SMARTCITY | NEW URBAN STAKES, NEW ARTISTIC PRACTICES

SmartCity is an artistic project of research and production on the theme of the European city of
the future. It aims at exploring the new possibilities of artistic intervention in the urban space. At the forefront of new practices, SmartCity invites artists, architects, designers, researchers, engineers and groups of citizens to operate on a rereading of urban space. The project offers a vision of a balanced and sustainable city, centered around the citizen.

SmartCity is an European program of meetings, production and experimental workshops, production of artists’ projects in the urban space and events: monumental audiovisual installations, performances, locative art, sound design, ephemeral or interactive architectures, projects involving inhabitants, urban game art, installations in the shops, etc.

The call for projects SmartCity 2008 is already closed. You were many who sent us your propositions and we thank you for it. The selection is in progress. The answers will be communicated in the course of July. Within the framework of our permanent day and activities 2009, you can thus continue to send us your propositions.

Besides, Dedale appeals to specific projects in partnership with the Citéinternationale universitaire de Paris /
CitéCulture.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - DEDALE / CITE INTERNATIONALE UNIVERSITAIRE DE PARIS

In the frame of the SmartCity project, Dedale and the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris jointly invite artists to realise an art project on the Cité territory.

Objectives :
To propose to a wide public a second reading of urban space and territorial issues, working on the modification of territory perception. To present projects directly connected with the inhabitants daily, their practices and urban environment, based on territorial characteristics (architectural, social,
historical and geographical).

Art fields concerned :
Visual arts, live art, architecture, sound and interactive design.

Action territory: the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris. The Cité internationale is located on a wooded park of 34 hectares in the south of the French capital and represents the largest concentration of residence halls in Paris and the Ile-de-France region: 5 500 beds in 37 residences. The residents - students, researchers, artists, etc. - come from more than 130 nationalities. From its creation, these has contributed to make the Cité a space of encounters and cultural exchanges. The strong artistic activity of the Cité enables to enhance this intercultural mix.

Identified as a laboratory of architectural innovation from its first building phase around 1925 and during the second wave in the 60’s, the Cité has to face the challenge of a new urban planning today.The Cité site presents many various communication axes, having for effect to produce several nuisances. The most important is the south ring road, made up of 5 lanes. There is also the RER line, the David-Weill avenue, an aqueduct underground line, etc. The harmonisation of the site and the regulation of the generated pollutions are right now the main priority for the Cité.

More information on:
www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm

Thematic:
In the south park, the ring road cuts the Cité in! to two parts: Paris part and Gentilly district part. For the moment, the only way to join the two sides by foot is limited by two narrow footbridges. Around the main topic of the ring road integration, artists are invited to shape new connexions between the Cité internationale and Gentilly.

Nature of the researched projects :
- Monumental audiovisual installations
- Strolling projects and artistic tours, connexions between residence hall
- Installations / ephemeral and interactive architectures
- Art project involving nature
- Sound design of public spaces, infrastructures, buildings
- Art projects involving the residents of the Cité and the inhabitants of the Gentilly city
- Urban game art
- Locative art
- Projects using mobile technologies, interactivity and ICT
- Projects connected with urban pollutions: sound, visual, atmospheric, electromagnetic
pollutions

: A minimum 10 000 ¤ will be given to the project ::

: Deadline for project submission:: 30 July 2008

: How to apply ::
You need to send by post :
- a project presentation and a production budget
- an artist biography
- CD-ROM or DVD for illustrating your project

To the following address:
Dedale
23, rue Olivier Métra
75020 Paris
France

Presentation of the call to projects’ carriers :

Dedale : Dédale is a platform of search, production and distribution (dedicated to the art and to the new media in Europe. It organizes, particularly since 2002, the Emergences festival, an international
meeting of the new artistic forms and the new technologies in Paris (meetings, shows, installations, electronic musics). http://www.festival-emergences.info

CitéCulture / Cité internationale CitéCulture is the cultural center of the Cité Internationale. It intervenes mainly in the domains of music, architecture and visual arts. Centered on the artistic experiment and the exchange between the cultures, CitéCulture welcomes foreign artists, manages working spaces, makes students and Parisians discover the contemporary creation and sensibilize them to architecture and urbanism. http://www.ciup.fr/cite_culture.htm

More information :

Map and pictures of the Cité Internationale de Paris (format pdf, 628 ko)