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.
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.
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.
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.
Texas A&M University invites fixed media works of visual music or other non-narrative fine art animation, video, or film in which the sound/music and visuals play equally important roles in the work, for a presentation on the Texas A&M University campus called the Fresh Minds Festival. The event will be mass curated by hundreds of TAMU students learning the elements of visual and musical design with the goal of presenting a program of works that are engaging and rewarding to curious newcomer audiences. This will be an event filling the gap between “for experts only” and “people’s choice” type events.
Aerowaves is a network which annually researches younger dance work in Europe, and seeks cross-border presentation opportunities for selected artists. In 2009 over 70 performances were confirmed in 22 European cities. This increased to over 80 in 2010, and approximately 100 opportunities in 2011. We anticipate a similar number in 2012, listed on the Aerowaves Companies calendar at www.aerowaves.org as they occur. This application is for 2013, when we aim to offer as many opportunities, and possibly more.
Established in 2005 to support the development of screenplays with science or technology themes, Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation provides two different opportunities for screenwriters through a Commissioning Grant or a Fellowship. Both provide a cash award to support further development of a screenplay and to retain science advisors, along with overall creative and strategic feedback throughout development. Only one of each is awarded per year.
Video as an artefact always has been assembled. Now at this critical stage of digital video culture, it gets reassembled on a new level: between new affordances, attention shifts and the threat of over-regulation and customization, a.k.a. ‘walling’ and ‘gardening’.
As a special programme of this year’s Shanghai Biennale, the Academy of Reciprocal Englightenment issuing a call for applications. The deadline is 20th August 2012. The programme embodies our educational philosophy: education is a self-governing action by learner communities, which serves as a platform for exchanges and the dissemination of opinions. It operates in the form of workshops that include the following three themes: Art Writing/Journalism Workshop, Curatorial Practice Workshop, and Immersion – Art | Technology Workshops.
The “Lemesos International Documentary Festival,” this year in its seventh edition, will take place from the 1st to the 8th August 2012, presenting some of the most renowned and awarded documentary films of the year to be shown for the first time in Cyprus. Financial crisis, sustainable development and the constant fight of man for survival are only some of the topics of the 28 documentary films to be showcased this year.
VFFF seeks to find, exhibit and award films that explore aspects of gender, gender roles & identities. Subjects include gender equity, gender non-stereotypes, relationships, feminist and lgbtiq themes.
The International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2013, and affirms its position as one of the major Brazilian initiatives for the dissemination of art. It so happens because it has always been a trailblazer, at first by dedicating to video art in a fledgling context and later by paying attention to artistic production from the geopolitical Southern countries, which are peripheral or only circumstantially settled into the main art system.
With its focus on collaboration, the Busan Biennale 2012 intends to create a forum for participation and communication, as opposed to discipline-based art education, aiming to establish an organic relationship between artworks and the audience.
Due to its success in 2010 and 2011 the third edition of the Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award (DA4GA) will take place in 2012. The results of the current edition are on exhibition at Naturalis, Leiden until the end of this year.
call for fiction, documentaries, animation and experimental
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.
From the early stages of its development, New Media Art readily adopted a variety of means of artistic engagement and expression that aim at serving modes of utopian social being: from multi-modal collaboration to public participation and from open software applications to hacktivism, the germs of leftist political thought seem to abound in the art of the Digital Age. Prompted by the economic crisis, New Media Art appears to increasingly employ the tools provided by new technologies in order to penetrate all aspects of global social living and propagate such apparatuses as catalysts for socioeconomic change. New Media artworks and art projects have gradually formed a common practice whose objectives allude to utopian theories of social organization lying closer to certain visions of communism, direct democracy and anarchism, rather than to the realities of neoliberal capitalism within which new media are produced and predominantly operate.
Short films of all genres are accepted for submission to the competition of the International Short Film Festival Winterthur, as long as they have been completed in the years 2011 or 2012 and their length does not exceed 30 minutes. Contractual films made for advertising or PR purposes are not eligible.
ISEA2013 will be held in Sydney from 7th to 16th June 2013 and will consist of exhibitions, performances, symposium and public events. It will also support residencies and associated events throughout regional NSW and across Australia leading into and out of the core event.
frieze magazine is inviting entries for the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2012.
