The CDS Documentary Essay Prize honors the best in documentary photography and writing in alternating years: one year, photos; one year, writing. The focus is on current or recently completed work (within the last two years) from a long-term project – fifteen images; fifteen to twenty pages of writing.
With the firm belief that art can represent freedom of thought without boundaries and promotes self-determination and the free circulation of culture and ideas, the prize is dedicated to those who harbor the right will to pursue their research beyond the hardship determined by political, social or geographical conditions.
The Impakt Festival is the annual culmination of the activities of Impakt as an organisation that specialises in critical media culture: a multi-media festival with conferences, talks, performances, screenings exhibitions, presentations and music. The Impakt Festival 2014 will take place from 29 October until 2 November at several locations in Utrecht (NL).
International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen is a unique art competition in a specific category monochromatic drawings. The competition takes place every even year.
The 2014 Whitney Biennial will take a bold new form as three curators from outside the Museum – Stuart Comer (Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA), Anthony Elms (Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia), and Michelle Grabner (artist and Professor in the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago) – each oversee one floor, representing a range of geographic vantages and curatorial methodologies.
In the last few decades, nature and bio-inspired digital art has been attracting many researchers with background in arts and sciences, especially computer scientists and visual artists.
This competition aims to give artists (fine art, media, architecture, design, music, theatre, visual communication etc.) and/or scientists the impetus and opportunity to work on content in the field of tension between the arts or between the arts and sciences.
In May 2014, Subtle Technologies will be holding its 17th annual festival in Toronto. Our symposium, performances, workshops, screenings, exhibitions and networking sessions provide a forum to explore ideas and pose questions at the intersection of art, science and technology. Subtle Technologies is known internationally for presenting artists and scientists whose work is at the leading edge of their respective disciplines and creating a space for dialogue that leads to future discussions and collaborations.
Since its launch in 2008, the Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition staged by Chew’s Culture Foundation has won great credit from video artists throughout the world. The first year exhibition Dwelling Place has received 121 projects by 100 artists from twenty-one countries. In 2010, the exhibition Eattopia has gathered 115 projects by 100 artists from twenty-seven countries. In 2012, the exhibition Melancholy in Progress has collected 217 projects from 169 artists.
In 2014, the Biennial of Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia, reinvents itself and launches an ambitious call for applications. Entering the realm of collaboration, where design is a tool to rethink everyday life, the Biennial is looking for individuals to shape possible futures for design.
ASFF is looking for filmmakers who are driving the genre of short film forward through inspirational and innovative works. Whether you are fresh out of film school or have been making films for years, we want to hear from you.
Supporting & Championing Short Film
Artists, architects and authors from the whole world are invited to tackle the topic of urban and natural living environments of the future.
The Bristol Biennial is building new foundations as an interactive contemporary Arts Festival. The Bristol Biennial is intended as a collaborative project between institutions, groups, associations and individual practitioners within the creative arts sector. Its objective is to create an interactive and international platform to raise the profile of Bristol based emerging artists. By instigating and promoting new collaboration and discussion through an international network, local artists can gain access to new artistic territory.
The SIGGRAPH 2014 Art Gallery will gather and present outstanding, critical, and innovative art works and projects submitted by digital-minded artists. While the essential aim is to provide a deeper insight into the relationships within art, science, technology, research, and societal developments, the Art Gallery also encourages strong content and criticality in submitted works, conveyed through the use of advanced technologies.
The graduate students of the School of Media Studies at The New School announce a call for proposals for the 14th Annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference that will take place Friday and Saturday April 5 – 6, 2014. This year,we welcome graduate student theorists, practitioners, and artists to share works and projects on the concept of transgressing.
Adam Szymczyk has been elected as the Artistic Director of documenta 14, which is scheduled to take place from June 10th, to September 17th, 2017, in Kassel.
The 2nd edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), will be held between 18 October-14 December 2014. The title of the biennial “The Future Is Not What It Used To Be” was announced by curator Zoë Ryan at a press meeting on Wednesday, 13 November.
The annual SIGGRAPH conference is the premier showcase for creating experiences that stimulate the senses, and we want to include your best work! Our community shares its visionary research, practical insights, and wild ideas at a five-day celebration embracing everything visual and interactive.
The Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, one of the largest and most ambitious projects in the field of contemporary art, will be take place this summer for the fourth time. The Biennale combines the creative initiatives of artists of the new generation from Russia and abroad. Leading Moscow museums and centers of contemporary art, in collaboration with regional and foreign partners, have participated in the preparations for this event.
For the 7th time, the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is inviting entries for the competition to find the best poetry films. To qualify for entry, films should be short films based on poems. The total value of the prizes in the competition is €13,000. From among the films submitted, a Programme Committee will nominate the films to be entered for the Competition and select the films for the various sections of the festival programme. The winners will be chose by an international jury.
