Black Box, an initiative of Experimenter Labs, is an online platform for interdisciplinary digital projects. Projects can employ a wide thematic approach and will be live for up to four weeks on Experimenter’s website or an alternate website basis the proposal. Black Box projects will be presented online and may exist onsite as well.

Black Box furthers Experimenter’s interest in multi-disciplinarian practices, enabling new online experiences and reaching wider audiences. Experimenter will award a production budget to each project. Projects are envisaged to be interactive, participatory, aggregative, dynamic or static. Applications to Black Box are open to practitioners engaged in visual arts, film, photography, sound, performance, theatre, dance, music and other disciplines. Interdisciplinary applications are encouraged. Mediums including, but not limited to, public access data resources, notations, journals, scores, databases, online exhibitions of text, images, audio, video and found material can be incorporated in the proposal.

Project proposals should clearly indicate the intent, concept and context and may include new works, existing works, proposals, commissions, coordinated events, texts and notations. Single projects may be inter-related topically while also presented and straddling diverse mediums and forms. Project proposals must accompany text, renderings, URLs and/or visualizations.

Please email applications to admin@experimenter.in
Subject: Experimenter Labs | Black Box | Applicant Name
Files above 3 MB must be sent as a single URL or an online document.

For further information, please write to admin@experimenter.in

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    BLACK BOX PROJECT

    BLINK | AN ONLINE, MULTIPLAYER GAME

    Experimenter Labs presents Blink, an online, collaborative multiplayer game—a Black Box project, envisioned by artists Zahra Yazdani (Iran) and Ashish Sahoo (India). Blink attempts to engage players from across the world to create dialogue utilizing materials of online conversations: texts, still and moving images.

    On Blink's game platform, the participants go through multiple rounds of visual and textual interactions with each other. The outline of the game is inspired by the card game, Dixit, created by Jean-Louis Roubira and published by Libellud in 2008. At the conclusion of each round of the game, visuals arising out of the online interactions will be publicly accessible online. All works created by the participants during the course of the game will be archived in the form of an online exhibition.

    Registrations open now. For more information, please visit www.projectblink.net

    Black Box, an initiative of Experimenter Labs, is an online platform for interdisciplinary digital projects. Black Box furthers Experimenter's interest in multi-disciplinarian practices, enabling new online experiences and reaching wider audiences.

  • Blink : Video excerpt

    . Courtesy of Blink, Zahra Yazdani and Ashish Sahoo.