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Transcultures: international sound art festival City Sonic, Mons

Transcultures is happy to invite you to the ninth edition of the international sound art festival City Sonic which will take place in Mons (Belgium) from the 27th of August until the 11th of September 2011.

The opening welcomes everyone, it will take place on the 26th of August at 6 pm (meeting point Site des Abattoirs, rue de la trouille 7000 Mons) with a guided tour of the sound itinerary in the center of the city in the presence of the artists, Philippe Franck (artistic director of the festival) and Anne-Laure Chamboissier, associated curator.

In the evening, you're invited to a sonic drink, a cool mix (by Belle Jeunesse) and 2 sonic performances at the Royal Theatre (Grand'Place) by Alexander Schubert (interactivity drums/video) and Yvat Collective (Yvat, electronics versus Adrian Tabarescu on vibraphone) followed by groovy eclectic mixes by Radio Campus djs: Kandid, Youri Margarine, Belle Jeunesse & Satan.

This year, City Sonic, in partnership with the City of Mons, proposes a poetic & inventive sound itinerary in several architectural & cultural places of this historical city : starting at salle Saint Georges on the Grand Place then the Fine Art Museum (BAM), Maison Folie, Médiathèque, Machine à Eau (water machine), & Site des anciens Abattoirs (renewed slaughterhouse). With more than 70 artists coming from several artistic disciplines (music, visual arts, literature, digital arts, radio art, design, architecture …) and various countries, City Sonic #9i is a unique event and a key festival to enter the many doors of sound creation in Belgium and abroad.

The programme features International artists such as Jim Shaw (USA), Hans Peter Kuhn, Rolf Julius (Ge), Saâdane Afif (Fr), David Renggli (Ch) … but also young talents from the Belgian and French art schools (ESAPV Mons, ENSAV La Cambre-Brussels, ESAD Strasbourg, ENSA Bourges,.), and artists produced by Transcultures (Livescape collective, Isa Belle & Paradise Now, Gauthier Keyaerts,…).
Performances by sound poets (Charles Pennequin, Vincent Tholomé, Aymeric Hainaux) and electronic musicians (the Aktivist, aMute, Squeaky Lobster for the Transonic event – Sept 10) & hybrid sound artists (0 aka Sylvain Chauveau, Rainier Lericolais, Guy-Marc Hinant/Sub Rosa, Jeroen Vandesande for Sonic Archipel ,closing event on Sept 11), and many others in partnership with Festival Cap Sonic. Sonic workshops, round tables, guided tours, original performance) & workshops (Sonic Kids fro the youngsters) are also part of this copious programme.

Vernissage City Sonic –opening > 26/08
18.00 > guided tour in presence of the artists and curators – Departure from the site des anciens Abattoirs (rue de la Trouille – 17, 7000 Mons)
20.00 > official speech – Salle Saint Georges (Grand'Place, 7000 Mons)
20.30> sonic drink + set électro de DJ Belle Jeunesse (Be) – Théâtre Royal (Grand'Place)
21.00 > sound performances: Alexander Schubert
23.00 > Djs City Sonic/Radio Campus : Dj Belle Jeunesse, Dj Youri Margarine, Dj Kandid vs Satan – Bateau Ivre (Grand'Place).


Web: http://www.citysonic.be/

DIVA Center ART TALK: August 19th

Call for Submissions - Brighton Photo Fringe

Brighton Photo Fringe is pleased to launch Open 2011, an experimental open submission platform for both photographic artists and curators. Call for Submissions from Curators Deadline: 5pm Monday 15 August 2011 Call for Submissions from Photographers and Lens-Based Artists Deadline: 5pm Monday 12 September 2011 • Open 2011 During the interim period between the 2010 and 2012 festivals, Brighton Photo Fringe in partnership with Metro Print and Phoenix Brighton will be holding Open 2011. Open to everyone everywhere, Open 2011 will be an international platform that enables artists and curators to work together to explore the possibilities of photography and exhibition formats. Mentor curator Charlotte Cotton (writer and curator, Creative Director, National Media Museum, London) will work closely with a group of selected curators to develop an exhibition in dialogue with the selected artists. Selected works will be printed, mounted and framed by Metro Print and the exhibition will be held at Phoenix Brighton from 19 November to 18 December 2011. • Call for Submissions from Curators Open to everyone everywhere. Applicants do not need to have previous curatorial experience. Curators Submission Materials: Completed application form. CV or description of relevant experience. Maximum 2-pages A4. Send submissions to: open2011@photofringe.org Curators Further Information and Downloads: www.photofringe.org/?p=2477 Curators Deadline: 5pm Monday 15 August 2011 • Call for Submissions from Photographers and Lens-Based Artists Open to everyone everywhere working with photographic and lens-based media. Photographers and Lens-Based Artists Submission Materials: 1. Up to 10 examples of existing works, e.g. photographs, moving images via hyperlinks, publications, webworks. Maximum 10MB in total. 2. Proposal for new work or intervention (optional). 3. Completed application form. 4. Artist's CV. Maximum 2-pages A4. 5. £10 submission fee. Paid via PayPal. Send submissions to: open2011@photofringe.org Photographers and Lens-Based Artists Further Information and Downloads: www.photofringe.org/?p=2503 Photographers and Lens-Based Artists Deadline: 5pm Monday 12 September 2011 • About Brighton Photo Fringe Brighton Photo Fringe is an artist-led organisation that supports photographers and lens-based artists by creating platforms, coordinating participatory projects and opening up exhibition spaces. Showcasing the best of current photographic practice, Brighton Photo Fringe aims to increase access to and participation in high quality photographic exhibitions and events. Every two years Brighton Photo Fringe coordinates a city-wide festival in partnership with Brighton Photo Biennial. In 2010 the festival included over 180 exhibitions, projects and events, over 300 exhibitors and had an audience in the region of 140,000. See www.photofringe.org for further information. Brighton Photo Fringe is supported by University of Sussex, School of Media Film and Music, Brighton and Hove City Council and the National Lottery through Arts Council England

Second International Visual Research Methods Conference

Register now for the Second International Visual Research Methods Conference, to be held at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, 13-15 September 2011.

This innovative and exciting conference covers the use of visual methods in research with presentations and commentaries by social scientists and practitioners including visual artists and photographers. It boasts an impressive mix of around 150 papers from international speakers, six film screenings, six exhibitions, several hands-on workshops, book launches, and an opportunity to visit the MK Gallery and speak with local artists.

The organisers are proud to confirm three keynote speakers who are leading practitioners in their fields:

Filmmaker Katerina Cizek - Canadian documentary filmmaker whose digital revolution work has won a host of awards and National Film Board of Canada's Filmmaker-in-Residence at an inner city hospital

Professor Carey Jewitt  - educationalist from the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education, specialising in visual and multimodal theory and research methods, technologies in teaching and learning and video based research.

Professor Ludmilla Jordanova - historian at Kings College London specialising in historian's use of visual and material culture.

This exciting three day event is just £200 with reduced rates for students. _Places are limited and booking fast, so register now at www.visualmethods.org for what promises to be a groundbreaking event!

Registration closes 15th August 2011.

Open Call Global Communication

PAS is welcoming you to Performance Art Studies#21 -  Global Communication
In cooperation with Bartosz Lukasiewicz and the Global Communication Performance Art Festival, Elektrownia 16. – 25. september 2011 / Radom, Poland

Deadline for applications 1st of September 2011 -

Background: Global communication
Our modern communication offer great possibilities and enable us to reach any point in the world just by a click. To get in contact is easy, to become part of communities as well and to share interests, opinions and worries, no problem. But how does our neighborhood change during these times? City marketing and advertising determine what we get to see around us, varied codes of conduct regulate what to do and not to do. Public space has been increasingly functionalized and freed from any intimacy. We are exposing us in social networks, but we don't find a public place with a personal touch. During the study we will use a variety of techniques and exercises to focus perception of our own personality and the surrounding. We are developing skills to communicate in a concrete way with body and actions, and transform these into a performative work.

The presentation of this study will be shown as part of the Global Communication Festival for Performance Art 2011.
Global Communication

For the second time PAS is invited by polish artist and organizer Bartosz Lukasiewicz and the center of contemporary arts Elektrownia in Radom, Poland (click here to see the documentation of PAS #11). Global Communication is an international Festival of Performance art. The focus in this year will be the notion of public spaces and site specific works.

Please check : tinyurl.com/3de2ao3
Application form: tinyurl.com/3d55awl

19 Adam Chodzko: Something in the Water; A Search for the Turn of the Backwash

Where’s the art work? The residency and its location is the work. The group is the work. The differencesbetween the group is the work. But the group is looking somewhere else altogether. And that somewhere else — certainly, not here — must be where art is really about to happen.

We would start, perhaps, by considering the Banffness of it all, looking for answers, and questions, in the background of the 1945 National Film Board production about The Banff School of Fine Arts,Holiday at School. Then we might wonder why Alberta became one of the few places in the world that successfully eradicated the Norwegian rat? And therefore consider the status of photography now, had not the Banff photography program gone missing for 10 years after a fire in 1979. This might lead us to the creation of a concert with Gnawa musicians. Or we could decide to transfer all decision-making for the group to a committee based in the city of Beppu, Japan.

Based on research and experimentation through play, improvisation, and the use of chance, this residency will explore the methodologies of ethnographic film maker Jean Rouch, that looking catalyses a particular reality. And, Grotowski’s notion that actors co-create the event of theatre with its spectators might provide some guidance. Moving between media we will, as a group, develop processes which question the role of vision in how we encounter each other and the social spaces beyond us. The carnivalesque, the everyday, magic, documentary, the surreal, the archive, ritual, reflexivity, and the pragmatic will help us out.

It’s a collaboration. Each participant contributing equally, sharing authorship. Whilst there’ll be plenty of opportunity for individual studio practice we’ll navigate this residency through field trips, hikes, meetings with “real” people, collaborative video projects, individual quests, a lot of “show and tell,” too much late night Googling, coincidences and misunderstandings, all tempered with the enjoyment of the potential to be found in getting radically lost.

Information: http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1111

€500 for Best Re-Use of an Urban Object or Area

To encourage and celebrate resourcefulness in the city, EXCHANGE RADICAL MOMENTS! Live Art Festival is awarding a prize for the most innovative re-use of an urban object or area for a new purpose.

From telephone boxes being re-used as tree planters to street signs being used as musical instruments , the urban landscape is no longer the end of a creative process, but the beginning. The city has become source material and urban residents around the world are finding new uses for the existing infrastructure of their city.

Do you have an idea for how an object or area in the city could be put to better use than the one it was originally designed for? Have you seen or created an alternate use for something in the city? Please submit your photos, images and ideas below for a chance to win €500 as well as having your work published and exhibited.

The GO11 Award is a €500 prize for the best examples of re-using existing objects and areas of the city for a new purpose. The winning entry will receive €500, and will be presented in the festival magazine, published October 2011. Winning and shortlisted entries will also be presented as part of the Exchange Radical Moments festival in Berlin on 11/11/11. Additional judging and contest details can be found below. Submissions must be visual - photos, sketches or videos - not only narrative descriptions.

All submissions must be received by 5 September 2011.

Contact: moments@fabrikanten.at
Web: http://exchangeradicalmoments.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/go11-award-for-urban-alternate-use-call-for-contest-submission/

Documentary Filmmaker Retreat

August 26 – 28 join the Seattle Documentary Association for DocForest, a documentary filmmaker's retreat at the Kitsap Forest Theater. The weekend retreat – formerly known as DocFarm – will be filled with guided peer-to-peer workshops, documentary films, camaraderie, bonfires, and great food. Recharge your creative spirit at this breath-taking environment in the woods!

The weekend kickoffs Friday evening with a Happy Hour followed by Rapid Recharge – an event where we show YOUR favorite, brain tingling, jaw dropping, inspiring clips. We will show five minutes of any genre of film you bring!

During workshops discover the myths of distribution; practice pitching your dream project and honing your idea; and explore the ethics of documentary filmmaking and the elements of storytelling.

Bring SHORT CLIPS for our Saturday evening Works-in-Progress (no longer than 10 minutes) and for our Rapid Recharge event on Friday (no longer than 5 minutes).

DocForest events end Sunday at 2pm so you'll have plenty of time to continue to enjoy this historic site and head home.

Sleeping accommodations are available on site where you can bunk with other people in the cabin or bring a tent and camp. If you prefer to sleep offsite there are hotels nearby.

Tickets include the following chef catered meals: Friday Happy Hour; Saturday breakfast, lunch and dinner; and Sunday breakfast and lunch.

Get inspired and get to know your fellow documentary filmmaking community at the 2011 DocForest!


Ticket Prices

$150 All Weekend / Bunking (includes 5 meals plus Friday Happy Hour)
$150 All Weekend / Tenting (includes 5 meals plus Friday Happy Hour)
$125 All Weekend / Offsite Sleeping (includes 5 meals plus Friday Happy Hour)
$85 Saturday Only (includes 3 meals on Saturday)

Tickets available on Brown Paper Tickets https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/187084

Event updates can be found on the Sea Doc Website http://seattledocumentary.com/Home.htmland SeaDoc Facebook Pagehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Seattle-Documentary-Association-SeaDoc/182119741830615

About Seattle Documentary Association
The Seattle Documentary Association (SeaDoc) organizes activities for the Puget Sound documentary film community to grow as filmmakers, support one another, creatively energize and have fun.

About Kitsap Forest Theater
The Mountaineers Kitsap property, including the Kitsap Forest Theater, is located approximately 7 miles west of downtown Bremerton in unincorporated Kitsap County. Part of the 460-acre Rhododendron Preserve owned and maintained by the Mountaineers Foundation, the property is home to Kitsap Cabin, built in 1918 by mostly women volunteers during WWI. It is listed on the Washington Heritage Register as a historically significant site.

Applications now Open for Kinetica Art Fair

Kinetica Art Fair, is the UK's only art fair specialising in Kinetic, Electronic, Robotic, Sound, Light, time-based and multi-disciplinary New Media Art, science and technology.

The Fair is produced by Kinetica Museum and provides collectors, curators and the public with a unique opportunity to view and purchase artworks from leading international galleries, artists collectives, curatorial groups and organisations specialising in Kinetic, Electronic, Digital and cutting edge New Media Art.

Alongside the Fair, Kinetica curate a programme of special events, performances, talks, screenings, tours and workshops. These events involve some of the world's most eminent leaders in the most experimental and exciting realms of art, science and technology.

The fair has been held annually since 2009, at Ambika P3, one of London's most exciting exhibition spaces and dynamic venues.

Kinetica Art Fair 2012 will take place from the 9th - 12th February.

We have a variety of stands and locations available to exhibitors. Specific requirements can be taken into account when arranging different exhibition options.

Kinetica also run an Artist Membership programme, for smaller organisations and individual projects. Our Oxygen Artist Membership enables artists to submit their work, providing the opportunity to take part in our feature exhibition, curated by Kinetica's Artistic Director Dianne Harris.


For further information please email:fair@kinetica-museum.org