Like previous years we are looking for new video art works and short films, media installations, live audiovisual performances, network based projects… In addition, we are very glad to receive proposals from curators and producers/distributors for the non-competitive special screenings.
call for fiction, documentaries, animation and experimental films
We are still reeling from the stunning success of Futuresonic 2009. Our award winning festival drew an attendance of 75,000, and featured a huge range of incredible artistic projects including many world-firsts. It is thrilling to be in the middle of a quantum leap, and such an incredible year has given us huge momentum leading into 2010.
Punkt Ø proudly presents Favoured Nations, the biennial showcasing the work of artists with a background from, or a connection to the Nordic region. The exhibition features 31 artists and groups spread across two outstanding and strikingly different venues – Momentum Kunsthall and Galleri F15. Favoured Nations is the fifth edition of Momentum and has been curated by Lina Džuverović and Stina Högkvist.
The film festival aims to promote new films, familiarize filmgoers and professionals with world cinema news and support development of Georgian film industry by holding of workshops, master classes, panel discussions and pitching sessions.
The SIGGRAPH 2010 juried art exhibition showcases work by artists who physically engage technology in their creative process. Beyond the sense of sight, the exhibition brings together creative works that investigate, celebrate, and critique the polysensory nature of human experience in a digitally enhanced environment.
Art TLV, the International art biennial to be held September 10-24, 2009, will be the main art event of Tel Aviv-Yafo’s centennial celebrations, featuring leading contemporary Israeli and International artists creating exhibitions, installations, performances, screenings and talks throughout the city.
Following the success of the first edition of Art TLV in 2008, Art TLV biennial now coincides with the Athens and Istanbul biennials to foster contemporary art experimentation and exchange in the Mediterranean cultural triangle. Art TLV 09 will be attended by curators, writers, and art enthusiasts from around the world to explore the city’s bourgeoning contemporary art scene, World Heritage Architecture, and the multiple culture identities and developments in the city.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed. (The law of conservation of energy)
The 11th edition of “Art+Communication” festival in Riga with this year’s theme: Energy, will investigate the notion of ‘sustainable development’ from various perspectives – artistic, scientific, cultural, technological, social, architectural, and environmental.
Curated and designed by Adi Englman, Meir Kordevani, Toony Navok, the publishers and the co-editors of Picnic Magazine
Herzliya 2009: an urban, nocturnal and festive group show, to be held for one week in Herzliya’s city center, 3-10 October 2009.
EHMN aims to produce and distribute creative documentaries linked to the European identity, made by new media artists from different European countries using video documents coming from family sources and/or home movie archives.
Organized by the MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain and FRAC Lorraine, Metz (Fonds regional d’art contemporain de Lorraine), France, the purpose of the MARCO/FRAC Lorraine Award for Young Curators is to offer participants the chance to execute an exhibition project to occupy MARCO’s first floor and the exhibition venues at FRAC Lorraine. Entries will focus on the field of contemporary artistic creation and contemplate the participation of two or more artists.
The Arts and Culture Network Program of the OSI invites project proposals for the Second Roma/Gypsy Pavilion to be realized within the framework of the 54th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale 2011.
This year Square Eyes will present an evening with short films and live cinema performances in collaboration with Art Festival Made In Arnhem.
EvoMUSART 2010 is the eight workshop of the EvoNet working group on Evolutionary Music and Art. Following the success of previous events and the growth of interest in the field, the main goal of EvoMUSART 2010 is to bring together researchers who are using biologically inspired techniques for artistic tasks, providing the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in this area.
This festival is to be screened at Herron School of Art and Design in the Basile Auditorium in conjunction with the photography and video exhibition Between History and Memory. Herron is located on the campus of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). The screening will take place on Wednesday October 28th, 2009.
The 2010 Bat-Yam Biennale invites projects that examine the city’s “flexible” nature in relation to both infrastructures and resources, offering innovative uses for spaces that are under construction, transforming them into functional, temporal urban spaces.
We are looking for 6 contemporary visual artists to develop project proposals for Nine Trades of Dundee. The criteria is as follows: The artist must be a practicing contemporary artist. The artist must currently also work in another non- arts related trade or industry to economically sustain their practice.
This year, for the seventh time, Zagreb Film Festival will take place in Zagreb, in the premises of Zagreb University Student centre and cinema Europa from 18th to 24th October 2009. Its aim is to make the Croatian public acquainted with new film directors and their first or second films, and to induce creative meetings of international and local film artists and thus to make a positive impact on the development of film production and culture in Croatia.
Cimatics – Brussels International Festival for Live Audiovisual Art & VJing – invites all artists, creatives and producers to send their submissions for the next Cimatics festival.
VIDA 12.0 awards art projects developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. Of particular interest are works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own. Funded by the Fundación Telefónica in Spain, VIDA has given prizes in previous editions to artistic projects created with robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user interaction, interactive architectures, augmented reality pieces and works that explore the social aspects of A-life.
