Artcity 2005 - Call for Submissions

Artcity Festival is a celebration of contemporary visual art, architecture and design, held every September in Calgary, Canada. Artcity opens possibilities for conversations, debates and realizations about how and what artists, architects and designers do and how they see and shape the world around us. In 2005, Artcity Festival will explore the ideas and concepts associated with the term “Trans”. The Visual Arts Programming Committee invites submissions for artworks which comply with this year’s theme TRANS.

Accidental Meetings

The exhibition attempts an approach to the contemporary reality of Cypriot Visual Arts. At the same time, it aspires to act as a meeting platform for 65 significant Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot artists, both older but mainly younger, who, in the thirty years which have elapsed, have managed through their work to create a multifaceted mosaic constituting the identity of cypriot Contemporary Art.

Leaps of Faith

An international arts project for the Green Line and the city of Nicosia, Cyprus.

Amar Kanwar gets the Edvard Munch Award

THE EDVARD MUNCH AWARD FOR CONTEMPORARY ART has been initiated and developed by the OFFICE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART NORWAY to enhance exchange in international contemporary art and highlight the importance and ongoing influence of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944).

Luksuz film festival - Call for entries

“Digital democratisation,” drop in the price of technique and increase of its availability enable the young creators, who have not yet won recognition, to articulate themselves, their activities, views, standpoints, criticism etc. through modern media – video, film, internet…

CIMATICS.05 - Call for entries

CIMATICS is an international platform and festival for live audiovisual arts & vj’ing.

Manifesta 6 Press Conference

Nicosia Municipality and the International Foundation Manifesta are pleased to announce a Press Conference at Famagusta Gate in Nicosia, on Saturday, May 7th at 11:00 a.m.

Christina Mackie wins Beck's Futures 2005

Beck’s Bier and the ICA announced that the winner of BECK’S FUTURES 2005 is CHRISTINA MACKIE whose engaging, contemplative, multi-layered sculptural installation has scooped her a total prize of £26,666.

2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival

2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival unites worlds of art + technology with 70 exhibitions and events.

OFFF 2005

OFFF is presenting the fifth edition of the international digital art and electronic music festival, OFFF. These are the main novelties for this edition:

ISEA2006 Call for proposals

This is an invitation by the ISEA2006 Symposium and ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge to groups and individuals to submit proposals for an installation of augmented furniture, audio/video/software installations and interactive artwork for The C4F3 (The Cafe) during the ISEA2006/ZeroOne from August 5-13, 2006. The goal of The C4F3 is to create an active ambient space of augmented everyday objects that is not just an art gallery, a restaurant, or a chill space, but a new kind of project space where the whole environment has been rethought in terms of the capabilities of current technology. This Call for Proposals is an invitation to artists, designers and technologists to propose existing work for exhibition and/or use within the café and new projects that support this goal.

Lefteris Olympios' Apokathilosi by Antonis Danos

The latest exhibition (Larnaca, April 2005) of works by Cypriot artist Lefteris Olympios consists mainly of six large canvases. These pictures, made between 1993 and 1994, and originally arranged as two triptychs, were part of the Apokathilosi (Deposition) group, but were not included in the original exhibition of the works in Athens, in 1995.

6th edition of ELEKTRA - Leading-edge audio - visual and technological creation

Montréal, Tuesday, April 12, 2005 – For its 6th edition, Elektra is still set on introducing works and artists that crossbreed leading electronic music and visual art. Again this year, Elektra creates links between creative media rooted in audio, video, film, design and interactive installations, in conjunction with the latest digital technologies. To breathe new life into the term audio-visual (A/V) – now obsolete in our multimedia era – Elektra selected outstanding works that demonstrate in many forms the increasingly indissociable relationship between sound and image. From May 10 to 15, hook up your senses to the digital!

Auction to benefit CAE Defense Fund is overwhelming success

On Sunday April 17, an art auction to benefit the CAE Defense Fund raised $167,700. The auction, held at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York City, featured over fifty artists who donated their work to the cause.

Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival - Call for entries

This year, the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival will take place from November 8th to 13th, 2005. The festival presents current documentary films and videos, the media art exhibition MONITORING, as well as the interfiction symposium. We invite all filmmakers, media people, and artists to submit their latest works and projects for the individual sections of the Festival program. Closing date for entries is August 1st, 2005.

Gwangju Design Biennale

The city of Gwangju is to be hosting a major international event, the Gwangju Design Biennale 2005, with the purpose of exploring the vibrant emerging culture and world of design at the dawn of the 21st Century.

VI MEDIA - Call for entries

So, on for the unit of impact in art! Science knows ‘ions’, ‘electrons’, ‘neutrons’. Let be ‘attractions’ in art!
The technical term signifying assembling of machines, water-pipes, and lathes migrated to everyday language from industrial usage.
The beautiful word ‘montage’ signifies assembling.
If the word isn’t still fashionable it has all chances to become common. Well!

Göteborg International Biennial appointed Curator

Sara Arrhenius has been appointed Curator of the 2005 Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.

Hybrid: Living in Paradox - Ars Electronica 2005

Digitization and globalization are bringing about worldwide processes of restructuring and intermingling of cultures, identities, disciplines and previously discrete fields, specialties and domains. The rapid ongoing abrogation of boundaries and fusions in art, technology and society will occupy the focal point of the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival.

VideoDance - Call for entries

VideoDance started five years ago as an international dance film festival, but soon it widened up to include more kinds of experiment on movement and the moving image.
Celebrating this year its 6th edition, it welcomes your entries on dance films, experimental film using movement as its main material, video-installations, video-performances and live improvisation on image and sound.