Award for Intercultural Innovation

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group have joined forces to strengthen their commitment to encourage cultural diversity and coexistence among communities. The BMW Group Award for Intercultural Innovation, in support of the Alliance of Civilizations, under the auspices of the United Nations (otherwise known as the Intercultural Innovation Award) searches for innovative and sustainable projects around the world that are encouraging dialogue and cooperation among people from different cultural backgrounds using novel and creative methods.

CDA Projects 2012

Cda-Projects Grant has offered a €10,000 grant annually since 2011 to support the production of an artistic research project.

The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

The Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art will be held from 19 September-20 October 2013 at Manege in Moscow. The Curator will be Catherine de Zegher. The Commissioner and Artistic Director of the Biennale is Joseph Backstein.

Biennale College Cinema

We are looking for 15 feature-length audio-visual concepts that can be made within €150,000 and could be completed – developed, produced and edited – within 5 months and screened at the Biennale in 2013!

The Call is open from the 30th of August 2012 to the 22nd of October 2012 only to teams of directors at their first or second feature and producers with variable degrees of expertise who must have produced at least 3 short films distributed and/or presented at Festivals.

There is no age limit and no participation fee. Participants will have to cover their travel costs but there will be the possibility – for participants travelling from outside Europe – to request a scholarship to partially or totally cover these costs.

The Artistic Director of the Venice International Film Festival and his team will complete the selection by the beginning of December 2012. The selected teams will then sign an agreement with the Biennale that assures their presence throughout the whole Biennale College – Cinema process.

OSCILLATOR @ Science Gallery

Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is seeking proposals for an upcoming major exhibition OSCILLATOR.

ArtistTalk Best Interview Award!

ArtistTalk Culture and Knowledge platform invites you to submit your video recordings to an international competition for the best interview with an artist or cultural worker of any medium, profile or age.

ArtistTalk is an online collection of interviews about art and culture, to which you may contribute with a video interview. We invite you to engage in conversation with your favourite or least favourite artists, ask the right questions, engage in a debate on their work, and share your interview with everyone on ArtistTalk!

Singapore Biennale 2013 - Open Call

SB 2013 is inviting artists to submit their proposals for consideration. All material will be reviewed by members of the curatorial team and shortlisted artists may be invited for further discussion with the curators and possible inclusion in the Biennale. The open call begins from Friday, 7 September and will close on 21 December 2012.

Singapore Biennale 2013

The fourth edition of Singapore’s premier contemporary art exhibition, Singapore Biennale 2013 (SB 2013), will return in 2013! Titled “If The World Changed,” it will take place from 26 October 2013 to 16 February 2014.

ISEA 2013

The 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art will comprise engaging presentations and thought-provoking speakers and discussions. Join us for informed dialogues, dynamic debates, enlightening keynotes and experimental incursions into the extensive and diverse practice of electronic media arts.

The Syngenta Photography Award 2012

The Open Competition is open to any photographer aged 18 or over – whether amateur, professional, or student. The Syngenta Photography Award is an invitation to create images that make people stop and think.

Swedenborg International Short Film Festival 2012

The Swedenborg International Short Film Festival 2012 is now open for entries. Following the success of last year, we hope the festival will continue to establish itself as an annual landmark event on the UK film calendar.

OCCUPATION

The Society for the Humanities focal theme for 2013-2014 is “OCCUPATION: From Space and Time to Practice and Politics.” Six to eight Fellows will be appointed. Selected Fellows will collaborate with the Director, Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Curator of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, an international research center on new media. The Senior Scholars in Residence will be Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, and Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley.

LMJ 23 Call for Papers

Art is getting noisier every day. Whether made by sculptors, video artists, composers, printmakers or installation artists, there’s no question but that “Sound Art” is a genre ascendant. The Turner Prize went to a Sound Artist last year, phonography has revived an interest in R. Murray Schafer’s Soundscape theories, and critical writing is beginning to proliferate on the topic. It’s time for Leonardo Music Journal to give this field a closer look.

Conference - Through the roadblocks: realities in raw motion

The Through The Roadblocks: Realities In Raw Motion conference is co-organised by NeMe, the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts (Art History and Theory Research Lab) of the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture.

Through the Roadblocks: realities in raw motion aims to examine the complex dynamics and often overlooked inter-connections between inclusion and exclusion, sharing and denial, identity and borders, the status of citizenship and the fundamental aporia of democracy in Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.

International Curator Competition 2012

Akbank Sanat announces the first edition of the International Curator Competition. Curators from around the world are encouraged to submit proposals by November 5, 2012.

SIMULTAN FESTIVAL #8

SIMULTAN is a festival dedicated to media art and artistic experiment, which aims to create a bond between different media and encourage new and innovative forms of artistic expression, in the field of visual, sound art and music.

16th Japan Media Arts Festival

The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts 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. The 15th Festival received a record 2,714 works from 57 countries and regions around the world, demonstrating its continuing evolution as an established annual international festival.

Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT

The 9th Kaunas Biennial UNITEXT will create conditions for immediate collisions of an artwork and a spectator, allowing the experience of art as a universal text. Curators of the exhibition together with artists will pursue a concept that is new and unfamiliar in a cultural context and will consolidate it by presenting practical examples.

FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2012

The aim of this competition is to help promote the photographic profession and to raise the level of professional standards. It is intended to give just recognition to those who work in this sector according to the highest levels of quality and professionalism. The competition is a non-profit event and all fees collected will be used to promote the FEP and the FEP member associations.

Expanded Artists' Books

The Center for Book and Paper Arts, a program of the Interdisciplinary Arts Department at Columbia College Chicago, recently received a $50,000 Arts in Media grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of a new electronic publishing initiative, Expanded Artists’ Books. This grant will support an award of two $10,000 commissions for new artworks for the iPad. These will have physical counterparts that intersect, modulate, or inform the digital components of the artwork.