In the frame of Damascus culture capital AllArtNow are sending open Call for Submission to the 1st Video Art Festival taking place at AllArtNow in December 2008. The festival focuses on the presentation and discussion of low budget and experimental video art.
The 2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe aims to explore and unfold the concept of the polygraphic into marginal and experimental creative practices working with contemporary art and graphic design. Over a dozen polygraphic platforms will be presented between June 2008 and June 2009,concluding in a large scale presentation opening in April 2009 that will consist of solo and group exhibitions, magazines, posters, artists’ books, postcards, wallpapers, flyers, billboards, among others.
For the 5th year in a row TERMINAL/00/ is staging a platform to present, promote and discuss contemporary Balkan art, where both emerging and already established artists from the Balkan region are invited to display their works. Established in 2004, TERMINAL/00/ has since become a major international event for contemporary Balkan art. Located in London, in the midst of the vibrant cultural scene, TERMINAL/00/ has received an enthusiastic response from the public as an experimental, forward-looking and contextual contemporary mixed show. The four editions of Balkan Art Week thus far have to date explored a variety of exhibition formats, visual arts, live music, DJ’s, multimedia, performing arts, public talks, open forums and lectures.
The first edition of [bracket] is centered around the theme of farming. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. From terraforming to foodsheds to crowdsourcing, farming often involves the management of the natural mediated by the technologic. Farming, beyond its most common agricultural understanding is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.
The Newport Beach Film Festival will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with an action-packed line up of independent and studio films from around the globe. From premieres of contemporary cinema, to live fashion shows, and tastes of Newport Beach’s finest culinary creations, we are offering filmmakers the ultimate Festival experience.
After a short break, Vienna’s festival for visualizing electronic music will return and begin its third round full of sophisticated, fresh, new features!
The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 will take place from June 15th to October 4th 2009. The exhibitions and events of the biennale will unfold along the coastline of Palaio Faliro, at a short distance from the city centre, the public beach called ‘Eden’, in various buildings and public spaces.
The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival Call for Submission is now open. The Festival accepts films of all genres and lengths directed and co-directed by women. If you are one such filmmaker send us your stuff! If not, please help us spread the word!
Pasted below is an entry form and guidelines for your review. Please read through our guidelines thoroughly as some things have changed. We will also be on the Withoutabox.com web site shortly.
Five writers will be commissioned to develop chapters for a networked book about networked art. The chapters will be open for revision, commentary, and translation by online collaborators. Each commissioned writer will receive $3,000 (US).
n.paradoxa publishes work by women writers, artists and curators which discusses the work of contemporary women artists (visual arts only) and its relationship to feminist theory. It has an open submission for every volume and no regular contributors.
IDEODROME 2008 presents seven video projects by Cypriot artists. This year’s theme is “Off Screen” and explores the relationship between reality and image, between what exists and it’s reflection.
PULSE was launched in 2002 in partnership with the UK Film Council’s New Cinema Fund.
The ambition is to produce a new generation of film-makers who use digital technology creatively to tell stories in groundbreaking ways.
Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins College that aims to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic and critical practices.
Fugitive Projects announces an open call to artists for video of one minute or less.
The last three Lyon Biennials of Contemporary Art made up a kind of trilogy on the question of the present. A present awaited, feared, perhaps self-contained; the polymorphous present of the 2007 Biennial, with its 50 curators from all over the world. The issue was to explore the new temporality that marks the societies of our time: that seemingly infinite perpetual present, with no before and no after.
This was also the opportunity to look at the system of biennials, their critical function and their contribution to the history of art and of the world.
As a parallel event to the exhibition, the international conference “IN TRANSITION: Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux” has been organised by the Ural State University named after A. M. Gorky, the Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art and NeMe (Cyprus)
In 1989, Carole Kismaric published the book “Forced Out: The Agony of The Refugee In Our Time,” which was also a monumental travelling exhibition. It was a most effective reflection on displaced persons, integrating images and text that gave testimony to the aftermath of famine and war at that time. The exhibition was composed of larger than life photographs of displaced people printed on film so that not only was the viewer dwarfed by the images and text, but the transparent images produced haunting slightly moving shadows on the wall behind the hanging film. The impact of the work was all the more palpable because of the inclusion of text by people who experienced a cataclysm.
Ars Electronica invites artists and scientists to submit proposals for new and novel ways to connect, in real time, people to people and people to environments in different physical locations. The goal is to expand and explore meaningful exchanges between remote groups of people.
Films can be selected for the Main Competition, Right to Know Competition, Short Forms Competition and non-competitive thematic categories.
Approximately ten first feature films, twenty first short films, twenty animated films and about thirty films made by students from European film schools are selected for the competition by a Selection Committee.
