The graduate students of the Department of Media Studies and Film at The New School are pleased to announce a call for papers and projects to the 12th annual Critical Themes in Media Studies Conference, taking place April 13-14,2012 in New York City.
International festival of audiovisual animated works AniFest 2012 – Teplice is a specialized competition festival. The mission of the festival is to contribute to the expansion of animated work and to present it year-round in all its forms.
For the past 17 years, Voies Off has offered an alternative approach to emerging contemporary photography, its particularities, its evolutions, and its areas of resistance.
Our 2012 festival takes place from May 24 to May 27 2012 at various venues throughout Toronto. Our annual open call accepts submissions that bridge art, science and technology. This year we are also accepting submissions for a themed session which explores work inspired by biology, as outlined below. For both streams we are soliciting proposals from all disciplines and also welcome topics that explore ways of knowing that are outside of the western framework.
Art inspired by and in contact with the technological developments of today is not a mainstream interest. It is our aim to promote these contemporary art forms and further open them up to a wider audience.
As advanced technologies emerge and become increasingly accessible, artists are uncovering new possibilities for expression and cultural investigation. The Pearl Conard Art Gallery at The Ohio State University [Mansfield Campus] seeks artists working at the intersection of art + technology for CONFLUX, a group exhibition to occur during Winter Quarter 2012. All genres of new media art are welcome, including robotics, multimedia, animation, bio art, digital imaging, locative media, rapid prototyping, digital video, net art, interactive media, and sound art.
The European Prize for Urban Public Space is a biennial competition organized by six European institutions with the aim to recognize and encourage the recovery projects and defense of public space in our cities. The award, created in 2000, celebrates its seventh edition in 2012.
CAFKA is inviting proposals for new or existing works that engage the public and a diverse audience. Works in all media will be considered including sculpture, performance, video, audio, installation, photography, painting, drawing, and digital media.
From the 2nd to the 30th of November, NeMe members Helene Black and Yiannis Colakides will be moderating the thematic discussion in the —empyre list “Art Funding and Politics”.
We welcome your contribution especially if you have been affected by the current funding cuts in the arts by various governments and funding bodies. We consider your views and experiences regarding this subject very important.
The COAL PRIZE Art&Environment reward each year a project about the environment by a contemporary artist. The winner is chosen by a jury of personalities from the worlds of contemporary art, research, ecology and sustainable development, out of 10 finalists selected from an international call for entries.
Your imagination is full of audiovisual projects? You have performances, installations, workshops or other audiovisual multidisciplinary projects to discover?
We are pleased to announce that the 8th edition of Video Vortex will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, Croatia, between the 17th and the 19th of May, 2012. So far Video Vortex has taken place twice in Brussels and Amsterdam and once in Ankara, Split and Yogyakarta. The Video Vortex network was founded in in 2007 and deals with the cultural, political and artistics aspects of online video. Video Vortex 8 is organized by the Kazimir Association in Split and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.
Prix Ars Electronica Collide@CERN is the new international competition for digital artists to win a residency at CERN the world’s largest particle physics laboratory in Geneva. It is the first prize to be announced as part of the new Collide@CERN artists residency programme initiated by the laboratory.
The Québec Triennial 2011. The Work Ahead of Us-one of the most important and highly anticipated art events of the season-will be presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal from October 7, 2011 to January 3, 2012. For this second edition of the Triennial, the museum has put together a show on an unprecedented scale that will fill all eight of its exhibition galleries and spill over into its indoor public spaces, as well as Place des Festivals in the Quartier des Spectacles and the Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme at Place des Arts. The exhibition will feature works by more than fifty artists and collectives, a majority of them young, who are contributing to a renewed Québec art. A series of live performances and Friday Nocturnes will round out this edition of the Triennial.
We are seeking multi-disciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image. Media thinkers, film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers, filmmakers, sound practitioners, multimedia semioticians, philosophers of perception – we invite these and others to submit proposals for 20 minute panel presentations. All accepted presentations will be considered for inclusion in the CINESONIKA issue of The Soundtrack academic journal if expanded into papers and submitted for peer review (1000-3000 words for short articles, 5000-6000 words for long papers).
We look forward to receiving your entries to the European Media Art Festival competition, with new works. You’re invited to send us films, videos, installation- and performance projects or expanded media works. Please use the online forms for all submissions.
The call for applications for the III Moscow international Biennale for Young Art is open to artists whose age at the time of Biennale opening does not exceed 35 years working in contemporary art using the latest strategies, concepts and technologies (works can be submitted: individual, collective or as part of curatorial project).
The One Minute Festival was created in 1991. It is today the biggest video festival in Latin America, having inspired minute festivals in several countries around the globe.
The 14th edition of the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will take place March 6-15, 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic.
Dan Cameron, Founding Director of U.S. Biennial and Artistic Director for Prospect New Orleans, announced today the list of artists and venues to be featured in Prospect.2, the second edition of the international contemporary art biennial. Opening October 22, 2011 and on view through January 29, 2012, Prospect.2 is currently planned to feature 26 local, national and international artists with diverse cultural and generational backgrounds working in a range of artistic media.
