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Thames Valley students compete for trophy commission…

2006-08-07T08:03:00.000-07:00

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Thames Valley students compete for trophy commission…

The Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards are inviting students from colleges around the region to compete for the privilege of designing the award trophy.

The design challenge is an opportunity for students to showcase their creative talent to judges, award finalists and other successful businesses influencers at The Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards ceremony. The trophy will represent the business energy, creativity, and entrepreneurial flair of successful Thames Valley businesses.

Now in its 12th year, the event is the premier multi-category awards scheme in the region. Students from leading colleges in the Thames Valley will submit their trophies for judging at this year’s award ceremony on 23rd November. The winning trophy will then be maintained as the award trophy for the next five years.

Awards organiser David Murray commented: “It is a fantastic opportunity for students to take part in a project that will further their career outside of the every day curriculum. A chance to mix with the area’s top business achievers will hopefully inspire the students with their own career plans.”

Competing students will represent several local colleges including The Oxford and Cherwell College, East Berkshire College and Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. One student per college will submit their trophy. The winner will receive £1000 in prize money. They will then have one year to perfect their prototype and manufacture trophies for the seven award categories in readiness for the 2007 ceremony.

The categories are:

• The Thames Valley Business of the Year Award (sponsored by Pitmans solicitors)
• The Award for Innovation (sponsored by Slough Trading Estate)
• The Business Management Team Award (sponsored by The Royal Bank of Scotland)
• The Tech Co. Award (sponsored by BDO Stoy Hayward)
• The Young Entrepreneur Award (sponsored by Millgate Developments)
• The Employer of Choice Award (sponsored by Mandeville Recruitment Group)
• The Small Business Award (sponsored by Goss & Co)

This year the trophies will be presented to category winners by George Osborne, the Shadow Chancellor, and right-hand man of Conservative leader David Cameron, at the prestigious Wentworth Club in Surrey on the 23rd November.

For more information visit www.businessawards.co.uk or contact Anna Storrs at annastorrs@bottlepr.co.uk or 01865 882988.
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For further information, please contact Anna Storrs at BOTTLE PR
T: 01865 882988 E: annastorrs@bottlepr.co.uk

June 26th 2006

2006-06-26T10:16:00.000-07:00

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____Masterclass for independent producers of interactive entertainment_____
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_____________________ Munich Academy for TV and Film, Germany_______________

Five day masterclass on team management, production management, risk
management, outsourcing, marketing and distribution for independent creative
producers.
Moderated by:
Frank Boyd, Unexpected Media, UK, and Frank Alsema,4xMedia, NL
confirmed guest speakers:
Vincent Scheurer, Sarassin LLP, UK, Alexander L. Fernandez, Streamline
Studios, NL

If you need to apply for a scholarship for attending this course, please
(there is a limited budget available, only) apply before July 20 2006.
__________________________________ apply now____ www.sagas.de ______________

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_Interactive Digital Cinema Workshop________________________________________
______________________________ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Oct. 19 - 25 2006_____

The rollout of digital cinema enables innovative interactive experiences in
cinemas without major investments. This intense five-day workshop will
explore the potential for new interactive film theatre experiences.
Workshop headed by Greg Roach, Hyperbole Studio, USA
confirmed guest experts: Tom Klinkowstein, Chris Hales

If you need to apply for a scholarship for attending this course, please
(there is a limited budget available, only) apply before August 20 2006.
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eContentPlus call
In July 2006 the EC will publish a call for proposals in the framework of
the eContentPlus programme. A draft of the work programme and the call for
proposals have been published. The provisional deadline for receipt of
proposals will be 19 October 2006.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/calls/propos
als/index_en.htm
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PARTICIPATION: REQUIRED
curated by Sangmin Lee

June 29 (Thu) - July 15 (Sat), 2006.
Opening reception: Thursday, June 29, 6 ~ 9 pm.
19 W. 26th Street, 5th Floor (bet. Broadway and 6th Avenue)

http://www.mushroomarts.org/2006/exhibit/participation/main.html

mushroomArts is pleased to announce its first interactive art exhibition.
Expanding their language beyond the more traditional forms of painting, sculpture,filmmaking, music, and performance, the participating artists are challenging viewers/listeners to take a more active role in relation to their work. No longer considered just an experiment in new media,
interactive art has evolved beyond its 1960s roots to embody a completely new formal language that has both expanded the freedom of expression and pushed back the boundaries of art.

PARTICIPATION: REQUIRED presents the work of interactive artists interested in the interdependency between form and content.

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This September The Radar Festival will be showcasing the very best new talent in music video at the Apple store cinema screen in London. The Radar Festival is a unique festival, where new directors make new videos for established artists like Franz Ferdinand, The Kills, Psapp, Nightmares on Wax, Clark and Groove Armada, amongst many others.

Radar has been established partly as a response to the explosion of video on sites such as MySpace and YouTube and aims to select, support and promote new director talent from across the world. It also aims to underline London’s place in the world as a generator and supporter of creative contemporary culture.

The call for entries is out and already we’ve had interest from people across 42 countries – and we want more! We want entries from anyone who’s ever wanted to make a music video. Entrants get the chance to win professional commissions with labels like Domino, Warp and Tummy Touch; representation with the fabulous production company Colonel Blimp which is as good as gold dust; £1,000 cash and unlimited glory.

Go to www.radarfestival.com to see the track list and find out more.

All entries welcome; all ages, countries of origin, groups and individuals, all shapes and sizes. The deadline for entries is August 31st 2006. Can’t wait to see what you make

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VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
extends its deadline for the call for videos
"image vs.music"
new deadline 31 July 2006
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SoundLab
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org
extends its deadline for the call for soundart
"memoryscapes"
new deadline 31 July 2006
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The entry details for both calls can be found on
NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54

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Call for Proposals

Our physical connection to objects and spaces is essential to our being in the world: in the environments we inhabit, in the ways we relate to one another, and in the products we create. From the distinctive craftsmanship of the Waterloo Region’s German and Mennonite founders to the region’s current role in shaping the technological future we see a consistent understanding of the importance of haptic relationships from the outstanding design and use of materials in early furniture to the engineering prowess and innovation in our high-tech and research sector. This local context gives us a unique perspective from which to investigate the interplay of science, technology and artistic vision in the formation and understanding of our connections to places and things.

We ask artists to consider actual or metaphorical possibilities enabled by the haptic connection, whether achieved through exceptional handling of traditional materials or of new media. Artists may wish to consider how contemporary art practice, with its emphasis on the new, co-exists with and incorporates the skills, techniques and values of the past: to explore haptic relationships, or how contemporary art practice places into question the Cartesian duality of mind and body.

For Haptic, CAFKA invites proposals for new or existing works that engage with the theme and the environment in and around City Hall. Works in all media will be considered including sculpture, performance, video, audio, installation, photography, painting, drawing and new media. Video artists are invited to submit work relating to the theme. CAFKA.07 will create a video compilation to be screened during the Forum.

The exhibition will take place in and around Kitchener City hall for 11 days at the end of September, 2007. Artist Fees paid for Visual and Media Art Projects: CND $2,000 (intended to cover all aspects of mounting including materials and transportation). Video and one-time Performance fees paid in accordance with CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/le Front des Artistes Canadiens).

Please submit 10 images (JPG/JPEG format or 35mm slides), or video documentation (NTSC DVD or VHS), along with 10 copies of printed matter including: Curriculum Vitae, project proposal, technical requirements, budget, and a completed application form. All applications must be received by November 1, 2006.

Mail address:
Haptic - CAFKA.07 Submissions
P.O. Box 1122
Kitchener, ON N2G 4G1 Canada

Courier Address:
Haptic - CAFKA.07 Submissions
141 Whitney Place (rear entrance)
Kitchener, ON N2G 2X8 Canada

Application forms are available for download at www.contemporaryartforum.ca
For more information please contact cafka@contemporaryartforum.ca or call (519) 744-5123.

23 projects will be selected and artists will be notified within approximately two months. Absolutely no fax submissions will be accepted. Support material must be in one or more of the following formats: CD, DVD, VHS, JPG/JPEG, PDF (for text) or 35mm slide. Other media will not be considered. Please do not refer CAFKA to a website for information about you or your work.

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I am doing a book project with Thomson Press, consisting of about 12-14
chapters, where each chapter will highlight an artist doing interesting
work with Flash. I’m especially trying to find contributors who have
engaging content in their work. Preferably, you produce good work AND
know your way around Flash.

The process will require some interview sessions via email, where I will
collect some notes for writing out the chapter. I will also need some
high-res images, and some screen caps, as well as possible code-views.

The main format of the chapter will be something like this:
1) introduction of the artist(s) and background
2) creative process / inspirations / working methods
3) how/why flash is used
4) introduction of a particular work
5) step though a technical detail in the work

The book is to be produced over the course of 2006, with the release being
in January 2007.
I still need about 6-8 artists. It is important that you have a body of
work utilizing Flash (at least 3 or 4 projects).

While the chapter will have a breakdown of some technical process using
Flash, my real passion for creating the book resides in the first part of
each chapter, where the ideas and concepts are fully explored.

If interested, send an email with “Flash Book Inquiry” in the subject line -
and in the body of your email have a URL that showcases your work.

Doug Easterly
playfight@mac.com

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D o u g l a s E a s t e r l y
Assoc. Professor of Computer Art
Syracuse University / Transmedia
swamp.nu playfight@mac.com
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Announcing
INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL
for
Digital�06: Bio/Med SciART
International Competition & Exhibition of Digital Prints
to be held at the New York Hall of Science
September 30, 2006 - January 15, 2007
Organized by Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)

News Flash: “Nanotechnologists have made alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles, able to do 100 times greater work per cycle and produce, at reduced strengths, larger contractions than natural muscles. Among other possibilities, these muscles could enable fuel-powered artificial limbs, �smart skins� and morphing structures for air and marine vehicles, autonomous robots having very long mission capabilities and smart sensors that detect and self-actuate to change the environment.” -University of Texas/Dallas, March 16, 2006

Wrapping my head around the bio-science press release above makes my imagination spin and I share it for your delight! -Cynthia Pannucci, ASCI Director

Art & Science Collaborations is pleased to announce its 8th annual, international digital print competition/exhibition. The exhibition, Bio/Med SciART, will be held at the New York Hall of Science from September 30, 2006 - January 15, 2007. The aim of this exhibition is to explore how the health, medical, biosciences [including biology in general and also neuroscience] and biotechnologies are influencing the content of contemporary art via digital prints.

Most often, topics such as bio-warfare, bird flu, designer babies and cloning grab mainstream media attention. However, for many, the thrill is in learning about the amazing medical science/ technology breakthroughs occurring in the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and cures of illnesses. Today, more and more artists are mining these fields for information, inspiration, and even new venues for their art.

Throughout history, artists have demonstrated a curiosity for knowledge about how the human body [and mind] work. For some, the childhood influences of having doctor or health professional parents or visits to natural history museums surface in their artwork. Today we even find individuals who have degrees in both art and medical sciences. Unfortunately for others, their newfound interest is foisted upon them because of a personal medical diagnosis, from the loss of a loved-one, or a fascination with the macabre and their own mortality. It is also just as easy to understand how artists� imaginations are captivated by today�s amazing medical breakthroughs and exciting [frightening to some], experimental research. Artificial organs and joints already extend the quality of life for millions of people, and gene therapy will hopefully soon replace chemotherapy as a new cancer treatment without side effects. However exciting in their advances and future promise though, the biosci!
ences are also challenging our ethical mores. Hence, we are now seeing a new breed of artists that focus on illuminating these hotly contested topics as today�s most important cultural issues.

JURORS: This year�s competition selections will be made in an art-science collaborative process between ASCI Director, Cynthia Pannucci, and Ramunas Kondratas, Curator of the medical collections in the Division of Medicine and Science at the Smithsonian Institution�s National Museum of American History.

We eagerly look forward to seeing what your digital prints tell us about this year’s Bio/Med SciART theme.

ENTRY INFORMATION:

DETAILS & ENTRY FORM: http://www.asci.org/artikel795.htmlDeadline for entries: Thursday, August 3, 2006
Notification of Juror Selections: Saturday, August 12, 2006
Receipt of artwork at the museum: Friday, September 22, 2006

There are lots of “Public Domain” medical image databases online!
[Be careful NOT to use “copyrighted” images.]

EXHIBITION HISTORY
ASCI was one of the first organizations in the world to recognize the digital print as a valid fine art product in 1998 by organizing an afternoon panel discussion, “Collectibility & the Digital Print.” This event was held in The Great Hall at Cooper Union, New York City, in conjunction with ASCI’s first international digital print competition/exhibition. www.asci.org/Digital98/digipanel.html
ABOUT ASCI
Founded in 1988, Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI) is one of the few art & technology members organizations in the USA. Established primarily as a network for artists who either use or are inspired by science and technology, ASCI has become a magnet for some of the best examples of this type of contemporary art and an excellent resource for scientists and technologists wishing to collaborate. ASCI was instrumental in reinvigorating the art-sci-tech movement in the United States during the 1990’s and helped coalesce the nascent art-science movement 1998-2002. It produced seminal public panels on timely topics: from the first “CyberFair for Artists” (1995) to “Bell Labs & the Origins of Multimedia Art” (1998), “Collectibility of the Digital Print” (1998), and explored potential support systems for the first net art at “CyberArt’99.” ASCI also produced exhibitions of kinetic art, interactive light art, solar art, digital prints, and a Womentek exhibition.] Since 199!
8, it has produced four ArtSci international symposia on collaboration and the ArtSci INDEX, an online matching tool for potential collaborators. The monthly ASCI eBulletin [sent to ASCI members] is one of the most comprehensive resource tools in this highly interdisciplinary, international field. ASCI welcomes partnerships and dialogue with the art and scientific communities.

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CALL FOR ENTRIES : Mobile&DMB Fest 2006

Mobile&DMB Fest 2006 is open for entries of the competition section Mobile Express for international works as well as Korean works. Organized by Seoul Moving Image Forum and presented by Seoul Film Festival Executive Committee, Mobile&DMB Fest is trying to introduce brilliant works through New Media such as mobile and DMB. We sincerely hope you consider this an exciting opportunity to show your great endeavors in the new environment of digital art works.

WHEN : September 8 - 30, 2006
Screening of Competition Section and Out-of-Competition Section

WHERE : Mobile and DMB (broadcasting channel to be confirmed)
SeNef website and Media Lounge, Supporting organizations�� and sponsors�� website, portal site

Mobile&DMB Fest 2006 SUBMISSION DEADLINE : July 28, 2006 (Arrived)

ELIGIBILITY
For the competition section, only works completed after January 2005 may be submitted to the festival. Submissions should be creative works produced or adopted through digital technology. There will be no restrictions regarding genre or subject matter of the work and all types of works, including fiction, documentary, experimental, music video, animation, motion graphic, flash animation, game, web-art, etc. will be accepted. Running time should be under 20 minutes.

MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSIONS :
1) Application Form (available at http://www.senef.net)2) 1 still picture and 1 photo of director (300 dpi JPG file)

3) Preview material (VHS-Tape, DV 6mm, DVD, CD, File-Transferring or URL address for preview)
* For File-Transferring indications, please contact us to program3@senef.net
Contacts
Mobile&DMB Fest 2006 Program Dept.
(135-090) 5F, Youahn Bldg. 146-23 Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul, Korea
Tel. 82-2-518-4332 / Fax. 82-2-518-4333

program3@senef.net
http://www.senef.net+

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Dispatx Art Collective are pleased to announce the publication of our fifth edition, The Plague of Language. Fifteen projects related to the theme can be seen online at www.dispatx.com, featuring poetry by JH Prynne and Rod Mengham, sound pieces from Paul Whitty and Chris Mann, and a full length interview with Marc D Hauser of Harvard University.
More : http://dispatx.com/current/

We are also actively seeking proposals for collaborative projects related to the new theme in exploration : Improvised Maps. This theme explores correlation, translation and recursion. It relates closely to the creative method � the organising process which translates creative vision into creative output.

More : http://www.dispatx.com/wip/+

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Canon Foundation in Europe
THE CANON FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELOWSHIPS

awards research fellowships to young European and Japanese highly qualified researchers in any discipline
http://www.canonfoundation.org/
Every year, the Canon Foundation in Europe awards up to 15 research fellowships. These supports are intended for young European and Japanese researchers (under 40), highly qualified in any discipline.
The Canon fellowships are awarded to carry out research in Japan for Europeans, and in Europe for Japaneses, for periods of minimum three months and maximum one year.

The Canon Foundation also offers awards to European and Japanese outstanding scholars or leading members of private or public organizations.

Deadline: 15/09/06

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Date Posted: 06/13/06
Title: Call for Artists - Over and Under - July 7-29, 2006
Description: Call for artists - Over and Under Exhibition. All works must be BIG (at least 48 inches in one direction) or SMALL (no larger than eight inches in any direction.)All media will be accepted for jury. Deliver 1-2 entries to Visual Art Exchange, located at 325 Blake Street in Raleigh, June 29-July 1 from 11am-4pm. For more information please call 919.828.7834
Qualifications: All Visual Art Exchange exhibits are open to all living artists. All work must have been completed in the last two years. All works must be original and not previously shown at Visual Art Exchange. Work must be properly prepared for installation - 2D work must be wired, no alligator clips, all work must be dry and stable. Work chosen for exhibition must remain in the gallery through July 29, entries not chosen must be removed per instruction from the gallery.

How to Apply: Bring original artwork to Visual Art Exchange June 29-July 1 from 11am-4pm. Entry fee: $10 for one or two pieces for VAE members; $15 for one or two pieces for non VAE members. No more than two entries per artist.

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DEADLINE JUNE 30, 2006
ONLINE - 2D, 3D
South of France Competition , Myartspace is sponsoring a competition to win a free all-expense paid Art Retreat to the South of France. The competition is open to artists and photographers 16 years or older. To enter, each artist is required to upload one "portfolio" entry of work. Each entry will consist of up to 5 digital JPEG images. There is no fee to enter the competition. Deadline for posting is 11pm June 30, 2006. Community member will vote on the best art and photography entries. Each community member has 20 votes which they can cast. Winner is chosen on July 15th based on the number of votes accumulated. The two winners (one Artist, one photographer) can select a person of their choice to travel with as part of the prize. Included in the winning is flight to Nice, France, luxury accomodations at a spectacular mansion in the Saint Paul de Vence, tours of local art and cultural events. Additional cash prizes available. For additional details and online entry to the competition see http://www.myartspace.com or email: catherine@catmacart.com
Website:http://www.myartspace.com

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DEADLINE JULY 1, 2006
ONLINE GALLERY – ART CONTEST - ALL MEDIUMS
AUGUST JURIED EXHIBITION Projekt30 is taking submissions for its 27th publicly juried exhibition, scheduled to open August 1st, 2006. We are an artist-run arts organization dedicated to promoting emerging artists. The exhibition will include thirty artists; invitations will be sent to over 50,000 galleries, collectors, and fellow artists. All artwork submitted will be presented online prior to the exhibition so visitors of Projekt30 may help select which artists will be included in the July Exhibition. Visitors have the option of contacting any participating artist with feedback or opportunities. Unlike other juried exhibitions, all participants receive some exposure. Opens: August 1st, 2006. Deadline: July 1st, 2006. Fee: $35 for up to 10 images. Go to www.projekt30.com for more details.
Email: admin@projekt30.com website:http://www.projekt30.com

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DEADLINE JULY 1, 2006
Cumberland, MD - 2D, 3D
7TH ANNUAL WILL'S CREEK SURVEY - NATIONAL JURIED ART EXHIBITION FINE ART & CRAFT Exhibition Sept 2 - Oct 6, 2006. The 7th Annual Will’s Creek Survey is a juried art exhibition that is open to visual artists from across the United States. Held every fall in the Allegany Arts Council's Saville Gallery, the exhibit showcases a wide variety of art and fine craft, and always draws an enthusiastic audience from the local community and the surrounding region. This year's exhibition has more than $6,000 in cash and purchase awards, with a top prize of $1,000 for Best of Show. This year's juror will be John W. Smith, the Assistant Director for Collections, Exhibitions and Research at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. The exhibition is open to all visual artists over the age of 18. Entries must be original works of art that have been completed within the last three (3) years, and have not been previously exhibited in the Saville Gallery. Completed entry forms (see below), slides/digital images and a nonrefundable entry fee of $25.00 (non-members) for up to two entries; $20.00 (AAC members) can be hand-delivered or mailed to: The Allegany Arts Council/Will’s Creek Survey 2006, 52 Baltimore Street Cumberland, MD 21502. For more information, please visit website or download prospectus or
Email: ethomas@allconet.org
Website:http://www.alleganyartscouncil.org/
Prospectus:http://www.alleganyartscouncil.org/event.php?eventid=1152

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DEADLINE JULY 10, 2006
Santa Monica, CA - 2D, 3D
CALIFORNIA OPEN EXHIBITION Juried Fine Art Exhibition. Juror: Laddie John Dill, renowned national & international contemporary artist. $1000 cash awards. Open to all artists over the age of 18, working in fine art media, who can hand deliver artwork. 2-D and 3-D. 2-D max. 48”h x 36”w,. Sculpture max 30 lbs. $30/3 slides, $5/each additional, 6 max. Exhibition: August 15- Sept. 2, 2006. Insurance. 15% commission on sales. JUROR: LADDIE JOHN DILL, renowned national & international contemporary abstract sculptor. First Place $500, Second Place $300, Third Place $200. For Prospectus, send SASE to TAG Gallery, 2903 Santa Monica Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90404, 310-829-9556 or go to the website. Contact: Elizabeth Sardoff at
Email: theartistsgallery@verizon.net
Website:http://www.tagtheartistsgallery.com/
Prospectus:http://www.tagtheartistsgallery.com/2006/images/prospectus.pdf

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DEADLINE JULY 10, 2006
Fort Collins, CO - 2D
International Call for Photographers - People, Places, and Things The Center for Fine Art Photography is accepting submissions for its juried exhibition: People ~ Places ~ Things. These are images of art found everyday in the people, places and things in our lives. Juried by Andrew Darlow, Editorial Director at Digital Imaging Techniques magazine. Open to all forms of photography, both digital and traditional. All juror-selected works exhibited in the Center’s gallery and receive international exposure through the Center's online gallery. Monetary awards in each category plus an interview by Andrew Darlow for theimagingbuffet.com and podcast. Selected works are presented in the Center's publication Artists’ ShowCase and considered for the Center’s traveling exhibition to Denver International Airport. All exhibitions are intensely marketed to promote sales and exposure for the artists. Additional details and online submissions at: www.c4fap.org or exhibitions@c4fap.org Prospectus:http://www.c4fap.org

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DEADLINE JULY 31, 2006
Brooklyn, NY - 2D - PHOTOGRAPHY
BOW'06 Photographic Competition, Photographers are invited to submit 8-12 images for their "Body of Work" entry. The images should reflect a single style, storyline, or subject that represents the photographer's personal vision. Positive Focus is looking for emerging photographers to promote to galleries, advertising, stock, and magazine editors in addition to other collectors and photographic buyers. We will combine the "Top 50" portfolios into a juried digital slideshow exhibition in the fall, in conjunction with a Positive Focus CD to be sent out to approximately 250 gallerists, stock agencies and editors. For more information visit the download prospectus or email: lorrie@positivefocus.org
Website:http://www.positivefocus.org
Prospectus:http://www.positivefocus.org/BOW06/index.html

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DEADLINE OCTOBER 15, 2006
ONLINE - 2D, 3D
EXHIBITION OF ORTHOPAEDICS IN ART, ANNOUNCING FREE ART COMPETITION: SUBMIT ONLINE! , eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition of Orthopaedics in Art is now open to both orthopaedic patients (of all ages) and orthopaedic surgeons, and is a component of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' (AAOS) 75th Anniversary Celebration. Orthopaedic patients include any person who presently have, or have had, an orthopaedic condition. An orthopaedic condition can be either a disease or condition that affects muscles, bones and/or joints. Arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoporosis, scoliosis, spinal cord injury or other spine/back conditions, cerebral palsy, amputation, spina bifida, broken bones and joint replacement are some examples of orthopaedic conditions. An online entry form must be submitted by artists who wish to participate in the competition. Submitted artwork may be featured in the AAOS' 75th Anniversary traveling exhibit, film, coffee table book, Web site, online museum and/or be on display at the 75th Anniversary celebration in San Francisco, March 2008. The artwork must illustrate (though it need not be figurative or representational) one or both of the following: 1. Some aspect of the artist's feeling toward, or relationship with, this orthopaedic condition; for example, healing, rehabilitation, anger, self-image, mobility, frustration, strength, pain, weakness, movement, hope, wellness, freedom or independence. 2. The history of orthopaedics - then and now, how treatment options have changed, services, care, procedures, has a condition affected several generations of your family, etc. Artists may submit up to 10 works of art in the following mediums: Paintings and drawings (oil, watercolor, acrylic, pencil, charcoal, etc.), fine art prints (lithographs, etching, intaglio, wood cuts, etc.), giclees (Iris prints), photography, graphics, cyber art, sculpture, ceramics, glass, mosaics, textiles, crafts, functional art and other mixed media. Please contact James Bregenzer at (847) 384-4031, with any questions or email bregenzer@aaos.org
Website:http://www.aaos.org/emotion
Prospectus:http://www6.aaos.org/pemr/emotion/login.cfm

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2006 LIA Entry Deadline has been extended to Friday, 30th June!

2006-06-21T02:13:00.000-07:00

The 2006 LIA Entry Deadline has been extended to Friday, 30th June!

To access the entry kit, please visit:
http://www.liaawards.com/

If you have previously finalised entries for the 2006 awards, you still have time to enter recently released or broadcast work.

Entries must be released or broadcast
between 1st July 2005 and 30th June 2006.

We honour the following media:

DESIGN
INTEGRATED MEDIA
INTERACTIVE MEDIA
POSTER & OUTDOOR
PRINT
RADIO
TELEVISION/CINEMA

DEADLINE for ENTRIES: Friday, 16th June 2006

For more information email: info@liaawards.com

ADVERTISING and DESIGN JURY PRESIDENT
Graham Warsop
The Jupiter Drawing Room (South Africa)

INTERACTIVE JURY PRESIDENT
Daniel Bonner
AKQA London

New York Office | 141-07 20th Avenue - Suite 504 | Whitestone, NY 11357 | United States
Telephone: (1-718) 747-6747 | Fax: (1-718) 747-6007
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Telephone: (44 20) 8426 1670 | Fax: (44) 1480 896 693
www.liaawards.com
info@liaawards.com

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SparkPlugArt is seeking Encaustic Artists working in 2-D and 3-D to submit their work for an exhibition entitled:

“Impulse: A contemporary look at Passions, Whims, and Wishes”

This juried encaustic exhibit will be held at the Portland Art Center in Portland Oregon for the month of September. Juried by Jef Gunn and Elise Wagner.

Deadline - July 30 2006

Go to our website to get more details:
www.SparkPlugArt.squarespace.com

Opportunities June 20th 2006

2006-06-20T09:44:00.000-07:00

Limited Engagement
A Production of Gallery Aferro
73 Market Street
Newark NJ 07102
www.aferro.org Please send to newark@aferro.org

Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, ?Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, ?Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, ?Will not stay still
-T. S. Eliot

Open Call for Glossolalia September 7 - October 1, 2006

Please submit work by July 25, via email or mail. (contact for regular mail details)

Artists in all media are invited to submit existing work or propose ideas for new work dealing with the following, either directly or tangentially.

Your comprehension of the marks on this page is not voluntary. Presented with words, the brain reacts. As Steven Pinker writes in The Language Instinct, Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each others minds. And yet it is a cultural cliché that the visual is what we fall back upon when we cannot engage the other. Is this always true?

Art/Text

The word Glossolalia refers to speaking in a language one does not understand. That this occurrence is an aspect of the human experience is agreed upon. But any further attempts to define the word will be dependant on ones perspective. Some scientists contend that those exhibiting glossolalia are not speaking in any language, but uttering the broken phonemes of their primary language in an emotional state. What this translates to is that Russians feeling it will make noises that sound more like Russian than anything else, Portuguese speakers will make sounds reminiscent of Portuguese, and so on. For believers, the experience of glossolalia is a gift, a momentary glimpse of a language not derived from any of the worlds dialects.

When the lines between verbal, visual and written begin to blur.

One of the inadvertedly hilarious features of the pulp horror writer HP Lovecraft's work is his constant reliance on the coupling of the phrase the unspeakable horror, with multi- paragraph, adjective-heavy descriptions of the horror in question. If it was truly unspeakable, why did he have to go on about it so? Ask an artist.

Please contact newark@aferro.org
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Folly UK Short Term Work Opportunities 3 Roles Summer 2006

folly media arts leading digital culture.

folly in the UK wishes to engage (A) an f.city Campaign Manager, (B) an f.city Coordinator, and (C) a Graphic & New Media Designer, for this rather unique media arts organisation.

All roles are for a fixed term and will support f.city, follys new citywide digital art and technology festival, which runs in Lancaster September 29 to October 21, 2006.

folly is based in Lancaster, UK and has local, regional, international and online audiences. folly works with artists and audiences to deliver a distributed artistic programme across a range of media that include: still and moving digital image, sound, animation, online, plus new & emerging media such as GPS, RFID, moblogging and more. For more general information on folly see www.folly.co.uk

To receive a job description and information on how to apply, contact Trudy Martin indicating which opportunity you are interested in via E: trudy.martin@folly.co.uk with the words application enquiry clearly stated in the subject line or via T: +1524 388550.

Formal applications will be accepted by either email or post.

folly is an equal opportunities employer and is funded by Arts Council England.

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS 10AM MONDAY JULY 3RD, 2006.

(A) f.city Campaign Manager (part time, freelance, temporary contract)

3 days per week for 3 months mid July mid October

£5000 fee (36 contractual days)

Principle purpose of post: To manage and deliver a Marketing and Sponsorship Campaign for f.city.

(B) f.city Coordinator (part time, freelance, temporary contract)

2/3 days per week for 3 months from mid July mid October

£3520 fee (32 contractual days work)

Principle purpose of post: To coordinate the delivery of and resources available for all aspects of f.city.

(C) Graphic and New Media Designer (full time, temporary contract)

Full time for 3 months from mid July mid October

£5500 fee @ £22,000 pro rata

Principle purpose of post: To develop designs for web and print materials for folly and f.city. Familiarity with Open Source applications and content management systems is desirable.

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What happens in an exhibition where the traditional boundariesbetween art and activism, theory and practice, origin and diaspora, science and aestheticsare not an organizational theme, but a point of departure? Imagine a space that takes us beyond the in-between and toward the generation and practice of viable integrations of art, history, math, science, theory, practice and activism.

We are seeking submissions of visual and performance-based work that complicates, negates, exceeds, or reflects the gray areas between and within academic disciplines, theoretical models, and methods of creative production. Submissions from a variety of disciplines and areas of study/practice are encouraged. For instance, consider collaborations across disciplines, aesthetic forms that blur boundaries between art and science or text and image, or projects that transcend or transmute the limitations of our individual senses.

The exhibition will be an integral part of the TRANS: Visual Culture Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, from October 19-22, 2006. A diverse array of panels, workshops, and breakout sessions will showcase papers, demonstrations, and performances on dozens of trans-interpretations. The Conference will also include keynote speakers Nicholas Mirzoeff, Olu Oguibe, Sue Golding, and the performance team of Leslie Hill and Helen Paris.

Before submitting your work to the exhibition team, be sure to consult the Conferences website for more information: http://www.visualculture.wisc.edu/Conference/call.htm Although you are not limited to any specific topics, we encourage you to review the titles of the Conferences working sub-themes to help brainstorm possible submissions.

The exhibition venue is a former ironworks facility with up to 20,000 square feet of raw industrial space, as well as significant adjoining outdoor space available for the exhibition. You can see images of Ironworks on the Conferences website.

To submit your work to the TRANS exhibition, please send the following electronically to visualculture@education.wisc.edu by August 15, 2006:

1.A description or proposal of approximately 250 words

2.Image(s) of your work; either for the TRANS exhibition or similar work

3.Any necessary requirements for space and supporting technologies

4.An attached CV (one for each project participant, if working in collaboration)

Please note: Funding for the TRANS exhibition is limited. While the curatorial committee will make every effort to meet all of your technological needs, please consider that you may be responsible for the transportation and support of any unconventional technology that you may require.
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Canon Foundation in Europe
THE CANON FOUNDATION RESEARCH FELOWSHIPS

awards research fellowships to young European and Japanese highly qualified researchers in any discipline
http://www.canonfoundation.org/
Every year, the Canon Foundation in Europe awards up to 15 research fellowships. These supports are intended for young European and Japanese researchers (under 40), highly qualified in any discipline.
The Canon fellowships are awarded to carry out research in Japan for Europeans, and in Europe for Japaneses, for periods of minimum three months and maximum one year.

The Canon Foundation also offers awards to European and Japanese outstanding scholars or leading members of private or public organizations.

Deadline: 15/09/06

Contact:
Canon Foundation in Europe
foundation@canon-europe.com
www.canonfoundation.org
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Shadow Festival
SHADOW FESTIVAL 2006

Festival for the creative documentary film
http://www.xs4all.nl/~stefan68/
We have no fees.
Films will be considered that have never been screened before in the Netherlands. In addition to recent films, older films may be submitted (in the case of films made before 2003 inquire by email).

Our competition will be announced later this year.

Application form
Deadline: 20/08/06

Contact:
Shadow Festival
Ceintuurbaan 13, third floor
1072 ER Amsterdam
The Netherlands
info@shadowfestival.nl

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INPORT
INPORT - IV International Video-Performance Art Festival (Estonia)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Performance artists all around the world are invited to send proposals for INPORT, International Video-Performance Art Festival, in Tallinn, Estonia on December 2006.
INPORT would like to bring artists from all around the world closer to Estonian audience. This is non-profit Festival and unfortunately we got a very small budget so we can only show your video/videos on the single screen. We can't offer artistic fees, accomondation or travel expenses. After Festival we make the on-line cataloge on the Festival web-site.

Performance artists are invited to submit proposals for Festival in the following categories:
Video-performance (performances made specially for camera)
Video documentary (video documentations of performances)
Formats accepted: DVD, miniDV (PAL only), VCD

There's no limit of length, but please don't send the masters! There are no official entry forms or entry fees!

Enclosed with the video/videos you must send the following (on paper or CD-R/Word document):
Performance artist or group name
Performance title
Statement of performance
Performance date, venue, Festival or event where it was first performed
Brief resume of the performance artist
Contact info (e-mail, postal address, etc.)

No materials will not to be returned, but will be kept in the Festival archive for the projects in the future and for interested curators and art festival organizers!

All deliveries from international participants must be marked: "NO COMMERCIAL VALUE - FOR CULTURAL PURPOSES ONLY".

Send videos to the address of INPORT.

Deadline: 01/10/06 (postal stamp)

Contact:
INPORT
Gert Hatsukov, curator
Kotka 28-1
Estonia
info.inport@mail.ee
http://www.inport.tk/

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Zavod K6/4 is looking for an Art director to help with the preparation of the programme and formation of the main theme of the festival. The festival will be organised in the spring 2007.

Applications can be sent by post on the address of the Zavod K6/4 with the undersign »for the »Break 2.4« festival« or by e-mail.

Application should include:
name and surname,
contact,
CV,
The suggestion for the main theme of the festival 2007 and a short explanation of it.

The purpose of the multimedia festival Break (previously known as Break 2.2 and Break 21) is to explore new artistic expressions and contemporary topics and to emphasize emerging poetics whose artistic discourse has not yet been deep-rooted within firmly established standards, criteria and cultural values. By successfully supporting innovative and intellectually stimulative new art, festival Break has become one of the significant global events within contemporary art and broader cultural framework.

Deadline: 17/07/06

Contact:
Zavod K6/4
Mateja Jurič
Kersnikova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
phone: 01/4380-297, 031/336-535
fax: 01/4380-301
mateja.juric@break-festival.org
http://www.k6-4.org

Opportunities June 17th 2006

2006-06-17T09:54:00.000-07:00

A Space Gallery
UN/Settled Multiculturalisms

Call for submissions
http://www.aspacegallery.org/calls_for_submissions
Space Gallery is currently seeking submissions for our 2007/2008 programming season on the current politics of multiculturalism and representation in the arts.
Countries such as Canada and Australia have been formally self-designated as multicultural states for decades. Throughout the '80s and '90s, diverse artists gained visibility within mainstream arts, yet their work remains largely under-represented. Assumptions of Western authority, modernist aesthetics, and racist mythologies continue to push artists from different cultures and environments into opposing positions. Do artists make their work in response to the values and expectations of Western curators and audiences? How do artists and curators make room for ethnic or national, individual, collective as well as cross-cultural subjectivities? What do multiculturalist agendas offer artists in the 21st century?

The Gallery seeks proposals in all media from local, national and international artists and curators who offer challenging viewpoints on these issues, incorporating diverse and innovative approaches that explore the definition and boundaries of "community" and "culture." We are interested in ways that artists and curators can create a space for different readings or experiences of culture and identity, and in multidisciplinary projects that create a forum for dialogue and collaboration between diverse communities, including youth cultures and communities in transition.

All submissions must include:
- CV(s)
- One page project description, specifying spatial and technical needs
- One page Artist or Curatorial Statement
- Support material: slides - max. 10 or digital images on CD, clearly identified; max. of 1 VHS tape or 1 DVD, clearly identified
- Descriptive list for visual material (title, date, dimension, medium)
- SASE (Self Addressed Stamped Envelope)
- Please ensure correct postage.

Please note that email applications are not accepted. A Space is not responsible for lost or damaged submissions. Do not send original slides, artwork or master tapes.

A Space pays artist fees according to CARFAC standards.

Founded in 1971 and located in downtown Toronto, A Space is one of the oldest artist-run centres in Canada. Applicants should consider that our programming mandate focuses on work that is politically engaged, culturally diverse and community-based, and supports innovative curatorial and technical practices.

Deadline: 31/07/06

Contact:
A Space Gallery
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 110
M5V 3A8 Toronto
phone: 416-979-9633
info at aspacegallery.org
http://www.aspacegallery.org

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San Servolo Servizi
artLAB_San Servolo artist residency

call fpr applications
www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it/english
artLAB_San Servolo artist residency is a residency programme that takes place on the Island of San Servolo in Venice during the month of August, open to 10 visual artists from Italy and abroad who are in the initial phase of their careers. The programme offers participating artists room and board on the island, studio spaces, and the budget to create an original work.
The residency is intended to create a space for dialogue and professional growth for emerging artists from various geographical areas and with different artistic approaches, enabling them to create projects specifically in response to the experience of group exchange. The projects are developed individually by each artist, but the initiative is particularly focussed on the collective experience that runs throughout all the phases of the residency, from discussion on the residency theme, to the creation of the projects, to the organisation of the final exhibition. Another fundamental aspect of the programme is the attention given to the historical, social, and natural context provided by the residency location.

The works created will be shown in an exhibition that will take place on the island in October, concurrently with the Venice International Biennial Exhibition of Architecture, and will be accompanied by a catalogue. The working language of the residency is English.

Island of San Servolo

Situated in the Basin of San Marco and featuring a complex of historical buildings and a large park, the Island of San Servolo was the seat of a monastery for over a thousand years. For two hundred years it hosted the Province of Venice insane asylum, which was shut down in 1978 along with all the mental hospitals in Italy.

Rehabilitated by the Province of Venice, which is committed to restoring and returning the island to the city of Venice, today San Servolo is the seat of prominent institutions for advanced study and training as well as for the promotion of cultural events.

Application form
Deadline: 25/06/06

Contact:
San Servolo Servizi
30124 Venezia
artlab@provincia.venezia.it
http://www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it/

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Workshop Foundation
EDIT2006 - 2nd International Dance Film Festival in Budapest

Call for submissions
http://www.wsf.hu/edit/EDIT2006honlap_angol/submis
In 2006 we are planning a SCREENING programme of:
- the latest international dancefilms and videos
- works dealing with body, gestures and movement
- retrospective of selected contemporary dance companies - dance film history
- students' works in co-operation with the Hungarian Film Academy, University of Applied Arts and other independent film workshops
- video works born during the workshops prior to the Festival.
We are looking for films and videos on dance and movement with no restriction on its length and subject.

The film should be sent in DVD format.

Application form
Deadline: 30/06/06

Contact:
Workshop Foundation
Liliom u. 41
1094 Budapest
Hungary
phone: +36 1 456 2045
fax: +36 1 456 20 50
editfest@yahoo.com
www.wsf.hu

June 17 2006 New Media opportunities

2006-06-17T09:40:00.000-07:00

FLASH BOOK

I am doing a book project with Thomson Press, consisting of about 12-14 chapters, where each chapter will highlight an artist doing interesting work with Flash. I'm especially trying to find contributors who have engaging content in their work. Preferably, you produce good work AND know your way around Flash.

The process will require some interview sessions via email, where I will collect some notes for writing out the chapter. I will also need some high-res images, and some screen caps, as well as possible code-views.

The main format of the chapter will be something like this:
1) introduction of the artist(s) and background
2) creative process / inspirations / working methods
3) how/why flash is used
4) introduction of a particular work
5) step though a technical detail in the work

The book is to be produced over the course of 2006, with the release being in January 2007.
I still need about 6-8 artists. It is important that you have a body of work utilizing Flash (at least 3 or 4 projects).

While the chapter will have a breakdown of some technical process using Flash, my real passion for creating the book resides in the first part of each chapter, where the ideas and concepts are fully explored.

If interested, send an email with "Flash Book Inquiry" in the subject line -
and in the body of your email have a URL that showcases your work.

Doug Easterly
playfight@mac.com

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D o u g l a s E a s t e r l y
Assoc. Professor of Computer Art
Syracuse University / Transmedia
swamp.nu playfight@mac.com
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NEW MEDIA JOURNAL

www.hz-journal.org
Hz #8 presents:

[Articles]

AUGMENTED BODY AND VIRTUAL BODY
by Suguru Goto
Composer Suguru Goto's "Augumented Body and Virtual Body" is a
combination of his previous project "BodySuit" utilising 12 censors on
a human performer and his new project "Robotic Music," in which 5
robots performs following percussions: Gong, Bass Drum, Snare Drum,
Tom-Tom, and Cymbal.

FLOATING POINTS: LOCATIVE MEDIA, PERSPECTIVE, FLIGHT AND THE
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
by Jeremy Hight
Jeremy Hight has developed an experiment for the International Space
Station that questions all the current notions of location in locative
media by the inclusion of perspective: he proposes a new field of art
to trigger above cities and the landscape at various altitudes.

GLOBAL vs. LOCAL: THE ART OF TRANSLOCALITY
by Ewa Wojtowicz
"The Internet-based culture has a global impact although its origin is
blurred. Is it local? Are there any tendencies of locality visible in
the world of net art?" Ewa Wojtowicz, theoretician/historian of art &
culture and new media, examines the present net art practice from the
perspective of locality and gloval networked community.

TECHNOLOGY AS IF
by Annika Olofsdotter Bergstrom
Annika Olofsondotter Bergstrom discusses three New Media performances
in which all use technology as body's extension: Troika Ranch's "Future
of memory", Stelarc's "Ping Body" and Laetitia Sonami's "Ladys Glove"

MAN MACHINE
by Bjorn Norberg
New Media Art Curator Bjorn Norberg leads us through the back-stage of
the exhibition "Man Machine" shown at the National Museum of Science
and Technology in Stockholm, February this year.

"WHERE ARE YOU FROM?": THE NETWORKED APHERE
by Pat Badani
Interviews in 6 cities (Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Mexico City, Buenos
Aires and Paris) are compiled in Pat Badani's net art project "Where
Are You From" to reveal the dynamics between the notions of "place" and
"belonging."

[Hz Net Gallery]

THE PROSTHETIC COMPONENT INTERFACE SERIES or PCI
by Andrew Bucksbarg

CONTINUUM
by Tom Badley

SEARCHING IN THE BOX
by Francesca Roncagliolo

THEUSE.INFO
by Chris Mann

ZINHAR
by Babel

Hz is an on-line journal published by the non-profit art organization
Fylkingen in Stockholm. Established in 1933, Fylkingen is the oldest
forum for experimental music and intermedia art in Sweden. Throughout
its history Fylkingen has been known to be a driving force in the
Swedish art scene to introduce and promote yet-to-be-established art
forms, the examples of which include the music of Bartok, the video
works of Nam June Paik, Electro-Acoustic music during the '50s as well
as the New Media performance of Stelarc in recent years. Our members
are leading composers, musicians, dancers, performance visual artists
in Sweden. For more information on Fylkingen, please visit
www.hz-journal.org/n4/hultberg.html.

Sachiko Hayashi/Hz

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III INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ELECTRONIC ART 404
Dedicated to Mark Lawton

2006 CALL
DEADLINE: AUGUST 15th 2006

"Astas Romas" is organising the III "International Festival of Electronic Art 404", to be held at Plaza Cívica and Centro Cultural Parque de España, in Rosario, Argentina from November 30th to December 03rd, 2006.

"Astas Romas" is making a world-wide call to artists and theorists to participate in this third "Festival 404" in order to estimulate and divulge new productions around electronic art.
Authors may participate in the following areas: Net-art, Still image, Animation, Video, Music, Audio-visual set, Theory, Performance, Installation.
The program includes screening of videos and animations, conferences, performances and concerts.

Participation in this festival is free. There are no age or nationality limits.
The Festival's deadline to present works is on August 15th 2006. The date will be taken from the post office cancelling stamp.

http://www.404festival.com/eng/convocatoria.htm

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CAST Gallery (www.castgallery.org) is soon launching a web-based exhibition space called SITE.
SITE will present quarterly exhibitions of three artists at a time, with a real-world manifestation; a dedicated lcd display in our Hobart gallery. Hybrid-media artist, writer and curator Scot Cotterell has been appointed curatorial oversight for the project. SITE is a funded project and as such will pay artists fee's. All works pass through a selection panel before inclusion.

I would like to hear from and see examples of any work, from any location that may manifest well on-line. animations, audio, montage, video's (narrative, non-narrative) codes, applets, bots, autonomous agents,,,.you get the idea..

contact Scot Cotterell at scot@castgallery.org

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Cinema-Scope Hamptons Last Minute Call for Video and New Media
July 13-16, 2006

Deadline: Monday July 3, 2006
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(FUTURE PERFECT)
The future perfect is used to describe an event that has not yet happened
but is expected or planned to happen.

"Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to
our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody,
clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what
we could never have known before -- that we now have the option for all
humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it
is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to
the final moment." BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Critical Path

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This year in the Hamptons we will have an impressive video art complex
featuring some really top notch international artists striving to be ahead
of the curve.
We will also be featuring the 2nd incarnation of the "Perpetual Art Machine"
interactive video installation.
For more info goto: http://www.perpetualartmachine.com
(sign up its free)

We are looking for additional screen based videos (HD and SD) no longer than
10 minutes and computer based new media projects, websites, vblogs and
anything else that you would consider to be art on a computer.

All projects must have been created after 2001.

Video Requirements
Quicktime (.mov) or NTSC video DVD

New Media Requirement
Internet URL or Stand alone MAC formatted applications
(Special thanks to Tekserve NYC for sponsoring us with the
Cinema-scope MAC New Media Gallery)
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Deadline: All work must arrive by Monday July 3, 2006
Late entries will not be accepted
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Please send your entry to:
Lee Wells / Cinema-scope
Scope Art Fair
521 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

T: 917 723 2524
E: lee@leewells.org

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Call for Entries/Open Call
Seton Hall Universitys Walsh Library Gallery is currently soliciting submissions for a group thematic exhibition, Interactive, to be shown November 8th, through December 15th, 2006. Open to all artists working in any media, this exhibition will include interactive art that requires the participation of the viewer in order for the full expression of the art to be realized. All variations of interactivity will be reviewed and considered.

Please click on this link for further details;
http://library.shu.edu/gallery/Call_for_Entries_Interactive.pdf

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Call for Participation IEEE Visualization 2006
Art Exhibit Submissions Information visualization is traditionally viewed as a tool for data exploration and hypothesis formation. Because of its roots in scientific reasoning, visualization work has, until recently, been limited to a role of analytical tool for sensemaking.

In recent years, however, both the mainstreaming of computer graphics and the democratization of data sources on the Internet have had important repercussions in the field of information visualization. With the ability to create visual representations of data on home computers, artists and designers have taken matters into their own hands and expanded the conceptual horizon of infovis as artistic practice.

In its first edition, the InfoVis Art Exhibit examines the merging of artistic intention and visualization technique. We are looking for artwork that reveals data patterns in aesthetic, innovative ways. The goal of the exhibit is to steer viewers towards greater introspection about what information is worth visualizing and why.

The InfoVis Art Exhibit will consider the following types of work:

interactive CD/DVD-ROM work
interactive web-based work
printed artwork
Requirements

Interactive pieces should run on a standard computer configuration (Windows Operating System, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB hard drive, 1024 by 768 pixels monitor resolution) as such systems will be available at the exhibit.

If your artwork requires special hardware or software configurations, please contact the Art Exhibit chairs at infovis06-art@googlegroups.com.

How to submit:

Email the following materials to the Art Exhibit organizers infovis06-art@googlegroups.com:
A filled-out InfoVis 2006 Art Exhibit Submission Form. Click here to download form.
A two-page paper describing the concept behind the piece and its technical implementation. Please click here for formatting information.
Physically mail the following materials to the Art Exhibit organizers:
CD/DVDs for interactive pieces that are not web-based
printed materials for still-image artwork
Must be mailed to the address below by June 30th and must include the following printed information:
piece title
name(s) of author(s)
all materials should be sent to:
Fernanda Viégas
IBM Research
1 Rogers Street, Room 5114
Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

Note: if your interactive work is web-based, it suffices to include a link to your piece in the submission form.

Chairs:
Fernanda Viégas, IBM Research
Martin Wattenberg, IBM Research
Andrew Vande Moere, University of Sydney

Deadline: Friday, June 30, 2006 5:00pm PST
http://conferences.computer.org/infovis/infovis2006/art_show_c.html

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Opportunities June 11th 2006

2006-06-11T13:38:00.000-07:00

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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Opportunities June 9th 2006

2006-06-09T15:12:00.000-07:00

The Ontological Museum Project

The internet remains for me a great tool especially for conceptualization and projecting ideas into my slice of the art world. As some of you know I am the founder of the Ontological Museum (OM) of the International Post-Dogmatist Group ( http://ontologicalmuseum.org ) and its most active wing; the International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction (IMCAC) ( http://collagemuseum.com ).
The OM was founded in 1996 as a kind of alternative to typical art museums whose collections have been established according to the whim of wealthy collectors whose primary interest - it seems to me - is in wealth building. I wanted to attempt something more akin to a scientific specimen gathering museum that is not based on the collector market - where most museum art comes from - but rather by asking contemporary artists to donate works to the museum with an open arms attitude. I established an listserv for the museum in 1998 which, at this time has some 1,300 collage artist participants ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/collage/ ).
The most successful project so far has been a mail art exchange among collage artists called the Baker's Dozen International Collage Exchange. Well over 10,000 collages have been exchanged through this project and the Museum is approaching 1,000 works of art collected into its permanent collection; many have come in through this exchange and many through direct contributions of artists from around the world. ( http://collagemuseum.com/collage-exchange-index.html )
Where Duchamp gathered his assemblage into a valise and Cornell gathered his materials into a shadow box, the OM shall gather its assembled parts into a museum as the ultimate framing device. The OM will then attempt to promote its gathered and growing collection of art and other intellectual property as all museums promote their collections; through publications, reproductions, exhibitions, scholarly monographs, etc. All of this done so far through the use of the internet as the primary social environment and communicating vessel working to promote cooperation and communication among artists from many cultures world wide as suggested in the following post-dogmatist statement...

"The International Post-Dogmatist Group has been founded to advance creative endeavor in all of its multifarious expressions, to encourage freedom of creative experiment and diversity of perspective, to foster tolerance and understanding among creative persons of all nations, to provide a context for interaction and association, to honor and acknowledge all those who, whether known or unknown, have worked to encourage and nurture the creative unfoldment of the human spirit and to overcome the oppression of ignorance and fear."

I am now in the process of working toward the museum becoming a non-profit, finding funding and finding its own permanent space which I envision as a museum complex that incorporates enough dynamic elements to become self sustaining without a heavy reliance on wealthy patrons. The museum has been set up to operate on a shoe string thus far but the need for funding is starting to become important.
Well, I just though I would give a synopsis of what my main internet project has been the last 10 years and certainly shall be for the next 10. I do this in conjunction with my personal career as an artist and poet. ( http://cecil.touchon.com )

Would love to hear from others and would expecially love to receive any materials for the museum. Here's a page showing some of what we have an interest in:
http://collagemuseum.com/exhibitions.html

Best Regards,
Cecil Touchon, Director
The Ontological Museum
6955 Pinon Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76116
http://ontologicalmuseum.org
&
Casa del Artista
Inn and Exhibition Space
307 Calle de las Piedras
Cuernavaca, Morelos Mexico 62270
http://casadelartista.com

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: July 7th DEADLINE

V1B3 is requesting submissions of short videos* that in the broadest terms possible, explore public space though human interaction, intervention and the mechanisms that influence and control the experience of the city.

V1B3 is an international curatorial project that aims to present video art that responds to the conditions of site specificity and a public viewer-ship. Urban planners and architects are used to shaping cities by means of infrastructure, zoning and buildings. However, other modes of intervention exist that are capable of influencing the development of a city. Communicative media interventions can transform public spaces.

V1B3 Summer06 will be presented in conjunction with the University Film and Video Association conference, sponsored by Chapman University in Orange, California. The US screening will occur during the UFVA conference [August 1ST-5th] in Orange, CA. The UK screening will be held at the London Study Center.

V1B3 Summer06 will have a companion DVD developed for publication and purchase.

Application can be found at http://www.v1b3.com

US Contact:
Mat Rappaport
1511 North Astor St
Milwaukee, WI USA
info@v1b3.com

Sceenings Will be August 1st – 5th

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
IMAGES FESTIVAL 2007
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA

//INSTALLATION // NEW MEDIA// LIVE IMAGES //

The Images Festival annually exhibits a selection of media arts
installations, new media artworks and "Live Images" performance as part of
our annual festival. Images works with several Toronto galleries and other
alternative exhibition spaces to show media art installations which
incorporate the moving image, interactive media and performativity.

Please check our web archive for information on our exhibition history
http://www.imagesfestival.com

Among the artists whose installations and new media works have
been featured in past festivals: Harun Farocki, Pipilotti Rist, Steve
McQueen, Stan Douglas,Bjørn Melhus, David Rokeby, Masashi Iwasaki & Tadasu
Takamine, Jane & Louise Wilson, John Greyson, Bob Ostertag & Pierre Hébert,
Gustavo Artigas, Carolee Schneemann, Judy Radul, Richard Fung, Luke Jerram,
Paulette Phillips, Joe Kelly, Nell Tenhaaf, Jean-François Guiton, Daniel
Olson, Deanna Bowen, Haruki Nishijima, Gebhard Sengmüller, Marion Coutts,
Willy LeMaitre & Eric Rosenzweig, Adriana Arenas Ilian, Michael Snow,
Althea Thauberger, Taras Polataiko, Dara Gellman & Leslie Peters, Michelle
Teran, badpacket.

DATES
Early deadline for receipt of entries:
30 June 2006 (NO ENTRY FEE!)

PDF's of submission & guideline forms are downloadable at
http://www.imagesfestival.com/generic.php?id=28&heading=submissions

For more information, or to have a submission form sent to you
please contact

Best regards,

THE IMAGES FESTIVAL
448-401 Richmond Street West
Toronto. Ontario M5V 3A8 Canada
T 416.971.8405
F 416.971.7412
http://www.imagesfestival.com

Project Creo: Digital Divide/Digital Provide
November 10 – December 31, 2006

Call for Entries
Deadline to submit proposals: August 15, 2006
Notification date: September 15, 2006

We’re looking for artists whose works explore ideas of how the digital revolution has improved and divided our society, utilizing the same technology they are critiquing. The Center is primarily seeking proposals that create interactive environments that will engage visitors to the space. All work is insured while on exhibition.

Proposal must contain the following information:
• Current artist resume, including address, phone number and email
• Brief artist statement
• Proposed work or installation for Digital Divide/Digital Provide, including drawing of the proposed piece, approximate size, materials utilized, hardware needed, amount of time needed for installation, etc.
• Slides, video, cd or photographs of your current work
• Self addressed, stamped envelope
• Support materials, including past press (optional)

Please contact Melissa Christiano, Project Creo Director with questions regarding submission at (727) 822-7872 or email Melissa@theartscenter.org

Send all proposals to:
The Arts Center
Attn: Melissa Christiano
719 Central Avenue
St. Petersburg, FL 33701

06/08/06

DISONANCIAS 2006

DISONANCIAS 2006

Call for Artists to realize joint research projects in Research labs and R&D units

This is a call for artists to collaborate on joint research projects with Research Labs and R&D units in Spain (Basque Country)

Download the application: http://www.disonancias.com
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: JULY 5

Collaboration period:
from September 2006 to February 2007

The call for artists to participate in DISONANCIAS 2006 is now open.

DISONANCIAS (Art and innovation) is the second round of this art and industry collaboration project located in the Basque Country, Spain. The project seeks to promote the diversification in relation to the process of innovation inside research labs and R & D units here, based on the potentials of experience and exchange generated by the relationship with artists.

Ten artists will be chosen to collaborate with research teams in companies and labs, in order to encourage "deviations and dissonances" from the regular logical thought and action processes, in the hope of leading to a news definition of prototypes for different products or different approaches toward production.

The deadline for applications is 5 July 2006. We encourage artists to apply who normally work on collective and relational projects and/or on projects related to science and technology.

The Jury consists of Roger Malina, astrophysicist at the Laboratory of Spatial Astronomy of the CNRS at Marseille (France), and executive editor of Leonardo publications on Arts and Sciences, Jill Scott, Director of "The Artistsinlabs" project and professor and vice director of Z-node PHD Program in Art and Science at the Institute of Cultural Studies in Art, Media and design at the Academy of Art and Design in Zurich (Switzerland) and Santi Eraso, Director of Arteleku (Public Art Centre) in Donostia - San Sebastian (Spain).

10 companies and research labs participating in the project have defined the field / concept / material / technology and / or processes they wish the applying artists to investigate:

1. Researching concepts. Creative concepts proposals which relate to the strategic interests of companies / research centers, which may experience unexpected developments:
• Safety: multi-sensorial and secure evacuation of buildings at DAISALUX - http://www.daisalux.com
• Safety (2): researching safe working environments which are able to integrate disabled persons at LEIA - http://www.leia.es
• Multimedia: researching ways of integration between the different media (press, web, TV, radio) of the CORREO GROUP - http://www.elcorreodigital.com

2. Thinking up new products. This call corresponds to the need to diversify product portfolios and it involves devising new products (mainly for the street and home furniture):
• using materials produced by the FORMICA laminate company - http://www.formica.es
• using recycled plastic materials GAIKER Technology Centre - http://www.gaiker.es
• from the ALFA LAN GROUP's own technologies, normally used in making large public sculptures - http://www.alfaarte.com

3. Reinventing formats. This involves seeking out innovative formats which depart from conventional designs. Three formats are related to image, and one to food products:
• the audiovisual documentary format at EITB - http://www.eitb.com
• multimedia content for Augmented Reality applications at VICOMTECH - http://www.vicomtech.es
• audiovisual and interactive contents to be sent to personal mobile devices at EUVE - http://www.euve.org
• packaging and merchandising of food products at KAIKU - http://www.kaiku.es

The above collaborations should result in the construction of a prototype or drawings of ideas, or development of new approaches or processes.

The 10 artists (or group of artists) selected will receive a fee of 5.000 euros each, and a minimum of 1.300 euros for travel, food and accommodation. In addition, each artist is entitled to a maximum of 5.000 euros (depending on the project) for expenses driving from the development of the research. The collaborations last 6 months each, alternating virtual and presential relations according to the project’s needs.

Full information on the companies and research centers participating and the rules for participation are available at http://www.disonancias.com

Promoter: XABIDE Group ( http://www.grupoxabide.es). Main sponsor: SPRI / Basque Government. Associated bodies: Alava Development Agency / Bai Bizkaia Innovation Agency / Regional Government of Gipuzkoa (Department for Innovation and Knowledge Society). Collaborators: Arteleku / Spanish Ministry for Culture.

06/09/06

The Jerwood Artangel Open

The Jerwood Artangel Open is a major new £1million commissioning initiative that offers an unparalleled opportunity for emerging artists of all disciplines to propose ideas for exceptional projects in relation to specific sites across the UK.

The new £1 million fund will make three outstanding new commissions possible. Arts practitioners including visual artists, filmmakers, choreographers, composers, writers, theatre practitioners, applied artists and producers living anywhere in the UK are invited to imagine ambitious transformations of specific sites and situations - urban, suburban and rural.

Roanne Dods, Director of the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, says “The magnitude and risk in this huge open competition is balanced by the sheer excitement of giving emerging artists a chance to create new work on a site, scale and level of imagination and aspiration that would otherwise not be possible for them. This is only possible by making the right intervention with the right group of people. This initiative is one of the largest projects that the Jerwood Charitable Foundation has ever embarked on and the reason we are able to take this journey is because of the special reputation of Artangel.”

The winning commissions will be developed and produced by Artangel for presentation in the UK between 2008 and 2010. The central involvement of Channel 4 as a partner for The Jerwood Artangel Open will help broaden the reach and impact of the commissioned projects through specific programmes for broadcast television.

The Open is hoping to bring forward ideas as inspiring as of some of the most exceptional projects of the past decade in the UK. Projects as different as Jeremy Deller’s re-enactment of The Battle of Orgreave in South Yorkshire or Derek Jarman’s coastal garden in Dungeness, Rachel Whiteread’s cast of House in East London or Angus Farquhar’s son-et-lumiere on the Isle of Skye have transformed our expectations as to how and where some of the most compelling work of our time might be made and experienced. James Lingwood & Michael Morris, Co-Directors of Artangel believe “there’ s a very rich seam of artistic potential in the UK today and we’re looking forward to being surprised by some compelling ideas.”

The selection panel includes artists Jeremy Deller and Shirin Neshat, theatre director Emma Rice and Artangel Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris.

Closing date for submissions 6 October 2006

For more information see http://www.thejerwoodartangelopen.org.uk

For further information and images please contact Janette Scott on Janette@artangel.org.uk or 020 7713 1400 or Gill Roth on gillr@artangel.org.uk or 020 7713 1400.

Opportunity for Students

2006-03-27T12:55:00.000-08:00

The Photo Imaging Council Award up to £2,000

“Where the use of Photography would make a difference”

Open to students of Higher Education in any discipline of Art and Design

Closing Date: 5th May 2006

Enter now!

The Award

The Photo Imaging Council Award is awarded every year to an art and design higher education
student in a British college. It is worth up to £2,000, either as a single award or as smaller prizes.
To apply, you have to submit a written proposal for a single project, which you wish to undertake,
where the medium is photography. You do not have to be a photography student, but simply have
to convince the judges that in photographing and publicising the topic you have chosen,
“photography would make a difference”.

The award is backed by the Photo Imaging Council (PIC), which represents most of the large
manufacturers of equipment and film, and by the HEAD Trust, a charity that acts on the behalf of
colleges of further and higher education to help students of art, craft, design and media. In past
years, prize winners have been helped by individual member companies of PIC and have had their
work placed for publication in the Sunday Times Magazine, British Journal of Photography,
Panorama and the New Statesman and exhibited at Focus on Imaging at the NEC Birmingham.
Professional contacts are part of the value of the prize.

For further information about PIC, please refer to its website: www.pic.uk.net.

Past winners have included:

Charlie Stewart S. Asian Tsunami - the unsung heroes of this tragedy.
Rebecca Dearden portraits and tactile images of blind and partially sighted people
Christopher Davis pre and post natal programmes at the Mother Teresa Society, Kosovo
Fiona Campbell the world of masters athletics - mature athletes who have reached their
goals irrespective of age.
Belinda Lawley telemedicine project in India, which brings heart care to the rural poor.
Marcello Bonfanti Alang, Gujarat: the world’s biggest ship breaking complex coast.
Aubrey Wade The Buddy Scheme – Holland’s programme to integrate unaccompanied
juvenile refugees.
Harjeet Kaur Dark Tales at Bedtime – looking at perceived women’s roles in society by
reflecting on the nature of narrative using old fairy myths.
Tina Stallard Depiction of children with a range of disabilities, of different ages and from
different social backgrounds
Ikuko Tsuchiya Botton Village: photographic documentation of therapeutic community life.
Marc Newton "Bondway" - housing shelter for the homeless
Sam Bell City Zones - urban deserts in Glasgow, Newcastle Upon Tyne and London.
Christopher Anderson Documentary Projection the Cooperative Minera Central Mixto De Minas
Libres Ltda in Potosi, Bolivia.
Leticia Valverdes Brazilian Street Kids: Looking for Dignity
Fran Marquis-Faulkes Dundee, Scotland: Photography project with the Elderly and Disabled
People of Mid Craigie.
Jamie Wilson The Dundee Lip Theatre Company.
Sue Clark The A40, from London to Fishguard.
Lyn Whitfield Afghanistan: women in the aftermath of the war.
Steven Macleod Krakow: pollution damage from Hova Huta, an environmental blackspot in
Eastern Europe.
Are Flagan Finmark, Norway: the importance to the local community of the
resumption of whaling.
Sheila MacDonald Sulasgeir, Outer Hebrides: the ancient practice of harvesting gannets
Matthew Smith Southwest England; the impact of new government legislation dealing
with the gypsy lifestyle on travellers.
Kieran Walsh Belfast: the traditional values of English suburban life to be found within
Northern Ireland to “contradict the negative imagery of Belfast.
Andrew Prag Liverpool: people’s enthusiasm and lust for life, a study of social space to
“counteract the low opinion of the city often held by outsiders”.

How to apply

The prizes are awarded to selected students who present a brief written scheme, with detailed
costs including any details of matched funding possibilities, with a statement in support of their
application provided by their institution. No photographs should be submitted. More detailed
guidance notes on submitting your application are included with the application form.

Application forms are available from Higher Education institutions, by e-mail contacting
head@ntu.ac.uk
from the PIC website or by writing to the HEAD Trust, The Nottingham Trent School of Art and
Design, The Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham. NG1 4BU enclosing a
stamped addressed envelope.

Closing Date

The closing date for completed application forms is 5th May 2006. Completed application forms
should be sent to The Photo Imaging Council Award, The HEAD Trust, c/o The Nottingham Trent
School of Art and Design, The Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham. NG1 4BU.
No faxed forms will be accepted.

Judging

A judging panel made up of representatives of PIC and the HEAD Trust will meet soon after the
closing date so that the successful prize winners can be informed early in July 2004 to enable them
to make the necessary arrangements to carry out their projects.

Prize winners

Prize winners will be expected to provide a brief written report together with a set of 20 prints for
the HEAD archives to arrive with HEAD by 30 November 2006 and a second set to be used for the
presentations and the display at Focus on Imaging. The winners may keep the second set after the
show and the presentations. They may also be required to make a formal presentation to the
members of PIC and the trade press in January 2006.

The Photo Imaging Council Award

Application Form
Open to students on higher education courses in the United Kingdom
Closing date for applications 5th May 2006

Please type or print clearly using black ink, as the form will be photocopied

Name

Contact Address

Postcode

Home/Contact Telephone Number

Mobile Telephone Number

E-mail address

Title of Course Year

Name of Institution

Address

Postcode

Telephone Number

1. Details of proposed project: (please detail below)

2. Detailed estimated costs (e.g. travel, subsistence, film processing etc.)

3. Statement in support of application (to be completed by the Course Leader)

From your knowledge of the candidate and her/his detailed application please include
comments on the following points to ensure that only entries of substantive quality and
potential are endorsed by you on behalf of your institution.

i. Is it a coherent application in terms of its aspirations, level of expression and
communicative skill?

ii. Does the applicant have a clear grasp of problem/challenge that she/he intends to
research?

iii. Does the proposal involve the person's own originality and sense of discovery or
exploration?

iv. In your view are the projections stated, or claimed, appropriate to the level of the
applicant's stage of development?

v. Does the proposal show an awareness of wider implications, e.g. social,
psychological, physiological, intellectual and emotional concerns that might form
part of the investigation?

vi. Has the applicant revealed individual initiative in her/his submission and a capacity
to achieve the stated outcomes?

Signed: Date:

Name (please print)

Designation

Countersigned Date:

Name (please print)

Designation

College Stamp

Please return form to: The HEAD Trust, c/o The Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design, The
Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham. NG1 4BU.
Guidance Notes for completing application.

1.
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3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Do you present evidence of your ability to respond to the given situation in a selective,
sensitive and personal way?

Does your submission reveal or convey an acceptable level of insight into the central issues
that you wish to explore?

Does the proposal reflect imaginative, creative activity beyond mere description or
categorizing of situations/events?

Does the proposal show sensory awareness of the potential of media to be used throughout
the project?

Will the use of photographic media show a grasp of visual and aesthetic consideration
including perhaps some of the following?

. Rhythm
. Economy
. Subtlety
. Wit
. Diversity of richness of response
. Depth of feeling
. Energy and vitality
. Spontaneity and freshness
. Clarity of intention
. Structural relationships between the parts and the parts to the whole
. Sense of balance
. Freshness of viewpoint or perception

Have you put forward your proposal in its strongest form and taken advice and guidance
from your tutors?

The proposal should benefit the applicant's comprehension of the possibilities for creative
visual research. Are you communicating that understanding in the best possible way?

Have you shown that you will use the appropriate photographic medium or combination of
media to communicate the outcomes/findings/conclusions - normally through an exposition
of the work in the folio form and exhibition venues that you will arrange?

Opportunities March 28th 2006

2006-03-27T00:38:00.000-08:00

ViPod Gallery: Viewing Event - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S.) wants your video art for Vancouver’s first iPod viewing gallery or ViPod Gallery!

This is a fundraising event for Vancouver’s hottest emerging arts society The Escape Artists Society (T.E.A.S.): we put art in unusual spaces – inserting ‘our’ world into ‘there’ world– penetrating public perceptions of culture, genre and form.

Submitted works must be created specifically for screening on Apple’s new video iPod and can be no longer than 5 minutes in duration.

The content and style of your work is open – it can be narrative or non-narrative, personal or political, and presented in an experimental or documentary style.

Play with the notion of “ViPodification” in your work – the small, intimate scale of the iPod may direct your explorations technically and conceptually– “podify” it.

Featured artists are eligible for prize packs featuring treats donated by local designers, artists and businesses.

THE EVENT:

The ViPod Viewing Gallery will take place in a funky uptown social location in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The space will be set up with special viewing tables: artists and guests will ‘rent’ the ViPods (each featuring a different artist’s work) for short periods – to enjoy, share and discuss the works amongst themselves.

The evening may also feature door prizes, performances and site-specific installations by local artists.

REQUIREMENTS:

Submissions must be original to the artist – they may be new or older pieces that have been modified or “ViPodified” - (altered in some way that addresses the intimate scale of the iPod’s screen) for the viewing environment in mind.

0. Max 320 x 240 in dimensions

0. Compression codecs to used MUST be either MPEG 4 or H.264, 2.5 mbps(max) at 30 fps

0. Max 5 mins, at max 15 megs in total file size

0. All audio and video must be original, with credits for all additional artist who worked on the project

0. Must include T.E.A.S. logo in credits – this can be downloaded from T.E.A.S. website after April 1st

0. Upon submission the artist will be asked to sign an agreement to release the work to T.E.A.S. for limited exclusive use for the first 6 weeks then unlimited, non-exclusive rights from that time forward

TIMELINE:

0. Invitation/Call for works: March 24- May 4th, 2006
0. Deadline for Works: May 4th, 2006
0. Final decisions: May 18th, 2006
0. Fundraiser: June 6th, 2006

To send your submissions please contact:

Camille Baker at camille@escapeartists.ca or Victoria Singh at victoria@escapeartists.ca or snail mail cd files to:

The Escape Artists Society 1009 Semlin Drive Vancouver, BC  V5L 4J9 Canada

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts Visual Arts Residency Program

Applications for the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts 2007-2008 Art & Community Visual Arts Residency Program are now being accepted. Application deadline: April 20, 2006

During this residency program, artists make a full-time commitment to collaborate with an under-served community group to create artwork based on issues relevant to the participants' lives. The theme for the 2007-2008 program is Motion, Journey Transportation: How do we get from here to there? The residency program is also geared to offering artists the time, space, and financial assistance to work on their own independent projects. In addition to a stipend, the DCCA provides selected artists with living accommodations/studio space for up to eight weeks. The DCCA documents all residencies in a nationally distributed catalogue and may schedule an exhibition for the artist.

For more information contact Holly Bennett at hbennett@thedcca.org or 302.656.6466, ext. 7101

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
200 South Madison Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
www.thedcca.org

Call for Papers:
College Art Association Conference, NYC 2007
http://www.collegeart.org/conference/2007-call-papers.html

DIGITAL DIFFERENCE: RECONTEXTUALIZING NEW MEDIA ART

Chair: Juliet Davis, University of Tampa, 302 49th St. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33710

From fine-art games to electronic literature, new media have introduced

a host of terms that might seem contradictory in the context

of traditional art scholarship and cultural studies. While some

writers have made cases for new media as extensions of art and

literary traditions, others see completely new cultural forms that

largely break with tradition. Furthermore, while some cultural studies

scholars have seen interactive media as the ultimate postmodern

expression, others note modernist trends such as generative-

software artists focus on form. This panel seeks to identify

attributes of new media that distinguish themculturally, politically,

and phenomenologicallyfrom their predecessors in art and

literary worlds. How does the configurative nature of computer-generated

art differentiate it from a traditional interpretive work?

How might we make distinctions about types and degrees of

interactivity and immersion in all these media? How does the

pleasure of experiencing interactive media correspond to our

notions of the pleasure experiencing other kinds of art, such as

viewing a film or reading a novel? How does digital media uniquely

problematize representation? How do these problems compare

to those in other media, currently and historically? To what extent

do these problems relate to digital art as medium versus digital

art as genre, and to what extent do they indicate an art movement

that might be characterized as modern, postmodern, or

beyond postmodern? Proposals from artists, historians, and theoreticians

are welcomed; nontraditional formats are encouraged.

GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR SPEAKERS

1. CAA individual membership is required of all participants.

2. No one may participate in the same capacity two years in a

row. Speakers in the 2006 conference may not be speakers in

2007; a 2006 speaker may, however, be a discussant in 2007,

and vice versa.

3. No one may participate in more than one session in any

capacity (for example, a chair, speaker, or discussant in one

session is ineligible for participation in any capacity in any

other session), although a chair may deliver a paper or serve

as discussant in his or her own session provided he or she did

not serve in that capacity in 2006. Exception: A speaker who

participates in a practical session on professional and educational

issues may present a paper in a second session.

4. Session chairs must be informed if one or more proposals are

being submitted to other sessions for consideration.

5. A paper that has been published previously or presented at

another scholarly conference may not be delivered at the CAA

Annual Conference.

6. Acceptance in a session implies a commitment to attend that

session and participate in person.

PRELIMINARY PROPOSALS TO SESSION CHAIRS

Due May 5, 2006

Proposals for participation in sessions should be sent directly to

the appropriate session chair(s). If a session is cochaired, a copy

should be sent to each chair, unless otherwise indicated. Every

proposal should include the following six items:

1. Completed session participation proposal form, located at the

end of this publication.

2. Preliminary abstract of one to two double-spaced, typed pages.

3. Letter explaining speakers interest, expertise in the topic, and

CAA membership status.

4. C.V. with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address,

and phone and fax numbers. Include summer address and

telephone number, if applicable.

5. Slides, videotapes, or other documentation of work when

appropriate (with SASE), especially for sessions in which artists

might discuss their own work.

6. A stamped, self-addressed postcard for confirmation that

proposal has been received. If mailing internationally, it is recommended

that proposals be sent via certified mail, return

receipt requested.

CHAIRS WILL DETERMINE THE SPEAKERS FOR THEIR

SESSIONS AND REPLY TO ALL APPLICANTS BY JUNE 2, 2006.

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS TO SESSION CHAIRS

Due September 1, 2006

At the session chairs request, a final abstract must be prepared

by each speaker and submitted to the chair for publication in

Abstracts 2007. Detailed specifications for preparation of

abstracts will be sent to all speakers.

FULL TEXTS OF PAPERS TO SESSION CHAIRS

Due December 1, 2006

Speakers are required to submit the full texts of their papers to

chairs. Where sessions have contributions other than prepared

papers, chairs may require equivalent materials by the same

deadline. These submissions are essential to the success of the

sessions; they assure the quality and designated length of the

papers and permit their circulation to discussants and other participants

as requested by the chair. Failure to comply with the

deadline or with a chairs request for materials in advance may

result in a speakers name being dropped from the program, even

though his or her name may appear in the online Preliminary

Program in October 2006.

invite(*, BLIT:SCREEN) {

BLIT:SCREEN == http://blitscreen.criticalartware.net

this is an open invitation to collectives, clans, classes, cabals,
crews + colleagues to contribute+participate+activate BLIT:SCREEN!

blit /blit/ vt. 1. [common] To copy a large array of bits from one
part of a computer's memory to another part, particularly when the
memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen.
-- jargon file, [http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/blit.html]

BLIT:SCREEN is a [webApp|system|artware] running on the
criticalartware platform. localized groups (collectives, clans,
classes, cabals etc.) sign up, register a mailing address + media
playback capabilities + then receive media from randomized sources
throughout the WWWorld. once a month, the BLIT:SCREEN system sends
each group an email with the mailing address of another group to which
to mail media. as a result, every group who participates in this
physical exchange receives a DVD-R or CD-R or VHS or VinylRecord or
any other media type delivered in any other appropriate format from 01
other participating group every month. likewise every group sends 01
instance of BLIT:SCREEN out to 01 group (whom BLIT:SCREEN has
suggested), thereby creating a deeply distributed + dynamic 01 to 01
network.

BLIT:SCREEN is both a distribution system + a distributed archive. in
this way the system is grid distribution + grid archiving. nothing is
prescribed about participating groups; a group might be a hacker
collective living in a squat, an experimental television station
[+/or] a professor collecting + distributing student work. media
distributed through BLIT:SCREEN could include completed projects,
artworks, raw materials for production+remix, critical txts, unearthed
archives, shared cultural resources, &c&c. the BLIT:SCREEN system
assumes no prescriptions [+/or] standards as to what participants do
with the material they receive, however,
screening+discussion+archiving are encouraged. BLIT:SCREEN draws
connections from the hystories + technologies of bicycling physical
video tapes during the early video art moment,
{sneaker|floppy|walk}-nets + onLine {communication|development}
[channels/paths] in demoscenes + BBS culture as well as
{highlighting|suggesting} contemporary possibilities for the role of
decentralized distribution modalities + resource sharing.

BLIT:SCREEN runs on the criticalartware applat
([application/platform]). criticalartware develops new media discourse
by engaging early moments of {code|concept}-based experimental [media
art/artware], conversing with + interviewing those active in these
early moments ++ sharing cultural resources connecting these
conversations. criticalartware as a crew of core.developers is also a
[user/participant] in the BLIT:SCREEN system. as such criticalartware
core.dvrs will send, receive + BLIT:SCREEN media. BLIT:SCREEN as a
project has been initiated by criticalartware core.dvr jake elliott +
{continues|extends} criticalartware's commitment to open exchanges +
criticalConspiracies.

register + BLIT -> http://blitscreen.criticalartware.net

Final call for submissions
Deadline: 1 April 2006
********************

On 31 December 2005,
the global networking project
[R][R][F]2005--->XP by Agricola de Cologne
http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org experired,
but 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 has become one of the most successful
Internet based projects of its kind and was presented meanwhile about 50 times
in virtual and physical space
details see also NetEX - networked experience
http://weblog.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, [R][R][F]2006--->XP
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://rrf2005.newmediafest.org

The RRF project is planned to be active also beyond the year 2007.
As a most unique source of collective memory RRF project will remain online for permanent.

A single artist or an artist collective can submit up to 3 projects/works.
The projects have to be submitted as URL, thus must have an Internet address of their own,
but there is an option (on request) to accept also cloned projects (including all necessary files)
for being hosted on RRF server (recommended in case a project is not planned to remain for permanent online)
The use of following plug-ins is accepted:
Flash, Shockwave, Quicktime, Real Player, Cortona (3D)
(other plug-ins on request)

Please use this entry form for submitting:

1.name of artist(s), email address(es), URL(s)
(in case of an artists collective please credit all participants properly)
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words each)
3. 3 work/project max. -->
a) title
b) year of production
c) used technology
d) URL for review and inclusion
4. work description ( not more than 500 words)
5. 2 screenshots(.jpeg, max. 800x600 px) for each submitted work
.
Please send the complete submission to
rrf2006@newmediafest.org
subject: [R][R][F]2006--->XP submission

For the option of submitting a cloned project,
please contact rrf2006@newmediafest.org for details
subject: cloned project submission

*************************************************
This calls is also issued on
NetEX - networked experience
http://weblog.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54
.
[NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
info(at)nmartproject.net

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Call for Works: Composers and Sound Artists
Deadline: April 5, 2006 (not postmarked)

Composers and sound artists are invited to submit original unpublished works to be presented in a concert held in conjunction with the Project Media Space | Public Space exhibition. The exhibition, hosted by The New School Universitys Department of Media Studies & Film (NYC), in cooperation with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), features media works of 15 artists and artist collaboratives that engage with the issues central to the following question:
How are public and semi-public spaces constructed, branded, inhabited, policed, mapped, deconstructed and theorized through the uses and filters of media?

In order to relate to the exhibited pieces, the sound works should explore one or more of the following issues of public and private space: mediated commerce and control, diaspora and notions of home, cultural geographies, the uncanny, landscape and the environment, channels of flows of information, media blurring the division between public and private space, mobile media, the city as archive, nature and culture.

Genres can include (but are not limited to):
Electronic music
Computer Music
Electroacoustic music
Ambient
Text-based collage
Acoustic ecology
Environmental Sound

The concert will be held in the gallery space at 15 Nassau Street, New York, New York. May 12, 2006 at 7pm

If you wish to have your work considered, please provide the following information in the body of an email to GreyM593@newschool.edu in addition to a hard copy to be included with the submission:
Short bio (75-100 words) and photo
Title/duration/media/year created
Short program note (100 words or less) or artist statement about how this piece relates to the theme of the exhibition
State if this would be a live and/or premiere performance. If it is a live performance, please note that you must provide all necessary performers/equipment/instruments since this is a gallery space, not a concert hall. The LMCC and The New School University cannot be held liable for any equipment damage or loss.
Contact information sheet must include a phone number, home address, and email address.

Please mail the recording:
Recording of unpublished work on compact disc
Maximum duration 10 minutes (Shorter works will have a better chance of being programmed)

If you would like to have your materials returned, please supply an SASE and the appropriate postage.

The concert will be curated by sound artist/audio engineer Jim Briggs and composer Melissa Grey.

Please mail submission to:
Melissa Grey
12 West 29th Street, second floor
New York, NY 10001

Deadline: April 5 (not postmarked)
Late or incomplete submissions will not be considered.

You will be contacted by April 10th

call for entries
deadline june 2006

GALLERY2006
http://www.bestonweb.net/wett.htm

This project born from an idea of a group of
web-workers and a cultural no-profit association that
operate between Turin, Milan and Venice promoting
international art.
The intention is to give a different way of reality
interpretation in our IT society trought art in his
main sense of espression.
Every art worker can partecipate no age or nationality
restriction.
All support and media are allowed, are accepted photo,
paper,article, short poems, flash and graphic work and
WEBWORKS.

Send pictures of your work with a description and a
short bio to
submit@ linkarte@yahoo.com

Deadline April 20th

The Museum of Contextual Amputations is looking for submissions from artists, writers and others. This online Museum will showcase objects and texts that specifically employ the following strategies:

1 Lies/ Deceit
2 Plagiarism
3 Embellishment/ Extension (of already existing material)
4 Erasure/ Removal (of already existing material)
5 De-contextualization and Re-contextualization
6 Myth

The museum will be organized by topic, and images and texts will be paired together. For this reason the submitter is encouraged to provide both text and image. This first group of curated submitters will be awarded the status of Trustees of the Museum. Subsequent users will be awarded the optional status of Friends of the Museum.

This is an Open Source Museum and is slated to open on June 1st 2006. Once it officially opens it can be fully edited, embellished upon, reordered, or erased by all users. This will lead to a constantly changing space of discussion and confrontation.

Unlike Wikipedia, where the ground for contestation/ confrontation is the notion of what is True, we are yet to discover the possible grounds for confrontation in the Museum.

This is a project undertaken by SHIFTER magazine. Please send all submissions and direct any questions to the editorial staff at:

shiftermail@gmail.com

editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath
associate editor: Gönner Heiliger Von Lügen
critical advisor: Pieter DeHeijde
design + copy: IF Productions

SHIFTER is also accepting submissions for its 8th issue titled Rules and Representations. More information regarding this call for entries is forthcoming.

previous SHIFTER projects can be viewed at www.shifter-magazine.com
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Maribor, Slovenija
Event dates: 25-27 May 06

Magdalena
Magdalena – International festival of creative communication

Authors under 30 will be able to compete in four groups: print, motion, interactive and experimental.
A new competition group: Experimental
This year we transformed category "other media" into two categories in a new group: experimental. New media (new, alternative and ambiental media) and Creative use of media (new ways on how to use traditional media) are two categories in this group.
Members of this year's international jury, which will be in charge of choosing the best works and giving away the luxurious prizes, are: Julie Lasky (USA), Niklas Frings-Rupp (Germany), Jonathan Barnbrook (UK), Grzegorz Mogilewski (Poland), David Crow (UK) and Alma Čakmazović (Croatia).
Young talents can participate in regional creative briefs in which the best item of each will be awarded 1,000 Euro.

Deadline: 24/04/06 - early birds, 05/05/06 - final

Contact:
Magdalena
Slomškova 29
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija
phone: +386 40 674 323
fax: +386 1 4345 890
info@magdalena.org
http://www.magdalena.org

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Event dates: 2006

European Cultural Foundation
Cultural Policy Research Award

Young academics, researchers and policymakers (aged 35 or under) are eligible for the 10,000 Euro award
http://www.cpraward.org/
Applications should be submitted through the online application form on the CPR Award website. Before applying, candidates are strongly advised to consult the website for advice on how to prepare their applications.
The winner of the CPR Award 2006 will be announced at the Fourth International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, which will be held in July 2006, in Vienna, Austria.
The main aim of the Cultural Policy Research Award (CPR Award) is to stimulate academic research in the field of cultural policy. An emphasis is placed on research that can inform policymaking and benefit practitioners active in the field. The research should throw light on contemporary European cultural issues and challenges by analyzing them and offering possible policy solutions.
The CPR Award seeks to contribute to the creation of a cultural policy ‘infrastructure’ – a network of scholars with competence in comparative research related to cultural policy. Additionally, the award evaluates existing research achievements, connects academic centres, and promotes an interdisciplinary approach in the sphere of cultural policy research.
The overall area covered by the award is ‘applied comparative cultural policy research’.
Preference will be given to proposed research which covers a topical issue affecting contemporary Europe and which considers the possible remodelling of cultural systems, cultural institutions and cultural policy education.
The research project must provide new insights and suggest practical policy orientations and/or recommendations for decision-makers and thinkers (new policy solutions, proposals of new instruments and/or procedures). The research may focus on a variety of topics.
Legal, economic, social, managerial, ethical, technological and other relevant categories of issues (e.g. in the media & communication sphere) will receive equal attention in the selection process.
Priority will be given to evaluative, comparative and action-research projects which cover the European or macro-regional space. The research outcomes should contain relevant policy proposals for systemic and structural changes, or innovative ideas for rethinking the position of arts and culture in the context of European enlargement and integration.
Applications should be submitted between 15 November 2005 and 1 April 2006 through the online application form on the CPR Award website. Before applying, candidates are strongly advised to consult the website for advice on how to prepare their applications.
The winner of the CPR Award 2006 will be announced at the Fourth International Conference on Cultural Policy Research, which will be held in July 2006, in Vienna, Austria.

Application form
Deadline: 01/04/06 - submission date

Contact:
European Cultural Foundation
Cultural Policy Development, Svetlana Jovicic
The Netherlands
phone: + 381 64 114 1124
cpraward@cpraward.org
www.eurocult.org/

Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Event dates: from June till September 2006

BASSMENT COURT
Call for Proposals 2006

The aim is to establish the new stage as a contemporary venue for European artists.
BASSMENT COURT is looking for works of contemporary art, focused on the experimentation in the field of theatre, dance, music, performance, crossmedia and live act, to programme the first season of new artistic stage at Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro) within Bassment Club.
The main expectation for works to be selected is to break with existing trends in performative art in order to discover new aesthetic territories.
The selection will be based on the following criteria:  o Quality and professionalism o Innovative approach and diversity  o Artists or companies ready to co-operate with the organizers to make things possible.
BASSMENT COURT will promote the event, be responsible for the programming and organization. BASSMENT COURT will provide facilities and the necessary technicians. Each case will be addressed individually. Though proposals may include any number of performers, BASSMENT COURT will cover 4 days of accommodation and per diems for artists of selected pieces, up to a total of 5 people per proposal. Travel expenses will be considered with possibilities for special grants.
BASSMENT COURT will not cover other expenses, such as transportation, insurances or copyrights. No fee is provided.
Applications must contain documentation of the work (DVD, DV or VHS) with rider list and details of the company, and be sent to the address of Basement Court.
Selected artists and/or group will be notified by 5 May 2006 and will be required to confirm their participation within a few days after.

Deadline: 15/04/06

Contact:
BASSMENT COURT
Late Nite Productions
Ilije Garasanina 18
11 000 Belgrade
Serbia and Montenegro
court@hop-la.org

Hamburg, Germany
Event dates: 2007/2008

Academy of Galan
Cooperation in the artistic European project: ‚Operation: leftovers to value’

Call for taking part
Since the summer of 2005 the Academy of Galan in France has been planning together with Prof. Rolf Thiele, from the University of Arts Bremen and the artist group GUD, Hamburg, a European project in the field of fine arts and intercultural communication.
This project will apply for financial support from the European Union in autumn 2006 and is intended for realization in the period of 2007/2008.
Up to now the general idea of this work-in-process- project contains roughly the following three phases:
Phase 1 Artists/artist groups from the participating European countries will take over the role of agents. They will set out to reach an unknown location in another foreign European country.
In these selected places, preferably situated in the countryside, the artist should carry out artistic activities (operation/event) together with the local people of the area.
Each operation will result in leftovers to value/products, which have to be transported by the artists to a central lab.
Phase 2 In this place the unified ,leftovers' will operate in a so-called cultural transformation process (change in values) approximately over the period of one year. The transformation process aims to produce a higher valued ,community resource'.
Phase 3 After one year shares of this ,community resource' will be handed out in a public event to the corresponding European artist agents. Each will appropriate his share (= a piece of open (re)-source) and bring it back to their own country in order to handle it in an autonomous artistic way (follow-up projects).
As many countries as possible should be involved in this art operation, especially in the EU and in the newcomer states from the East. Most important to this project is the direct and active involvement of the local people. The operation will not only be participated in and communicated in real time but will also be virtually documented.
In order to get this project rolling, other cooperation partnerships are needed, such as private or public cultural institutions, universities of art and media, museums, curators and other cultural networks.
In which way can you take part in this project? 1. as an official co-organizer of the EU-project. That means committed financial support and involvement in the concept. 2. as a project partner, who participates in the activities and possibly contributes a small budget, payment in kind, or brings other resources to the project.

Deadline: 31/03/06

Contact:
Academy of Galan
Gudrun Löbig
Germany
phone: +49 173 4588 180
kunst@gudrun-loebig.de

Aizpute, Latvia
Event dates: June 5 - 11, 2006

The Residency Center for Artists in Aizpute
ARTISTS AGAINST TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS

THE 1st POST-SOVIET SUMMER CAMP - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS AND WORKSHOPS LEADERS
www.arthome.lv/summercamp/?__session_just_s
Artists against technology standards is a collaboration project uniting media artists, activists, engineers and curators from Baltic States, North Europe and Russia.
The main idea of the summer camp – artistic and creative expressions, hidden in the internal feelings and based on the skills developed in the specific life experience of the Soviet period. The keynote of the summer camp is the creative phenomenon of the soviet man – the particular ability to realise the ideas with limited technical resources, discover different use of the everyday goods and make unusual objects for practical application.
Program of the summer camp will include those works that form and unite specific subculture, semiotic, technical creation, folklore and perception of life of the soviet space.
THEMES OF THE SUMMER CAMP  - Manipulations with TV and Radio systems;  - hacking hi-tech technologies, making them work as you wish;  - creative, mechanical, technological or computing practices that challenge expectations through or results from unusual and imaginative use of technology.
We invite media artists, scientists, engineers and practitioners from post-socialism and North-Europe region countries to apply for leading workshops, participation in workshops and/or presentations.
If you are ready to participate in the 1st Post-soviet Summer Camp, please send us an e-mail with:  - your project idea (has to conform with one of the themes of the summer camp);  - the list of the necessary technical equipment for the project, workshop and/or presentation;  - already existing documentations that have conceptual link to the one of the themes of the summer camp (if applying for the presentation);  - short bio.
Expenses  - Organisers cover participants and workshop’s leaders accommodation costs;  - Organisers cover travel and visa costs for workshop leaders;  - Breakfast for both - participants and leaders;  - Organisers do not cover travel of the participants but can provide invitation letters for obtaining visas and for applications for local grants;  - Organisers provide technical equipment for the presentations and workshops.
LOCATION  The summer camp will take place at the Residency Center for Artists in Aizpute, Latvia (around 50 km from the Baltic Sea).
SUMMER CAMP TEAM  Interdisciplinary Art Group "SERDE" (Signe Pucena, Agnese Rucina, Ugis Pucens, Egons Baranovs) in cooperation with media artist and curator Sergey Teterin from Perm (Russia)
APPLICATIONS PLEASE SEND TO THE E-MAIL of Signe Pucena.

Deadline: 31/03/06

Contact:
The Residency Center for Artists in Aizpute
Signe Pucena
Latvia
phone: +371 9817180
fax: +371 7228477
signe@rixc.lv

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Event dates: 2006

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Artist in Residence

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
www.montevideo.nl/en/index.html
residency period 3 months
dates from July 2006
location Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo is pleased to annouce an open call for the Spring 2006 round of its Artist in Residence (AiR) program.
The AiR programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute aims to support the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice.
The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work.
Our focus for this open call is on open source interactive installation art, in which the following occurs: interaction between tools and/or software interaction between tools and artwork interaction between audience and artwork
The Netherlands Media Art Institute offers an open environment with technical assistance and an active advisory board which will give feedback and support in technical, conceptual and presentation issues.  There is access to studio and exhibition equipment, technical support from the Institute’s staff and production help from interns. The technical staff is specialized and has good contacts with programmers of the following software, a.o.: PD/PDP, Blender, Dynebolic, Linux. We expect the artist to have knowledge and insight in the technical realization of the concept.
It is integral to the mission of the AiR program that artists participate in presenting their work in a public form appropriate to their project. This can include gallery installations, demonstrations of research in progress, panel discussions, on-line projects, or multimedia performances, in addition to open studio events and workshops. For this reason we ask that artists include in their proposal possible examples of how they might like to present their work publicly.
At this moment the Netherlands Media Art Institute provides in travel costs. It doesn’t provide accommodation for artists living outside of Amsterdam. However, we are willing to help the search but cannot guarantee a place for living.
Application using the application form can be send to Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo.

Deadline: 14/04/06

Contact:
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo
Artist in Residence, c/o Annet Dekker
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
annet@montevideo.nl
www.montevideo.nl

St. Petersburg, Russia
Event dates: JULY 18-31, 2006

Message to Man Film Festival
XVI. MESSAGE TO MAN

International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival
www.message-to-man.spb.ru/POSL-16/Docs/RegE
The Festival program includes:
International Competition
Debut Film International Competition
NB! Debut film implies student, graduate (diploma) and first professional film
National Competition “Documentary Films of Russia”
Special Programs
The following films may take part in the International and International Debut Competitions: Documentary (max duration 120 min), short and animated films (max duration 40 min) on 16 or 35 mm film print with single soundtrack system that were completed after January 1st, 2005
Each Entry must be accompanied by: 1. DVD or VHS version of the film (PAL, SECAM, NTSC)  2. A completed Entry Form  3. Filmmakers’ biography and filmography 4. Dialogue list in English and original language of the film 5. Typed one-line synopsis (maximum 35 words)  6. One photo from the film for the catalogue
Jury and Prizes To judge the International Competition and the International Debut Competition the Organizers of the Festival will nominate the International Jury.
Directors whose films have been selected will be invited to attend the festival and provided with hotel accommodation. Expenses for only one person per film can be paid. The invitation can be transferred to the other representative of the film group in case if the director is not able to attend.

Deadline: 01/05/06

Contact:
Message to Man Film Festival
12 Karavannaya str.
191011 St. Petersburg
Russia
phone: +7(812) 972 1264
info@message-to-man.spb.ru
www.message-to-man.spb.ru

March 26th Artist in Residency

2006-03-26T12:48:00.000-08:00

The Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award
Artist in Residence Project and Commission at The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
£7,000

Paintings in Hospitals (PiH) is a registered charity dedicated to improving the healthcare environment experienced by patients, staff and visitors through the provision of original works of art for display in NHS hospitals, hospices and other healthcare facilities across England, Wales and Ireland.

In 2005, with the support of the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, PiH launched an annual Artist in Residence Award to be based at a different NHS hospital each year for the next five years. The award will include the commission of two site-specific works of art for the hospital plus a third piece for the charity’s own loan collection. In addition, the winning artist will be offered a 4 week solo exhibition at PiH’s gallery at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1.

The 2006 residency will commence between June and September at The John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. The artist will be required to work on site for part of the residency involving a group of patients and staff in the development of two pieces of work for permanent display in the Feto-Maternal Medicine Unit in The Women’s Centre.

The appointed artist will need a Criminal Records Bureau check to be carried out by the hospital.

Open to visual artists working in any media. For further details please send an A4 SAE (46p) to Paintings in Hospitals, 1st Floor, Menier Chocolate Factory, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU or download from www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk

Extended deadline for submissions: Friday 7 April 2006

Opportunities March 21st

2006-03-21T02:40:00.000-08:00

37 Seconds
Could you fill 37 seconds on the BBC Big Screen? Find out how you can submit film and digital artwork that will be screened in Liverpool City Centre - and across the world!

The BBC Big Screen Liverpool is a outdoor, twenty-six square metre, digital video screen located in Clayton Square, a vibrant city centre location with an estimated daily footfall of 55,000 people.

The BBC have joined forces with a freelance digital curator, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), the Liverpool Biennial and an ever expanding network of local creative organisations to produce a rolling programme of artistic film & video for the Big Screen. This programme is called 37 seconds.

As you approach Clayton Square, it takes approximately 37seconds to pass the Big Screen. 37seconds is a curated programme of innovative, original moving image art works that aims to communicate within, and potentially prolong, this 37 seconds. How? This is up to you.

Please note: submissions are not limited to 37 seconds in length. Anything from 10 seconds to 30 minutes will be considered.

Selected material will be screened to a wide and diverse audience alongside works by emerging and established artists. Each programme will be screened for fifteen to thirty minutes, every day at 10am, 12noon, 2.30pm, 4.00pm and 7.00pm. Site-specific works or those created for public space exhibition are strongly encouraged. Selected material may, on agreement, tour as part of the UK BBC Big Screen network and in partnership with international screen sites.

To apply for inclusion into the 37 seconds screening programme please submit the following
* A Mini DV or DV Cam copy of your moving image artwork, (no more than 30 minutes in length). DVD is acceptable for viewing purposes only.
* A completed BBC consent form, available on request. Please pay particular attention to music copyright.
* SAE for return of material (without this we cannot guarantee return of
work)

Please note that at present there are no screening fees for artists but your work will be promoted locally and nationally through web and print marketing campaigns.

Please send entries to:

Rebecca Lennon
Digital Curator: Big Screen Liverpool
FACT (Foundation for Art & Creative Technology)
88 Wood Street
Liverpool, L1 4DQ

For additional enquiries on the 37 seconds programme contact Rebecca on 0151
707 4438, or email Rebecca.lennon@bbc.co.uk

Vila do Conde, Portugal
Event dates: 8th - 16th July 2006

Festival Internacional de Curtas Metragens
14th Curtas Vila do Conde

Animations, documentaries, experimental films, fictions, and music videos, in 16mm, 35mm or BETACAM-SP/Pal, produced in 2005 or 2006, no longer than 60 minutes.
www.curtasmetragens.pt/festival/index.php?m
Preferably subtitled in Portuguese or English.
The jury is composed of distinguished film professionals, which will award the prizes mentioned below in both international and national competitions.
International and National Competitions: Great Prize "Cidade de Vila do Conde" Prize Animation  Prize Manoel de Oliveira for Documentary  Prize Fiction Prize for Experimental Short Prize Music Video Prix UIP Vila do Conde (for the Best European Short Film) Honourable Mentions (depending on the jury's criteria) Audience prize (best average points given by the audience)
National Competition: Prizes for the Best Portuguese Short Film  - Tobis Portuguesa prize - for the producer - Kodak prize - for the producer Prize Young Portuguese Filmmaker  Prize for the Best Cinematography  Honourable Mentions (depending on the jury's criteria)
Admission to pre-selection It is requested to submit an online entry form correctly filled in (from our website or from the Reelport website) and a preview copy of the film.

Deadline: 14/04/06 - reception (international competition)

Contact:
Auditório MunicipaI, Praça da República, International Film Festival
14th Curtas Vila do Conde
Vila do Conde
4480-715
Portugal
phone: +351 252 646516 / 248469
fax: +351 252 248416
festival@curtasmetragens.pt
http://www.curtasmetragens.pt/

Snowmass Village, CO, USA
Event dates: 2006

Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Responding to Gesture and Bodies: Design for Physically Based Interactive Art

Call for Applications
www.andersonranch.org/workshops/index.cfm?i
Five Merit Scholarships available for emerging artists to take a one-week course with award-winning interactive artist Camille Utterback.
These awards are designed to help artists learn and understand the technologies behind creating Physical-Digital Interfaces and to create a critical context in which to make these works.
Scholarships include: Full tuition, materials, lodging and three meals a day for the duration of the course. Winning applicants must provide for their own travel.
To apply: Send resume, examples of work, and a brief statement that answers the following questions: What is your current work about? Why do you want to take this course and how do you see it effecting your development as an artist? You may apply by mail or e-mail.
Responding to Gesture and Bodies:
Design for Physically Based Interactive Art Dates: August 14 - 18 Location: Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen/Snowmass Colorado Faculty: Camille Utterback
Concept: In this workshop students will explore digitally based interactive art that engages human gesture and bodies. The main goal of the workshop is to help students develop a critical context for their own interactive work, and to demystify the technologies behind this type of work - expanding each student’s vocabulary in the type of work he/she can do. Students will learn about video tracking technology, working with sensors, potentiometers, microcontrollers and other forms of input, processing, and output. Software used in demonstrations may include Flash, Jitter/Max MSP, Processing, and Basic (for microprocessor and sensor control).
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, located 10 miles outside of Aspen Colorado, is an artists’ community offering workshops and residencies. Anderson’ Ranch’s new expanded digital media program offers classes in animation, video, sound, digital imaging and interactive media. Summer workshop faculty are professionals in their field and include nationally and internationally renowned artists. Residencies are also available for emerging artists wishing to experiment and establish new directions of growth in their work.

Deadline: 01/04/06

Contact:
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Program Excellence Scholarship
Attn:Krista Connerl
Owl Creek Road
5263 Snowmass Village
CO 81615
kconnerly@andersonranch.org
www.andersonranch.org

Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Event dates: 2006

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Artist in Residence

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
www.montevideo.nl/en/index.html
residency period 3 months
dates from July 2006
location Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo is pleased to annouce an open call for the Spring 2006 round of its Artist in Residence (AiR) program.
The AiR programme at the Netherlands Media Art Institute aims to support the exploration and development of new work in digital/interactive/network media and technology based arts practice.
The residency provides time and resources to artists in a supportive environment to facilitate the creation of new work that is produced from an open source perspective. We encourage a cross disciplinary and experimental approach. This is a practice based residency designed to enable the development and completion of a new work.
Our focus for this open call is on open source interactive installation art, in which the following occurs: interaction between tools and/or software interaction between tools and artwork interaction between audience and artwork
The Netherlands Media Art Institute offers an open environment with technical assistance and an active advisory board which will give feedback and support in technical, conceptual and presentation issues.  There is access to studio and exhibition equipment, technical support from the Institute’s staff and production help from interns. The technical staff is specialized and has good contacts with programmers of the following software, a.o.: PD/PDP, Blender, Dynebolic, Linux. We expect the artist to have knowledge and insight in the technical realization of the concept.
It is integral to the mission of the AiR program that artists participate in presenting their work in a public form appropriate to their project. This can include gallery installations, demonstrations of research in progress, panel discussions, on-line projects, or multimedia performances, in addition to open studio events and workshops. For this reason we ask that artists include in their proposal possible examples of how they might like to present their work publicly.
At this moment the Netherlands Media Art Institute provides in travel costs. It doesn’t provide accommodation for artists living outside of Amsterdam. However, we are willing to help the search but cannot guarantee a place for living.
Application using the application form can be send to Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo.

Deadline: 14/04/06

Contact:
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo
Artist in Residence, c/o Annet Dekker
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
annet@montevideo.nl
www.montevideo.nl
Source: Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst

Perth, Australia
Event dates: 2006

SCULPTURE BY THE SEA
Sculpture by the Sea

Call for participation
www.sculpturebythesea.com/
All types, forms and sizes of sculpture in all materials are eligible for entry to Sculpture by the Sea. The exhibition site can accommodate the largest to the smallest sculpture, however when submitting works artists are required to consider safety, ease of installation and removal, the environment and the ability of their work to withstand sun, extremely strong wind, rain, salt spray and playful children.
The creators of particularly fragile sculptures may, after pre-selection, seek the Site Curator’s written approval to exhibit only over the weekend days of the exhibition.
Waverley Council authorises Sculpture by the Sea Incorporated (SXSInc) to stage the exhibition on the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk. Please note that works that are considered by the Site Curator or Waverley Council to be unsafe will be ineligible. Waverley Council is committed to maintaining and supporting events that include participation from the broader community and are not discriminatory or offensive in any way.
The only restrictions on sites are for public, environmental and sculpture safety reasons. To the extent possible these have been indicated on the enclosed map and include: • unsafe distances from the cliff’s edge (approximately 3 metres); • rock overhangs above the walkway; • next to the narrower parts of the walk; • rock platforms exposed to the surf;  • next to or on the Aboriginal rock carvings; and • works which incorporate fire or loud amplified sound.
Where feasible, artists are encouraged to propose three sites for their sculpture by marking and describing their preferred sites, in order of preference, on the enclosed map. For local artists, if possible please submit a photo of each site with your entry. Please refer to the Sculpture by the Sea website for a map and photo tour of the site.
Subsidies confirmed to date for 2006: • Return economy class airfares to Sydney for 5 overseas artists. • Return economy class airfares to Sydney for 5 interstate artists. Please indicate on the entry form if you wish to be considered. • Material Sponsorship is available for selected artists. Materials supplied are to be used in the sculptures exhibited and include aluminium, plasma or oxycut sheet metal and scrap metal. Additional material sponsorships may be negotiated throughout the year and pre-selected artists will be notified of material sponsorship opportunities. Please indicate on the entry form if you wish to be considered. International artists are only eligible if their sculpture is to be constructed in Australia and some materials (due to supply locations) are restricted to Sydney or NSW artists only.
Artists are responsible for the transportation of their sculptures to and from the exhibition site and for removing all packaging materials from the site.
Once selected international and interstate artists are invited to discuss transport and packaging with the Site Curator. If an artist’s work is sold during the exhibition, they will have the option to deliver the work to the buyer upon de-installation.
For overseas artists only: As much as practicable all international freighted sculptures will be required to be freighted by the exhibition's nominated freight forwarder, details of which will be provided to artists chosen to exhibit. All international freighted sculptures must arrive in Australia two weeks prior to first day of installation to allow sufficient time to clear Australian Customs and Quarantine procedures. Once selected, international artists will be provided with information regarding transportation and customs. Artists are reminded that international freighting of sculptures can be an expensive and time consuming process, it is advised that international artists make preliminary costing enquiries prior to submitting for the exhibition.

Deadline: 26/04/06

Contact:
SCULPTURE BY THE SEA
PO BOX 560,
POTTS POINT NSW 1335
AUSTRALIA
phone: 61 2 9357 1457
fax: 61 2 9357 2335
info@sculpturebythesea.com
www.sculpturebythesea.com

Maastricht, The Netherlands
Event dates: 2007/2008

Jan van Eyck Academie
A one-year or two-year research period

Call for applications Fine Art, Design, Theory
Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals for individual or collective research projects for a one-year or two-year research period in the departments of Fine Art, Design and Theory.
It is also possible to apply for the following collective research projects: Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, Logo Parc, The tomorrow book, UbiScribe, The pensive image, Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique, Citygraphy.
Call for applications: Traces of autism. Wander-research in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine  This research project concerns the making of an inventory of public space in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine, based on journeys made through the area and following a number of strict parameters (the inner borders of the Euregio, the 'subaltern', existing and new maps,...). Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit proposals to participate as researchers in this project.
Call for applications: The pensive image The pensive image is a research project on thinking images. This project studies the extent to which images (painting, photography, cinema etc.) are able to philosophize on the status of their own representation, and on the nature of vision. Art historians and cultural theoreticians are invited to submit proposals to participate as researchers in this project.
Citygraphy. 19th century and 21st century topographic photography in Maastricht Citygraphy examines examines the role of 19th century photography in the consciousness and perception of the European city as a historic focal point – a fulcrum subject to the powers of modernization. What role did the visual image play in the modernization process, and in particular, what was the role of photography? The research project Citygraphy is a commission for a photographer/researcher.
Wim Cuyvers awarded Flemish Culture Prize At the Jan van Eyck Academie Wim Cuyvers is setting up the research project Traces of autism. Those interested are welcome to apply as researcher for this project.

Deadline: 15/04/06

Contact:
Jan van Eyck Academie
Leon Westenberg
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands
phone: +31 (0)43 350 37 37
fax: +31 (0)43 350 37 99
leon.westenberg@janvaneyck.nl
www.janvaneyck.nl

Split, Croatia
Event dates: FROM 25TH SEPTEMBER TO 1ST OCTOBER 2006

SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL
THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW FILM

CALL FOR FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA WORKS.
www.splitfilmfestival.hr/entry.htm#
THE FESTIVAL IS OPEN TO ALL NEW, INNOVATIVE, PERSONAL, EXPERIMENTAL, RADICAL, SUBVERSIVE ETC. WORK (FILM, VIDEO, NEW MEDIA) OF ALL GENRES AND LENGTHS, PREFERABLY FROM OUTSIDE THE MAINSTREAM, WHETHER IT WAS MADE ON SHOE STRING BUDGET, OR IS A STUDIO RELEASE.
THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW FILM WILL TAKE PLACE FROM 25TH SEPTEMBER TO 1ST OCTOBER 2006. ALL SUBMISSIONS MUST INCLUDE A VHS (PAL, NTSC) PREVIEW TAPE OR CD-ROM, DVD AS APPLICABLE ACCOMPAINED BY AN ENTRY FORM COMPLETED IN CROATIAN OR ENGLISH ALONG WITH THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION.
ALL WORK MUST HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AFTER 1ST OF JANUARY 2005. THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS 10TH OF JUNE 2006. SCREENING COPIES MUST REACH SPLIT BY 10TH OF SEPTEMBER 2006.
ALL PREVIEW ENTRIES SHOULD BE MAILED AS SMALL PACKETT/PETIT PAQUET, AND MUST BE CLEARLY LABELLED FOR CUSTOM PURPOSES AS FOLLOWS: VIDEO CASSETE, NO COMMERCIAL VALUE, CULTURAL EXCHANGE ONLY, PREVIEW TAPES, CD ROMs, DVDs & DOCUMENTS WILL NOT BE RETURNED.
THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE DURATION OF FILMS OR VIDEOS, SELECTION PANEL WILL SELECT WORK FOR COMPETITION, INTERNATIONAL JURIES WILL AWARD PRIZES.
PRODUCERS / DISTRIBUTORS / ARTISTS OF THE ENTRIES SELECTED FOR SCREENING WILL BE NOTIFIED PROMPTLY AFTER SELECTION OF PROCEDURES FOR TRANSPORTING SCREENING COPIES. THE FESTIVAL WILL MAKE ALL REASONABLE EFFORT TO PRESENT WORK IN THE BEST POSSIBLE CONDITIONS. TRANSPORT OF THE COPIES IS AT THE RISC OF SENDER.

Deadline: 10/06/06

Contact:
SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL
P.O.BOX 244
Kralja Tomislava 15
21000 Split
Croatia
phone: +385 21 539 600
fax: +385 21 539 700
split.filmfest@st.htnet.hr
www.splitfilmfestival.hr

St. Petersburg, Russia
Event dates: JULY 18-31, 2006

Message to Man Film Festival
XVI. MESSAGE TO MAN

International Documentary, Short and Animated Films Festival
www.message-to-man.spb.ru/POSL-16/Docs/RegE
The Festival program includes:
International Competition
Debut Film International Competition
NB! Debut film implies student, graduate (diploma) and first professional film
National Competition “Documentary Films of Russia”
Special Programs
The following films may take part in the International and International Debut Competitions: Documentary (max duration 120 min), short and animated films (max duration 40 min) on 16 or 35 mm film print with single soundtrack system that were completed after January 1st, 2005
Each Entry must be accompanied by: 1. DVD or VHS version of the film (PAL, SECAM, NTSC)  2. A completed Entry Form  3. Filmmakers’ biography and filmography 4. Dialogue list in English and original language of the film 5. Typed one-line synopsis (maximum 35 words)  6. One photo from the film for the catalogue
Jury and Prizes To judge the International Competition and the International Debut Competition the Organizers of the Festival will nominate the International Jury.
Directors whose films have been selected will be invited to attend the festival and provided with hotel accommodation. Expenses for only one person per film can be paid. The invitation can be transferred to the other representative of the film group in case if the director is not able to attend.

Deadline: 01/05/06

Contact:
Message to Man Film Festival
12 Karavannaya str.
191011 St. Petersburg
Russia
phone: +7(812) 972 1264
info@message-to-man.spb.ru
www.message-to-man.spb.ru

Veliki Tabor - Desinić, Croatia
Event dates: 11-15 July, 2006

GOKUL association
4nd International Short Film Festival

Call for submissions
http://www.taborfilmfestival.com/regulations.htm
Tabor Film Festival, the fourth international short film festival, will take place on a historical position of the castle of Veliki Tabor, Desinic, Croatia. It is supported by the Ministry of Culture and organized by GOKUL association with the assistance of the Museums of Hrvatsko Zagorje, Radio 101, Krapina-Zagorje County, Mangura, Kreativni Sidikat, Mraz, the city of Zagreb, the city of Zabok, the town of Desinic , and other public and private partners.
International jury will present the Tabor Film Festival awards to: - Grand Prix for the best film of the festival - Best animation  - Best documentary  - Best experimental - Best fiction - Audience award - Best domestic film
Apart from competitions, the festival also includes retrospective short film programmes, film workshops, music programmes, various exhibitions...
Tabor Film Festival supports digital production and distribution of film and video works.
Our goal is to provide festival screenings in digital media. Please send us viewing copies of your film on DVD or VHS (pal/secam/ntsc).
International Competition Regulations
1 . Entry requirements You can send us any type of film (fiction, animation, documentary, experimental) that was completed after January 1, 2004. Selected films will be requested in the screening format specified on their entry form. Films of 30 minutes or less are eligible.
2. Entry procedures and selection Participants must enter their films on the Festival’s web site (on line form) and print out the entry form (pdf or txt file) which must be received at the Festival office by April 15th, 2006 at the latest, with a DVD or VHS tape of the film (in any of the PAL, SECAM or NTSC formats) - one tape per film. If the original film or video is in a language other than English, then film should be subtitled in English. One or more stills from the film and a photo of the director, with a permission for their use, as well as a list/transcription of the dialogue inboth the original version and the English translation must be sent via Festival’s web site.

Application form
Deadline: 15/04/06

Contact:
TABOR FILM FESTIVAL
M. Gupca 53/1
49 210 Zabok
Croatia
phone: ++385 91 893 20 32
fax: ++385 49 221 060
tff@taborfilmfestival.com
http://www.taborfilmfestival.com/

Paris, France
Event dates: 2006

The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
The Asia-Europe Comics Project

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
http://www.asef.org/documents/Concept+Call4 (.pdf)
The comics genre therefore has untapped potential to further cross-cultural understanding. The project will make new in-roads to promote awareness, mutual understanding and dialogue on issues of common interest to Asia and Europe. Through this collaboration, a network of creators, artists, writers and commentators engaged in the Asian and European comics medium will be fostered, and encouraged to embark on future opportunities for multilateral Asian-European collaboration.
We are looking for 12 Asian and European comic artists to participate in this project.
Who: Comic artists, writers and producers (herein collectively referred as artists) who possess an interest in social themes and cross-cultural exchanges and productions.
Prior relevant experiences and/or projects are an asset.
- Have an interest in exchanging thoughts and visions with other artists from other countries and backgrounds.
- Possess a good ability to communicate in English, which is the working language.
- Nationals of ASEM member countries: Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Myanmar, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom and Vietnam. (Participants will receive token payments for their contributions to the publication).

Deadline: 13/04/06

Contact:
Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)
SOH Lai Yee (Ms), Project Executive, Public Affair
31 Heng Mui Keng Terrace
119595
Singapore
phone: (65) 6874 9723
fax: (65) 6872 1207
laiyee@asef.org
www.asef.org

Salvador, Brasil

SACATAR FOUNDATION
Residency program for artists at the Quinta Pitanga estate on the Island of Itaparica in the Bay of All Saints

The Sacatar Foundation sponsors residencies for highly-qualified individuals in all creative pursuits.
The Instituto Sacatar provides unstructured time and space for creative individuals to develop new work. Specifically, a Fellowship to Sacatar provides:
• Roundtrip airfare between the artist's closest regional airport and Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
• A private bedroom with attached bath
• A separate studio
• All meals (except on Saturday night, all day Sunday and holidays)
The Fellowships does not include a stipend; artists are responsible for incidental expenses and all working materials. Once on the island, artists are responsible for their local transportation, although we meet artists upon arrival at the airport to take them the first time to our island estate.
In addition, the Residency Manager will assist artists who wish to show their work or share their skills while in Bahia, helping artists make the necessary local contacts to achieve these goals. We can arrange for theaters, exhibition spaces, classrooms, etc., both on the island and in Salvador, and we will help find collaborators, musicians, students, actors and other volunteers to realize project proposals.
We are in a somewhat primitive location and encourage artists to work primitively - that is, simply and directly with few complex tools, materials or technologies. We have no specific facilities or equipment for dance, theater, photography, music, video or film. Sacatar has no computer or printer available for use by the Fellows, although our library has broadband internet connections for personal laptop computers. Our woodworking shop has a circular saw, a planer and common hand tools that the Fellows can use.
Residencies last from six to twelve weeks, with most scheduled for eight weeks. On occasion, the Instituto Sacatar hosts Special Projects, which may be of shorter duration. These are group projects with a specific focus and purpose, originated by the Instituto or proposed by others. Sacatar always closes for at least two months starting the week before Carnaval, which usually falls in February.

Deadline: 10/04/06

Contact:
USA - Sacatar Foundation
P.O. Box 2612
CA 91102-2612 Pasadena
USA
phone: 55 71 631 1834 (Brasil)
fax: 55 71 631 2069 (Brasil)
info@sacatar.org
http://www.sacatar.org

Tabor, Czech Republic
Event dates: 2006

CESTA
ARTIST-in-RESIDENCE PROGRAM at CESTA 2006

A call for performing and visual artists, scholars and scientists.
http://www.cesta.cz/
The aim of the program is to open CESTA's resources to performing and visual artists, scholars and scientists so that they may not only find a place where they can work with focus and intention, but also where they may participate in and add to the artistic and intellectual exchange and network that CESTA has created. CESTA requires at least one aspect of each residency project be accessible to interaction with the local Tábor community. This could include anything from an open studio day to on or off-site collaboration/participation. We will accept projects that can be initiated, developed and/or finished during the residency session.
Modest accommodation is provided in the CESTA facility- a century old mill surrounded by parkland. Private rooms are available for individuals, or shared rooms for groups. Raw studio/work space is available- some private and some shared- depending on the needs of the participants. Participants are expected to share in communal meals and in basic housework with other residents, staff and visitors. To view the space, please see our website for the facility sketch.
The 2006 residency programs will run from June 1 - July 15, 2006 and October 15 – November 15, 2006. Minimum residency period is one week. CESTA will accept four individuals or groups for these periods.
Interested applicants are welcome to contact us year round though the final deadline is April 1, 2006 for both the June 1 - July 15, 2006 and October 15 – November 15, 2006 sessions.
The cost for each participant is 2,100 Czech crowns (approximately 70 euros) per week (1 week minimum). This fee covers accommodation and food costs. Due to limited funding, CESTA cannot cover travel or material costs. We do encourage participants to seek outside funding for travel and per diem. CESTA is glad to offer assistance in that process.

Deadline: 01/04/06

Contact:
CESTA
Novákova 387
Czech Republic
phone: +420-381-258-004
cesta@mbox.vol.cz
http://www.cesta.cz

Moriya, Japan
Event dates: 2006

Arcus Studio
ARCUS PROJECT

Artist-in-Residence Program
http://www.arcus-project.com/english/program/info.
The ARCUS Project Administration Committee would like to invite qualified young artists who work in experimental and progressive modes of expression, and could provide the community with new and invigorating perception on contemporary issues.
The ARCUS Project is an artist-in-residence program organized by the Ibaraki Prefectural Government that was launched in 1995 with a focus on nurturing young and mid-career visual artists and on fostering grounds for international exchange in the arts as well as in the local community. To date, 57 artists from 21 countries/regions have been invited to participate and engage in activities of their creative work, research, and cultural exchange programs.
The program has so far aimed to serve two purposes. The first is to provide opportunities to young and mid-career visual artists to develop their artistic concepts and skills in a community setting and facilitate them with an environment for cultural exchange at professional level and community level. The second is to provide the local residents an opportunity to appreciate art in their local community and to nurture grounds for multicultural experiences through programs such as workshops and seminars.
In its second decade, ARCUS aims to become a laboratory and archive for creative and innovative ideas. Hence, we will focus on artists who work with experimental and progressive modes of expression to take residency so as to provide the community with fresh and invigorating perception on contemporary issues.
Period of Residency: August 1, 2006 through December 22, 2006
The studio will be available to artists for the maximum 5 months period. Artists are expected to be in residence for Open Studio (scheduled around mid-November to mid-December). The ARCUS Project Administration Committee will determine the final dates of residency.
The residence program takes place in Moriya City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Moriya City is located at the southern edge of Ibaraki Prefecture, and about 40km from Tokyo. Access from the local train station to central Tokyo is approximately 35 minutes by express train. It is a bed town with a population of approximately 50 thousand people. The campuses of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music and University of Tsukuba, which are national institutions with excellent education in the arts, are located in the neighboring cities.
The artists are provided with a studio in a converted elementary school building, which is now used as a community center named "Moriya Manabi no Sato." The building is shared with the local residents who use the facilities for cultural, athletic, and community activities.
The Applicant should: be an artist engaged in contemporary visual arts activities  have legal permission to enter Japan  be in a state of good health and able to carry out daily activities on their own  have enough English language skills to communicate with administration staff and local community  be in their late twenties or thirties  * Students who are enrolled in undergraduate or graduate schools at the time of application and/or during the residency period are not eligible.

Application form
Deadline: 01/04/06

Contact:
Arcus Studio
Attn. Yoko Nameki / Keiko Suzuki
2418 Itatoi
302-0101 Moriya, Ibaraki
Japan
phone: +81-297-46-2600
info@arcus-project.com
http://www.arcus-project.com

Valencia, Spain
Event dates: June 17th - 24th 2006

Institut Valencia de la Cinematografia Ricardo Munoz Suay (IVAC)
The 21st Cinema Jove International Film Festival

The Festival is open to any young film-director born after January, 1st 1971.
http://www.cinemajovefilmfest.es (pdf)
There are two categories:
- Feature Films
- Short Films
TECHNICAL CONDITIONS
a) Entries must be shot in 16 or 35mm. Films recorded on professional video support which have later been transferred to 16 or 35mm cinematographic format will also be allowed. In the case of feature films shot in professional video, and provided that a 16 or 35 mm print does not exist, the Festival will consider the possibility of screening them in this format.
b) Each entrant may submit a maximum of two entries.
c) Entries must be in the original version. They must be accompanied by a dossier containing the original text and lines along with a translation in Spanish or English.
d) Films must have been produced after January, 1st 2005 (in exceptional cases only, the Selection Committee reserves the right to include a film produced before this date),must not have been entered in previous editions of the Festival, and must not have had a commercial première in Spain.
e) Short films will not exceed a maximum running time of 35 minutes. f) Any film not presenting sufficient technical qualities for a correct public screening will be refused.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE FESTIVAL
a) The Selection Committee, appointed for this purpose, will select from the entries submitted to the Festival the films that will be shown from June, 17th to 24th 2006, during Cinema Jove.
b) Films selected will be screened a maximum of three times.
c) Filmmakers whose films are not selected will be informed of the results of the selection before the beginning of the Festival.
JURIES
a) The Director of the Festival will appoint the members of the Selection Committee, selected among specialists linked to the Festival, as well as the members of the Juries for the two competing categories: feature and short films. -The Feature Category Jury will be composed of five members, representing the international film field. A maximum of two members will be of Spanish nationality. -The Short Category Jury will be composed of three members, representing the international film field. A maximum of one member will be of Spanish nationality.
b) The Selection Committee and Jury decisions will be final.
AWARDS
6.1.Films selected for the Official Competition will be eligible for the following awards:
a) FEATURE FILMS LUNA DE VALENCIA to the Best Feature...............18.000 Euros
b) SHORT FILMS LUNA DE VALENCIA DE ORO.................................6.000 Euros LUNA DE VALENCIA DE PLATA.............................3.000 Euros LUNA DE VALENCIA DE BRONCE..........................1.800 Euros Juries can give any mention under their consideration.
Production and distribution companies of the prize-winners of the Luna de Valencia commit to using the Festival’s logo for the subsequent promotion and publicity of the films.
6.2.Other awards:
TECHNICOLOR AWARD to the best Spanish short film, consisting of 1.500 Euros for the development of a short film produced by the award-winning producer, and the subtitling of a print.
PECERA ESTUDIO AWARD to the Spanish short film with the best sound track, consisting of 2.404 Euros for the audio post production of the winner’s next project, with a maximum running time of 30 minutes.
CANAL + INTERNATIONAL AWARDto the best short film, consisting of the purchase of broadcasting rights in Europe.

Deadline: 15/04/06 - registration

Contact:
IVAC
C/ La Safor 10. Despacho 5
46015 Valencia
Spain
phone: (34) 963311047/(34) 963310592
fax: (34) 963310805
cinemajove@gva.es
www.cinemajovefilmfest.es

Essen, Germany
Event dates: 2006 - 2007

PACT Zollverein
Atelier Series to professional and emerging artists and Residencies 2006 / 2007

Call for Entries
Atelier Series to professional and emerging artists
With its Atelier series, PACT Zollverein regularly offers established and emerging professional artists, working in all disciplines, an evening length platform at which to present their projects and ideas to the general public. Works in progress as well as finished projects may be submitted.
All spaces in our building may be used. The stage is generally reserved for live performance work, which should not exceed 10 minutes. PACT provides full technical assistance but set-up and equipment requirements should be kept as simple as possible.
Residencies 2006 / 2007
PACT Zollverein runs a residency programme which is open to professional choreographers,theatre and performance makers from Germany and abroad.
Residencies provide rehearsal space as well as administrative and technical support for choreographers wanting to research, develop or realise a project or production. Different models of support are available and can be shaped to suit individual needs.
A call for entries is published twice a year. The maximum length of a residency is 2 months.
From January to June 2007, pact Zollverein is offering residencies to professional choreographers, theatre and performance makers from both Germany and abroad.
Residencies provide rehearsal space as well as administrative and technical support for choreographers wanting to research, develop or realise a project or production.
Different models of support are available and can be shaped to suit individual needs.
The maximum length of a residency is 2 months.

Deadline: 24/03/06 - Atelier Series, 21/08/06 - Residencies

Contact:
PACT Zollverein
Ingo Kaulbars
Bullmannaue 20
D-45327 Essen
Germany
phone: +49 (0)201 289 4714
fax: +49 (0)201 289 4701
ingo.kaulbars@pact-zollverein.de
www.pact-zollverein.de/_eng/index.html
Source: Lokomotiva

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

Event dates: 2006

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
The 12th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition 2006, R.O.C.

Call for applications
http://www.tmoa.gov.tw/english/b/b01
Amidst the reverberation of globalization across the world, how should art communicate the affection for the native land, search for local characteristics, and promote the people's self-understanding so as to realize the potential of each place, make our world more colourful, and enrich our lives?
The International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition opens the door of art to the outstanding artists from all around the world, inviting them to apply their creative energies, enthusiasm, wisdom, new concepts, new visions, and new techniques towards enriching the future development of printmaking and drawing.
The forthcoming exhibition brings the world’s print art practitioners and experts together to exchange views and experiences in Taiwan in order to help spread the seeds of art and firmly plant the fine creative traditions of printmaking and drawing around the globe.
Exhibition There are two (2) categories for submission: Print and Drawing. Works that pass preliminary assessment will be regarded as finalists. After the final assessment, works from each category will be awarded prizes. All finalists and prizewinners will have their works displayed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts during the course of the exhibition.
Qualifications Entry is open to print and drawing artists from around the world. Entry forms may be downloaded and printed directly from internet.
Guidelines for Submitted Works 1. Submissions are limited to original works on paper, completed since 2003 (inclusive), and that have never been displayed in this exhibition. 2. Submitted prints should be inherently reproducible through indirect procedures. They should be the original editions printed or copied on plane surface material (including monochromatic prints and hand-colored prints). 3. Submitted drawings should be executed on paper. 4. Submitted works should not be larger than 120 x 120 cm. or smaller than 60 x 40 cm.; there are no restrictions regarding thickness. The same parameters shall also apply to assembled works. 5. Applicants may submit works in both the Print and Drawing categories, limited to one entry in each category per entrant. 6. Works must be signed and shall not be framed or mounted. Unsigned, framed, and mounted works will be rejected.
Judging Panel The competition will be conducted in two rounds: preliminary and final assessment. Only works that pass the preliminary judging will advance to the final round. 1. Preliminary Round: Works and materials qualifying under these Guidelines and submitted on time will be assessed in the preliminary round by a panel of judges selected from the general committee. 2. Final Round: Original works that pass preliminary judging will be assessed in the final round by an international panel of judges assembled by the general committee.
Awards All winners will receive a certificate and cash reward; eight prizewinners will be awarded in both the Print and Drawing categories, as follow: Gold Medal (1): Medal and cash prize of NT$400,000 Silver Medal (1): Medal and cash prize of NT$250,000 Bronze Medal (1): Medal and cash prize of NT$150,000 Honorable Mention (5): Trophy and cash prize of NT$60,000
1. The host organization will invite Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal winners to participate in the awards and opening ceremony, and will furnish one round-trip coach-class ticket between Taiwan and the country of residence, as well as three days’ accommodations, for prizewinners residing outside of Taiwan; prizewinners residing in Taiwan will receive a travel stipend and three days’ accommodations. In addition, prizewinners will receive one complimentary exhibition catalogue and CD-ROM, and will be invited to present lectures or hold instructional workshops in Taiwan. 2. All finalists will receive one finalist certificate and exhibition CD-ROM.
3. In accordance with Republic of China tax law, foreign passport holders shall pay 20% income tax on prize earnings; ROC citizens will be assessed 15% income tax on prize earnings.
Obligations and Responsibilities 1. All award-winning artworks will become part of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts collection. 2. For educational, promotional, and informational purposes, the organizations shall retain the right to reproduce finalist and award-winning works in photographs, publications, and souvenirs, and ongoing rights to publish works in related media, over the Internet, as well rights to the sale of souvenirs based on such works. 3. Applicants may indicate consent to donate works on the submission application form. The organizations shall, upon their approval of the donations, issue certificates of documentation and collection of the works donated.  4. Participants must affirm that submitted works are the original creation of the applicant, and that the participant holds all related copyrights and has not violated intellectual property rights. No commercial activities of any kind involving participating works may be undertaken during the duration of the exhibition. In the event of violation of this agreement, the organizations reserve the right to disqualify participants, reclaim prize money and awards, and publicly announce any or all violations.
Regulations for Submitted Works 1. All submissions must be mailed to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and postmarked by April 15, 2006. Submissions later than the date of the preliminary judging will not be entertained.  2. Application forms must be typed or written legibly for the convenience of the screening committee. 3. Submitted works should be protected in a strong tube or cardboard packaging. 4. All works must be submitted by post from Taiwan or overseas. Applicants are responsible for all related postage, insurance, and taxes.  In the interest of consistency, submissions delivered in person will not be accepted. 5. Application materials (application form, return receipt, certificate of condition, Label A, and Label B) must be posted together with the submitted art work. Incomplete or illegible application information (print or type, please) will be rejected.
Insurance 1. The organizations will be liable for insurance coverage from the time works are received and registered through their return from the museum to their owners. The organizations shall not be held liable for loss or damages resulting from unavoidable catastrophe. 2. Applicants shall arrange for insurance covering delivery and return of works to and from the exhibition according to their individual needs. The organizations shall not be held liable for loss or damage to works in transit to and from the exhibition.
Returns 1. With the exception of prizewinning works, the organizations will return all submissions by post. Postage will be paid by the host organization. 2. In the event an applicant’s contact address has changed, or if for any other reason the works are undeliverable, they will be returned to the museum. If further attempts to contact the owner are unsuccessful, the host organization shall assume domain over said work and may dispose of said work as necessary. Further, the host organization may seek compensation from the participant for costs incurred in the disposal of submitted works.

Application form
Deadline: 15/04/06

Contact:
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
12th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhi
No. 2, Sec. 1, Wu-chuan W. Rd., Taichung 403
Taiwan, R.O.C.
phone: 886 4 2372-3552, ext. 633 or 314
fax: 886 4 2375-4730
print12@art.tmoa.gov.tw
www.tmoa.gov.tw/
Source: MGLC

Opportunities March 16th 2006

2006-03-16T04:27:00.000-08:00

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
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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)
.
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)
.
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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Cinematheque at MediaArtCentre
http://cinematheque.le-musee-divisioniste.org
and [R][R][F] 2006 - global networking project
http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org
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info & contact
info (at) nmartproject.

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

NetEX- networked experience
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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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www.nmartproject.net
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info(at) nmartproject.net

Opportunities 6th March 2006

2006-03-06T00:14:00.000-08:00

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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NetEX - networked experience
http://netex.nmartproject net
is a free information service provided by
[NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne
www.nmartproject.net
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info(at)nmartproject.net

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

Opportunities 1st March 2006

2006-03-01T14:09:00.000-08:00

Dear Colleagues

Igloo's new work Summerbranch, produced as a co-commission with SCAN,
ArtSway and ACE for Capture 4 will open at ArtSway, UK on 4th March.

Please also note that there are various discussions and demo days relating
to Summerbranch both at ArtSway (27th March and 8th April) and DANA Centre,
Science Museum London (7th March, 6.30 - 8.30, a seminar on CG Reality in
gaming and cinema). All events are free but you should contact the venues to
book a place (details below).

We look forward to seeing you at these events.

With best wishes
Helen Sloan
Director, SCAN
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Igloo

SummerBranch

4 March - 30 April 2006
Reception for the artists: Saturday 4 March 2006 2pm - 5pm

Summerbranch is a new commission by Igloo that explores movement and
stillness in nature. Using camouflage and other disguises, a person or a
computer character can blend into a ‘natural’ environment captured and
treated through the moving image. This installation uses the tools of the
military-entertainment complex: computer gaming, motion capture, 3D
environments and special effects to question what is truth and artifice in
our attempts to reproduce nature. Through the creation of a computer
generated virtual world Summerbranch seeks to address this through the use
of disguise in dance and movement. Igloo not only investigate the role of
the ‘real’ in virtual environments but also that of the reproduction of
nature in the history of art and particularly landscape work.

Summerbranch: A Capture 4 co-commission between ArtSway, SCAN & Arts Council
England.

Exhibition Related Events at ArtSway:

Motion Capture Demo Day: Monday 27 March 2006, 10:30am – 3:30pm
An opportunity for college students, lecturers and heads of departments to
visit ArtSway for a demonstration day of Motion Capture Technology by
experts Animazoo. Igloo will also be demonstrating this equipment in
relation to their work. FREE

Gallery Talk: Saturday 8 April 2006 at 2pm
Join Igloo artists Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli on an informal tour of the
exhibition as they discuss their work with SCAN Director Helen Sloan. FREE

AND

Digital Reality Flythrough: Tuesday 7 March, 6.30 - 8.30pm

DANA Centre, Queens Gate, London SW7 5HE

A seminar looking at realism in CG special effects and gaming.
Representatives from software, gaming, arts and special effects will examine
current trends in the real and hyper-real. As part of this seminar Igloo
will present their research for Summerbranch.
Organised by SCAN and Science Museum as part of Node.L Digital Media
Festival, London
(Free - Please contact DANA Centre for booking: 020 7942 4040 or
tickets@danacentre.org.uk)

Summerbranch
Ruth Gibson & Bruno Martelli

Igloo Collaborators:
Mark Bruce, Joanne Fong, Alex Jevremovic, John McCormick, Adam Nash, Alex
Woolner

Many thanks to Henry Dalton, Lisette Punky Pixie, Matthew Andrews, Gillian
Carnegie, Toby Zeigler, Verushka & everyone at ArtSway

Industry Support:
Animazoo, RMIT, Coventry University, Bionatics, 3TRPD

PRESS + MEDIA:

If you require full press release, additional images or access to artists
please contact Adelina Jedrzejczak on +44 (0)1590 682260 or by email
adelina@artsway.org.uk

Additional information:

http://www.artsway.org.uk/email/summerbranch.htm

http://www.igloo.org.uk

http://www.scansite.org.uk

Further Information on Capture 4:

http://www.portlandgreen.com/capture4

http://www.ica.org.uk

http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk

ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire SO41 6BA
Tel: +44 (0)1590 682260 E: mail@artsway.org.uk W: www.artsway.org.uk

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52nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
4-9 May 2006

MuVi International 2006 - Call for Entries

Extended Deadline: 10 march 2006!

We are looking for music videos with unusual visual conceptions and stories, experimenting with all kinds of visual techniques. Clips that are usually not shown on conventional music channels - no matter what kind of musical genre.

The works should be produced after 1st January 2005.

Please send a viewing copy or show reel (no excerpts!) on VHS, DVD or BETA SP PAL with the most important indications (director, production company, year of production, label) to the following address:

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Jessica Manstetten
Grillostr. 34
46045 Oberhausen
Germany

Looking forward to your entries!

For further infos please have a look at our homepage:

www.kurzfilmtage.de

or contact me: muvi@kurzfilmtage.de

Jessica Manstetten
MuVi Award / MuVi International

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen gGmbH
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Grillostr. 34
46045 Oberhausen
Germany
Tel +49(0)208 825 3058
Fax +49(0)208 825 5413
muvi@kurzfilmtage.de
www.kurzfilmtage.de

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IZOLENTA /06 International Digital Film Festival

is happy to inform you that we are ready to accept your art-works for the contest of IZOLENTA/06 Festival. All of the works sent will be divided into four categories:

Animation

Experimental

Documentary

Fiction

The Festival is held on May, 13-14, 2006 at the re-newed territory of Griboyedov club.
The aim of the festival is development of the national culture in the spheres of movie-making and technologies of the modern world, search for new talents and vanguard trend.

We target at revealing the process of developing the new cinema philosophy based upon the availability of the movie-making process. It helps to widen the abilities of the digital cinema language as well as to trace the interrelations of various visual arts' sections such as fiction and documentary, experimental movies and animation. It can also become a good starting point for directors, artists and animators.
"There are few of those how accept the fact that such a way of movie-making is far more convenient that using film for shooting, - says Sundance Independent Film Festival program director, Jeff Gilmore. - Video will not replace movies. Still digital video has already started changing the image of independent film-shooting. New trchnologies found their place with such directors as Spike Lee, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, and many others.
Where should stay digital video - shall it stay with dramas and risky projects while film will be used for high budget multimillion studio works? Will we see any more talents or we are going to drawn in the pile of ordinariness?
These are the questions that are to be solved within the currence of time. IZOLENTA International Film Festival will help to find the answers today.

IZOLENTA/06 Film Festival Commitee:
Head Torkay Nastya e-mail: torkaitorkai@gmail.com
Kolossova Anna e-mail : fastmedia@gmail.com
Polevaya Anastassia: nalyvayka@list.ru
Trudov Vladimir:
Komarov Mikhail:
Our address:
193036 Russia Saint-Petersburg, 67 ulitsa Marata
+7 8901-301-60-61 Torkay Nastya
+7 (812) 717 7967 Kolosova Anna
e-mail: digifilmfest@gmail.com
http://www.izolenta.spb.su

The works, excepted for the competition, should be created by digital
video-, audio- and computer devices and they should be made not later
than the 1st of January, 2005. The length - no more than 30 minutes.

Each participant is to present only one work in every category.

The selection board will except the works till the 20th of April 2006.

We urgently recommend:
Please, pack your works attentively and put in the envelope the
filled-in entry form of the participant. On the envelope legibly write
the following: "Digital film festival IZOLENTA/06" and the title of the
category.

You should either bring your works to "Griboedov" club: St.
Petersburg, Voronezhskaya street, 2a, or send by mail to the following
address: 191119, St. Petersburg, house 67, flat 36, for Anastasia Torkay

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Bits in Motion: Early British Computer-Generated Art Film

National Film Theatre
South Bank, London SE1
Tuesday 7 March
6.10pm NFT3

This screening and discussion will take audiences on a journey through previously lost or obscure material, from the first computer animation made in Britain (1967), to the appearance of computer graphics in commercial TV and film. Artists and practitioners who were active at the time, including Stan Hayward (creator of Henry‘s Cat) and Malcolm Le Grice, will introduce the work and take part in panel discussions.

This event marks the culmination of CACHe, an extensive research project at Birkbeck into the untold stories behind the early days of British computer arts http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hosted/cache

Supported by the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise.

http://www.bfi.org.uk/incinemas/nft/film/6320

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Opportunities 28th Feb 2006

2006-02-28T13:29:00.000-08:00

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
FRANKLIN FURNACE OPEN CALL TO ALL ARTISTS

THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART 2006 and THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2006
www.franklinfurnace.org/grants/grants.html
THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART 2006
Supported by Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts, Franklin Furnace awards grants between $2,000 and $5,000 to emerging performance artists, allowing them to produce major works in New York. Artists from all areas of the world are invited to apply.
THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT 2006  Franklin Furnace awards artists an honorarium and offers its resources to facilitate the creation of "live art on the Internet," works which engage the Internet as an art medium and/or venue. Artists from all areas of the world are encouraged to apply.
Franklin Furnace has no curator; each year a new panel of artists reviews all proposals. We believe that this peer panel system allows all kinds of artists from all over the world an equal shot at presenting their work. All applicants are automatically considered for both categories of awards. Every year the panel changes, as the definitions of "emerging artist," "performance art" and "live art on the Internet" change, so if at first you don't succeed, try again.
Since its inception in 1985 THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART has boosted the careers of such emerging artists as Tanya Barfield, Patty Chang, Papo Colo, Brody Condon, Karen Finley, John Fleck, Murray Hill, Holly Hughes, Mouchette, Pamela Sneed, Jack Waters, Cathy Weis, and Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga.
Required
1 Write a 100-word summary of your proposed work. Make your summary as clear and complete as possible. You may also send a more detailed description of your proposed work.
2 All proposals to THE FRANKLIN FURNACE FUND FOR PERFORMANCE ART or THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT must be accompanied by documentation of your past work and/or work in progress. We prefer ½ inch videotape (VHS - NTSC American format) but you may submit DVDs, slides, photos, CD-ROMS, or URL. (either MAC or PC format) cued or burned to show the panel two to five minutes of your strongest work or work that is relevant to your proposal. If you submit a URL, it is recommended that you supply a navigation guide to all the sections of the website you would like us to visit. If you do not specify which fund you are applying for, you will automatically be evaluated for both funds.
3. You MUST include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return of materials, or indicate that you will pick up your packet at our office. Please make sure that the envelope is big enough for your materials and that it has enough postage.
4. Contact Info: Name, Mailing Address, Phone number/Fax number, Email/WWW.
Optional
5. You may include a budget (i.e. space rental, equipment, tech personnel). If you have other funding sources for your project please indicate this in your budget.
6. You may also submit your resume, reviews of previous work, and any other support materials.
Please: label every object you submit with your name. It is helpful to indicate if the sample work that you submit is previous work or is part of the work intended.

Deadline: 01/04/06 (postmark date)

Contact:
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. - 2006-7 Proposals
80 Arts - The James E. Davis Arts Building
80 Hanson Place #301
NY 11217-1506 Brooklyn
USA
phone: 718 398 7255
fax: 718 398 7256
info@franklinfurnace.org
www.franklinfurnace.org

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
The 12th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition 2006, R.O.C.

Call for applications
http://www.tmoa.gov.tw/english/b/b01
Amidst the reverberation of globalization across the world, how should art communicate the affection for the native land, search for local characteristics, and promote the people's self-understanding so as to realize the potential of each place, make our world more colourful, and enrich our lives?
The International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition opens the door of art to the outstanding artists from all around the world, inviting them to apply their creative energies, enthusiasm, wisdom, new concepts, new visions, and new techniques towards enriching the future development of printmaking and drawing.
The forthcoming exhibition brings the world’s print art practitioners and experts together to exchange views and experiences in Taiwan in order to help spread the seeds of art and firmly plant the fine creative traditions of printmaking and drawing around the globe.
Exhibition There are two (2) categories for submission: Print and Drawing. Works that pass preliminary assessment will be regarded as finalists. After the final assessment, works from each category will be awarded prizes. All finalists and prizewinners will have their works displayed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts during the course of the exhibition.
Qualifications Entry is open to print and drawing artists from around the world. Entry forms may be downloaded and printed directly from internet.
Guidelines for Submitted Works 1. Submissions are limited to original works on paper, completed since 2003 (inclusive), and that have never been displayed in this exhibition. 2. Submitted prints should be inherently reproducible through indirect procedures. They should be the original editions printed or copied on plane surface material (including monochromatic prints and hand-colored prints). 3. Submitted drawings should be executed on paper. 4. Submitted works should not be larger than 120 x 120 cm. or smaller than 60 x 40 cm.; there are no restrictions regarding thickness. The same parameters shall also apply to assembled works. 5. Applicants may submit works in both the Print and Drawing categories, limited to one entry in each category per entrant. 6. Works must be signed and shall not be framed or mounted. Unsigned, framed, and mounted works will be rejected.
Judging Panel The competition will be conducted in two rounds: preliminary and final assessment. Only works that pass the preliminary judging will advance to the final round. 1. Preliminary Round: Works and materials qualifying under these Guidelines and submitted on time will be assessed in the preliminary round by a panel of judges selected from the general committee. 2. Final Round: Original works that pass preliminary judging will be assessed in the final round by an international panel of judges assembled by the general committee.
Awards All winners will receive a certificate and cash reward; eight prizewinners will be awarded in both the Print and Drawing categories, as follow: Gold Medal (1): Medal and cash prize of NT$400,000 Silver Medal (1): Medal and cash prize of NT$250,000 Bronze Medal (1): Medal and cash prize of NT$150,000 Honorable Mention (5): Trophy and cash prize of NT$60,000
1. The host organization will invite Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medal winners to participate in the awards and opening ceremony, and will furnish one round-trip coach-class ticket between Taiwan and the country of residence, as well as three days’ accommodations, for prizewinners residing outside of Taiwan; prizewinners residing in Taiwan will receive a travel stipend and three days’ accommodations. In addition, prizewinners will receive one complimentary exhibition catalogue and CD-ROM, and will be invited to present lectures or hold instructional workshops in Taiwan. 2. All finalists will receive one finalist certificate and exhibition CD-ROM.
3. In accordance with Republic of China tax law, foreign passport holders shall pay 20% income tax on prize earnings; ROC citizens will be assessed 15% income tax on prize earnings.
Obligations and Responsibilities 1. All award-winning artworks will become part of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts collection. 2. For educational, promotional, and informational purposes, the organizations shall retain the right to reproduce finalist and award-winning works in photographs, publications, and souvenirs, and ongoing rights to publish works in related media, over the Internet, as well rights to the sale of souvenirs based on such works. 3. Applicants may indicate consent to donate works on the submission application form. The organizations shall, upon their approval of the donations, issue certificates of documentation and collection of the works donated.  4. Participants must affirm that submitted works are the original creation of the applicant, and that the participant holds all related copyrights and has not violated intellectual property rights. No commercial activities of any kind involving participating works may be undertaken during the duration of the exhibition. In the event of violation of this agreement, the organizations reserve the right to disqualify participants, reclaim prize money and awards, and publicly announce any or all violations.
Regulations for Submitted Works 1. All submissions must be mailed to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and postmarked by April 15, 2006. Submissions later than the date of the preliminary judging will not be entertained.  2. Application forms must be typed or written legibly for the convenience of the screening committee. 3. Submitted works should be protected in a strong tube or cardboard packaging. 4. All works must be submitted by post from Taiwan or overseas. Applicants are responsible for all related postage, insurance, and taxes.  In the interest of consistency, submissions delivered in person will not be accepted. 5. Application materials (application form, return receipt, certificate of condition, Label A, and Label B) must be posted together with the submitted art work. Incomplete or illegible application information (print or type, please) will be rejected.
Insurance 1. The organizations will be liable for insurance coverage from the time works are received and registered through their return from the museum to their owners. The organizations shall not be held liable for loss or damages resulting from unavoidable catastrophe. 2. Applicants shall arrange for insurance covering delivery and return of works to and from the exhibition according to their individual needs. The organizations shall not be held liable for loss or damage to works in transit to and from the exhibition.
Returns 1. With the exception of prizewinning works, the organizations will return all submissions by post. Postage will be paid by the host organization. 2. In the event an applicant’s contact address has changed, or if for any other reason the works are undeliverable, they will be returned to the museum. If further attempts to contact the owner are unsuccessful, the host organization shall assume domain over said work and may dispose of said work as necessary. Further, the host organization may seek compensation from the participant for costs incurred in the disposal of submitted works.

Application form
Deadline: 15/04/06

Contact:
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
12th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhi
No. 2, Sec. 1, Wu-chuan W. Rd., Taichung 403
Taiwan, R.O.C.
phone: 886 4 2372-3552, ext. 633 or 314
fax: 886 4 2375-4730
print12@art.tmoa.gov.tw
www.tmoa.gov.tw/

Biella, Italy
Event dates: 1 July to 31 October, 2006

Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
UNIDEE in Residence International Program

A international residence program open to students and graduates of various university faculties, to artists and to professionals from any country in the world.
http://unidee.cittadellarte.it/about.htm
The growing interest in researching and developing ideas in all sectors of society is not interpreted by UNIDEE in generic terms but as the need for a creative contribution to transformation in all areas of activity. UNIDEE offers all the course participants an experience unlike anything offered in any other university or academic program. Work is grounded in an imaginative and research-oriented practice that operates within each discipline and is directed towards the responsible transformation of society.
UNIDEE residents live and work on the Cittadellarte site, a pleasing example of industrial archaeology, and participate in courses, workshops, public meetings and exhibitions.
The UNIDEE programs are directed by Michelangelo Pistoletto.
The official language is English.
The work of the UNIDEE residents involves constant interaction with the offices of Cittadellarte, which put the program of responsible social transformation into effect through projects developed in conjunction with public and private institutions, companies, cultural bodies and economic and production structures.
The residents work individually or in groups to develop ideas and projects, working along creative lines pertinent to the following fields: Art, Communication, Ecology, Economics, Education, Work, Nutrition, Politics, Production, Science, Spirituality.
During the residency, meetings and seminars are held by experts and professors of various humanistic, scientific, economic, political, artistic and social disciplines.
All the events in the Cittadellarte program – exhibitions, conferences, performances and workshops – offer further opportunities for the residents to explore issues and develop ideas.
At the end of the residency, the ideas that have been generated are presented publicly at the UNIDEE in progress exhibition-event.
The residents are supported throughout by tutors, technicians and assistants, who coordinate the activities and the development of projects.
One whole floor of the main Cittadellarte building is available for the residents, with a meeting and seminar room, a computer room, workshops and a space that can be used for performances, screenings and talks.
The residents are guests of Cittadellarte, which has a guest house with single and double bedrooms. There is a staffed cafeteria.
At the end of the course each resident receives an attendance certificate. This will not, however, be issued if the resident has been absent for more than 20% of the entire period of the residency.
At the end of the residency, the participants automatically become part of the Manydee network, the aim of which is to enable them to continue project work with Cittadellarte. Through Manydee, the Cittadellarte offices continue to develop the program established with UNIDEE in Residence – International Program and set up new projects, offering former residents an opportunity to collaborate actively.

Application form
Deadline: 10/04/06

Contact:
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto
Via Serralunga, 27
13900 Biella
Italy
phone: +39-015 0991462
fax: +39-015 2522540
unidee@cittadellarte.it
www.cittadellarte.it/

Asolo, Italy
Event dates: September 30th – October 8th 2006

AsoloArtFilmFestival
International Festival of Films on Art and the Lives of Artists

Cinema - TV - Video - Videoart – Architecture - Design - Computer Art - Productions of Cinema Schools
The 2006 edition of the AsoloArtFilmFestival will be held in Asolo (Treviso) from September 30th to October 8th 2006. The festival upholds the cultural tradition established by the ‘Festival Internazionale del Film sull’Arte e di Biografie d’Artista’, embodying the same concept. Inaugurated in 1973, the former festival enjoyed great international success for over two decades, until it finally closed at the end of the 1990s. Thirty years later its inauguration and its following the progress happened in visual language, the festival has been relaunched as the “AsoloArtFilmFestival”: an international prized event centred upon a competition for cinema devoted to the arts in their myriad forms of expression.
The festival will be the scene for the Career Award “ Flavia Paulon”. The award will be given to the artist of international relevance who left a significant trace with his/her personality and art in the contemporary cultural scene of cinema and art.
The competition is distinct in six sections: • FILMS ON ART for works devoted to the visual arts and music;
• ARTISTS’ LIVES for projects depicting, throughout a historical reconstruction and critical interpretation, personalities from the world of visual arts and music;
• FILMS ON THE ARCHITECTURE for films devoted to History, movements, protagonists, works and projects about architecture and town planning;
• DESIGN for works devoted to History, movements and protagonists in the design field;
• VIDEOART – COMPUTER ART for works utilizing electronic or computer technologies as a means of direct artistic expression
• PRODUCTIONS related to the visual arts and music, made by recognized film schools, specialized higher education institutes and universities;
Only works made after January 1st 2004 are eligible for the competition. The works must fall into one of the above 6 sections, which must be indicated on the entry form. The Selection Committee reserves the right to move a work to another section should it thinks the work would better fit in a different sector from the one the artist submitted to.
To enter the competition the following are necessary: • An entry form with all the parts filled in; • Two copies of the work (PAL standard) in VHS or DVD; • A short biography and essential filmography of the film-maker(s); • A synopsis of the work in Italian or English; • At least two slides or JPEG images of different frames or stills of the work, with the authorization to broadcast them on television and publish them in the press, or otherwise use them to promote the festival;  • The work script either of dialogue or commentary in Italian or English; • List of original and non-original sound tracks.
This material must be prepared and submitted by the participants, and sent in by July 30th 2006. If works arrive after that date, the postmark will be considered as proof of their having been sent in time. Should the material submitted be incomplete, the organizing committee will decide whether the work is eligible for the competition, and its decision will be final.
The materials submitted will not be returned but kept as documentation in the festival archive. One of the works copies will be part of the A.I.A.F International Mediateca , created with the purpose to make the material available for studying and consulting to both Universities, Schools and worldwide students, and also to the promotion of the festival.
A special committee will be set up to make a preliminary selection of the works submitted.
At least 30 days before the festival opening date, the film-makers or producers whose works have been chosen will be informed that they have been accepted for the competition. They must submit a copy of the master transferred to Betacam SP or DVD. If this copy is not in Italian it must be subtitled in this language. If these subtitles are missing, when required, the contestant will automatically be excluded from the competition. The copies of the chosen works must reach the organizing body of the festival before and no later than September 15th 2006, otherwise they will be excluded. These copies will not be returned but will be kept in the festival archive.

Deadline: 20/07/06

Contact:
AsoloArtFilmFestival
Foresto Vecchio, 8
31011 Asolo (TV)
Italy
phone: 0423 520455
fax: 0423 951320
info@asolofilmfestival.it
www.asolofilmfestival.it

Mannheim, Germany
Event dates: August 30 to September 9, 2006

zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst
Wonders of the Prairie

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Theme is Glück Glück Glück
www.zeitraumexit.de
"Wunder der Prärie" stands for international, experimental, and extraordinary art projects which bring together fine and performing arts. "Wunder der Prärie" occurs in art rooms, uses and animates urban spaces and is firmly rooted in the urban life of the region Rhein-Neckar. For 6 years the arthouse zeitraum_ex!t has organised an annual festival. They started with the 9th International Performance Conference in 2000. Since 2004 the festival is named "Wunder der Prärie".
Amongst others, the following artists and groups participated: Anna Huber, Stefan Kaegi, Alastair Mc Lennan, Boris Nieslony, Lindy Annis, Gob Squad, Jaap Blonk, Théâtre du Radeau, Stan's Café, Yoko Tawada, FarADayCage, Volker Gerling, Mike Pearson.
The Theme: "Glück Glück Glück" The German word "Glück" is a term with many meanings. Other languages have several, more differentiated terms for "Glück". In English for example, we have the terms "luck, fortune, happiness, felicity"; Italians speak of "fortuna, felicitá".
"Happiness" is generally understood as a very special, extraordinary emotion or an emotional state; its opposite is unhappiness or - as an extreme - desperation.
Personal Happiness Feeling happy is defined as "being in accordance with oneself and the world". Everyone has to find out for herself or himself when these valuable moments of happiness have occurred or do occur.
"Happiness" (as well as "good luck") is fragile, volatile, it never lasts forever.
There is chance which helps to make somebody happy. Happiness also depends on fortune. The "lucky devil" or the "child of fortune" have inherited fortune; they succeed in everything and everywhere.
"Life is what you make of it" - we all wish to make and are to make ourselves happy. Happiness is merit.
Happiness in this World and in the Next World Religions, too, make use of peoples' longing for happiness. When the promise of happiness is shifted to the realm of the next world then there is no reason to be at odds with a luckless life in this world.
Festival Venues The city and public places, for example the central station, empty shops, the pedestrian zone, depending on the project; zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst and other exhibition rooms
Events - Exhibitions - Films - Performance art - Theatre projects - Lectures and discussions with the audience
The call is directed to artists which have dealt with the 2006 festival theme.
Applications should consist of: - A meaningful concept (video, pictures, description) - CV - Scheme of costs - Technical requirements - Self-addressed answer envelope and postage
Please note that we cannot finance new productions.
We do not accept any responsibility for the application documents.
We do not accept e-mail applications!
Applications without a sufficiently stamped answer envelope will not be sent back and will not be kept in archive!
For applications from other countries than Germany: please include the equivalent of adequate postage in Euros!

Deadline: 10/03/06 - date of the postmark

Contact:
zeitraum_ex!t Büro für Kunst
Gabriele Oßwald
Lange Rötterstraße 23
D-68167 Mannheim
Germany
phone: ++49(0)621-3709830
www.zeitraumexit.de

Zlín, Czech Republic
Event dates: May 28 till June 3, 2006

FILMFEST
46th International Film Festival for Children and Youth

CALL FOR ENTRY
Why should you enter your film for 46th International Film Festival for Children and Youth which is to be held in Zlin.
These are the main reasons: - Our festival is one of the oldest and largest of its kind worldwide and represents a highly prestigious event, confronting contemporary international trends in filmmaking for children and teenagers.
- The programme structure of the festival focuses above all on films for children and youth. Its programme scheme is very wide and apart from the main competitive sections of feature films for children and youth includes a competition of animated short films, a competition of films from the countries of the Visegrad Four, a competitive section of european debuts, documentaries dealing with problems of young people.
- Important parts of the festival programme are retrospectives of prominent filmmakers and profiles of cinematographies from various countries. Our producers’ discussion panel, organized every year, aims at mediating contacts between filmmakers from all over the world.
For the selection process we need your video cassette or DVD (with English subtitles) and the filled out entry form.
If you have any further questions regarding your submission please get in touch with us.
For feature and documentary films please contact Kamil Zajicek at kamil.zajicek@zlinfest.cz or phone +420 577 592 217.
For animations films please contact Jaroslava Hynstova at jaroslava.hynstova@zlinfest.cz or phone +420 577 592 217.

Application form
Deadline: 10/03/06

Contact:
FILMFEST, s. r. o.
Filmová 174
761 79 Zlín
Czech Republic
phone: +420 577 592 217
fax: +420 577 592 442
festival@zlinfest.cz
www.zlinfest.cz

Bristol, UK
Event dates: 2006

Bristol School of Animation
Storyboard Competition 2006

Win Three Months FREE professional animation training at The Bristol School of Animation / Osvojite tri mesece BREZPLAČNEGA strokovnega usposabljanja na področju animacije
http://amd.uwe.ac.uk/amd/index3.asp?pageid=497
The Competition (slovenska verzija je spodaj)
The Bristol School of Animation in conjunction with Aardman Animations Ltd is pleased to announce its annual storyboarding competition for 2006. A storyboard visually conveys the plot and action of a scene, or shot, or whole film/ commercial. We are looking for talented individuals to produce original and imaginative storyboards (no more than 20 frames) for a 60-second TV advertisement designed to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming It should aim to deliver a message that inspires individuals to take personal responsibility for the conservation of energy, highlighting the contribution that can be made by people at a domestic level. The competition judges will be looking for skills in the development and communication of a strong concept likely to influence the general public.
The Prize The first prize of this competition is a free place to study either 2D or 3D animation on our prestigious ‘Three Month Animation Professional Training Course’ (26th June – 8th September 2006). This fantastic prize also includes the payment of accommodation costs for the duration of the eleven-week period. There will also be runners-up prizes on offer.
The Three Month Animation Course offers would be animators the chance to gain or enhance their understanding of the core skills and techniques involved in the production of successful character animation. The course also includes training in life drawing and support from local professional animation studios, including Aardman Animations Ltd .
Competition Entry Guidelines  The competition is open to all UK and EU/EEA residents over 18 years of age.  Applicants must submit a completed storyboard and competition application form.  Storyboards can be in colour or monochrome. They must be no more than 20 frames in length.  Storyboards must be completed within the specified format using the template provided (you can make as many copies of the template as you like!)  Entries from abroad should allow at least 2 weeks delivery time for your competition entry.  Please keep copies of your entries as we cannot guarantee that your entry will be returned.
Slovensko:
Bristol School of Animation v sodelovanju z Aardman Animations Ltd razpisuje tekmovanje v izdelovanju snemalnih knjig za leto 2006.
Snemalna knjiga vizualno izraža zaplet in dogajanje v posameznem prizoru, posnetku ali celotnem filmu/reklami. Iščemo nadarjene posameznike, ki bodo izdelali originalne in domiselne snemalne knjige (ne več kot 20 sličic) za TV oglas dolžine 60 sekund, namenjen osveščanju o nevarnostih globalnega segrevanja. Cilj oglasa naj bi bilo sporočilo, ki bi posameznike spodbudilo, da prevzamejo nase odgovornost in varčujejo z energijo, ter poudarilo, da lahko doma vsak prispeva k temu. Žirija bo pozorna na to, kako spretna bosta razvoj in sporočanje prepričljivega koncepta, ki bi lahko uspešno vplival na javnost.
Nagrada  Prva nagrada je brezplačno izobraževanje na področju 2D ali 3D animacije na prestižnem trimesečnem strokovnem usposabljanju, ki ga organizira Bristol School of Animation (od 26. junija do 8. septembra 2006). V to čudovito nagrado je vključeno tudi plačilo stroškov namestitve za obdobje enajstih tednov. Nagrade bodo prejeli tudi drugi visoko uvrščeni tekmovalci.
Trimesečni tečaj animacije nudi zavzetim in navdušenim animatorjem možnost, da si pridobijo ali izboljšajo razumevanje osnovnih spretnosti in tehnik za produkcijo uspešne animacije likov. Tečaj vključuje tudi risanje po živem modelu in sodelovanje lokalnih profesionalnih animacijskih studijev, vključno z Aardman Animations Ltd.
Prijavijo se lahko vse osebe s stalnim prebivališčem v UK ali EU/EGP nad 18 let.  Kandidati morajo poslati dokončano snemalno knjigo in prijavnico za tekmovanje.  Snemalne knjige so lahko barvne ali enobarvne. Imajo lahko največ 20 sličic.  Snemalne knjige morajo biti narejene v določenem formatu na podlagi dane predloge (template) (uporabite lahko toliko kopij predlog, kot jih potrebujete).  Pri pošiljanju prijav, ki niso iz UK, upoštevajte vsaj 2 tedna časa za dostavo.  Ohranite kopije svojih prijav, ker vam ne moremo zagotoviti, da vam jih bomo vrnili.

Application form
Deadline: 10/03/06

Contact:
Bristol School of Animation, Storyboarding Competition
University of the West of England
Kennel Lodge Road
BS3 2JT Bristol
UK
phone: +00 44 (0) 117 328 4810
http://amd.uwe.ac.uk/amd/

Just a note to let you know that we have extended the deadline for submissions to the UFVA new media exhibit (this is for the 2006 conference of the University Film and Video Association). The new deadline is March 1. I have reprinted the original info below, in case you need it. Also, I have copied and pasted the submission form below, since some people have had difficulty accessing it. For more information, please see www.ufva.org.

Looking forward to your submissions!

Juliet

Juliet Davis, MFA
Assistant Professor of Communication
The University of Tampa
juliet.davis@ut.edu
www.julietdavis.com
CELL: 727-418-8511

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UNIVERSITY FILM & VIDEO ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
August 1-5, 2006
Chapman University
Orange, California
www.ufva.org

CALL FOR NEW MEDIA EXHIBITION SUBMISSIONS

SUBMISSIONS DUE: February 15, 2006

1) Application Form
.pdf: http://www.ufva.org/NewMediaForm2006.pdf
.doc: http://www.ufva.org/NewMediaForm2006.doc
(if these are not working, contact info@julietdavis.com)

2) Any additional project documentation needed for consideration (for example, CD-ROM, DVD, JPEGS—no slides, please).

3) Participation in the program requires active membership in the UFVA and pre-registration for the conference.

NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: Early May

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO:

Juliet Davis
Dept. of Communication
University of Tampa
401 West Kennedy Blvd. Box 106-F
Tampa, FL 33606
phone: 727.418.8511
fax: 813-253-6246
julietdavis@tampabay.rr.com

QUESTIONS? Contact Juliet Davis at Juliet.davis@ut.edu or info@julietdavis.com.

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SUBMISSION FORM

UFVA NEW MEDIA/RESPONDENT APPLICATION
Name (as it should appear in the program)
Mailing Address
City State
Zip
Phone Fax
E-mail
Institutional Affiliation Faculty or Grad Student?
Summer contact information (if different from above), including dates

NEW MEDIA INFORMATION
Title of Work

Please describe the equipment requirements for your piece. If this is an installation and you have special space requirements, please describe these also (e.g., 12'x12' area of floor space, dimmable lighting, etc.). If this is an interactive media presentation (CD-ROM, web site), please indicate exact equipment needs.

The host institution will try to meet the needs of your new media work, but if the equipment you need is not available, you may be asked to provide your own. Special space requirements also depend on availability.

Description of Work (One or two sentences only)

RESPONDENT INFORMATION
Would you be interested in serving as a New Media respondent?
Type of work to which would you like to respond:
You may be asked to provide a written version of your response on letterhead to the producer.

Mail this form to:

Juliet Davis
Dept. of Communication
University of Tampa
401 West Kennedy Blvd. Box 106-F
Tampa, FL 33606
o: 813.253.3333 X3383
f: 813-253-6246
c: 727.418.8511
julietdavis@tampabay.rr.com

Deadline for submissions: MARCH 1, 2006
Deadline for documentation to New Media Chair: April 3, 2006 (Can be sketches) ***NEW***

Participation in the program requires active membership in the UFVA and pre-registration for the conference.

Check here if you are planning to participate in the Friday golf tournament

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SoEx OFFSITE

An opportunity for emerging artists to develop and create new public works in San Francisco that investigate diverse strategies for exploring and mapping public space.

SOUTHERN EXPOSURE OFFSITE:

Southern Exposure’s 2006-2007 Exhibition and Artists in Education programs will move beyond the gallery walls in order to present new forms of work in public space. Southern Exposure will temporarily relocate in the summer of 2006 so that the building that we have always called home at Project Artaud can undergo a seismic retrofit and upgrade. Southern Exposure is utilizing this unique opportunity to extend our programs into the public realm. Southern Exposure, founded in 1974, has a long history of presenting community-based projects. Through this new program, Southern Exposure has a goal of encouraging artists to work experimentally in public space, enabling artists to develop new works that could not otherwise be realized, and generating a critical dialog about emerging creative practices.

ABOUT THE PROJECT:

Southern Exposure will commission a series of public art projects that investigate diverse strategies for exploring and mapping public space. Artists selected through this open call will be commissioned to produce new work.

This project is informed by the legacy of the Situationists, an international artistic and political movement that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. The Situationists sought to radically redefine the role of art in society with a particular interest in everyday experiences in public space. They developed key concepts such as the dérive – the practice of drifting through urban space - and psychogeography – the study of the effects of the geographic environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals. In addition, a goal of these projects is to reconsider the Situationists’ strategies in light of new technologies such as Global Positioning devices and wireless communication, which have fundamentally transformed our ability to navigate public space.

This series will feature a range of projects that utilize strategies such as simple acts of walking and note taking, to projects that employ high-tech and technological apparatuses as a means to fuse virtual and real experiences or to disseminate geographical and historical information, to performances, actions, or events. These projects may involve the audience’s participation, enabling the public to engage in acts of urban mapping and reflect on their own experiences in public space.

Southern Exposure seeks proposals for artwork in various media including 1) artwork with a physical presence such as: installation, sculpture, or public intervention; 2) ephemeral and participatory artwork such as: performance, tour, walk, discussion, or lecture; 3) technology-based work such as new media or sound art; or 4) projects that combine the above categories. Projects will be presented between September 2006 and Spring 2007. The duration of the projects can range from a single performance to repeating events or a long-term installation. Selected artists will receive an honorarium and production budget ranging from $500 - $5,000 depending on the scope of the project. Southern Exposure will work with artists to provide support, promote their projects, and will create a publication that documents the program series after the projects have been presented. Southern Exposure will also provide a home base for artists to work, with space for information about the projects t!
o be accessible to the public.

APPLICATION & REVIEW PROCESS:

The proposals will be reviewed by several members of Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Committee. We are seeking proposals from artists who demonstrate a potential for creative growth working in the public realm, or artists who would like to extend their practice into the public realm but have yet to work this way.

Please mail or deliver your proposal package to Southern Exposure. Southern Exposure does not accept electronic submissions.

SoEx OFFSITE
Southern Exposure
401 Alabama Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Application Deadline: Materials must be received at Southern Exposure’s office by 5 p.m. on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 (this is not a postmark date). Hand deliveries will be accepted.

Notification Deadline: Artists will be notified by later no later than March 31, 2006. Please do not call before this date.

INQUIRIES:

You can find all of this information and more at www.soex.org in the SoEx OFFSITE section. If you have questions regarding the application process, please contact us by email: programs@soex.org. Subject heading of the email should read: “SoEx OFFSITE.”

About Southern Exposure
Southern Exposure is a 31 year old, non-profit, artist-run organization dedicated to presenting diverse, innovative, contemporary art, arts education, and related programs and events in an accessible environment. Southern Exposure reaches out to diverse audiences and serves as a forum and resource center to provide extraordinary support to the Bay Area's arts and educational communities. Activities range from exhibitions of local, regional, and international visual artists’ work, education programs, and lectures, panel discussions, and performances. Southern Exposure is dedicated to giving artists—whether they are exhibiting, curating, teaching, or learning—an opportunity to realize ideas for projects that may not otherwise find support.

For more information go to www.soex.org or call 415-863-2141.

This program is made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Submission Application: SOEX OFFSITE

ELIGIBILITY:
Open to local, national and international artists, with a focus on supporting San Francisco Bay Area artists.

WHAT TO SUBMIT:
Please complete the following form and submit it with your application:

NAME: ______________________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: __________________________________________________________________________
CITY/STATE/ZIP: ____________________________________________________________________
PHONE: _____________________________________________________________________________
EMAIL/WEBSITE: _____________________________________________________________________

1. Submit up to TWO forms of visual support material:

up to twelve digital images – saved as JPEG files. (May not exceed 800 x 600 pixels 72 dpi). Each image file should be labeled or saved with your name and a number that corresponded to an annotated image list (see below). We are not accepting slides.

one DVD with up to three works or three excerpts of works. We will view up to five minutes of work.

one VHS tape, cued. We will view up to five minutes of work.

2. Annotated image list of your support materials:

indicate artist name, title, year, medium, brief description of each work (digital image or video).

3. Artist statement, no more than one page in length.

4. Current resume, including name, address, phone number and email address.

5. Proposal. In 300 words or less, describe the project that you would like to develop, include:

the form your project will take (i.e. public sculpture, performance, action, event, etc)

the motivations for the work and concepts behind it

suggest possible locations, types of locations, or a specific location you intend to use. OPTIONAL: You may include a schematic or visual example of your project.

6. Preliminary budget in narrative form estimating material costs and required production time.

7. A self-addressed stamped envelope (SASE) large enough to return submitted materials and containing the correct amount of postage.

MATERIALS WITHOUT A SASE WILL NOT BE RETURNED AND WILL BE DISCARDED AFTER 2 MONTHS IF THE ARTIST HAS NOT CONTACTED SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
***** Please include 3 copies of items #’s 2- 6. Do not submit binders, folders or original artwork. *****
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Tosoma.org is a website specializing in creating and showcasing online based public art projects http://www.tosoma.org consisting of a panel of 25 established and emerging international professionals from a wide range of new media fields.

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Open Call of Submissions for 'Orgasmos' a Net + Web Art Project

Deadline for submissions: March 10th 2006

Announcement of selected works: April 10th 2006

This project is an open call for artists working in Net and Web Art, to create and submit a Net or Web Art piece that portrays the sensation of an orgasm.

Selection and Awards:

Exhibition of works - 10 works only will be selected by our international panel, to be showcased online on tosoma.org from April 10th 2006

Tosoma Award - there will be a first and second Award which will be announced and sent out.

How to submit work:

For Orgasmos: [all submissions via email]

Net.Art/Web.Art Submissions: please send the URL of your piece and any specific viewing requirements in terms of browsers and software.

In your email please include the name of the piece and a short statement of who you or your group/collaborative are (300 words max). Also include your main website if you have one and your email address (please state if you wish your website and email address to be visible on the site)

Email all work to submit@tosoma.org

Important: When submitting work you will need to give your consent and confirm it is your own work in order for us to use it. If you are sending via email, you must copy and paste in your email the following paragraph, signed by yourself. If you are posting the material please copy paste this on you cover letter and sign it:

"The work I am submitting is my own, I have consent from all collaborators involved (if any), to use and submit this work. I allow http://www.tosoma.org to display my work within the tosoma website. I will not contact panel members discussing my submission."

CALL FOR ENTRY : Seoul Net Festival 2006

The 7th Seoul Net Festival is open for entries in Digital Express (International Competition) in both categories respectively : and . Seoul Net Festival, organized by Seoul Moving Image Forum and presented by Seoul Film Festival Executive Committee, is trying to introduce talented visual artists all over the world and their brilliant works and to lead the new audio-visual experiences based on ¡°the Internet¡± and ¡°New Media¡±. We sincerely hope you consider this an exciting opportunity to show your great endeavors in the digital convergence era.

WHEN : May 15 - September 24, 2006

- May 15 - July 31 : screening of competition section and out-of-competition section

- August 1 - September 24 : screening of award-winning works

WHERE : www.senef.net / Mobile and DMB

SEOUL NET FESTIVAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE : April 8, 2006

ELIGIBILITY
For the official competition section, only works completed after January 2005 may be submitted to the Festival. Submissions should be creative works produced or adopted through digital technology. There will be no restrictions regarding the genre, length or subject matter of the work and all types of works, including fiction, documentary, experimental, music video, animation, motion graphic, flash animation, game, web-art, etc. will be accepted.

MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSIONS :

1) Completed application form (can be downloaded from www.senef.net)
2) Preview material
- By Post : DVD / DV6mm / CD / VHS (Seoul Moving Image Forum - Program Dept. of Seoul Net Festival, 1308 Woorim Bobo County, 75-8 Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-870, Korea)

- By FTP Server (under 300 MB) : FLASH / WMV / MOV / AVI / MPEG
* For File-Transferring indications, please mail to program3@senef.net

- By E-MAIL : URL address to program3@senef.net
3) Complete script in English (.doc)
4) Photo of the Work (.jpg) : more than 300 dpi
5) Photo of the Artist (.jpg) : more than 300 dpi
6) Any other publicity materials related to the submitted work (optional)

* Application form and photos can be submitted by E-MAIL.
* Resolution should be more than 640 * 480.

Contact
Seoul Moving Image Forum - Program Dept. of Seoul Net Festival
1308 Woorim Bobo County, 75-8 Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-870, Korea
program3@senef.net / Tel. : +82-2-518-4332 / Fax: +82-2-518-4333

www.senef.net

CALL FOR ENTRYS
YOU HAVE MADE A FILM?

Present your work!
OHNE KOHLE (i.e.”NO BUDGET “) supports international independent filmmakers and offers you a plattform for networking plus a multitude of prizes.

Information on schedules - visit our website:

www.ohnekohle.net

NO ENTRY FEE!
There is no entry fee and over 1500 international films from 30 countrys were sent in last year.

FILMS WILL BE SCREENED IN PUBLIC!
Starting off in February 2006 “Open Screenings” will be held to showcase your works to the Austrian Audience.
ADDITIONAL PROGRAM DURING FESTIVAL WEEK!
During the festival week in July, there will be workshops, panel discussions, lectures, cinema shows and parties. Every entry will be accesible and can be watched in video bunks.

WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR FILM.

The Association for the Support of Independent Film and Video Culture organizes the 3rd “OHNE KOHLE – international independent video and film festival” which will take place in Vienna from July 16th to July 22nd, 2006. As in previous years, it tries to present a selection of works including a contest for producers of independent films from all over the world. The aim is to honor and support the most interesting and innovative approaches in the fields of short, documentation and animation films.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - POSTMARK DEADLINE APRIL 1, 2006

Artists Alliance Inc. (AAI) is pleased to announce the following opportunities open to visual artists of all disciplines:

1. AAI Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program (LES-RSP/06)
These are six month long residencies.
Four artists will be selected for Session 1: June 5, 2006 - November 27, 2006
Four artists will be selected for Session 2: December 4, 2006- May 28, 2006
These studios are provided to the artists at no cost. A small stipend is available.

2. AAI Lower East Side Long Term Studio Program (LES-LTSP)
One artist will be selected for a three-year renewable residency.
One Long Term Residency: Beginning June 5, 2006
This studio is provided at an affordable below market rate.

Deadline for application materials: postmarked by April 1, 2006

Applications available at
http://www.aai-nyc.org

Overview
Artists Alliance, Inc./Alianza de Artistas (AAI), a community based nonprofit organization, composed of artists from a broad spectrum of national and artistic backgrounds, is pleased to announce two new sessions for our Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program (LES-RSP/06) and the availability of one Long Term Studio at 107 Suffolk Street. Eight artists will be invited to participate in the Rotating Studio Program, located in the vibrant and historically significant multicultural neighborhood of the Lower East Side in Lower Manhattan. One additional artist will be selected to participate in the Long Term Studio Program. The studios are located within the former PS 160, which has been converted into a vital cultural center. Selected artists will have the opportunity to interact and engage with the more than 60 professional resident visual artists who currently work in the cultural center. This program underscores AAI's mission to support the careers of emerging and mid-career !
artists working in all fields as well as hardworking artists who fall outside the system. It also addresses issues about the scarcity of space for the production and presentation of works of art. Lack of workspace threatens the very core of cultural life in New York City. (Please review contract requirements for participation as a member-artist in the Long Term Studio Program and for participation in the Rotating Studio Program. Available at www.aai-nyc.org)

What the residency offers:
Workspace at 107 Suffolk Street: Both Programs are open to emerging, mid-career and hardworking artists who fall outside the system. All disciplines including painting, photography, sculpture, video, installation and new media will be accepted. Artists must be living within reasonable distance from the studios during the residency term. There is absolutely no live space available.

Smith College is seeking an artist-in-residence for each of the next
three academic years. We seek a practicing artist whose work bridges
the arts and technology in innovative ways and who has the ability to
share her/his talents as a teacher and practitioner. The artist will
bring a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach to scholarship,
teaching, exploration and creation. We encourage applications from
performing or installation artists in theatre, dance, and/or music;
and visual artists, including those working in film, video, and
sound. We especially encourage artists who practice in
interdisciplinary combinations of the arts and technology and who can
help current faculty develop a vision for this emerging field at
Smith College.

Qualifications:
* A terminal degree in the arts and/or technology.

Responsibilities:
* Develop, coordinate and facilitate activities to promote the
intersection between arts and technology.
* Identify, invite and host for campus visits other guest artists
exploring new directions in the arts and technology.
* Teach half-time (2 courses over the course of the year.)
* Present personal work to local community.

Application Deadline:
* March 15, 2006 (include note on end of search)

Please do not send portfolios at this time.

Smith College is a four-year liberal arts college in Northampton,
Massachusetts. Smith College seeks to attract individuals who are
committed to our mission of providing the highest quality education
to women. Smith participates in a five-college consortium with
Amherst, Hampshire, and Mount Holyoke Colleges, and the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.

Please send a letter of application, a resume, and three letters of
recommendation to:

Professor Gary Niswonger
Chair, Search Committee
Art Department
Smith College
22 Elm Street
Northampton, MA 01063

Smith College is an equal opportunity employer encouraging excellence
through diversity.

Be a reviewer on Futherfield
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Furtherfield is currently looking for more reviewers.
http://www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield connects to an ever increasing and diverse community of people from all walks of life who are hungry to experience and explore contemorary media art and related creativities. We regularly receive submissions from artists/groups from all over the world inviting us to feature their work on Furtherfield. Because we receive so many interesting submissions by those who want their work reviewed on Furtherfield, we are always interested in having more reviewers.

As a reviewer you will be asked to select from these works and contribute to the context of what is being created and write about why it is relevant. You will also have the option of seeking out and writing about other works that you think should be seen.

We are interested in people who understand and know net art, software art, aspects of media art (new media art), social networks connected to media art, live net art (real-time), psychogeography, live Internet tv, open source, tactical media, art blogs, activist games, net activism, relational media art & its variants...

If you possess knowledge and enthusiasm for any of these subjects, are able to write;-) and are interested in being part of a group that is growing daily as an adventurous community, join us and share the rewarding experience of engaging in a contemporary, critical and creative digitally vista that is shifting and changing each day.

If you are interested, please contact- marc.garrett@furtherfield.org

The Furtherfield Reader
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In response to demand from visitors at HTTP Gallery (http://www.http.uk.net/) as well as Furtherfield.org visitors and artists, in Summer 06, we will publish selected Furtherfield reviews/articles as pdf downloads. These quarterly editions will be accessible via the Internet for print in a book format. This is also due to the influx of fresh interest in media arts, especially in the UK as evidenced by projects such as the upcoming NODE.London Season of Media Arts http://www.nodel.org/.

Furtherfield and the HTTP Gallery, has been connecting with various Colleges and Universities in the UK and internationally, gaining interest in the ideas, content and context(s) provided and investigated by both platforms. We are dedicated to bringing about a new and wider audience to media arts, bringing about a more engaged culture of understanding, critical thinking and independent consciousness.

OTHER FURTHERFIELD PROJECTS:
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http://www.furtherfield.org/furthercritic (MEZ is our current resident critic)
http://www.furtherfield.org/furtherstudio/ (archived for view)
http://www.furtherfield.org/gestation/
http://www.furtherfield.org/dissensionconvention/ (archive of event)
http://www.skinstrip.net/index_archive.htm
http://www.netbehaviour.org (an open email list that explores networked behaviour & media arts)

The Chicago Underground is once again accepting entries for our 2006
festival. Lucky number thirteen! As always we're looking for the very best
in new film and video work. Features, shorts, narratives, documentaries,
experimentals, animations, music videos and more! Show us what you got!

EARLY DEADLINE --> March 1!

REGULAR DEADLINE - April 1

Entry forms and guidelines available now at http://www.cuff.org

Or apply online at withoutabox.com http://www.withoutabox.com/login/1095

Prix Ars Electronica - International competition for CyberArts 2006

Submissions deadline March 17, 2006.

Categories:
- Computeranimation / Visual Effects
- Digital Musics
- Interactive Art
- Net Vision
- Digital Communities
- [the next idea]

Main website for online submitions & furtther details:
http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp

Open Call of Submissions for 'Orgasmos' a Net + Web Art Project

Deadline for submissions: March 10th 2006

Announcement of selected works: April 10th 2006

This project is an open call for artists working in Net and Web Art, to create and submit a Net or Web Art piece that portrays the sensation of an orgasm.

Selection and Awards:

Exhibition of works - 10 works only will be selected by our international panel, to be showcased online on tosoma.org from April 10th 2006

Tosoma Award - there will be a first and second Award which will be announced and sent out.

How to submit work:

For Orgasmos: [all submissions via email]

Net.Art/Web.Art Submissions: please send the URL of your piece and any specific viewing requirements in terms of browsers and software.

In your email please include the name of the piece and a short statement of who you or your group/collaborative are (300 words max). Also include your main website if you have one and your email address (please state if you wish your website and email address to be visible on the site)

Email all work to submit@tosoma.org

Important: When submitting work you will need to give your consent and confirm it is your own work in order for us to use it. If you are sending via email, you must copy and paste in your email the following paragraph, signed by yourself. If you are posting the material please copy paste this on you cover letter and sign it:

"The work I am submitting is my own, I have consent from all collaborators involved (if any), to use and submit this work. I allow http://www.tosoma.org to display my work within the tosoma website. I will not contact panel members discussing my submission

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wooloo Productions and White Box present AsylumNYC: an opportunity for
non-US artists to exhibit and live in New York City. AsylumNYC will
provide a talented artist with both a solo show at a recognized New York
institution and the legal aid necessary to obtain an artists visa in the
United States of America.

Location:
White Box
525 West 26th Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues)
New York, New York 10001

Date:
April 24, 2006, 8PM – April 29, 2006

All interested artists are encouraged to apply before April 1, 2006 at:
www.AsylumNYC.com

CREATIVE ASYLUM IN NEW YORK CITY
Based on the concept under exploration by Wooloo Productions in
AsylumHOME.net, which addresses the difficulties faced by asylum seekers
in Europe, AsylumNYC targets the challenge faced by artists interested in
working in the United States.

After an online application process, White Box’s gallery space will become
a creative asylum where successful applicants will be invited to develop a
work/project from April 24 to April 29, 2006. Projects must actively
challenge a regime(s) of exclusion in New York by including otherwise
excluded individuals from cultural, economic or physical structures in the
City.

Once an artist’s project is selected, AsylumNYC will provide a free lawyer
to try to obtain a O- artist visa. If successful, the artist will be
awarded the opportunity to stay in New York for three years.

February 8, 2006 marks the launch of the www.AsylumNYC.com where
interested artists may apply until the April 1 deadline. To apply for
asylum, artists must be able to be present at White Box, 525 West 26th
Street (between 10th and 11th Avenues), New York, New York 10001 on April
24th, 2006 at 8 PM and STAY until 6:00pm on April 29th, 2006. While
staying at White Box, the artists will be provided with lodging and food,
but cannot leave the premises for the duration of the week.

ABOUT
Wooloo Productions is a provider of public and experimental spaces. Acting
on the level of facilitation, every Wooloo production aims to encourage
new forms of interaction and agency among members of diverse communities.

AsylumNYC is produced and organized by Wooloo Productions
(http://www.wooloo.org) in close collaboration with White Box
(http://www.whiteboxny.org) and the Franklin Furnace Archive
(http://www.franklinfurnace.org) in New York.

For more information, please email Martin Rosengaard, Media Manager:
Martin@wooloo.org or call: +49 (0) 30 6676 3097

Please visit http://www.AsylumNYC.com for all project details.

ANIMATE! TV Opportunities 20 Feb 2006

2006-02-20T00:59:00.000-08:00

ANIMATE! TV 2006 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

animate! trailblazes fresh narrative and aesthetic possibilities in film, way beyond live-action and the frame-by-frame confines of conventional animation.

animate! now want to fund more path-breaking works with spirited, radical content… new forms and processes… and fresh ideas.

animate! tv is commissioning its sixteenth uk-wide annual slate of personal projects for television, with running times of up to 6 minutes and production budgets between £5,000 and £20,000. the individual works will receive their premieres on channel 4 in autumn 2007 within an animate! tv compilation programme, and then enjoy a long and highly visible international profile.

send animate! a plan to scratch the world with unexpected tools, or a playful proposition to surprise and stretch an audience. above all, animate! are look ing for projects fired by an irresistibly original idea that will challenge the boundaries of animation.

you do not need to be an animator to submit a proposal to animate! tv 2006 but you must have experience of experimental practice in film, video & digital media, and be based in the uk.

celluloid, tape and digital technologies are all acceptable, in pure or hybrid form.

submissions deadline (postmarked) friday 31 march 2006

full guidelines and downloadable proposal pack:

www.animateonline.org/funding/

ONEDOT ZERO Opportunities 20 Feb 2006

2006-02-20T00:57:00.000-08:00

ONE WEEK UNTIL DEADLINE FOR ONEDOTZERO_10 SUBMISSIONS

hurry...just one week left to get your submission of original moving image work in for onedotzero_10, the tenth annual festival. additionally, we are looking for reliable, enthusiatic volunteers to help at the event, taking place at the ica, london, 02-11 june 2006.

london is the first stop in onedotzero's global network of festivals, which tours over 60 cities across the uk, europe, the baltics, the americas and australasia.

as the largest international festival of innovative moving image creativity, onedotzero is the destination for visionary moving image experimentation, from both established and emerging talent.

onedotzero_10 is open for submissions of original moving image work for the following programming areas:

wow + flutter: experimental explorarions in motion graphics. preference will be placed on new work created for, or premiering at the festival.

wavelength: innovative work from the most adventurous music promo directors around.

extended_play: narrative shorts

j-star: innovative japanese short-form work rarely seen outside of japan

documentaries: radical short and feature-length original documentaries.

fashion: highlighting fashion's collision with the fields of graphic design, illustration, and new forms of moving image

environment: films dealing with architecture, rural, and urban environments.

early deadline for submissions: fri 24 feb 2006

we are now accepting applications from anyone wishing to volunteer to work at onedotzero_10, from mid-march through june 2006. there are also opportunities for volunteers to work at upcoming events, including onedotzero_transvision at the v+a, 24 feb, with a view to going on to work at the festival. ideal for recent graduates, stu dents in work placement modules, or anyone eager for industry / pr experience - applicants should be reliable, comfortable on apple macs and happy working in a fast-paced environment on a wide range of tasks. additionally, we are also looking for an intern to work alongside the media officer, on pr and marketing projects, from mid-march through june 2006.

please note these are not paid posts - local travel expenses will be covered.

please email cvs with covering letter to info@onedotzero.com with
"onedotzero_10 volunteer" as your subject.

onedotzero_10, ica, london: 2-11 June 2006.
please go to

www.onedotzero.com for full submission form and guidelines

Opportunities 17th Feb 2006

2006-02-17T12:30:00.000-08:00

Linz, Austria
Event dates: 2006

Ars Electronica
Prix Ars Electronica

Call for submissions
www.aec.at/en/prix/entryregulations.asp?noc
CATEGORIES:
COMPUTERANIMATION / VISUAL EFFECTS
The "Computer Animation / Visual Effects" category has been part of the Prix Ars Electronica since its very inception. It recognizes excellence in independent work in the arts and sciences as well as in high-end commercial productions in the film, advertising and entertainment industries. In this category, artistic originality counts just as much as masterful technical achievement.

DIGITAL MUSICS
Contemporary digital sound productions from the broad spectrum of "electronica" come in for consideration in the "Digital Musics" category, as do works combining sound and media, computer compositions ranging from electro-acoustic to experimental music, or sound installations. This category's programmatic agenda is to expand horizons beyond the confines of individual genres and artistic currents.

INTERACTIVE ART
The "Interactive Art" category is dedicated to interactive works in all forms and formats, from installations to performances. Here, particular consideration is given to the realization of a powerful artistic concept through the especially appropriate use of technologies, the innovativeness of the interaction design, and the work's inherent potential to expand the human radius of action.

NET VISION
The "Net Vision" category singles out for recognition artistic projects in the Internet that display brilliance in how they have been engineered, designed and-especially-conceived, works that are outstanding with respect to innovation, interface design and the originality of their content. The way in which a work of net-based art deals with the online medium is essential in this category.

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES
This category focuses attention on the wide-ranging social impact of the Internet as well as on the latest developments in the fields of social software, mobile communications and wireless networks. "Digital Communities" spotlights bold and inspired innovations impacting human coexistence, bridging the geographical as well as gender-based digital divide, or creating outstanding social software and enhancing accessibility of technological-social infrastructure. This category showcases the political potential of digital and networked systems and is thus designed as a forum for the consideration of a broad spectrum of projects, programs, initiatives and phenomena in which social innovation is taking place, as it were, in real time. A Golden Nica, two Awards of Distinction and up to 12 Honorary Mentions will be awarded in the Digital Communities category in 2006.

[the next idea]
Art and Technology Grant
The aim of this grant focusing on the mutually enriching interplay of art and technology is to nurture concepts for the future that young thinkers are coming up with today. This category’s target group includes interested persons throughout the world between the ages of 19 and 27, who have developed a not-yet-realized concept in the fields of media art, media design or media technology. The winner will receive a 7,500-euro grant and an invitation to spend a semester as scientific assistant and artist-in-residence at the Ars Electronica Futurelab.

GENERAL ENTRY REGULATIONS

Employees of the organizers, sponsors and patrons of the Prix Ars Electronica as well as the competition’s jurors are ineligible to participate.

A work may be entered in only one category.

Each jury may nominate other works in addition to the works submitted by entrants. The artists nominated by the jury will be contacted before the jury convenes.

Due to production constraints, the deadline for submitting all required materials is March 17, 2006 (date of the postmark).

To participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, you must register online.

In addition to the general entry rules, special entry rules apply to each individual category.

Entrants are requested not to submit irreplaceable originals since submitted materials cannot be returned.

Works submitted without the required accompanying material will not be accepted.

A signed copy of the entry form is to be mailed to the following address:

Deadline: 17/03/06 (date of the postmark)

Contact:
AEC Ars Electronica Center Linz
Hauptstrasse 2
A - 4040 Linz
Austria
fax: +43.732.7272-674
info@prixars.aec.at
http://www.aec.at

New York, USA
Event dates: 2006

BIFF, inc.
BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

CALL FOR ENTRIES
wbff.org/submit/step3.asp
Entry fee: $50.
CATEGORIES
Feature Narrative, Short Narrative, Experimental, Documentary, Animation.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

Language
All films must be in English or with English subtitles.

Running Time
Feature (narrative): no less than 70 minutes
Short film: less than 70 minutes
Documentary, Animation and Experimental: no limitations.

Prior Screenings Entries shall not have theatrical release or be broadcast anywhere in the U.S. before June 13, 2006. Previous or scheduled screenings at other festivals are acceptable. The "New York Premiere" status is preferred, but not mandatory.

Completion Date
Projects submitted to the Festival must have been completed after June 1, 2004. Works-in-progress are considered only during the final submission deadline and if the film will be completed by May 15, 2006.

Independent Production
Films produced, financed, or initiated by a major motion picture studio are not eligible for the competition.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Format
Preview copy must be submitted on VHS tape (NTSC or PAL) or DVD. DVD's must be formatted in MPEG video. NOTE: every year about 10% of all DVD submissions experience playback problems and have to be re-submitted. BEFORE sending your computer-burned DVD to our offices, test it on a stand-alone DVD player.

Entry Fee
Each entry must be accompanied by the appropriate entry fee. Entry fees are not refundable. These fees may be paid by check, money order, traveler's check (all the above made payable in US Dollars to BiFF) or by credit card - (a small surcharge applies for payments by credit card.) BiFF Alumni: BIFF may waive the entry fee to directors who have screened in previous editions and submit a new project with the "New York Premiere Status" or better.

Mandatory Accompanying Materials
- Print out of the Entry Form completed in all required fields and signed
- Preview copy: Both the case and the preview copy must be labeled with the title, running-time, and contact information. Preview copies and promotional material will be retained by the festival.
- Applicable entry fee

Optional Accompanying Materials
- Photo(s) from the film
- If receipt of entry is required, include a self-addressed stamped postcard.
- Press kit, Poster, Postcard and additional promotional material.

Application form
Deadline: 15/03/06

Contact:
BIFF, inc.
180 South 4th St., Suite 2 S
NY 11211 Brooklyn
USA
phone: + 1 (718) 486 8181
fax: + 1 (718) 599 5039
submit06wbff.org
http://wbff.org/overview/

Vienna, Austria
Event dates: 2007

Kunsthalle Exnergasse
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Kunsthalle invites you to submit exhibition proposals for the year 2007.
www.kunsthalle.wuk.at/5e/frame.htm
STEP 1:
You can send your application preferably per email or regular mail.

To evaluate the proposals we would need: concept (500 words), name and a short CV of person/curator submitting the project and names of the people who participate in this project.

Give us the most information you can, but since there is a word limit, try to be brief and concise in your descriptions and arguments.

Note: do not send catalogues, DVDs, brochures or folders. These extra materials will not be considered in Step 1. Kunsthalle Exnergasse and an Advisory Panel will review the applications and select a short list of up to 30 project proposals. Please do not call or email to inquire about results.

To evaluate the proposals we would need: concept (500 words), name and a short CV of person/curator submitting the project and names of the people who participate in this project.

Give us the most information you can, but since there is a word limit, try to be brief and concise in your descriptions and arguments.

Note: do not send catalogues, DVDs, brochures or folders. These extra materials will not be considered in Step 1. Kunsthalle Exnergasse and an Advisory Panel will review the applications and select a short list of up to 30 project proposals. Please do not call or email to inquire about results.

STEP 2

These pre-selected projects will be invited to submit a more developed proposal including additional material like catalogues, DVDs, videotapes and short CVs of people participating in this project.

Kunsthalle Exnergasse and an Advisory Panel will then make the final selection of 5 -7 projects.

The selected projects will be presented at Kunsthalle Exnergasse in 2007. All projects in Step 2 will be informed about the results via email.

THE FACILITIES AT KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE

400 m2 space
mobile wall elements which function as flexible room and presentation structures
free budget of € 1.500 (for trips, housing and material)
one technician for every exhibition (40 hours) for setting up and taking down of the exhibition
various technical devices (for details download technical appliances PDF 51KB)
printing and mailing of 4000 invitation cards
press work, mailing and website
photo documentation

Kunsthalle Exnergasse takes care of the opening and the buffet and also supports additional project financing attempts by the person/curator submitting the project

If you are interested, we encourage you to submit a proposal and also to inform other people, groups and organizations about this option.

Deadline: 01/03/06 - postage stamp

Contact:
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Währinger Strasse 59
A-1090 Vienna
Austria
phone: +43-1-401 2141 or 401 2142
fax: +43-1-401 2167
exhibition.proposal@wuk.at
http://kunsthalle.wuk.at/

Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A.
Event dates: 2006

Rooftop Films
2006 ROOFTOP FILMS SUMMER SERIES

Submit your movies!
http://rooftopfilms.com/submit_rules.html
The Earlybird pay period is over but if you submit your film now you will get the Regular fee of $10 per filmmaker/program. Films may also be submitted directly to Rooftop Films, and credit card payments can be made through PayPal.
Submissions made directly to Rooftop Films require a submission form and curated programs require a curators submission form.

NOTE: Submissions of curated programs must be madie DIRECTLY to Rooftop Films, and cannot be made through Without A Box.

Rooftop Films accepts submissions year-round. Posted submission deadlines are to guarantee consideration for the 2006 Summer Series. Submissions can still be sent after the listed deadlines but such submissions may not be previewed in time for inclusion in the 2006 Summer Series. Late submissions will be considered for later screenings.

Eligibility

• Rooftop Films accepts submissions of any length.
• Submissions can be of any genre or category.

• Submissions must be in English or have English subtitles and there must be a preview AND screening copy available in English or with English subtitles, excepting music videos and films without dialogue.

• If your film is accepted, Rooftop generally screens off of Mini DV or occasionally 16MM but we can certainly assist filmmakers in making transfers from other types of masters if necessary.

• Rooftop Films also accepts submissions of fully curated programs and works with other organizations to co-curate a program of films.

Deadlines, Fees and Notification

• Rooftop Films accepts films year round but if you would like your film to be considered for the 2006 Summer Series please follow the deadlines below (all fees are in U.S. dollars ONLY, foreign currency cannot be accepted):
Regular: $10, postmarked by March 1st, 2006
Late: $12, postmarked by March 15, 2006
Without A Box Extended: $15, postmarked by April 1, 2006*
* Without A Box members only.

Application form
Ibaraki, Japan

L'Oreal Art and Science Foundation
L'Oreal Art and Science of Color Prize

Our prize is presented for a particular piece of work that has successfully achieved a fresh and original meeting between science and art in color.
www.loreal.com/_en/_ww/loreal-art-science/2
(1) Gold Prize
The Gold Prize is presented to one person or one group (of 3 persons or less) and carries with it an award of 30,000 Euro.
(2) Silver Prize
The Silver Prize is presented to one person or one group (of 3 persons or less) and carries with it an award of 20,000 Euro.

(3) Bronze Prize
The Bronze Prize is presented to one person or one group (of 3 persons or less) and carries with it an award of 10,000 Euro.

All winners will be invited to the award ceremony to be held in the autumn of 2006 in Japan.

A work may be submitted either by its author(s) or by someone else. In the latter case, please give us the necessary information including the name(s), occupation(s) and contact(s) of the person(s) who recommend(s) the work.

The number of applicants may be one person or one group (consisting of 3 persons or less).

The language is English.

The following documents have to be sent to our Foundation.
(1) Application form (10 copies)
(2) Curriculum vitae with a list of your achievements (10 copies) - Please attach a passport-sized photo of yourself to each copy.
(3) Explanation of your work (research paper or artwork) - (Less than 1,500 words) (10 copies)
(4) Copies that plainly show the contents of your work [an offprint of a paper, a collection of papers, a publication(s), a photograph(s), a slide(s), a CD-ROM(s), a DV(s), a DVD(s) and a VHS video cassette(s)] (10 copies each).

An applicant can only submit one work (research paper or artwork). (A work composed of multiple components, such as a series, is regarded as one work.) Although an applicant can attach his/her other works or papers for reference, they will not be considered in the screening process. Given that this Award is not granted for applicants' creative or research history, please do not attach a significant number of your works or papers.

Note 1: Documents related to items from (1) to (3) can be submitted via e-mail. In that case, the applicant does not have to send 10 copies, 1 of each is sufficient. However, each applicant is requested to send 10 copies of the materials related to (4) by mail or delivery service. (The receipt of a work via the website address will not be accepted as a formal entry.)

Note 2: Digital data should be submitted in either of the following formats:
For files containing texts, PDF (font embedded), Word, Excel, PowerPoint or ASCII; for still images, TIFF, JPEG, PSD or BMP; and for motion images, MPEG2, AVI or Quick Time.

Note 3: Video media in both NTSC and PAL formats are acceptable.

* Work submitted will not be returned.
* The L'ORÉAL Art and Science Foundation reserves the right to use prizewinning works as part of its PR activities related to this Prize.

The International Screening Committee will complete its selection by October 2006.

Deadline: 31/03/06

Contact:
L'Oreal Art and Science Foundation
Ms. Watanabe
2-22-5-701 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku
151-0053 Tokyo
Japan
phone: +81-3-5308-2662
fax: +81-3-5308-2667
lasf@gol.com
www.loreal.com

Deadline: 01/03/06 - Earlybird, 15/03/06

Contact:
Rooftop Films, PMB 401
Dan Nuxoll, Programming Director
285 Fifth Avenue
NY 11215 Brooklyn
U.S.A.
phone: (718) 417-7362
submit@rooftopfilms.com

Event dates: Sept. 2006

MFF
11 Milano Film Festival

International Feature and Short Film Competitions
www.milanofilmfestival.it/eng/2006/bando_en
International Competition
The eleventh edition of Milano Film Festival will be held in September at the Piccolo Teatro and Castello Sforzesco in Milan. Open to works produced after January 1st 2005, the two International Competitions will be open to films of any genre, language, running time and format.
Out-of-competition season: Colpe di Stato - State (T)error
This side event features stories that depict crimes, injustice and massacres, committed under the banner of democracy, freedom, security or religion. It presents terrorism as a strategy of the so-called democratic governments – a deliberate, organized, thoroughly planned terrorism consisting in warfare actions, ban on dissent and slanted news coverage. Colpe di Stato is open also to films produced before January 1st 2005.

All applicants for the international feature or short film competitions will have to fill in the online submission form and send a DVD (preferred) or VHS copy of the film within the following 48 hours.

The competition is open to films of any genre, language, format and running time, provided that they were completed after January 1st, 2005. The works will not be divided into categories.

The maximum running time for short films is 45 minutes. Works longer than 45 minutes are considered feature films. The Milano Film Festival will discuss borderline cases with the filmmakers/producers.

In order to enter the competition, submission forms and film copies must be sent to the Milano Film Festival address by May 31st, 2006. The Milano Film Festival reserves the right to anticipate the deadline if too many films are submitted.

Each filmmaker can send three short films and/or two feature films at most. Each DVD or VHS must contain only one submitted film.

The pre-selection copies will not be returned but collected in the Milano Film Festival video archives*. All shipping and postage costs of the preselection copies will be borne by the applicants.

Deadline: 31/05/06

Contact:
MFF
Via Paladini 8
ITA-20133 Milano
Italia
phone: .+39 02 713 613
info@milanofilmfestival.it
http://www.milanofilmfestival.it

Sounding Out 3
Please check out details of Sounding Out 3: an international symposium in media sound, to be held at the University of Sunderland in the UK on 7-9th September by visiting our website. We are currently inviting papers and presentations from sound artists, film sound designers, experimental filmmakers, radio practitioners and scholars, electro-acoustic musicians, computer games designers, etc. The web address is wwww.soundfile.org/sound

Thanks,

Martin Shingler
Senior Lecturer in radio & film
Sunderland University, UK

WWW.HIDRAZONE.COM - An internationally profiled online journal for digital art and related writing is currently looking for work for its second edition. Following the success of ISSUE 1-RANDOMNESS, the EDITORS are putting a call out for material for ISSUE 2-DIGITAL PERFORMANCE launching in May 2006. We welcome material from across the globe and work may incorporate sound, image movement or scupltural elements.

GUIDELINES

The editorial panel are looking for digital art projects that have been installed or performed for an audience. Projects submitted can take the form of the work itself and/or video, photographic or audio documentation of the event. We are looking for work which is contextualised - this can be from a critical, technical, academic or philosophical perspective.

SUBMISSIONS

The next issue is DIGITAL PERFORMANCE

DEADLINE for submissions is MARCH 30TH 2006.

Please view the site and style of the site to ensure that material sent is suitable. Potential media includes: Flash, Director Shockwave, Quicktime, Podcast, Java and other software based art work. The art work must be capable of functioning in an online environment aimed at a 512kb broadband user.

All proposals should be submitted electronically via email to editor@hidrazone.com

and include the following:

1. SUBECT

"PERFORMANCE"

2. MAIN BODY OF EMAIL

A short paragraph describing the content of the submission

the following declaration:

"I have reproduction rights over the work submitted and give permission for editors to feature attached material on HIDRAZONE.COM"

NOTE: All artists work remain the intellectual property of the author(s).

3. ATTACHMENT

a ZIP file of following material.

a name of artists, email addresses
b short biography/CV/artist statement (not more than 400 words) for artists index
c description of work or technical/critical/academic context
d work (and/or documentation)

SUBMIT WORK to editor@hidrazone.com

HIDRAZONE is a space for practitioners and writers in the field of digital and interactive arts. We seek to encourage practical and theoretical research into a wide variety of digital art (new media art) such as net art, interactive art, software art, digital painting, and computational video. Our main goal is to provide a forum for encouraging aesthetic quality in digital and interactive arts practice, as well as promoting critical discourse and theoretical commentary in this emerging field.

Please view the site and style of the site to ensure that material sent is suitable. Potential media includes: Flash, Director Shockwave, Quicktime, Podcast, Java and other software based art work. The art work must be capable of functioning in an online environment aimed at a 512kb broadband user.

CALL FOR WORK AND PARTICIPATION

++Art Work and Creative Practices

++Papers Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Intellectual Environments and Practices

Perform.Media ï A Transdisciplinary Festival of Creativity, Research, Theory and Technoculture
September 29th-October 14th, 2006, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Website: http://performthemedia.net

DEADLINE FOR PAPER PRESENTATIONS
Deadline for Abstracts: April 30th, 2006
Acceptance Notification: May 15th, 2006

DEADLINE FOR PANELS, WORKSHOPS, INTELLECTUAL ENVIRONMENTS AND PRACTICES
Deadline for Proposals: April 30th, 2006
Acceptance Notification: May 15th, 2006

DEADLINE FOR ART WORK AND CREATIVE PRACTICES
Deadline: May 15th, 2006
Acceptance Notification: June 15th, 2006

Perform.Media is an international media arts festival and symposium creating an innovative venue for creative and intellectual work around the momentary process and performance in new media art and culture. We begin with the premise that newer media, along with modes of representation and narrative, embody momentary processes from roots in cybernetics and the biological, to the embodied performance of interface, improvised network exchanges and spontaneous social acts in multi-user synthetic worlds. Such mediated experiences and actions form meaning in sense experience and performance along with interpretive processes like depiction and reception. The dynamic, reciprocal process of the user(s) generating, configuring, interacting, choosing and authoring is an important component of new media and technologies, expressed in both the design of the media and in the momentary, improvised performance of the participant.

The festival and symposium seeks the accordance and collision of ideas through the lens of interdisciplinarity, exploring the performance of new media and the performative qualities of human-computer and technologically mediated social interaction. Perform.Media will examine sense experience and meaning at the threshold and in the performing action, along with the reflexive construction of narrative, where creative play, social practices, augmented embodiment and exploratory methods establish processes that spin out, overlapping locales of influence, in networked, ïglocalï, mobile, participatory, socially interactive, live processed, locative, responsive and multi-user realms.

Perform.Media aims to examine and melt the usual spatial and temporal prescriptions of author and spectator in art, creative work and intellectual practice. Perform.Media traverses transdisciplinary territories in collaborations and social feedbacks of live sound+image, interactive and game media, HCI, improvisations, performance processes, interactive gallery environments, mobile and locative work, live art works, net.art, research practices, theoretical discussion, paper presentations, workshops, intimacy and communication both online and off.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submission forms can be downloaded at- http://performthemedia.net/submissions.html

++Paper Presentations, Panels, Workshops, Intellectual Environments and Practices

The Perform.Media symposium welcomes submissions of papers, panel discussions, workshops and intellectual environments around the theme of the festival- performance process in new media, theory, research and technological practice. The Perform.Media symposium seeks to promote discussion and collaboration. The environment of the symposium will be conversation based. Proposals for panels, workshops and presentations that energize into new areas of intellectual exchange will be welcomed. All presentations will be moderated and encourage participation, questioning and debate. An online forum, discussion and net.art exhibition will precede the festival. Paper abstracts will be published on the Perforrm.Media website.

++Art Work and Creative Practices

Work criteria-
Perform.Media seeks new media work and proposals for black box, white cube or network that engage in the practice of performing media or media performance. We are looking for work that asks the questions- How does the ïdoing,ï the performing inform us in this new media? How does this media perform, what does it do and how does it engage us?

Types of work-
Ambient/Ubiquitous Technologies and Creative Practices, Avatars, Dance/Embodied work, Environments and Space Based work, Games, HCI, Interactive/Participatory Installation, Interface Art, Live Art, Locative Media, Mapping, Mobile Screens, Mobile/Wireless Devices, Net.Art, New Media Performances, Simulations and Synthetic Worlds, Theatrical Pieces, Video Processing and VJ/DJ stylesï

Submission forms can be downloaded at- http://performthemedia.net/submissions.html

For questions contact- abucksba@indiana.edu

The NODE.London Season of Media Arts runs from 1 March - 1 April 06.

http://www.nodel.org

The full and expanding calendar of over 100 media arts events taking place across London in over 35 locations is now online.

At http://www.nodel.org you can view detailed information about projects, artists, participants, venues and organisations; you can find events, submit details of more media arts projects taking place in London in March 06, and view the developing map of media arts in the capital.

Pixel Pops!, the artist curated exhibiton, is looking for curators/artists/organizers for the next edition. Domain name and web space included. We launched it, now it's time to pass it on! http://www.poppingpixels.org

Interested persons should email info@cbrubin.net and colleen.tully@recol.com

The english version of Digimag 11, Italian monthly magazine of digital
culture and electronic arts, is available online.

///DIGIMAG ENGLISH VERSION - #ISSUE 11 - FEBRUARY 06 -
http://www.digicult.it/digimag_eng/index.html

[Interviews]: Special Netmage 06, Golan Levin//Zach Lieberman, GWEI -
Google Will Eat Itself, 0100101110101101.org, Colectivo Troyano, Paavoharju,
Tobor Experiment, Carolina Melis, E/Static Gallery, LPM-Live Performance
Meeting

[Featuring]: Jason Freeman, The Port, Darwin @ Home, Netzfunk, Deviant
Art, Brent Gustafson , Teatro di Piazza o d'Occasione, Orthographe de la
Physionomie en Mouvement

[Themes]: Rock-Electronica: les liaisons dangereuses, Artificial Memories

[Cover]: Arianna D'Angelica

[Artwork]: Otolab

[Translations]: Giulia Artioli, Ian Bolton, Micaela Genchi, Ornella Pesenti,
Camilla Serri

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
312 is looking for single channel artist videos that explore the concept of THE INTERIOR, from physical to spiritual and everything in-between. Submissions are not limited to any particular understanding of the concept of THE INTERIOR, but are simply asked to explore this topic, however loosely.

312 welcomes submissions from emerging and established artists, as well as art students.

The work should look good on a small screen (11ï wide x 8.5ï high/28 cm wide x 22 cm high). Duration: between 1 ï 7 minutes in length.

Send only NTSC miniDV, VHS or DVD. We CANNOT accept PAL format. Please ensure that your DVD+/-R works on a conventional home player.

Please include an Artist Statement, Brief Bio (50-100 words), CV, Video Description, and SASE (within Canada ONLY; International submissions will not be returned).

Do not send submissions in fibre-filled envelopes.

All packages sent from outside Canada must clearly be labeled: ïNo Commercial Value/$0, for cultural purposes only.ï 312 will not pay any customs duties if the package is not labeled in this manner and your package will be sent back.

DEADLINE: Postmarked May 19, 2006.

Selected works will be exhibited as a part of 312 Offline.

We cannot offer artist fees at this time.

Send to:
Attn: 312
c/o Mark Prier
312-14 Beothuck Cres.,
Corner Brook, NL
A2H 6A6

312 is an alternative video exhibition space housed in the small foyer of an apartment. Showcasing one channel video work on a television, 312 offers the visitor an intimate experienceïa relaxing chair, a set of headphones (or speakers for two people) and video art. Itïs homey, itïs small, and itïs for video.

Cheers,
Mark Prier
www.312.ca

Linden Lab is pleased to announce its first fellowship in visual and performing arts for creative innovation in Second Life.

This $4,000 fellowship will provide a young artist with a chance to be free for a semester or summer to explore the use of the digital world of Second Life as an artistic medium. In doing so, we hope that we will see Second Life used to even greater potential in the expressive arts to the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.

The application deadline is March 15, 2006. Applications will be reviewed by a panel of distinguished academics, and the fellowship recipient will be announced in mid-April. Applications can be downloaded at:

http://secondlife.com/education

/Call for Participation//

SIGGRAPH 2006 is looking for knowledgeable and interesting speakers on topics such as:

-Digital Rights, Digital Restrictions
-Video Games: Content and Responsibility
-Ethics in Image Manipulation

If you have strong opinions or are an expert in one of the areas mentioned above, or would like to see if you might have something to say about other topics of interest to attendees at SIGGRAPH 2006, go to :

http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/main.php?f=cfp&p=panels&s=topics

The deadline is March 1st, 2006. Tell us what you know, what's important to you, and why.

//SIGGRAPH 2006/The 33rd Internation Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques/ Boston/ 30 July-3 August 2006//
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Opportunities 13th Feb 2006

2006-02-17T12:24:00.000-08:00

CALL FOR PAPERS, PANELS, DEMONSTRATIONS & PERFORMANCES

DIGITAL ART WEEKS 2006 ETH Zurich

[Kon.[Text]] Symposium
Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday July 13th to Sunday July 16th, 2006

Digital Art Weeks - ETH Zurich - http://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch

The Digital Art Weeks PROGRAM (DAW06) is concerned with the application
of digital technology in the arts. Consisting of symposium, workshops
and performances, the program offers insight into current research and
innovations in art and technology as well as illustrating resulting
synergies in a series of performances during the Digital Art Weeks
Festival each year, making artists aware of impulses in technology and
scientists aware of the possibilities of the application of technology
in the arts.

[Kon.[Text]], this year's Digital Art Weeks SYMPOSIUM concerns the use
of the Performative Surround in the arts and the technology that drives
it. The Performative Surround pertains to the immersive quality and
quantity of the setting of a performative artwork that uses electronic
media enhancement. In a series of lectures, demonstrations, panels and
performances, artists and researcher will examine the use of electronic
media in articulating the performer's presence through the
possibilities of the multi-sensuality of electronic media.

The organizers of the Digital Art Weeks ETH Zurich are seeking
presentations, demonstrations and performances on all themes specific
to performance using electronic media that explore a concept of the
Performative Surround. Submissions of both theoretical and empirical
studies are invited from the perspectives of the performing arts and
computer science and as well as other topics relevant areas.

Suggested submission topics for papers, demonstrations and performance
include, but are not limited to the following themes:

1. Media Enhanced Artwork in the areas of Performance, Dance and
Sound-Art
2. Laptop Music (including Live-Coding!) & Film Accompaniment
(Live-Cinema & Re-Scoring)
3. Mobile Art & Music Works that explore Performer Networking and
Audience Participation
4. Net-poetry and literature & computer mediated communication (i.e.,
Hyper-Media Embedding)
5. Grammar- or Syntactically based Software Systems for Multimedia
Systems

DEADLINE FOR ALL PROPOSALS: Friday, March 17, 2006.

Notification of acceptance of proposals will be sent out on or before
Friday, April 7, 2006.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

DIGITAL ART WEEKS 2006 (DAW06) is interested in artistic and
theoretical work in the form of:

* Papers, Panels and Presentations can include DVDs, audio CDs,
videotapes, web-sites, etc. Papers and Presentations can be 25 or 45
minutes in length. DAW06 organizers will build panels based on reviews
of materials submitted.

* Proposed artwork to be included in the DAW06 Festival may take the
form of performances with or without media enhancement or be in the
form screenings live or fixed material.

* Applications should not exceed 500 words. Applicants should indicate
one of the festival categories in the subject of the message. Please
include a 200 word max bio.

* All proposals must be submitted in plaintext only format either as an
attachment and/or within the body of the email message.

* In case of Audio and/or Video examples, please provide a valid URL to
a web site containing them.

* If your presentation requires specific technologies, please describe
your needs in detail.

All proposals should be submitted electronically to:
Art Clay - arthur.clay@inf.ethz.ch

or should be sent per mail to:
Art Clay
Computer Systems Institute
ETH Zentrum, RZ H 18
Clausiusstrasse 59
CH-8092 Zürich
Switzerland

All accepted papers will be published on-line in the Digital Art Weeks
digital library.

CONTACTS

DIGITAL ART WEEKS General Requests:
daw-info@inf.ethz.ch

DIGITAL ART WEEKS Chairs:
http://www.jg.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/DAW/Chairs
Jürg Gutknecht
Art Clay
Stefan Müller Arisona

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The Ohio State University Marion is actively seeking works for the exhibition, which showcases non-traditional uses of paint. The show is titled Out of Paint: Traditional is Non-Traditional. The exhibition runs from April 4, 2006 – April 25, 2006 at the Kuhn Gallery. The show's focus is artwork that uses traditional paint and its material components to create artworks other than paintings, as well as "paintings" that use non-traditional material as paint.

There is no submission/entry fee. DEADLINE IS MARCH 1, 2006

For application materials and additional information, please visit the show’s website at:

www.outofpaint.com

Any other questions about the show or submission may be directed to kuhngallery@gmail.com.

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Independent Exposure 2006 - Call For Works
to view the page on our website please go here:
http://www.microcinema.com/index/call2006

Independent Exposure

An international touring exhibition of moving image art
Presented by Microcinema International
Curators: Microcinema International
Judges: Addictive TV (United Kingdom)
Deadline: Must be Received by March 31, 2006
Screenings: worldwide
Grand Prize: Panasonic AG-DVX100A 1/3" 3-CCD 24P/30P/60i DV Cinema Camera
Fees: US$5
More information write: submissions@microcinema.com
On-line call: www.microcinema.com/index/call2006

Independent Exposure 2006
An Ongoing Microcinema Screening Program of International Short Films,
Videos and Digital Works

Independent Exposure is based in San Francisco and Houston. The program,
held continuously since 1996, has presented the short moving image works of
over 1500 artists from all over the world. Beyond the San Francisco and
Houston screenings, Independent Exposure tours many worldwide venues, in
many places where independent films are rarely screened. Independent
Exposure has been presented hundreds of times in 43 countries plus Palestine
and Antarctica and a base camp on Mt. Everest.

2006 is the ELEVENTH season.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

For our Independent Exposure 2006 compilation series we accept short video, film and digital media submissions of 15 minutes or less and are currently looking for narrative, humorous, dramatic, animation, documentary, experimental, alternative, avant-garde, music videos, erotic, gay/lesbian, and underground works of all genres and styles.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES and CHECKLIST see our Submission FAQ
see the Submission Checklist at www.micrcinema.com/index/checklist

You must fill out the online form found here:
www.microcinema.com/submissionform.php (for all calls).
FEES: US$5.00 payable by check, money or credit card/Paypal online. Please send check made out to Microcinema International with submission or PAY ONLINE at www.microcinema.com/index/subpay.

Please send us your screeners on VHS, CD, miniDV, or DVD, readable on PC.
PAL or NTSC accepted for screeners.

For exhibition we will require works on mini-DV or unauthored DVD (mpeg,
avi, or mov files only). MiniDV PAL or NTSC OK. Unauthored data files must be in NTSC.

Must be 15 minutes or less, including all titles...NO EXCEPTIONS.

A brief synopsis of the work(s) and a short biography of the artists of up to 50 words maximum is also requested. Still .jpeg or .gif (PC formatted) should be included on a CD along with biographical materials and synopses.

Please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard that we will send back to you as indication of reception of your film.

ALL SUBMITTED ITEMS (papers, DVDs, tapes, cards, etc) MUST HAVE THE ARTIST NAME, NAME OF THE WORK, AND CONTACT INFORMATION PRINTED CLEARLY.

Deadline: March 31, 2006 (must be received at the address below)

Please mail all submissions to:
Independent Exposure 2006
c/o Microcinema International
1528 Sul Ross
Houston, TX 77006
USA
+1-415-864-0660
FAX: +1-509-351-1530

Please address all inquiries to:
Stephanie Martz, Associate Curator
submissions@microcinema.com

SCREENINGS AND AWARDS:

The Microcinema Curatorial Team of Joel S. Bachar, Patrick Kwiatkowski, and Stephanie Martz will curate 5 programs (approximately 60 minutes in length) that will then tour throughout 2006 and early 2007. Each program premieres at our "home Microcinema" in San Francisco at 111 Minna Gallery.

Selected artists receive a US$50 honorarium and will be eligible for our
awards program.

Addictive TV to judge Independent Exposure 2006, Curate "best-of", Panasonic Grand Prize

We are also pleased to announce our collaboration with Panasonic Broadcast.
For our 2006 Independent Exposure season, a grand prize will be awarded to a filmmaker selected by United Kingdom audiovisual artists and VJs ADDICTIVE TV www.addictive.com. The grand prize will be a Panasonic AG-DVX100A 1/3" 3-CCD 24P/30P/60i DV Cinema Camera. Other prizes will be announced at a later date.

Addictive TV will curate a "Best of Independent Exposure 2006" which will then screen in San Francisco in fall of 2006. Addictive TV will also select a grand prizewinner.

Winners will be selected and notified by September 1, 2006.

TERMS see Full Terms

Upon acceptance, practitioners will be awarded a $50 honorarium. Artists
will be contacted by Microcinema International regarding the exposure of
works through festival exhibition, online screenings, promotional materials, and on print media (prints/catalogues) for gallery showings. All filmmakers agree, when submitting, that they have secured the necessary rights to screen the works in this touring festival, and that Microcinema is granted a non-exclusive 3-year license to screen work(s) at any one of Microcinema's Independent Exposure 2006 or Mobile Exposure 2006 screening tours and Microcinema's on-line festival website as well as on www.microcinema.com and www.independentexposure.com for promotional, archival and other non-commercial uses). All artists retain copyrights.

About Addictive TV www.addictive.com

"If there ever was a truly groundbreaking bunch of guys in the VJ world,
it's certainly this lot" said DJ Magazine, voting Addictive TV number one in their first ever worldwide VJ poll in 2004. The London based group of DJs, VJs and producers have been championing the art of the VJ and pushing it into mainstream media for a decade now.

Performing internationally, crisscrossing the art and club worlds, Addictive TV have played at venues from the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the roof of the National Theatre in London to Tokyo superclub Ageha and the UK's Glastonbury Festival. Recent audiovisual performances include the 2005 Roskilde festival in front 20,000 people. and Sven Vath's amazing Cocoon Club in Frankfurt, using 25 projectors. And as VJs, in the past the guys have mixed live visual sets for artists including Howie B, Andrew Weatherall, Goldie and Fatboy Slim.

On the flipside, producing for television, Addictive TV were the first to put VJs on TV back in 1998 with their Transambient series for Channel 4(UK), and in the last five years have produced four seasons of the ITV1
music series Mixmasters, commissioning over 300 artists worldwide including many of the best names in electronic music from Miss Kittin and DJ Spooky, to Plump DJs and Derrick Carter plus a whole host of international VJs. In 1999, they set up what is acknowledged as the worlds first VJfocused DVD label, releasing compilation DVD albums fusing music and visuals releases include Audiovisualize, cult classic in the genre Transambient and the Mixmasters series.

This year, Addictive TV judged the VJ category at the 2005 Diesel UMusic
Awards, the Radio 1/BBC archive Superstar VJs competition and DJ Magazine's TScan Awards. Also in 2005, the team broke new ground organising the sellout music and visuals hybrid festival Optronica at the National Film Theatre and bfi London IMAX cinema the first festival dedicated to the audiovisual genre plus the first time the IMAX venue has been used for live performances in such a way. Currently Addictive TV are working on the Rapture Riders video mashup for EMI, remixing Blondie Vs The Doors, for release in November 2005.

PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY

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>
> OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
>
> Workshop on Generating Collaborative Research in the
>
> Ethical Design of Surveillance Infrastructures
>
> June 8-11, 2006; Austin, Texas
>
>
> Surveillance may be understood as a set of processes of
> identification, tracking, analysis and response which organize social
> knowledge, social relations, and social power. Surveillance mediates
> everyday life. For example, internet "cookies," shopping loyalty
> cards, and mobile phone numbers all individuate and identify us.
> These identifiers are used to index databases recording our web
> surfing activities, our purchases, and our movements. The databases
> are subjected to statistical analysis in order to produce knowledge of
> demographic categories, typical patterns, or suspect behavior. This
> knowledge is then applied back to individuals in the population in
> order to assign each to a particular niche market or risk group, and
> to act toward them accordingly. Thus, through surveillance, knowledge
> is created, categories and types are produced, individuals are
> assigned social identities, and actions are taken that articulate
> those identities within a larger social order.
>
> These surveillance practices are themselves shaped by overlapping and
> intertwined technical systems, laws, institutional configurations, and
> cultural understandings. This "infrastructure" of surveillance
> supports patterns of access to the resources of knowledge production,
> social visibility, and social position.
>
> In June 2006 a three-day workshop will be held in Austin, Texas. The
> purpose of the meeting is to generate collaborative research projects
> exploring further
> * the social implications of surveillance practice,
> * the technological, legal, economic, and cultural infrastructures
> that shape surveillance practice, and
> * possible technological, legal, economic, or cultural
> interventions to reshape those infrastructures to desired ends.
>
> The workshop will address this issue in the context of the following
> themes:
> * If surveillance mediates the production of categories and types
> of people, how can surveillance infrastructures be shaped to permit
> individuals, and groups of individuals, to coalesce around a
> particular identity?
> * How can surveillance infrastructures mediate the ability of
> groups and individuals to "perform" certain identities within certain
> contexts?
> * How can surveillance infrastructures mediate the ability of
> subcultures to generate and sustain knowledge of and for themselves?
> * How can surveillance resources be appropriately allocated to
> ensure that groups of many scales (the family, the subculture, the
> nation) are able to defend, protect, and nurture their own (perhaps
> conflicting) interests?
>
> We seek participants whose interests and expertise complement and
> expand upon each other's work in social theory, information system
> design, business, and public policy, and who will be able to address
> issues such as:
> * the application of legal paradigms other than privacy to
> practices of information collection. We are particularly interested
> explorations of legal theories of cultural rights and information
> commons.
> * the application of novel information processing techniques,
> including, but not limited to, pseudonymity, digital rights
> management, and cluster analysis.
> * the application of social theories of identity, including queer
> theory and performance studies.
> * the intersection of market interests with ethical surveillance
> practice.
>
> The workshop is intended to provide the initial venue for the
> production of fundable, collaborative, cross-disciplinary research
> proposals. Participants will be expected to prepare a position paper
> for distribution one month prior to the meeting. At the workshop
> itself, we will identify synergistic interactions of expertise,
> fruitful research directions, and possible sources of funding. After
> the workshop, participants will be eligible to apply for seed money
> grants to complete collaborative grant proposals to pursue those
> projects. Participants will also be invited to contribute to an
> edited volume.
>
> The project will provide meals and accommodation for workshop
> participants, and will reimburse reasonable travel costs. Please
> include a quote of lowest available airfare in your application.
> Participants from outside the U.S. are especially encouraged to apply.
>
> Potential participants should submit (to djp@mail.utexas.edu)
> proposals consisting of two parts:
>
> (1) a 750-1000 word abstract, describing your area of research, its
> relevance to the conference topic, and a proposed presentation. The
> abstract should directly address a collaborative element – a
> cross-disciplinary or cross-professional alignment that would further
> the presenter's research goal.
>
> (2) a one-page biography or curriculum vitae, listing your relevant
> publications and experience.
>
> The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2006. Participants will be
> selected by March 20, 2006.
>
> For more information, please contact David Phillips
> (djp@mail.utexas.edu), or visit
> http://
> communication.utexas.edu/ethicalsurveillance/

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Portable Gallery is now showing Martina Hoogland, Rune RK & Johannes Torpe as well as Cato Canari. This show is also open for all creatives to upload works to get the chance to be commissioned this year.

http://www.portable-gallery.com

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Inbox/Outbox is an e-mail institution operating and establishing connections between virtual and real public spheres as a means to propelling public access. Characterized by its temporary function as an agent, I/O avoids institutional incorporation of its subjects, thus removing itself from the final context, as well as allowing internal institutions and contexts to occur. I/O is based on a division into two binary functions, Inbox and Outbox, Inbox being the receiver of virtual data, which in turn is processed by Outbox and "forwarded" to public spaces.

Inbox/Outbox is currently channelling its activities through Centrifug, an exhibition space within Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden. The selection of exhibitions at Centrifug is based on a public booking list, released once every year. The Inbox/Outbox exhibition period is February 22nd - March 5th. I/O is for this occasion calling for participation. Admission will not be limited in any way, neither by amount of data, number of participants nor by any other criteria for selection, given the condition that submitted content doesn't infringe upon laws or regulations.

Submitted data must be suited for printing onto plain (A4) paper or for writing to audio-CD. Deadline is set for February 20th. Submit your data to inbox@inboxoutbox.org

Feel free to forward this invitation. See also: http://www.inboxoutbox.org

osoma is a website specializing in creating and showcasing online based public art projects http://www.tosoma.org consisting of a panel of 25 established and emerging international professionals from a wide range of new media fields.

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Open Call of Submissions for 'Orgasmos' a Net + Web Art Project

Deadline for submissions: March 10th 2006

Announcement of selected works: April 10th 2006

This project is an open call for artists working in Net and Web Art, to create and submit a Net or Web Art piece that portrays the sensation of an orgasm.

Selection and Awards:

Exhibition of works - 10 works only will be selected by our international panel, to be showcased online on tosoma.org from April 10th 2006

Tosoma Award - there will be a first and second Award which will be announced and sent out.

How to submit work:

For Orgasmos: [all submissions via email]

Net.Art/Web.Art Submissions: please send the URL of your piece and any specific viewing requirements in terms of browsers and software.

In your email please include the name of the piece and a short statement of who you or your group/collaborative are (300 words max). Also include your main website if you have one and your email address (please state if you wish your website and email address to be visible on the site)

Email all work to submit@tosoma.org

Important: When submitting work you will need to give your consent and confirm it is your own work in order for us to use it. If you are sending via email, you must copy and paste in your email the following paragraph, signed by yourself. If you are posting the material please copy paste this on you cover letter and sign it:

"The work I am submitting is my own, I have consent from all collaborators involved (if any), to use and submit this work. I allow http://www.tosoma.org to display my work within the tosoma website. I will not contact panel members discussing my submission."
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>
> Call for Participation // Projects // Presentations // Provocations
> Version>06 :: Parallel Cities
> April 20- May 6, 2006 Chicago U$A
>
> DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: FEB 28, 2005
>
> Version is a hybrid festival focused on emerging discourses and
> practices evolving between art, technology and social and political
> activism. Version examines the activities of local configurations and
> external networks that use visual and conceptual art strategies,
> innovative social practices, creative uses of new technologies,
> organizing strategies, emerging activist/artist initiatives,
> campaigns, public interventions and DIY projects.
>
> During this annual convergence we engage in a dialogue about the
> possible futures ahead that may interdict or provide alternatives to
> current social, cultural and political trajectories. Version>06 is our
> fifth convergence and is dedicated to the theme of Parallel Cities. We
> will investigate and share local strategies and models to inspire
> action within local and global counter cartographies.
>
> We will convene in Chicago for a seventeen day open laboratory to
> explore a diversity of tactics and strategies to activate our
> communities and amplify our ideas and practices. Alternative spaces
> will be open for staging actions. Public spaces and corporate places
> will be terrains of intervention.
>
> Version presents a very diverse program of activities featuring an
> experimental art exposition, artistic disturbances, exhibitions,
> networked urban events, screenings, interactive applications,
> performances, street art, presentations, talks, workshops, art
> rendez-vous, parties, and action.
>
> By bringing together a convergence of allied cultural and social
> forces and practices we hope that Version can help establish new
> methodologies and networks of cooperation. Representatives from other
> cities are invited to present their local counter cartographies as we
> reveal our own. We want to share your everyday micro actions as well
> as conceptual and practical projects and activities that can help us
> to transform personal and shared environments. We want to examine and
> showcase projects that can be duplicated in our urban environments. We
> want to hear stories of victories, large and small in making a
> difference in the various communities that we inhabit. We want to wage
> the culture war with fresh tactics and renewed energy.
>
> Please visit www.versionfest.org for more information or go to
> adoptanamerican.com/version06 to use the online submission form.
>
> Alternatively you may mail your proposals to:
> Version>06
> 960 W 31st St
> Chicago Il 60608
> USA
>
> contact ed(at)lumpen.com for help.

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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

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Please submit, and help us spread the word!

Information on how to submit can be found at the following link:

http://rhizome.org/commissions/

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The Toofy Film Fest 2006 is now accepting international film submissions including animations, narratives, music videos, documentaries and more. The Toofy Film Fest 2006 is also apart of the Withoutabox network making the submission process quicker and easier. For more information, visit http://www.toofy.com

Last year’s Toofy Film Fest Presented by the Onion (America's Finest News Source) showcased 50 films over 5 days in beautiful Boulder, CO USA. The 3rd annual Toofy Film Fest 2006 provides audiences with the finest independent movies, music, fine art, and fashion. Our international independent film festival creates an environment where artists will network and view independent cinema that proves to the world what true independent filmmaking is all about.

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Open call for articles for online netporn anthology
Institute of Networkcultures

The Institute of Networkcultures (INC) would like to invite you to send in a proposal for an article about netporn for our coming open netporn archive.
In the aftermath of the Art & Politics of Netporn conference, organized by Katrien Jacobs, Matteo Pasquinelli and Geert Lovink, which was held in October 2005 in Amsterdam: www.networkcultures.org/netporn, we want to create an online database where a collection of articles will be published. This includes articles which were presented at the conference, but we are also aiming to expand our database with new work.
The database will be a place which is durable; our goal is to create an open netporn archive which is accessible for everybody. It will contain a diverse selection of articles concerning the many aspects of internet pornography, like: the creation of identity through p2p porn, the rise of indieporn, the case of censorship, the role of media and performance artists, and the positioning of alternative sexualities online. In this way the archive can function as a place where you can find a wide range of work concerning this topic.

Please send us a proposal (200 words max.) for your work if you think it’s suitable for the archive.

Deadline: 6 april
If you have any questions you can contact Marije Janssen: marije@networkcultures.org

It is also possible to join our netporn mailinglist to keep you informed about everything that’s going on:
http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org

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Workshop Machinima - Making Films out of Games
14 | 15 | 16 | 17 March 2006 @ Mediamatic

Machinima is the art of making film inside the real-time 3D virtual environment of a video game engine. By treating the in-game viewpoint as a camera, the gamespace becomes the set, the characters turn into actors, and the gamer becomes a director.

Because an in-game performance is first recorded in 3D, everything is highly flexible. In a 3D recording camera's can be added before it is turned into film. Moreover, you can change the camera paths, adjust the lighting, and change the appearance of the characters or make them disappear entirely. This brings high-end movie making possibilities into the hands of low-budget filmmakers.

In this 4-day workshop small teams of participants will make their own machinima movies, guided by experienced machinimamakers and animators. The trainers will cover all the practical topics, like designing 3D sets, creating character interactions, re-camming, virtual lighting and camera scripting. But also we will look at machinima as a wider cultural practice, investigating the impact of gaming on visual culture.

This workshop is intended for filmmakers, animators and gamers, who are interested in each others arts. Some experience with playing video games is helpful, but not essential. More information can be found on http://www.mediamatic.net/machinima. Mail your questions to workshops@mediamatic.nl or call Klaas Kuitenbrouwer: +31 20 6389901.

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DOLORES (Doku e.V. - Lothringer13/laden - Residency)

For the first time in 2006 two Munich art institutions, the unique
artist-colony Domagkstrasse/Doku e.V. and the established city-run art
space Lothringer13/laden offer a 2-month artist residency in Munich for
art producers from abroad: DOLORES!

E-mail-application deadline: 28.2. 2006

Our interest is to temporarily overcome the financial exclusiveness of our
home-town for foreign artists and to connect to art praxes aside the first
art market on an international level by creating dialogue and networks.

The residency term is 1.08.2006 - 30.09.2006. Doku e.V. places a single
bedroom in an artist Wohngemeinschaft and a 2-moths public transport
ticket at the host?s disposal. In addition to that the Lothringer13/laden
show-room is kept vacant for studio work and a 10-day solo-exhibit
(including a 500.- EUR project-budget, PR and opening event) by the
resident at the end of September 2006.

Details:

Interested artists, fitting into the below listed criteria, are asked for
digital applications up to the 28.2.2006 on alle@programangels.org with
the code ?DOLORES-application? in the subject line of the e-mail,
including

1. their post- and e-mail-address and telephone-number
2. a short text about their motivation (max. 1 page)
3. a short CV
4. a project proposal for the residency-term and the exhibit (about 1 page).

A jury, consisting in a curator from Doku e.V., the curatorial team of
Lothringer13/laden and the editor of Munich arts-Newsletter (RADAR), will
decide about the proposals by the middle of march 2006.

Candidates musn?t live in Germany by the date of their application and
have to have a foreign citizenship. Candidates musn?t profit from second
stipends in Munich by the time of their application, neither by the time
of the residency (august/september 2006).

Candidates for DOLORES should have a degree in Fine Arts or an
equivalent/similar education. There is no age-limit. Experimental and/or
media-based artistic strategies, such as performance, net-art,
installation, are preferred, yet not conditional.

For the Dolores-programme?s focus being on the dialogue with the host, the
candidate's ability to speak English is a prerequisite. If interested, the
resident will be brought into contact with the local art scene (art
academy, galleries, musea, artist community).

Residence in Munich during august/September 2006, participation in an
official welcome-event in DOKU e.V. and developing a solo-show for
Lothringer13/laden are obligatory conditions for the resident. The
resident must not labour more then 10 h/week besides his artistic work
during his residency-term in Munich.

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Call for soundart
deadline 30 June 2006
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54
.
Soundlab
http://soundlab.newmediafest.org
is invited to launch its 4th edition
in the framework of the Cologne based soundart event
KlangDrang Festival www.klangdrang.org
6-7 October 2006 and be part of the interactive media exhibition
by [R][R][F]2006--->XP - http://rrf2006.newmediafest.org
on the same occasion.
.
--->
--->Call for submissions
Deadline 30 June 2006
.
SoundLab
is looking for soundart works of
a) experimental character
b) electronic music
c) Voice -sound/music integration
d) and other forms
.
Theme : "Memoryscapes"
based on the subjects: ---> "memory" and "identity"
.
The submission has to be posted on a webpage for download,
please do not send it as an email attachement.
Submission format: .mp3
Size: Max 5MB, exceptions possible, but on request.
.
The authors/artists keep all rights on their submitted works.
.
Deadline 30 June 2006
Please use this form for submitting:
*******************
1.name of artist, email address, URL
2. short biography/CV (not more than 300 words)
3. works (maximum 3), year of production, running time
a) URL for download
4. short statement for each work
(not more than 300 words each)
.
Confirmation/authorization:
The submitter declares and confirms
that he/she is holding all author's rights
and gives permission to include the submitted work
in "Soundlab" online environment until revoke.
Signed by (submitter)
.
Please send the complete submission to
soundlab@newmediafest.org
subject: Soundlab edition IV
.
Deadline 30 June 2006
.
This call can be also found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54

Revised
call for submissions
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

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CALL TO CURATORS

NEXT REVIEW DEADLINE: May 1st, 2006
Art Interactive, a non-profit exhibition space in Cambridge, MA,
invites curators to submit exhibition proposals for 8-week
exhibitions. Art Interactive's mission is to provide a public forum
that fosters self-expression and human interaction through the
exhibition of art that is contemporary, experimental, and
participatory. Interested curators should submit:

1) a cover letter
2) a one-page project outline

Submit all materials via email, to proposals@artinteractive.org.
Deadline May 1.

For more details, please visit: http://www.artinteractive.org/
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CALL FOR ENTRY : Seoul Net Festival 2006

The 7th Seoul Net Festival is open for entries in Digital Express (International Competition) in both categories respectively : and . Seoul Net Festival is trying to introduce talented visual artists all over the world and their brilliant works and to lead the new audio-visual experiences based on ï¿the Internetï¿ and ï¿New Mediaï¿. We sincerely hope you consider this an exciting opportunity to show your great endeavors in the digital convergence era.

WHEN : May 15 - September 24, 2006
- May 15 - July 31 : screening of competition section and out-of-competition section
- August 1 - September 24 : screening of award-winning works

WHERE : www.senef.net / Mobile and DMB

SEOUL NET FESTIVAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE : April 8, 2006

ELIGIBILITY
For the official competition section, only works completed after January 2005 may be submitted to the Festival. Submissions should be creative works produced or adopted through digital technology. There will be no restrictions regarding the genre, length or subject matter of the work and all types of works, including fiction, documentary, experimental, music video, animation, motion graphic, flash animation, game, web-art, etc. will be accepted.

MATERIALS REQUIRED FOR SUBMISSIONS :

1. Completed application form (can be downloaded from www.senef.net)
2. Preview material

- By Post : DVD / DV6mm / CD / VHS (Seoul Moving Image Forum - Program Dept. of Seoul Net Festival, 1308 Woorim Bobo County, 75-8 Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-870, Korea)

- By FTP Server (under 300 MB) : FLASH / WMV / MOV / AVI / MPEG
* For File-Transferring indications, please mail to program3@senef.net

- By E-MAIL : URL address to program3@senef.net
3. Complete script in English (.doc)
4. Photo of the Work (.jpg) : more than 300 dpi
5. Photo of the Artist (.jpg) : more than 300 dpi
6. Any other publicity materials related to the submitted work (optional)

* Application form and photos can be submitted by E-MAIL.
* Resolution should be more than 640 * 480.

Contact
Seoul Moving Image Forum - Program Dept. of Seoul Net Festival
1308 Woorim Bobo County, 75-8 Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-870, Korea

program3@senef.net / Tel. : +82-2-518-4332 / Fax: +82-2-518-4333

www.senef.net

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Call: videos on the theme "gender identity"
final deadline: 1 March 2006

VideoChannel
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

is looking for videos on the theme of "gender identity",
to be included in the online collection on
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org,
as well as the DVD video collection to be presented on festivals and media exhibitions.

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In times when the traditional role of being "male" and "female" in society
has lost its meaning, a male expresses his female, and a female her male components of
their personality, when sexuality is not reduced to being straight or gay,
but countless mixed forms of human existance can be lived,
defining oneself in a gender specific context may become
an essential question.
The call is inviting artists to reflect their own or the subject of male, female, gay,
lesbian, transgender etc identity via the medium of video.

Details and entry form can be found on
NetEX - internal announcements
http://netex.nmartproject.net/index.php?blog=8&cat=54
also available as PDF for download
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/call_gender_identity.pdf
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Student Opportunities 8th Feb 2006

2006-02-17T12:22:00.000-08:00

Salzburg, Austria
Event dates: may 28th - june 1st, 2006

European Cultural Foundation
OneMinutesJr. Workshop

open applications
www.theoneminutesjr.org/mmmcms/public/index
Would you like to create your own one minute video in Salzburg, Austria? If you are between 12 and 20 and live in Austria, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia or the Czech Republic you can! We are looking for enthusiastic youngsters who are interested in media, want to express themselves creatively, are eager to learn new things, and would like to make new friends. All travel and accomodation expenses will be covered by the European Cultural Foundation, so just fill in the application form showing your motivation and reasons for wanting to participate.
The one minutes jr. workshop will be part of the netdays Austria 05/06 Festival (May 31 - June 2). Over 350 youngsters from Austria and bordering countries will be partcipating in various web and video workshops. Youngsters aged 14 to 25 can submit their web and video projects on this year’s theme „expedition:future“ on the netdays website till April, 21,2006. Within the Festival, the best projects will be presented and awarded with prize money. The videos which are produced during the one minutes jr. workshop will be screened on June 1st at the award ceremony ending with a great good-bye party.
within the festival, the best projects will be presented and awarded with prize money. the videos which are produced during the one minutes jr. workshop will be screened on june 1st at the award ceremony.
if you would like to participate in a oneminutesjr. workshop, but you are not from one of the above mentioned countries, you can always send in an open application form. we will file your application and notify you when there are workshops in your region.

Application form
Deadline: 20/04/06

Contact:
European Cultural Foundation
Jan van Goyenkade 5
1075 HN Amsterdam
raya@theoneminutesjr.org.
www.theoneminutesjr.org
Source: Uporabnik / User

CALL FOR ARTISTS WORKING IN DIGITAL MEDIA TO PARTICIPATE IN A SITE SPECIFIC EXHIBITION IN THE DIGITAL HUB
To mark the next phase in the development of The Digital Hub, we would like to invite submissions from artists working in digital media, to participate in a site-specific exhibition. The Digital Hub Development Agency will provide the brief and a space in which to exhibit their work.
The six artists selected will be allocated one building each from which to draw their inspiration. Artists will be given time to visit and investigate their allocated building, take photos, record sound & video footage etc. These buildings are due to be renovated as part of the site development. This project will serve as an important historical record of the famous Liberties community, as well as an innovative environment for creative work. The completed work will be shown in a gallery environment and online. The final piece must, therefore, lend itself to be shown both physically in a gallery environment and remotely via the Internet.
Work submitted must utilise digital media technology in its construction or in the way in which it is presented. New and experimental video, web art as well as works using mobile technologies, digital stills, sound pieces, and gaming technology will all be accepted.
The Digital Hub is happy to discuss any equipment requirements for the project that the chosen artists may have.
Submissions must include:
A clearly articulated statement of an original proposal specific to the project  (No more than 300 words) A visual representation of proposal Relevant portfolio of work no more than 5 images (JPEG), videos/DVDs no longer than 5 minutes. A current curriculum vitae, detailing previous experience & past exhibitions, if applicable.
The Digital Hub is happy to discuss any equipment requirements for the project that the chosen artists may have.
Portfolio & Visual Representation of work can be sent in the following formats: Slides, photos, digital photos (JPEG), video (VHS, DVD), laser copies, CDs.
Please send to the following address:
Exhibit, The Digital Hub Development Agency, The Digital Hub, Digital Exchange, Crane Street, Dublin 8, IRELAND
Submissions from 'emerging' practitioners and students are encouraged. Work from individuals or artists working in a group will be accepted.   If you wish to have your submission tape/DVD/CD/images returned, please include a stamped addressed envelope.
For further enquiries regarding this project, please contact exhibit@thedigitalhub.com or phone Elaine on 01-4806200  An independent panel selected by the Digital Hub Development Agency will judge the entries.
The closing date for entries is February 20th  