Derapage is a festival of non-narrative audio video experimentation created by students and teachers at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM, Canada). It’s now our 6th year and we are opening the festival to the internationnal artists ! (open to everyone, student or not!)
The St. Gilgen International School in Austria proudly presents the first international Media Award. With special emphasis on communication and media education the St. Gilgen International School supports innovative and creative ideas in the field of New Media.
Chamber of Public Secrets is pleased to announce its first international festival for experimental video art, which will take place from September 7th to September 10th, 2006 in Copenhagen. Entries will be accepted from January 10th to March 31st, 2006.
Submissions for the 5th Hull International Short Film Festival taking place from 27 September to 1 October 2006 are now open. The festival has a number of awards, is free to enter and accepts entries of fiction, documentary, animation and experimental work.
You are invited to submit either an electro / acoustic composition or a visual art presentation lasting no longer than 10 minutes on the theme of climate change.
ARTTECHMEDIA 06 is a Meeting of Artists, Museum Directors, Art Centres, Media Lab, Thinkers, Curators, Gallery owners, Collectors, Cultural Agents, Politicians and Society, in many cases, confused by the methods and concepts which are so different from the traditional ways of producing of art, its exhibition, collecting, and way of contemplating.
The showcase will present experimental media art from around the world at art venues in Los Angeles in November 2006 and through the Freewaves web site. Media art works include experimental video and film (narrative, documentary, art, animation, etc.), DVDs, web sites, simple installations, and video billboards. Works from the festival will also appear on public television, cable stations and video-streamed on the Internet.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.