In Medi Terraneum Festival

The In Medi Terraneum Simultaneous Video Art Festival (IMT) is an arts initiative presented in the form of a festival with international participants, using the language of video art. It is held in Latin America and the Mediterranean region, and it focuses on the development of new discourses, on the creative potential of new media, on the process rather than the finalized object, and on the revision of cultural and social stereotypes. This fourth edition of In Medi Terraneum will be held in Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, Spain, Italy, Greece on November 28, 29, and 30 of 2013.

Despite the presumption that a multiplicity of messages and a massive exchange of information imply a plurality of discourses, reality shows that aesthetic modernity, and the boundaries for inclusion in it, generally emerge in the same handful of countries. In this way, supposed peripheries are left outside and function as receptors of cultural concepts conceived beyond their borders, encountering great obstacles to add their potential to this exchange of ideas.

This is why the festival intends to explore artistic practices, in this case in the terrain of video art, that are taking place today in cities that are located outside the usual orbit of large-scale exhibitions and festivals. By means of thematic axes that vary each year, In Medi Terraneum fosters an exchange of ideas between artists belonging to the same historical culture, but confronting different current situations.

The call to participate in the festival is public and addressed to artists who are natives or residents of the countries involved in each edition. A presentation and exhibition of the selected works is organized, and there is also an urban video-activism event intended to show or create video actions in unusual sites, taking advantage of the public space.

There will also be workshops for artists and the general public focusing on the themes of the call. The festival closes simultaneously in every city, with a VJ and DJ work combining segments of the selected works to form a new, hybrid one created in the Madrid site and streamed live to all the other countries.

The largest possible number of these activities will also be broadcast through a "Cloud Site" as part of the InMediA(cc)iones project.

The deadline for the submission of works is November 5. The requirements and other information can be obtained at www.inmediterraneum.com.