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.

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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.

DISONANCIAS 3

Call for artists to collaborate on joint research projects with companies and organisations located in the Basque country, Spain.

DISONANCIAS is pleased to announce the call for proposals from international artists who wish to participate in its third annual edition.

28th Bienal de São Paulo

In 1951, in the introduction to his essay of the catalogue for the inaugural Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, the artistic director, Lourival Gomes Machado, wrote:

By definition, the Bienal should fulfill two major tasks: it should place Brazilian modern art, not in simple confrontation, but in living contact with the art of the world, and at the same time the Bienal should strive to position São Paulo as a world artistic center. (page 14).

The optimistic tone, the rhetoric filled with hope, the engagement with the age of reconstruction after the traumatic events of the Second World War, sound today like a prophecy, the setting out of an utopia, which after fifty-eight years has been realized: São Paulo has become an international artistic center, a cosmopolitan city, a reference in the globalized art scene, Brazil in turn has become a point of attraction for artists, curators, gallery owners, and international collectors. Brazilian artists occupy important positions within the history and discourse of post-war modernity and in the production of contemporary visuality. The objectives of 1951 have been accomplished.

3rd International Biennial Of Seville

In the global context of the information and communication society, the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville (Biacs3) will make a new map of Global Art, World Art, addressing the specific aspect of media, environment and technology. Under the title YOUniverse, the Biennial of Seville will show how contemporary art worldwide has changed through the influence of media, technology, science and architecture by fostering one main goal: the participation of the public and a new equation between man and his environment.

Harvestworks Digital Media Center | Video Art Festival #003

Founded by artists in 1977, Harvestworks Digital Media Center (HDMC) has helped a generation of artists create new works using technology. HDMC invites artists to submit videos of all types (experimental, animation, music video, documentary, silent, short, etc) for a guest curated video art festival. Works selected from this call, as well as by private invitation, will be featured in a series of themed screenings in September 2008.

CityRack competition

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT), in partnership with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the support of Google Inc and Transportation Alternatives, is pleased to announce an international design competition for new bicycle parking for the City of New York. As part of our effort to promote cycling as a sustainable, mainstream transportation option and in keeping with the environmental goals of PlaNYC 2030, DOT is seeking to tap the creative energy of the world design and art communities for this important element of street furniture.

2008 Taipei Biennial

The 6th Taipei Biennial, like our lives, is uncertain, fragmented and fragile. The project does not have a single theme, but a constellation of correlated themes, most of which address the chaotic states of things in this time of globalization. The exhibition engages with the city of Taipei in various ways.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen.

53rd Venice Biennale announces director

The Board of Directors of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta, held a meeting on 7th April 2008 in which it nominated Daniel Birnbaum as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with specific responsibility as curator of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, to be held in 2009.

CAFKA.09: Veracity

In this uncertain environment, could it be that our ability to evaluate truth is compromised? How will history be recorded and communicated to future generations? What if the asterisks were missing?

Shanghai Biennale 7

Our era sees an unprecedented scale of urban growth, especially in the developing world. In this process, cities grow in number, urban populations increase in size, and the proportion of the population living in urban areas rises. Urbanization is often the result of socio-economic development as an agricultural society transitions to a modern one. The theme of the 2010 Shanghai World Exposition, “Better city, better life?,” testifies to the importance of the reform and urban development agenda to China’s rise in the twenty-first century.

MANIFESTA news April 2008

MANIFESTA 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, is curated by Adam Budak, Anselm Franke / Hila Peleg and Raqs Media Collective. Manifesta 7 takes place in the Italian region of Trentino Alto Adige / Südtirol and opens for the public on 19 July, 2008.

EMAF 2008

The motto of this year’s European Media Art Festival is IDENTITY. Besides focusing on the issue of one’s own identity in a globalised world, the general changes associated with the expansion of digital technologies into all areas of private and public life will also be under discussion.

SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2008

The Singapore Biennale 2008 (SB2008), Singapore’s premier international contemporary visual arts event, will open to the public from 11 September to 16 November 2008. Organised by the National Arts Council, the Biennale will feature a total of more than 50 artists and art collectives from over 36 countries and regions including Singapore. Following the critical success of SB2006, this second edition will continue to be theof Singaporeans.

ENCATC

The European Cultural Foundation, the Riksbankens Jublileumsfond and the European Network of Cultural Administration and Training Centres (ENCATC) call for applications for the 5th Cultural Policy Research Award 2008.

Beall Center for Art and Technology

The Beall Center for Art and Technology seeks projects of high artistic merit that
use technology in innovative ways. We offer honorarium and project costs of up
to $20,000 to realize the project in our 2500 sqf space.

MOBILEFEST 2008

How can mobile technology contribute to democracy, culture, art, ecology, peace, education, health and third-sector?