OVNI 2011
CCC Barcelona/Spain - 22-27 February 2011

The Observatory Archives are intentional in nature and organized around
specific themes, bringing together material that supports a critique of
contemporary culture through different approaches such as video art,
independent documentary and mass media archaeology.

The call for works is open to all themes within the mentioned areas,
including as well non edited, archival or found footage.

OVNI 2011: http://desorg.org

Deadline: 15th September 2010.

OVNI - Arxius de l’Observatori
Montalegre, 5
08001 Barcelona- Spain
www.desorg.org
ovni@desorg.org
ph. 00 34 93 306 41 00
fax. 00 34 93 302 24 23

Ms.Use

The second issue of Ms.Use offers a platform to rethink the concept of ‘ecology’ and its links to sexuality. The term ‘ecology’ was first introduced in the nineteenth century and marked a new scientific field: nature and the relationships between organism and its surroundings.

http://www.msuse.com/

The word ‘eco’ originated from the Greek word Oikos (home). Paradoxically, popular culture and scientific investigation has, over the years, forged a gap between what is ‘natural’ and organic in human sexuality, and that which is ‘cultivated.’ The common assumption being that ecology is part of a natural process of which human beings are merely spectators.

And yet, how does the sphere of human sexuality communicate with questions of ecology? Is sexuality a natural or a cultural phenomenon? What kind of relations balance, use and exploit the various expressions of sexuality all around us? How does the media, the law, politics, technology and the pool of images circulating in these forms, influence our understanding of these relations? Eco-sex alludes, among others, to the relations between the environment and capitalism, globalization, and the western sex industry – in their terms, products and institutions. Satisfying ones’ ‘natural’ sexual needs in the West involves exploiting ‘nature’ and making it a commodity, such as women in the underprivileged third world countries in the far east who become sex slaves, weak populations in the West (immigrants, women, children), as well as natural resources.

What kind of news or renewed promise for the future can arise from rethinking the ties between ecology, nature, culture and sexuality?
organic sex | solar sex | sterility | one night stands | disposable sex | recycled sex | sex trash | clean sex | natural sex | sex in nature | newage sex | fuck and chuck | the modern and unnatural human trafficking which leads to unnatural sex | sexuality as animalistic | natural surroundings for sex | sex tourism (‘romantic’ cities like Paris) | sex pollution | extinct sex | sex and natural disasters | sex as a natural resource | exoticism | medical sex | pick up | sex on the move | migrating sex | drug induced sexuality | microscopic sex | hybrid sex | demographic sex | purebred sex | refined sex

Submission deadline
01/03/2010

Submissions should be sent to
submit@msuse.com

Specify on submited work:
- Name of creator/writer
- Title for the work/paper
- Short description/abstract of work/paper, including medium and year
- Contact details: Email, Phone Number
- Usage license by others (’all rights reserved’ or ‘creative commons’)

Photography, drawing, painting, comics, computer work. send jpeg file up to 10MB

Essays, translations, poetry – upto 1200 words; articals – up to 2500 words. send Word file.

There is no limitation on the number of submitions.
A notification will be sent to any creator whose
work will be selected to appear in Ms.Use
http://www.msuse.com/

For the 2010 exhibition
iEmotions-Means of Emotions
an exhibition attempting to link observations about the impact of cybernetics and digital media on our everyday relationships, curated by students from Satellite Academy High School Forsyth Campus and organized by ABACA.

The cybernetic invasion and computers have aggressively rendered daily life and relationships impotent. The exhibition “iEmotions-Means of Emotions” will explore how the consistent access to the internet in the western world has sythesized emotions. The selected work for this exhibition will critique the cybernetic myth about the emancipated access of useful information, and the fairy tale of global networking and sharing. It will attempt to demystify the democratic political claim of the cybernetic thesis and to take a closer look at how we define, perceive and describe emotions now in a post-TV world. The selected work will be featured in the final exhibition at apexart in New York City from May 26 to June 5, 2010.

This open call welcomes proposals from all artists. Collaborations will be reviewed by the same standards as individual entries. International artists are welcome to apply.

About the Program:

ABACA’s Curatorial Studies Exhibition is a project organized by high school students from Satellite Academy Forsyth Campus aged 16-19. Student curators organize all aspects of the project including developing interpretations of artists’ work, writing publicity materials, developing the exhibition’s theme and selecting the works of art.

Previous artists that have been featured in exhibitions organized by ABACA’s Curatorial Studies Program:

Michael Paul Britto, Peter Campus, Brett Cook-Disney, Renee Cox, Theodore Harris, Glenn Ligon, Bradley MacCallum & Jacqueline Terry, Ernesto Pujol, Gabriel Orozco, Joaquin Segura, Oscar Tuazon.

Theme and project development by artist Bea Schlingelhoff.

Honorarium:

Participating artist (or artist teams) selected for the exhibition will be paid an honorarium of $ 250 in June 2009. This fee covers all costs including materials, research, installation, and shipping expenses.

What to submit:

Maximum 12 digital images in a CD. We will only accept JPG file formats. All JPGs must be sized at 250 dpi, 5″ x 7″. Please number and title each JPG and include a description sheet with corresponding numbers.

Or:

Maximum 12 slides. Please number and title each slide and include a description sheet with corresponding numbers.

Or:

Max. 3 different DVD videos. Videos should be in standard DVD format, and each video on the DVD should be a single chapter. Clearly label the outside of the DVD with name and title(s) of the work(s). Students will review no more than 5 minutes of each video.

We don’t accept any submission, or part of the submission, via email or fax.

All submissions must include the following:

1) Cover sheet, including your name, address, contact and the format of our submission.

2) A brief artist statement explaining how your work relates conceptually or

formally to the exhibition’s theme (max. 300 words).

3) Current resume/bio

4) A self-addressed stamped envelope to return submitted materials. Submissions without S.A.S.E. will not be returned.

The deadline for submissions is March 5, 2010 (postmarked).

The selected artists will be notified in April 2010.

Please mail application materials to:

ABACA / Curatorial Studies
Bea Schlingelhoff198 Forsyth Street,
Satellite Academy Room 210
New York, New York 10002

If you have any questions please email: arts.abaca@yahoo.com

Or visit www.artsbenefitall.org

Going Underground 9
9th International Subway Film Festival Berlin
08. – 14. September 2010

Main Competition:

From the 8th until the 14th September 2010 Berliner Fenster in co-operation with interfilm Berlin will run the 9th International Short Film Festival for ‘Ultra Shorts’ in Berlin’s underground trains. On over 4,000 monitors in Berlin subways, 1.6 million passengers turn into an underground movie audience for one day, and can vote for their favorite of the 14 films.

The three winning filmmakers will be rewarded with prizes of:

1. Prize 3,000 EUR
2. Prize 2,000 EUR
3. Prize 1,000 EUR

Application & Entry Information:

Application deadline is the 25th of July 2010.
Entries for the competition must be no longer than 90 sec., they must be silent and free of extreme violent or obscene content.

Send entries to:

interfilm Berlin
Going Underground 9
Tempelhofer Ufer 1A
10961 Berlin / Germany
Fon/Fax: 0049 - (0)30 - 693 29 59 or - 25 29 13 22
e-mail: interfilm@interfilm.de

For more information and the application form please visit :www.interfilm.de and www.goingunderground.de

23rd Festival LES INSTANTS VIDEO
Marseille (F) and othér places - autumn 2010

The festival of Les Instants Vidéo is an event dedicated to electronic and media arts.

The 23rd edition is at the moment in preparation: ” There are mixed countries, where the species mix, where roads are uncertain, where mountains suddenly flatten and rivers take the taste of the sea water. It is generally places of passage, between two landscapes of happiness or between two shadows which suddenly find their light. ”

Every year we present international programs of video art and experimental documentaries, video installations, artists’ CD-ROM, performances, poets, conferences and public debates…

You will find an entry form on our site: www.instantsvideo.com/inscriptions.html

We will watch the works you will forward us with attention, being aware that electronic poetry is fragile, delicate, quivering…

Works must be sent together with the entry form to

L’association des
Instants Vidéo Numériques et poétiques
Friche la Belle de Mai
F - 13331 Marseille Cedex 03 #
France

Contact : 04 95 04 96 24 -
administration@instantsvideo.com
www.instantsvideo.com

The registration form must also be send by mail in word format: inscription@instantsvideo.com

FILE PRIX LUX | FILE Symposium 2010
FILE Symposium, a space for debates, meetings and theoretical exhibitions on subjects linked to the digital languages, opens its registration period, along with FILE PRIX LUX, international prize that FILE launches in 2010, an unprecedented initiative in Latin America.

FILE SYMPOSIUM was conceived in order to amplify the discussion the digital-culture and the international electronics art relationships. Discussion already promoted and motivated by FILE Festival, in its exhibition of works and expressions of the main electronic creativity, research as aesthetic issues and scientific experiences.
The meetings will take place from July 27th to 30th, 2010, at the mezanine of the cultural space of SESI Paulista.

To participate, it is necessary to fill the FILE Symposium 2010 registration form until March 05th, 2010
–>http://www.file.org.br/file2010entries/english/symp_entry.htm

For more information about FILE PRIX LUX visit:
http://www.fileprixlux.org/

For more information about FILE 2010 visit:
http://www.file.org.br/

IXth Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte
Bergamo/Italy - 16th to 24th July 2010.

Entry form as PDF
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/bergamo_entry2010.pdf

A very important event with two international competitions:

Cinema d’Arte, referred to the works inspired to Arts in general, without limits of length,
Sottoventi, reserved to the free subjects maximum duration of 20 minutes.

Here attached you will find find all the informations to enter your movies for the Competitions.

Festival internazionale del cinema d’arte
24122 Bergamo - Via Zelasco, 1
Italy
Tel. 035.237323 - Fax 035.224686
www.teamitalia.com

5th Sardinia Film Festival
Sassari /Sardinia (IT) - June 2010

Regulation as PDF
http://win.cineclubsassari.com/public/sffregulation2010.pdf

Online Entry Form
http://win.cineclubsassari.com/modulo2010.asp

Participation is free.
Sardinia Film Festival accepts works by filmmakers without gender restriction, theme and format.

CINECLUB SASSARI
c.p. 58 - SUCC.7
07100 SASSARI - ITALY

www.sardiniafilmfestival.it

Advertising Life -
ARE WE AN OPEN SOCIETY?
20 YEARS OF FREEDOM!?
Azyl Short Film Festival Bratislava/Slovakia

Entry Form
http://www.busho.hu/upload/2010lifead/advertisingLIFE_entryform2010.doc

The AZYL shortfilm festival of Bratislava again calls for entries to the Advertising Life competition, which like last year will be hosted by BuSho festival for the second time. The goal of this call is to get 1 minute shorts from makers that is related to their slogen „reklama na život” roughly means advertising life. This year’s subject is: 20 years of freedom!? Armed with last years’ experience the major change is that the pieces will be judged in 3 countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia) by separate juries then the 10 finalists will compete in the final in Bratislava. The winner’s reward again is €3000.-!

New feature is that from this year you can upload your short online as well and that we also accept entries that were not made by an individual but in the frame of „advertising LIFE” workshop which is most likely to be held on the last weekend of January. The main sponsor of the event in each country is the Open Society Found, new partner is the International Visegrad Fund, whereas the Hungarian partners are Duna TV, Film.hu, Daazo, newly joined Origo, Funzine and also the Cultural Institute of the Hungarian Republic in Bratislava returned to the sponsor’s list, furthermore the entries that are registered in Hungary we forward them to BuSho Festival. We still aspire for your works to be shown as many forums as possible and after the final decision of the jury they could be seen on popular internet portals where the public can also value them.

Terms and conditions of an entry:
1. It should be no longer than 1 minute
2. Please read the entry form carefully and fill it out appropriately. Send it along by 15th of March 2010 (postal stamp as decisive) the latest with the work attached.

Send it to:
BuSho Film Festival
Gombolyag Alapítvány
1141-Budapest
Szugló u. 83.

Or upload it to http://daazo.com/lifead website!
3. Technical parameters: 720×576 DV.PAL 48kHz 16bit stereo
4. All entries to be subtitled in English! (burnt in, not optional)
5. The genre of a movie can be freely chosen from: comedy, drama, action, musical, horror, thriller etc.
6. The category of a movie can be freely chosen from: fiction, animation, documentary, experimental etc.
7. It cannot contain of explicit language and offend any human rights.
8. It cannot contain of any musical part that is not free of copyrights. It is always the maker’s responsibility to assure that no copyright issue to be arisen.
9. A maximum of 3 entries per maker.
10. The works will be valued by a technical jury that’s members will be announced at a later date.
11. Prizes of the Budapest final: 1st: $1,000.- / 2nd: $600.- / 3rd: $400.-
12. Prizes of the international and main final: 1st: €3,000.- / 2nd: €1,000.- / 3rd: €500.-

The best 30 pieces according to the local jury’s voting will be shown in each country as follows:
After Prague and Bratislava, 20. March in Budapest!
The winners will be officially announced on the 25-March in Bratislava.

All the entries will be on screen at the 6th BuSho festival in Budapest in September.

Entry Form
http://www.busho.hu/upload/2010lifead/advertisingLIFE_entryform2010.doc

netEX: calls & deadlines –>February 2010
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b) calls & deadlines
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04 Calls: 2009 deadlines internal
22 Calls: February 2010 deadlines external
11 Calls: ongoing external/internal
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a) news

1) On 1 January 2010 [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
launched NewMediaFest’2010
10 Years [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne
global heritage of digital culture
a festival context in an exchange between virtual and physical space
1 January -31 December 2010
http://2010.newmedifest.org

2) NewMediaFest’2010 announces the first venue in 2010
The presentation of the entire CologneOFF V festival program on
CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity Sattal/India
http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec10/index.htm

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b) Calls & deadlines
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2010: deadlines internal
NewMediaFest’2010 has currently 4 calls running

CologneOFF VI - Let’s Celebrate! - deadline 5 April 2010
Call for film & videoart
5 Years Cologne Online Film Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1907

VideoChannel - deadline 2 March 2010
[self] ~imaging - artists portraying themselves in film & video
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1852

NewMediaFest’2010
VideoChannel - deadline 2 April 2010
One Minute Films of OMFC (One Minute Film Collection)
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=447

NewMediaFest’2010
*ongoing deadline 1 September 2009 - 1 September 2010
Java Museum - Forum for internet Technology in Contemporary Art
will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for
Internet based art from the years 2000-2010
details, regulations and entry form can be found on
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1428

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February 2010 deadlines: external
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28 February
Le Ville Matte residency Cagliari/Italy
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1922

28 February
Detmold ShortFilm Festival /Germany
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1954

19 February
Anti - Contemporary Art Festival Kuopio/Finland
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1964

15 February
Cynetart Competition 2010 - Dresden/Germany
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1942

28 February
Residency 2010 at Edith Russ Haus Oldenburg/Germany
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1832

28 February
Arse Elektronika 2010
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1640

26 February
Crosstalk Videoart Festival Budapest/Hungary
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1634

23 February
Currents 2010 - Santa Fe/New Mexico (USA)
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1892

19 February
Media City Film Festival 2010 Windsor/Canada
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1632

15 February
Australian International Experimental Film Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1886

15 February
2nd International New Media Art Festival Damascus/Syria
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1933

15 February
Athens Video Art Festival 2010
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1838

15 February
56th Oberhausen Short Film Festival (German competition)
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1653

15 February
Videofestival Bochum (Germany)
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1807

14 February
re-new Digital Arts Festival Copenhagen/DK
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1961

5 February
14th Annual Shortfilm and Video Festival Tempe/Arizona (USA)
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1876

5 February
LUMEN_EX Digital Art Award 2010
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1889

2 February
Rhizome Curatorial Fellow
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1973

1 February
GO SHORT Online Competition Nijmegen/NL
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1925

1 February
Sounding landscapes - soundart
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1804

1 February
Writers residency in Bialsytok/Poland
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1902

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Ongoing calls: external/internal
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—> SFC - Shoah Film Collection by VideoChannel & A Virtual Memorial Foundation
—> Selfshadows 2.= - net based project by Javier Bedrina
–>Videos for Bivouac Projects Sumter/USA
–>OUTCASTING - web based screenings
–>Films and video screenings Sioux City (USA)
–>Laisle screenings Rio de Janeiro/Brazil
–>Videos for Helsinki based video gallery - 00130 Gallery
–>Web based works for 00130 Gallery Helsinki/Finland
–>Project: Repetition as a Model for Progression by Marianne Holm Hansen
–>US webjournal Atomic Unicorn seeks netart and video art for coming editions
–>TAGallery

and more deadlines on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?page_id=4

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