IDIOSYNCRASIES.CY

IDIOSYNCRASIES.CY investigates a selection of distinctive features, thoughts, oddities or modes of behaviour that we all have assumed are particular to Cyprus and its social landscape. These local, so called truisms, are often humorous confessions of the unconventional. However, in many cases, these commonplace phrases have become enmeshed in our social fabric revealing apathy, prejudice and stereotypic racism, intolerance of difference and discrimination, self censorship and the willingness to passively accept many forms of injustice, such as corruption, repression and cruelty.

SCREENGRAB 7 - International Media Art Award

SCREENGRAB is now entering its seventh year with an international call out for the AU$10,000 Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition to be held in December 2015 for short listed applicants.

SCREENGRAB is looking for challenging and provocative works by media arts practitioners and theorists working in screen based media on the theme of RESISTANCE. All interpretations of resistance will be considered: the politics of resistance, the physics of resistance, the messiness of resistance, the urgency of resistance – and all its private, political and social connotations, (see the theme abstract below).

Pixels

A few weeks ago, NeMe received an erroneous DMCA notice for one of of videos hosted on Vimeo.

Many thanks to torrentfreak for making our case viral, but also thanks to everyone for their support. Here is some of the sites that published our case.

The Second Prix Net Art

Chronus Art Center, Rhizome, and TASML are pleased to announce the second edition of the Prix Net Art, a $10,000 prize for net art. The prize will recognize the future promise of an artist making outstanding work on the internet, as demonstrated by past achievement. A second distinction prize of $5,000 will also be awarded. Awards are made to acknowledge excellent artists who remain committed to working online. Nominations are now open, and guidelines available here. The winners will be selected by a jury of three international judges: Josephine Bosma, Chrissie Iles, and Domenico Quaranta.

dis-MOUNT

Responding to an invitation by “LINK Center for the Arts of the Information Age” NeMe’s participation in “6pm your local time” Europe-wide event on 22 July 2015 is a specially organised happening conceived by Natalie Kynigopoulou which questions and extends the way exhibitions are perceived by the public, not only as a carefully installed dialogue between artworks but also as a process which eventually results in the exhibition’s own private demise – consisting of the dismantling, packaging and return of the artworks to their respective owners, thus re-subjecting the space into an introverted silence.

dis-LOCATE

Using Debray’s metaphor of the ‘black box’, dis-LOCATE features both new and existing works created by young artists which may be seen as innovative vehicles of transmission. dis-LOCATE asks how we might begin to identify with our immediate environment, deciphering its ambiguity within the existing manifold debates on the current national and economic focus in search of cultural and political relevance so to provide meaning to our distinct regional contexts.

Ireland's Biennial 2016 call

EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art will be curated by Koyo Kouoh, independent curator and founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, a centre for art, knowledge and society in Dakar, Senegal.

ISWC 2015 call

We are pleased to announce the call for the 2015 ISWC Design Exhibition.

4th GHETTO BIENNALE 2015 call

After the Haiti Revolution, the formerly enslaved peasants had three tools for their ‘counter-plantation’ position; the Kreyòl language, the Lakou system and the belief-system and ritual practices of Vodou, a triumvirate of linguistic, territorial and cultural resistances. Laurent Dubois, writing in ‘Haiti: The Aftershocks of History’, notes that, ‘thanks to a remarkably strong and widely shared set of cultural forms – the Kreyòl language, the Vodou religion, and innovative ways of managing land ownership…- they built a society able to resist all forms of subjection that recalled the days of slavery.’

Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2015

The 2015 Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF) is now open for entries, accepting short films of up to 30 minutes in any genre

Archive of Documentary Arts Collection Awards

The Archive of Documentary Arts is part of Duke University’s David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Its mission is to collect, promote, preserve, and provide access to audio, moving images, photography, and text from around the world related to the documentary endeavor for the purpose of inspiring reflection, research, creative expression, and dialogue in this moment, and for generations to come.

Finnish Museum of Photography's Project Space call

The Finnish Museum of Photography’s Project space at the Cable Factory (Helsinki, Finland) is an open-application exhibition space. The open call is now organized for the sixth time.

la Biennale di Venezia 2015

90 National Participations will be exhibiting in the historical Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice. The countries participating for the first time in the Exhibition are Grenada, Mauritius, Mongolia, Republic of Mozambique, and Republic of Seychelles. Other countries are participating this year after years of absence: Ecuador (1966, then with the IILA), the Philippines (1964), and Guatemala(1954, then with the IILA).

Playable City Award 2015

Creatives from around the world are invited to propose distinctive ideas that put people and play at the heart of the Future City. All over the world governments and tech companies are investing in smart systems for cities, using communication networks and sensors to join up services, collect data and make efficiencies. The Playable City Award asks us to imagine how we might use these same technologies to make our cities more liveable, hopeful and collaborative. The winning proposal will be installed in Bristol, UK for the public to play in autumn 2015.

Biennale WRO 2015

WRO 2015 opens on May 13th with an extensive program of opening events that will run through May 17th, consisting of exhibitions, video premieres, performances, concerts, conferences and artistic interventions in public space. The main WRO 2015 exhibitions will run through June 30th in multiple venues, including the new library building of the University of Wrocław (which will be opened to the public for the first time), the National Museum, the Renoma shopping center, the WRO Art Center, WRO Atelier and private apartments.

5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art

Exhibitions, art events, a performance festival, workshops, symposia, meetings, guided tours and educational programs, consist the program of the 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, which will be held from June 23 till September 30, 2015, in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Lumen Prize - 2015

The Lumen Prize Exhibition, the global award and tour for digitally created art, is delighted to announce that it is opening its fourth call for entries on 9th March 2015.
This year, there will be a US$10,000 prize fund as well as a global tour to Asia, Europe and the US.

Video March

NeMe invites you to Video March, a series of workshops, discussions and screenings programmed for the NeMe Arts Centre.

Project Anywhere - 2015 call

Project Anywhere is an expanded global exhibition model in which the role of curator is replaced with the type of peer review model typically endorsed by a refereed journal. Emphasizing art and research undertaken outside traditional circuits, Project Anywhere is dedicated to the evaluation and dissemination of art and research at the outermost limits of location-specificity.

OFF-Biennale Budapest

We are proud to announce the first edition of the OFF-Biennale Budapest. With more than 150 participating artists and curators realizing their projects in more than 30 venues in and beyond Budapest, the OFF-Biennale is conceived to act as a game-changer in the cultural sector of Hungary.