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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)

In Transition Russia 2008

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.

Live Bits

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.

One World

Films can be selected for the Main Competition, Right to Know Competition, Short Forms Competition and non-competitive thematic categories.

Festival Premiers Plans - 21st edition

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.

WRO 09 Expanded City

WROCenter for Media Art Foundation announces the international competition WRO 09 Expanded City.

VideoDance

We are pleased to invite submissions for the Videodansa, Barcelona Prize, the international competition held as part of IDN – Image, Dance and New media.

Periferic 8 - Art as Gift

Periferic initiated in 1997 by the Romanian artist Matei Bejenaru started as a performance festival, which organically developed into an international art biennial organized in Iasi, the second university city in Romania.

Pixelache 2009

Pixelache Helsinki is looking for projects and ideas related to following themes…

Videologia V

The Festival is held in Volgograd (former Stalingrad) every year in autumn during five years. It is one of advanced and acknowledged international projects realized in the sphere of actual arts in Russia. The festival Videologia is developing and aspiring to become the straightforward forum of the actual trends of contemporary arts process.

Daily Constitutional Issue VII - Creative Insubordination

WANTED: Artist’s Writing, Artists who Write, Text-Based Work, Manifestoes, “Classified Ads,” Letters to the Editor, Comics, Jokes, Food, Issue Specific Proposals, Multi Issue Ideas, Rants, Raves, Gobbledygook and other STUFF.

5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale

The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (media_city seoul 2008) will be held in Seoul Museum of Art from September 12 to November 5, 2008. Seoul International Media Art Biennale has continued and prospered the event and its quality through the past four Biennale since 2000, being much recognized both domestically and internationally as a notable media art festival.

Culture2Culture - Tricky Women 2009

Tricky Women is the first and only festival of animated film that is dedicated exclusively to animation by women. Since 2007 it has been held annually in Vienna each March.

The Mirror Stage - Press Release

NeMe, in collaboration with Lanitis Foundation and the Cyprus University of Technology presents “The Mirror Stage,” a video program and talks at Lanitis Foundation and other places in the Limassol city centre.

U-Turn

The focal point of the quadrennial is the notion of the U-TURN as a movement and a radical change of direction. Art stands in a dynamic relation to changes in contemporary culture, and it is in itself an expression of cultural processes. With U-TURN sights can be set in new directions – offering a new outlook for the audience and new insights into critical cultural self-awareness.

PIXXELPOINT 2008 - International New Media Art Festival

How the media change the way we imagine / represent / honour / curse the divinity

Whether we like it or not, spirituality has shaped the evolution of the media, and in turn has been amply influenced by it. Two of the most effective technological brand identities, the Big Brother symbol and the Second Life logo, are blatantly inspired by the divine eye. “God games” are among the most popular videogames, and our passion for high tech gadgets is akin to idolatry. The total absorption commanded by videogame playing, right down to the position adopted by players, is our new form of prayer.

Madrid Abierto 2009-2010

Reflecting from the stance of contemporary art practice on cultural, social and political environment, the purpose of this call for applications is to select artists to produce interventions of a temporary or ephemeral nature aimed at contributing to activate the public space. The initiative includes two specific projects for the Casa de América and Círculo de Bellas Artes buildings, which will be incorporated into Madrid Abierto with other invited projects and selected sonorous and audiovisual works.

Interfilm Berlin 24

Within the scope of the 24th International Short Film Festival Berlin, between the 4th and 9th of November 2008, the agency Zucker.Kommunikation and interfilm Berlin will jointly hold

The 4th Bucharest Biennale under the curatorship of Felix Vogel

Felix Vogel chose as theme of research for BB4 Handlung. On Producing Possibilities. BB4 takes the ambiguity of the German term “Handlung” – that is impossible to translate in all its levels of meaning, but it is somehow located between action, activity, agency and participation, but at the same time it could also mean story or even narration – as a starting point to examine diverse practices, which are proposing various forms of action. BB4 attempts to scrutinize and to exhaust the promise – that might just be a supposition – of art taking place in the public sphere and is it thus creating possibilities for (political) action or does the artwork itself has already inherited this moment of action? Therefore, the exhibition rather tries to articulate questions and suggests different prospects than to formulate answers. The biennial aims to intensify the interaction with the urban and political context in Bucharest by inviting participants, coming from different fields like arts, architecture, politics, anthropology etc.