The Tank is currently accepting proposals for:
Bent 2008 : The Fifth Annual Circuit Bending Festival

Festival Dates:

New York Bent Festival - April 17th-19th, 2008.
Los Angeles Bent Festival - April 24th-26th, 2008.
Minneapolis Bent Festival - May 1st-3rd, 2008.

Proposals:

Proposal Deadline: February 5th, 2008
Participant Notification: February 15, 2008

This call is for all three festivals.

Proposals to each festival must be submitted separately.


In keeping with the expanding interests of the community, this year we are
continuing to open the Bent Festival to performers and artists that create their
own electronics as well as to those who hack, bend, modify and destroy them.

We are currently seeking performers and artists to participate at each of the
above locations and are specifically looking for submissions in these
categories:

Performers, Installation Artists, Artwork Submissions and Workshop Instructors.

Please send all proposals and questions to the appropriate email address:

Minneapolis Bent Festival - bentmpls@...
New York Bent Festival - bentnyc@...
Los Angeles Bent Festival - bentla@...


Proposals to each festival must be submitted separately.

PERFORMERS
Bent Festival seeks bands and/or solo artists who incorporate home built or
circuit
bent instruments or ideas in their performance.

To have your work considered: Please email a short description of your act,
along
with a link to mp3s and photos if you have them. (Please do not send attachments
larger than 1MB).

INSTALLATION ARTISTS
Bent Festival is looking for installation artists who can commit at least 15
hours to
creating site-specific pieces of art at each of the venues during the duration
of the
festival.
Each of the three venues (New York, Minneapolis and LA) are quite different but
our goal is
to have artists creating work for each of them. Installation artists will be
provided with
space, materials, electronic equipment and tools as we are able.

To have your work considered: Please submit via email a one-page proposal of
your
installation idea along with examples of your past work. Please be prepared to
commit to
spending time in the installation space during the festival and be prepared for
a shared
and at times hectic work environment. No white walls here!

ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS
In addition to installation artists, we would like to have featured art work
that fits with
the spirit of the festival from people who might not be able to join us in
person or who
cannot commit to working in the space during the duration of the festival.

To have your work considered: Please submit via email digital images or links of
your
work and a brief description.

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS
Bent Festival is seeking workshop instructors to present on various topics.
Topics in
previous years have included: General circuit bending workshops for beginners
and
extremely technical, hands on workshops on a particular aspect or niche of the
genre.

To have your work considered: Please describe the subject you would like to lead
a
workshop on and provide a one-page description of that workshop, in addition
include
links or examples of your current and past work in the field.

COMPENSATION
Stipends for all festival performers, artists, and workshop leaders will be
provided. We
have a limited number of travel grants available as well. Please contact for
more
information.

CONTACT INFO

Each festival has its own submission email address, so please apply accordingly.

To apply to multiple festivals, you must send your submission to each email
address
separately.

Minneapolis Bent Festival - bentmpls@...
New York Bent Festival - bentnyc@...
Los Angeles Bent Festival - bentla@...


Thanks,

Mike Rosenthal
Managing Director
The Tank
http://www.thetanknyc.org
http://www.bentfestival.org