Contravision 16
visions contra total television. your film in the spotlight. the audience selects the winners of the contravision awards.
4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival
Together with interfilm berlin the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin is calling for submissions for the 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival. From 9 to 12 October 2008 an international jury will decide the winner of the 4th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival.
Unimovie 12
The 12th edition of Unimovie – International Video and Short Film Festival – will take place in Pescara (Italy), from the 1st to the 4th of October 2008.
11th International Architecture Exhibition
The 11th International Architecture Exhibition entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, directed by Aaron Betsky and organised by La Biennale di Venezia presided over by Paolo Baratta, will take place in Venice from Sunday, September 14th to Sunday, November 23rd 2008. The preview will be on September 11th, 12th and 13th.
Artist-designed political yard signs
Yard signs are as ubiquitous and familiar to the American political landscape as baby-kissing and stump speeches, combining catchy images and pithy campaign slogans to increase visibility for vying candidates and their parties’ messages. In honor of this election season, “My Yard Our Message” turns this tradition of political ephemera on its ear with a unique national competition: we’re putting the message and the creative design for these political yard signs in the hands of artists and then—in true democratic fashion—you, the people, will vote among the entries to determine a selection of fifty winners, whose designs will be made available to order as full-sized political yard-signs after August 1.
The Mirror Stage - update
Due to the volume of entries we received the selection process for “The Mirror Stage” has taken us longer than we expected. The participating artists will be notified by email and their names will be announced in this site by 10 June 2008.
Montreal International Festival of Nouveau Cinema 37
The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma is committed to highlighting and contributing to the development of new trends in cinema and new media. It is a showcase for new, original works, particularly in the fields of independent cinema and digital creation. The Festival’s programming is divided into main sections regrouping more than 300 short and feature length films.
SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL 2008
The international festival of new film will take place from 13th to 20th of September 2008. All submissions must include a VHS (PAL, NTSC) preview tape or CD-ROM, DVD as applicable accompanied by an entry form completed in Croatian or English along with the supporting documentation.
Issue VII, Creative Insubordination, Winter 2008
WANTED: Artist’s Writing, Artists who Write, Text-Based Work, Manifestos, “Classified Ads,” Letters to the Editor, Comics, Jokes, Food, Issue Specific Proposals, Multi Issue Ideas, Rants, Raves, Gobbledygook and other STUFF.
Art All Around
The Maine Center for Creativity announces an open call for a juried design competition for a major public art work using Portland, Maine’s Sprague Energy Corporation 16 of more than 35 above ground storage tanks as a canvas. From land, sea and air, the Sprague “tank farm” is a prominent feature on the Portland Harbor. It is seen by nearly everyone who passes through Portland on travels, and is a familiar sight for those who live here. Viewers see the tank farm from many vantage points and from various speeds.
paraflows08 - festival for digital arts and cultures
The term utopia, ‘the non-place’, derived from old Greek ‘u-’, non, and ‘tópos’, place, denotes a ‘nowhere’ which is untraceable and therefore projecting all longing into an unreachable beyond. Utopia is therefore an imagination which is thinkable as an idea, yet is not directly realisable. It is the great dream, concept, and vision of a world or a time with a new social, religious or technical order.
amber 08
BIS is organizing the annual international art and new media festival in Istanbul in 7-16 November 2008. The multi-event platform will include stage performances, interactive installations, workshops, artist presentations and seminars. The theme is Inter-passive persona.
Interactivity is celebrated and enjoyed for the comfort and convenience it brings into our lives, and the aesthetic and practical possibilities it opens up for all creative activity. Efficiency, speed, fluidity, a frictionless flow of things, precision of form and an infinite multiplication of virtual possessions in the digital universe come to mind. Interactive technologies rearticulate our relations to ourselves and to others.
SCOPE Basel 2008
Basel – SCOPE, the cutting-edge contemporary art fair, returns for the second year to Basel in a new venue, a 60,000 square foot glass pavilion situated on the Rhine. Within walking distance of Art Basel 39, SCOPE will present its most international fair yet, showcasing 85 galleries from all over the world.
Oslo Screen Festival 2008
Oslo Screen Festival is an event organized in the year of Cultural Diversity 2008 in Norway. Screen focuses on innovative and experimental works within the field of video art, and this year encourages artists and filmmakers to approach the theme of alterity / identity in their works.
MEMEFEST 2008
The regular competition has three main divisions: Communications Studies, Sociology and Visual Arts. It’s open to undergraduate and graduate students. Students can register their works in one or more categories. However, a particular work can compete in one category only.
The Abraaj Capital Prize 2009
Recognised curators from any nationality are invited to submit one or more proposals for separate exhibitions with individual artists currently working in the Middle East, North Africa or South Asia. Each successful proposal will receive up to $200,000 to include production costs, transport and travel for both curator and artist. Included in the budget will be a fee of $15,000 for the curator.
The final exhibitions will be shown at Art Dubai in March 2009.
Globalisation and Identity
In the early 1990’s, two major changes were taking place in Croatia: political and territorial independence from ex Yugoslavia and the first wave of economic globalisation. As you may know, globalisation is the economic model that, after the break up of European socialist countries, with the help of the new technologies (the Internet, mobile networks etc.), created new ways of making profit. Two opposite social processes were the consequence of that: degradation of national economies and proliferation of particular cultural identities.
NeMe reBlog
We started a new experimental service in our site where we hope to provide curated information from sites we visit.
25th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
For its 25th anniversary edition the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival invites you from November 11 to 16, 2008 to Kassel to show the diversity and current tendencies of documentary work. On six days the festival presents about 230 international documentary films as well as experimental and artistic works. Together with its further three intermedia sections, the profile of the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival is unique: The exhibition MONITORING transfers the medium film from the cinema to the context of an exhibition in presenting contemporary media installations in addition to the film screenings. It is complemented with an audiovisual live program in the DokfestLounge as well as the interdisciplinary conference interfiction.
Frieze Writer's Prize 2008
The award will be judged in 2008 by Tate Triennial curator Nicolas Bourriaud, frieze co-editor Jennifer Higgie and Guardian critic Adrian Searle.
