Southbank competition
Architecture, Sustainability, and African Arts
Southbank is an international competition for the design of a new environment that will encompass residential space, landscape elements and space for the production and exhibition of art from Africa, on a site near Stellenbosch in the Western Cape. The competition is open to architects, artists and designers from around the world. The sponsors of the competition are a leisure and wine company, Spier Holdings, who plan to use the forum of the competition, and the building of the winning community, to construct new models for the integration of spaces for living, working, learning, and creative expression. The brief calls for the practice of social equity, environmental conservation and creative freedom on the site, in dialogue with the rich history and contemporary contribution of African heritage and culture.
Integrated into the competition brief is the design of the new Africa Centre. The Africa Centre is both a physical entity and an ongoing process. Meant to grow spatially and conceptually over a period of years, in time it will emerge as a multi-sited, multiple-usage space where the visual and performance cultures of Africa South and North, present and past are celebrated, studied and brought to life for diverse audiences in innovative ways.
In order to serve diverse communities of users, the Africa Centre plans to sponsor a range of different types of programs. Among these will be residencies for visual and performance artists, intellectuals, scholars, instructors and activists, to take place in the Southbank and nearby communities. The Africa Centre will encourage joint endeavours among residents and maximize interaction through activities such as conferences, workshops, classes, discussion groups and open studio sessions led by residents and open to the public, on the Southbank and in nearby communities; and an ongoing series of temporary exhibitions and performances showcasing works in progress and finished pieces in dedicated exhibition and performance spaces.
The Southbank competition will be run in two stages. The first, open stage, called image/bank, will be focused on visualisations of the environment, and the second stage, south/centre, will see five finalists refine their ideas into tangible plans. The winner will be announced on January 20, 2007. Prize money of US $225,000 will be awarded. Entrants will have to register by July 16, 2006 to enter the competition, and submit their first ideas online by August 7, 2006.
The competition jury is Spier CEO Adrian Enthoven, Salah Hassan, (curator and art historian), Mike Keniger (architect and academic), Anne Lacaton (architect), Luyanda Mphalwa (architect), Ikem Stanley Okoye (architect and academic), and Mike Rainbow (engineer).
Rules and information relating to the competition can be downloaded at: http://www.southbank-competition.org.
E-Mail enquiries can be sent to: info@southbank-competition.org
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Event dates: 2006
The town of Trivignano Udinese, Councillorship for Culture
IMAGINE THE TIME
A contest for the illustration of a calendar, open to young artists of no more than 35 years of age.
The contest will be followed by an exhibition and the publication of the 12 selected images.
Finalities: Object of the contest is the illustration of the pages of a calendar. The contest intends to stimulate and help young artists that distinguished themselves for their innovative research work and for the experimentation in various languages and in various techniques of image creation.
Theme: Tasting the nectar of the gods.
Shapes and colors that re-create the sensations experienced while sipping a glass of good wine. The memory of dainty dishes matched with the perfume and taste of the most proper wine. The pleasures of food-and-wine connoisseurship expertly transformed into images that transmit pleasant emotions throughout the year.
Participation: The participation to the contest is free of charge. Artists of all nationalities born after December 31st 1971 and over 18 years of age are eligible to participate. Participation to the contest contemplates the acceptance of these regulations and the free surrender of the rights for reproduction and publication of the works submitted.
Prize: 12 images will be selected for the illustration of the calendar. In addiction to the gratification of seeing their works published, the authors of the 12 selected images will receive a certificate and copies of the calendar, they will also receive free hospitality during the final party and prize-giving ceremony. A popular jury will select the best among the 12 images, and the author will be awarded a prize of 1.200,00 Euro.
Techniques: All the different techniques are accepted (graphic and/or photographic illustration, painting, drawing, collage, computer graphics, etc.) and each author may participate with a maximum number of 3 works.
Size and medium: All the works should be cm 43 x 43 in size and should be submitted in digital format on CD-rom, each file should be in the Tiff format at 300 dpi, CMYK colour. The original works should not be mailed but may be requested by the jury for exhibition and/or reproduction purposes. For each work a reference print on A4 size paper sheet should be included. Each work should be marked by a title, without indication of the authoršs name.
Copyright: The copyright of the works will remain property of the authors, but the town of Trivignano retains the right to reproduce and publish free of charge on every kind of support and media the 12 winning images, for educative, didactic, promotional and advertising purposes.
Exhibition: The 12 winning works will be exhibited in Clauiano from Saturday September 23rd. Among the works submitted to the contest, a substantial number of images will be also selected for projection during the exhibition.
Sending the work: The closed envelope must contain a CD-rom with all the works, a reference print of each work, the filled and signed participation form and a short curriculum vitae.
Jury: President: Ferruccio Giromini (art critic and magazine director); Francesca Agostinelli (art critic and teacher); Walter Bortolossi (artist and teacher); Piermario Ciani (artist and publisher); Alessio Curto (vice-director of Juliet art magazine); Dorino Minigutti (film director); Flavia Modotto (oenologist and sommelier); Secretary: Annamaria Zuccolo (representative of the town of Trivignano). The jury will meet on Saturday 26th August. The unappealable verdict of the jury will select the 12 images to be reproduced in the 2007 calendar and will choose the images that will be projected.
Prize-giving ceremony: The prizes will be presented to the winners on Sunday September 24th, on the occasion of the Autumn Equinox, at the conclusion of a party that will involve the whole town of Clauiano.
Deadline: 19/08/06 - before (arriving date)
Contact:
The town of Trivignano Udinese / Comune di Trivignano
Piazza Municipio n. 5
33050 Trivigliano Udinese
Italy
fax: 0432.999559
bibliotecatrivignano@libero.it
http://www.comune.trivignano-udinese.ud.it
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Filmladen Kassel e.V.
23rd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
We invite all filmmakers, media people, and artists to submit their latest works and projects for the individual sections of the Festival program.
www.filmladen.de/dokfest/start.html
The submitted works should have been produced in 2005 or 2006. For each work submitted a separate entry form has to be used including the following enclosures: brief synopsis, biography and stills as text, image file or hardcopy. For installation proposals submitted to the MONITORING exhibition, we need a detailed project sketch, a list of the technical equipment required, as well as photographs and a video documentation, if available.
Please send only VHS tapes or DVD (PAL or NTSC).
If the original version is neither in English nor in German, the work should be subtitled or accompanied by a text list in English. The preview tape(s) and materials submitted to the 23rd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will remain in the festival archive. All persons and institutions submitting material will receive a free festival catalogue in November. EINSENDESCHLUSS FÜR ALLE SEKTIONEN IST DER 1. AUGUST 2006.
All those who have submitted works will be informed about the results of the selection by e-mail by October 20, 2006. If your work has been selected, we will request a screening copy in the best possible quality.
The costs of sending preview materials and screening copies to the festival are to be paid by the sender. The festival will cover the costs of returning the screening copies. During the festival, all screening copies are insured for their replacement value. Any claim for compensation must be asserted within 10 days after the screening copy has been returned.
Prizes will be awarded to films, videos, and installations of the festival program in four different categories. The nomination to these categories results from the fulfilment of the respective requirements or at the suggestion of the selection committees. Prize money totalling € 10,000 and a grant will be awarded. The prizes are meant for the authors / artists. Independent juries decide on the winners. The judges’ decisions are final.
Deadline: 01/08/06
Contact:
Filmladen Kassel e.V.
Wieland Hoehne / Gerhard Wissner
Goethestrasse 31
34119 Kassel
Germany
phone: 0561-70764-0
fax: 0561-70764-41
dokfest@filmladen.de
http://www.filmladen.de/dokfest
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Euro-Med Organizational Secretariat
Crossing Glances
Photography contest for young photographers
http://www.euromed-crossingglances.org/site/index.
The contest is open to young photographers, either amateur or professional, born between the 1st of January 1975 and the 3th july 1988 and residing in one of the following Countries: Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Malta, Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Morocco, the Palestinian Territories, Israel, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey.
Images stimulate emotions but also reveal a way of life, the point of view of “others” and a host of other differences in an ever-more homogeneous world.
Crossing Glances is launching a contest for young photographers, both amateur and professional, from Northern and Southern Mediterranean Countries.
United in the sign of photography, the young talents of the two shores present their points of view in a photographic dialogue between the two shores of the Mediterranean.
Observe, report and exchange beyond the barriers of language and culture.
The young photographers shall especially focus on the following topics: Sharing the same vision for the future The relations between the North and South of the Mediterranean The importance of intercultural dialogue Exchanges between young people within the framework of an ever-closer cooperation between the inhabitants of the two shores of the Mediterranean The photographic dialogue between the two shores of the Mediterranean
These topics aim at stimulating and widening our knowledge of the realities that exist in the European Union, in the Mediterranean Basin Partner Countries and in the Partnership between the two shores of the Mediterranean. Keep these in mind while on your photographic wanderings!
The jury will focus special attention on photos capable of:
Enhancing dialogue and tolerance
Providing an original and innovative outlook on topical issues
Fighting prejudice, clichés and stereotypes
Focusing on the collective imaginary and on mutual representations
Highlighting the richness of the peoples living on the two shores of the Mediterranean and pointing out both the challenges and the enriching factors of such a comparison
Enhancing the right to diversity
A brief caption explaining every photo would be greatly appreciated.
The young photographers who might wish to do so, can also include in their work a short digital video documenting the images and placing them in their context.
Application form
Deadline: 03/07/06 (the postmark date)
Contact:
Organizational Secretariat
Crossing Glances
Via dei Banchi Vecchi 58
00186 Roma
Italy
phone: ++39.06.6832740
fax: ++39.06.6832770
http://www.euromed-crossingglances.org/
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Zagreb Film Festival
4rd ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL
Call for submissions
http://www.zagrebfilmfestival.com/index_en.php?pag
Zagreb Film Festival , in the competitive part of the program, will present an international selection of the first or second directors work in categories:
FEATURE-LENGHT FILM – to satisfy festivals rules and regulations the film should be screened on 35 mm format and longer than 70 minutes.
SHORT FILM – to satisfy festival rules and regulations the film shouldn't be longer than 30 minutes.
DOCUMENTARY FILM - to satisfy festival rules and regulations the film shouldn't be longer than 90 minutes.
Film registering in the competitive part of the program can be done till August 1, 2006. Registering is free of charge. Together with the application form, competitors have to send VHS/DVD of the film in the original language with English subtitles (PAL or NTSC format).
Films that can partake in the competitive part of the program are those completed from January 1, 2005. All films in the competitive program, except the Croatian production till the beginning of Zagreb Film Festival, must not be shown in public on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. Films that promote racism, or any other form of intolerance, or those which promote pornography shall not be taken into consideration.
For the competitive part of the program, selection panel will choose 10 first or second feature films, and at lest 10 first or second short films and documentary films. Each of the chosen films will be shown three times at the most during the festival. All chosen films will be shown in the original version with Croatian subtitles. It is recommended that films in the Croatian production have subtitles in English. After the festival selection committee has seen all the films and has made the final selection, the festival organizers will inform the authors via letter of invitation. All authors of the selected films will be informed about the decision by September 1, 2006.
International panel for the competitive part of the program will consist of at least three film professionals and it will grant three awards:
- Golden Pram for the best feature film. Together with plaque, a director of the best feature film will be granted €4000 award.
- Golden Pram for the best documentary film. Together with plaque, a director of the best documentary film will be granted €1500 award.
- Golden Pram for the best short film. Together with plaque, a director of the best short film will be granted €1500 award.
- Golden Pram for the best Croatian film in the Checkered competition.
Together with plaque, a director of the best film will be granted €2000 award.
Application form
Deadline: 01/08/2006 - arriving works
Contact:
ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL/ Propeler Film
SC - Savska 25
10000 Zagreb
Hrvatska
phone: + 385 1 4829 477
fax: + 385 1 4593 691
info@zagrebfilmfestival.com
www.zagrebfilmfestival.com
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PRIX EUROPA
Prix Europa 2006
Call for Entries: internet, radio, television
http://www.prix-europa.de/publish/n_article.html?l
PRIX EUROPA invites the best television, radio and online productions - as well as their makers and managers, from all the countries in Europe to engage in debate and competition.
Producers, broadcasting organisations and associations of broadcasting organisations may enter the competition.
Please use the links below to the medium of your choice to read the Rules and Regulations, and fill out the entry forms.
After completion please take care to print the form for yourself and then send it to us in that order - the relevant buttons are at the bottom of the page.
Most Productions, Programmes and Projects should be entered no later than 1 July 2006. The Deadline for PRIX EUROPA SPOT is 1 September 2006 .
Deadline: 01/07/06
Contact:
Prix Europa
Hotel am Studio, 3rd floor, Kaiserdamm 80/81
14057 Berlin
Germany
phone: +4930 97 993 - 10 9 10
fax: +49 (0)30 30 31 1619
office@prix-europa.de
http://www.prix-europa.de/publish/
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Bitfilm Festival e.V.
Bitfilm Festival
Categories: 3D SPACE, FX MIX, FLASH, 64K DEMOS, MACHINIMA, MICROMOVIES, and SUBVISIONS
http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/
The Bitfilm Festival shows films that use digital technology in a creative and innovative way.
AWARDS:
3D animated or digital FX driven feature films
Computer generated 3D animations
Movies made with Flash
Digitally composed hybrids
Films shot live in virtual environments like computer games
EXE files that make the computer generate animations in realtime
Short clips designed for the small screens of mobile devices
Deadline: 15/07/06
Contact:
Bitfilm Festival e.V.
Steintorweg 4
20099 Hamburg
Germany
phone: +49 (0)40 - 28 84 51 10
fax: +49 (0)40 - 24 84 51 11
festival@bitfilm.de
http://www.bitfilm-festival.org/
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Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science
Research and Experimentation Grants in Art+Science+Technology
This program is open to artists and researchers of all nationalities.
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/pdf/e/prog_ind.p
Created in the spring of 1997 through a donation from Daniel Langlois, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is a private, non-profit charitable organisation with international activities. The Foundation aims to further artistic and scientific knowledge and understanding.
The Foundation’s programs are designed to further learning among individuals, groups and organisations in order to promote new knowledge and new uses of digital media and information technology.
For the Foundation, the concept of knowledge is based on interactions among researchers, artists, scientists and other individuals, as well as organisations who are both the source and recipients of various forms of knowledge. It therefore also seeks to promote the emergence of knowledge founded on local practices that contribute to the growth and well-being of people in their communities and milieu.
The Foundation accords priority to two thematic focuses:
- Arts, sciences, and technologies
Through this thematic focus, the Foundation promotes contemporary artistic practices that use digital technologies to express aesthetic and critical forms of discourse. The Foundation encourages interdisciplinary research and, in general, supports the development of projects involving cooperation between stakeholders from a variety of fields, such as artists, scientists, technologists and engineers.
- Arts, technologies, and the environment
Connections between art, science, technology and the environment are contingent on the evolution of environments shaped by humans.
The projects must:
• be supported by ecologically-based concepts;
• present an original fusing of art, science and technology and propose an ecological intervention;
• study ecological issues, and propose solutions that foster public participation and awareness of matters involving one’s natural and cultural environment.
Application form
Deadline: 31/01/07
Contact:
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology
3530 Saint-Laurent Blvd., Suite 402
H2X 2V1 Montreal, Quebec
Canada
phone: (514) 987-7177
fax: (514) 987-7492
http://www.fondation-langlois.org
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Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier
28th Mediterranean Film Festival
call for entries
http://www.cinemed.tm.fr/cgi-bin/new.pl?name=3_1&r
Feature film competition
Fiction films completed since January 1, 2005. They must have the following characteristics:
• a running time of over 60 minutes
• they have not been distributed in France either commercially, non-commercially, or on video
• the screening format must be 35-mm or 16-mm standard prints with optical sound. No other format or type of sound is accepted,
• the subject and handling must contribute to the cinematic representation of the Mediterranean
• the director must be from one of the states in the Mediterranean Basin, the Black Sea states, Portugal or Armenia.
Deadline for entries: 31 August 2006.
Short fiction films competition
Fiction films completed since January 1, 2005. They must have the following characteristics:
• maximum running time of 30 minutes
• the screening format must be 35-mm or 16-mm standard prints with optical sound. No other format or type of sound is accepted,
• the subject and handling must contribute to the cinematic representation of the Mediterranean,
• the director must be from one of the states in the Mediterranean Basin, the Black Sea states, Portugal or Armenia.
Deadline for entries: 15 July 2006.
Documentary competition
Participation is allowed for documentaries made since January 1, 2005 with the following characteristics:
• films with a 50-minute minimum running time
• the screening format must be 35-mm, 16-mm or video (BetaSP, DVcam)
• the subject and the treatment of which reflect an artistic point of view of the Mediterranean in the historical, cultural, environmental, social or political domain (with the exception of purely tourist, scientific, industrial and training films, or news reports),
• the director must be from one of the states in the Mediterranean Basin, the Black Sea states, Portugal or Armenia.
Deadline for entries: 15 July 2006.
Experimental film and video panorama
This is not a competitive section. It is aimed at representing the most significant trends in recent experimental production in the Mediterranean area.
Participation is reserved for experimental works made since 1 January 2005 and that have the following characteristics:
• films with a running time of less than 30 minutes,
• the screening format must be 35-mm, 16-mm or video (BetaSP, DVcam, MiniDV)
• the handling of image and sound and the technical approach must reflect a procedure that is outside the traditional narrative standards of fiction and documentaries and in which formal and plastic preoccupations are dominant,
• the subject is related to Mediterranean cultures,
• the director must be from one of the states in the Mediterranean Basin, the Black Sea states, Portugal or Armenia.
Deadline for entries: 15 July 2006.
Development grant
The Mediterranean Film Festival of Montpellier has awarded a 'Development Grant' since 1991 for projects for full-length fiction films.
Projects can be submitted by:
• experienced directors who have made at least one short fiction film • the director must be from one of the states in the Mediterranean Basin, the Black Sea states, Portugal or Armenia
• and/or the project is located in the Mediterranean environment or expresses the cultural features of the Mediterranean area.
Each candidate may submit several projects. However, only one of these projects can be selected to compete for a Development Grant.
Deadline for entries: 15 July 2006.
Deadline: 15/07/06 (short, documentary films, experimental, development grant) and 31/08/06 (features)
Contact:
Festival Cinéma Méditerranéen Montpellier
78, avenue du Pirée
34000 Montpellier
France
phone: +33 (0) 499 13 73 73
fax: +33 (0) 499 13 73 74
http://www.cinemed.tm.fr/
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backup_festival
backup.award 2006
call for entries
http://www.backup-festival.com/
The call for entries goes out to an international field of applicants via film and art colleges, art academies, technical colleges, universities, film and media agencies, film clubs, as well as culture and education centers and via our website www.backup-festival.de.
»backup.award« is an international contest of filmic works that leave the traditional ways of analogue cinema behind.
Short film and video works with a length of up to 15 minutes can be submitted if they are no more than 2 years old.
All common film and video formats are acceptable. We are especially interested in works that explore new artistic approaches and deal with the plentiful relationships between content and digital form.
In this competition, prizes totalling 4,500 Euros will be awarded.
Deadline: 31/07/06
Contact:
backup_festival c/o Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Faculty of Media
Bauhausstrasse 11
99421 Weimar
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 39 29
fax: +49 (0) 36 43 / 58 39 21
office@backup-festival.de
http://www.backup-festival.com/
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Artists association Galerija GT and FAMUL STUART School of Applied Arts
eu-stuart.si - European Art Students' Digital Works
CALL FOR SUBMISSION
http://www.eu-stuart.si/FS-EU-06-call.htm
The call for the 3rd edition of eu-stuart.si invites young artists to participate in a special theme: Identity, or to submit an Open theme work.
The works must be submitted in the format appropriate for screenings (see Categories a,b,c). Open media submissions (d) will be treated specially, regarding the special demands and the possibilities of realisation in particular show spaces.
Theme CATEGORIES:
A. Special theme: IDENTITY
B. Open theme
THE SPECIAL THEME:
IDENTITY
In everyday life we meet different identities. Also our identity changes, adapts, transforms,… Personal identity deals with questions about ourselves, …our problemes, persistence question, identity through time. But the spectrum of the word identity is much wide and relates more than just personal identity. There are social, political, philosophical, artistic,….identities. So there is a lot of different views on identity. Does your view fit in, probably it does, so widen the spectrum than.
The above is not in any way a suggestion how to deal with this year's theme. The theme is simply "IDENTITY". We expect diverse answers in diverse media and modes. Short street interviews with people. OK. A monologue into a camera? A reflection, a commentary of a resident? A research of available literature, maps, encyclopaedia, theory? A SF? A documentary? A computer game? OK.
Length CATEGORIES*:
Applicants can submit their work in requested formats in the following categories:
a. 1 minute clip (video, animation)
b. 2-5 min (short film, video or animation)
c. 6-15 min (short film, video or animation)
d. Length undefined (open media - audio/video installation, interactive computer work, web project)
*-The first criteria for selection will be the quality of submitted works. However, the quality, the number and the length of submitted works in a particular category will affect the number of selected works in each category. Open media submissions will be treated specially, regarding the special demands and the possibilities of realisation in particular show spaces.
ENTRIES:
Works of current art students and artists that have recently graduated (in years 2005 and 2006) are welcome.
No entry fees.
DATES:
Deadline for application and material:
By post: July 27th 2006
Special delivery: August 1st 2006 (All works arrived on Famul Stuart address till 1 P.M. August 1st 2006 will be accepted. If received later, the final date of the official postal stamp from July 27th 2006 is valid.)
Exhibited works will be selected upon a professional jury decision. All applicants will be informed until September 15th by email.
The exhibition will take place from September till October 2006 in different art galleries in Ljubljana.
Duration: The exhibition will be touring Slovenia for one year. We will try to spread our network to other countries as well.
SELECTION PROCEDURE:
The selected committee will select best works for exhibition and screenings. Authors of selected works will be informed until the September 15th by email. Exhibiting artists will be quoted in our printed materials and web announcements and will receive their copy of eu-stuart.si leaflet at the end of the touring exhibition.
FORMATS:
All submissions must be on following media: CD, DVD (.avi or .mov), mini DV (PAL) appropriate for screening and visual presentation (PC formats only). Each entry should be titled with basic information (lines 2 to 6 /see below/ Labelling of materials and works)
Application form
Deadline: 27/07/06
Contact:
FAMUL STUART School of Applied Arts
Bežigrajski dvor, Dunajska 56
1000 Ljubljana
SLOVENIA
phone: +386 (0)1 436 47 06
famul@eu-stuart.si
http://www.eu-stuart.si
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Mountain Standard Time
M:ST, Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
http://www.mstfestival.org/submission07.html
M:ST (Mountain Standard Time) is a biennial Southern Alberta performative art festival that brings together a wide range of local, national and international artists from a diversity of performative practices and cultural identities. The festival fosters discourse crucial for the growth and progression of the performative arts and an important inter-regional and international dialogue through panel discussions, workshops and dissemination activities.
Local, national and international artists are invited to submit proposals for performative works and lectures to be presented as part of M:ST4 in October, 2007.
M:ST encourages the submission of innovative performative works, media/audio works, site-specific works, public interventions and lecture/panel based proposals. The term “performative” describes practices that originate from a visual or media arts discourse and involve the live presence of the artist. These often incorporate sound, video, film, spoken word, or live web streaming.
M:ST is accepting proposals from professional artists of all backgrounds, and the M:ST 4 Festival will include performative works which include both gallery or off-site exhibitions. M:ST meets or exceeds the recommended minimum CARFAC artist exhibition fee.
* Travel, accommodation and shipping assistance is contingent on sufficient funding.
Submission Procedure
Proposals are reviewed through a peer review process by the M:ST Programming Committee consisting of local artists and programmers who have extensive visual, performance, and media art backgrounds.
Applicants should expect to hear the results of our selections process by February of 2007.
The following materials must be included in your proposal:
1 curriculum vitae: Maximum of 3 pages, describe your artistic background (e.g. education, grants, scholarships or awards received, professional status, previous exhibitions or performances, commissions, professional memberships, articles, etc.)
2 venue preference: Explain which venue you wish to perform in and why it is important to your work
3 proposal: Describe the proposed exhibition or project. Provide details about your spatial, and material requirements, including equipment needs.
4 artist statement
5 budget: Explain costs involved in presenting your project.
6 slides and/or other relevant audio or visual materials: Provide a maximum of 15 numbered and labeled slides (name, title, date), cued VHS tapes (max 10 min.), CD-ROMs (please confirm with the gallery that it is compatible with our equipment and software), audio cassettes or other relevant support materials.
7 slide list: A clearly labeled and numbered list of slides, including the artist(s') name(s), titles, dates, mediums and dimensions.
8 self-addressed sufficiently stamped envelope: Due to excessive costs for the gallery, your submission will not be returned without one.
tips: When building your proposal, please keep in mind that each jury member receives and reviews a photocopy of your written materials before they view your visual support material. It is to your advantage to provide written materials that are easily readable after being photocopied. Do not staple or bind your materials in any way.
Deadline: 01/07/06
Contact:
Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Society
c/o 516D - 9 Avenue, SW
T2P 1L4 Calgary, Alberta
Canada
phone: 403-263-5001
fax: 403-290-1714
info@mstfestival.org
http://www.mstfestival.org/
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Kyoto University of Art and Design, International Research Center for the Arts (IRCA)
Fellow Program 2006
Call for artists
http://irca.kyoto-art.ac.jp/fellow/f_guideline_e.h
The International Research Center for the Arts sponsors an annual Fellow Program which supports stay and research of artists in Kyoto from all over the world. There are no restrictions based on nationality, age, gender, or artistic medium. We welcome applicants who have a strong will to create new art projects/work at IRCA and provide a fresh stimulus to students of the university.
Program Period
[3 months-1 year]
The participation period of this program differs depending upon the individual. The length of stay of each Fellow will be determined after consultation with committee members at the second screening. (Please write your expected period of stay on the application form.)
IRCA will be accepting, in principle, one indivisual artist or one artist group for the Fellow Program 2006.
Application Qualifications
1) Applicants with an excellent track record as an artist are welcome to apply.
2) Applicants are expected and encouraged to interact with KUAD students.
3) Applicants must have the ability to speak either Japanese or English.
4) There are no restrictions based on nationality, age, occupation, gender, or artistic medium.
5) Individual and group applications are accepted.
6) Applicants should be in sufficient health to complete the proposed project during their stay at IRCA.
7) Accepted applicants will be required to complete procedures for their entry and stay in Japan.
8) Applicants are required to have sufficient funds for the following:
Daily expenses
Insurance (against loss or damage, health insurance and general liability insurance, etc.)
Any costs relating to traveling companion(s) or spouse.
(The IRCA will provide Fellows with furnished single room, indivisuals only, for artists from outside of the Kansai area.)
No program participation fee is required. There is no charge for the use of university facilities and equipment.
Scholarship
1) Scholarship of 1,000,000 yen will be awarded to each Fellow.
2) In addition, IRCA will provide:
A furnished single room, indivisuals only, for artists from outside of the Kansai area.
Studio space at the university.
Transportation costs for arrival and departure. *Please see the section titled "Transportation Costs".
Conditions and Requirements
1) Production of the proposed project should be complete primarily at the IRCA studio in the university.
2) Fellows should complete at least one work during the program.
3) Fellows should have an exhibition of work(s) produced during the participation period.
(Fellows are expected to hold an Open Studio at least once during the participation period.)
4) Fellows should reference their participation in the Fellow Program 2006 of the International Research Center for the Arts in their curriculum vitae and work experience.
Overseas Residents
The one time round-trip air fare from the international airport nearest to applicant’s current residence to Kanasai International Airport (Economy class, official discounted fare only) and one time round-trip railway fare from Kansai International Airport to JR Kyoto Station will be reimbursed with submission of an official receipt of purchase.
Application form
Deadline: 15/07/06 - arriving date
Contact:
International Research Center for the Arts (IRCA)
Kyoto University of Art and Design (KUAD)
2-116 Uryuyama, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku
606-8271 Kyoto
Japan
irca-info@kuad.kyoto-art.ac.jp
http://www.kyoto-art.ac.jp/
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Event dates: 2006
Les P’tits Belges and Visual Kitchen
CIMATICS.06
CIMATICS is an international platform and festival for live audiovisual arts & vj'ing. Call for entries.
http://cimatics.com/cimatics/index.php
In general, the festival aims to promote innovative and outstanding productions in the field of audiovisual performance, vj'ing and interactive installation, as well as to gather recent artistic and technical developments in order to present it to a general public.
CIMATICS.06 focuses on live audiovisual performance and vj'ing, because both — with different traditions but founded in the same audiovisual culture — offer opportunities for an unrelenting experimental approach of not only the audiovisual language but also performance concepts.
With it's annual festival, CIMATICS wants to perform action by introducing the selected projects into the public mind and encourages entries that are aiming at the same goal.
We wish to stimulate specific experimental explorations on this field. Therefore the festival will invite different artists to collaborate in some well-defined projects.
Application form
Deadline: 15/06/06
Contact:
CIMATICS
c/o Les P'tits Belges vzw
Rue Antoine Bréartstr 146
B-1060 Brussels
Belgium
submission@cimatics.com
http://cimatics.com/cimatics/index.php
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Invitation:
Virtual Residency
+++ a call for a virtual migration to the model house Europe +++
We are looking for artistic concepts for installations which are concerned with
the complex theme of ‚Migration‘, be it direct or indirect and would like to
invite artists of any kind (media artists, painters, sculptors etc. just to name
a few) to participate in the project.
Submission from 1 May 2006 to 15 August 2007.
(The database can be accessed for 15 months.)
Residency, residence, resident – habitation, life, resident in, residence permit…
A state of personal and collective destabilization, chaotic change, emptiness…
creative transit…
... clearly an extensive topic – what will happen before and after a stay or the
issuing of a residence permit? Who (or what) entitles a person to settle down
somewhere else and what motivates people to do so? What inner processes drive
people to change?
The project Virtual Residency calls for an artistic migration and provides
places of residence to the resulting ideas, concepts and images in the World
Wide Web and at real places in the form of exhibitions in Germany, Poland,
France and Luxembourg.
All the artistic concepts, which have been submitted, will be presented at the
four exhibitions. About ten works (at each location) will be realized as media
installations in the different institutions. All necessary material will be paid
for by the Virtual Residency. A comprehensive and multilingual catalogue of each
exhibition will be published.
The following Internet address will provide you with any further information in
English, German, French and Polish. If you would like to participate in the
project please register here:
www.virtual-residency.net
Conditions for entry:
If you would like to participate in the Virtual Residency just click on new
registration and register. Your concept and the corresponding image video or
sound files can be entered into a database. (Menu item NEW REGISTRATION). Please
enter all concepts and other data in English as well.
Information about yourself (how you look like, social environment, biography) is
welcome!
You will be notified immediately, should your concept be chosen by the project
team or the European partner institutions. In order to secure a professional
implementation of your concept, the organizers will be in contact with you to
discuss any technical details regarding the exhibition of your work.
Important:
All concepts, which have been entered into the database since 1 May 2006 and
have not been chosen for an exhibition, may still be selected for one of the
follow up exhibitions!
We are looking forward to your participation!
We would be very grateful if you would forward this invitation to any interested
friends, colleagues, institutions or galleries.
If you need any further information please contact us:
e-mail: info@virtual-residency.net
Timetable:
The Virtual Residency project starts on 1 May 2006 and ends in December 2007.
On 1 May 2006 the first call for the participation in the project will be
announced on the following web site: http://www.virtual-residency.net
The database of the Virtual Residency will remain accessible until 15 August 2007.
Artists who would like to take part in the first exhibition in Poland can enter
their concepts into the database until 6 August 2006.
The first exhibition will open at the Galeria Biala, Centrum Kultury in Lublin,
Poland on 6 October 2006.
The exhibition will run from 7 October to 27 October 2006.
Artists who would like to take part in the second exhibition in Germany can
enter their concepts into the database until 09 December 2006.
The second exhibition will open on 4 March 2007 at the Handwerkergasse -
Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte – Europäisches Zentrum für Kunst und
Industriekultur.
The exhibition will run from 5 March to 1 April 2007
Artists who would like to take part in the third exhibition in France can enter
their concepts into the database until 1 March 2007.
The third exhibition will open at the Galerie Faux Mouvement, Centre d’Art
Contemporain in Metz, France on 26 April 2007.
The exhibition will run from 27 April to 8 June 2007
The closing event will take place within the context of the "European capital of
culture 2007“ project in the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain in
Luxembourg, (Luxembourg) in December 2007. You will get an overview of all the
‘’Model house’’ exhibitions that had been held in the partner countries.
SHORT CONCEPT:
Virtual Residency + + + a call for a virtual migration to the model house Europe
+ + +
The dramatic European transformation processes of the last fifteen years have
been the catalyst for the multimedia and exhibition project the Virtual
Residency of the media artists Monika Bohr, Claudia Brieske, Leslie Huppert and
Gertrud Riethmüller.
The project group is calling on artists world wide to participate in a virtual
‘’migration’’. The project initiates a creative transit of images, motives and
concepts through the World Wide Web to real exhibition venues in Europe.
The artistic experiment the Virtual Residency uses the examination of the
states of personal and collective destabilization as the actual, powerful engine
of the migration movements. Hope, fear, dreams, necessities, distress and the
wish and the will for change generate individual images. They are examples,
‘’samples’’ or patterns for migration motives. Through the virtual projection
screen of the project, its Internet platform, they receive a direction, they
will be made visible and find a domicile. There, on behalf of their creators,
they become virtual residents.
The project group will then enable a part of the virtual residents to
materialize their ideas and concepts in reality. Based on the ‘’sample
character’’ of the concepts that had been submitted to the Virtual Residency,
the group has developed an approach to realize the ideas as real multimedia
installations in various exhibitions in Europe, so called ‘’model houses’’. One
associates the term ‘’model house’’ with a collective image of the paradise. It
is a pure place, a white place, a vessel, at the same time a ‘’void’’, a ‘’blank
space’’, a place without it’s own character, without personality. Thus, the
‘’model house’’ will be the ideal projection screen for migration motives. Model
houses will be created from October 2006 in Germany, France, Poland and Luxembourg.
The Virtual Residency is being supported amongst other sponsors by the
organizers of the Luxembourg and Greater Region European Capital of Culture 2007
project, as well as the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Saarland, the
office of the plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Germany (Saarland) and
other sponsors and partners. The project executing organization is the HBK Saar
- School of Fine Arts, Saarbrücken.
With the support of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in
Karlsruhe, Germany
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