Open Call: 20 seconds for art

1. General

Awarding authorities: KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien – an institution of Stadt Wien Kunst GmbH (“KÖR”)
A-1020 Vienna, Nestroyplatz 1/1/14
and INFOSCREEN Austria Gesellschaft für Stadtinformationsanlagen GmbH (“INFOSCREEN”)
A-1030 Vienna, Hainburger Straße 11

Provided service: artistic spot on the subject of “Community 3.0. Public Space in the Digital Age”
Type of procedure: anonymous, single-stage design competition followed by direct award

Closing date for entries: April 15, 2024, 2 p.m. CET (time of receipt)
Note is made of the fact that the estimated value of the order lies below the threshold for direct awards. Therefore the planned
design competition must be classified as a market survey for the subsequent direct awarding of the order to the selected artists.
The provisions of the 2018 Federal Act on Public Procurement (Bundesvergabegesetz, BVergG 2018) concerning procedures
whose scope is smaller than the threshold value or competitions do not apply. Only the following provisions of this call and the
provisions applicable to direct awards according to the BVergG 2018 shall apply to this design competition and the subsequent
direct award.

2. Subject and objective
The public space is a community space where different social ideas and needs come together and boundaries between private and public areas of life blur. Therefore, it is a place of constant (re)negotiation. Such processes have long been taking place not only in tangible, material real space, but increasingly also in digital, virtual space. Today, we need to ask ourselves what opportunities and risks digitalization holds for the public realm and what changes they will bring. What can digitalization contribute to the common good in the public space and what responsibility does it entail?

The call is for 20-second silent films that address the theme of “Community 3.0. Public Space in the Digital Age” and provide an artistic interpretation.

The following questions can be referred to for orientation:
How do digital technologies impact the present and future of the public space? What opportunities can they create? What individual
traces will be left in the public space through digitalization? How will digital technologies change social interaction or togetherness
in the public space?
The public real space is subject to rules, and violations against them are sanctioned. What is the situation in the digital space?
What is the significance of privacy in the public space of the digital age? Where are the limits and risks of personal freedom? What
forms of participation do the digital and public spaces enable and what barriers do exist?

Each of the selected spots will be shown on about 4 000 INFOSCREEN displays of the Austrian network (Vienna, Linz, Wels, Graz,
Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and Eisenstadt, Bregenz) for a period of eight weeks from July 8 to September 1, 2024.
In addition, the winning entries will be published as part of communication activities by KÖR and INFOSCREEN.

Overall five winners will be selected.