This interdisciplinary conference aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion concerning the realities, dilemmas and responses of people facing displacement or insecurity because of social, environmental and political instability, both global and local.
Transitland EUROPA invites artists, filmmakers, documentarists, and activists from the 10 new EU member-states to submit proposals for producing new videos that creatively interpret the phenomenon of “transition.” A jury will select 10 proposals, each receiving an award of 3000 euro for production, including expenses and fee.
international exhibition of graphic design and visual communication
The 11th International Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts is set for 12 September – 8 November 2009, under the curatorship of What, How & for Whom / WHW.
The thirteen videos created for “IDEODROME 2006, Limassol: people and passages” and “IDEODROME 2007, invisible spaces” will be presented in a single, one hour screening at the Municipal Arts Centre in Nicosia, on Friday the 25th of January 2008, 8.30pm.
The Portrait Award, sponsored by BP, is an annual competition aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop the theme of portraiture in their work. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over, in recognition of the outstanding and innovative work currently being produced by artists of all ages working in portraiture.
Given the reductionism and programmatic simplicity of some of the large-scale urban projects implemented in Europe in recent years, and the risks of homogenisation and impoverishment of the urban landscape, we believe that promoting public space and making known the diversity of functions it can embrace and its intense, rich and plural character, is an ideal way of stimulating urban projects that aim to reinvent and enhance the structural role that public space has always played in European cities.
The Edith Russ Site for Media Art will award three six-months work stipends (€10.000 each) from July to December 2008, for artists working in New Media.
Resistance is a movement, a position, an attitude, and a measure. It is an individual or collective response. It can be political, or it can relate to physical properties of the known universe. It concerns citizens. It concerns artists. It concerns that which is local as well as that which is global. It is about forces, agency, strategy, play, and subversion. It is an argument. It seeks change, or it fights to stay the same. It mobilizes. It is unconscious. It is a side effect. It is intentional and affirmative.
The Monochromes paintings have been a keystone in the Art history. They were first introduced as a critical caricature, on a humoristic tone, but they soon became a way to state strong views and conceptual intentions. The Monochromes stand at the intersections between pure perception and abstract concepts. By painting monochromes, artists have tried to approach infinity through emptiness. One can ask if not showing any image equals to void… But isn’t the only real void monochrome the bare canvas waiting for a concept, for a creator?
We hear while we are in the womb, long before we see. For the rest of our lives, hearing essentially precedes the rest of the sensorium, as we move through a world of sonic fragments which affect us phenomenally and emotionally but of which we are often unaware. These fragments are mediated by our environment, our bodies, our individual and collective memories, and the technologies that pervade contemporary life: from books to radio to television to iPods. Through these mediations sounds give rise to stories, which though they might be as hazy as an aura, begin to narrate the world we move through as they themselves move through our bodies and minds.
Video Art Festival Miden invites all video artists and video creators to participate in this year’s events, which will take place, like the past three years, in public spaces at the Historic Centre of the city of Kalamata, Greece, in July 2008.
‘Isolomania’ expresses an interest in the mechanisms of social exchange as defined by particular cultural values. This event aims to raise issues and questions regarding the place of art in our contemporary reality especially the newly acquired EU identity and its relationship to the idiosyncratic local. By exploring the ambiguous space between that inhabited by established concepts and norms of Europe and their relationship with ideas from the small ‘periphery’ of Cyprus, a space is created which could potentially resonate as a ‘generator of new understanding’. It is the interaction of both these spaces which has the potential to generate fusions of new relationships, which may emerge within the context of time, and thus turn our gaze to a more consummate translation of the dynamics of our present reality.
FILE is opening registrations for its ninth edition, that will be held at Sesi Paulista’s cultural space, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the period from August 04 to August 31, 2008. Subscriptions are open from December 22th to March 01st, 2008.Submissions are free and open to professionals, researchers and students of the electronic language.
Net-Art, Video-Installations, Interactive Works, Games, Robotic Performances and Beyond. Hypermedia Works, Telematic Actions, Artificial Intelligences, Interactive Cinematics, Expanded Realities, The New Culture Of Interfaces, Tangible Immaterialities.
The Storey is a £3m development to bring a grade II listed Victorian building back into use as a hub for the creative industries. It will become a venue for arts activity as well as a home for creative businesses, project partner arts organisations and Lancaster’s Tourist Information Centre.
tank.tv is looking for lists! Top 100s, 50s, 1000s! Lists of people, animals, minerals, vegetables! Good lists, bad lists and mediocre lists. Lists of anything and everything.
In conjunction with the 2008 Prix Ars Electronica, the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research will be awarding a prize honoring an outstanding theoretical work on the subject of <Interactive Artforms>.
Claude Gosselin, Executive and Artistic Director of the Centre international d’art contemporain de Montréal (CIAC), is delighted to announce the appointment of Scott Burnham (Montréal/London) as Creative Director of La Biennale de Montréal 2009. The Biennale will take place throughout Montréal during May 2009 as a collaborative redefinition of a biennial, working within Burnham’s theme for 2009: “Open Culture.” As Scott Burnham explains:
The Panama Art Biennial is the most prestigious event for the advancement of the contemporary visual arts in Panama. It offers creative individuals a non-commercial space within which to produce and exhibit their art, providing contact with the general public and with critics, as well as promoting their work through a bilingual catalogue published after the exhibition, which is distributed nationally and internationally.
“How do we know that we are not living in a grand map, doing its best to represent a reality we don’t recognize?”
Never perfect, never complete, never comprehensive, always tentative, wanting, deficient, the map insistently makes us aware of that unrepresentable whole, that catholic embrace of all things, also known as reality. The map, in fact, upsets any representational faith we might still sport and leaves us in savory shambles. It deconstructs realities, it suggests certain paths, particular possibilities, suggestive options, while at the same undermining any secure grasp we might have thought we had for a moment on our existential context, or on, in other words, life.
