In 2005 club transmediale will take place from Feb 4th - Feb 12th, while transmediale runs from Feb 4th - Feb 8th. Here is their annual joint Call for Entries. transmediale, international media art festival berlin, invites submissions for its Award Competition. The competition highlights outstanding contemporary artistic positions in digital media art. The international jury will award one main prize of EUR 4.000, and two second prizes of EUR 2.000 each. It seems impossible to define either the 'core' or the 'borders' of what constitutes electronic or digital media art. However, the main concern of transmediale is the vector field in which artistic practices and new technologies intersect, and where they articulate their social and cultural meanings. As a festival for media art and digital culture, transmediale presents advanced positions in the artistic reflection about the socio-cultural impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience these technologies. transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques which need to be embraced in order to be able to understand, critique, and shape our contemporary society. There are many ways for artists to explore the relation between art and technology. What is important for transmediale, though, is that the artistic practices do not only make use of technologies, but that they also imply a reflection about the aesthetic, cultural and social dimensions of such technological developments. What the festival and its competition try to convey is an understanding of media art as a sounding board and catalyst for a critical and creative expansion of the potential of human agency through new technologies. While during the last years, the transmediale competition had three separate categories (Image, Interaction, Software), we are this year responding to various discussions by abolishing the separation into these categories. This move forms part of a general debate about the definitions and limits of 'electronic', 'digital', or 'media' art, and we hope that opening up the terrain of the competition will help to re-evaluate the connection between art and media technologies. We invite the submission of works and projects that respond to this challenge. We remain interested in works that expand our understanding of interactivity, of digital image aesthetics, of narrative and, in particular, the cultural significance of software and computer programming as cultural techniques. However, we are also curious to see the submission of works outside of these areas, works that encourage us to reconsider the traditional boundaries defining artistic practice, and works which can make a strong argument for the crucial role that new technologies should play in our perception and projection of a contemporary global culture. :: Jury of the transmediale.05 award: Valie Export (Cologne/Germany) Masaki Fujihata (Tokyo/Japan) Amanda McDonald-Crowley (Australia/currently Finland) Gunalan Nadarajan (Singapore) Christiane Paul (New York/USA) http://www.clubtransmediale.de