The Visiting Arts Project Awards

The Project Awards exist to advance the presentation of international art in the UK and to stimulate intercultural understanding.

A Show for Bethlehem

After presenting his global networking project ®[R][F]2005—>XP – http://rrf2005.newmediafest.org in 2005 in Bethlehem/Palestine as an interactive media exhibition, Agricola de Cologne, media artist and director of [NewMediaArtprojectNetwork]:||cologne – www.nmartproject.net is invited to curate in 2006 another exhibition in Bethlehem at CAVE Gallery/Bethlehem International Center to be inaugurated in July 2006, this time focussed on the classical theme of “selfportrait,” but executed in New Media.

WB05 e-symposium continues with Online and Onsite

Online at http://webbiennial.org/symposium/panel.html Thursday, January 19th, btw 16:00-17:00(GMT). Participants Nina Czegledy (Toronto), Andrej Tisma (Novi Sad), Tim Hailey (New York), Markus Graf (Kadikoy), Genco Gulan (Istanbul), Yiannis Colakides (Cyprus). Working title is: To Archive or not to Archive.

Beck's Future's 2006 shortlist

A 13-strong list of participants for this year’s Beck’s Futures has been announced, which promises to provide an insight into the diversity of contemporary art being made in the UK.

Web Biennial 2005

The Web Biennial is the first international bi-annual contemporary art exhibition created exclusively for the World Wide Web (W.W.W).

ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival

The fifth ANTI festival will take place in Kuopio from September 28th to October 1st 2006. ANTI is a forum for experimental, radical and non-commercial art. It offers an international and visible possibility to bring forward performances and ways of expression that are not considered mainstream art. The emphasis of ANTI festival is on environmental art, light, sound, installation, live art and performances.

Darklight Festival 2006

DARKLIGHT FESTIVAL is Ireland’s premier festival for filmmakers, animators and artists whose work explores the convergence of art, film and technology.

Bent 2006 Circuit Bending Festival Open Call

Each year the festival features daily workshops, art installations, and evening concerts from a wide variety of international performers and artists. This year we are working in collaboration with Harvestworks as part of their “Benders and Coders” series to co-produce the festival.

Manifesta Coffee Break

The Manifesta Coffee Break is an informal public brainstorming session, leading up to Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Szpilman Award 2006

The Szpilman Award is awarded to works that exist only for a moment or a short period of time. The purpose of the award is to promote such works whose forms consist of ephemeral situations.

Prix Ars Electronica 2006

International Competition for Cyberarts.
The Prix Ars Electronica – International Competition for Cyberarts is being conducted for the 19th time in 2006. In addition to the classic categories-Interactive Art, Net Vision, Computer Animation / Visual Effects and Digital Musics-Digital Communities and [the next idea] Art and Technology Grant competition that debuted last year will be reprised.

Manifesta 6 School, Call for applications

The Manifesta 6 School is the central project of Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will take place in Nicosia from 23 September to 17 December 2006. The School is both the site and the content of the Biennial, and is its sole activity. Conceived and developed by the curators of Manifesta 6, Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel, the School will offer three thematic transdisciplinary departments comprising lecture series, publications, screenings, performances, exhibitions, radio and TV programmes, workshops and other activities.

Glasgow International, Announcement

Glasgow International, the city’s curated and commissioning Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, is set to take place for a second year from Wednesday 19 April – Monday 1 May 2006.

The Fourth European Prize For Urban Public Space

This coming 15 January 2006 marks the start of the period for submission of projects for the Fourth European Prize for Urban Public Space. The prize was created by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and the Institut Français d’Architecture, and awarded for the first time in 2000. In year two, the Architecture Foundation in London, the Nederlands Architectuurinstituut in Rotterdam and the Architekturzentrum Wien joined this initiative to acknowledge and stimulate work to recover and create public spaces all over the continent.

Liverpool Biennial 2006

Building on the critical acclaim of the event in 2004, the fourth Liverpool Biennial launches on 16 September 2006 and continues until 26 November.

Singapore Biennale 2006

Organised by the National Arts Council and National Heritage Board of Singapore, Singapore’s first visual arts biennale, Singapore Biennale 2006 (SB2006), will be opened to the public from 4th September to 12th November 2006. The inaugural event will be curated by Fumio Nanjo, who is internationally reputed for having headed the programming and adjudication of major art events throughout the world. Commissioner for the Taipei Biennale in 1998 and Japan Pavilion at the 1997 Venice Biennale, he co-founded the Yokohama Triennale in 2001. Nanjo was also a jury member for the Turner Prize by Tate Gallery in 1998, and the prestigious Leon d’Or Prize at the Venice Biennale this year. Nanjo is currently the Deputy Director of Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum and lectures at the Keio University in Japan.

CARTES Flux - Call for Digital Artists and filmmakers

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 9th March ’06 and is hosted by the Centre for Art and Technology CARTES, Espoo, Finland.

Altar Magazine is seeking film submissions

Altar Magazine is seeking film submissions for an all day girls’ and women’s film event in New York City at the Pioneer Theater this Spring. We seek to show films that highlight girls’ and women’s experiences and politics. The film must be directed or co-directed by a woman. We will consider productions in the follow categories: feature length (60 mins or longer), narrative, documentary, student films, and short films (59 mins or shorter).

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft

If you are an institution, curator or artist working with materials or processes traditionally associated with craft and would like to have work considered for exhibition, The Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s exhibition committee would like to hear from you.

The American artist Robert Ryman receives Roswitha Haftmann Foundation's art prize

The jury of the Roswitha Haftmann Foundation has chosen Robert Ryman as this year’s recipient of Europe’s most valuable art prize in recognition of the fact that over the decades he has created a pictorial world with its own unique beauty and coherence. Against the background of the history of painting and the direction it has taken in recent years, Ryman’s art is both ground-breaking and timeless.