Opportunities 7th Feb 2006

athens, Greece
Event dates: 2006

Athens Video Art Festival
CALL FOR ENTRIES

Categories: Video Art, Video Installations, Live Art, Artistic Constructions
www.athensvideoartfestival.gr/eng
After the successful materialization of the first Athens Video Art Festival, an innovative festival for digital art in its moving form, which is one of the most radically developing forms of art combining photography, movement, music and experimentalism, Multitrab Productions** invites again all the lovers of the moving image (regardless of age) to take part in the 2nd Athens Video Art Festival which will take place in April 2006.
Once more, people will be encouraged to create freely but also to dare to express themselves and their views on a specific theme.
This year new categories will be included: video installations, artistic constructions and live art.
Well known video art festivals from other countries will be “hosted” by the 2nd Athens Video Art Festival, by dedicating a substantial part of it to them as videos, extra information and exclusive material from the festivals will be shown. Also there will be mention of activities relevant to video art, taking place in Greece. Each day of the festival, after the projections, an audiovisual event will take place following electro-ambient musical paths.
* Apart from the option of submitting video art on a subject of your choice, there will be an optional theme suggested by the Athens Video Art Festival, aiming to stimulate the imagination of the artists and to give them extra motives to create new work. The artists are asked to unfold their thoughts and to create images concerning the terms “man” – “freedom” - “nature” – “society” – “honey bee” – “motion” – “life” and their view of them, feeling free to experiment.
Please fill in the online pre-entry form before submitting your video and your official entry form. You can fill in the pre-entry form online and also download the entry form online.

Application form
Deadline: 15/03/06

Contact:
Athens Video Art Festival
info@athensvideoartfestival.gr
www.athensvideoartfestival.gr
Source: NetEX


Beijing, China
Event dates: 2006

CHINA FOLKLORE PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (CFPA)
Humanity Photo Top Award

Call for proposals
www.china-fpa.org/hpa/e-rule.htm
All over the world, many traditional customs are changing, and some vanishing forever. The aim of this contest is to encourage the recording of traditional customs and the evolution of various folk cultures through the use of photography, and to stimulate international interest in the study, exploration, rescue, preservation, and indeed, enjoyment of our cultural heritage. It is an initiative created out of respect for our common humanity and in a spirit of international good will.
Categories
The contest is based on picture stories/portfolios of between 6 to 12 photographs. Single photographs will not be accepted. Please enter into the following categories:
A. Portrait & Costume 
Including portraits with special national features, mode of dress, hairstyles and other adornments.
B. Architecture
Including residential, religious and public buildings, interior and exterior views, structures, details, furniture, decorations and construction processes.
C. Daily Life
Reflecting ways of life, including routine means of production, such as fishing, hunting, farming, forestry, animal husbandry, markets, transportation, preparation and consumption of foodstuffs and liquor and other activities; and the living customs of a particular group, tribe or region.
D. Festivities
Including feasts, celebrations, religious festival and ceremonies of all kinds.
E. Education, Recreation, Sport & Technology
Including education, entertainment, traditional sports, games, drama, art, handicrafts, learning, traditional medicine and technology.
F. Traditional Rites
Including birth, initiation, wedding, funeral, taboo, worship, morality, reciprocal courtesy, traditional etiquette, traditional ceremony of family, village or ethnic group, and local belief.
Awards
Humanity Photo Top Award
Top Award is to be selected from First Prize-winning photographs in all categories. The selection will be made on the basis of outstanding merit, both in terms of documentary value and aesthetic quality. The winning work should best reflect the philosophy of the contest. This award carries a cash prize of RMB60,000, an award certificate, a copy of the contest collection book or CD, and an invitation to China (including a return flight ticket and hotel accommodation) to attend the awards ceremony and exhibition opening ceremony.
Humanity Photo Theme Awards
In each category there will be one first, two second and three third prize winners. Each winner receives prize money, an award certificate, a copy of the contest collection book or CD, and an invitation to the ceremonies with accommodation provided.
First Prize: a cash award of RMB16,000 and a return flight ticket to the ceremonies;
Second Prize: a cash award of RMB6,600;
Third Prize: a cash award of RMB3,600.
Humanity Photo Documentary Award
There will be 100 winners selected for these awards. Each winner receives an award certificate, a copy of the contest collection book or CD, and an invitation to the ceremonies with accommodation provided.
All participants are invited to award ceremonies, and each is to receive a HPA certificate. (Travel and accommodation expenses will be at his/her own cost.)
N.B. The cash prizes for winners outside of China will be paid in the equivalent amount of US dollars.

Deadline: 31/03/06

Contact:
CHINA FOLKLORE PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (CFPA)
P. O. Box 8006
China
phone: +86 10 6225 2175
hpa@china-fpa.org
www.china-fpa.org
Source: Mesto žensk

Alexandria, Egypt

Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation
For the Dialogue between Cultures

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
www.euromedalex.org/en/proposals.htm
The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures is seeking proposals for activities and initiatives that support intercultural dialogue in the 35 Euro-Mediterranean countries. The Programme is co-funded by the European Union and the 35 members of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
The following thematic priorities for 2006, all of which are equally ranked, are: 
Theme A: EuroMed music and other cultural/artistic creation; 
Theme B: EuroMed schools programme; 
Theme C: EuroMed teams of young researchers; 
Theme D: Summer schools/exchange programmes (artists in residence); 
Theme E: L ibraries, promotion of books and reading, translation; 
Theme F: Intercultural exchanges for women in civil society organizations.


Application form
Deadline: 01/03, 01/06 and 01/11 2006 at at 16:00 hrs Egyptian time

Contact:
Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation
Dr. Traugott Schoefthaler, Executive Director
57, 26th July Avenue, Mansheya Corniche
21111 Alexandria
Egypt
phone: (+203) 48 20 342/ or 48 20 343
info@euromedalex.org
www.euromedalex.org
Source: On the Move

Barcelona, Spain
Event dates: July 1st - September 15th

Association for the Diffusion of International Graphic Arts
MINI PRINT INTERNATIONAL, CADAQUÉS

Open to all artists, printing techniques and tendencies.
www.miniprint.org/in/in.html
Each artist should submit four prints in order to be included in the travelling shows. It is preferable though not necessary that the works be of different images.
The image on the plate, stone or screen must not be bigger than 10 x 10 cm. The paper or support must not be bigger than 18 x 18 cm.
The signed works should be sent by registered air-mail as PRINTED MATTER in a simple packet, without glass, frame or passepartout, declaring NO COMMERCIAL VALUE.
A "Curriculum Vitae" should accompany the works, including name and nationality of the artist as well as the title, technique and price in Euro or US$ of works and the membership form properly filled out. Please make payment by Cashiers Check for 80 US$ (payable on USA Bank) or 80 Euro (payable on European Bank) to the order of Mercedes Barbera. Travellers Check or Cash only.
A Jury will select the works to be exhibited. The names of the accepted artists will be published on our web site www.miniprint.org during the month of June.
Accepted works will be exhibited in the "Wingfield Arts & Music Festival", England, "Galerie L'Etang d'Art", Bages (France), and in other places still undetermined.
A Jury of professionals in the field of Art will select 6 winning prints, all of the same category, which will be reproduced in full color in the catalogue. Six copies of each awarded work will remain as property of TALLER GALERIA FORT for cultural purposes.
Each awarded artist will be invited to have a one-person show of his small format prints within the next Mini Print International in our gallery in Cadaqués, during the summer season.
Once the itinerant exhibitions are over, which takes about one year or so, a catalogue illustrating all the exhibited prints and full information will be sent to each participating artist, together with the unsold works and a check for any work sold.
There will be a 33% commission for the gallery on the sale of all works. 50 or more miniprints will also be selected to be purchased by ADOGI. If artists are interested in selling, please set reasonable prices.
ADOGI reserves the right to reproduce and exhibit any work accepted, for promotional or cultural purposes.
Although all work will be handled with maximum care, ADOGI will assume no responsibility for any damage or loss that may occur. The works that do not adhere exactly to this entry form will not be sent back.
Participation in the exhibition implies the acceptance of the above conditions.

Deadline: 15/03/06 - before

Contact:
ADOGI
Apartat de Correos 9319
08080 Barcelona
Spain
adogi@miniprint.org
http://www.miniprint.org

Dresden, Germany
Event dates: 2006

Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V
CYNETart festival

Call for entries for the CYNETart award 2006 international competition for computer-based art
www.body-bytes.de/tma/index.htm
CYNETart has been showing new trends of cultural developments in the media arts since 1997. The consequences of the prevailing progress of civilisation and the introduction of new information technologies in all fields of social life lead to the disembodiment of perception triggering the examination of a new sensitivity for physical experience and for the perception of one’s own body.
The international festival focuses on the changed perception of the body caused by new information technologies. At this, the performance of the new technologie is less important, it is rather about their cultural potential for mediation. This applies f.i. to linkages between existential questions of humankind and their perception.
It also applies to a more sensual approach to scientific methods of research and the interconnections between the arts.
CYNETart_06humane is devoted to the theme of Body-images – Image-body :: the bred, contstructed, staged, cultivated, homemade and self-designed human being.
Categories realtime processing dance and technology :: choreography :: stage design :: performance :: installations :: virtual environments :: computer games
The submitted project focuses on the integrated body and its medial “embodiment” in dance pieces, installations, computer games or performances. The transposition is using suitable interfaces and software (f.i. camera motion sensing-systems), which allow for the realtime linkage of physical movement with auditory/visual processes.
new cultures net culture platforms :: concepts :: social movements based on new technologies
You may submit strategies or blueprints which understand the net as extended social interaction/cooperation; utopian drafts of societies with the inherent attempt to include them into active social life. How is technological and intellectual knowledge applied to the practice of an electronic culture of awareness?
audio processing, visual processing sound design :: Netzmusik :: audio-visual compositions :: vj-performances Digital processing, alteration, linkage or process generation are topical parts of the work.
You may submit sound compositions, audio-visual compositions, performance applications (f.i. in the field of vj-ing), or applications with an open structure.
graphics, animation, net art screen interaction :: graphics :: animations :: software art :: generative tools :: net art
Your work focuses on the presentation on a monitor or a screen. The category subsumes alternative streams of narration such as graphics, video pieces and DVD productions from the fields of internet, design and film, and also software tools which go beyond the daily use of standard menu applications. Transcategorial projects are welcome and can be submitted. However, please choose a category according to the main focus of the project.

Application form
Deadline: 20/03/06

Contact:
Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V.
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56
01109 Dresden
Germany
phone: +49 351 8896665
cynetart@body-bytes.de
www.cynetart.de

Los Angeles, USA
Event dates: 2006

LA Freewaves
Too Much Freedom? LA Freewaves 10th Celebration of Experimental Media Arts

OPEN CALL: LA Freewaves (experimental media art, video, animation, shorts)
www.freewaves.org/opencall.pdf
The showcase will present experimental media art from around the world at art venues in Los Angeles in November 2006 and through the Freewaves web site. Media art works include experimental video and film (narrative, documentary, art, animation, etc.), DVDs, web sites, simple installations, and video billboards. Works from the festival will also appear on public television, cable stations and video-streamed on the Internet.
Competitive selection process will be conducted by a group of international and local curators with diverse specialties and backgrounds. Notification of acceptance is in July 2006. Artist payments will be $200 for selected works.
How to Enter:
* Work must be completed since January 1, 2003.
* Include completed entry form.
* Label entries with title, artist’s name, length, date of work and format. * For initial preview, we prefer your work to be saved as a Quicktime data file on a CD or DVD (not encoded).
* Include a resume or bio plus a one paragraph description for each work submitted.
* For websites, indicate URL address on application form.
* For installation proposals, include additional description and diagrams/images.
* If you are in the US, include self-addressed stamped envelope for return of work.
* There is no entry fee to submit work for consideration, however, we highly encourage those who can afford it to become LA Freewaves members with a $25 donation. With membership, you support our programs so that we can continue to promote and exhibit innovative new media art during this difficult time.


Deadline: 15/02/06 - postmarked

Contact:
LA Freewaves
2151 Lake Shore Avenue
CA 90039 Los Angeles
USA
phone: (323) 664-1510
anne@freewaves.org
http://www.freewaves.org/
Source: LA Freewaves

New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Event dates: 2006

ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Artists-in-Residence Program (ACA)

Call for artists from different disciplines to work together with distinguished masters in the fields of visual, literary, performing and musical arts.
www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/artresprog
Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies.
Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of central Florida, the pine and palmetto wooded environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writer's studio, and digital computer lab.
Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging artists - through an application process administered by ACA.
During the residency, artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently on their own projects. The relaxed atmosphere and unstructured program provide considerable time for artistic regeneration and creation. Atlantic Center for the Arts provides housing (private room/bath with work desk), weekday meals (provided by ACA chef) and 24 hour access to shared studio space.
All applications must be postmarked by the application deadline date. Application Requirements vary for each residency.
There is a $25 application fee.
If accepted as an Associate Artist, there is non-refundable $850 residency fee. Financial Aid is available.


Application form
Deadline: 27/01/06 - 19/11/06 - vary on residence

Contact:
ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Program Department
1414 Art Center Avenue
Florida 32168, U.S.A.
phone: (386) 427-6975
program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org
www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org/index.htm
Source: e-Flux

Helsinki, Finland
Event dates: 2006

NIFCA
Research residencies

NIFCA invites curators, journalists, and researchers to the centre on the island of Suomenlinna in the port of Helsinki.
The research residencies are open to visitors interested in the Nordic art scene who wish to:
· contribute to debate in the Nordic region
· research the Nordic contemporary art scene
· work on projects and themes that situate Nordic art in a global context
· take part in Helsinki's art life
· meet artists, curators and researchers at NIFCA
Guest apartments are available throughout the year for residencies of 1-2 months. Visitors have free access to workspace and library at NIFCA's office. Residencies include a monthly allowance of 840 EUR.
Freely formulated letters of application with project descriptions and possible attachments are welcomed three times a year.
A good application is clear and concise. It would usually include a cover letter with a motivation statement, a project plan for the residency (1-2 pages) and a curriculum vitae. Additional material is also welcomed, for instance writing samples, catalogs or other publications.
It is advisable to apply, at least, six months in advance of the intended residency, to ensure that there would be a guest room available.
During July-October 2006 NIFCA's guest rooms are still available for research residencies of 1-2 months.

Deadline: 01/03/06 - postmark date

Contact:
NIFCA/Research Residency
Mitro Kaurinkoski
Suomenlinna B 28
FIN-00190 Helsinki
Finland
phone: +358 9 68643 105
fax: +358 9 668 594
mitro.kaurinkoski@nifca.org
http://www.nifca.org/
Source: Office for Contemporary Art Norway

Kuopio, Finland
Event dates: 2006

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
ANTI Festival

ANTI seeks to activate 12 previously selected sites/environments with the help of pieces of art.
http://www.kuopiofestivals.fi/index.cfm?objectid
The pieces can take place directly in the proposed place or conceptually in- or outdoors.
It is essential for the proposals to take into consideration the audience and customers that are already present at each location. Site-specificity is an extremely important factor when it comes to assessing and selecting momentary performances as well as sculptural works. In addition to the physical place the idea of the work can deal with the notion of space through people who work in that particular place or the values, actions or contemporary events that the place represents. The piece may also somehow combine various locations and themes. The artist(s) choose(s) a location for his/her/their piece from the ones proposed.
THE FORM OF PROPOSALS AND REQUIREMENTS
The proposals must include the name of the artist, contact details and a CV, working title of the work, place, budget, technical requirements and a working plan (max. 1 page) and only one appendix (i.e. photograph, video, CD-ROM). Appendices will not be returned. It is not necessary that the proposal is technically ready before submission as the idea can be developed afterwards. However, it is important that the main idea of the work and the estimated costs are clearly stated in the proposal. Estimated costs should include all the necessary materials, travelling costs and performing fee. Other possible sources of financing such as bursaries should also be stated in the proposal. Photos and introductory texts of the sites are available at SITES.
Artists and students from all artistic fields as well as designers are encouraged to submit their new ideas and works of art.
The sites of the ANTI 2006 festival are the town hall, the cinema Maxim, a youth centre, the balcony of Carlson department store, a hotel room in the Hotel Puijonsarvi, the observatory, the airport, Väinölänniemi tennis court, an empty building ground, Huoneistokeskus estate agency, Savonia polytechnic and Kuopio office of Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland).

Deadline: 20/02/06

Contact:
ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival
Kuninkaankatu 15
70100 Kuopio
Finland
phone: +358 17 264 5342, Mobile: +358 40 555 0352
info@antifestival.com
www.kuopiofestivals.fi

Kamiyama, Japan
Event dates: September 18 - November 14, 2006

Kamiyama Artist in Residence Committee
Kamiyama Artist in Residence

"Human oriented" program seeks artists.
www.town.kamiyama.lg.jp/culture/
If you are looking for a fully equipped program, then the Kamiyama Artist in Residence is not it.
If you are wanting a program that will provide you with ample funds, then the Kamiyama Artist in Residence is also not it.
However, if you would like to produce work surrounded by the warm hearted people and natural beauty of one of Japan's remaining mountain villages - in other words, if you are looking for a "human oriented" program - then the Kamiyama Artist in Residence is just the thing for you.
To apply for the program, applicant must:
a) be involved with painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, land art and other art making. Grants are not made in the disciplines of performance art or production art. 
b) be able to be independent and capable of working and living on one’s own. 
c) be able to produce at least of one piece of art and give a presentation of works including display and withdrawal for oneself within the period. d) understand the purpose of one’s visit to KAIR, and be able to present over 4/5 of period of our program in Kamiyama. 
e) be able to lead community life with other artists on the program and to communicate with local people including the exchange program. 
f) be able to speak and understand either English or Japanese daily conversation. 
g) be in good health.
Applications are required to submit the documents listed by post by due date. Applicants are also asked to write required documents in either Japanese or English.
Upon carrying this program out, the Organizer and artist have a following obligation to each other. In principle, the basic precondition of applicants is to come alone to Kamiyama. If you would like to be accompanied by any spouse or children and so on, please be sure to consult with us beforehand.


Application form
Deadline: 01/03/06 (postmarked)

Contact:
The Kamiyama Artist in Residence Committee
100 Honnoma, Jinryo, Kamiyama-cho Myozai-gun
Japan
phone: +81-88-676-1522
fax: +81-88-676-1100
kyoiku@town.kamiyama.tokushima.jp
www.town.kamiyama.lg.jp/

Odžaci, Serbia and Montenegro
Event dates: August 2006

Multimedial Art Studio and MAS Gallery
(In) place of fear - IMAF 2006

Call for artists
Within 8th International Multimedial Art Festival (IMAF 2006), due to be held during August 2006, international exhibition titled "(In) place of fear" is going to be held. Curator of this project / exhibition is Nenad Bogdanovic.
All artists are invited to send their sound and video works.
With "(In) place of fear" project Multimedial Art Studio wishes to present works of the authors who want to point to the global phenomena of fear, that is / was more and more expressed throughout the Globe, with their audio and video works.
We expect from You to send us sound and video documentation on CD, DVD, audio tape or video VHS-Pal sistem.
All contribution shall be considered a gift to Contemporary Art Fund of Multimedial Art Studio organization.
Also, all artists must send short CV (no more than 5 lines), postal and e-mail address.
Your CV should be sent only by e_mail.
Catalogue published for this exhibition shall be sent to all participants.

Deadline: 20/01/06

Contact:
IMAF 2006 - "(In) place of fear"
Nenad Bogdanović
S.Markovica 41, P.O.Box 16
2525O Odžaci
Serbia and Montenegro
mangallery@ptt.yu
Source: Fado

Greensboro, NYC, USA
Event dates: 2006

Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
JourneyPerson Residency and Internship Program

Seeking journeypeople to pursue artistic creations and criticism in a contextually interpreted and designed environment.
www.elsewhereelsewhere.org/calltoartists.html
Elsewhere invites individuals to work as artists, scholars, interns, or TeamElsewhere participants during the spring, summer, and fall.
This program is offered throughout the year, however, the majority of activities occur during the spring, summer, and fall seasons. Residencies and internships last for at least a month and the duration of stay and are flexible.
Artists and scholars work within the Journeyperson Program, where they spend approximately a month creating a work or pursuing individually designed projects using the vast materials and space within Elsewhere.
Students or recent college grads are invited to join the intern team, where they work closely with Elsewhere staff to build organizational faculties, assist in the creation of the aesthetic environment by overseeing a particular place within the space, and help develop and implement the city model of Elsewhere through character creation, curatorial efforts, the arrangement of systems and processes.
Interns also assist in management of the nonprofit organization as a whole. Individuals interested in joining TeamElsewhere join the developmental staff for longer periods of time. TeamElsewhere participants work closely with the curators/producers to apply their particular interests to the Elsewhere project as a whole. While all activities are strictly volunteer, Elsewhere provides housing and inexpensive food options through our food co-op. A sense of humor, ability to multi-task, and experimental approach to work and play are an absolute necessity.
To Apply: Send an email of inquiry and you will receive an application packet with more information.
Deadlines are as follows: SPRING (March 15-May 31) due Feb.15, SUMMER (June 1-August 31) due April 15, FALL (Sept 1-Nov 15) due July 15.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis after deadlines until all positions are filled. Applications are submitted through email (mail accepted but not preferred).

Deadline: 15/02/06, 15/04/06 and 15/07/06

Contact:
Elsewhere Artist Collaborative
George Scheer
606 South Elm St.
NC 27406 Greensboro
phone: 336.549.5555
wanderingzoo@mac.com
www.elsewhereelsewhere.org
Source: Elsewhere Artist Collaborative