transmediale Award 2010

As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and CTM (club transmediale) are inviting submissions to the transmediale Award Competition 2010 and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award 2010. Invited are art works, projects and positions that respond to the challenges of our rapidly changing digital, technological and networked cultures. The transmediale Award seeks innovative, experimental and visionary works across a wide scope of form, process and practice that embrace, question and enrich our understanding and relationship to our immersed media and technologically driven society. Entries that exemplify new and critical forms of digital expression and interaction are encouraged, as are works from countries and regions in which digital art and culture are emergent. Submissions of art works for both festivals participate in the transmediale Award 2010 while theoretical abstracts, papers and research oriented positions are invited for the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, with prizes totaling €10.000.

Piksel09

Piksel [1] 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.

PIXILERATIONS [V.6]

PIXILERATIONS [V.6] invites artists, musicians and film/video makers to submit work that investigates the current economic collapse which has reset thinking across all sectors of the social and cultural landscape. Tom Friedman, in a recent NY Times op-ed article, spoke of 2008 as the year of “The Great Disruption,” a title coined by Australian environmentalist, Paul Gilding. To combat the downward spiral of the country, President Obama is working to “stimulate” the economy and through some of his initiatives to develop a new philosophy for the U.S. to live by. We believe the continued ingenuity of artists can encourage us all to envision a future that provides a more sustainable and compassionate outlook for the country and the world.

Siggraph 2009

We live in a world of unprecedented complexity, where humanity, nature, and technology must adapt to rapidly changing conditions. Digital technology can provide new answers to these challenges, but it can also pose new problems. We are living with an explosion of data and connectivity, where every person has access to many orders of magnitude more information than our parents.

Subjectivity in Portraiture

In Barthes ‘closed field of forces’, the intentions of the artist and sitter come into conflict. Once the resulting portrait is presented to the viewer a third subjectivity comes into play, creating a vibrant trialogue of interpretation, intent, meaning and difference. Can any participant in this trialogue claim neutrality? Does an artist’s desire for neutrality immediately prevent its achievement? What role can modern tools of artistic creation play in the quest for neutrality? Moving image/video artists are invited to respond to this theme with new work, or work made in the last 5 years, that explores subjectivity in portraiture, through video art, short film and/or documentary film-making.

Holland Animation Film Festival 2009

The Holland Animation Film Festival organizes various competitions. The international competitions are the competition for independent animated shorts and the competition for applied animation. The deadline for entering these competitions is July 1, 2009.

Betting on Shorts: More than a Eurovision of Shortfilm

We would like to invite filmmakers from around the world to submit short films (animation, music video, artist films, narrative, documentary etc.) up to 10 minutes on the theme ‘Control’.

10th Cuenca Biennial

The Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador, continues its consolidation process as a forum open to all expressions of contemporary visual arts with no reservations regarding format or medium. Under this premise the Biennial is taking solid steps toward a renewed cultural policy committed to principles of artistic integration that do not limit themselves to holding imposing exhibitions every two years, but that arrange continuous programs of dissemination of an educational and theoretical nature to sponsor an effective introduction to contemporary artistic manifestations for all segments of the community.

Artistic Director of documenta 13

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has been elected the Artistic Director of the documenta 13, which is scheduled to take place from June 9th, 2012 to September 16th, 2012 in Kassel.

Curator announced for 6th Berlin Biennial

KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin is pleased to announce that Kathrin Rhomberg has been appointed curator of the 6th berlin biennial for contemporary art. The 6th berlin biennial will take place in spring 2010.

Poznań 16th International Sculpture Triennial

Culture Centre “Zamek,” organiser of Poznań 2009 16th International Sculpture Triennial, announces that submission of works for Poznań 2009 16th International Sculpture Triennial exhibition, which shall be held in “Zamek” Culture Centre in Poznań from October 3 – November 15, 2009, is now open.

Frieze Writer's Prize 2009

frieze, the leading magazine for contemporary art and culture, is inviting entries for the Frieze Writer’s Prize 2009. Frieze Writer’s Prize was established in 2006 and is presented annually. The aim of the prize is to promote and encourage new critics from across the world, and many of the previous winners and commended entrants, including Mia Jankowicz and Jeffrey Ryan, have gone on to contribute frequently to frieze magazine.

Video Vortex 2009

On 22-23 May, 2009 the fourth edition of Video Vortex will take place in Split, Croatia. It is organized by the Department of Film and Video at the Academy of Arts University of Split and Platforma 9.8, in collaboration with the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam. After previous Video Vortex events in Brussels, Amsterdam and Ankara, Video Vortex Split will focus on the moving image on the Web.

onedotzero - adventures in motion

onedotzero_adventures in motion is one of the few truly international showcases of innovative talent where it is entirely free for creatives to submit their work, offering the opportunity for new and existing talents to gain global audiences and recognition for their artistry.

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2009

All types, forms and sizes of sculpture in all materials are eligible for entry to Sculpture by the Sea. The exhibition site can accommodate the largest to the smallest sculpture, however when submitting works artists are required to consider safety, ease of installation and removal, the environment and the ability of their work to withstand sun, extremely strong wind, rain, salt spray and playful children climbing on the sculpture.

2nd Thessaloniki Biennial

Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty is the theme and title of this year’s 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art, which the State Museum of Contemporary Art/ Costakis Collection is putting together from the 24th May until the 27th of September 2009. Curators of the 2nd Biennale are Olabisi Silva from Nigeria, Gabriela Salgado from Argentina and Syrago Tsiara, director of the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki.

IV Mobilefest 2009

How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture, art, ecology, peace, education, health and third-sector?

SIMULTAN 05: Trans:position

The festival wishes to sustain and to stimulate the creative ways of the most modern visions of perceiving and recording the cultural realities in contemporary art. It presents the current processes and the way in which technology and society give rise to new forms of artistic expression by using the new media.

22nd European Media Art Festival

Productions by internationally renowned media artists and the innovative works of new masters from the academies will be presented at the 22nd 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.

MediaArtLab, Moscow: Media Forum 2009

Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is held since 1959 and gradually it has become one of most respectable and prestigious film-forums in the world. In 1973 MIFF was registered by the International Federation of Film-producers associations (FIAPF) as an “A” class film festival alongside with those in Berlin, Cannes, San-Sebastian, Karlovy Vary and Venice.