capabilities of the tablet platform to imagine new forms that a
>book might take, such as exploring how interactivity challenges the
>traditional closure of text or the performance of time. We are currently
>focused specifically on Apple易s iPad as a site for exploration of this
>conceptually rich territory.
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>COMMISSION DETAILS
>Please visit http://bit.ly/PC0UfY for full details about the commission
>proposal process.
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>ELIGIBILITY
>Under terms of NEA support, artist must be a U.S. Citizen.
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>PROPOSAL DEADLINE
>The received-by deadline for applications is midnight, September 15, 2012.
>Incomplete applications will not be considered.
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>QUESTIONS
>Email [log in to unmask]
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