This year, for the sixth time, “Zagreb Film Festival” will take place in Zagreb, in the premises of Zagreb University Student centre and cinema Europa from 19th to 25th October 2008. 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.
The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing, and the NAMU research group.
Which inventions make resistance easier? Which ideas undermine the system? Where are revolutionary forces lurking? What can we do to successfully dissolve hegemonies?
As the first trade fair for counter culture and resistance technology the Subversive Fair presents recent works which constructively undermine hegemonic power structures, and appropriate the production of public space. Subversive highlights from the realms of (political) interventions, (anti)fashion, (an)architecture, performance, artistic provocation, (satiric) art, hacktivism and actions will be presented. The artists will be present and visitors can participate in DIY- workshops, action tours, lectures, product presentations, and film screenings. This enables a direct transfer of knowledge and know-how and pushes the idea of an international, long-term conspiratorial network. The duration (four days), structure, organisation, ambience and setting of the Subversive Fair is modelled on conventional fairs.
Widely acknowledged as the international centre of the European Community, Brussels inaugurates its first contemporary art biennial in 2008. The Brussels Biennial responds to the ever-increasing impact of Brussels and its potential to provide a specific context for the presentation of contemporary art. Characterized by its intuitive insight into the art scene of the highly urbanized region between the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany, the biennial takes place from October 2008 through January 2009. With contributions from more than 40 international artists, the biennial incorporates exhibitions by experimental art institutions in Brussels. It represents a first step in a larger project designed as a trans-national endeavour that will unfold in two steps until 2010.
Espace Videographe, the programming division of Videographe, invites artists, curators, art centres and galleries to submit proposals for video art programs and media-arts exhibitions.
Every year Espace Videographe presents seven activities in different venues, and in partnership with other cultural organizations. Since its founding in 1998, Espace Videographe has been devoted to promoting and exhibiting video art in its various forms and through its relationships with other artistic disciplines.
ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual dvd publication, is currently seeking time-based documentation of artwork in the public sphere for Volume 13: Public. Expanding the notion of public art, this issue will focus on artists’ interventions within civic space, ephemeral or monumental.
How does code dream? What are the dreams of code?
Piksel08 examines the other side of code, an alternative side to a hard-coded reality of work and play. Open hardware and free software project a utopic vision, yet exist within economies of capital, the dream factory of mainstream technology. Within the chance meeting of sewing machine and umbrella on the dissecting table, hardware and software are flattened.
Piksel08: code dreams explores the dreams of this soft machine; bachelors coding for pleasure, reverse engineering paranoiac constructs of the real, automatic coding practice, soft hardware, and everyday magic.
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig – is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films.
Artistic animated film is an integral part of the festival for decades and is represented with its own, independent competition since 1995. This ‘twin-track character’ makes Leipzig unique in the festival landscape.
Tehran 13th international and 25th national short film festival will take place November 12th to 17th , 2008.
As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, respectively, transmediale and club transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale Award competition and the Vilém Flusser Theory Award.
The Open Wall, a 80 × 30 pixels resolution 201 inch LED screen.
ITovation, a project by the Faculty for Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, NTNU, and Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre, TEKS, invites you to an open art competition!
More than 400 films will be shown during the six days of the festival and an estimated 100 films will be nominated to compete in several competitions giving prizes worth 40.000,- (60.000,- US$). International juries will award the ‘interfilm Short Awards’ in the following categories:
Public Art Norway (KORO) invites artists working within the fields of visual art, arts and craft and other visual expressions designers, to participate in a pre-qualifying round for two large-scale and distinctive commissions, a 3000m^2^ concrete floor and the second-floor foyer.
“We are looking for video art which, today, is already part of tomorrow’s breeding ground,” says Georg Elben, curator of the VIDEONALE 12. Quo vadis video art – this is the question the VIDEONALE at the Bonn Kunstmuseum has addressed every two years since 1984. As of now all artists are invited to apply for the VIDEONALE 12 with a video created in the past two years.
VIDA 11.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. We are looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own. VIDA 11.0 is searching for projects that relate technology with biology and that research the synthetic characteristics of modern life.
NeMe has received 634 individual video submissions from 312 video makers collectively amounting to over 120 hours continuous viewing. This meant that the time we needed to preview all the works was much longer than we initially anticipated.
/seconds invites open responses to issue No.9 on Vanishing Points: Virtuous and Vicious Circles
Works in all media accepted.
The London Prize Jury includes film curators from the ICA, Tate Modern, London Shortfilm Festival, BFI and LUX. Local Prize Juries in participating cities to be announced.
Please join us in the SCOPE BASEL VIP Lounge to celebrate Perpetual Art Machine’s first show in the elite fine art landscape of Basel Switzerland and to commemorate the video art legend Nam June Paik. Paik was credited over thirty years ago with coining the phrase “The future is now”. [PAM] asks what that means today in our rapidly changing world by re-presenting an ambitious program of five specially curated video projects originally organized for Scope New York 2008 by Jarrett Gregory, Robert Adanto, Yiannis Colakides and Helene Black, Andrew Erdos in addition to the newest incarnation of the [PAM] installation and a specially curated section by [PAM] founders Chris Borkowsky, Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells.
Special thanks to Scope Art Fairs, NeMe, and IFAC.
52 animated independent short films compete in the competition for independent animation. Deadline for entries is 15 July 2008. A Grand Prix will be appointed in the narrative section as well in the non-narrative section of this competition.
