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.
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.
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.
Sharjah Biennial launches the production programme as a vehicle for the realisation of artists’ projects. As a first step for the Sharjah Biennial to break free from the traditional genealogy of biennials, comes the announcement of Sharjah Biennial’s Production Programme which develops its relationship with artists and engages them on joint productions with the biennial in the long term.
Short film and video is still the prime source of innovation for the art of film. In addition, it is being adopted by an ever increasing number of artists as a form of expression. Today its diversity of forms, themes and approaches across the globe is greater than ever, in the cinemas or in the galleries.
Volgograd International Video Festival Forward»2018 announces the start of accepting works and invites artists and curators to participate. Festival will take place in Volgograd in May-June 2008 and it is planned that it will have the usual cinema hall format as well as online format in the Internet. It will allow presenting the festival programme not only to local, but also world wide audience. Works of multiple genres can participate: from short-length films and video art to animated cartoons and documentaries.
In 2008, the Kurt Eisner Kulturstiftung (Cultural Foundation) will once again be presenting an award for the creation of an artistic work. Marking the 90th anniversary of Kurt Eisner’s proclamation of the “Free State” of Bavaria, this award will support artworks and projects that take a political stand in the sense of the ideals of freedom espoused by Eisner and the “Council of Intellectual Workers,” and at the same time demonstrate and reflect the contemporary relevance of issues raised during the period of the Bavarian soviet republic.
… Electromagnetic fields are biologically active. Emitting from every electronic device, electromagnetic fields affect our body and the living nature. They interact with the natural emissions and intersect the boundaries of our planet. Invisible and omnipresent, electromagnetic fields have become ghosts of the modern world…
This year for the first time will be presented as a satellite programme VIDEOHOLICA 2008 in the frames of the International Biennial AUGUST IN ART. VIDEOHOLICA 2008 aims to make the contemporary video art to the public with the chain of projections on public spaces, where it is less known. VIDEOHOLICA 2008 will present art works as by the good known artists as and by the young artists, who are working in this area.
The backup_festival is a short film festival for young talents, who handle the different styles of production and expression in a creative analysis. They cross the borders of film in order to reflect and define the different possibilities of filming formats.
To accompany “The Mirror Stage,” NeMe, will publish a book which will include images from the participating videos as well as texts which will reflect on the state of the video medium.
NEWLIFEBERLIN is a participatory art festival dedicated to new modes of moving and existing. Curated from the online art community WOOLOO.ORG, NEWLIFEBERLIN aims to connect the critical resources of a global network of artists with a specific geographical location of importance to today“s cultural production.
Electrohype 2008 will be the fifth biennial for computer-based art in Sweden. Electrohype is pleased to announce this call for entries for the exhibition that will be a follow up to the previous large Electrohype exhibitions in 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006.
In 2009, Rhizome will award seven commissions with fees ranging from $3000-$5000. This year, Rhizome has expanded our scope, formerly focused strictly on Internet-based art to encompass the broad range of practices that fall under new media art. This includes projects that engage creatively engage new and networked technologies to works that reflect on the impact of these tools and media in a variety of forms. With this expanded format, commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices.
In order to create a dialog between the various current pictorial practices, the second edition of Pan! Peinture sums up the situation of the new painting and drawing practices by creating an event dedicated to them. To do so, the emphasis will not only be put on the pictorial support but also on its surroundings, by transforming an urban space into a creation and communication laboratory.
Under the theme “Temporary Tactics,” Simultan04 explores a conflict situation, a difficult cohabitation between the independent audio-visual works and the cultural, social and political context in which they are born. “Temporary Tactics” wishes to highlight time and space connected “speculative” situations, the practice of acting and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment.
ArtBots is pleased to announce that the fifth international ArtBots exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots will take place at the Trinity College Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland on September 19-21, 2008. Creators of talented robots are invited to submit their work for possible inclusion in the show.