animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
a new branch of Cologne International Videoart Festival
to be launched in September 2012 will run in the framework of the nomadic festival project “CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context”

CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context
is a world wide unique festival project, starting on 1 January 2011 and running until 31 December 2013 and beyond..

Its goal is to show on the tour around the globe venues the diversity of the creative potential of “art and moving images” transported via the global medium of “video”.

More info about CologneOFF 2012
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_eng.pdf

animateCologne – Cologne Art & Animation Festival – founded in 2012 in the framework of Cologne International Videoart Festival – would like give the animation as a particular artistic expression more attention, relevance and space by using a new festival format based on an exceptional permament collection of animated art contents to be extended once a year via a new festival edition.

animateCOLOGNE is looking
– for animated art contents in digital video in all its varietyon the themes “memory & identity”
– for new and experimental approaches in transforming artistic concepts via animation into the language of the “moving images”,
- and is inviting film & video creators – to submit up to 3 works of experimental forms of film and video art – (exclusively) online by using the entry form below.

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Regulations
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- Deadline: 01 July 2012
- Welcome are mono-channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- Theme: memory & identity The festival is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- Duration: max 10 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2004-2012.
- Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.come or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com, both are free upload services , after upload please send the link, and CologneOFF will download the film then.
- elegible: only Quicktime . mov (mp4 and H264 codec only), Windows Media .wmv, mpeg2 or Flash video flv [size minimum720x 576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC)]
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After selection the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality.

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Entry Form – please cut and paste

Please use for each video a new entry form
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) address
c) email, URL
d) short bio (max. 100 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL home page, (Internet address for download)
c) year of production
d) duration
e) work synopsis (max. 100 words/submission, English only)
f) 2 screenshots for each submitted work (jpg, 800×600 px)

Please add this declaration & sign it with your full name & email address
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I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work.
In case the work is selected, I give – until revoke – animateCOLOGNE – the permission to include the work in the festival context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions and use screenshorts for non-commercial promotional purposes. Until revoke means, that the signing author can remove his work at any time.
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Please use for each submission a separate entry form
deadline: 1 July 2012

Please send the submission either in
plain email text, RTF (Rich Text Format) or WORD . doc as attachment to

info@coff.newmediafest.org
subject:animateCologne 2012

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animateCOLOGNE
Cologne Art & Animation Festival 2012
director and coordinator

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Cologne International Videoart Festival
Mauritiussteinweg 64
D – 50676 Cologne
Germany

Email: info@coff.newmediafest.org
URL: http://caaf.newmediafest.org
blog http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/

Improbable Connections

The international call is open for artists and social scientists to
collaborate with seven organisations located in the Basque Country
(Spain) as part of the 2012 edition of Improbable Connections.

Three of them would accept a collaboration with English speakers: EDE
Fundazioa (social intervention), Orbea (design and manufacture of
bicycles) and Silam (Products and solutions based on silicone
elastomer). Other four organisations would only work with Spanish
speakers: Artepan (artisanal bakery and pastry maker), Eraikune
(construction cluster in Euskadi), Grupo Uvesco (supermarkets), Oiz
egin (rural development platform),

DEADLINE TO APPLY: 9am on 25 June 2012.
COLLABORATION PERIOD: September 2012 – June 2013.
PAYMENT: 12,000 euros + VAT (including travel and accommodation).

Rules of the call and requested researches in
http://www.conexionesimprobables.com

*Call for applications for Balmoral scholarships
and foreign and exchange scholarships for 2013

*Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
*Villenpromenade 11
56130 Bad Ems
Germany

info@balmoral.de

http://www.balmoral.de

Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral next to the river
“Lahn” and the Russian Orthodox Church.*

*Preconditions
*The conditions for all scholarships with the exception of the curator
scholarship are a completed course of study in art (M.F.A. or comparable
degree) and two or three years (depending on the respective scholarship)
of continuous artistic work after the conclusion of the studies.
Applications are also possible for autodidacts distinguished by special
artistic achievements, as documented by exhibitions and prizes.

To foster artistic dialog and interdisciplinary collaboration, knowledge of German, English or French is expected.

The curator scholarship is awarded to persons who are not older than 35
years or whose university degree (at least M.A., preferably Ph.D.) was
completed not more than 5 years ago.

For the curator scholarship, mastery of the German language spoken and
in writing as well as good knowledge of English or French is essential.

*I. International residence scholarships
*Six residence scholarships will be awarded to international visual artists.

Each scholarship lasts six months. They ordinarily begin in April 2013
and are endowed with 1,200 EUR per month. They include free
accommodation at the Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral.

*II. Project scholarship
*The project scholarship, which is not tied to any site, will be awarded
to an international visual artist. The project scholarship lasts for 6
months and begins in April 2013. It is endowed with 1,200 EUR per month.

Eligible are international applicants with permanent residence in the
Federal Republic of Germany. The artistic project should be realized
within the scholarship period of 6 months so that it can possibly be
integrated in the annual exhibition of the scholarship holders.

*III. International curator scholarship
*To foster dialog between research and art, Balmoral awards a residence
scholarship to a young scholar in the humanities (preferably art
history) for a curatorial project to be developed by the scholarship
holder and the Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral.

The scholarship lasts 6 months and begins in April 2013. It is endowed
with 1,200 EUR per month and includes free accommodation at the
Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral.

*IV. Foreign and exchange scholarships* *exclusively for artists with
relation to Rhineland-Palatinate
*Relation to Rhineland-Palatinate means is born in, has studied in, has
lived or lives in Rhineland-Palatinate.

• One six-month scholarship for New York (Flux Factory)
• One three-month scholarship for South Korea
• One six-month scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
(July to December)
• One five-month scholarship for Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf,
Brandenburg/Germany

The foreign and exchange scholarships are endowed with 1,200 EUR per month.

*Awarding of scholarships
*A jury of specialists will award all scholarships, taking into
consideration the developmental potential of the applicant’s artistic or
theoretical work. The names of the jurors will be published after the
selection.

Additional information and PDF application forms are available on our
homepage www.balmoral.de

Applications *must* be made with these application forms. Other
applications will not be taken into consideration.

THESS INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL – TiSFF
6th edition of the International Short Film Festival of the city of Thessaloniki.

TiSFF is every year screening the very best of short-films
from all over the world, thus promoting the very art of
cinema as well as talented young directors

This year the festival will take place over two successive

week-ends, on 19,20,21 and 26,27,28 October, in the
ALEXANDROS cinema, in Thessaloniki.

Entry info and form on
www.tisff.eu .

Performing Arts for the Future

WE OFFER:
To spend a summer week as a part of 2 Prague theater festvals (Zero Point and Behind the Door) with the legends of perfoming arts and actively participate in their workshops

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1 stipendium for a participant who will be chosen by us – best motivation letter
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Meeting the young generation with authorities of performing arts
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Passing on experience, creation work, and thinking to young artists
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Maintain the fragile continuity in performing arts through a unique poetics of individual artists
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Contacts, creating conditions for future cooperation, both at European level
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Meeting with other artistic genres and different approaches as a prompt for further artistic work
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The participants of the workshops will have an opportunity to present their work at the Forman brother’s boat Tajemství last day of the festival

WE REQUIRE:

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motivation letter
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curriculum vitae

Program of workshops:

Master Class: Matěj Matějka (July 14 – 17 + July 19 – 22)

Group 1: Sabine Seume, Ferenc Fehar , Bartlomiej Ostapczuk , (July 17 – 22)

Group 2: Réka Szabó, Tantehorse – Radim Vizváry, Juschka Weigel(July 17 – 22)

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When: July 14 or 17 – July 22, 2012

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Where: Prague, Czech Republic

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Fees:

€150,- / weekly attendance at 1 of 3 workshop groups + free entry to all performances

€220,- / weekly attendance at 1 of 3 workshop groups + free entry to all performances + accommodation in Prague

special sale for the students of our artistic partner schools

Deadline registration: May 31, 2012

Registration and more info: nultybod@gmail.com

Websites: www. nultybod.cz

The educative program Performing Arts for the Future is a project of 7 workshops for young artists and students from all over Europe. The inspiring idea is to create conditions for meeting emerging artists with legends of new theater. All participants of the workshops have free entry for the festival productions and they form the core of the festival. Participants are actively involved into the festival events and build contacts for future cooperation. Last year, they managed to arrange a very close cooperation between them and the Hungarian group: The Bladder Circus Company.

This year these great artists as workshop leaders were invited. Matěj Matějka from The Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, German dancer Juschka Weigel and butoh performer Sabine Seume who studied under the direction of Pina Bausch. Bartlomiej Ostapczuk, a representant of the Polish Mime Centrum in Warsaw, Ferenc Fehér and Réka Szabo from Hungary. After an excellent experience and great satisfaction of the participants from previous years, Radim Vizváry from Tantehorse will also be a leader of one of the workshops.

Last day of the festival, the participants will have an opportunity to present their work at the Forman brother’s boat Tajemství.

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Spitfire Company – physical and visual theatre
International Theatre Festival Zero Point
Performing Arts for the Future

www.bezhlavi.cz
www.nultybod.cz

GENERAL CALL 2012
If you are a professional or amateur film maker,
we invite you to take part in the

5th INTERNATIONAL THERMAIKOS 2min FILM FESTIVAL 2012
Lights on!*

*Shedding light into darkness…
organized by the Cultural Department of Thermaikos Municipality

For further information, please check the attached files and the Festival’s webpage.
http://thermaikosfilmfestival.wordpress.com/

SPECIAL CALL 2012

Thermaikos Film Festival/Thessaloniki 1912 – 2012

“A film for Thessaloniki: in light and darkness”

The historical context

2012 marks the centenary of its liberation of Thessaloniki City from the Ottomans. In 1912, Thessaloniki was incorporated into the Greek State. A new period in its long history was thus inaugurated. The physiognomy of the city changed radically, large waves of refugees and economic migrants settled, other populations were expelled and the urban landscape was entirely transformed.

The city is preparing to celebrate this anniversary of liberation, facing plenty of challenges for its future development and approaching the shocking historical events of the last 100 years through a new lens.

Special call – concept

On the occasion of this centenary, we invite you to join us in this celebration by creating a film up to 2 minutes about our city of Thessaloniki. The general concept – which bears an affinity to this year’s Festival slogan “Lights on” – is “Thessaloniki in light and darkness”. The concept framework leaves plenty of room for artistic freedom, interpretation and expression. We will be glad and proud to receive films about Thessaloniki (with their own unique title) according to the general regulation of the Festival.

All the films will be screened at a special tribute section of the 5th Thermaikos Film Festival. A special prize will be awarded to the best film.

Please send us your films which must not exceed the duration limit of 2 minutes to the following address.

The general regulation of the Festival applies to this special call as well http://thermaikosfilmfestival.wordpress.com/regulation/
http://thermaikosfilmfestival.wordpress.com/call-for-entry/

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ΔΗ.Π.Π.Α.Κ.Υ.Θ. – ΤΜΗΜΑ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ
(THERMAIKOS MUNICIPALITY – CULTURAL DEPARTMENT)
“Πολιτισμός για όλους…” (“Culture for all…”)
Κων/νου Βάρναλη 2, Νέα Μηχανιώνα, Θεσ/νίκη, 57004
(Constantinou Varnali 2, Nea Michaniona, Thessaloniki-Greece)
Τηλ. (Tel.): 23923.30.363-4
E-Mail: poltherm@gmail.com
Thermaikos Film Festival

The Prince Claus Fund welcomes project proposals for cultural initiatives in the fields of digital culture and new media.

Digital forms of expression, both social and artistic, have the power of connecting diverse cultural interests, engaging communities, and giving rise to a wide-range of group interactions. Through this call, the Prince Claus Fund wishes to support innovative creative initiatives that link digital techniques and/or new media with culture and development.

The Prince Claus Fund is particularly interested in projects in the field of digital culture and new media that facilitates freedom of expression, stimulates dialogue and encourages cultural exchange. The Fund has a five year focus on the theme of culture and conflict and encourages project proposals related to this theme.

For more information visit:

http://www.princeclausfund.org/en/activities/current-call.html

20 ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival
7-11 november 2012 – Tirgu-Mures, Romania

Submissions for the International Competition are open!

The online entry form and the Regulations are available at:
http://www.madisz.ro

The submitted films can not exceed 30 minutes.

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U.D.T.M.-MADISZ
Tirgu-Mures, 540015
Str. Gheorghe Doja nr.9/81
ROMANIA

tel.+40-265-267.547
fax: +40-265-268.573

alternative@madisz.ro

1st International Workshop On Musical Metacreation
((( MUME 2012 )))
1st International Workshop on Musical Metacreation
http://www.metacreation.net/mume2012/

Held at the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE’12)
Stanford, Palo Alto, California, USA
October 9, 2012

Deadline for Paper and Demo Submissions:
*** July 6, 2012 ***

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We are delighted to announce the 1st International Workshop on Musical Metacreation (MUME2012) to be held October 9, 2012, in conjunction with the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE’12).

Thanks to continued progress in artistic and scientific research, a new possibility is emerging in our musical relationship with technology: Generative Music or Musical Metacreation, the design and use of computer music systems which are “creative on their own”. Metacreation involves using tools and techniques from artificial intelligence, artificial life, and machine learning, themselves often inspired by cognitive and life sciences. Musical Metacreation suggests exciting new opportunities to enter creative music making: discovery and exploration of novel musical styles and content, collaboration between human performers and creative software “partners”, and design of systems in gaming and entertainment that dynamically generate or modify music.

The workshop will bring together artists, practitioners and researchers interested in developing software and systems that autonomously (or interactively) recognize, learn, represent, complete, accompany, compose or interpret music. In particular, emphasis will be put on systems with real-time aspects, since these are relevant to both art and entertainment communities.

Topics
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We encourage paper and demo submissions on topics including the following:
* Novel representations of musical information
* Systems for autonomous or interactive music composition
* Systems for automatic generation of expressive musical interpretation
* Systems for learning or modelling music style and structure
* Systems for intelligently remixing or recombining musical material
* Advances or applications of AI, machine learning, and statistical techniques for musical purposes
* Advances or applications of evolutionary computing or agent and multiagent-based systems for musical purposes
* Computational models of human musical creativity
* Techniques and systems for supporting human musical creativity
* Online musical systems (i.e. systems with a real-time element)
* Adaptive music in video games
* Methodologies for, and studies reporting on, evaluation of musical metacreations
* Emerging musical styles and approaches to music production and performance involving the use of AI systems

Format and Submissions
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The workshop will be a one day event including:
* Presentations of TECHNICAL PAPERS
* Presentations of POSITION PAPERS relevant to Musical Metacreation and its future
* Presentations of DEMONSTRATIONS
* One or more PANEL SESSIONS (potential topics include international collaborations, evaluation methodologies, industry engagement, generative music in art vs. games)

For complete details on attendance, submissions and formatting, please visit the workshop website:
*** http://www.metacreation.net/mume2012/ ***

Important Dates
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Submission deadline: July 6, 2012
Notification date: August 3, 2012
Accepted Author CRC due to AAAI Press: August 17, 2012
Workshop date: October 9, 2012

Workshop Organizers
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Dr. Philippe Pasquier (Workshop Chair)
School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT)
Simon Fraser University

Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt
The School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University

Dr. Oliver Bown
Design Lab, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning
The University of Sydney

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http://www.metacreation.net/mume2012/

Open Call For Moving Image

Each year AND makes an open call for moving image submissions for inclusion in the festival programme and this year is no exception. We are seeking feature films, short films and artists moving image, there are no restrictions on genre, style or duration; we welcome narrative, documentary, live action, hybrids and all shades in between. The festival celebrates innovative national and international filmmaking, and we invite filmmakers, with a transgressive take on society. If this sounds like a piece you’ve completed then show us, fill in our submission form and send your moving image work our way.

HOW TO APPLY
For more details and information on how to apply please visit http://www.andfestival.org.uk/event/open-call-moving-image

S C R E E N G R A B
New Media Art Prize

\\\ CONTROL ///

“Freedom from rust, chained in silicon”

The 2012 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.

ENTRY APP:

http://screengrab.info

WEB FLYER:
http://screenculture.com/screengrab2012.jpg

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2012 Award Theme

The contemporary media milieu would suggest an evolving devolution of the traditional notion of the “society of control”. The boundaries of enclosures and spaces are no longer the rigid and defined perimeters they once were. The browser, the mobile camera/screen are new enabling simulations the user canexploit to navigate alternative pathways, to experience new modes of expression and to participate in global cultural exchange.

This is reflected online and on the street. In our political discourse and our social interactions. And it is most visible when repatriated via the mainstream media and traditional news editorials coupled with wild proclamations of “new freedoms” accompanied by “real change”.

Yet what has reallychanged? What do these new counter measures look like on the ground? Where do the subversions play out? What new questions are we asking of our environment and of ourselves?

In the same evolving moment new far less visible forms of control are emerging that use these very same technological platforms: surveillance networks, social media, data mining algorithms, privacy interventions, sophisticated image gathering techniques and drone technologies. These aggregators of data and network traffic are rapidly translating our private, public and social lives into valuable sets of relational data – re-writing the notion of identity, weaving new paradigms of control.

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The Call Out

SCREENGRAB is now entering its fourth year with an international call out for the AUS$5000 New Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition in August 2012 for short listed applicants. We invite digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of CONTROL.

All forms of screen based media are encouraged including multi-channel video, digital illustration, audio sculpture, photography, generative media, 2D & 3D animation.

Existing worx and those specifically designed for the award must address the theme of CONTROL to beeligible for the New Media Arts award.

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Prize Money: AUS $5000

Artefact deadline: July 2

Exhibition Opening & Award announcement : August 10

Application Form : http://screengrab.info

SGUARDI SONORI 2012
MOLE VANVITELLIANA – ANCONA – ITALY
From 15 To September 30

Gino on My Mind

ART.1-Aims
FaticArt Cultural Association (nonprofit) announces a call for “Artists for the Marche” to the promotion and enhancement of Contemporary Art as part of the festival SGUARDI SONORI (LOOKS SOUND). The review will encompass this year an homage to the work and thought of the great Anconetan artist Gino De Dominicis. The artists will be selected
by the direction of the festival with the help of an authoritative scientific committee and will participate in an important group exhibition to be held in the Mole Vanvitelliana 15 to 30 September 2012 which will be published in a catalog. The most significant of those received works will be put on the cover of the catalog that will be printed in 1500 copies.

ART.2-Subject of “Call for”
The Call for the theme “Gino on My Mind” (being dedicated to the artist Gino De Dominicis) and is divided into two sections: video and soundart as described in the subsequent

ART. 3.
For reference you can see this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WstIaARGSZ4 a good transmission RaiStoria dedicated to Gino (especially the minutes 24 and 27). THE MESSAGE MUST BE DISRUPTIVE, as was the scheleton in the Mole in 2005.
In previous years since 2009 with our meeting with the astronaut Roberto Vittori and Maestro Ennio Morricone we had addressed the issue of SGUARDI SONORI on INFINITY with our project for a Concert for Astronaut and Orchestra INFINITE SPACES. This time the theme is in perfect harmony with the thought of Gino and widens the LOOK SOUNDwill arise in connection with the IMMORTALITY, the COSMIC MAGNET, the ETERNITY,
INFINITY SPACES to testify to the future generation of the Universe the memory of our passage on Earth .

ART. 3 – Technical
The event is open to all artists, regardless of age, sex, nationality or other qualification. Each artist can participate with one or more works well in multiple sections. The following technical specifications:staging same.
Video Art and Animation – videos, films and works with all techniques of animation on any digital and analog. The works will last a maximum of 10 minutes, opening titles and closing credits included. For the exhibition the works are required to send original saved on DVD in high quality and in formats compatible with the most popular reading.
Contemporary Sound Art & electronics – each artist or group can participate with an audio track and / or with a live performance. The request is addressed to all investigators in new sounds, experimental, electronic and electroacoustic music. Students are allowed to interaction designs audio | video. Every single sound track should have a maximum duration of 8 minutes. The live performance will not exceed 20 minutes.

ART. 3 – Required Documentation
The artist must send by e-mail faticarte@gmail.com the following documentation:
1 – This Regulation, signed with a legible signature;
2 – the detailed documentation of the work, including:
a) technical work:
- Title and duration of the work / project, author, year of completion,
- Description (max 1500 characters);
- Short CV of the artist (artists (max 1000 characters);
b) images (frames): Max No. 3 with indicated caption. (Video art and animation)
c) digital media (CD or DVD) and any other materials deemed appropriate or
meaningful. (Video art and animation, contemporary sound art & electronics)

ART. 4 – Registration Fee
The participation fee is free of charge.

ART. 5 Stages of the competition
Facts and information you can send an email to faticarte@gmail.com no later than June 20, 2012, the answer will be in real time.
Deadline: July 15, 2012.
All documentation must be sent no later than July 15, 2012 to the email address.
The Association will announce the list of artists FaticArt email personally within 30 July2012.
The exhibition includes the publication of a catalog, within which you will publish information about the artist (short bio) and images of the works on display.

ART. 6 Return of the works permitted
The exhibited works will remain present in the archive FaticArt Association.

ART. 7 Liability
The organizers accept no responsibility for any damage to the works caused by tampering, fire, theft or other causes sustained during the period of the exhibition, torage, exposure, the storage and transport.

ART. 8 General
Entry implies acceptance of these rules.
The signing of forms is as liberating for the use of any material posted.
The decisions of the juries is final.

The organization reserves the right to decide on matters not included in this notice or to change due to force majeure, in which case they will be published on the site
www.faticart.org
Conception, organization and general secretarial
Cultural Association FaticArt
ITALY
E-mail: faticarte@gmail.com
www.faticart.org
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Signature
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Alpha-ville
International Festival of Post-Digital Culture
Innovation, Creativity and Forward Thinking

“Unfinity”
We live in a unique moment in history, between two rapidly changing worlds. One is the world of decaying political and economic structures and the other is the world of an infinite explosion in technology and information. There are conflicting mindsets in every part of our culture: the contradiction between ubiquitous virtual presence and physical presence creating an identity crisis; the non-hierarchical, organic web structure clashing with hierarchical, non-organic real-world structures; the myth of the individual as a genius vs the power of the crowd and the collaborative practice; the passive and observant attitude set against active participation and co-creation. These opposing forces are placing us in a paradoxical state that we have named Unfinity.

Unfinity is a pull between these poles, a hybrid space. It’s timeless and uncertain. We believe that to ease the state of Unfinity in a human and meaningful way it is crucial to be creative, to experiment, to challenge and take action.

Alpha-ville 2012 invites artists, designers, thinkers, digital and non-digital people to consider, participate in, create and express what will be the next steps for building an alternative future that, we hope, will belong to the people.

Use #unfinity on Twitter.

KEYWORDS
Timeless, Hybrid, Infinity, Code, Data, Body, Physicality, Space, Clould Culture, Mixed Reality, Augmented Reality, Social, Experimentation, Unfinished, Future of Art, New Aesthetic, Failure, Prototype, Hyperconnectivity, Human Computer Interaction, Interactivity, Ubiquitousity, Pervasive computing, Virtual & Physical Environments, Democratisation, Activism, Hacktivism, Avatars, 3D Printing, Storytelling, Openweb, Smart Cities, Sustainability, Internet of Things, Censorship, Privacy, Identity, Grassroots, Uncertainty, Collaborative Design, DIY, Active Citizenship, Participation, New Ideas…

DEADLINES
Submissions close on Friday 22nd June 2012
Moving Image Submissions will close on Sunday 15th July 20

Type of work

* Music/Sound
* AV Performance
* Lab, Hack Event or Meet-up
* Moving Image
* Public Interventions
* Multimedia Projects (installation, exhibition..)
* Critical: Talks, Panels, Workshops, Presentations, Academic Paper

http://www.alpha-ville.co.uk

Ongoing Call For Submissions:
Yoguy / Time Based Forever

!YOGUY IS ACCEPTING VIDEO SUBMISSIONS ALL THE TIME!
YoGuy is an online place for video and performance art.

Our aim:
- To preview and showcase video and/or film from any artist or person that is willing to contribute.
- To see and meet other people through the work they create.
- To be a hub for everyone to enjoy.

YoGuy has a 24/7 open call that will be updated weekly and it is our hope that you will contribute to its growth and prosperity.

Check us out: www.yoguy.info

Contact us anytime: yoguyinfo@gmail.com

CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift
Human Rights – Memory & Identity
8th edition of Cologne International Videoart Festival
to be launched in September 2012 and run in the framework of the nomadic festival project “CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context”

CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context
is a world wide unique festival project, starting on 1 January 2011 and lasting until 31 December 2012 and beyond..

Its goal is to show on the tour around the globe venues the diversity of the creative potential of “art and moving images” transported via the global medium of “video”.

More info about CologneOFF 2012
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_eng.pdf

CologneOFF VIII – the 8 th festival edition since the foundation in 2006 is focussed thematically on “human rights” and their manifestation in memory & identity.

“Continental Drift” is used as a metaphore for the instabile political, economical and ecological situation, people live on the globe currently,
which is representing also a moral crisis of all systems in power.

CologneOFF VIII is looking
– for art works using video as a medium in all its variety,
– for new and experimental artistic approaches in transforming issues of human rights & dignity and related fields into the language of the “moving images”,
- and is inviting film & video creators – to submit up to 3 works of experimental forms of film and video art – (exclusively) online by using the entry form below

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Regulations
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- Deadline: 01 July 2012
- Welcome are single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- Themes: human rights and related fields. The festival is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2004-2012.
- Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: max 10 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.come or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com, both are free upload services , after upload please send the link, and CologneOFF will download the film then.
- elegible: only mpeg2 DVD, Quicktime . mov (mp4 and H264 codec only), Windows Media .wmv or Flash video flv [size minimum720x 576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC)]
- only selected artists will be notified
- After selection the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality.

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Call for entries: English

Convocatoria: español

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Entry Form – please cut and paste

Please use for each video a new entry form
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) address
c) email, URL
d) short bio (max. 100 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL home page, (Internet address for download)
c) year of production
d) duration
e) work synopsis (max. 100 words/submission, English only)
f) 2 screenshots for each submitted work (jpg, 800×600 px)

Please add this declaration & sign it with your full name & email address
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I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work.
In case the work is selected, I give – until revoke – CologneOFF the permission to include the work in the festival context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions and use screenshorts for non-commercial promotional purposes. Until revoke means, that the author can remove his work at any time.
//

Please use for each submission a separate entry form
deadline: 1 july 2012

Please send the submission either in
plain email text, RTF (Rich Text Format) or WORD . doc as attachment to

info@coff.newmediafest.org
subject: CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift

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CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift
8th Cologne International Videoart Festival
director and coordinator

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Cologne International Videoart Festival
Mauritiussteinweg 64
D – 50676 Cologne
Germany

Email: info@coff.newmediafest.org
URL: http://coff.newmediafest.org
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/

Share Prize 2012 – Open Your City

Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the Share Prize, the international competition designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age.

Entries for the Share Prize can be submitted from 23th March to 6th June 2012, by completing the entry form on the website www.toshare.it

The Share Prize this year will focus on the theme for the 8th Share Festival, entitled Open Your City.

Open Your City is the guiding theme for the Share Festival 2012. A theme that contains three key, simple and direct words, the pillars on which this year’s festival programme will be built. ‘Open Your City’ will also provide the blueprint for this year’s Share Prize.

Open is meant in the sense of being in the making, of being unfinished, experimental, transparent and boundless. ‘Open’ gives the idea of a starting point, the perspective from which we see things, an inclusive vision founded on digital communication and active democracy. It is a hallmark of the quality of an idea, a system, a group or an organization. It relinquishes copyright to give precedence to the sharing of knowledge, to open-source methodologies.

Your is meant as the direct participation of people who possess, own, use, occupy and command something that belongs to them. It identifies the person who plays a leading role in driving change-someone who takes action, steps in and gets involved; someone who makes plans, collaborates, transforms, brings together and acts as part of a community. ‘Your’ means grass-roots democracy.

City is meant as the venue or theatre of action; it is the common good, the backdrop to changes underway. An urban space abuzz with social and technological ferment, made up of streets and roads, squares and parks and everyday locations. The city has become populated with new sites of social media where communication flows thick and fast-in the form of control, through video surveillance or the mapping of social graphs, though also in the form of participatory democracy, through augmented reality, smart architectures and wearable computing.

What is the role of art today, in this time of social transformation towards the city of the future?
Is this the city that we want, that we imagine, that we wish for?

What’s your idea of the open city?

What world we want to live?

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An international jury will short-list six finalists for the prize, who will be invited to take part in the 8th Share Festival, to be held in Torino from 30th October to 11th November 2012, at the Regional Museum of Natural Science.

The winner will receive a cash prize of EUR 2,500.00.

The names of the short-listed finalists (maximum six nominees) will be announced by the end of July 2012.

DOWNLOAD COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT
http://www.toshare.it/?lang=en

SUBSCRIBE ONLINE
http://www.toshare.it/shareprize/submit.php?lang=en

Museum of Natural Science
Via Giolitti 36
Turin, Italy 10124
Italy

Access Space Artist Residencies 2012 at Refab Space

Access Space is delighted to announce four artist residencies at its recently developed Refab Space – one in July and three from 4th September to 15th December.

We are inviting artists, composers, hackers, designers, engineers and creative technologists to explore emerging artforms and curatorial practise in Refab Space, Access Space’s DIY FabLab.

The application deadline for the July residency is Wednesday May 16 and deadline for the Autumn residencies is Monday 18 June.

Applying:
Each 15 working day residency offers an artist fee of 1500 GBP, self-catering accommodation, a modest budget for materials and a contribution towards travel.

In return artists will create a new work for a physical exhibition.

Further information and application forms:

http://www.access-space.org/arts/Refab_Residency_Call.htm

Web Biennial 2012, Wb12: Open Call

OCCUPY CONTENT: Have we reached the end of the Internet as we knew it?

The last few years threats over the openness and the democracy of the medium have significantly augmented. With the introduction of the new Internet censorship laws on the name of intellectual property, increasing government surveillance and control under the pretense of security and continuously evolving systems of data aggregation applied by companies, the Internet territory seems to be doomed to a fatal change. No matter to which extent the new agreements will pass, how different governments and countries might react, and how companies might cooperate according to their own interests, insecurity and fear cast their shade over the Internet’s freedom.

Can networks survive with the restrictions and inhibitions being imposed to them? Can they withstand data disclosure and control? While these questions remain open, the voices rising up multiply, arguing that the internet ultimately can not be regulated and controlled. As every power feeds its counterpower and every mechanism of control, its anti-mechanism, structures can be opposed and transformed by the potentiality of resistance by millions of users around the world.

Believing that collaborative creative processes can formulate new common grounds of participation, Web Biennial 12 wishes to address a call to all creative netizens, seeking for different alternatives that can be offered.
Not only web based and net based projects but ideas, statements, platforms and tools are also welcome; as well as anything that could contribute to an open platform which aims to assist in building a free network of networks beyond control…

WB12 team: Dimitris Fotiou, Daphne Dragona, Matthias Fritsch. Web Biennial is founded by Genco Gulan.

Web Biennial 2012 – Submission instructions

To submit your work for the Webbiennial 2012 please provide the following:
*project title
*description (200 words)
*bio (200 words)
*URL of the project or other related links
*2 stills
*other files necessary

once selected: put the following title tags inside your index page (consult a web master if necessary):

#WB12: Occupy Content – Name of the Artist – Name of Your Project

For example: If your name is “John Doe” and your project is titled “YourProjectX” then your code should look like this:

#WB12: Occupy Content – John Doe – YourProjectX

NO REDIRECTION PAGES, NO PORTFOLIOS, NO COMMERCIAL SITES!

E-mail submissions to: webbiennial@gmail.com

Link: http://webbiennial.org/

WB12
9 PLATONOS STR. ILIOUPOLI
ATHENS, 163 41
Greece

“Summer MEDIA Studio 2012” is the 14th annual international workshop for European film students which will take place in Neringa, Lithuania, in June 17 – July 1, 2012.

Each year SMS project focuses on the most essential and important subjects of the young European cinema. The topic of SMS 2012 is “Music&sound in film”. We would like to invite directors, scriptwriters, producers, sound designers, film composers, cinematographers, actors and musicians from European film schools to participate in the project.

Application form is open till May 15th in our official website www.summermediastudio.com. You can also follow the news in our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/SummerMediaStudio

A TOWN AT THE HORIZON
4º International Mail Art Call in Cura Malal

INFORMATION: latranca.curamalal@gmail.com
http://www.corraldepiedra.com.ar/un_pueblo/2012/english-call/

CORRAL DE PIEDRA
El Aromo y El Fresno, s/n
Cura Malal (7548), Bs.As., Argentina
Te. (02923) 496110
latranca.curamalal@gmail.com

http://www.corraldepiedra.com.ar

NetWORK in MOVEment is a three-part project that consists of Movement Museum, Body, Breath, Gaze Multi-museum, and Autopoiesis, Transformation, Liminality, Emergence, Presence Trans-museum.

What connects all three NETwork in moveMENT projects is the research of movement as a medium; at Movement Museum we are interested in the performance, but also the performativity of singular movement, movement as such, or pure movement; at Body, Breath and Gaze Multi-museum we are interested in the physicality of the movement – body-movement, breath-movement, gaze-movement – and the potentialities of generating new movement physicality arising from the body, breath and gaze as the singular performance media. At Autopoiesis, Transformation, Liminality, Emergence, Presence Trans-museum we are interested in performative status of the autopoietic, transformative, liminal, emergent, present movement; we would also like to approach and research – autopoiesis, transformation, liminality, emergence, presence – as a set of organic tools for making the singular movement. NETwork in moveMENT tendencies are aimed toward the creation of social network and the possibility of networking by the new language of movement, but also the attempt to make every movement visible.

Open Calls:
-Movement Museum: http://muzej-pokreta.org/mup/?page_id=795
-Body, Breath, Gaze Multi-museum: http://muzej-pokreta.org/mup/?page_id=797
-Autopoiesis,Transformation, Liminality, Emergence, Presence Trans-museum: http://muzej-pokreta.org/mup/?page_id=799

Inside Is Not The Opposite Of Outside

The next Synthetic Zero show at BronxArtSpace, “Inside is Not the Opposite of Outside” will be co-curated by Emily Roberts-Negron and Mitsu Hadeishi. We are looking for visual art, performance, experimental video, music, readings, dance, or other work for the show. The theme of the show is described below; please feel free to submit any and all work related to the theme closely or remotely.

Define extrovert. Introvert.

These two words have been interpreted and reinterpreted to conform to a general understanding of disposition. But perhaps these varying definitions illustrate a much more complex idea, that they aren’t really in opposition of one another. Perhaps the two exist on their own; individual spectrums which echo one another like the rise and fall of an ocean’s tide.

How does one describe an array of emotion, taking account of every nuance and change? This show will be an exploration of the behavior/idiosyncrasies/characteristics of introversion both as an emotional mode and a space of introspection and creative incubation, not as the polar opposite of extroversion, but overlapping with it, undulating together with it, in waves. We are looking for works across the full gradation of emotion and expression. They can be romantic, pessimistic, hairy, toothsome, frustrated, proud, intellectual, courteous, hungry, lonely, horny, cautious, congenial, meditative… together they will form a collective depiction of this singular paradoxical relation.

Please email us at events@syntheticzero.com with information about your submission; links, images, etc. See below for information on sending DVDs

If you’re submitting a DVD, you can send it to:

Synthetic Zero
305 E 140th St #1A
Bronx, NY 10454
USA

DIRECTIONS:

The art space is at 305 E. 140th St., #1A, Bronx NY 10454.

We’re about 20 minutes from Union Square. From Manhattan, 4-5 train to 125th, transfer to 6, one stop to 3rd Ave/138th St, it’s 2 blocks from there. Note there are two exits at 3rd Ave/138th, one at Alexander Ave and one at 3rd Ave. Ring 3A or 1B if 1A does not answer.

http://www.syntheticzero.com/events/jun2012.php

BronxArtSpace
305 E. 140th St #3A
Bronx, New York 10454
United States of America

Crystal Palace: 1st Annual Artspace Film/Video Festival, Oct. 20

Crystal Palace is an experimental film/video festival curated by Liena Vayzman for ArtSpace’s 15th Anniversary, its crystal anniversary, that calls for crystal-themed, crystallizing, and multi-faceted video and film. Non-narrative and experimental narrative work created in any film/video/digital media format is welcome. Projection will be accepted in DVD format only. Crystals include snowflakes, diamonds, ice crystals, gems like amethyst, and salt, and we call for work that explores these references in abstract or narrative form, or takes as a starting point the scientific, chemical, cultural, or mathematical aspects of crystals.

Additionally, submissions are encouraged that interpret the theme structurally by applying the metaphor of a crystal as a geometrical shape of flat surfaces with specific, characteristic orientations to the structure of the film/video project. Cultural investigations might included crystals as luxury and kitsch (Swarowski crystal swans, chandeliers); serious or tongue-in-cheek healing artifacts (healing crystals, crystals as magical objects, x-rays of crystals and their photographic/filmic permutations).

Like the Crystal Palace plate-glass building, a marvel of engineering constructed by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, ArtSpace’s Crystal Palace aims to illuminate and amaze. Broad interpretation is welcome – send us your crystalline creations and multi-faceted video gems! The film/video festival will take place over two days, Oct. 20-21, 2012, in conjunction with ArtSpace’s City-Wide Open Studios festival, which is a convening of visual artists from across Connecticut in temporary studios and spaces throughout New Haven; the film/video festival is open to all artists, national and international. We welcome non-narrative or experimental narrative work playing on the theme of transparency, multiple facets, and processes of crystallization, or anything related to crystals or the Crystal Palace theme.

Technical details: Single channel, two-channel, or three-channel/installation work is possible. Silent or sound work welcome; any length is welcome. Sculptural and non-DVD projector projections are possible, but artist must be provide all equipment and be present to install and screen during their projection on Sat Oct. 20- Sun. Oct. 21, 12-5pm.

To submit: send (1) DVD or online link of entire film/video; (3) title, length, and date of work, (3) name, email, website, contact info, phone number; (4) Artist or Project Statement (100 words), and (5) submission fee of $10 by check made out to ArtSpace. Send to Artspace c/o Crystal Palace Film/Video, 50 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511. Materials other than the check may be sent via online to Liena@artspacenh.org.

Small honoraria may be available to cover artist’s local travel. For more information about ArtSpace exhibitions, programs, and the annual Open Studios festival, please see http://artspacenh.org/

For a PDF of the call go to http://cwos2010.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/crystal-palace-2-call.pdf

Link: http://artspacenh.org/

Artspace
50 Orange St
New Haven, Connecticut 06510
United States of America

netEX: calls & deadlines –> May 2012
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04 Calls: 2012 deadlines internal
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15 Calls: ongoing external/internal
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News – May 2012

In May, the nomadic festival project
CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_eng.pdf
is jumping between Eastern and Southern Europe
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CologneOFF 2012 Greece I
@ Athens International Video Art Festival – May 2012
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2144

CologneOFF 2012 Belarus II
@ Urban Culture and Fire Festival Minsk- 18-20 May 2012
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2280

CologneOFF 2012 Armenia
@ One Shot – International Film Festival Yerewan – May 2012
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2269

CologneOFF 2012 Russia I
@ Now & After Festival Moscow – Museum of Contemporary Art – May/June 2012
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/?page_id=2215

Cologne International Videoart Festival
festival site http://coff.newmediafest.org
festival blog http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/

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4 calls for 2012

extended Deadline 1 July 2012
CologneOFF VIII – Continental Drift
“Human Rights – Memory & Identity”
film and video makers are invited to submit experimental films and videoart
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3791

Deadline 1 June 2012
1#minuteCOLOGNE – Cologne One Minute Film Festival
60 second films/videos wanted!
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=3928

Deadline 1 July 2012
animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=4024

Deadline 1 July
SFC – SHOAH Film Collection
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1549

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–> Digital Art Wanted by Hex Gallery Kansas City
–> Writers who explore the visual arts – wanted for online magazine
–> Radius – Radio as Art (Chicago)
–> Artsit Residency in Alaska
–> 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
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1#minuteCologne
Cologne One Minute Film Festival
the 1st festival edition will be launched in September 2012 in the framework of
CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context
nomadic festival project.

CologneOFF 2012 – videoart in a global context
is a world wide unique festival project, starting on 1 January 2011 and lasting until 31 December 2012 and beyond..

Its goal is to show on the tour around the globe venues the diversity of the creative potential of “art and moving images” transported via the global medium of “video”.

More info about CologneOFF 2012
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_eng.pdf

1#minuteCologne
is a new festival platform run by Cologne International Videoart Festival
which has the aim to support the specific film and video format of one minute film, whereby the challenge in the given case it to match exactly 60 seconds. The new festival concept is based on a permanent collection to be extended once a year via a new festival edition

There is no thematic limitation!

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- Deadline: 01 June 2012
- Welcome are single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- Themes: 1. your experiences in or with Cologne in one minute
2. all themes and topics are welcome.
- The festival is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- The works may originate from the years 2005-2012.
- Duration: exactly 60 seconds (including title at the beginning and credits at the end.
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles. German entries need to provide a German and an English/ English subtitled version
- The preview copies needs to be uploaded via one of these free platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.come or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com
- elegible vor preview: only Quicktime . mov (mp4 and H264 codec only), Windows Media .wmv, mpeg2 or Flash video flv [size minimum720x 576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC)]
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After selection the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality.

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Entry Form – please cut and paste

Please use for each video a new entry form
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) address
c) email, URL
d) short bio (max. 100 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL home page, (Internet address for download)
c) year of production
d) duration exactly 60 seconds
e) work synopsis (max. 100 words/submission, English only)
f) 2 screenshots for each submitted work (jpg, 800×600 px)

Please add this declaration & sign it with your full name & email address
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I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work.
In case the work is selected, I give – until revoke – 1#minuteCologne the permission to include the work in the festival context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions and use screenshorts for non-commercial promotional purposes. Until revoke means, that the author can remove his work at any time.
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Please use for each submission a separate entry form
deadline: 1 June 2012

Please send the submission either in
plain email text, RTF (Rich Text Format) or WORD . doc as attachment to

info@comf.newmediafest.org
subject: 1#minuteCologne

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1#minuteCologne
Cologne One Minute Film Festival
director and coordinator

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Cologne International Videoart Festival
Mauritiussteinweg 64
D – 50676 Cologne
Germany

Email: info@comf.newmediafest.org
URL: http://comf.newmediafest.org
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/

THE 12TH GAS NATURAL FENOSA INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa
15007 A Coruña – Spain

Terms and conditions>>
http://mostra-gasnaturalfenosa.com/en/

Application form>>
http://mostra-gasnaturalfenosa.com/en/application-form/

+ INFO: 12mostragasnaturalfenosa@gmail.com

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa
Avda. de Arteixo 171
15007 A Coruña
Spain

www.macuf.com

Pixel Palace: Artist In Residence 2012

Tyneside Cinema is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Pixel Palace Artist in Residence programme 2012

The residency offer is to artists of international calibre working in new technologies and moving image. Support is provided to develop new work via a well resourced studio, editing suite and access to high end AV equipment. Opportunities will be available to engage with the working cinema and its surroundings. The selected artist will also exchange skills and knowledge with artists and young people (including Tyneside Cinema’s Factory group) with varying stages of development through participation in the atelier process.

The residency will be an active period of time for an artist to develop exploratory/inquiry based work that compliments and informs the current Pixel Palace programme. The residency space will be shared with other artists and is based in the social environment of the cinema, creating opportunities to produce live events and develop formal and informal discussions.

About Tyneside Cinema

Tyneside Cinema’s mission is to bring as many people as possible together in our venue to experience, enjoy and engage with the past, present and future of cinema.

About Pixel Palace

The Pixel Palace programme extends the cinema’s mission by working with new media artists and curators working in digital arts to not only reflect upon cinema’s past, but to engage new audiences in its expanded present and pervasive future.

Pixel Palace is delighted to be supported by Arts Council England through the National Portfolio funding programme.

The selected artist is offered:

- Studio space for 2 months at the Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
- A development fee of £2800
- Travel expenses (one return journey from place of origin to Newcastle and back
- 2 months accommodation
- Material/production costs (negotiable)
- Access to the Tyneside cinemas resources including Sony V1s, an editing suite including Avid and Final Cut as well as a suite of standard AV software.

Start date: Monday 2 July 2012

End date: Friday 31 August 2012

Where: Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

How to apply:

- A brief (200 words maximum) description of your proposed work
- A link to 5 online examples of work in form of images, audio and/or video format
- CV

Please add the reference ‘AIR2012’ to your application documents

Selection is based on the following criteria:

- The quality of the artist’s work
- Evidence of past engagement with artists at mixed stages of development
- The artistic merit of the proposed work
- The benefit to be gained by the artist
- The benefit to be gained by Pixel Palace
- Evidence of the ability to work independently

Submission deadline: Monday 7th May 2012, 5pm

Send to: info@thepixelpalace.org

http://www.thepixelpalace.org/opportunities/artist-in-residence-2012

Tyneside Cinema
10 Pilgrim Street
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6QG
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Hi)story/ies – Traverse Vidéo –
16 th edition – March 2013 in Toulouse

Often, in the desire of comforting classification, experimental is the refusal of narrative, and conversely by the privilege it accords to artistic symbols.

However, impelled by « making » the experimental, certain proposals emerge. In reaction against regulations, rules, the consensual, they sketch out stories.

In doing so, they avoid decision or completion – in the terrific polysemy – they provoke a palpitation of the senses.

The experimental approach manipulates the desire to achieve a certitude, even if referential fragments, traces of experience are there.

That is why the 16th edition Traverse Video wishes to engage this bipolarity with (Hi)story/ies.

Meetings of experimental practices, Traverse Video program films, videos, installations, performances and photography.

Selection is made :

- For movies and videos: on DVD with synopsis and images,

- Plus, for performances and installations: extremely precise specifications

- and For photography: reproductions with indication of the original format.

A registration form specific to the medium must be printed from our website, and joined to your submission.

Installation
Performance
Photography
Video
We can not send back files if they are not accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope.

Traverse Vidéo will start March 13, 2013, we welcome your submissions until Friday, October 26, 2012.

Traverse Vidéo
BTS audiovisuel des Arènes, place Emile mâle,
BP 3003,
31 024 Toulouse cedex 03
France
05 62 13 10 00

www.traverse-video.org

One Minute Artists Films

Looking for artists moving image – One minute in duration for:
One Minute Volume 6 (the 6th in the series of one minute programmes curated by Kerry Baldry) -

which will be screened at GLIMMER 2012 – The 10th Hull International Short Film Festival in October 2012.

Link: http://www.kerrybaldry.com/

Zero1 Biennial Spaces

ArtHERE is a platform for crowd-sourced urban revitalization through the matching of art and place.

ARTHERE SILICON VALLEY

In a joint effort to highlight creative place making solutions, ZERO1 and the San Jose Public Art Program co-commissioned Bay Area based artists and community activists, ArtHERE, to launch ArtHERE SiliconValley. This new initiative has been developed in partnership with the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (GAFFTA); UCSC OpenLab; and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Dean Yager’s Research Initiative Fund and Arts Dean’s Excellence Fund at the University of California Santa Cruz.

The inspiration for “ArtHERE” was developed at the 2011 GAFFTA Summer of Smart Hackathon with the desire to create an online tool enabling city communities and artists to activate empty and under-utilized urban spaces – therefore enabling local communities to curate and actively transform their own neighborhoods. ArtHERE is launching the project pilot ArtHERE:SiliconValley throughout the Bay Area as part of the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial, with a specific focus on San Jose’s SoFA arts district – the hub of the Biennial. ZERO1 has worked with the local community, businesses and arts organizations to make a series of spaces available that range from storefront windows and building facades, to outdoor projections and park-lets.

Artists are now invited to temporarily animate these spaces (leaving no trace afterward) with site-specific installations in response to the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial thematic Seeking Silicon Valley. The goal is to use the architecture of the district as a canvas and effectively connect pathways between local businesses and organizations through vibrant and interactive artworks that reflect the creativity and innovation that Silicon Valley is known for. Details of each space are listed individually as open calls.

Link: http://siliconvalley.arthere.org/

Rovás International Artists’ Residency
Kosice, Slovakia
1 July – 1 September 2012

The Rovás collective in Kosice, Slovakia is now accepting applications for a ‘live, see and work’ international summer residency. We are looking for visual artists, writers and musicians.

Please send us a short artist statement, an artist CV and 10 jpgs. For digital media, a link to a website. For all other practitioners, please enquire.

What we offer:
Accommodation, working space and organised trips to Tihany (Balaton lake, Hungary) and Aita Medie (Romania). We also provide exhibition possibility at the end of the residency.

Kosice is a small but bustling Central European city which is the European Capital of Culture in 2013. The city is three hours drive away from Budapest.

Fee: € 550,-

For enquires, please email to rovasiar@gmail.com

http://www.rovart.com/

Rovás Kosice
Kmetova 34
Kosice, 04001
Slovakia

Pump House Gallery Photography Project and Exhibition Opportunity

The Pump House Gallery in London are commissioning a new participatory photography project and exhibition.

We are seeking proposals from artists to work with photography in a participatory context to develop a new exhibition and project that will facilitate the gallery’s local audience participation in its realisation.

We envisage the development and/or engagement element of the project happening during autumn 2012 , with the resulting exhibition being staged in early 2013.

Please download application details at http://pumphousegallery.org.uk/about-us/opportunities/

Fee: £5000 exc VAT – to include all expenses for realising the project including, fees, development, materials, travel, equipment, installation and production costs etc. You will also be required to have your own Public Liability insurance, we can advise if you do not yet have any.

Submission Fee: There is a non refundable application fee of £10.

Key Dates:

Deadline for applications: 30th June 2012
Shortlisted Candidates Interviewed: 24th July 2012 or
Successful Artist announced: 31st July 2012

Cologne International Videoart Festival
will be launching in September a new festival platform dedicated to experimental and artistic documentary as a new format in the field of “art & moving images”, named
exDox – Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival

Any kind of art has a documenting character, even abstract painting, but “moving images” used as a medium are not per se art. The documentary as a particular filmic format has mostly not even the intention to be art, at all.
So, it is really interesting to explore “art & moving images” for their potential to create documentaries following new and experimental paths.

As a corporate part of Cologne International Videoart Festival
exDox – Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival – will be presented in the specific nomadic festival format as it is manifested in CologneOFF 20XX – videoart in a global context
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2012_eng.pdf

exDox – Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival
is looking for documentaries which are considered by their creators as art works using video as a medium in all its variety, for new and experimental artistic approaches in transforming the ideas of documenting essential issues of human existence into the language of the “moving images”, and is inviting film & video creators – to submit up to 3 works of experimental forms of film and video art – (exclusively) online by using the entry form below

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Regulations
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- Deadline: 01 July 2012
- Welcome are single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- Themes: essential questions of human existence. The festival is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2005-2012.
- Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: max 20 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.com or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com, both are free upload services , after upload please send the link, and exDox will download the film then.
- elegible: only mpeg2 DVD, Quicktime . mov (mp4 and H264 codec only), Windows Media .wmv or Flash video flv [size minimum720x 576 (PAL) or 720x480 (NTSC)], links to VIMEO or You Tube are elegible, as long as the video size is kept
- only selected artists will be notified
- After selection the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality.
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Entry Form – please cut and paste

Please use for each video a new entry form
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) address
c) email, URL
d) short bio (max. 100 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL home page, (Internet address for download)
c) year of production
d) duration
e) work synopsis (max. 100 words/submission, English only)
f) 2 screenshots for each submitted work (jpg, 800×600 px)

Please add this declaration & sign it with your full name & email address
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I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work.
In case the work is selected, I give – until revoke – exDox – the permission to include the work in the festival context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions and use screenshorts for non-commercial promotional purposes. Until revoke means, that the author can remove his work at any time.
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Please use for each submission a separate entry form
deadline: 1 july 2012

Please send the submission either in
plain email text, RTF (Rich Text Format) or WORD . doc as attachment to

exdox@newmediafest.org
subject: exDox – festival submission

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exDox – Cologne Experimental Documentary Film Festival
director and coordinator

Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Cologne International Videoart Festival
Mauritiussteinweg 64
D – 50676 Cologne
Germany

Email: exdox (at) newmediafest.org
Festival URL: http://exdox.newmediafest.org
Blog http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/

VIDA, the Art and Artificial Life International Awards
begun in 1999 by Fundación Telefónica, was created with the mission of supporting creative endeavours in this singular field by rewarding the pioneering efforts of artists. We are now pleased to announce the launch of the VIDA 14.0, which for the last 14 years have been rewarding artistic projects developed with technological media that offer innovative insights into the study of artificial life.

At a time when the concept of life finds itself once again in uncharted territory, a wide range of artistic initiatives attempt to illustrate and explore this phenomenon, examining its impact on our collective consciousness and how it affects the cultural, technological and social mindset.

Over the past decade, VIDA has welcomed a variety of interdisciplinary projects that respond to this situation and brought them together in a single forum. Using formal strategies that push the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new perspectives that force us to reconsider our pre-existing notions of life and artificial life.
What types of projects receive a VIDA 14.0?

The VIDA Award is granted to artistic creations developed using artificial life technology. Among the projects submitted to VIDA, the artists’ ties to this theme and their choice of media are very diverse. Throughout its history, the competition has welcomed proposals that challenge the boundary between living and non-living, between natural and synthetic, either by juxtaposing both realities or by creating overlapping spaces for reflection.

The winning projects include robotic systems, immersive installations, online video games, autonomous self-organising devices and evolutionary indicators. Another common characteristic of past winners is the use of interactive and immersive installations—a response to today’s environment of technological entities—which attempt to communicate with visitors by making them part of the system. Chimerical devices that combine natural and artificial elements, telepresence systems, network structures that operate as artificial intelligences, invasive dynamics of increasing complexity and acumen—these are just some of the themes addressed by the artists who participate in VIDA. From the very first edition to the present day, we have rewarded artists who have applied traditional artificial life technologies to their work, such as cellular automata, autonomous agents, neural networks, robotics, interactive systems, virtual ecologies and evolving software. What all of these projects have in common is that they involve emergent behaviours which grow more sophisticated over time, react with their environment and seem to show signs of autonomous life.

In recent years we have observed an increasing hybridisation of media and formats among the projects submitted to VIDA, which has led us to advocate the category’s expansion in order to trace the evolution of this field. The competition has gradually extended its scope, maintaining its interest in projects that involve conventional artificial life research while also venturing into new, cutting-edge territories such as life sciences and environmental sciences. In short, we could say that VIDA rewards artistic projects that are related to any dynamic life process affected by simulation.

As in previous years, contestants are invited to submit proposals in one of two categories:

CATEGORY “FINALISED PROJECTS”
In this category, Vida 14.0 rewards artistic artificial life projects developed after the year 2010. A total of 40,000 euros will be divided among the three winning projects chosen by the jury: First Prize: 18,000 euros; Second Prize: 14,000 euros; Third Prize: 8,000 euros. Seven honorary mentions will also be awarded to projects chosen by the jury from among the finalists.

CATEGORY “INCENTIVES FOR PRODUCTION”
In this category, Vida 14.0 helps to finance artistic artificial life projects that have not yet been produced. It is reserved for artists who are citizens or residents of any country in Latin America, Spain or Portugal. This category is also endowed with 40,000 euros to be divided among the selected projects.

IMPORTANT DATES

Project submissions will be accepted from 23rd April to 30th July 2012.

All projects must be submitted before midnight (Central European Time) on 30th July 2012.

JURY
Submitted projects will be reviewed by an international jury consisting of Mónica Bello (Spain), Jens Hauser (France), Martin Kaltenbrunner (Austria), Karla Jasso (Mexico), Sally Jane Norman (New Zealand/France), Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) and Francisco Serrano, Executive Director of Fundación Telefónica.

INFORMATION AND QUERIES
You can find the competition guidelines and the participation form at http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida
If you have any questions about the competition, please refer to the FAQ section. You may also contact us by sending an email to vida@telefonica.es

TROVE call out for toys and short films based on toys
Exhibition dates 15th – 23rd June 2012

TROVE is an independent art space in Birmingham, UK, which run a
monthly changing programme of contemporary art exhibitions/events.
http://trove.org.uk

In June 2012 TROVE, with Antonio Roberts, are hosting an exhibition
about toys. This project leads on from the discovery that the
Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, where TROVE is based, used to produce
more ‘toys’ than jewellery, guns or pens; all things it is now more
famously known for producing. When researching what toys were
produced in this area of Birmingham it was discovered that the term
‘toys’ was used to describe items such as buttons, cuff-links and belt
buckles.

With the misinterpretation of the word ‘toys’ TROVE are looking for
films about actual toys, as is the current understanding of the word,
that have been altered, hacked, modified or electronically changed,
rather than ‘toys’ meaning belt buckles, buttons etc.

—-TROVE call out for toys—-

TROVE are inviting you to submit examples of your modified toys to:
antonio@hellocatfood.com

Please email Antonio and include:
* your CV and a short personal statement
* a short description of the work/toys
* links to online footage of the toy is available
* max 6 photographs of the toy/s you are proposing

Notes for application:
* please make sure you can deliver and collect your toys from TROVE;
11th/12th June for drop off and 24th June for collection.
* we will only be accepting applications where toys are battery powered

For further info please contact Antonio on the above email address.

—-TROVE call out for short films based on toys—-

TROVE are inviting you to submit examples of films based on the theme
of toys to:
info@trove.org.uk

Please email TROVE and include:
* your CV and a short personal statement
* a short description of the film/s
* links to online footage of the toy if available
* max 6 photographs of the toy/s you are proposing

Notes for application:
* please make sure your films is 10 minutes long or less
* we will be screening more than one film at a time so we will not be
exhibiting films that rely on sound
* the films need to be available during June 2012

For further info please contact TROVE on the above email address.

antonio@hellocatfood.com
http://www.hellocatfood.com

Holy Bos Films & Videos

MICROSCOPE Gallery is seeking film & video submissions of all types and formats for programs featuring innovative and unusual works by Bushwick area artists for a one-night event as part of the Holy BOS festival, in conjunction with the Bushwick Open Studios 2012. Works under 15 minutes and completed in 2011 or 2012 are preferred. The event will take place June 3 at The Church at 626 Bushwick Avenue, starting at 7.30pm.#

Submission deadline is May 15th.
Selected works will be announced on May 25th.

To submit please send an email with your name, address, contact info, title of the work, screening format, length, date of completion, description, and a link to preview your work to BOSfilmfestival@gmail.com

If your work is not available online, please send a preview DVD to: Microscope Gallery (Attention: Holy BOS Submissions) 4 Charles Place, Brooklyn, NY 11221.

For questions or more information contact Microscope Gallery at BOSfilmfestival@gmail.com

More info about the festival at www.holybos.com

The Church (Bushwick)
626 Bushwick Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, New York New York 11221
United States of America

Cell Phone Video Art Project

Heart 2 Heart is a collaborative video project that asks people to record a conversation with their phones about their mutual relationship.

We are currently seeking submissions, which will be curated and edited together into a film.

Background:
Our phones have become a vital part of our lives: they tell us what our day looks like, allow us to send info all over the world, are a great diversion, and in some senses have allowed us a freedom (on a social and business level) that we’ve never had before.

Yet we don’t often think that they – themselves are the ones that have facilitated the changes. Though if you spent the amount of time with another person that you do with your phone, you’d inevitably be in a pretty committed relationship.

The hope of this project is that through the dialogue it facilitates, we’ll start to gain a better understanding of the effects of cell phones on our daily lives and will gain further insight into the unintentional relationships we’ve gained to a piece of electronics.

learn more at:
http://haveaheartoheartwith.me/

Columbus International Film + Video Festival

The Columbus International Film + Video Festival, aka The Chris Awards, is currently seeking entries for its 2012 season. The CIFVF is the longest running film festival in the United States. New lower entry fees, over $20,000 worth of awards, new entry divisions, and the prestigious Chris Awards. Win a prize just by entering.

For details and to download our call for entries go to www.chrisawards.org

Columbus International Film + Video Festival
1021 E. Broad St.
Columbus, Ohio 43205
United States of America

Computer Music Journal – Special Issue On Live Coding

We are excited to announce a call for papers for a special issue of Computer Music Journal, with a deadline of 21st January 2013, for publication in Spring of the following year. The issue will be guest edited by Alex McLean, Julian Rohrhuber and Nick Collins, and will address themes surrounding live coding practice.

Live coding focuses on a computer musician’s relationship with their computer. It includes programming a computer as an explicit onstage act, as a musical prototyping tool with immediate feedback, and also as a method of collaborative programming. Live coding’s tension between immediacy and indirectness brings about a mediating role for computer language within musical interaction. At the same time, it implies the rewriting of algorithms, as descriptions which concern the future; live coding may well be the missing link between composition and improvisation. The proliferation of interpreted and just-in-time compiled languages for music and the increasing computer literacy of artists has made such programming interactions a new hotbed of musical practice and theory. Many musicians have begun to design their own particular representational extensions to existing general-purpose languages, or even to design their own live coding languages from scratch. They have also brought fresh energy to visual programming language design, and new insights to interactive computation, pushing at the boundaries through practice-based research. Live coding also extends out beyond pure music and sound to the general digital arts, including audiovisual systems, linked by shared abstractions.

2014 happens to be the ten-year anniversary of the live coding organisation TOPLAP (toplap.org). However, we do not wish to restrict the remit of the issue to this, and we encourage submissions across a sweep of emerging practices in computer music performance, creation, and theory. Live coding research is more broadly about grounding computation at the verge of human experience, so that work from computer system design to exposition of live coding concert work is equally eligible.

Topic suggestions include, but are not limited by:

- Programming as a new form of musical exploration
- Embodiment and linguistic abstraction
- Symbology in music interaction
- Uniting liveness and abstraction in live music
- Bricolage programming in music composition
- Human-Computer Interaction study of live coding
- The psychology of computer music programming
- Measuring live coding and metrics for live performance
- The live coding audience, or live coding without audience
- Visual programming environments for music
- Alternative models of computation in music
- Representing time in interactive programming
- Representing and manipulating history in live performance
- Freedoms, constraints and affordances in live coding environments

Authors should follow all CMJ author guidelines (http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/comj), paying particular attention to the maximum length of 25 double-spaced pages.

Submissions should be received by 21st January 2013. All submissions and queries should be addressed to Alex McLean

Link: http://toplap.org/cmj/

Campos De Gutiérrez, Medellín/Colombia

Campos de Gutiérrez is Now Accepting Proposals for the Third Session of 2012 (July – September). The foundation will provide partial coverage of program costs if needed.

The Campos de Gutiérrez Foundation is inviting artists, designers, art historians, and curators to apply to its residency program housed in a 19th century coffee plantation in the foothills of Medellin. The residence is located within a natural reserve 25 minutes away from the city’s downtown area.

The full ten-week program provides residents with the following:
Private lodging with unlimited studio access;
A studio visit from a guest critic in addition to optional weekly critiques;
Weekly guided trips to sites of interest in Medellin;
Access to the Campos de Gutiérrez Library and Archive;
An exhibition or artist talk.

The curatorial committee will review the applications and select six to eight residents for the third session of 2012, which runs July 1st through September 30th. If needed, the foundation offers up to a 60% subsidy of the program fee, which is estimated at USD $700 a month (4 weeks). The fee does not cover board, transportation, or materials except for ceramic clay.

Proposals should be made to begin after July 1st and end before September 30th, 2012. The minimum amount of time for a residency period is six weeks. Please follow the link below to learn more about the application process. For more information visit our website or feel free to contact us directly.

http://www.camposdegutierrez.org/campos/apply/

www.camposdegutierrez.org

info@camposdegutierrez.org

Cellular: (+57) 310.443.0408
Land-phone: (+57) 4.221.4076

Campos de Gutiérrez
Kilometro 6 Via Santa Elena
Colombia