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Mark Wallinger wins the Turner Prize 2007

The Turner Prize 2007 has been awarded to Mark Wallinger, it was announced at Tate Liverpool this evening. The £25,000 prize was presented by Dennis Hopper. The Turner Prize 2007 is supported by Arts Council England, Liverpool Culture Company, Northwest Regional Development Agency, Milligan and Tate Members. With the support of the sponsors, this year’s prize fund is £40,000 with £25,000 going to the winner and £5,000 each for the other shortlisted artists. The event was broadcast live on Channel 4 News.

 

Liverpool Biennial 2008 - Made Up

The fifth edition of Liverpool Biennial’s International exhibition opens on 20th September 2008. Celebrating 10 years of commissioning ambitious and challenging new work by leading international artists, International 08 takes ‘Made Up’ as its theme, to explore the power of the artistic imagination.

 

Aldrich Calls For An International Curator

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce a call for entries for the Hall Curatorial Fellowship, an eighteen-month fellowship for an international curator. Applications are due on Friday, February 15, 2008.

 

Prospect.1 New Orleans

On November 1, 2008, Prospect.1 New Orleans, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, will open to the public in museums, historic buildings, and found sites throughout New Orleans. Prospect.1 New Orleans has been conceived in the tradition of the great international biennials, and will showcase new artistic practices as well as an array of programs benefiting the local community. Over the course of its eleven-week run, Prospect.1 New Orleans is placed to draw international media attention, creative energy, and new economic activity to the city of New Orleans.

 

Asian Art Triennial (ATM08)

The UK’s first Asian Art Triennial (ATM08) opens 5 April – 1 June 2008 in Manchester and is conceived by Shisha, the UK’s premier international agency for contemporary South Asian crafts and visual arts, in partnership with Castlefield Gallery, Cornerhouse, Chinese Arts Centre, The International 3, Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Metropolitan University (through MIRIAD and the Faculty of Art & Design).

 

Club Transmediale.08 - Unpredictable

Generator.x in collaboration with Club Transmediale and [DAM] presents Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the screen, a workshop and exhibition about digital fabrication and generative systems.

 

Iraqi Memorial

Iraqimemorial.org is a call to action to artists, designers, architects or other interested creative individuals or collaborators to propose concepts for the creation of memorials to the many thousands of Iraqi civilians killed in the War in Iraq. As of 2007, estimates range from 77,000 to over 655,000 deaths in Iraq of non-combatants as a consequence of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”.

 

VOX POPULI 2008

The Center for Contemporary Art Prague announces the call for projects for the Artwall Gallery. The theme for the year 2008 being Vox Populi.

 

The Cartier Award 2008

The Cartier Award for emerging artists living outside the UK is a major initiative by Frieze Projects, the curatorial programme of Frieze Art Fair, in collaboration with Gasworks and sponsored by Cartier. Artists are invited to propose a new work to be realised at Frieze Art Fair 2008 which will be produced under the auspices of Frieze Projects. Projects may take the form of site-specific installation; performance; film; video and print work.

 

Whitney Biennial 2008

The curatorial team for the 2008 Whitney Biennial has selected 81 artists for the exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, on March 6, and runs through June 1, 2008. Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney’s signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today. The exhibition will occupy the entire Museum, with the exception of the fifth floor, which is devoted to the permanent collection.

 

The Mirror Stage - Call for videos

NeMe and Lanitis Foundation are currently seeking video submissions for The Mirror Stage, an international event to take place at the Lanitis Foundation, Limassol, Cyprus on 17-28 September 2008.

 

404 FESTIVAL V

“Astas Romas” calls international artists and theorists to submit their works for the fifth edition of the “404 festival – Art & Technology” 2008 on the following disciplines:

 

2008 AAM MUSE Awards

Recognizing outstanding achievement in museum media, the AAM Media and Technology Committee announces the 19th annual MUSE Awards competition.

 

Utrecht Manifest 2

Utrecht Manifest turns the spotlight and investigates the latest developments in the field of design through a socially engaged prism. The mainstays of Utrecht Manifest 2007 are research and reflection and an exhibition programme. The multidisciplinary approach adopted by Utrecht Manifest ensures there is ample consideration for related disciplines such as architecture, film and the visual arts, so that design is not treated as an autonomous, capsular discipline.

 

FUTURESONIC 2008

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to submit proposals to its Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS strands. Join us for one of the biggest Social’s of the year.

 

Stipend

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. There are no age limitations. Submitted project proposals will be reviewed by an international Jury. A minimum residency of one month is required. The artists will be integrated into the institution’s activities.

 

Culture2Culture - Tricky Women 2008

The festival offers an international competition which includes the two categories: Independent Animated Films / Independent Animated Videos Any animated film or video made by a woman may be entered in the competition.

 

Subtle Technologies Festival 2008

Recognized internationally as a unique forum that encourages new insights and collaborations, Subtle Technologies challenges its participants to contemplate how art and science act upon one another and reshape perspectives.

 

DANCE CAMERA WEST FILM FESTIVAL

Celebrating our 7th annual dance film festival, Dance Camera West welcomes dance media in any dance style or genre. Categories include: screendance, experimental movement based media, short films, features, documentary, installations, and interactive dance media.

 

Break 2.4: Potemkin village

Break 2.4: Potemkin village, international festival of contemporary art, 9th edition; from 5th to 18th November 2007 in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

 
 
 
 
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