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Encounters 2013

Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival (Bristol, UK) is the UK’s longest running competitive short film and animation festival. It presents one of the world’s best-known showcases and meeting points for emerging talent, and seeks to promote the importance of short film as a means to develop the next generation of filmmakers and animators. Encounters is also a gateway to the world’s most prestigious short film and animation awards: the BAFTAs, the Oscars®, the European Film Awards and the Cartoon d’Or.

videofestival - Natures 10

Between 16 and 19 April 2013, the Bežigrad Gallery 2 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, is staging the video festival Natures 10.

FIELDS

Fields starts from the assumption that the changing role of art in society is one where it becomes a critical interloper in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations. The range of practices which were once subsumed under terms such as media art, digital art, art and technology, art, and science have experienced such growth and diversification that no single term can work as a signpost any more. Fields is about mapping those expanded fields of artistic practices which are contextual seedbeds for ideas and practices aiming at overcoming the crisis of the present, inventing new avenues for future developments by bringing together traditionally separated domains. Fields is about new ecological and transversal trends in art, outlining potential future trajectories for multifarious types of activities that merge politics, technology, ecology, gender, semiology.

30th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana

This call is for all artists currently residing in South-eastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Moldova, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia).

13th Istanbul Biennial - Call for applications

The artists to participate in the 13th İstanbul Biennial will be determined by Fulya Erdemci, the curator of the exhibition. Erdemci continues to carry out her research both in Turkey and abroad.

Subtle Technologies 2013

In 2013, Subtle Technologies will be holding its 16th Annual Festival in Toronto.

The 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 will lead to future discussions and collaborations.

transmediale 2013 BWPWAP

BWPWAP posters in the city, flyers at partner venues, a catalogue in print, events on the website, announcements in magazines – yes, you might have realised: it is only a couple of Pluto (and just a few more Earth) days until transmediale 2013 BWPWAP is finally taking place.

The 2nd International Symposium on Pervasive Displays 2013

he Second International Symposium on Pervasive Displays will take place in June 2013 at the Google campus in Mountain View, California. Mountain View is in the heart of Silicon Valley, surrounded by many iconic information technology companies, UC Berkeley and Stanford, as well as down the street from the Computer History Museum. It is also close to San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz, and the California coast with its famous redwood forests. This ACM affiliated event brings together researchers with a common interest in the opportunities and challenges of pervasive displays systems as a new communication medium in public and semi-public spaces. As a target topic venue the Symposium offers participants a unique opportunity to network with a diverse but focused research community, resulting in an extremely lively event with all the energy and excitement that characterizes the emergence of a new research community. The symposium program comprises a paper, poster and video track and a keynote by Prof. Saul Greenberg from the University of Calgary. The First International Symposium was organized by University of Minho in Porto, Portugal.

100 Painters of Tomorrow

Painting is enjoying a remarkable creative renaissance in the 21st century, with many of the world’s leading artists now working in this most enduring and seductive of media. 100 Painters of Tomorrow is an ambitious new project, initiated by editor-curator Kurt Beers and the publishers Thames & Hudson, to find the 100 most exciting painters at work today. Culminating in a major publication that will introduce and present each artist and their work, creating a snapshot of the best new talent in painting from across the globe, submissions are invited via the project’s website from 15 January – 15 March 2013.

Toronto Animation Arts Festival International 2013

We are excited to receive your work to the 2013 edition of the Toronto Animation Arts Festival International. We are now accepting both International and local shorts and feature-length submissions of all genres and techniques! Ads, Motion Graphics and Game cinematics are welcome and encouraged. If it is animated we would like to see it. Please read the Rules & Regulations for submitting a film to TAAFI, digitally, through Withoutabox.

2013 Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art Award for Emerging Media Artists

Subject to fund allocations, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award two grants (€3,000 each) for artistic works in the field of new media.

With this award, the Edith-Russ-Haus wishes to honour new approaches to media art and support the award-winners with both prize money and an exhibition. The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art Grant is intended to promote the careers of emerging media artists in a sustainable way.

ALICE Awards 2013

The global Board of Contemporary Art (GBCA) today announced the call for entries for the 2013 ALICE Awards. The ALICE celebrates the year’s best contemporary art including projects, exhibitions, and publications by artists, critics/art writers, curators, museums, public galleries, private galleries, biennials, and publishers. The entry deadline is February 28, 2013. Nominees will be announced in April 2013, and the Winners will be announced in June 2013.

The Biennial of Poster, Bolivia

The Biennial of the Poster Bolivia BICeBé® is the most important international design event in Bolivia and South America, and is referenced as an integrator in the region.

Copenhagen | The Spring Exhibition

The Spring Exhibition 2013 takes place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, one of the largest and most beautiful spaces for contemporary art in Europe, 1 March – 12 May 2013. International open call to visual artists and designers.

The IDAF Prize 2013 : Symbiosis

This year, the theme of Kingston University’s Improvisation and Digital Arts Festival (IDAF) is symbiosis.

The ways in which we make, perform and discuss music have never been so diverse. Musicians, composers, performers and theorists are finding endless new ways to create, direct and discuss music making on a huge range of different platforms. Bearing this in mind, the theme of symbiosis for IDAF 2013 is intended to broaden our understanding of what a symbiotic relationship might be, through both creative practice and theoretical discourse.

2013 Voies Off Prize

Voies Off night projections during the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles festival (first full week in July) have become an international reference for the discovery of emerging authors and the alternative venue that it creates for international photographic creation.

Venice Biennale 2013

Massimiliano Gioni introduced the choice of theme evoking the artist self-taught Italian-American Marino Auriti that “on November 16, 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopedic Palace), an imaginary museum that was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite. Auriti’s plan was never carried out, of course, but the dream of universal, all-embracing knowledge crops up throughout history, as one that eccentrics like Auriti share with many other artists, writers, scientists, and prophets who have tried – often in vain – to fashion an image of the world that will capture its infinite variety and richness. These personal cosmologies, with their delusions of omniscience, shed light on the constant challenge of reconciling the self with the universe, the subjective with the collective, the specific with the general, the individual with the culture of her time.”

Jacob Fabricius: Curator 6th Edition Contour

Jacob Fabricius (°1970) is currently director at Malmö Konsthall (SE), where he has curated a large number of exhibitions since 2005. Fabricius does not limit himself to the institution space and has, as a director, initiated innovative public exhibitions such as the hitchhiking exhibition ‘Auto Stop’ (2008) and ‘Polis Polis Potatismos’ (2010), an exhibition about crime, based on the work of the Swedish detective writers Sjöwall and Wahlöö.

Curitiba Biennial 2013

The Curitiba Biennial reviews the biennial as a format and leaves aside the practice of selecting a theme and a title. Today, this practice is little convincing as it is the result of the ascendancy of the curatorial gesture. The connection between theme/title and the art works exhibited in any biennial is feeble or imaginary, since nearly any subject/title, typically a spectacular advertising resource, can apply to nearly any grouping of art works – before the wide public indifference.

Biennale de Lyon 2013

The 13th Istanbul Biennial is set for the autumn of 2013, under the curatorship of Fulya Erdemci. Fulya Erdemci, who is currently Director of SKOR | Foundation For Art and Public Domain in Amsterdam, will curate the 13th Istanbul Biennial in 2013.