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About the Manifesta 7 curators

he International Foundation Manifesta is delighted to announce the selection of the newly appointed curators of Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art: Adam Budak (Krakow/Graz), Anselm Franke (Antwerp/Berlin) / Hila Peleg (Berlin) and the members of the Raqs Media Collective (New Delhi). Manifesta 7 will take place in the region of Trentino – Alto Adige / Südtirol, Italy from 19 July to 2 November 2008. The curators were appointed by the IFM board from a shortlist of more than 20 candidates.

Loukia Alavanou wins The DESTE Prize 2007

The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is delighted to announce that the winner of DESTE Prize 2007 is Loukia Alavanou.

The winner was decided by this year’s Jury, consisting of Dakis Joannou-President, The Deste Foundation, Pawel Althamer (Artist), Laura Hoptman (Curator), New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director Exhibitions & Programmes and Director of International Projects), Serpentine Gallery and Amanda Sharp (Publishing Director, Frieze Magazine & co-Director, The Frieze Art Fair).

ISEA 2008

We cordially invite submissions to the conference of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in Singapore between 25th & 30th July 2008. The conference is held alongside workshops, courses, exhibitions, performances and other in-conjunction events that will be held for the duration of ISEA2008 from 25th July to August 3rd 2008.

Media Arts for the ICA Web Site

The ICA is launching a call for submissions of web-based Media artworks to be shown on the ICA website: submissions are currently open until 24 Oct.

11th international video festival videomedeja

All the works within festival categories produced in last 2 years could be nominated for the competitive selection which is curated by selection committee.

mal au pixel 2008

The Mal au Pixel festival further supports ongoing electronic art practices and research in the field of new media and technology. The festival presents experimental installations, audiovisual performances, practical workshops and public debates.

chico.art.net v.4

chico.art.net is an annual international juried online exhibition that is currently looking for exciting and provocative interactive artwork made for the internet arena. Projects must be made between 2005-2007.

Tbilisi International Film Festival 8

The aim of the film festival is to promote new film and inform both the general public and the professional public in Georgia about the situation of the world cinema.

The Northern Way Virtual Gateway Commission

The Northern Way, working with Arts Council England to deliver the £10m ‘Welcome to the North’ public art programme, wishes to commission a truly innovative and original virtual artwork ‘Gateway to the North’.

iDAT

The iDAT exhibition is a unique combination of major interactive media events Ars Electronica from Austria and Interactive Tokyo from Japan. It is calling for interactive media works that merge design, art, and technology, moves beyond technology traditions, and transforms social assumptions. We are seeking interactive works in the form of installations which will be part of the exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre. The works should have a focus on interactive media systems that have an innovative technological concepts blended with excellence in art and/or design. We are also encouraging works which have harmonious parts of content and interactive technology, with a focus on human usability, and expanding the scope of media for use in human society.

Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 4

The 4th edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art wishes to resume the important discussions about ‘the condition of the political’ that formed the basis for Democracy Unrealized in Documenta XI year 2002. Where do we stand today, five years later?

Images 08

The 6th Grand Prix International de Photographie de Vevey is a competition endowed with a first prize of CHF30,000.- (approx €18,000)

Singapore Biennale 2008 curators announced

During the official opening of Singapore’s pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennial, in June 2007, the Artistic Director of the 2nd Singapore Biennale was announced: Once again, the Japanese curator and art critic Fumio Nanjo, who is also the head of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, will chart the direction and programming for Singapore’s visual arts Biennale, as he already did in its first edition in 2006. With this re-appointment, the organizers expect a greater continuity for an event that is still new, and a deepening in its reach and engagement with the city and audiences.

6th Mercosul Biennial, 2007

The 6th Mercosul Biennial has announced the artists for this edition of the exhibition, which runs from September 1 to November 18, 2007. The full list was presented during the open lecture by the Spanish chief curator, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and three of the show’s six other curators, Alejandro Cesarco, Moacir dos Anjos and Ticio Escobar, on May 2, in the atrium of Santander Cultural in Porto Alegre.

Manifesta 7 curators announced

A local committee will oversee the successful implementation of the Manifesta 7 Biennial. The committee is composed of two representatives of each major stakeholder. These representatives are…

UrbanFestival - How we regret

UrbanFestival is an international multimedia festival of contemporary art in urban public spaces and its core objective is to have art permeate city life, intensify the interaction between the city, along with all of its infrastructure, and its residents.

Contour 2007

This summer the city of Mechelen will become the epicentre of the third edition of the Contour Biennial for Video Art. The exhibition presents a selection of video works by international artists, both well-known and emerging. The most important exhibition of its type in Belgium, Contour 2007 will be presented in 12 exceptional architectural locations, all walking distance around the centre of the city.

Project netarts.org 2007

From 1995 to 2003, The Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts hosted the “Art on the Net” project promoting the Internet as a space for artistic expression. For nine years, this project had been calling on artists around the world to investigate the relationship between Art, the Internet and the Society.

VIDA 10.0

VIDA 10.0 is an international competition created to reward excellence in artistic creativity in the fields of Artificial Life and related disciplines, such as robotics and Artiftcial Intelligence.We are looking for artistic projects that address the interaction between “synthetic” and “organic” life”.

RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ will take place in Paris in November 2007, at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2008 and in Berlin in June 2008.
Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and not much distributed filmmakers.