First Annual Fresh Minds Festival

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 2013

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.

Sundance/Sloan

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 Vortex 9

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’.

2012 Shanghai Biennale Call

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.

7th Lemesos International Documentary Festival

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.

Vox Feminae Film Festival 2012

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.

Videobrasil 18

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.

Busan Biennale 2012

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.

Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award 2012

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.

Tirana International Film Festival 2012

call for fiction, documentaries, animation and experimental

PIKSEL[X]

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.

Red 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.

International Short Film Festival Winterthur 2012

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 Sydney : Resistance is Futile

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 Writer's Prize 2012

frieze magazine is inviting entries for the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2012.

29th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival

Open Call for all filmmakers, artists, VJs, distributors, producers, gallery owners,universities or institutions to submit their most current works and projects for the 29th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival . The entire film program as well as the works for the exhibition Monitoring and the performance program will be selected from all submissions.

Cybernetics Revisited

Is the world ultimately unknowable – if considered as a place where genuine novelty is always emerging? Is it possible to look at the history of cybernetics as something that provides us with “an imaginative model of open-ended experimentation in stark opposition to the modern urge to achieve domination over nature and each other?”.

Mindaugas Triennial 2012

The 11th edition of the Baltic Triennial of International Art is taking a turn to a more condensed format: a 12-day event focused exclusively on performance and film. Countering the tendency of biennials to be pluralist, all-encompassing multi-platforms, the curators have chosen to present the contributions of artists through a radically minimized vessel: a single human being.

Alpha-ville Festival 2012

Alpha-ville is the London International Festival of Post-digital Culture. The festival presents a unique combination of advanced music, films, design, digital and new media art exhibitions, community events, urban interventions, workshops, labs and a Symposium on Post-digital Culture.