Daito Manabe will be a judge of the Les Voyages de Capitaine futur project for children/family media art works submitted by Paris' media art center "La Gaîté lyrique".

This project is an open recruitment project where three media art pieces for family are selected. The theme is "Supernatural: stories of worlds to come". As production cost, 15,000€ will be paid per project. For details, visit the website (http://capitainefutur.voyage/en).

+ Name Les Voyages de Capitaine futur A European cooperation project supported by Creative Europe, run by Cinekid, la Gaîté Lyrique, KIKK & Woe Lab.

+Theme “Super-natural: stories of worlds to come”, an exploration of the transformations of the hybrid ecology era. Our technological environments are increasingly becoming natural elements in our lives. A host of singular species coexist in this new world: virtual animals, mutant plants, electronic viruses, insatiable computers, memory rocks, tentacular networks, autodidact algorithms, domestic robots, cybernetic forests and more. Is this new organic, composite world an intermediate stage of natural evolution or a big bang of singularities? What tools must we craft to survive, experience, adjust to and negotiate these new types of coexistence? The call aims to elicit poetic visions, narrative approaches and fictional tales that recount a land where humans are no longer central and undergo a metamorphosis upon contact with heterogeneous beings.

+ Deadline for application September 6, 2017 Wednesday 11: 59 pm (GMT + 2)

+ Review September - October 2017 Works feasible with five committee experts including Manabe Daita are considered and three projects are selected.

+ Result announcement Results will be announced on October 25, 2017 at Cinekid Festival (Amsterdam).

+ Stay Creation October 2017 - February 2018

+ Commission work exhibition April 2018 - January 2019 Three victorious projects are scheduled to visit the co-hosted venue below. April - August 2018 La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris): The Capitaine futur and the Supernature group exhibition October 2018 The Cinekid Film, Television and Digital Media Festival (Amsterdam): Part of the 10-day media lab exhibition November 2018 Little.KIKK (Namur / Belgium): 7 days exhibition held at KIKK Festival Late 2018 or early 2019 WoeLab (Lome / Togo): One of 3 projects will cycle.

+ URL http://capitainefutur.voyage/en