MadCat seeks provocative and visionary films and videos directed or co-directed by women. Films can be of any length or genre and produced ANY year. MadCat is committed to showcasing work that challenges the use of sound and image and explores notions of visual story telling. All subjects/topics will be considered.
Art Trailers showcases a selection of moving image territory, including Video Art, Film, Performance, Installation, etc. This will be comprised of works by national, international, emerging and established artists. The final selection will consist of 25 works at: 30 seconds and 25 works at 1 minute.
Perform.Media is an international media arts festival and symposium creating an innovative venue for creative and intellectual work around the momentary process and performance in new media art and culture.
The Junction Arts Festival is now planning the entertainment schedule for our 2006 event. If you would like to be considered, send in a demo CD or VHS tape.
All types, forms and sizes of sculpture in all materials are eligible for entry to Sculpture by the Sea. The exhibition site can accommodate the largest to the smallest sculpture, however when submitting works artists are required to consider safety, ease of installation and removal, the environment and the ability of their work to withstand sun, extremely strong wind, rain, salt spray and playful children.
ENTER is pleased to announce that it will commission three media arts projects in 2006/07 for its festival Unknown Territories: Adventures in Space in Cambridge (UK) between 25-29 April 2007.
Composers and sound artists are invited to submit original unpublished works to be presented in a concert held in conjunction with the Project Media Space | Public Space exhibition.
We are pleased to report that the open call for applications to the Manifesta 6 School resulted in an overwhelming response, with more than 750 applications submitted by artists, writers, filmmakers and cultural producers from nearly 40 countries on all continents. The applicants include a large segment of rather accomplished young art professionals therefore the selection process will be very competitive. The selections are already in progress and the finalists will be contacted by the end of March.
This year, the International Short Film Festival ‘interfilm’ takes place for the 22nd time, a veritable meeting place for the international short film and video scenes.
theARTDISK, DVD magazine, is currently seeking submissions for ART TRAILERS.
The festival is open to all new, innovative, personal, experimental, radical, subversive etc. Work (film, video, new media) of all genres and lengths, preferably from outside the mainstream, whether it was made on shoe string budget, or is a studio release.
The simultan project is the second edition of an international experimental video/sound festival, which will take place between 18-20th of May in Timisoara, Romania.
Transnational mobility, often compulsory, and continued drastic differences in standards of living have changed the thought of progress, at least in Europe, into a stop-and-go movement between security-oriented persistence and protectionism, and a simultaneous intensification of competition and demands for change. Present-day life and projections for the future are mostly caught in polarities. Opening up and sealing off, internationalization and national autonomy, ecology and technical development, sustainability and ever-increasing pressure toward flexibility etc.
Cybersonica is London’s annual festival of music, sound, art and technology. Now in its fifth year, it’s a leading international event for anyone interested in the theory and practice of how new technologies are shaping and changing the way musicians, DJs, VJs, digital artists, audiovisualisers and creative software developers make and present their work. The festival brings together a vibrant community of sonic and audiovisual innovation, nurtures new talent and showcases the freshest and latest work in the field. Cybersonica is organised by Cybersalon, currently artists in residence at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.
The 30th exhibition of visual art, e v a (open & invited), will bear the personal hallmark of independent curator and writer Katerina Gregos, who has agreed to curate this year’s show. After three decades in existence, the 30th exhibition promises to be a truly global event with over 100 artworks and projects involving over 70 artists from 25 countries, many of which have been specially commissioned to make new work or develop new projects for e v a 2006.
Amidst the reverberation of globalization across the world, how should art communicate the affection for the native land, search for local characteristics, and promote the people’s self-understanding so as to realize the potential of each place, make our world more colourful, and enrich our lives?
International competition for CyberArts 2006
Intensity, experimentation, and visceral presence are the hallmarks of the thirteen significant one-person installations that constitute SITE Santa Fe’s Sixth International Biennial. Curator Klaus Ottmann’s exhibition, entitled Still Points of the Turning World, both concentrates and amplifies these singular works, empowering them to speak for themselves without the common filter of a prescriptive curatorial theme. As Ottmann explains, “I want this Biennial to be about the artists, not about the curator.”
European Art Symposium will take place in Saxony under the name “ Network -Art and Landscape”. Asked are up to 30 artists, which will make sculptures of Saxon stone. The sculptures will be exhibited in Frauenstein (Eastern Ore Mountains – Osterzgebirge) and Mutzschen (region of the valley of the river Mulde) during the Days of Artistic Activities from 1st to 9th of July 2006.
The In Flux Art group is organizing the 2nd Video Art Festival PixelDance, which will take place in Thessaloniki, in May 2006. The Festival will include video art projections coming from various countries, exhibitions, installations and other visual, music, dance and theatrical performances.
