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Harmony Channel invites the Visual Music community to submit fulldome VM art pieces to this year's DomeFest being held in Chicago, Illinois as part of the International Planetarium Society's 2008 conference. The juried show will be screened on the big dome at Adler Planetarium, and includes a special Harmony Channel "Domie" award for best mood-elevating visual music piece.

Are you up to rendering your work in spherical "fisheye" format at 3600x3600 pixels? It's really a unique experience to be totally immersed in your art. The full day event also includes a Future of Fulldome Summit including papers, panels and a standards roundtable.

See preliminary announcement below:

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We¹re thrilled to announce DF08 will be held at and in partnership with
Adler Planetarium and the International Planetarium Society. The festival
is 03 July 08--following the IPS meeting and sharing program and effort with
a special fulldome summit of the IPS Fulldome Video Committee. DF08 will
have a truncated program similar to DF07.

It¹ll be one eye-blowing night in Chicago:
+ 2008 Juried Show premiere
+ Domie Awards presentations
+"Making of..." presentations and screenings
+ Demonstrations of interactive applications
+ Good people building community and friendships

* We're also working to establish a dome at SIGGRAPH 2008 to give fulldome
and DF08 contributors exposure to that important community.

The fest-site - http://www.domefest.org - should be up next week but here are some of
the nuggets many of you have been requesting. Please help spread the word.
All progress to date has come from community-building one connection at a
time.

Base Program

Adler Planetarium, July 3, 2008
with International Planetarium Society

Day program: "Future of Fulldome" Summit by IPS Fulldome Video Committee and
Adler Planetarium (@conference hotel).

Evening: DomeFest 2008 @ Adler

Indicative Schedule
4:00-5:00 Real-Time One (demos of new interactive applications)
5:15-6:30 "Making of..." One
6:30-7:30 Happy Hour
7:30-9:00 2008 Juried Show Premiere
9:00-10:15 Dinner & Domie Awards (w/fireworks from Adler¹s
spectacular viewpoint)
10:30-11:45 "Making of..." Two, feat. Domie Award winners
after-dome To Chicago¹s Blues clubs

Submission guidelines for juried show:
Hard deadline: May 26
Final work due: No drafts
Jury Review: June 10 @ Chabot Space & Science Center (invitation only
event)

General:
Time limit = 4min or shorter
Multiple submissions accepted
Original/copyright cleared work
No trailers, but show outtakes warmly welcome
No titles, credits, logos or watermarks in piece (added in reel)
Delivery on external hard drive
Pre-paid return-shipplng label required
Non-exclusive presentations rights to DF and participating domes
Image:
3600 x 3600 pixel domemasters
PNG image sequence (name_#####.png)
30fps
Audio:
16-bit, 48KHz, mono, .wav or .aif
Six (5.1) channels, even if some blank

³Making of...² Screenings & Talks
20-minute screening+presentation
Talks on completed and in-production shows, experimental works and DF08
submissions
Call for participations coming soon to http://www.domefest.org

That¹s it for now, other than the links:
See Adler¹s gorgeous and historic joint: http://www.adlerplanetarium.org
Register for IPS if interested at: http://www.ips2008.org
Past DomeFest programs (and 08 coming soon) at http://www.domefest.org
DomeFest¹s producer: http://artslab.unm.edu
Jurying session at our good friends at Chabot Space & Science Center:
http://www.chabotspace.org
SIGGRAPH 2008 info (no dome yet, need to build support...):
http://www.siggraph.org

Holler with Qs and suggestions. Thanks again for all the support and hope to see you and your work there.

Best,
David Beining + ARTS Lab/DF08 Crew

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