Journal of Visual Culture, in collaboration with the International Association for Visual Culture, Operational and Curatorial Research, the Museum of Contemporary Cuts and Kasa Gallery, is pleased to announce a new refereed issue titled Visions of Contemporary Cuts.
Send your revolutionary manifesto, your conceptual social sculpture, your political poems, your utopian films and videos, your musical anthems. Enter your political rally poster, your activist website, your play, performance, print, painting or puppet in the show “Exuberant Politics.”
Since its creation in 2007, the Prix Émile Hermès has supported innovative work by talented young designers, responding to society’s changing needs and lifestyles. For the third annual competition, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès has chosen a theme reflecting our increasingly vital need for a moment of peace, some time out, a brief pause – a chance to escape the relentless activity, ideas and obligations of the super-highway of modern life.
The Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference at the intersections of art, science and culture seeks papers that explore the theme of the cloud and molecular aesthetics. Clouding occurs when information becomes veiled, foggy, fuzzy, obscure or secretive, or when it condenses, blooms and accretes into atmospheres of chaotic turbulence and pressure vectors, into tidal flows and storms. The cloud also is a new formation of data as a global and seemingly immaterial distribution of storage and means of retrieval. This data cloud exists everywhere and yet is nowhere in particular. As with the protocols of bit torrent files, the cloud provides a new concept of sound and image “assembly,” distinct from and beyond the materialist machinic diagrams and the practices of re-mixing or remediation that became characteristic of late twentieth-century and millennial aesthetics. The cloud is not an object but an experience and its particles are the very building blocks of a molecular aesthetic in which we live and act.
The Paris Human Rights International Film Festival promotes each year a selection of the best documentaries on human rights issues. Dedicated to promote the creative documentary, the Festival is paying attention equally to artistic value as well as human rights content. Every screening will be followed by Q&As with directors and/or other specialists (academic, journaliste, civil society members…). The Festival is today renown as the most prominent cultural event on human rights in France. Its 12th edition will be held in the course of March 2014.
Last year, the VIEW AWARD brought forth some astonishingly talented animators into the public and industry spotlight.
After the international success of past edition of our VIEW AWARD, the 2013 contest is ready to widen its scope with new themes, new subjects and new contestants.
NeMe, the Communications Department of The Cyprus University of Technology and Brave New Culture present “Q.E.D.,” a selection of six documentaries to be screened in the Pefkios Georgiades Amphitheatre on the 11, 12 and 13th of October 2013.
“Q.E.D.” (Quod Erat Demonstrandum / ὅπερ ἔδει δεῖξαι), an abbreviation which signals the completion of proof or simply ‘it has been proved’ is an appropriate title for the current crisis in Cyprus together with all the collateral events taking place and described by the media as “unprecedented” catastrophe. This is a description which reflects the Cypriots’ tendency to forget other adversities that have occurred in recent history. Although Cypriot banks have never before collapsed, the living memory of a large number of the population can return us not only to the events of 1963 and 1974 but also the crisis of the tourist industry, and the crash of the stock-market, all of which, in various degrees, had immediate and devastating effects upon most people.
The fifth edition of Gwangju Design Biennale, curated by the Artistic Director Young Hye Lee, will explore cultural habits, shared knowledge and coded contexts that inform the many unspoken ways in which we communicate with one another. The concept inspired by two of the most frequently used words in Jeolla province, [Gәsigi Mәsigi] (Anything, Something) is equivalent to the English phrase “whatchamacallit (what you may call it).” The ability to grasp these hidden contexts and habits in our day-to-day communication can be especially important for designers who are constantly in search of insight into the yet-undiscovered needs and wants.
South By Southwest (SXSW) Conferences and Festivals are now open for business. Conference registrations, hotel requests, Film Festival submissions, Interactive Awards and SXSW Accelerator applications and Music Festival showcase applications are now being accepted. SXSW Music, SXSW Film and SXSW Interactive take place Friday, March 7 through Sunday, March 16, 2014 in Austin, Texas.
Given that 2011 was the year of protesting and dreaming dangerously, 2013 prompts us to think responsively and come up with useful ideas and suggestions. At a time when the financial crisis in Greece and elsewhere is reaching a highpoint, the 4th Athens Biennale (AB4) cannot but respond to this bleak situation through a pertinent question: Now what? While Monodrome (AB3) attempted to reflect upon Modern Greek history and the origins of the crisis, this year the Biennale will set out to explore creative alternatives to a state of bankruptcy.
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 Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of MediaArts (=Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works in the four divisions of Art, Entertainment,Animation, and Manga, as well as providing a platform for appreciation of the works that have won awards.
Lemesos International Documentary Festival returns on the big screen of Theatro Ena, in the heart of Limassol, now in its eighth edition, from the 1st until the 8th August 2013. The Festival will screen for the first time in Cyprus, 23 of the most awarded and talked about documentaries of the year and is about to bring us face to face with… reality!
Project Anywhere is an expanded exhibition model encompassing the entire globe (and beyond) in which the role of curator is replaced with the type of peer review model typically endorsed by a refereed journal. Emphasizing artistic projects situated outside conventional exhibition contexts, Project Anywhere is dedicated to the promotion of advanced artistic practice at the outermost limits of location-specificity.
In recent years the concept of resilience has grown out of the global trend of developing sustainability in the societies of the global North. In natural sciences or physics, a resilient body is described as flexible, durable, and capable of springing back to its original form and transforming the energy received into its own reconstruction (a good example of this is the sponge). In psychology, resilience refers to the subject’s ability to recover their original state relatively quickly after some significant stress or shock and continuing with the processes of self-realization without a major setback. Resilience is more than just the ability to adapt, promoted by the concept of the flexible subject over the past two decades, which was adopted by corporate capitalism and triggered the precarious mass movement of labourers. Resilience encompasses exploring reciprocal co-dependence and finding one’s political and socio-ecological place in a world that is out of balance and creates increasingly disadvantageous living conditions. Rather than trying to find global solutions for some indefinite future or projecting a possible perfect balance, resilient thinking focuses on the diversity of practical solutions for the here and now, and on the cooperation and creativity of everyone involved in a community or society.
Now in its second year, The Lumen Prize is a global competition and world tour for the best fine art created digitally.
Call for works: transmediale 2014 afterglow
post-digital transition junkware media garbology dumpster diving decycled digital native trashure high gloss new aesthetics tube-trash overload uncertain value smart city junk spam body post-functional bitrot drone zombie selection excess big data waste pollution trash
MMSU is announcing Call for proposals for the international interdisciplinary project about the traditions of underground economy (smuggling, contraband). The project Smuggling Anthologies / Antologie di contrabbando is conceived as a combination of exhibitions, symposiums and workshops (research) successively occurring on three (3) locations…
Curate is a joint initiative partnered by Fondazione Prada and the Qatar Museums Authority. Through this award, the two institutions aim to encourage the realisation of great curatorial expressions, ideas on how to exhibit, and perspectives that regard new languages inside and outside museums’ spaces in a rapidly changing world.
The curatorial proposal for the Ninth Edition of the Mercosul Biennial conceptually focuses on the interaction between nature and culture, and the ways in which visual artists address unknown, unpredictable and seemingly uncontrollable phenomenon.
