Investigations of Place

Author and theorist Lucy Lippard defines “place” as “space plus memory.” Separate from landscape art, investigations of place explore how the landscapes of personal places such as homelands, childhood homes, and ancestral spaces take on new forms when combined with memories and individual experiences. We are asking for submissions that successfully use video to illustrate personal narratives imprinted on landscapes, and landscapes imprinted on personal narratives, videos that use experimental imagery to explore how spaces are remade once they are remaining in the mind, and videos that strive to define and delve into the concept of place.

53rd Venice Biennale

The President of the Venice Biennale, Paolo Baratta, along with the Director of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Daniel Birnbaum, met today in Venice the representatives of the nations participating in the 53rd Exhibition, to be held between 7th June and 22nd November 2009 in the Giardini and Arsenale main venues (preview: 4th, 5th and 6th June), and elsewhere in Venice.

55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen: this is short film in its most concentrated form. Some 450 films are screened in six days, with around 1,100 accredited industry professionals – filmmakers, festival programmers, curators, buyers, journalists and distributors from nearly 50 different countries – flocking to Oberhausen for this annual event. They appreciate the short routes between venues, the opportunity to discover completely new works in the competitions or to rediscover old favourites in the thematic programmes, the close contact with the audience, intensive discussions and long nights.

Factory @ MoBY

MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam, Israel) is inviting artists and groups of all the cultural fields to submit proposals for works/actions for Factory, an international exhibition that will open at the end of May 2009.

1st Video Art Festival, Damascus

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.

2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe

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.

Terminal00 - OBSESSION

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.

Bracket 1

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.

Newport Beach Film Festival 2009

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.

sound:frame festival 2009

After a short break, Vienna’s festival for visualizing electronic music will return and begin its third round full of sophisticated, fresh, new features!

2nd Athens Biennale 2009: HEAVEN

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.

12th Annual MadCat Women's International Film Festival

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.

Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art)

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: international feminist art journal

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: Off Screen

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 and Digital Nation, London

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 journal call

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 2009 - 60 Second Video Series

Fugitive Projects announces an open call to artists for video of one minute or less.

Catherine David curator for Lyon Biennial 2009

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.

IN TRANSITION: Cultural Identities in the Age of Transnational and Transcultural Flux

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)