The coming festival edition will present more than 400 films during six festival days in various competition categories and special programmes. Prizes valued at a total of €40,000 will be up for grabs for those films selected to run in competition.
The 17th International Short Film Festival in Drama will be held in the city of Drama, in Northern Greece, from 18 to 24 September, 2011. Events held during this period will include the 34th Greek Short Film Festival, the 17th International Short Film Festival, 5th digi2011 and other side events.
Rhizome awards grants to emerging artists for creation of new media art. By new media art, we mean projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies and works that reflect on the broader social and political impact of these tools and media in a variety of forms. Rhizome defines emerging artist as artists who exhibit great potential yet are not fully recognized within their field. Commissioned works can take the final form of web-based works, works that engage mobile platforms, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices. Rhizome Commissions awards generally range from $1,000 to $5,000.
Electrofringe is now calling for proposals for the 2011 festival as part of the This Is Not Art (TINA) group of festivals in Newcastle. The five-day festival of electronic arts and culture will take place from the 29th September – 3rd October, 2011.
TRANSFERA arrived to program number 50!
To celebrate it, Transfera TV, a space that broadcasts video art from Madrid (Orange, Euskaltel), offers the following programme the days:
Process of cinema digitalization, which at last is starting also in Slovenia, enables us to view new content in cinema halls. That includes video and it’d derivations (video document, video performance …).
EIKON announces a Europe-wide competition for photography on the subject of prohibitions in the space of art. This competition is directed at all those who think the discussion of conventions is important when it comes to dealing with art or our behaviour within spaces dedicated to art. An expert jury will choose the best works, which will then be shown in a three-week exhibition at Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Computers are extremely complex machines for which, since early times, their inner workings have to be hidden behind interfaces in order to use them. Software engineering and interface design have developed strategies of information hiding and functional segmentation to accomplish this. Systems like Doug Engelbart’s NLS, Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad, Alan Kay’s Dynabook, the Graphical User Interfaces, the iTunes Store, Facebook and Cloud Computing are examples of highly complex designs that show simplicity at their surface. People are not expected to know anything about what goes on at the backend.
The WRO Media Art Biennale is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in art and society.
Thierry Raspail, artistic director of the Lyon Biennale, has chosen Victoria Noorthoorn to curate the 11th edition, which will run from 15 September to 31 December 2011
Röda Sten and Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art present Sarat Maharaj as curator for the 2011 edition of the biennial. Theme: Pandemonium: Art in a Time of ‘Creativity Fever’
The next edition now has a title: “Essays on Geopoetics.” Aracy Amaral is the guest curator. Designers have created the logo. Curators have launched a blog. The curatorial team travels throughout Latin America.
Contemporary art, perceived as “…an art that comes close to the daily life, reflecting social, political, cultural, ideological, aesthetical issues, intertwining references of different areas of knowledge: sociology, philosophy, anthropology, design, architecture, cinema, theatre, music, dance, new technologies…” is the mirror of the recent aesthetic tendencies.
To participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, you must register online and submit all mandatory information online.
The Grand Rue Sculptors are a community of artists living in a down town popular neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In December 2009 the ‘Sculptors of Grand Rue’ hosted the 1st Ghetto Biennale 2009. Over forty artists, film-makers, academics, photographers, musicians, architects and writers came to the Grand Rue area of Port-Au-Prince to make or witness work, that was shown or happened in the neighbourhood.
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival seeks independent, unique and compelling work in film, video and animation.
Created in 1994, the International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary & Current Affairs Film, called now PriMed, helps give a better visibility to films dealing with the societies, history, heritage, and art in Mediterranean countries. The Festival also helps these films to get better distribution across the region.
EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, galleries and an audience of experts the festival has a great impact on the topics and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements from the pulsating area of “Media Art – Society”. The Festival sees itself as a place of experimentation and a laboratory where extraordinary works, experiments and ventures are created and presented.
Medialab-Prado and EOI Business School call for projects and papers that will investigate, analyse and represent through data the running of infrastructures and global systems. Selected projects will be collaboratively developed during the Visualizar’11: Understanding infrastructures workshop, that will be held in Madrid from June 16 to July 1, 2011.
The Marseille International Documentary Film Festival is organised to promote cinema by presenting films to broadcasters, the media and the public.
