Imagine: Towards an eco-aesthetic

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.’

War and the Body

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 3

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.

Finishing Funds 2010

FINISHING FUNDS 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.

Message to Man Film Festival

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.

Prix Ars Electronica 2010

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.

BIO 22

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.

Igor Zabel Competition

The Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, invites curators to enter for the third Igor Zabel Competition

EXPERIMENTA UTOPIA NOW

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.

acoustic space 8

ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy. Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8)

Piksel10

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.

Motion Portraiture and Self-Portraiture

Open Call for Artworks of Motion Portraiture and Self-Portraiture

Montehermoso 2010

Montehermoso presents the Art and Research call, the aim being to facilitate the production, diffusion and exhibition of contemporary art projects.

5th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival

For the 5th time, the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and interfilm Berlin are inviting entries for this competition to choose the best poetry films!.

Animal Movements - Moving Animals

A symposium on direction, velocity and agency in humanimal encounters

SPECS Journal Toy Edition

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.

BIFF 2010

BFF was established in 1998 as the first international competitive film festival in New York. BFF’s primary goal is to connect filmmakers to distribution companies and expose them to the media.

21st FIDMarseille

The Marseille International Documentary Film Festival is organised to promote cinema by presenting films to broadcasters, the media and the public.

Napolidanza 17

An International Jury – consisting of eminent cultural world and performing arts personalities – will assign the following awards:

EMAF 2010

Productions by internationally renowned media artists and the innovative works of new masters from the academies will be presented at the 23nd European Media Art Festival. The EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, gallery owners and an audience of specialists, the festival has a great impact on the topic and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of new experimental films, performances, lectures, an exhibition and the Media Campus.