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THE PHAISTOS PROJECT
OPEN CALL

Visual language and societal shifts correlate.

THE PHAISTOS PROJECT | FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS is accepting entries from around the world: Deadline is December 1, 2017. This international call is open to:

→ Art & design faculty interested in integrating the project into their teaching.
→ Currently enrolled undergraduate or graduate students in visual communication, visual arts, design, typography, and related areas.

→ Creative Professionals & Communities interested in visual language, local identities and global challenges. (This work will be evaluated in an extra category)

THE TOPIC

Why is visual language more important than ever?

The project is inspired by the 3600-year-old Phaistos Disc, which is stamped with forty-five cryptic symbols and is one of the first known media technology artefacts––specifically movable type and typographic systems.

Instead of a clay disc, today’s medium will be code to create a curated archive of global voices addressing current issues: globalmurmurs 16/17.

Entries should deal with at least one of the following categories: → #RESIST → #IMAGINE → #CONNECT. The winning projects will be introduced in a printed publication in 2018.

More information on the
FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS website

THE CHALLENGE

What's the assignment?

The challenge is to use your strength as a creative individual to develop a set of forty-five symbols that conveys your message in a specific visual language.

You may visualize political, economic, ecological, or social challenges for us as individuals or as a society—in the past, present, or future. You may also address personal concerns or ideas in a more poetic and artistic way.

While each symbol of the set is a discrete element, their entirety should communicate a sense of responsible global citizenship that is driven by personal agency.

THE CATEGORIES

Where to start?

The open call globalmurmurs 17/18 invites submissions that explore new systems of visual notation beyond known writing systems and pictograms for these three categories (the lists of topics are starting points not limitations):

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PHAISTOS DISC: 01 PEDESTRIAN

#RESIST

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  • Alternative Facts and Media Landscapes
  • Democracy and Political Protest
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Globalization and Repression
  • Systems of Governance and Voice of the Individual
  • Global Warming and Ecological Destruction
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PHAISTOS DISC: 35 PLANE TREE

#IMAGINE

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  • Imagined Geographies and Parallel Worlds
  • Outer Space and Deep Sea
  • Personal Encyclopedia and Imaginary Language
  • Visual Notations and Music
  • Visual Language in Movies, Theatre and Dance
  • Notations of Dreams
  • Collective Cultural Memory and Dreams of the Future
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PHAISTOS DISC: 18 BOOMERANG

#CONNECT

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  • Communication under Restricted Conditions
  • Extraterrestrial Communication
  • Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms
  • Traffic, Urbanism and Gentrification
  • Dictionary of Disciplines
  • Explaining the Past to the Future
  • Ethnographic Archeology



WHY PARTICIPATE?

What's the deal?

The FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS project started in 2013 and united a global and diverse community of students and scholars through workshops, classes, publications and an exhibition.

Become part of the project and our community! Connect with international peers and get published in a brand new publication in 2018.

Entries will be evaluated by an international jury and selected for the next printed magazine and the website.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Entries have to be submitted as a zip file to:
globalmurmurs // at // 45symbols // dot // com

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    Schedule

    May 2017
    Project launch and open call
    October 2017
    Register your project, your class or your group through this form at the end of the website
    December 1, 2017
    Submit your work
    January 2018
    Jury meeting and participation selection for website and publication/exhibition

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    How to submit

    Entries have to be submitted as a zip file to:
    globalmurmurs // at // 45symbols // dot // com

    One folder with all Symbols as PNG
    black and white only
    1800x1800 pixel
    naming conventions: myproject001.png -- myproject045.png

    One folder with all Symbols as EPS
    black and white only
    1800x1800 pixel
    naming conventions: myproject001.eps -- myproject045.eps

    One PDF that includes (in English)
    A project description of max 200 words that explains how the symbols create a narrative to address a current issue that matters.
    A title and optional description for each symbol (100 words max each).
    Contact Info: Name, Postal Address, Email, Telephone number, Name and Address of Institution.
    Your Bio-data/Personal Information: Maximum of 200 words.

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    Terms & Conditions

    Projects need to be registered through a faculty member of an art or design school.

    Participants are entirely responsible for the legality of their designs.

    Participants are also responsible for making sure that their works do not infringe any third-party rights. The organisers are not responsible for the accuracy of information provided by participants.

    Project organisers will ensure that projects submitted to the competition will not be used for commercial purposes without a written permission of their rightsholders.

    Entries and parts thereof may be published only for informational purposes and to promote the competition.

    Participants agree that their work will be transformed into a webfont and published online.

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    Organizer

    The project is hosted by the working/research group “45 symbols”

    Pascal Glissmann, Assistant Professor
    Parsons School for Design New York

    Andreas Henrich, Professor
    Academy of Media Arts Cologne

    Olivier Arcioli, Lecturer and researcher
    Academy of Media Arts Cologne

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CASE STUDIES

The FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS project was launched in 2013. More than 120 students participated in classes and workshops to express ideas, identity, concerns, or appreciation in visual systems. The following projects were developed during this initial period and respond to some kind of social change. They reflect the spirit of globalmurmurs.

A GENDER DEBATE IN TAIWAN

Lin Yu-Heng

URBIC

Tracy Bassil

NOMAD SCRIPT

Clarisa Diaz

FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS workshops in NEW YORK, BOGOTA, FALMOUTH AND COLOGNE

THE JURY

Selected entries will be published in the 2018 FORTY FIVE SYMBOLS magazine. The curating committee consists of global experts, professionals and scholars working in the field of visual language, fine arts and design. Confirmed are:

Randa Abdel Baki

Associate Professor Communication Design
Lebanese American University Beirut

Olivier Arcioli

Designer
Atelier Gruen
&
Founder
atelier grün

Annelie Franke

Associate Professor Communication Design
Universidad de los Andes Bogotá
&
Founder
AF Photography

Pascal Glissmann

Assistant Professor Art, Media & Technology
Parsons School for Design New York
&
Founder
subcologne design studio

Andreas Henrich

Professor Emeritus
Academy of Media Arts Cologne
&
Founder
henrich design studio

Mariko Takagi

Associate Professor
Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts, Department of Information and Media, Kyoto, Japan
&
Founder
mikan design studio

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