SUBORDINATED REALITY
Open call for Video Artists and Filmmakers
Curator: Martin Calvino (NYC)
www.videokanava.com

Venues confirmed for selected works include Tampere-Finland; Berlin-Germany and Vienna-Austria!
Presentation reward for the selected artists is 50 euros.
The application form at http://www.videokanava.com/open-call.html


CURATORIAL TEXT:

“SUBORDINATED REALITY”

By Martin Calvino
Multimedia Artist - Scientist - Curator

https://www.martincalvino.co 
Although objective reporting has been the gold standard of professional journalism, as we transition through an era of post-truth, disinformation campaigns and fake news, balanced reporting has the conflictive outcome of dedicating equal time to truth and to those responsible for spreading falsehoods as means to assert political dominance. When journalists and the media in general, in their strive for objectivity and balanced reporting, present side by side political and social actors that express their convictions untethered from reality and facts with those who fundament their thinking and actions based on pertinent information and facts generated by a network of trusted institutions, they inadvertently equalize falsehood to truth. Despite the importance of an independent and vibrant media to democracy, public trust in legacy media is at all time low. Concomitant with this is the rise of satire and comedy- politics fueled by a pervasive entertainment culture that has turned the news itself into a joke. As result, we are over-entertained and fact-deprived. Together with this, we are also immersed in a political context of hyper-partisanship that is amplified not only by geographic and cultural differences, but also through the echo chamber effects of social media. Without doubt, we are loosing our capacity of sharing a common reality, and we are increasingly looking at it with non-overlapping lenses. Post-truth is here, although it roots has long been in the making. Among them, the smuggling of intellectual and academic discourses on postmodernism and science and technology studies, first by corporations to seed doubt on the association of tobacco consumption and cancer, as well as the impact of human activities on the environment and climate change; and later by political conservatives and the alt-right to subordinate reality as valid mechanism to assert political dominance. 

How then should we protect ourselves from misinformation and political manipulation? Video artists and filmmakers not only have the moral, intellectual and aesthetic sensibilities, but also the technical tools to explore the world of the moving image as means to help us answer this question. The open call for art presented here seeks artists addressing issues pertaining to the causes of post-truth, as well as its possible solutions. We look forward to receive all type of video works and short films on the following topics as they relate to post-truth:

Climate Change Denial
Distrust in Legacy Media
Media Manipulation of Public Opinion
Fake News
Satire and Comedy-Politics
Hyper-Partisanship
Eco Chamber Effects of Social Media
The Erosion of a Shared Reality
The Political Subordination of Reality
Postmodernism
Science and Technology Studies 

Artists could approach the above topics from two viewpoints: (1) critical perspectives and/or (2) possible solutions. 

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