For Volume 25 of Leonardo Music Journal we are soliciting articles (papers of up to 3,000 words) and shorter statements (750-1,000 words) that address the role of politics in the creation and dissemination of music and related sonic arts, especially in those genres employing new technological tools.
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA) and Röda Sten Konsthall are delighted to announce the appointment of Elvira Dyangani Ose as curator of the eighth edition of GIBCA. GIBCA 2015 will run from 12 September to 22 November and take place at Röda Sten Konsthall along with various selected collaborative venues throughout the city of Gothenburg.
Artists around the world are invited to take part in the international competition organized by the Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2015 for the spring of next year.
Akbank Sanat announces the third edition of the International Curator Competition. Curators from around the world are encouraged to submit proposals by September 10, 2014.
transmediale 2015 will take place from January 28 to February 1 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. The programme will feature a diversity of different types of work in a thematic exhibition as well as film and video screenings, workshops, performances, and a conference programme. transmediale is always interested in works exploring our complex relation to technology, be it through new or old media.
In a new collaboration with International Performance Association (IPA) Bristol Biennial will present a Live Art Bootcamp as part of the opening weekend of Bristol Biennial 2014.
Live Art Bootcamp will be an intense two days of talks, workshops and platform for scratch performance. The weekend will provide opportunities for emerging artists to share ideas, meet producers and showcase new work to the public.
Founded in 1879, the Royal Ulster Academy is the largest and longest established body of practicing visual artists in Northern Ireland. One of the founding principles of the Academy was to hold an annual exhibition of work by both members and non-members of merit. Now in its 133rd year, the Royal Ulster Academy’s Annual Exhibition remains one of the highlights of the Northern Ireland arts calendar attracting over 70,000 visitors in 2013.
Historically and spatially, the Marl Media Art Awards refer to the orientation as a sculpture museum and to the modernist architecture of the Town Hall completed in 1966. Because spatial reference is the key criteria for sculpture, for the second time the competition invites media artists who deal with all facets of space in their works to participate.
Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. It is organized in Bergen, Norway,and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies, free culture & art.
The Organizing Committee of the Shanghai Biennale is pleased to announce that after careful consideration of numerous candidates by the Shanghai Biennale Academic Committee, Mr. Anselm Franke has been selected to work as the chief curator for the 10th Shanghai Biennale. Franke will work with a team of collaborators, soon to be announced. The 10th Shanghai Biennale will open on November 22, 2014 and conclude on March 31, 2015, concentrating its scope and take place in the Power Station of Art (PSA). As China’s longest running contemporary art biennale, the Shanghai Biennale is also the nation’s most important international visual art exhibition.
Taipei International Design Award this year became the first in receiving recognition from International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), The International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA), and The International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI). Officially became the internationally renowned major platform for designers to compete. The Department of Economic Development of Taipei City Government states that since this award begun in 2008, there has been 10,258 pieces of excellent work joining the competition, and last year saw a breakthrough of 4,001 works with 40% of them by contestants from abroad and a total of 45 country representatives that chose to enter this contest. This award is without doubt, most successful in attracting foreign contestants among other awards or competition. It is also the only competing platform in the country that encourages the combination of creative designing concepts with actual pragmatism. This award is among the few that carries influence and weight.
The International Film Festival TOFIFEST is a festival that stands out from others, because of its originality and rebellious nature.
The trends in the development of the festival are shaped not only by the frantic rush of cinematography, but also by the creative chaos raging in the heads of artists, their creativity and the joy of creation. Yet one aspect has remained unchanged for so many years: the “innate” lack of any pomposity.
Actions and exhibitions are scattered between Bahia’s Museum of Modern Art (main) and 30 locations in Salvador and other 10 cities in the State of Bahia, Brazil.
Taipei Biennial 2014 is pleased to announce the list of participating artists for The Great Acceleration. Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Taipei Biennial 2014 is expected to present a wide spectacle consisting of an exhibition, film screenings, live performances, talks, readings, conferences, publications and other special events at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and at other art spaces and public spaces throughout the city.
Frieze Writer’s Prize, an annual international award to discover and promote new art critics, is now open for entries. The winner will be commissioned to write a review for frieze and will be awarded £2,000.
The main aim of the International Art and Artificial Life Contest, VIDA, is to recognise artists who are interested in the current discourse on life through the latest technologies and the most recent scientific advances. Conceived in 1999, VIDA, which offers a total of €82,000 in prizes, is currently one of the most prestigious international contests in the field of media art. VIDA supports excellence in artistic research into artificial life. All the projects awarded prizes in VIDA have the ability to express the complexity of the organisation of living systems and the hybrid nature of life. The VIDA jury will consider works of art that are governed by these principles, and more importantly, will select the projects that offer challenges to current ways of understanding life.
The ‘Inhabiting the World’ will be held for 64 days from the 20th of September to the 22nd of November at several venues including Busan Museum of Art, and Busan Cultural Center. The Busan Biennale 2014 will be shaped with a main exhibition, two of special exhibitions, diverse academic programs, international exchange events and participatory events.
Calling all artists, scientists, and designers: hot-blooded, blue-blooded, or just bloody interested in BLOOD.
The 6th Screengrab International Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of VELOCITY.
The Lumen Prize Exhibition, an international prize and global tour for digital fine art, has opened the call for entries for its 2014 prize.
