Opportunities March 16th 2006

CALL FOR ENTRIES: Provflux 2006
Providence, RI
June 1-4, 2006

Location and hours:

MOBILE INFO HUB, at various locations around the city throughout the weekend

THE STEEL YARD, 27 Sims Ave: Information Hub, 10am-9pm, June 1-4


Contacts:

PIPS (http://www.pipsworks.com)
THE STEEL YARD (http://www.thesteelyard.org)

Statement:

Providence, RI --- People Interested in Participatory Sculpture (PIPS) is pleased to announce its third annual Provflux, a weekend-long event dedicated to artistic and social investigations in psychogeography. Part festival and part conference, it brings together visual, performance, and new media artists, along with writers, urban adventurers and the general public. Events will take place throughout Providence to explore the physical and psychological landscape of the city. Provflux 2006 will be held concurrent with the Conference for New Urbanism (www.cnuxiv.org).

PIPS is currently accepting proposals for experimental projects in contemporary urban exploration and public art. The projects can take any form, providing it engages notions of urban space and the public's interaction with it. Interventions, actions, urban installations, presentations, and any other projects of this nature will all be considered. All disciplines are encouraged to submit material.

This year, we are asking for only action-oriented work. We have decided not to host a gallery show full of past events' documentation, but instead to host performances, interventions, games, discussions, and any other events that should be presented in the urban sphere.

We're serious about getting out of the gallery and putting the show back in the streets where it belongs.

More information can be found at http://www.pipsworks.com/provflux2006/provflux2006.html

Credits:

Produced by: PIPS (http://www.pipsworks.com)

Sponsored in part by:

Woonasquatucket Valley Community Build (WVCB) (http://www.thesteelyard.org)



Video Cocktail

CALL FOR ENTRY! Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA
[Deadline: March 30, 2006 (postmark); Late deadline: June 15, 2006 (received).]

Video Cocktail is a “survey” of contemporary single channel video art. Thematic programs will be created from submitted work and shown over the course of the summer in the CAC gallery (www.thecac.org). Any mode of single channel video making that reflects current video art practice is encouraged, such as: political, beautiful, animation, animal, urban, rural, quiet, short, not-too-long, conceptual, dreamy, texty, funny, serious, remix, red, mermaids, fabulous ones, stray dogs, undefinable, etc.

David Lachman, Curator. Video programs will be shown June through October.

Submission Guidelines
To be considered please send:

1. Recent, completed after 1999, single channel video art (i.e. any art you show on a single video monitor).
2. DVD-R, VHS, S-VHS or MiniDV of work, labeled with Artist Name, email address, and phone number. NTSC format only.
3. A list of work submitted that includes a short description of each piece, the completion date, the length (note if it is a single play, loop, or either), whether it is silent, mono, or stereo sound, and 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio.
4. Artist Statement, CV, and Short Bio, if available.
5. No Fee, but include a SASE if you want your media returned.

For full consideration, post material by March 30, 2006.
Late submissions will be given some consideration if received by June 15, 2006.

Send submissions to:
The Contemporary Artists Center
Video Cocktail Show
Attn: David Lachman
189 Beaver Street
North Adams, MA 01247
USA

Questions? Contact the CAC at 413.663.9555 or hezzie@thecac.org

PLEASE do not use cellulose fiber-filled shipping bags (often referred to as "Padded Jiffy Bags") when mailing videotapes (or DVDs)! These bags leak fibers which get into everything and which will damage both the videocassette and any VCR in which it is played. Use either cardboard cartons or the type of shipping bags that are lined with plastic bubble-wrap.



Call for Work: MOBICAPPING International Juried Online Exhibition

The curators Scott F. Hall and E. Brady Robinson of http://www.mobicapping.com invite submissions for possible inclusion in their upcoming international juried online art exhibition,"Mobicapping: Mobile Image Capture in the New Century." Definition: mobicapping is the new creative and technological practice borne of the instant capture and immediate international distribution potential of images, movies, and sounds via cell phones and other portable electronic devices. Mobicappers may submit their mobicapps by May 15, 2006 to
contact@mobicapping.com as email attachments. Submit either A) five still images (600 pixels longest side, max 250 kb per image) or B) two .MOV silent or sound movies (320 pixels longest side, max 500 kb per movie) or C) two MP3 sound files (max size 500 kb per file). Include artist name, email, location, and an artist statement/bio (max 150 words). No fees. Submission deadline: 05-15-2006. Exhibition opens: 08-15-2006.




Call for propsals
Deadline 1 July 2006
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54
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VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
will launch in April the
1st Cologne Online Film Festival (CologneOFF)
http://coff.newmediafest.org
featuring film & videos on the theme "gender identity".

VideoChannel
is now already planning the
2nd Cologne Online Film Festival (CologneOFF)
to be launched in October 2006
in the framework of KlangDrang Festival Cologne (6-7 October 2006)
www.klangdrang.org
and to be screened in the framework of VideoChannel screenings during the festival.
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VideoChannel
is looking for digital films/videos
dealing with the interaction of image & music,
a theme which is referring to the character of the festival of sonic art (KlangDrang)

Film and video are basically visual media.
Even if used and recognized as an important component,
has music in this context mostly rather a colorizing and atmospheric character.
The films/videos VideoChannel is looking for
should give image & music an equal or music even a dominating status,
which may be worked out in most different ways, for instance--->
music as the theme of the story, films reflecting music through images and viceversa,
the visalization of music, and much more.
There are no restricting categories, the submission of experimental works is encouraged.

The call is inviting artists to submit up to three proposals.
The deadline is 1 July 2006

For being reviewed, the videos should be preferably available online and have to be submitted as URL for download.
After a positive review, the artists/directors may be invited to send the video on a data DVD as mpeg2 file.
Running time: 1-10 Minutes.

Please use this form for submitting:

1.name of artist , email address , URL
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. max 3 work proposal-->
a) title
b) year of production, orginal format
c) running time
d) URL - where the video can be reviewed on or is available for download
4. work description (story included, not more than 500 words)
5. screenshot (.jpeg, max. 800x600 px)
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Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter(s) declares and confirms
that he/she/they is/are holding all rights on the submission
and give permission to include the submitted work
in "VideoChannel" online/offline environment until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)
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Please send the complete submission to
videochannel@newmediafest.org
subject: "image vs music"
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Visit the online collection of VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
or
http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste.org
or http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org/vchannel.htm
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and [R][R][F] 2006 - global networking project
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org
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The Beall Center for Art and Technology supports artistic exploration and experimentation in new technologies through a competitive exhibition grant program. We are currently soliciting proposals for exhibition years 2007 and 2008. The proposals will be reviewed in April of 2006 by the Beall Center Curatorial Review Committee, and artists notified in Summer of 2006.

The Beall Center produces exhibitions and performances in the visual arts, theater, dance, and music, and particularly seeks works that successfully integrate new forms or uses of technology with artistic production or performance. In addition, as the Beall Center has an exceptionally well-developed and flexible technological infrastructure, preference will be given to works that can not easily be displayed or performed elsewhere.

Artists, curators, or institutions are eligible to submit proposals. Priority is given to cross-disciplinary projects.

Materials will only be accepted in electronic form -- cd or dvd preferred.
(You can use PowerPoint to present your work.)

For Proposal and facilities details, please visit our website at: http://beallcenter.uci.edu
Deadline: April 15 2006


The Beall Center for Art and Technology supports artistic exploration and experimentation in new technologies through a competitive exhibition grant program. We are currently soliciting proposals for exhibition years 2007 and 2008. The proposals will be reviewed in April of 2006 by the Beall Center Curatorial Review Committee, and artists notified in Summer of 2006.

The Beall Center produces exhibitions and performances in the visual arts, theater, dance, and music, and particularly seeks works that successfully integrate new forms or uses of technology with artistic production or performance. In addition, as the Beall Center has an exceptionally well-developed and flexible technological infrastructure, preference will be given to works that can not easily be displayed or performed elsewhere.

Artists, curators, or institutions are eligible to submit proposals. Priority is given to cross-disciplinary projects.

Materials will only be accepted in electronic form -- cd or dvd preferred.
(You can use PowerPoint to present your work.)

For Proposal and facilities details, please visit our website at: http://beallcenter.uci.edu
Deadline: April 15 2006


STEREOPHONIC SOUNDSCAPE

Call for Works

The Digital Art Weeks of ETH Zurich and the Stereolith Speaker System Company,
Switzerland, would like to invite audio artists to submit soundscape works.
Each work must be in stereo and not more than 10 minutes in length. The works
will be chosen on their ability to "evoke" the presence of things or beings
in space and to the extent in which the work "immerses" the listener into
a completely imaginary sonic environment.

Stereolith is an innovative reproduction system for the re-creation of recordings
made to playback in stereo. Unlike traditional loudspeaker configurations,
the Stereolith is a single construction in which both the "left" and the
"right" channels have been incorporated. In this way, the system can be installed
at any point within the listening space and allows the listener to experience
a true stereo effect of each work from any point within the space as if it
was a live event.

Please submit all works in .aiff format on a CD. Please include the title
of the work, a short description of it no more than 100 words)and a short
biography of the author of the work (no more than 50 words). Selected works
will be presented on the Stereolith Systems over a period of 4 days from
the 12th to the 15th of July 2006 in the VisDome of ETH Zurich in conjunction
with the exhibition Zeitschnitt which will include projected works from various
artists throughout Europe. Information about each audio artist, soundscape
work and the time it can be heard will be announced in the events program.

Deadline: Friday, 14th April 2006.
Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before Friday,
5th May 2006.

For more information regarding the call please write to:
arthur.clay@inf.ethz.ch

For more on the Digital Art Weeks 06, please see:
www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch

For technical information on the Stereolith and for purchasing purposes,
please see the following URL link:
http://www.stereolith.ch

Please send all submissions to:

Art Clay
Computer Systems Institute
ETH Zentrum, RZ H 18
Clausiusstrasse 59
CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland



CHINA GATES

Call for Participation
Mobile Music Performance
Zurich, Switzerland

The Digital Art Weeks 2006, organized by members of the Computer Science Department of the ETH Zurich, is looking for up to twelve persons who are interested in contemporary music and art who would be interested in participating on a voluntary basis for the performance of a new Mobil-Music work under the direction of Sound Artist, Art Clay using GPS and mobile computer technologies.

Aesthetically, the work China Gates for tuned gongs and Wrist Conductor is rooted in works for open public space and belongs to a series of works, which celebrate the use of innovative mobile technologies to explore public space and audience. The work is technically based on possibilities of synchronizing a group of performers using the clock pulse emitted by satellites. The GPS Wrist Conductor signals each player when to hit the gong. An intense rippling effect results as the players gradually move around the park and the music of the gongs shift back and fourth from intense chords to exotic melodies.

The preparation for the event will take place in the form of a mini-workshop on mobile music and sound in open space.

Persons interested in participating are asked to apply by sending a message to the below stated email address. Please include a short biography (50 words) telling us about yourself and why you would you like to participate. Selected players will receive a festival pass for all Digital Art Weeks 06 events.

arthur.clay@inf.ethz.ch

More information concerning the Digital Art Weeks is obtainable here:

www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch


Wake Up Call, a public art project utilizing telephony as it's exhibition medium, is currently seeking submissions. Exhibition rus through Jan '07, deadline for submissions is May 1st '06.

The piece is loosely based on a hotel wake up call service; other inspirations for the piece include robotic automatic dialing and the cultural signal to noise ratio it has produced. It is not created and subsequently distributed (the traditional mode) but rather created via its distribution, manifested in its use by the public. Wake Up call is interactive and audience generated in that users select an individual artistic work, schedule the call (that day or up to a year in advance), and provide their own anonymous text message. Software agents store this information and complete the process through automated dialing and text to speech computer conversion. The work combines the choices of the audience, the message of the audience, digital text to speech technology, and audio pieces by participating artists. The final landscape of the art work is drawn symbiotically through the cooperation of artists, art piece, and the audience.

Wake Up Call is currently accepting submissions of any art work able to be transmitted through telephony. All genres will be considered; no thematic, content based or stylistic requirements need be met though the works will undergo a juried process. For example, already accepted to the site are spoken word pieces, classical cello, improvisational jazz, and experimental/noise sound art works. Please see the website for technical specifications:

www.tele-art.org

cheers,

Alexi Morrissey
Artist
Wake Up Call



fishbowl cabaret
at monkey town
CALL FOR ARTISTS

Willimasburg's hottest new venue is a video artist's wet dream! Monkey Town features a 4-channel video system projecting onto four large screens so that the audience is eveloped in a video "aquarium."

Video artists and animators are sought to collaborate with "downtown" performers to create short pieces that will be presented on Thursday nights in April. The "Fishbowl Cabaret" format allows for the fullest creative use of Monkey Town's unique facilities by combining live peformance and video art.

you can view the "invitation to participate" online:

http://www.directfromnyc.com/PDFs/Participation_Invite.jpg

Video artists and animators who have already confirmed their interest to participate include: Rob Roth, Francis Legge, Larry Shea, Ray Sweeten and Katja Loher.

additional details / schedule:

april 6 (Thurs) - Launch Party for Cabaret Series (DJ Bill Coleman, "teaser" performances interspersed throughout the night)
april 13 - 27 (3 consecutive thursdays) - "Fishbowl Cabaret" 2 seatings. 7:30 PM and 10:00 PM

If you're interested in participating, please respond with the following:

1. brief bio/resume and links to any online information about you and your work.
2. Please indicate if you have a performance collaborator in mind.
3. Indicate which of the above dates are you available? (please give your broadest availability) Note: If the video aspect of the work you develop is all completed ahead of time, you're not required to be there. Of course we encourage you to come -- especially for the debut of your collaboration.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions, and/or if you'd like to arrange to see the space. You may also just stop by during business hours if you're in the 'Burg. Monkey Town is located at 58 N. 3rd Street between Wythe and Kent.

Thanks for your interest.

Earl


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earl dax
curator / producer / booker

mobile: 718.757.4081
earldax@mac.com
aim: wburgenigma


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added recently some new calls
in the external announcements section
which might be of interest:
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New!!
1. IZOLENTA /06 International Digital Film Festival
St. Petersburg/Russia
deadline: 20 April
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New!
2. Call: Perform.Media Festival (Indiana/USA)
is looking for art work and creative practices
deadline: May 15th, 2006
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New!
3. Seoul Net Festival (SENEF) 2006
The 7th Seoul Net Festival is open for entries in Digital Express (International Competition)
in both categories respectively : "Web-Work" and "Cinema 4 Net
deadline: 8 April
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More deadlines in April
4.
1. Call: VIII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL
Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium Havanna/Cuba
Deadline 1 April
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5. Call: Streaming Festival {The Hague/Netherlands}
Deadline: 15 April 2006
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6. Call: EcoVision 2006 (Palermo/Italy)
International Environment & Cinema Festival
Deadline: 7 April 2006
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7. Euganea Movie Movement (Padova/Italy)
Shortfilm festival with national and international section
Deadline: 30 April 2006

All details on these and more calls and the entry forms can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=25

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The "internal announcements" section released following calls
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1. RRF2006 - call for Internet based art on the theme "memory & identity"
deadline 1 April 2006
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2. SoundLAB is looking for soundart for Edition IV - "memoryscapes"
deadline 30 June 2006
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3. VideoChannel is looking for videos/films on the theme "image vs. music"
to be included in 2nd edition of Cologne Online Film Festival '06
to be launched in October 2006 online and offline
deadline 1 July 2006
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All details on these and more calls and the entry forms can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54

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