Studio 27, a San Francisco screening series that showcases experimental media, is looking for short videos and films for our next program, scheduled for August 2007. This show will focus on hybrid media.
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.
World, International and European premieres are favoured.
DOK Leipzig – is the largest German and one of the leading international festivals for artistic documentary and animated films.
Call for films
International Toruń Film Festival TOFIFEST, one of the most important Polish events which presents young cinema of the world and independent films, invites you to take part in the Festival’s fifth edition’s Competitions. Festival’s Grand Prix – Golden Angel will be given in two Competitions – for the best short feature film and the best full-length feature film.
The deadline for submissions at Tehran International Short Film Festival is approaching. The entry form can also be filled out on-line and then submitted.
In the Sonoran desert, the scorching heat of the summer is interrupted by the monsoons, a torrential downpour of rain which fills the dry stream-beds as well as city streets. A flash flood, gone as fast as it came.
At its most basic, the media of Video Art are light and time. A flash is a short burst of light. Flood is lighting that lasts longer, filling a space. The FlashFlood Video Art Festival, like the summer monsoon, fills the city and then disappears, leaving everything more alive. This Festival will bring the best work of international video artists together for one long evening of viewing.
The Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art.
The competition jury will award a prize of EURO 2,500.00 to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies. The candidates for the prize (a short list of a maximum of 6 competitors) will be guests at the 4th edition of the Share Festival, taking place in Turin March 2008 at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin. In order to be declared winner of the prize, every artist has to take part in the 4th edition of Share Festival, by preparing his or her work of art, to be properly evaluated by jury and public.
The Electronic Arts and Video Festival Transitio_mx, the US-Mexico Foundation for Culture and Fundacion BBVA Bancomer open the call for submissions for the Transnational Communities Award.
International festival of audio-visual arts VIDEOLOGIA is one the major art events in the sphere of independent short cinema and video in Russia. It integrates selection program of the best entries with curatorial screenings, master classes of jury members, exhibitions, art theory forums and musical performances. VIDEOLOGIA takes place every year in Volgograd (Russia), the forth festival will start on November 8, 2007.
This year, the International Short Film Festival ‘interfilm’ takes place for the 23rd time, a veritable meeting place for the international short film and video scenes. More than 400 short films and videos will be shown during the six days of the festival and an estimated 100 films will be nominated to compete in the international competition.
The 9th Annual Backup_festival will take place from 18 – 21 October 2007 in Weimar, Germany.
This year, once again, we are looking for young film makers and media creatives interested in submitting work for the international category of the backup.award and who would like the chance to win an award from the 3750 Euros worth of prizes we have on offer.
‘CARTES Flux’ calls for digital artists and filmmakers to participate in the selection for the festival of screenings. The next ‘CARTES Flux’ will take place in May 2008 and is hosted by the Centre for Art and Technology CARTES, Espoo, Finland.
Trampoline and partners are calling for short, sharp and silent video works by artists working in film and new media to be shown on three outdoors screens across the East Midlands.
We are looking for European feature and short films under the titles of Minorities, Political Films, Absurd and “Circle”
Besides the so-called ‘popular’ and ‘known’ films which can be under those titles, we are waiting for your suggestions from all over Europe…
Hou Hanru appointed Curator of the 10th International Istanbul Biennial.
The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts is set for 8 September-4 November 2007 under the curatorship of Hou Hanru.
The Biennale of Sydney has showcased contemporary art from Australia and around the world since 1973 and is one of the largest and most exciting contemporary visual arts events. The 2008 Biennale will be held at venues and sites throughout Sydney, including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
LabforCulture.org is the essential online tool for everyone involved in arts and culture who creates, collaborates, shares and produces across borders in Europe. This interactive web platform was launched in 2006 to encourage dialogue, networking and collaboration across physical, cultural and imaginative borders across 48 countries in the broader Europe. Initiated by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and jointly developed and supported by many of Europe’s leading cultural organisations, LabforCulture offers a wealth of essential information, debate and research – including all the latest news, vital funding tips, blogs and a vast searchable database of cultural organisations operating from Rome to Reykjavík.
The curating of Internet-based art on the Internet is a multifaceted communication-process between Internet-users with all kinds of different backgrounds regarding the content. Along with the changing conditions of production and reception of art on the Internet came new possibilities of curation which deserve study. [CC] “circulating contexts—curating media/net/art” is a series of experimental long-term research projects hosted by the Vienna-based organisation CONT3XT.NET, investigating current tendencies in the curation of (New)Media and Internet Art. For the catalogue which will be presented in October 2007 in Vienna as well as online, we currently seek contributions to the following sub-projects.
The 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art is delighted to announce that Adam Szymczyk, the curator of the 5th berlin biennial in 2008 has invited Elena Filipovic to join him as co-curator.
Nightcomers is one of the night programme projects of the 10th International Istanbul Biennial, perhaps the most somnambulist. The conceptual structure of the project was based on the concept of “dazibao” used by Hou Hanru in reference to wall-mounted posters produced by the public during the Chinese Revolution.
