CologneOFF IX
9th Cologne International Videoart Festival
launch in September 2013

About CologneOFF

Founded in 2006, Cologne International Videoart Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org is celebrating in 2013 its 9th festival edition in sequence.

Abbreviated CologneOFF, the festival is devoted to present and encourage the creations in the field of “art and moving images”, whereby the focus is directed to art and not to cinema.
Since 2012, CologneOFF is covering some new festival formats like – animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival http://caaf.newmediafest.org, exDox – experimental documentary film festival http://exdox.newmediafest.org and 1#minuteCOLOGNE – Cologne One Minute Film Festival http://comf.newmediafest.org. The call for entries is looking especially for submissions in these festival categories.

In 2012, a new umbrella has been created covering the diverse platforms dealing with “art and moving images”, entitled:
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards http://camia.mediaartcologne.org

Like previous festival editions also the new one will become the basis for the nomadic festival project – CologneOFF 20XX videoart in a global context – aimed to travel 2013/2014 around the globe to the best venues presenting the diversity in the field of “art and moving images” transported via the medium of “video”
More info – http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2013-eng.pdf

CologneOFF IX
has no specific motto or topic, but refers to the general theme “memory & identity” and themes of previous festival editions like (art & the city). The official release of the call on 1 January 2013 and the deadline of 1 July 2013 offers additionally sufficient time for creating new artworks to be submitted.

CologneOFF IX is
– looking for art works using video as a medium in all its variety, but for submitting only single channel videos are eligible, a hybrid type of work which can be used for different presentation forms like screening, projection and installation.
– expecting new and experimental artistic approaches in transforming essential issues of human existence into the language of the “moving images”.
- inviting film & video creators – to submit up to 3 works in following categories – (experimental) film – (experimental) videoart – (experimental)documentary, whereby animated forms are particularly encouraged

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Regulations
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- Deadline: 01 July 2013
- Wanted: single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- General theme: “Memory” & “Identity” .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 2004-2013. Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: 60 seconds up to max 10 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Creations using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using the free upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.com (up to 300 MB) or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com (up to 2GB), after upload please send the link, and CologneOFF will download the film then.
- for review only following video formats are eligible – minimum size–> 720×576 (PAL) or 720×480 (NTSC)or HD:
.mpeg2 (DVD), . mov (Quicktime, H264 codec only), .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media), .flv (Flash video)
- only selected artists will be notified and invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video in best screening quality.

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Entry Form –
please cut and paste
and use for each video a new entry form

CologneOFF IX – call for entries
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) full 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 free of charge and use screenshots 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 2013

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

info@coff.newmediafest.org
subject: CologneOFF IX submission

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CologneOFF IX – 9 th Cologne International Videoart Festival
director and coordinator

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

URL: http://coff.newmediafest.org
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/

The Cord Prize, is a new international contemporary art award established to support and acknowledge the practice of early and mid-career visual artists. The award comprises an individual first prize of $10,000, second prize of $1,000, and third prize of $500. Additionally, twenty-two artists will be selected for online exhibition and a piece of writing will be commissioned from the award jurors.

http://cordprize.com/

The inaugural Cord Prize – Contemporary art photography
Photography has become a universally accepted, unchallenged, medium of contemporary art. Concomitantly, photography’s capacity to influence our everyday lives has become exponentially important with the ubiquity of visual social media and the opening up of the possibilities for us to communicate and disseminate our photographic images independently of institutional support. It could be said that the ubiquity which photography has achieved, its establishment in the contemporary art canon, is both a blessing and a problem – marking a new beginning, a place to start from all over again, yet more challenging than ever to make meaningful photographic work that resonates in cultural spaces and will endure. The inaugural Cord Prize invites early and mid-career artists who are working within the field of photography to apply.

The brief
Against this setting, applicants to the inaugural prize are invited to submit up to 16 images of current work from a wholly or partially photo-based practice, using any photographic process or medium. Applications should be accompanied by a resume, and text of up to 400 words detailing the artist’s research and practice. Applicants may also wish to contextualise their work within what they see as the significant cultural issues at play within contemporary art photography.

Submissions close at midnight (GMT) on 9th June 2013.

We are extremely pleased and excited to announce the jurors for this first edition of the award are the hugely respected and admired curators and writers Diana Edkins and Charlotte Cotton.

The jurors’ selection will be announced approximately two weeks after the deadline.

About
The Cord Prize, established by UK games industry veteran EA Lindsay, will be followed later in the year by the launch of CordContemporary, an online only gallery, presenting a portfolio of invited artists, partially selected from submissions to the various editions of the award. The ambition of CordContemporary is to establish the online gallery, with a programme of exhibitions supported by critical writing and serious curatorial practice, as a viable cultural presence; and a place to look forward to visiting as one would a physical gallery.

The Cord Prize will be awarded twice-annually, alternating focus on specific disciplines, with curated themes and critical surveys; and with photo-based practice as a recurring thread.

http://cordprize.com/

THE BIG PICTURE
the confluence of art, science and technology

Conference Chair: Gunalan Nadarajan, University of Michigan
Festival Curator: Edward A. Shanken, University of Memphis

Copenhagen, Denmark
October 29-November 1, 2013

Contact email: info@re-new.org
http://re-new.org/call/

Since 2007 re-new has presented electronic and digital artworks that explore and challenge technology and artistic practice, while fostering exchange between academics and artists. In addition to its internationally recognized media arts festivals, re-new has organized leading conferences in the field, including CMMR 2008 and 2009 and IMAC 2011 and 2012. These events have received over 2000 artwork submissions and 800 academic submissions, and reached a total audience of 12.000.

Beginning in 2013 re-new will join the media arts festival with its own academic platform. Our goal is to stimulate critical dialog, collaboration and networking between leading scholars, technologists and artists. re-new 2013 will make possible hybrid presentation formats where the confluence of art, science and technology is discussed in its full complexity.

TOPICS FOR SUBMISSION

Scholars, technologists and artists are invited to submit high-quality proposals outlining original research and/or artworks that contribute to this rapidly advancing field. Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:

* performing arts technology
* technology-mediated art performance
* technological/digital art installations
* slow media
* wearables / e-textiles
* (neuro) physiological data, biofeedback and art
* affective computing and art
* cognitive technologies and art
* neuroaesthetics
* adaptive technologies and art
* artificial creativity/intelligence and art
* augmented/virtual/hybrid reality and art
* immersive technologies and art
* ubiquitous/pervasive/context-aware technologies and art
* physical computing and tangible interaction
* liveness in a mediatized culture
* participatory art
* new interfaces for artistic expression
* gestural/multimodal/haptic/mobile interfaces and art
* embodiment and art
* media ecology
* networking and social media
* sustainability
* surveillance and privacy
* aesthetic computing and computational aesthetics
* big data
* visualization and sonification
* nanotechnology
* mobility

Youkobo Artist in Residence
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Residence Period: 1.6/2014 – 31.3.2015

Visual artists are invited to apply to the Youkobo residence program for the period June 2014 to March 2015. Priority will be given to applications for residencies of two months or longer which present dynamic but well-considered proposals realizable at Youkobo.

Background Information

Based in Tokyo with over 10 years of experience of hosting international artists, Youkobo has developed a unique residence program focused on supporting the creative activities of artists. While conveniently located in the west of Tokyo to allow easy access to the center, the Youkobo facility is set within a residential area which provides an environment conducive to work in the studio.

With two accommodation spaces/studios for residence artists and a gallery for artists based in Japan, Youkobo has become a vital platform for exchange between artists of many different backgrounds and genres, while at the same time providing opportunities for engagement with the local community and wider art scene through an extensive domestic and international network.

The role of the artist is at the centre of Youkobo’s activities and, by creating a friendly and supportive atmosphere, it aims to give participating artists an enriching experience in the realization of their projects/research in Japan.

Youkobo is involved in the organization of a number of programs strongly rooted in the area, such as the open-air art exhibition “Trolls in the Park” which takes place annually in November, and monthly art workshops for children taking place in local schools. Proposals which give consideration to these programs are also welcome.

For further information about the program and a downloadable application form, please visit the following site: http://www.youkobo.co.jp/en/application/

For any enquiries please contact info@youkobo.co.jp

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youkobo ARTSPACE
T:03-5930-5009
F:03-3399-7549
http://www.youkobo.co.jp

antiAtlas of Borders

The call for proposals is opened in order to select original productions for the exhibition that will take place at la Compagnie, from 13 December 2013 to 1rst March 2014. Because of its transdisciplinary nature, the antiAtlas of Borders offers multiple levels of involvement and participation. Visitors will engage with a variety of transmedia applications within a space punctuated with interactive sculptures, installations and videos. This playful exhibition will stimulate the public through the interaction with robots, drones and video games. This is an exhibition to engage with: try it yourself!

The curator and the artistic and scientific committee are looking for various proposals (artworks, net. Art, photo, video, testimonies, documentaries, video games …) showing different ways to experience the borders. Proposals from migrants, professionals and artists are welcome, in order to contribute to prepare a resolutely participatory exhibition.

Composition of the jury

The proposals will be selected by a scientific and artistic committee:
Isabelle ARVERS (art curator specialized in web art)
Cédric PARIZOT (Anthropologist, coordinator of the research program antiAtlas, IMéRA, IREMAM, CNRS, Aix Marseille University),
Jean CRISTOFOL (Philosopher, ESAA, Aix en Provence),
Anne-Laure AMILHAT-SZARY (Geographer, University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble), representing the European research program Euroborderspaces (7e PCRD)
Paul Emmanuel ODIN (Critic, ESAA, responsible for the programming of la Compagnie)
Nicola MAI (Anthropologist, London Metropolitan University, London),
Antoine VION (Sociologist, LEST, Aix Marseille University)

Launch date of the call for proposals: 7 May 2013
Deadline for reception of the proposals: 30 June 2013
Selection of the proposals by the committee: 31 July 2013

Send the proposals at the following address : antiatlas.contact@gmail.com

The antiAtlas website : www.antiatlas.net

Project lead:
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Research (IMéRA – AMU/CNRS)
Art school of Aix-en-Provence (ESAA)
Laboratory Pacte (Université de Grenoble)
Isabelle Arvers (independant curator)
Institute for Researchand Study of the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM – AMU/CNRS)
Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology (LAMES – AMU/CNRS)
La compagnie, art creation and exhibition place in Marseille

Partners:
Aix-Marseille University (AMU)
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Marseille-Provence 2013 (MP 2013)
The city of Aix-en-Provence
Regional Fund for Contemporary Art (FRAC)
Network of French Institutes of Advanced Studies (RFIEA)
National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (MMSH)
World Custom Organization (WCO)

Media partners:
Journal of Borderlands Studies
Ventilo (cultural bimonthly)
MCD ((Digital music and cultures)
Digitalarti
Mouvement

animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
launched in September 2012 successfully as new branch of Cologne International Videoart Festival is now open to receive submissions for the 3013 edition.

animateCologne – Cologne Art & Animation Festival – founded in 2012 in the framework of Cologne International Videoart Festival – would like give the animation more attention, relevance and space as a particular artistic expression 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.

As a part of ” CologneOFF 201XX – videoart in a global context” – a world wide unique nomadic festival project, animateCologne will be travelling 12 months a year around the globe to the best venues.
venues – in order to demonstrate the diversity of the creative potential of “art and moving images” transported via the global medium of “video”.

More info about CologneOFF 2013
http://downloads.nmartproject.net/CologneOFF2013-eng.pdf

animateCOLOGNE is looking
– for animated art contents in digital video in all its variety on 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 June 2013
- 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 HD or 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
\
I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights and permissions 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 free of charge and use screenshorts for non-commercial promotional purposes . Until revoke means, that the signing author can remove his work at any time.
//

Please use for each submission a separate entry form
deadline: 1 June 2013

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 2013

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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/

CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections
is calling for film & video works for the coming presentations in Buenos Aires, Lima, Cuzco and Mexico City in October /November 2013

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Download the call as PDF in following languages
English
Español
Française
Italiano
Português
Hrvatski
Deutsch
ελληνικά
Român
Polski
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CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections – http://ctf.engad.org
is a worldwide unique initiative by Agricola de Cologne (director of Cologne International Videoart Festival http://coff.newmediafest.org and Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards http://camia.mediaartcologne.org) addressed to young generations of artists and filmmakers to deal with the topic of collective trauma caused by totalitarism by using new technologies and contemporary approaches in art in order to keep vivid the memory for future generations via art.

As a corporate part of “Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards”, the Cologne based platform covering a wide range of activities around “art & moving images”, and based on two previously initiated film collections on collective traum, i.e SFC – Shoah Film Collection (http://dts.engad.org – founded in 2010) and the collection “Cambodia 1975-1979″ (http://ctf.engad.org/?page_id=19 – founded in 2012), CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collection was initiated to form the dynamic framework and living database for individual film collections dealing with specific forms of collective trauma as they can perceived in different parts on the globe under most different political, economical, social, religious and cultural conditions. There is hardly any country left on our globe where people do not suffer from the excesses of the dark side of human existence.

For presenting CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections, in 2012 a special event context has been created, i.e “A Virtual Memorial – Commemorative Interventions”, which places the divers collections of films and videos in the context of complementary interventions like lectures, a symposion, exhibitions, artists talks, discussions and much more, in order to activate the audience, as well as the artists and filmmakers to deal with the collective trauma which is affecting them personally, their family, their country or nation or continent. In 2012, the first three (3) events took place – “A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012″ – http://riga2012.a-virtual-memorial.org standing under the Patronage of the European Parliament, “A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012″ http://phnompenh2012.a-virtual-memorial.org, and “A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2012″ – http://warsaw2012.a-virtual-memorial.org. For 2013, the next events are planned in Lithuania, Belgium and Latin America.

As an initiative, CTF would like to give the message to the world that the cause for the collective trauma, the discriminations, violence, persecutions, torture and exterminations caused by totalitarism must no happen again or continue in case of contemporary totalitarism, this is good for the genocides, the state terrorism and other crimes against humanity, like Holocaust, the Stalinism, the Cambodian genocide 1975-1879, the state terrorism of the Argentine military dictorships of 20th century, the Italian Fascism or any other of the countless causes for collective trauma happening in the Past or even nowadays before our very eyes in our neighbor’s garden or transmitted daily via the media like press, TV and Internet. Individual trauma remains very often the basic living condition for a whole human life, as well as the collective trauma may form the psychological condition of a nation for many centuries, if people do not try to overcome the trauma actively.

From the early beginning of human civilization, art was that type of medium which was transporting the individual and collective memory of Past and Present to the Future, so there is no better way for keeping vivid the memory of the collective trauma by sensitizing people via art, and no other artistic expression is more predestined to represent processes than “moving images”.

No matter what kind of crime against humanity one is facing, all of them must be understood as a more or less long lasting process an individual is undergoing, starting already in the smallest social nucleus, i.e. the family, the discriminations in school or the lack of respect for people from different social, cultural, ethnic or religious contexts, the intolerance, thus conditions of daily life, all people on the globe can identify with.

These slowly or rapidly escalating processes may lead under certain political, economical, social and cultural circumstances to the worst excesses human beings are able to as they were happening in 20th century in new industrialized forms, like the Holocaust.

In an artistic sense, the final result of these excesses are less of interest than exploring the escalating processes, i.e. what is happening to the individual at different stages during these processes of increasing discriminations, violence, persecutions and torture.

Very often the contemporary living conditions in a family or society are representing a mirror of the historical processes. In this way, facing the Presence may give an access for understanding the Past to the artist, as well as the viewer of art.

CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections
would like to motivate the artists and filmmakers from all over the world to search for new exciting visions and approaches including countless emotionally and intellectually challenging aspects, people can identify with.

CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections
is releasing the call in first place in English, addressed to all artists and filmmakers on the globe, but the call will be soon also available in different languages in order to reach particularly artists and filmmakers in Latin America, the former Eastern block countries including Russia and former Yugoslavia and, regarding the dictatorships in Southern Europe, Portugal, Spain, Italy & Greece.

CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections
is looking for a variety of artistic forms using the medium of video, i.e. experimental films, videoart and documentaries.

The official release of the call on 1 January 2013 and the deadline of 1 July 2013 offers additionally sufficient time for creating new artworks to be submitted.

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Download the entry information and form as PDF in
English
Español
Française
Italiano
Português
Hrvatski
Deutsch
ελληνικά
Român
Polski
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Regulations
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- Deadline: 01 July 2013
- Wanted: single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- CTF is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2000-2013. Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: 60 seconds up to max 15 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Creations using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using the free upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.com (up to 300 MB) or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com (up to 2GB), after upload please send the link, and CologneOFF will download the film then.
- for review only following video formats are eligible – minimum size–> 720×576 (PAL) or 720×480 (NTSC)or HD:
.mpeg2 (DVD), . mov (Quicktime, H264 codec only), .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media), .flv (Flash video)
- only selected artists will be notified and invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video in best screening quality.
- the selections will be made on an ongoing basis until the final deadline of 1 July 2013.

———————————————
Entry Form – please cut and paste
Please use for each video a new entry form
———————————————

1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) full 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
\
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 – CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections the permission to include the work in the project context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions free of charge and use screenshots for non-commercial promotional purposes free of charge, as well. 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 2013

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

artvideo (at) koeln.de
subject: CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections
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CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections
http://ctf.engad.org

A Virtual Memorial Foundation
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org

Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org

VideoChannel – curatorial platform for art & moving images
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

All mentioned instances are corporate part of
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
directed and curated by
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
http://camia.mediaartcologne.org
artvideo (at) koeln.de

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CHANNELS The Australian Video Art Festival

Channels festival is calling for single-channel video art works, 10min or less in duration, to be played in a curated screening at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Channels is a new international biennial festival based in Melbourne that will showcase Australian and international video art across its many mutant forms, including commissioned installation works by Ms&Mr (SYD) and Benjamin Ducroz (MELB), live AV performances, panel discussions and workshops. The Festival takes place over the weekend of 18th – 21st September 2013 (with an exhibition at Screen Space running 12th – 21st September) at venues including ACMI, Screen Space and Speakeasy Cinema. See the call for works and guidelines on our website for more information.

• location: Melbourne, Australia
• web address: http://www.channelsfestival.net.au/

amber’13 Art and Technology Festival
DID YOU PLUG IT IN? Fool Your Smartness
call for artworks and papers

Smart phones, smart tickets, smart cities, smart cars, smart buildings, smart living, smart economies, smart moves…

Smart abounds in the market-speak of today’s technologically sophisticated conditions. The ever-growing inflation of smartness, fostered in large part by the pervasiveness of digital technologies, hails us from all directions. Smart appears as a strategic device that qualifies all sorts of acts and objects under the hegemony of the economy-political logic of consumption, profit and control. New and ever-smarter products of all kinds pop-up regularly and one risks being left behind by not heeding the call, the constant invitation to try out and to consume the latest.

While smartness is praised and suggested as a sort of power to be possessed, foolishness becomes those moments and spaces in which we encounter with critical interrogation, creative thinking and deconstruction. We suggest foolishness as a category of thought and a tactical positioning to bring out the subversive potential of smart technologies.

We invite artworks and papers that rethink, open up a
amberFestival is interested in interactive installations and papers that explore its title

With the subtitle of “Fool your smartness”. We are suggesting several discussions around the theme from market-speak of todays sophisticated -so called- smart technologies to foolishnes, from the “drama” of being unconnected to commedy of it.

We see the theme as a tool to think and work with, and the festival as an opportunity to raise an artistic voice. You alone will define that voice.

The works selected among the applications to this international call, will be exhibited at amber’13 Art and Technology Festival. We also encourage outdoor interactive installations.

Read more
http://www.amberplatform.org/en/festival/510/announcement/amber%2713-calls-are-open-did-you-plug-it

Marl Video Art Award 2013

The works submitted for the Video Art Award 2013 must relate
thematically, formally or in its presentation to the specific (museum) space. Therefore its ideal presentation location should not be a cinema space. The spatial reference here also means avoiding linear narrative structures while featuring a different, non-linear temporal structure, such as a loop, which is ideal for presentation in a museum. While classic, single-channel videos on a monitor or projected on a screen remain acceptable, preference is given to multi-channel installations and installations extended through use of additional materials.

Works submitted must have been produced after January 2010. Twenty works will be selected by the jury for the exhibition in the museum and will be presented together with the projects selected for the Sound Art Award 013.

Read more
http://www.marl.de/marl-nach-themen/kunst-und-kultur/medienkunstpreise/video-kunst-preis.html

EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD

Since its inception in 2002, the German Klangkunst-Preis has been
awarded to artistic works focusing specifically on fostering the
creative use of space and sound. In addition to the intrinsic artistic quality, acoustic assurance and sculptural certainty are above all the criteria for assessment and evaluation. Beginning in 2014, the EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD will expand the German Klangkunst-Preis onto a Europe-wide platform and include the entire genre of acoustic art.

The 2013 competition already incorporates the European orientation,
while remaining true to the constituting principles of the German
Klangkunst-Preis. Thus, the title: From the German Klangkunst-Preis to
the EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD. This year’s competition marks the founders’ conclusion of the decade-long phase of the German Klangkunst-Preis.

For the Klangkunst-Preis 2013, existing artworks based on spatially
influenced sound creations should be entered. A jury of experts will
select works for an exhibition in the Glaskasten Marl Museum of
Sculpture, to open 20 October 2013. Additionally, the same jury members will also invite a number of competing artists to Marl in the summer of 2013 to develop a concept for the creative design of the city centre.
One of these concepts will be selected for completion.

The Klangkunst-Preis 2013 is to be awarded by the Museum of Sculpture
Glaskasten Marl, Culture Radio wdr 3 and the Initiative Hören.

Further information on Marler Media Art Awards 2013 and application
forms can be found at
http://www.marl.de/marl-nach-themen/kunst-und-kultur/medienkunstpreise/klangkunst-preis.html

CONNEXT 2013 AWARD

CONNEXT (Connecting Next Talents in Media Art) is a new initiative aimed to help emerging talents in media art to kick-off their careers via stepping into professional festivals right after graduation from academies and colleges of art.

Who are the promoters?

ARTOS | Cyprus | http://www.artosfoundation.org
CIANT | Czech Republic | http://www.ciant.cz
CPAI | Portugal | http://www.artesideias.com
M2F CREATIONS | France | http://www.m2fcreations.fr

Submit your diploma work at http://WWW.NEXT-TALENTS.EU

More information: http://connext-project.eu/

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

CONNEXT seeks innovative artworks across disciplines that employ emerging technologies. All 2012 & 2013 graduates are eligible. Nominate yourself today! Win, and kick-off your career!

WHAT IS IT?

CONNEXT Award is a competition for graduating students across Europe. 4 winners will be awarded international artistic residency and participation at 4 festivals. Submissions will be evaluated by an international jury composed of established artists and curators from the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Portugal and France, and invited to festivals and residencies in respective countries.

INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCY PROGRAMME | PROJECT ROOM at AQUARIUM

In 2014, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain will host the next edition of project room @ aquarium, an artist-in-residency programme based in the so-called “Aquarium”, a 175 sqm steel and glass pavilion. This international residency programme is welcoming proposals taking full advantage of the place’s very specific architecture, as well as applications aiming to stimulate exchange and debate in relation with the local context and socio-cultural issues in Luxembourg.

project room @ aquarium forms an integral part of the Casino Luxembourg’s agenda of exhibitions and events. The participants’ project will be exhibited over a period of 6 weeks at the end of the residency and documented in a publication.

Casino Luxembourg
Forum d’art contemporain
41, rue Notre-Dame
L-2240 Luxembourg
http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/

Read more:
http://www.casino-luxembourg.lu/en/Project-Room/International-artist-in-residency-programme-project-room-aquarium-CALL-FOR-APPLICATIONS

Synthetic Zero Art/Video/Performance Event

The next Synthetic Zero Event will be on July 3 and 6 at BronxArtSpace, only 20 minutes from Union Square. We’re looking for visual art, performance, experimental video, music, readings, dance and other work for the show.

The Synthetic Zero events are a series of DIY art events focusing on high quality experimental and contemporary work in different media. We typically do not have a specific theme for each event but instead work with ideas that emerge from the interaction between submitted work and curatorial interests. By working this way, we hope the events reflect back the dialogue and practice of artists involved and create evocative encounters for the audience. In the past, a diverse set of curators has chosen work by artists from around the world, including Miranda July, Yoshi Sodeoka, Zoe Leonard, Hector Canonge, Benton Bainbridge, and many others. Prior event programs can be found here.

To be considered, send the following to events@syntheticzero.com:

CV including contact information/website address
Artist Statement
Still Images
Up to 5 jpegs, 1000 pixels in the largest dimension
Slide List for images including title, date, dimensions, medium, and description if needed
Video:
Play List for submitted videos including title, date, time, preferred display method, and description if needed
We prefer videos sent as links to downloadable video files or Vimeo or YouTube links. You can also send a DVD (NTSC or PAL) to:

Mitsu Hadeishi / Synthetic Zero
305 E 140th St #1A
Bronx, NY 10454
718 772-4961

The event is being curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, who has been putting on art events in the New York City area since 2003, including work from artists both local to the city and from around the world. These events have featured experimental video, performance, visual art, dance, music, poetry, interactive work, and installations.

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

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

VIDA 15.0 Art and Artificial Life International Awards

We are pleased to announce the launch of VIDA 15.0, Art and Artificial Life International Awards. As we begin accepting submissions for this year’s awards, we will be looking for artistic projects that offer innovative perspectives on life by using the latest technology and cutting-edge scientific knowledge.

VIDA the Art and Artificial Life International Awards begun in 1999 by Fundación Telefónica, it was created with the mission of supporting creative endeavors in this singular field by rewarding the pioneering efforts of artists. 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.

VIDA 15.0 supports excellence in artistic research into artificial life. Projects that win a VIDA Award must be capable of expressing the complex organization of life systems and the hybrid nature of life. The VIDA jury will evaluate artistic projects that meet these criteria and, more importantly, will select those projects that challenge our current understanding and definition of life.

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

CATEGORY “FINALISED PROJECTS”
In this category, Vida 15.0 rewards artistic artificial life projects developed after the year 2011.

A total of 42,500 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.

In addition to the winners of the three main prizes, we will also choose seven participants to receive honorable mentions and compete for the special People’s Choice Award. Of these mentions, only the People’s Choice Award is endowed with a cash prize, the amount of which will be 2,500 euros. The People’s Choice Award will go to the project that receives the most votes from the public in the seven days immediately following the announcement of the official award winners (on October 2013). Votes will be cast electronically on the VIDA website and social networks.

CATEGORY “INCENTIVES FOR PRODUCTION”
In this category, Vida 15.0 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 five selected projects.

VIDA 15.0 launches the Incentives I+D Prize with the aim of encouraging innovation using the latest artificial life technologies. Of the five award-winning projects of the Incentives for Production category one will receive additional support to assist with its technological development. The awarded artist will receive assistance from experts on research, development and innovation of Telefonica team in cutting-edge information technologies. In addition to benefiting from regular advice and contact online, the artist/s will also be invited to spend a maximum of one month in Telefónica’s innovation department in Barcelona (Spain).

IMPORTANT DATES
Project submissions will be accepted from 23rd April to 31th July 2013.
All projects must be submitted before midnight (Central European Time) on 31th July 2013.

JURY
The projects submitted will be examined by an international jury comprising the following members: Mónica Bello (Spain), Andreas Broeckmann (Germany), Rejane Cantoni (Brazil), Martin Kaltenbrunner (Austria), Seiko Mikami (Japan), Sally-Jane Norman (New Zealand/France), Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) and Laura Fernández-Orgaz (Fundación Telefónica Responsible for de Art and Technology Projects).

SUBMISSION
To submit your project for consideration, please read the COMPETITION RULES carefully and complete the ONLINE REGISTRATION FORM posted on the Vida website: www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida

INFORMATION AND QUERIES
You can find the competition guidelines and the participation form at http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida
You may also contact us by sending an email to vida@telefonica.es

Mónica Bello
Artistic Director of VIDA
Art and Artificial Life International Awards

http://vida.fundaciontelefonica.com/

Open Call for entries VIDA 15.0
Accede a la convocatoria VIDA 15.0

http://vida.fundaciontelefonica.com/

until July 31st!

26th Annual September Competition

Artworks selected in a national juried competition by artist-juror
Stewart Nachmias will be featured in a full-color catalogue and
exhibition at Alexandria Museum of Art, along the Red River in the heart of central Louisiana, September 6-November 23, 2013. Visual artists over age 18 working in all media, including but not limited to painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital art, video, textile art, and printmaking are invited to submit. All artworks MUST be original and completed in the last two years (2011 or later).

$2,000 in cash awards.
$35 entry fee for 2 entries, $20 per additional entry. For more
information, please call 318-443-3458 or view the complete prospectus:
www.themuseum.org/Events_copy1.aspx

Site Gallery is now accepting applications for its acclaimed Platform residency programme. Open to all UK based contemporary visual artists, artists are invited to propose an idea for which they need time, space and investment to develop to proof of concept stage

Site’s Platform programme enables artists to take over the public galleries and use them as a working public studio in which to make new work. Unlike a traditional research and development residency, visitors to the gallery will be able to enter the space throughout and therefore public engagement, dialogue and debate is integral. The opportunity will suit artists seeking to test new ideas in public and who are interested in connecting with others through their work.

Three artists will be selected for residencies that will take place between January and May 2014.

Each residency is worth £6,000 including:
- a production budget
- a fee
- the use of the galleries for a period of 2-4 weeks
- accommodation
- a writer to produce a critical text on the artist’s practice
- the support of a mentor
- public events

Online application at www.sitegallery.org. £10 application fee. Application deadline: 5pm, Friday 17 July 2013.

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Call for entries
Deadline. 31 August 2013

VideoBabel
Video Art & Audiovisual Festival Cuzco /Peru
November 2013

http://www.festivalvideobabel.org/

OUR AIMS
 Promotion of video art and experimental audiovisual creation in Peru and other countries in Latin America.

 Opening of new spaces for the sharing of experiences between Latin American video artists and their colleagues from other parts of the world. Publicizing of Peruvian and Latin American video art throughout the world, showing recent examples of international video art in Peru.

 Raising awareness of new art media and languages among the Peruvian public.

II. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The festival is organized by the Cultural Association “Charlie Quispe & Co” (www.charliequispe.org) in Cusco, Peru.

Contact:
Vera Tyuleneva
Coordinator of the VideoBabel Festival
President of the “Charlie Quispe & Co” Cultural Association
Phone: +51 984604731
E-mail: festivalvideobabel@gmail.com

III. COMPETITION PARTICIPANTS
The competition covers all countries of Latin America.
Artists from other countries may present their videos out of competition. Their works may be included in the festival’s special selections.
The festival invites all individuals and groups wishing to present their video art and experimental audiovisual creation in open competition, regardless of age, religion (or lack thereof), sexual preference, education or profession.
Each author or group may submit more than one video.

Any one of the categories may be declared void, at the discretion of the organizing committee.
The jury may decide to award a prize to a sequence of videos by the same author, provided the videos display conceptual unity and their total duration does not exceed 15 minutes.
Besides the two winners, the jury will also choose the festival’s official selection, which will participate in exchange programs and international screenings.
Apart from the official selection, the organizing committee is also authorized to compile special curatorial selections, focused on a common theme, upon request from different partner events, as part of the international exchange program. The authors of the selected videos will be informed of the participation of their works in special selections.

VI. PRESENTATION OF VIDEO ENTRIES
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: AUGUST 31, 2013.
We only accept single-channel videos.
The competing videos need not be previously unseen. However, no work which has won a prize or has participated in an official selection of other festivals will be accepted.
Maximum length (including credits): 15 minutes.
Languages: Videos with spoken text in a language other than Spanish or English must be subtitled in either of those two languages (preferably in both).
Reproduction and distribution rights: By submitting their videos to the festival, the authors automatically agree to the festival’s right to reproduce, distribute and screen said material, which will be subject to the rules of Creative Commons (mode: Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/)
Authorship: The Festival cannot be held responsible for any conflict arising from disputes regarding the authorship of the videos submitted. The prize will be awarded to the person named on the registration form as the individual responsible for the project, or to another participant of the project unanimously assigned by the production group.
Pseudonyms: The name of the author of the video (or individual responsible) may be replaced by a pseudonym on the entry form, should the contestant so wish.
Videos may be presented with the highest quality and lowest compression possible via internet. The participating video must be available for online preview on YouTube, Vimeo or other video server. If you prefer to restrict access to your video, protect it with a password and send us the password together with the link.
Participants must send the completed registration form, including the online link to their video, as an attachment to the following e-mail address: festivalvideobabel@gmail.com.
The authors of the selected videos (winners, official selection and special selections) will be asked to send, via internet and within a week of selection, a copy of their work in standard format *.avi, *.mov or *.mp4 with the highest quality and lowest compression possible, a maximum size of 2 GB, not less than 720 px wide. Authors will receive detailed instructions regarding the method for sending their work. The sending of work selected via the Internet will be free to the authors.

VII. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 Importance and originality of the video and its conceptual and aesthetic development.
 Good knowledge and innovative use of audiovisual language.
 Technical quality and skill.

VIII. JURY
The festival prizes will be awarded by an international jury.
Committee decisions are final and not open to appeal.

IX. FINAL CEREMONY
The festival final ceremony, with the announcement of the winners, will be held in the Auditorium of the Peruvian – North American Cultural Institute, in the city of Cusco, Peru, in November 2013.

XI. SUBSEQUENT PUBLICITY
The winning videos will be publicized screened to the public free of charge by the festival partner institutions and in different countries, as well as in other video art and film events.
The festival undertakes to promote and credit the authors of the videos during the video screenings.
By submitting their videos to the festival, participants automatically accept the conditions set out in this document. Any situation not covered by these guidelines shall be resolved by the organizers of the festival and their decision will be final.

http://www.festivalvideobabel.org/

Ieee Vis 2013 Arts Program “Art+Experiment”
Call for Entries // Call for Papers

The IEEE VIS 2013 Arts Program showcases high-quality artwork and research that demonstrates and investigates the exciting and increasingly prominent intersections between art and visualization.

This year, we are expanding the scope of the Arts Program by including a dedicated Arts Program papers track along with the conference art show. The theme for the 2013 Arts Program is Art+Experiment. We invite artists and researchers to think about the connections and chasms between art and research, and to explore the nature of experimental design and creative experimentation.

Please visit http://w3.sista.arizona.edu/VISAP2013/ for detailed information about the Arts Program, including the Call for Entries (art show track) and the Call for Papers (papers track). Accepted Arts Program artworks will be documented in the IEEE VIS 2013 Arts Program art catalog and accepted papers will be published in the IEEE VIS 2013 Arts Program proceedings.

Submissions to both the papers track and the art show track are due on July 15th, 2013.

Contact the Arts Program chairs, Angus Forbes (angus.forbes(at)sista.arizona.edu) and Lauren Thorson (lauren-thorson(at)uiowa.edu), for further information.

http://w3.sista.arizona.edu/VISAP2013/

Festival Of (In)Appropriation 2013!

Since its inauguration in 2009, the Festival of (In)appropriation has emerged as a premiere international showcase of experimental found footage film and video, attracting the work of artists who probe the limits of collage, machinima, re-mix, détournement, mash-up, and more, across an array of moving-image media.

Co-curated by Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner, and Greg Cohen, and sponsored by Los Angeles Filmforum, the Festival of (In)appropriation invites submissions for its 5th edition, to take place in Los Angeles in November 2013. Filmmakers and video artists engaged in the appropriation, re-purposing, and productive “mis-use” of existing visual and sonic media are encouraged to send us their work for consideration.

All entries must include some form of inventive (in)appropriation, whether of existing/archival film or video footage, sound recordings, still imagery, or digital media. The most competitive submissions are those which seek to produce revelations and reconsiderations of the relationship between past and present, here and there, truth and lie, intention and subversion.

To submit your work, please follow the link below to our website, where you can download the official Call for Entries and attached Submission Form. Then, send your entry to the address listed here.

http://festivalofinappropriation.org/

Festival of (In)Appropriation c/o Lauren Berliner
3852 1/2 First Avenue
San Diego, California 92103
United States of America

Since 1984 the Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten Marl has hosted the Video Art Award, and since 2002 the Sound Art Award, which will be further developed to the EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD.

The Museum in Marl has shaped the unique profile of the Marl Media
Awards not only through its orientation as a sculpture museum, but alsoon the strength of its placement in the modernist architecture of the Town Hall, completed in 1966. Because sculpture is a genus to which multifocality and spatial reference are crucial, the video art
competition was for the first time launched with a specific substantive focus—for all artists whose video works address questions of spatiality. The works submitted for the Video Art Award must relate thematically, formally or in its presentation to the specific (museum) space. The same idea applies to the parallel competition in sound art. The national restriction has also been dropped, and the new competitions are announced internationally.

The closing date for submissions for both competitions is 17 May 2013.

Two international prize-juries for video art and sound art will select the winners of the Marler Media Art Awards 2013, whose works will be exhibited in the Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten Marl.

The awards ceremony of the Marler Media Art Awards 2013 and the
exhibition opening will take place on 20 October 2013 in the Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten Marl.

Marler Video Art Award 2013

The works submitted for the Video Art Award 2013 must relate
thematically, formally or in its presentation to the specific (museum) space. Therefore its ideal presentation location should not be a cinema space. The spatial reference here also means avoiding linear narrative structures while featuring a different, non-linear temporal structure,such as a loop, which is ideal for presentation in a museum. Whileclassic, single-channel videos on a monitor or projected on a screen
remain acceptable, preference is given to multi-channel installations
and installations extended through use of additional materials.

Works submitted must have been produced after January 2010. Twenty works will be selected by the jury for the exhibition in the museum and will be presented together with the projects selected for the Sound Art Award 2013.

From the German Klangkunst-Preis to the EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD

Since its inception in 2002, the German Klangkunst-Preis has been
awarded to artistic works focusing specifically on fostering the
creative use of space and sound. In addition to the intrinsic artistic
quality, acoustic assurance and sculptural certainty are above all the
criteria for assessment and evaluation. Beginning in 2014, the EUROPEAN
SOUNDART AWARD will expand the German Klangkunst-Preis onto a
Europe-wide platform and include the entire genre of acoustic art.

The 2013 competition already incorporates the European orientation,
while remaining true to the constituting principles of the German
Klangkunst-Preis. Thus, the title: From the German Klangkunst-Preis to
the EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD. This year’s competition marks the founders’ conclusion of the decade-long phase of the German Klangkunst-Preis.

For the Klangkunst-Preis 2013, existing artworks based on spatially
influenced sound creations should be entered. A jury of experts will
select works for an exhibition in the Glaskasten Marl Museum of
Sculpture, to open 20 October 2013. Additionally, the same jury members
will also invite a number of competing artists to Marl in the summer of
2013 to develop a concept for the creative design of the city centre.
One of these concepts will be selected for completion.

The Klangkunst-Preis 2013 is to be awarded by the Museum of Sculpture
Glaskasten Marl, Culture Radio wdr 3 and the Initiative Hören.

Further information on Marler Media Art Awards 2013 and application
forms can be found at
http://www.marl.de/medienkunstpreise

Submission deadline: 17 May 2013


Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
Creiler Platz 1, Rathaus
D-45768 Marl, Germany

Team Vector + videofag: Queen Arcade Call for Submissions Now Open!
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition date: July 27 2013 – July 2013

Team Vector + videofag : Queer Arcade Call for Submissions Now Open!

We’re pleased to announce our next public programme, and our first outside of the Vector Game Art Festival! Team Vector will be partnering for the second time with videofag, a storefront cinema and performance space in Toronto’s Kensington Market.

videofag co-presented the special screening A Stranger Comes to Town: Identity and the Avatar during Vector 2013, and we are excited to co-curate a two day pop-up arcade and exhibition: Queer Arcade.

Until June 1st, 2013, videofag and TeamVector invite you to submit work that relates to the theme “Queer Arcade.”

The exhibition will be a pop-up arcade taking place at videofag in Toronto, Ontario July 27-28, with a reception on the evening of the 27th.

We are open to works that address the theme “Queer Arcade” in unexpected ways. Feel free to submit video games made for any platform, experimental GAYmes, Queering of traditional games, ROM hacks, machinima, board games, RPGs, card games, arcade ephemera, and works in any other medium that address the the theme of Queerness in video games.

Works of all media will be considered. Works from artists in all stages of their creative careers and from the LGBT community are encouraged. All works for this exhibition will be selected by members of both team vector and videofag.

Our Call for Submissions is officially open!

To download our submission guidelines as a PDF go to: http://teamvector.tumblr.com/

We’re very excited for this exhibition and are eager to see your submissions!

** All submissions must be sent to: vectorgameartfest@gmail.com with the subject heading “QUEER ARCADE SUBMISSION”.

For more information on Vector’s 2013 festival visit:
http://vectorgameartfest.tumblr.com/

For more information on videofag visit:
http://www.videofag.com/

Delivery address:
**Works may also be mailed to:
Vector c/o Skot Deeming
531 Quebec Ave
Toronto Ontario Canada
M6P 2V6

URL: http://teamvector.tumblr.com

Darkness at the edge… curated by Thom Sokoloski

Darkness at the edge…
There are places we find ourselves where light fades and darkness arrives.

That edge, precipice, or boundary, where the light meets the dark, can become a threshold into an unknown abyss or terrain.

It might be the moment after opening the door to reveal the darkness of your home or studio. Entering a cave on a bright day. Looking out at a moon-lit lake of dark water that you would never dare dive into. The end of an affair, marriage or friendship. We have all looked into the darkness at the edge, the place where we let go of what we had, knew or cherished.

Darkness at the edge is about those moments of liminality; the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in life and dream when you no longer hold what you held, but have not yet begun the transition to what you will hold. During a ritual’s liminal stage, a participant “stands at the threshold,” often in a state of contemplation of what was and what could be.

I am looking for submissions that engage the public in the immediacy of these moments, an act of contemplation rather than an exercise in nostalgia.

All media will be considered.


-Thom Sokoloski

Deadline: Friday, May 10, 2013 @ 5pm
Exhibition dates: June 12- 30, 2013

Please consider the following;
Before entering the gallery, the public will be able view a selection of works contained in the storefront area that will be enclosed and viewed through peepholes. Propeller’s storefront window measures 65” (165 cm) wide x 80” (203 cm) height. The total area of this portion will measure 10 x 6 ft (please see gallery floor plan). Smaller works which can hung, wall-mounted or be free-standing considered.

Propeller’s Main Gallery the viewing experience will be that of a darker space. Traditional spot lighting will be used in this space for all works unless otherwise communicated or self-illuminated such as video.

The viewing experience in Propeller’s North Gallery will be in complete darkness. Works will be illuminated from mini-light sources carried by the viewer. Propeller asks that artists not propose works that could be damaged by or cause harm to the viewer – no sharp edges or obstacles.

For details on how to submit please visit: http://propellerctr.com/calls-for-submission/darkness-at-the-edge-curated-by-thom-sokoloski

For more information please visit: http://www.propellerctr.com/
Questions: gallery@propellerctr.com | 416.504.7142

Call for Submissions
Run Computer, Run – GLITCH

Run Computer, Run focuses on the current economic, political and cultural factors that are shaping the Internet and the artistic responses to them through a series of exhibitions, seminars and a publication. The research will discuss and explore how the practice of the digital artist is transitioning, not only with the growth of digital technologies, but are increasingly being informed by offline factors that are affecting how the Internet as a creative platform is being developed. Run Computer, Run takes place during GLITCH festival at Rua Red from May 24 – July 13.

We are currently accepting submissions for the following categories:

CALL FOR ARTWORKS
How do we give value to immaterial goods? How do we buy and sell digital images? What is the relationship between economics and digital aesthetics? How can curators and artists create new platforms and models for the creation of economic exchange? These are some of the questions that this show attempts to answer. We are currently accepting artwork (video, jpg, gifs, 3d models or HTML content) that will feature in a unique gallery-based exhibition. The exhibition is composed of two parts – a gallery-sited virtual show, and the online production and distribution of materially-realised limited-edition goods.

In the gallery, each artist will be represented by an AR-code – an augmented reality marker embedded with visual information that can only be viewed with the aid of a computer or smart-phone. As visitors walk through the gallery, they can interact with the markers using either their smart-phone or one of the tablets that will be provided by the gallery.

The artwork submitted will then be produced as a series of limited-edition goods including apparel and digital prints. These goods will be made available online for the duration of GLITCH.

The following products will be produced for each artist included in this exhibition:
1 Limited Edition Tee (run of 20)
1 Limited Edition tote bag (run of 20)
1 A5 postcard
1 A3 digital print (run of 30)

These goods will be made available via this website for the duration of GLITCH.

All profits from the sale of these goods go to the corresponding artist.



Before submitting please consult our technical spec for file types, and use our templates for submitting work.

Artwork that is not sent according to the technical spec or design templates will not be accepted as submissions.



Artworks will be exhibited using the Layar platform

Submission guidelines:
Email hello@runcomputerrun.com with the following information:
- completed templates

- artist name
- short bio (max 100 words, English only)
- email, url
- work name & synopsis (max 100 words, English only)
- screenshots x 2 (jpg 800 x 600px)

All artworks must adhere to our technical specification.
One entry per artist

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Deadline for entries: May 5th 2013

All submissions will be considered by the GLITCH curatorial team. Artists will be notified by May 12th 2013. Artwork will be exhibited during Glitch festival at Rua Red in Dublin, Ireland from May 24 – July 13

CALL FOR SHORTS + ANIMATIONS

This year, Glitch will host oh internetz! – an afternoon of shorts, animations, video and motion-based work. We are currently accepting work that responds to the following theme:

oh Internetz! celebrates an Internet-way of looking at the world. We are seeking work that is inspired by, makes reference to, loves, trolls and identifies itself with an Internet aesthetic. From gifs, to shorts to moving image, we are accepting submissions that are informed by Internet humour, aesthetics and Internet cultural practices.

Submission guidelines:
Email hello@runcomputerrun.com with a link to your video along with the following information:
- artist/director name
- short bio (max 100 words, English only)
- email, URL
- film/video name
- duration
- synopsis about submission (max 100 words)
- screenshots x 2 (jpg 800 x 600px)

You may submit up to 3 works.
Deadline for entries: May 5th 2013
Artists/directors will be notified by May 12th 2013.
Works will be screened June 15th during Glitch festival at Rua Red in Dublin, Ireland.

Link: http://runcomputerrun.com/?page_id=13

S C R E E N G R A B 2013
New Media Art Prize

\\\ AMBIENCE ///

“see like a camera, listen like a microphone, track like a satellite”

The 5th Screengrab International 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 AMBIENCE.

ENTRY APP:

http://screengrab.info

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2013 Award Theme

Big beautiful data is everywhere. Sounds are everywhere. Images are everywhere. Our lives are tracked relentlessly. The network sends and receives everything. We capture, post, follow, share and archive. Data becomes us.

March 2013 was the 100-year anniversary of the publication of Luigi Rusullo’s Art of Noises, and in the ensuing century the proliferation of mechanical noise has reached a critical density. Our accumulated audio-visual virtuality has been working towards a zeitgeist moment for some time. David Gelernter, researcher at Yale, has been foregrounding the concept of “life streaming” for several decades. Now it would seem, the stream has become a torrent.

Today we live to the beat of signals, alarms and alerts – a constant stream of audio-visual reminders that we live in increments of time amidst layers of metadata. We move and we are tracked by GPS, recognised by software, matched against databases, evaluated by life-tracking devices and mapped by our profiles and usernames. This new aesthetic of machine ambience is at once an embodiment of our private present selves but also an ambient beautification of what lies in our wake. Photo streams, playlists, check-ins, recommendations, resolutions, bucket-lists, posts, comments and feeds all embellishing the spaces and flows of our virtual habitats. We have become the exquisite beast in the garden, with all her flair, colour and boundless expression.

Images of you and me and us are embedded into this fanfare as icons of our identity. This aural and visual accumulation of our lives has created an immense data pool that is embellished by everything we see and everything that we say on the network. This meta-ambience is cross-fading our public, commercial and private spaces like tracks on an iPod Shuffle. We remix our environment by just being present in it. We bring our own signal noise with us wherever we go. We are fast becoming the sample bank of a dense ambient mix of images and sound.

But what does this look like? With what forms of expression is this data being exposed? How do we construct our own ambient worlds? How is Big Data constructing it for us? What do we show and what do we choose to conceal and what is beyond our control? Where does our ambience end and where do that of others begin? How do our rituals of culture, work and family inform who we are through the ambient streams we leave in our wake?

The 5th International Screengrab New Media Arts Award seeks works that explore the theme of ambience – personal, virtual and commercial – and all its private, political and social connotations. Creators, imagineers and explorers of big data, augmented reality, data aesthetics, generative art, audio/visual collage and interactive environments are encouraged to submit works that address the theme of ambience.

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The Call Out

SCREENGRAB is now entering its fifth year with an international call out for the AUS$5000 New Media Arts Prize and the companion exhibition in July/August 2013 for short listed applicants. We invite digital practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of AMBIENCE.

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

Existing works and those specifically designed for the award must address the theme of AMBIENCE to be eligible for the New Media Arts award.

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Prize Money: AUS $5000

Artefact deadline: July 1

Exhibition Opening & Award announcement : July 26

Application Form : http://screengrab.info
All inquiries : sarah.welch@jcu.edu.au

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This project is sponsored by James Cook University’s School of Creative Arts and the eMerge Gallery.

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Call for Art in public space

We welcome professional artists and artist groups to submit a proposal for a two dimensional artwork (size 16 m x 2.15 m) which will be publicly displayed in trainstatino in Zurich’s (Switzerland) new business district.
We are looking for artists who work with the topics urbanity, society, Global- and Glokalisation … The display in the public area can also be a window that offers connections and associations of different sorts.

Deadline 14. April 2013
Artist’s fee 1000USD
http://17zwei.ch

Application guideline:
Applications must be submitted in English or German.
Each applicant may submit only one concept.
> The application should include:
– Contact information of the artist (including: name, surname, postal address, e-mail address, phone number).
– A curriculum vitae, no longer than 1A4 page as a PDF
– An artist portfolio with works no older than five years.
– A project proposal (which can be a description of max. 300 – 500 words and a visual sketch with the correct proporitons of the tarp (16 x 2.15))
Please submit your complete application as 1 PDF by e-mail until 14. April 2013 to call@17zwei.ch
(please note, only complete applications will be considered).

The application process:
Once the deadline has passed, a jury will select 4-6 works. The selected artists will receive an artist’s fee of 1000 CHF. In addition to the artist’s fee we offer to cover the travel expenses to Zurich to the opening of the artwork (there is no cash alternative for trip costs). Each piece will be displayed for minimum of 4 weeks.
Please note that the artwork will be printed on a 16 x 2.15 meter truck tarp. The truck tarp print will become part of the Deutsche Bank art collection after the public displaying period.
If your work gets selected you will be informed of the dates your work will be on display. The decision of the jury will be mailed out to all participants at the end of April.
The project is funded by Deutsche Bank and ZHdK.

21 ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival
6-10 November 2013 – Tirgu-Mures, Romania

Online entry form
http://www.madisz.ro/entry

REGULATIONS

The festival has no participation fee.

Films submitted to the festival must be completed on or after January 1, 2011, not exceeding 30 minutes.

Films must be submitted on DVD (Standard, not Blue Ray). Do not send film prints, master tapes, or other originals. Please make sure the DVD runs on a conventional DVD player. The DVDs will not be returned and will be kept in the festival’s archive.

Films previously submitted to ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival are NOT eligible.

After receiving and previewing the film entries, first the preview jury selects the films to be shown at the festival. They also decide whether the films will be screened in the competitive program or in additional programs.

The list of the selected films will be found on the HYDU website: www.madisz.ro Only those authors will be notified by e-mail whose films have been selected to the competition.

An international jury will present one major award (independent of category). The other prizes are yearly changing.

The Festival is not able to pay any rental or screening fee. The Festival will only pay the return transportation charges. All tapes will be returned within six weeks after the end of the Festival to the address specified on the entry form.

The director (or another representative) of the film selected for the competition will be invited to the festival. The Festival covers the guest’s board and lodging cost for the 3 days of the competition-program.

The ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival reserves the right to use the whole film or excerpts as promotion for non-commercial purpose in different areas of media for presentation and educational screenings and at different events for promotion of the festival.

Please send the online entry and the DVD until 21 of September 2013 to us. Otherwise, we can’t accept the submission.

Please send your film to:

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

SFC – Shoah Film Collection is looking for films and videos for its presentations, the next one is taking place at the capital of Lithuania A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013 in September/October 2013, standing under the Patronage of the European Parliament.

SFC – Shoah Film Collection
is a wordwide unique initiative by Agricola de Cologne, director of Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards addressed to the young generations of artists and film makers to use new technologies and contemporary approaches in art in order to senstize the visitors/audience to keep vivid the memory of SHOAH.

Launched on occasion of 65th return of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz on 27 January 2010 SFC – Shoah Film Collection has meanwhile collected 37 outstanding pieces of videoart. Each year, on 27 January, SFC – Shoah Film Collection is releasing a new call for submissions , and now it is so far to invite again artists from the field of “moving images” to submit experimental art films and videoart reflecting the topic of “SHOAH” and related fields.

In 2012, SFC – Shoah Film Collection became the starting point and basis of CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections – http://ctf.engad.org

Also in 2012, a special event structure has been created, i.e. A Virtual Memorial – Commemorative Interventions” – for placing SFC – Shoah Film Collection in the context of complementary interventions like lectures, a symposion, exhibitions, discussion, artists talks and much more, in order to activate the artists and film makers, as well as the audience. In 2012 already the first three events took place
A Virtual Memorial Riga 2013 –
http://riga2012.a-virtual-memorial.org
A Virtual Memorial Phnom Penh 2012
http://phnompenh2012.a-virtual-memorial.org
A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2012
http://warsaw2012.a-virtual-memorial.org

In this initiative, the topic of “SHOAH” can be understood as a metaphore for the dark side of human existence causing the most extreme violations of human rights and human dignity, as they are manifesting themselves in the process of the historical HOLOCAUST during the Nazi era in the 20th century, but also in the genocides and crimes against humanity as they are happening nowadays before our very eyes or in our neighbor’s garden.

Understanding as a witness what is happening these days, offers the possibility to understand the inimaginable which the historical HOLOCAUST is representing.

Reflecting the massacre of Srerbrenica, the genocide in Rwanda, Cambodia or Guatemala, the repressions in Tibet or the xenophobic behaviour of your neighbor or probably your own intolerance, is helping to understand the PAST, the PRESENT and FUTURE:
SHOAH must not happen again ever anywhere!

The film and video artists who want to submit are encouraged to inform themselves intensively about the subject matter before they submit a film/video in order to find their individual approach which may be historical, as well as most contemporary in different concern. The human dimension makes SHOAH a topic and matter which has the potential to affect all people anywhere on the globe since the values of humanity are vivid and valid as long as human invidividuals are living, no matter from what kind of cultural, ethnic, religious or social background they may come from.

The film/video selected will be included in SFC -Shoah Film Collection and the long-term plannings of its events.

In 2013, will stand under the Patronage of the European Parliament –>

A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013 - in Sept/Oct 2013

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Download the call as PDF in following languages
as it was released earlier for CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections, but use the specific entry form, you find further ahead

English
Español
Française
Italiano
Português
Hrvatski
Deutsch
ελληνικά
Român
Polski

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- Deadline: 01 July 2013
- Wanted: single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe
- SFC is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2000-2013. Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: 60 seconds up to max 15 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
- Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
- Creations using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using the free upload platforms like SENDSPACE www.sendspace.com (up to 300 MB) or WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com (up to 2GB), after upload please send the link, and CologneOFF will download the film then.
- for review only following video formats are eligible – minimum size–> 720×576 (PAL) or 720×480 (NTSC)or HD:
.mpeg2 (DVD), . mov (Quicktime, H264 codec only), .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media), .flv (Flash video)
- only selected artists will be notified and invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video in best screening quality.
- the selections will be made on an ongoing basis until the final deadline of 1 July 2013.

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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) full 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 – SFC – Shoah Film Collection the permission to include the work in the project context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions free of charge and use screenshots for non-commercial promotional purposes free of charge, as well. 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 2013

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

artvideo (at) koeln.de
subject: SFC – Shoah Film Collection
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CTF – Collective Trauma Film Collections
http://ctf.engad.org

A Virtual Memorial Foundation
http://www.a-virtual-memorial.org

Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org

VideoChannel – curatorial platform for art & moving images
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

All mentioned instances are corporate part of
Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
directed and curated by
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
http://camia.mediaartcologne.org
artvideo (at) koeln.de

F_AQ L’AQUILA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
L’Aquila, 18/23rd November, 2013

Registration to the 7th L’Aquila Film Festival is open.
The Association L’Idea di Clèves, in fact, has published the new competition announcement: the competition is reserved to short films, documentaries and feature films of all kinds, with particular attention to anime.
For all information visit the website www.cleves.it/en or read the Regulation you can find at the above link.
You have time until June 30th … on line registration is free

WEB: www.cleves.it/en
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/ideacleves
http://www.facebook.com/laquila.filmfest
CALL FOR ENTRIES: http://www.cleves.it/bandi/ENG_bando_festival_cinema_laquila_2013.pdf
ON LINE SUBSCRIPTION: http://www.cleves.it/form_php/domandaIscrizione.php

Call for Talk Proposals

At Talks Hub we promote dialogue and exchange of ideas between artists, thinkers at large, scientists, curators, collectors as well as other people, through web-based group conferences aiming to interconnect scientific findings, philosophical approaches as well as practical know hows and personal views with various artistic experiences.

http://www.talkshub.net

Themes.
Discussions may use a variety of themes that might have a special meaning for artists, such as familiarization with scientific research findings, data interpretation and visualization, ideas and philosophies, exploration of art techniques and mediums, different angles of curating and collecting, as well as many others.

Proposals for talks should be transmitted using the form available on our website, section Call for Talk Proposals.
There is no application fee to submit proposals.

More information about talks format and requirements at http://www.talkshub.net website.

Talks Hub is a new art initiative proposed and managed by

Luminita Ratiu
Co-Manager
Talks Hub
Berlin
www.facebook.com/luminita.ratiu

Alex Bodea
Co-Manager
Talks Hub
Berlin
http://drawshootingenroute.wordpress.com

Artfetch

Representing the next generation of leading artists, from around the world.

Artfetch is new, Artfetch is different, Artfetch gives selected emerging artists the opportunity to showcase their work online, bringing it to a global audience.

Should your work be here?

Artfetch is now accepting submissions from undergrad / post grad students, and recent art college alumni.

Presenting the work of selected emerging artists for sale online, the Artfetch team of specialist cutting-edge curators will choose the most promising to be included and listed for sale on the website.

How to submit work to Artfetch

Please send to info@artfetch.com:

* A CV including your date of birth and contact details
* A one-page artist statement including a short bio, an overview of your practice as a whole and some detail on the works submitted
* A selection of jpeg images of available works
* A list of the submitted jpeg images including the medium, year made and dimensions (width x height)

All media accepted. No fee to apply.

Once a submission has been made we will be happy to provide further details on the service offer that will be posed by Artfetch.com to the artist.

Artfetch is changing the way the world sees art.
Deadline: 31 July 2013

Contact:
Artfetch Team
Dublin, Ireland
info@artfetch.com
http://www.artfetch.com/

Open Call – Videorover: Season 6

NURTUREart is now accepting video submissions for the sixth season of Videorover. NURTUREart’s dedicated video program, Videorover aims at becoming an ever-expanding forum for new and emerging video artists.

This year Videorover is partnering with the annual Chicago based performance art festival RAPID PULSE to present performance inspired works made for the camera and to be presented on the screen. Expanding the boundaries of what is or can be performance art is one of the many focuses of the festival, as well as questioning ideas on presence, live-ness and mediation. These tropes will be explored through this video screening partnership, and will be screened both in Chicago and New York.

We are looking for works in the spirit of performance as a medium, privileging the body as the vehicle for production. We are not specifically looking for videos which are only serve as performance documentation, but rather works in which the body and the video act as collaborators.

Please read the submission guidelines (linked below) before submitting.

http://nurtureart.org/?p=5860

NURTUREart Gallery
56 Bogart Street
Brooklyn, New York 11206
United States of America

Shimmer 2013 –
call for Creative Practitioners, North Tyneside Council
United Kingdom – North East England

Event website: www.delivr.com/19kot

Contact: Kevin Wallace: kevin.wallace@northtyneside.gov.uk

North Tyneside Council Arts Development Service are inviting expressions of interest from creative practitioners for ‘Shimmer’ – a site specific event held over fireworks weekend in November at Whitley Bay seafront. Whilst the programme is predominantly video, lighting and digital projections and installations, it has included outdoor performance elements appropriate to the brief and applications are welcomed from a range of artforms.

Shimmer is now in its third year and has quickly established itself as a fixture in the cultural calendar with a reputation for being innovative and accessible. The challenge is to develop the event for 2013 and whilst the core programme is expected to be similar in scale to previous years, more ambitious proposals of larger scale and budget are encouraged for consideration.

Full details, artist brief and supporting documents can be downloaded from the following link;

http://delivr.com/1gtwn

Note: if this link does not work first time, try refreshing the browser page.

Medienkunst – Made in NRW
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CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org
sucht “Kunst mit bewegten Bildern” -
Videos von Künstlern lebend in Nordrhein- Westfalen
für ein Screeningprogramm, welches im Rahmen des nomadischen Festivalprojekts
“CologneOFF 20XX – Videoart im globalen Kontext”
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/
ab Herbst 2013 zuerst in Peru (Lima) und Mexico (Mexico City)
gezeigt werden soll.

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1. Einreichfrist: 1. Juni 2013
2. Die Videos sollten nach dem 1. Januar 2009 entstanden sein.
3. Dauer: max 10 Minuten
4. ausschließlich Einkanal-Videos, welches sich für Vorführung, Projektion und Installation gleichermaßen eignen.
5. Thema: “memory & identity” – gerne animierte Inhalte
6. Max 3 Film/Videos können eingereicht werden.
7. Videos mit Text oder Dialogen sollten sowohl in Deutsch,
als auch mit englischen Untertiteln zur Verfügung stehen.
8. Sichtkopien können ausschließlich online eingereicht werden über Upload/Downloadplatformen wie
WETransfer www.wetransfer.com ( frei bis 2GB) oder SENDSPACE ( frei bis 300MB) www.sendspace.com oder Dropbox www.dropbox.com in den Videoformaten HD (Quicktime .mov (H264)- mp4),PAL 16:9 – 4:3 (720×576) mpeg2 (DVD) .avi, .wmv, .mov (H264)

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Einreichformular
bitte in Englisch ausfüllen/einreichen
Für jedes einzureichendes Video bitte ein gesondertes Formular benutzen
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) email, URL
c) Address
c) short bio (max. 300 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL (Internet address for review/download)
c) year of production
d) duration
e) work synopsis (max. 500 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
–>Bitte fuege folgende Erklaerung mit vollem Namen und der Emailadresse bei
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English
I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work. In case the work is selected, I give CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival the permission to include the work online and in screenings in physical space and use screenshots for promotional (non-commercial) peuposes, until revoke. The author keeps all rights.

Deutsch
Ich, der Einreichende, erklaere hiermit, daß ich im Besitze aller Rechte an der eingereichten Arbeit bin. Im Falle diese ausgewaehlt werden sollte, erteile ich CologneOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival- bis auf Widerruf – die Erlaubnis, die betreffende Arbeit online zu veröffentlichen und in physischen Screenings/Ausstellung vorzuführen, als auch Screenshots für Promotion und unkommerziellen Zwecken zu nutzem. Alle Rechte verbleiben beim Besitzer.
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Bitte sende die Einreichung sowohl als Emailtext, als auch als Anlage im RTF (Rich Text Format) oder WORD . doc in der Anlage
an

artvideo@koeln.de
Betreff: Medienkunst – Made in NRW

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Cologne Art & Moving Images Awards
CologeOFF – Cologne International Videoart Festival
http://coff.newmediafest.org/blog/

geleitet durch
Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
artvideoKOELN
Mauritiussteinweg 64
D – 50676 Koeln

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International Authors’ Film Festival QUEST EUROPE 2013 – August 2013

Entry Form
http://www.quest-europe.eu/tl_files/layout/pdf/karta%20zgloszenia%20-%20entry%20form%20quest%20europe%202013.doc

R E G U L A T I O N S

§ 1 QUEST EUROPE is open to all filmmakers from who create original films. Filmmakers from all countries are eligible to submit their film to Quest Europe.
§ 2 The festival accepts fiction and documentary films between 10 and 90 minutes The films can be shot on any format, and can be submitted for consideration on DVD format.
§ 3 There is no submission fee to Quest Europe. However, submitors must cover the full costs of shipment to the festival. Multiple submissions from the same film maker are allowed, but each submission must be accompanied by a separate submission form and DVD.
§ 4 Each submission should have its title stated at the beginning of the film and the text ‘the end’ at the end of the film. The dvd must be marked with the film’s title, the director’s name and the film’s length. Please write on the DVD with a permanent marker or a sharpie. Do not use stickers, as they will jam up our DVD’s. For dialogues that are not in English or Polish, the film should be subtitled in either English or Polish.
§ 5 Each application should be accompanied with a completed entry form and a CD-ROM containing the following: 5 stills from the film in jpg format (min 300dpi), the photo of the director and a synopsis of the film (in English or Polish).
§ 6 We do not accept films made for commercial purposes or films made in co-operation with members of the Jury, the Pre-selection Commission or the organising committee.
§ 7 All submitted to competition of Quest Europe 2013 films will be considered for competition by the Pre-Selection Committee. The decisions of the Committee are final and no correspondence will be entered into. Films not entered into competition, may be selected for screening at Quest Europe outside the competition.
§ 8 Copies of films submitted for selection will not be returned. Films not accepted by the selection committee for summer festival may be present in special shows of QUEST EUROPE organize in order to promote of the festival.
§ 9 By submitting films to Quest Europe the producer gives the right for the public presentation of the film at the Festival, related presentations and special shows promoting the QUEST EUROPE festival from 2012 to 2025 and also other free shows organized by Lubuska Szkoła Telewizji i Filmu. The producer also gives the right to publish parts of the film (no longer that two minutes) on the official festival website and festival trailers.
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The producer submitting a film which hasn’t been presenting before
expresses agreement to first public presentation of this film.
§ 11
The program of festival consists of the following sections:
Special shows of the artist, outstanding full-length movies from Europe, shorts from partners festivals
and other submitted short movies to be screened out of competition at venues in Zielona Góra.
The Main competition will be held at the cinema “NYSA” in Zielona Gora. Other events of the festival include pre-selections of the films, photo exhibitions, concerts, parties with film music, etc
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The three day finale of events will take place at the cinema NYSA from Friday 23th August to Sunday
25th August 2012.
§ 13
A detailed program of competition screenings will be released on Friday 15th July. Authors of works that have been selected for the competition will be notified before this date about the selection of their films.
§ 14
A Jury of professional filmmakers will evaluate films presented in the main competition.
§ 15
The following awards will be presented at this year’s Quest Europe Festival:
GRAND PRIX (fictional category)
GRAND PRIX (documentary category)
SPECIAL PRICE FROM Lubuska School of Film and Television – An award for a one year scholarship at the
Lubuska School of Film and Television.
SPECIAL AWARDS OF THE AUDIENCE DISTINCTIONS
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The jury has also right to grant Honourable mentions to films as they see fit.
§ 17
Furthermore will nominate Polish film makers to the prestigious
Jan Machulski Awards in the following categories:
BEST DIRECTION
BEST SCREENPLAY
BEST EDITING
BEST PICTURES
BEST ACTOR
BEST ACTRESS
BEST DOCUMENTARY STORY
Quest Europe is one of six Polish film festivals that grant these nominations.
§ 18 The director of the festival reserves the right to grant extra prizes depending on the range of films and the depth of their quality.
§ 19 The official notice of the verdict will happen during the final event at the NYSA cinema on the final day of the competition. Prizes will be handed over to the winners on the same day during a ceremony at the official end of the festival. The awards will be given to the authors of the winning films, or persons representing them. Participants who are absent at the closing ceremony will receive a notification of the Jury’s verdict from the festival.
§ 20 Screening copies for the contest should be on DVD. The submitted DVD shall be retained by Quest Europe at the end of the film festival for the archives. The submittor will not receive any financial gain from leaving DVD in the archive of the festival.
§ 21 The copyright of the MFKA QUEST EUROPE Festival submitted films can byno means be restricted and must be held in their entirety by the submitting party. Furthermore it can neither violate the copyright or personal welfare of a third party. In case of providing false information regarding legal status of a film, the author submitting this film will bear all legal expenses resulting from any legal action claimed by a third party.
§ 22 The organisers of Quest Europe retan the rights to refuse a film for Competition or withdraw it from the Competition of there is a breach of these Regulations.
§ 23 The producers submitting a film to the festival agrees to submission of fragments (60 sec.) of films with the purpose of promoting the festival.
§ 24 Films that are selected are to be recorded on a separate print (DVD) and should have opening titles (the title, duration, the names of the filmmakers and the system on format of the recording) and must conclude with ‘The End’. All film prints sent to the festival must be properly packed to assure protection from damage.
§ 25 The producers of films submitted to the festival agree to the procesing of the personal date for the needs of promoting films on the Internet and within other forms of mass media according to the Law from the day 29 August 1997 r. about the protection of the personal data – DZ.U. No. 133, p. 883.
§ 26 All entries must be sent to: Akademia Twórczych Poszukiwań – Lubuska Szkoła Telewizji i Filmu ‘’QUEST EUROPE” ul. Festiwalowa 3, 65-520 Zielona Góra POLSKA The deadline for receiving films with an enclosed entry form and promotional materials (photos etc) is 15.04 2013.
§ 27
The organizers do not take responsibility for undelivered or delayed films (to the main competition).
§ 28 Quest Europe will provide accomodation in Zielona Gora to one person who represents any film selected for the main competition. Quest Europe will not provide costs of travel.
§ 29 The submission of a film to MFKA QUEST EUROPE 2012 implies that the author accepts these regulations without any restrictions.
§ 30 The Director of the QUEST EUROPE, Marzena Więcek, will solve any issues not included in the above Regulations. Contact: marzena@akademia.zgora.pl. for further details or clarification arising from these rules.
§ 31 Should any dispute arise regarding the interpretation of an article in these regulations, their original Polish version is binding.

Autonomy & Anatomy of the Moving Image, International Symposium on Video Art

Autonomy & Anatomy of the Moving Image – Video & Experimental Cinema in the Last Decade: An international symposium on video art and experimental cinema to be held at the Mamuta Art & Media Center at Hansen Compound, Jerusalem

July 7-9, 2013

Read more
http://www.artiscontemporary.org/features_detail.php?id=269

The Mamuta Art and Media Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of the Arts at the Faculty of the Humanities, Arts, Technology, Media and Science Interfaces Seminar, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design – Department of Screen-Based Arts, the Jerusalem Cinematheque, and the Jerusalem Film Festival.

The organizing committee invites scholars and artists to submit proposals for individual papers, organized panels, screenings, and roundtable discussions related to the theme of the conference: “Autonomy & Anatomy of the Moving Image: Video & Experimental Cinema in the Last Decade.”

The conference will explore the ways in which developments in new technologies have turned the Internet into a new platform where the digital/network platform replaces the more traditional support – the tape.

We invite papers that address the narrative and aesthetic developments that are made possible by mechanisms of network and digital media: deconstruction, interaction, randomization, multi-layeredness, browser dependence, real-time broadcast and editability; alteration, combination, and incorporation of various media into video (medium or video elements within them). Youtube, cell phone, and ipad video-culture on the one hand, and the availability of cutting-edge technologies for independent artists and amateurs, on the other hand, have dramatically altered the language, use, possibilities and ways of promotion of moving-image works.

Call For Art – Cell Mates

The Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University seeks submissions for “Cell Mates,” two distinct group shows that will be on view side by side in adjacent galleries. Curators Jeanne Brasile and Lisbeth Murray will divide the 2,000 sq. ft. gallery in half, creating two separate exhibitions of artwork inspired by cellular forms. The curators seek art that addresses a wide range of topics related to cellular forms to create a discursive exploration into microorganisms and concerns derived from their study.

The goal of the curators is to demonstrate modes of creation inspired by science, in addition to examining how curators using the same narrative framework can come to very different thematic and aesthetic conclusions. While aesthetics are a concern, the curators are particularly interested in how artists incorporate scientific methods into their practice, how artists obscure or pronounce the delineation between artistic and scientific practices, and/or how artists visualize scientific data to create works of art, placing the artist in the role of quasi-scientist. All types of media are eligible.

Exhibition dates are June 2 – July 18, 2013.
$15/5 entries.
Deadline: Wednesday May 1, 2013 (receipt date)

Prospectus: http://jeannecurates.com

Call For Film/Video Programs: Exuberant Politics
An exuberant politics is exhortative, celebratory, evocative.
It is foot-stomping, lung-splitting, booty-shaking.

It’s in your face, your backyard, your neighborhood, your watershed, your continent.

It’s planetary, and it’s right here.

It is direct, but it likes to dance.

It’s exuberant, and it starts with you.

“Exuberant Politics” is issuing a call for film/video programmers, activist archivists, and DIY curators to propose 70-90 minute programs of moving image work featuring exuberant, vivacious, and creative responses to historical and contemporary political issues.

Proposed programs could map a historical arc or be based around specific topics, like “exuberant pacifism,” or “rocking reproductive righteousness.” We are particularly interested in proposals that combine projects by politically-engaged artists’ with creative activism undertaken by people who do not identify as artists. Programs may include performance or protest actions documented by video, as well as work taking film/video as its primary medium.

A total of three programs will be selected to screen at the University of Iowa in Fall 2013, with potential for additional screenings to be arranged in consultation with programmers and artists. Selected programmers will receive a $250 honorarium and up to $400 for screening fees.

“Exuberant Politics” is a yearlong series of programs organized by University of Iowa faculty and Iowa City artists and arts organizations. The “Exuberant Politics” film series is funded by the University of Iowa Museum of Art.

Proposals should include a 250 word description of the program, a tentative list of works (with short synopses and runtimes), and a 250 word narrative bio of the programmer. Send to exuberantpolitics@gmail.com by April 21, 2013. Submissions will be reviewed, selected, and notified by May 5.

Link: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Exuberant-Politics/301123776680956

Deadline: Sun Apr 21st, 2013

9th Athens International Videoart Festival

The 9th edition of the International Festival of Digital Arts & New Media of Greece, Athens Video Art Festival is here!

Athens Video Art Festival 2013 will take place on June 7-9, in the Historic and Commercial Centre of Athens.

Athens Video Art Festival 2013 attempts to activate both visually and creatively a journey in one of the most debatable and charged city areas, by making the best of the diversity, the versatility and the colour of the city. From Theatre Square and the much awaited Romantzo to Kotzia Square and the neo-classical CAMP, street screenings, artistic interventions and collaborations will be setting the tone of a throbbing and ever evolving community of artists.

Nine years ago, Athens Video Art Festival initiated a broadly creative dialogue with Academic Institutions, Organizations, International Festivals and internationally acclaimed artists. Its aim was to create an international meeting platform that would bring out current trends in contemporary digital art. As in previous years, the main categories will be accompanied with art acts, presentations and workshops.

Athens Video Art Festival invites all contemporary artists to find inspiration in the urban environment and the inexhaustible potential of new media, experimenting and freeing themselves from all stereotypes.

Artists may send/ submit their work to any of the categories below.

Closing date for applications to participate in the 9th edition of Athens Video Art Festival: 28th March 2013 (date of postmark). Proposals may be submitted via internet or post.

For more information: www.athensvideoartfestival.gr

FACADE VIDEO FESTIVAL

ELIGIBILITY. Any author can participate with max. 3 videos. Videos submitted must belong to the category of video art. They should have been finalised after 1 January 2010, come in as a single-channel version and be copyright controlled by the artist.

THE EVENT WILL BE JURIED. A jury will award the best video with a one-month-residency during 2014 (including travel costs, 1000 Euro – allowance) in the Art Today lab for creating a site specific video art project which will be shown at the Facade Video Festival in 2014.

NOTIFICATION OF JURY RESULTS. Everyone who enters the festival can check the results uploaded on the festival’s website after 30 June 2013.

DATE OF THE FESTIVAL. The festival is an annual event, taking place in September of each year.

More info :

http://www.facade.arttoday.org/en/2012/open_call

Media and video artists from all over the world are invited to send videos for the fourthly edition of Facade Video Festival that will be held in Plovdiv between 11 and 15 September 2013.
Facade Video Festival is an annual video art exhibition where videos are projected onto the walls of houses both in the old town of Plovdiv and in the neighbourhoods. Facade Video Festival aims to create an interface between viewers and artists, between visual arts and the city. There are no restrictions concerning the theme.

http://www.facade.arttoday.org/