Open Call - Aspect Vol.19: Communication

ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art, a biannual DVD publication, is currently accepting submissions of time-based work for V19: COMMUNICATION.

As the tools of communication continue to evolve, so does language itself. As globalization expands our notion of community and networked culture shrinks the boundaries between public and private, the strategies through which we communicate are thrown into question. In light of this questioning, we are looking for media artworks that address language and communication as their primary subjects. We will review installation, video, performance, sound and any other work best documented in time-based format.

ASPECT asks artist/commentator pairs to submit proposals of time-based work. Commentators may be curators, historians, critics, or educators who can offer a distinct perspective on the work. Criteria for selection will include the qualifications of the commentator and the quality of the work. Audio recordings of the commentary will be assembled after the submissions have been selected.

Submissions must include:

- Video documentation (less than 15 minutes in length)
- A brief (100 word) statement regarding the submitted work
- Resume of the artist, resume of commentator
- Contact information for the commentator and artist
- Brief notes outlining the proposed commentary w/ respect to theme
- Submissions must be received by August 1, 2011, sent to*:

ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art
46 Waltham Street, suite 108
Boston, MA 02118
Attention: V19 Communication
* please do not ship with signature required

Contact esmith@aspectart.org Evan Smith, Contributor Liaison Phone: 617-695-0500 Fax: 617-778-2231

Address www.aspectmag.org/news/open-call-volume-19-communication Aspect 46 Waltham St Suite 108 Boston, MA 02118 United States

Info OPEN CALL DUE AUGUST 1, 2011

DIVA Membership and Renewal

Special DIVA Membership Offer. Membership is an important component of our programming and funding strategy. We are operating leaner than ever in response to the current economic climate, and we know you are too!  


In order to encourage membership renewals and spur new members, we are making a special offer for renewing or becoming a new member from now until July 31st. Save 50% on an individual membership and $15 on Senior and Student Memberships. 


Join/renew now for $35 individualand $25 senior and students. Donations above and beyond your membership are most gratefully accepted!Download form or join through PayPal

Nominations: NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2011

The NEU/NOW LIVE Festival will take place 18-22 November in Tallinn, Estonia

Click here to register an account and nominate works!
Deadline for nominations is 15 June.

The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) is pleased to announce the third edition of the NEU/NOW festival presenting the most exciting and creative artistic talent emerging across Europe and beyond.

What is the NEU/NOW Festival?

The NEU/NOW Festival has established itself as an innovative platform for talented graduating or recent graduate artists – coming out of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to a wider international audience within professional contexts.

The NEU/NOW festival is:

• an online festival and a live event that promotes artistic excellence through cutting edge presentations and activities in a range of art disciplines;
• an opportunity for selected emerging artists to show their work, meet each other and create new international partnerships;
• a place where audiences, producers and curators can see the most excellent artists and innovative projects coming from art schools and universities across Europe and beyond;
• a forum where artists, producers, curators, cultural operators and policy makers can discuss future developments for the arts and share views on the cultural role of higher arts education institutions;
• a means of presenting new international generation of professional artists to the attention of a wide audience.

From the nominated projects, a range of projects will be presented online, from which a selection of projects will be presented in the NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2011.

NEU/NOW LIVE 2011 will take place 18 – 22 November in Tallinn, Estonia in the frame of European Capital of Culture 2011.

To see the 2009 edition of the festival, click here or read the festival blog

Extended Call for Entries

Extended Call for Entries

New Deadline for Submission:  July 15, 2011

6th Jana International Film Festival For Children & Youth

October 2011

The Jana International Film Festival for Children & Youth is to be held in October 2011.  The main aim of this festival is fostering self-reflection & awareness, learning about the other, critical analyses of social norms & messages related to countering prejudice & intolerance & accepting diversity, introducing new information or analysis that is connected to existing knowledge structures, providing “safe environments’ & permission to experiment with new ways of thinking & reframing conflictual issues in integrative ways.

The central theme of the festival will be "Diversity enriches". 

The Festival will display films on and by youth & children under 19 years of age. Preference will be given to films by youth & children themselves, or with their active participation.

This year the festival will be a mobile festival touring different Lebanese marginalized areas.

Call for Entries

New Deadline for Submission:  July 15, 2011

Entry Form

Festival Regulations

For more information, please contact:

Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts / AL-JANA

P.O. Box: 114/ 5017

E-mail:hicham@al-jana.org, arcpa@cyberia.net.lb

Tel/Fax: +961 1 819970 – Mobile: +961 3 839917

Beirut – Lebanon

The festival is funded by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations with means provided by the German Federal Foreign Office.

Call To Artist - Maude Kerns

2011 Día de los Muertos Prospectus. Maude Kerns Art Center is currently accepting submissions for the 18th annual Día de los Muertos exhibit. Submitted artwork must be original and focus on the Mexican holiday, Day of the Dead. Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 22, 2011. All artists, working in all mediums, are eligible. For more information call 541-345-1571 or e-mail staff@mkartcenter.org.

2011 Día de los Muertos Prospectus (PDF File)

Call for applications - Transmedia - Brussels

Transmedia is a two-year, full-time course in arts, media and design leading to a master's degree in Transmedia. This international program focuses on research as an integrated mix of art practice and critical thought. This multidisciplinary environment fosters a dialogue with experts about your artistic practice. Transmedia places individual practice at the core of the program. Here you can learn from internationally recognized teachers and visiting artists who, through their personal work are actively shaping the direction of thinking and producing in the rapidly evolving Transmedia field. Application deadline is September 30th 2011.

Contact transmedia@sintlukas.be Phone: +32(0)22501100

Address www.transmedia.be Transmedia Sint-Lukas Brussels Paleizenstraat 70 B-1030 Brussels Belgium

Info Application deadline is September 30th 2011

Digital Media Scholarship Application Deadline - June 1, 2011

Eight "Digital Media Commission" stipends from Intel offering $2,000 per student as well as $500 per sponsoring professor.

The  scholarship submission deadline is today, and I highly encourage you to have your students submit, and to sponsor a student in the Digital Media Commission. We will take submissions up until end of day tomorrow (June 1st). With prior arrangement (via email to scholarships@ompa.org), we will also consider extensions through the end of this week for the Digital Media Commission. There are 4 scholarship areas.

Digital Media Commission    ($2,000 student stipend + $500 educator stipend.  8 available)


More information is at www.ompa.org/index.php/about/maef/

radioCona OPEN CALL: radio art & sound art works

Invitation to artists to participate in the radioCona project Radio As An Arts Space (deadline June 25th, 2011)

In the frame of the radioCona project Radio As An Arts Space, CONA Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing is sending out an open call for submission of contemporary sound art works from the area of radio art and sound art. Artists and art groups creating in the area of radio art and sound art are invited to apply with existing or new works. Selected works will be included in the exhibition Radio As An Arts Space which will be broadcast by radioCona and will appear at in situ locations in December 2011. The exhibition will at the same time occupy the radio frequencies and audio streams of international partners. The broadcast will be constituted as a gallery space with a curated exhibition delineated by the curators' collection of selected works and featuring works selected through this open call. 
About the project Radio As an Arts Space
The title that defines the activities of art project radioCona – a temporary radio station for contemporary arts intentionally bears the name of the space Radio As An Art Space. A project with such a name forms and structures exhibiting of contemporary art works that fall into the fields of radio art and sound art.
Radio As An Arts Space investigates the possibilities of a constitution of an international radio project model for artistic contents and exchange of audio works. Our aim is to stimulate discourse about the production of radiophonic art projects and discursive artistic contents among expert audiences, artists, and art organisations. The project Radio As An Arts Space will examine how a radio frequency can become a gallery space for contemporary art and analyse the constitution of a format of temporary radio broadcasting, as one of the options.

Please send your works (links to websites, ftp,  dropbox, sendspace, etc.) to the e-mail address:  cona@cona.si  in the following format: mp3 (stereo, 16bit, 160kbps or more). Audio CDs, DVDs, or data discs (wav, aif)  can be posted to: CONA, Peričeva 7, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia-EU. Please include all the information regarding the work, artists, and producers. (formats: odt, doc, pdf). Application deadline is June 25th, 2011.


Web Address: http://cona.wordpress.com/
Produced by: CONA
Partners: RAM LIVE, Novi Radio Beograd, Kiosk
Supported by: European Culture Foundation  BIFC HUB, Ministry of Culture Slovenia

Animate OPEN: Digitalis - call for submissions

Animate Projects - the champion of experimental animation – is delighted to announce its first online exhibition selected from an open submission. 

The Animate OPEN is part of Digitalis, a strand of activities throughout 2011 that sets out to explore, question, subvert or confound our expectations of art and the 'digital'. And that includes 'anti-digital' - handmade, physically crafted animation. 

For the Animate OPEN, Animate Projects is looking for experimental works by UK-based artists, animators and filmmakers. The selected films will be presented online at animateprojects.org, from July 2011, accompanied by interviews with the artists. The films will also be featured in the Digitalis publication and at Digitalis events later in the year.

Gary Thomas, Director of Animate Projects says: 'We hope that the inaugural Animate OPEN will prove to be a platform bursting with experiment, to inspire and provoke discussions around creativity and the digital. And we are looking forward to discovering some awe inspiring stuff.'
The Animate OPEN Jury will select up to ten films for exhibition and there will be two cash prizes - one awarded by the Jury (£1000), and an Audience prize (£300) voted for by visitors to the exhibition. 

The Jury members are Francesca Gavin, writer, curator and Visual Arts Editor at Dazed & Confused; Rebecca Shatwell, Director, AV Festival; Gary Thomas, Director, Animate Projects; and artist and music video director, David Wilson.

Submission guidelines: animateprojects.org/opportunities
Deadline for submissions: 10am, Monday 20 June 2011

The Animate OPEN exhibition will be online from July at animateprojects.org/films/by_project/digitalis/animate_open

The Animate OPEN is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Experiments in animation - animateprojects.org

Call to artists

Event: Willamette Valley Blues and Brews Festival to benefit Springfield/Eugene Habitat for Humanity

Work Media: Any type

Work Size: Fit for a Color Printed Poster - download template from website  www.wvbbf.org

Entry Requirements: The Artwork must be submitted within the WVBBF template (available for download from our website)  www.wvbbf.org

The CD Needs to include:

• Final Poster in native file format (ai, eps preferred)
• Final Poster in print ready PDF for proofing purposes
• Font Files used in design (if applicable)
• Image Files used in design (if applicable)

File Preparation Guidelines:

• Minimum Resolution of 600 DPI
• CMYK colorspace
• All fonts outlined and embedded
• Artwork should have a 1/8" (0.125") bleed from trim line (see template)
• Information content ("Safe Area") should be 1/8" (0.215") away from trim line (see template)

Timeline: Will be advertised until event is over

Entries Due: By 4:00pm on Monday, June 13

Selection Process: Juried by a committee, the contest winner will be announced on Thursday, June 16

Notification to artist: Artist will here back from committee by email or phone

Accepted Artwork: Artwork will be made into a poster and used for advertising purposes and then auctioned off to benefit Springfield/Eugene Habitat for Humanity

Delivery: The winning artist must be able to submit a digital copy of their art files via CD by Friday, June 17

Publicity: This even will be publicized by tv, radio, and posters

Sales: The original artwork will be auctioned off to benefit Springfield/Eugene Habitat for Humanity.  The chosen artist will be awarded $200.00 and a pair of weekend VIP passes to the VWBBF 2011.  The artwork will be incorporated into event advertisements, signage, banners, web design and merchandise in addition to the posters.

Contact: Kirsten Shende - kirsten@artcounselor.com