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.
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.
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?”
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 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.
The duality of real and virtual existence, seemingly, leans to its virtual side exponentially in this media era. Can an absence from the physical world resonate with the virtual presence, or vice-versa? Through an interdisciplinary perspective, SIGGRAPH Asia 2012 Art Gallery: Echo is seeking evidence of digital activities in the physical world and the impact of natural phenomena in cyberspace. Artistic and scientific explorations will “echo” between digital and analogue spaces and fabricate a hybrid model, in which, the duality merges into a uniformed and ubiquitous state.
Whether imagined or real, stories are created everyday, and the world is always in need of a good story. Character-driven, plot-driven, or just plain driven, ÉCU – The European Independent Film Festival continually searches for the most talented storytellers and cinematic visionaries that make their stories a reality.
The Festival du nouveau cinéma is committed to the exploration and development of new practices in cinema and new media. It is a premiere showcase for original and brand-new works, particularly in the fields of independent cinema and digital creation.
Everybody Knows this is Nowehere stemmed from the desire to create a collaborative work by an artist, a curator and a filmmaker. The roles of the collaborators have become intertwined and blurred, making the designations of each somewhat obsolete, where all three turn into the main audience of the work. “Everybody Knows this is Nowhere” is a video piece thought by Ghassan Salhab and probed by Mayssa Fattouh and Nesrine Khodr for the project Through the Roadblocks which invited curators throughout the Mediterranean region to explore issues revolving around cultural production and its movements, in its interweaving and overlapping beyond geographical borders imposed by political mapping.
The feature film competition is open to first and second films of any genre (fiction, documentaries, animation films, experimental works), language, and format. The films must be over 45 minutes and completed after January 1st, 2011.
The 2012 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.
The first edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial will be realized between 13 October-12 December 2012 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV), and will comprise a wide range of events, workshops, conferences and screenings centred around its exhibitions program.
Prospectives ’12 International Festival of Digital Art highlights the work of graduate and Phd candidates working across all disciplines utilizing experimental digital media in their creative endeavours.
OpenShowstudio Space invites you to two parallel exhibitions, Βound, co-curated by Sofia Touboura, Maria Lianou, Nana Sachini and Inter Alios curated by Artemis Potamianou.
Each year AND makes an open call for moving image submissions for inclusion in the festival programme and this year is no exception. We are seeking feature films, short films and artists moving image, there are no restrictions on genre, style or duration; we welcome narrative, documentary, live action, hybrids and all shades in between.
The inaugural LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images is a four-day celebration of contemporary artists’ moving image launched by LUX and the Institute of Contemporary Arts. It is the only biennial of its kind dedicated to artists’ moving image in the UK; consisting of screenings, unique expanded cinema events and performance commissions, and a series of talks and panel discussions encompassing a wide-ranging and diverse perspective on contemporary moving image practice.
The LUFF is dedicated to show and promote innovative films and music that have not access to a wide distribution.It is the only cultural event of its kind in Switzerland.
