Opportunities 6th March 2006

Call for Internet based work
extended deadline: 1 April 2006
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54
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On 31 December 2005,
the global networking project
[R][R][F]2005--->XP by Agricola de Cologne
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org expired,
but it was reborn on 1 January 2006 as
[R][R][F]2006--->XP
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org

Since its start in March 2004, the RRF project
(Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting)
has become one of the most successful
Internet based project environments of its kind.
Dealing with the thematical aspects of "memory & identity",
it represents a unique collection of collective memory
by including artworks by more than 650 artist, 50 curators and
numerous virtual and physical organisations and institutions from all parts on the globe.
RRF was presented until these days nearly 50 times
in virtual and physical space in most different constellation -
details see also NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54
all recent news can be found also on http://netex.nmartproject.net

For the new season 2006/2007, but particularly also for a new context in Cologne/Germany
- [R][R][F]2006--->XP is invited to become a part of
KlangDrang Festival 2006 www.klangdrang.org, a Cologne based soundart festival,
in form of an interactive media exhibition to take place in October 2006 -
is inviting artists working with New Media to submit their
latest Internet based projects
dealing with the theme "memory" in a narrow or wider sense,
including aspects of identity, violence, human rights, controll (surveillance),
globalisation and much more, see also the "Memory Channels" on
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org

All details and the entry form can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54
the call is also available for download as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/Call_for_submissions_RRF2006.pdf
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http://netex.nmartproject net
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The Annenberg Center for Communication (ACC) (www.annenberg.edu) at the
University of Southern California invites applications for up to eight
postdoctoral positions and one visiting scholar position. These
Visiting Research fellows will take part in a major multi-disciplinary
research initiative to explore the "The Meaning of the New Networked
Age: Innovation, Content, Society, and Policy." We welcome
researchers from various disciplines including anthropology,
architecture, the arts, business, communications, computer science,
design, economics, engineering, history, international relations, law,
library science, neurosciences, political science, rhetoric, and
sociology.

ACC is a research institute devoted to the study of new media from a
multi-disciplinary perspective. We are in a period of fundamental
transformation in the nature of the networks that connect people,
information, objects, and locations. But, what does it mean and what,
if anything, should be done to guide the process? The ACC research
program will explore the drivers of these changes, their meaning, and
their implications for business and government policy.

The 2006-2007 theme investigates the structure and evolution of
today's political, social, cultural, technological, and knowledge
networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* How new technology is transforming politics and citizen engagement
worldwide,
* Communication law and policy
* New models of intellectual discourse and citation,
* Peer-to-peer cultural production and distribution,
* The emergence of pervasive mobile and wireless networks.

The ACC intends to convene a multi-disciplinary cohort of scholars to
focus on a topic of pressing concern not well addressed in more
established disciplinary and departmental institutions. The visiting
fellows will work with the ACC's senior fellows and also will be
expected to pursue their research in residence at the Annenberg Center
during the 2006-2007 academic year. They will collectively be
responsible for organizing one conference and a monthly speakers
series, and to attend two weekly Fellows' seminars of graduate,
postdoctoral, and faculty fellows on the theme of the meaning of the
new networked age. They may not hold any other appointment during the
period of the fellowship.

The postdoctoral fellowship is intended for scholars who have completed
their Ph.D since 2001, but we also will consider researchers with at
least four years of relevant, real- world experience. The ACC
fellowship carries a stipend of $45,000 in addition to a limited amount
of funds to support research and relocation expenses.

The visiting scholar position is intended for a mid-career scholar with
a well -established track record and demonstrated leadership and
expertise related to the theme. The stipend will be commensurate with
the scholar's current position. ACC will also provide a limited
amount of funds to support research and relocation expenses.

Applicants should clearly indicate whether they are applying for a
postdoctoral position or the visiting scholar position. Applications
should include a CV, a cover letter including a personal statement, and
a brief statement of research goals in relation to the theme. Three
letters of recommendation are to be sent directly by the writers
(letters may also be faxed to 213-747-4981). Address all application
materials to Elizabeth Harmon, Annenberg Center for Communication,
University of Southern California, 734 West Adams Boulevard, Los
Angeles, CA 90089-7725. Email contact: [eharmon at annenberg dot edu].
The deadline for receipt in our office is April 30, 2006.


function:Feminism

Call for cyberfeminist projects

This call is for work to be part of a net.art exhibition exploring feminist theory and contemporary women's art practices across a broad range of disciplines and geographic borders. This project is being accomplished in conjunction with TheFeministArtProject and Rutgers University.

Formal usage of the term 'Cyberfeminism' occurred in 1992, with the publication the English cultural theorist Sadie Plant, and the appearance of the radical Australian feminist art group VNS Matrix. The two wildly diverse approaches employed by VNS Matrix and Plant laid the ground for the non-hierarchical, decentralized usage of the term cyberfeminism by artists and theoreticians as the movement developed through 1997. At that time a group of cyberfeminists (most notably Cornelia Sollfrank) formed the Old Boys, the 'first Cyberfeminist Alliance,' shortly after which they developed "100 Anti-Theses*" during the First Cyberfeminist International at Documenta X, an international exhibition of contemporary art. This project will begin with VNS Matrix and investigate the development of Cyberfeminist art practices during the last decade to the new, emerging Cyberfeminist artists.

function:feminism will draw it's inspiration from the writing of Swiss theorist and art critic Yvonne Volkart, a member of the Old Boy's network,.

"Cyberfeminism is a myth. A myth is a story of unidentifiable origin, or of different origins. A myth is based on one central story which is retold over and over in different variations. A myth denies ONE history as well as ONE truth, and implies a search for truth in the SPACES, in the DIFFERENCES BETWEEN the different stories. Speaking about Cyberfeminism as a myth, is not intended to mystify it, it simply indicates that Cyberfeminism only exists in plural."
--Yvonne Volkart

IMPORTANT THEMES

Identity, embodiment/disembodiment, the non-hierarchical networking, post-colonialism, biotechnology, computer technology

please reply to:
debkking2@yahoo.com

Only 12 Days Left to Submit Your Work in HD! Definition 2006: HDTV Summit
Entry Deadline: March 15, 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time

We’re looking for creative, innovative, and unique HD submissions for the
Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) Accelerator’s Digital Media Festival!

The Definition 2006: Digital Media Festival will be held during the
Accelerator’s Definition 2006: HD Summit from April 20 - 22, 2006 at The
Banff Centre. The festival is a juried event bringing the best works in
HD media from around the world to Banff, Alberta.

Entries can be of any duration in any genre including narrative, story,
documentary, animated or experimental, and can be submitted by
professional or amateur contributors. An international jury will choose
works from those submitted for entry in the festival.

Creators of works selected for the festival will receive free tuition and
on campus accommodation in Banff during the HD Summit in April. All
selected works will be screened at the Definition 2006: Digital Media
Festival. ________________________________


Visit the Definition 2006 site for more information


For more information contact:
Amy Inkster, Banff New Media Institute Accelerator Program
Phone: 1.403.762.7500
Email: definition@banffcentre.ca
www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/definition2006


ICMC 2006: Extended Deadlines
Y'all are invited to submit your best, finest, or even craziest works to the 2006 International Computer Music Conference to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA from November 6 - 11, 2006. To facilitate the submission of your works we have extended the deadlines:

Music/Video/Installations: March 18 (Sat), 2006
Papers: March 11 (Sat), 2006

This conference is not only a historic collaboration between ICMA and SEAMUS (Society of Electro Acoustic Music in the US) but is also a conference that will help with the recovery of a city, its people, and its culture.

We have also further updated performance resources which includes the Ensemble Surplus from Germany, NextEns from Cincinnati, Cat 5 from Mississipi, the infamous Convolution Brothers, dancers from the Tulane Theater and Dance Department, our own Tulane Music Department Musicians, Korean traditional instrumentalists from Seoul, and much more.

During the conference we'll be giving away gifts and prizes (as well as lots of beads!) made possible by generous donations by our corporate sponsors such as Bias(numerous copies of Peak Pro XT), Parallax (10 BS2 boards with on board bread-boards), Mixmeister (more than $1000 worth of products), Maxim-IC (no not the magazine!), Electrotrap ($800 worth of sensors for your HCI needs), empreintes DIGITALes (special "ICMC" CD for all registered participants), Soundhack (5 copies of spectral shapers), fxpansion (one of each software type) and many more.

Please visit www.icmc2006.org for details on updates and conference information. Laissez les bon temps roulez!

Sincerely,
Tae Hong Park, ICMC 2006 Conference Chair

Concept Trucking is seeking artists for its 2006 exhibition season. Concept
Trucking is an exhibiton space that uses the on-line networking site
Myspace as its platform. Artists whose work engages the dynamics or
structure of social networking systems are encouraged to submit proposals
for upcoming shows. Please limit proposals to 500 words. Visit:
www.myspace.com/concept_trucking and send your proposal via the site

Vilnius, Lithuania

Europos Parkas
ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Call For Applications
www.europosparkas.lt/English/residency.html
An international artists' residence is situated in beautiful landscape just 19 km north of the town centre of Lithuania's capital. The Centre of the European continent - a symbolic cross-roads of diverse cultures throughout the ages - is nowadays a meeting point of artists. The program is open to creative people of any nationality working in any field. The residence welcomes artists throughout the year.
Artists become acquainted with cultural and historical points of Lithuania, visit studios of Lithuanian artists as well as museums and galleries. Seminars, discussions and slide presentations are organized during the program. Attention is paid to the individual intentions and needs of every artist.

Europos Parkas, the open-air museum at the centre of Europe, offers four-week long residencies three times a year (May, July, September). The sculpture museum spans an area of 55 hectares and displays over 100 works by artists from 32 countries. The programme is open to artists from various fields interested in exchange of artistic experience and acquaintance with Lithuanian culture and traditions.

Artists can develop an individual project for either the park or the museum's exhibition space. Opportunities to communicate with local artistic communities as well as visits to the studios of Lithuanian artists, seminars, discussions and slide presentations are organised during the residency. Europos Parkas provides accommodation and meals.



Contact:
Europos Parkas
Gintaras Karosas, president
Joneikiskiu k
15148 Vilnius
Lithuania
phone: (370 5) 2377 077, 2 377 070
fax: (370 5) 2377 077
hq@europosparkas.lt
www.europosparkas.lt

Brussels, Belgium
Event dates: 2006

European Commission
Breaking Stereotypes - poster competition

Za nadebudne umetnike /For art and design students
www.stop-discrimination.info/2189.0.html (slo)
Slo: (english below)
Informacijska kampanja EU "Za raznolikost. Proti diskriminaciji." vabi študente umetnosti in oblikovanja iz vse EU, da se ustvarjalno izrečejo za raznolikost in sodelujejo na natečaju za najboljši plakat Porušimo stereotipe ("Breaking Stereotypes").

Na natečaj se lahko prijavijo študenti umetnosti in oblikovanja iz vseh 25 držav članic EU. Zmagovalce bomo razglasili konec avgusta 2006.

English:

The European art competition Breaking Stereotypes is a European Commission initiative aimed at informing people of the benefits of diversity. Art and design students can win prizes of up to €2,500 and the best designs will feature in a travelling exhibition around Europe.

The competition is open to art and design students of all 25 EU Member States and entries can be submitted up to 31 July 2006. The winning entries will be announced by the end of August 2006.

A prize will also be available for the winner’s art school or college. Students can enter by submitting a CD of their work online or by post.

Entry details are available on www.stop-discrimination.info.

More


Deadline: 31/07/06

Contact:
European Commission
Michelle Adair
Belgium
phone: +49 (0) 30 65 000-348
m.adair@media-consulta.com
www.stop-discrimination.info

The Bigger Picture, The Big Screen Manchester.

The Big Screen Manchester is a 25 square metre video screen with full
sound system situated in Exchange Square, a public area regenerated
after the IRA bomb in 1996, that has an estimated daily footfall of
50,000 people. The Manchester screen broadcasts 24 hours a day, with
sound muted at night

The Bigger Picture is a Cornerhouse project, run in partnership with
BBC
Manchester, established to exhibit selections of the best moving image
work being produced today. Standing outside of a traditional gallery
context, the programme offers a platform for artists' film & video,
short films, and artistic community moving image.

The Bigger Picture is a curated programme that screens and commissions
work by established and emerging practitioners, whilst also calling
for
entries up to five times a year, in an attempt to seek out exciting
and
original moving image works that will capture the imaginations of what
is an essentially fleeting, yet diverse audience.

Submissions are selected by a panel of local artists, filmmakers and
curators, in addition to Cornerhouse's Media Curator and a BBC
representative.

Selected material will be screened for a minimum period of two weeks
as
part of a 30 - 45 minute programme that runs five times a day on The
Big
Screen in Exchange Square, Manchester, Monday - Friday at 10am, 12pm,
2.05pm, 5pm and 10.35pm, and at various times throughout the weekend.
This schedule is subject to change.

Deadline:

Friday 10 March 2006, 12.00pm.

Future Deadlines:

Friday 5 May 2006, 12.00pm - please note, we will be particularly
looking for silent shorts for this round, but not solely.

Friday 14 July 2006, 12.00pm

Friday 22 September, 12.00pm

Friday 1 December, 12.00pm

To submit please download an application form from the Cornerhouse
website: www.cornerhouse.org or alternatively contact Helen Wewiora,
Media Curator, at helen.wewiora@cornerhouse.org or on 0161 200 1507.

Please read the application form carefully, and complete in full
before
enclosing with your entry.

The Big Screen, Manchester, is part of a UK BBC Big Screen network and
also works to generate opportunities and partnerships with
international
screen sites.

For general enquiries relating to the BBC Big Screen Manchester,
contact
Screen Manager Sarah Griffiths on 0161 244 4618 or email
sarah.griffiths@bbc.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/features/big_screen


Charlotte Pedley

Visual Arts Marketing Officer



Cornerhouse

70 Oxford Street

Manchester M1 5NH

Tel: 0161 200 1527

www.cornerhouse.org
posted by joncates @ 7:00 AM


2006 MIFF Short Films, Features, Documentaries

The Melbourne International Film Festival is one of the largest and longest
running film festival in the Asia Pacific - and in 2006 they will present
the 55th Festival. Today the Festival screens more than 400 films from over
50 countries to an audience of 170,000.

2005 saw yet another increase in short film entries from around the world –
this year topping 1100 film submissions. More than 100 of competed in the
44th International Short Film Competition, with the latest fiction,
documentary, experimental and animation films vying for more than $35,000 in
prize money.

The Festival is now taking entries for 2006

ENTRY DEADLINES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
Short Films - 17 March 2006
Feature & Documentary Films - 21 April 2006

For more information, including entry forms - please visit
www.melbournefilmfestival.com.au


Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau

VIII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL

Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium

International Call
The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, with the support of the
Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (the City Historian), HIVOS, ENET /
ETECSA Cubasí Portal, and the collaboration of the Union of Cuban Artists
and Writers (UNEAC), the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema (ICAIC), CUBARTE
Portal and the National Museum of Fine Arts (Museo Nacional de Bellas)
Artes, announces the Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium
(VIII Salón y Coloquio Internacional de Arte Digital) with the purpose of
promoting artistic and cultural values created with new technologies.

The Digital Art Exhibit, which will open on June 19, 2006, will show once
again the current work in this field and favor exchange and reflection among
creators and specialists engaged in these new forms of expression.

The event covers two areas; the National Digital Art Exhibit, of a
competitive nature, and a non-competitive International Digital Art Exhibit,
where works by artists from other countries will be shown. The works of the
International Exhibit will be shown online and in video programs several
halls in Havana.
INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL ART EXHIBIT
The Centro Pablo calls on artists from foreign countries to participate in
the International Digital Art Exhibit. Various artistic views within this
expressive modality will be brought together, thus facilitating debate and
considerations on their languages and poetics.

This year the International Digital Art Exhibit will accept proposals for
the categories of bidimensional, net art, interactive and audiovisual works.
The art pieces will be shown at the website of the Eighth Exhibit, developed
by Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau and the Portal Cubasí of ENET
/ ETECSA.

At the same time the event will include a video show that will be exhibited
in halls of Centro Pablo, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, ICAIC and
the National Museum of Fine Arts.
The art pieces must arrive before April 1st., 2006. The artists selected by
the admission jury will be notificated before April 15, 2006.


Bidimensional, net art and interactive works online


In each category participants can propose up to three works, that will be
sent following the instructions contained in this web address:
http://www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu/inscripcion/index.php

The admission jury will work on the curatorship of the submitted art works
that will be included in the Jury Selection Exhibit and the Participants
Exhibit in the web site of the event.



Audiovisual works

This category includes videos and digital animation works.

Each participant can propose up to three works in VCD, SVCD or DVD (Zone 1
or multizone), NTSC.



Artists can send their proposals from this address:
http://www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu/inscripcion/index.php, uploading a still
image or an animated gif of each proposed work. Besides, the complete work
must be sent by fast or postal mail to the following address:

Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau

Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, La Habana Vieja,

Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba



The admission jury will work on the curatorship of the submitted art works
that will be included in the Jury Selection Exhibit and the Participants
Exhibit to be shown through June and July in cultural centers of La Habana
Vieja. Selected artists will be notificated before April 15, 2006

Centro Pablo cannot return the works submitted and requests participating
artists to donate them for non-commercial exhibition to promote future
festivals.



INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM

The International Digital Art Colloquium will take place June 20-23. In
addition to discussions focusing on the work included in the two exhibits,
artists, scholars and critics will make presentations on the potentials and
the development of these new forms of artist expression

The request to participate in this International Colloqium should be sent to
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau by registering and filling the
form at http://www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu/inscripcion/index.php before May
15, 2005

A fee of 50 pesos cubanos convertibles (CUC) is required from all
participants in the International Colloquium. Participants from abroad will
pay their inscription fee to the Colloquium at the Centro Pablo before the
beginning of the event.

The inscription will allow participants to receive all the printed
information about the Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and
Colloqium, including the poster created by the Seventh Exhibit winners, and
to attend the debate sessions and openings during the first week of this
cultural event.


TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS

Artists, critics, professors, journalists, students and specialists from
other countries interested in taking part on the Eighth International
Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium may make their arrangements through:


Agencia de Viajes HAVANATUR
Caridad Sago Rivera, especialista comercial
Tel.: (537) 203 9099
Fax: (537) 203 9130
e-mail: sago@cimex.com.cu


Or directly in:



Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau

Calle de la Muralla No. 63 entre Oficios e Inquisidor, la Habana Vieja

Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
Tele-fax: (537) 866 6585
Teléfono: (537) 861 6251
Correo electrónico: centropablo@cubarte.cult.cu

We invite you to visit the web sites of Centro Pablo and our previous
Digital Art Exhibits:
www.artedigitalcuba.cult.cu /
www.artedigital6.cubasi.cu /
www.artedigital7.cubasi.cu /
www.centropablo.cult.cu /
www.centropablonoticias.cubasi.cu
/ www.aguitarralimpia.cubasi.cu