SURVIVAL 8 will take place in the Strzegomski Bunker, located at the intersection of Strzegomska, Braniborska and Legnicka. The bunker, built in 1942 as one of several air-raid shelters for civilians, is nowadays unavailable to citizens, provoking questions about the relevance of similar buildings in the city development. Holding the Review in such a unique place, which used to be a substitute of a safe refuge in the wartime, prompts artistic references to a whole reservoir of notions connected with the subject of degradation, falling into oblivion, but also transformation, rebuilding and giving hope.
The 17th Chicago Underground Film Festival is now accepting submissions for our 17th festival to be held June 24 – July 1 2010 at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Female Shorts: Film & Video Showcase celebrates cinematic works of women in the arts. This showcase is dedicated and focused to seeking out and promoting cinema created by and for women. The showcase is part of the Virginia Commission for the Arts 2010 statewide celebration, Minds Wide Open, which celebrates women in the arts.
In the autumn of 2009, Rasheed Araeen, editor of the respected periodical on art and culture Third Text, launched a frontal attack on the modern ego and the recuperation of the avant-garde. Instead of the continued rigid production of objects and a stubborn anchoring in art institutions, Araeen pleads for a collective artistic imagination as the only road towards ‘[…] rivers and lakes of clean water, collective farms and the planting of trees all over the world.’
How is the body in war transformed, classified, displayed, utilised, represented and produced through the visual art form? What do these visual forms show us about war and its transformative power? To what extent does the artist embody war through the lived creative process?
specs is now accepting critical and/or creative work for the 3rd volume on the theme of “Toys.” For those who wish to submit work to specs, please read the following guidelines.
FINISHINGFUNDS provides media and new media artists with grants up to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies.
Documentary films (max duration 120 min), short fiction and animated films (max duration 40 min), which were completed after January 1st 2009, may take part in the International competition. The date of production is determined by the copyright printed on the film.
Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society.
The Biennial of Industrial Design (known by its Slovene acronym as BIO) is a comparative international design exhibition at which designers, commissioners, manufacturers and students from all over the world present their latest achievements.
Experimenta Utopia Now International Biennial of Media Art chases the dream of a perfect world. Showcasing more than 35 works from countries including Australia, Japan, Austria, India, Germany, Canada, France, Taiwan and the UK, Experimenta Utopia Now critiques the scope for happiness on earth as we know it, pokes fun at social and physical boundaries and questions the human race’s ability to preserve itself.
Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised 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 FLOSS & art.
specs is now accepting critical and/or creative work for the 3rd volume on the theme of “Toys.” For those who wish to submit work to specs, please read the following guidelines.
