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LPM Live Performers Meeting

Edition XIII May 23rd - 26th 2013 | Rome SEPTEMBER 26th - 29th 2013 | Cape Town Live video performers, visual artists and vj meeting The thirteenth edition of LPM Live Performers Meeting begins on May 23, 2013 in Rome. LPM offers the unique opportunity to experience 4 days of audiovisual performances, VJing, workshops, panel discussion, product showcases presented by hundreds of VJs, audiovisual artists, new media professionals and thinkers from around the world. In fact it is this community of artists that made of the 2012 Rome edition a surprising event. We hosted more than 500 artists, (read more) (posted on 2013-03-19)

MIA

Submissions are accepted on a revolving basis and there is no entry fee. While there is no thematic requirement for submissions, upcoming programs will focus on industry & technology, ecology & sustainability, animation, and history. Moving image art includes experimental film, video art, installation art, performance art, essay films and animation. MIA is projected on a digital system, please mark your submission clearly if your project requires special equipment. MIA is a brand new series screening the work of artists using the moving image. Curated by artist Alanna Simone. Moving image (read more) (posted on 2013-03-13)

Moving Image Art Fair

Non può mancare l’evento dedicato alla sola videoarte, durante i giorni dell’Armory week newyorkese. Ecco allora – nel tunnel della Waterfront di Chelsea – la fiera Moving Image Art Fair, che vuole l’offrire l’opportunità di apprezzare opere basate sull’immagine in movimento. Una lunga fila di schermi piatti, uno dopo l’altro, dispongono le opere di una trentina di giovani artisti che non si limitano soltanto al video, ma esplorano piuttosto il media dell’immagine tecnologica, nei più diversi modi. Presenti opere realizzate su dispositivi cellulari, video multichannel imp (read more) (posted on 2013-03-13)

Vkunst Frankfurt

In May 2013 vkunst frankfurt presents for the fi fth time, current tendencies of international video art. Along the Fahrgasse, from MMK (Museum of Modern Art) to the Main river, holds the cultural center of Frankfurt, where approximately 25 galleries and shops will transform into „open-air exhibition halls“ over two nights. Special features this year is the presentation of the newly initiated vkunst award on Friday and the „Night of the Museums“, which will take place simultaneously on Saturday - an event attracting 40.000 visitors last year. vkunst frankfurt’s curators, Christoph (read more) (posted on 2013-03-13)

Acid Rain

Acid Rain is pleased to announce our first ever call for submissions,for the July 2013 episode. Emerging and mid-career artists, filmmakers,performers, programmers, animators, and anyone working with moving images are encouraged to apply. One submission will be chosen for the final episode of Season Five, which will air on cable access TV stations in New York City, and North Carolina, in addition to the Acid Rain website. The chosen artists will have their work broadcast, and included in the permanent Acid Rain archive. The theme for this open call is "The End", a cryptic, yet nostalgic,pro (read more) (posted on 2013-03-13)

From Monument to Market: Video Art and Public Space

The WRO Art Center in Wrocław, Poland features regular presentations of contemporary art intertwined with the development of communications tools and processes. WRO is now pleased to announce the launch of a new online resource dedicated to presenting its thematic collections and multimedia publications that are no longer available in physical form. In 2005 the WRO Art Center published the first in a series of historical reviews of selected subjects in Polish media art: From Monument to Market: Video Art and Public Space. Several subsequent WRO publications (including Józef Robakowski’s (read more) (posted on 2013-03-13)

25 FPS Festival

25 FPS Festival is looking for expressive original concepts, progresses in terms of theme, idea and aesthetics, as well as works that perpetuate the tradition of avant-garde and experimental film. Innovative films that explore the possibilities of cinematic language, narration and the medium itself, cross film types and genres and broaden the notion of film as art. Entry form and regulations are available at www.25fps.hr Deadline: May 15 2013 Exhibition date: September 24 2013 (posted on 2013-03-13)

A Video Art extravaganza

A galaxy of video art Noticed the visual poetry of ice skaters going around in circles? Or wondered what sounds a piano would make if you played the keys after disabling it? Or stared at the marvel of a sparrow intrigued by its mirror image? Or what happens when you watch three versions of the King Kong movies juxtaposed upon each other as a three-layered visual montage? Marcus Kreiss’ Ice Skating In Central Park (1999, nine min), Ziad Antar’s The Turkish March (2006, 2.20 min), Cedric Eymenier’s Reflexion Bird (2006-2007, 4.50 min) and Camille Henrot’s King Kong Addiction (2006, 120 (read more) (posted on 2013-03-13)

Videoakt

We begin the Open Call of the third edition of VIDEOAKT, the International Video Art Biennial in Barcelona (www.videoaktbiennal.com), that will be held between 25 and 29 of June 2013. Deadline: April 6, 2013 A jury of experts in contemporary and audiovisual art selects the presented works for the final selection and also the contest winner. The winning art work will get the prize: Videoakt in agreement with the Casa de Velásquez of the Académie de France à Madrid (Madrid - Spain). It consists of a two months production grant in one of the spaces for artists which Casa de Velásquez provi (read more) (posted on 2013-03-13)

Flex it! My Body My Temple

Deadline: March 15, 2013 Submission fee: none Request for Proposals for an exhibit of social sculpture, performance and video works at the Parthenon Museum of Art, Centennial Park and Amphitheater, Nashville, TN Curatorial Statement and Call for Proposals: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one-third of adults in the United States are obese, which leads to such conditions as cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer and diabetes. Annual medical costs are above $147 billion. The South is both the fattest and the unhealthiest region of the United States. In a (read more) (posted on 2013-02-21)

Impakt Festival 2013

Impakt Festival 2013: call for film and video works Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2013 Finally, we are also open for submissions of new film and video works. Impakt annually programmes an exciting international overview of film and video art during the Festival in the so-called Panorama Programme. We look forward to receiving your submission of daring, experimental, critical, subversive, unheard-of and surprising film and video work, produced in 2011, 2012 or 2013. Please note that there is no thematic restriction for this call and that the Panorama Programme is not connected to the "Capi (read more) (posted on 2013-02-21)

Il senso del sé per Ori Gersht

Al MADRE nuovo appuntamento con l'ibridazione tra arte e neuroscienze e la presentazione di "Evaders" Abbiamo visto Ori Gersht nella sua prima personale italiana alla Brand New Gallery di Milano, nello scorso 2012. Ora l'artista nato a Tel Aviv nel 1967 e una carriera che conta presenze alla Tate Britain e Modern, al Frankfurter Kunsverein, Jewish Museum di New York e all'Hirshhorn di Washington, torna nel Belpaese con il progetto Evaders, presentato domani, alle 18, in occasione del secondo appuntamento con MADREscenza, il nuovo programma del museo napoletano. Evaders, girato nel 2009, racco (read more) (posted on 2013-02-21)

Call for Works Videodance 2013

Dança em foco – International Video & Dance Festival is receiving applications for its International Videodance Show. The 2013 edition will take place in 2nd half, in Rio de Janeiro followed by other cities, with free public showings. The inscriptions will only be accepted by the site: www.dancaemfoco.com.br If interested please send videodance works by 28 February 2013. Step 1: Fill out the form at: Call for Works Videodance 2013 Step 2: For selection, interested parties should have their videodance works available for viewing online* *The video must be hosted on a site (YouTube, V (read more) (posted on 2013-02-19)

A nuoto da Varsavia. Sulle tracce di Chopin

È quanto fa nel suo ultimo video l'artista olandese Guido Van der Werve per riportare simbolicamente a Parigi il cuore di Chopin, sepolto dalla sorella nella capitale polacca. Così racconta la leggenda sulla morte del celebre pianista. E Van der Werve, anche lui pianista di formazione, intervalla le sue immagini con momenti musicali. Il risultato è un'affascinante partitura visiva. Partire è un po' morire. Morire è partire un po', così recita un detto francese, lasciare la propria casa, gli affetti e le abitudini per andare altrove è una scelta talvolta obbligatoria, spesso affascinan (read more) (posted on 2013-02-19)

19yh Media City

DOWNLOAD the festival entry form, complete it (on your computer or by hand) and mail it with your entry. It is not necessary to sign the form (electonically or by hand). REGULATIONS: Entrants may submit an unlimited number of works on compilations or separate discs. Complete an entry form for each title submitted. It is not necessary to include still photos with entries. Receipt of entries will not be acknowledged. Preview materials will not be returned. Do not use UPS, use airmail or another courier. Entrants will be notified of results before April 5, 2013. Work selected to Media City rece (read more) (posted on 2013-02-19)

25 FPS Festival 9th edition

25 FPS Festival screens independent and non-commercial films which innovatively explore the possibilities of cinematic language, narration and the medium itself, cross film types and genres and broaden the notion of film as art. It promotes expressive original concepts, progresses in terms of theme, idea and aesthetics, as well as works that perpetuate the tradition of avant-garde and experimental film. Main festival sections are: COMPETITION PROGRAMME A selection of daring and reflexive works from all over the world. At least six awards are being handed out by the Grand Jury, Critics Jury, (read more) (posted on 2013-02-19)

Accumulations - a themed video art exhibition

Curated by Sabin Bors February 02, 2013 - April 05, 2013 This exhibition shows a thoughtful selection of video works by Lars Buchardt, Christoph Draeger, Mihai Grecu, Kurt Hentschlager, Michael Najjar, Quayola and Reynold Reynolds. Accumulation refers to a state of tension, fissure and transition across various levels of time. Working with cinematography, 3D-Mapping and projections, video compositions and collages, our artists seek to discuss various different representations to question the very construction of narratives today, in a time when the image turns into motion. REYNOLD REYNOLDS (read more) (posted on 2013-02-19)

18th Videobrasil Festival announces 94 shortlisted artists

The public call for entries was met by over 2,000 submissions. The 2013 Festival will also feature guest artists and a historical section The open call for the Southern Panoramas show of the 18th International Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil closed in October 2012 with a record-high number of entries: over 2,000 proposals were sent in from all areas of the planet’s geopolitical South – Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Were shortlisted artists from 34 countries (nine Latin American, seven African, five Middle (read more) (posted on 2013-02-19)

Videoholica 2013

INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 6TH EDITION [OUT OF FOCUS!] OPEN CALL FOR VIDEO ART 1 – 5 AUGUST 2013, VARNA, BULGARIA VIDEOHOLICA Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria starts the new open call for video art submissions for its 6th edition. The 6th VIDEOHOLICA will take place between 1st and 5th August 2013 in Varna, Bulgaria. The theme of VIDEOHOLICA 2013 is [OUT OF FOCUS!]. The 6th VIDEOHOLICA edition pleads defocusing. Visually, VIDEOHOLICA [OUT OF FOCUS!] pleads against the idling mainstream tendency “everything to be in focus” and against the luxurious advertising image, wh (read more) (posted on 2013-02-19)

28th Video Art & Digital Culture International Festival Of Clermont-Ferrand

PROJECTIONS / SCREENINGS: PRIX VIDEOFORMES 2013, FOCUS PROGRAM (AFRICA, CAGE SUITE, MADATAC,…) ROUND TABLES PERFORMANCES: Jacques Perconte & Edie Ladoire, Anders Weberg & Robert Willim ELECTRONIC ARTS NIGHT: Franck Vigroux & Philippe Fontes, Mat3R Dolorosa, Kangding Ray, Reworks (LIVE) + Wood EXHIBITIONS: Nicolas Clauss, Pierre Coulibeuf, Giuliana Cuneaz, Gabriel Mascaro, Philippe Fontès et Bruno Capelle, Triny Prada, David Blasco, Sébastien Camboulive, Véronique Mouysset, Nelly Girardeau, Pierrick Sorin, Bertrand Gadenne, Enrique Ramirez... (posted on 2013-02-19)

Twin rivers media festival

20th annual Twin Rivers Media Festival. This year's festival will highlight animation and experimental film. Another special program will be films from Iran this year. Screenings of previous winners will take place throughout the year at the Courtyard Gallery and Agency (check website for schedule), 109 Roberts Street, in the Phil Mechanic Studios, River Arts District, Asheville, NC Delivery address: TRMF PO Box 9907 Asheville, NC 28815 Deadline: May 6 2013 Exhibition date: May 17 2013 - May 19 2013 (posted on 2013-02-07)

ArtUP!

Media Art in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey Open call for media art submissions Exhibition PARABOLE ArtUP! - Media Art in Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, a project of the Goethe-Institut in those three countries, is releasing an open call for artists from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey to take part in the new media art exhibition entitled PARABOLE that will be held in Bulgaria. The project ArtUP!, in collaboration with artists from Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, is creating virtual and cross-border local exhibitions with media-artistic connecting points on a diverse range of topics. The purpose o (read more) (posted on 2013-02-07)

Hybrid Identities | UK / Cuba 2013

Photography / Video Art / Computer Graphics / Architecture / Performing Art Deadline: February 25, 2013 Prize 1 Year of participation in International art exhibitions organized by International ArtExpo, all over the world. International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting photo works, video/short films, computer graphics works, architecture projects and performances to include in the next 2013 Exhibition: HYBRID IDENTITIES | UK / Cuba 2013 - International Art Festival of Photography, Video Art, Computer Graphics, Architecture and Performing Art, at Old Ambulance Depot in Edinburgh and FI (read more) (posted on 2013-02-07)

Bodies of Silence #3

WHEN WORDS ARE MADE FLESH Organised by CUNTemporary THURSDAY 14 FEB 2013 @ PLATFORM café bar & terrace, 1-7 Westgate Street, London, E8 3RL 19:00 - 23:00 (£5) Curator: Giulia Casalini | Organisation: Diana Georgiou Curatorial Assistant: Laura Di Nicolantonio BODIES OF SILENCE is a special project curated in support of ONE BILLION RISING London Art Festival, which includes international artists Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Sukran Moral (Turkey) and Pilar Albarracín (Spain). Some of the emerging artists selected have been the result of an open call for work that stresses the (read more) (posted on 2013-02-07)

Paradox: Positions in Norwegian Video Art 1980–2010

Since the 1980s, Norwegian video art has gone from being a marginal art form to a dominant discipline. PARADOX: Positions in Norwegian Video Art 1980–2010 traces the development of video art, from an innovative technique in the late 1970s through to its present-day incorporation in the field of digital art—from being a conceptual and technical idiom to a postmodern form of expression that is integrated digitally with related techniques such as film and photography. Are there identifiable qualities specific to video art that has endured despite rapid technological advances? In what areas ha (read more) (posted on 2013-02-07)

Videospritz 2013

elisabetta di sopra / igor imhoff proiezione video / aperitivo / conversazione con gli artisti e i curatori dal 09 febbraio 2013 al 09 febbraio 2013 Il primo appuntamento Videospritz - rassegna internazionale di video arte del 2013 è dedicato ai video artisti italiani Elisabetta Di Sopra e Igor Imhoff. L’incontro, introdotto dai curatori Paola Bristot e Daniele Capra, è un’occasione di confronto tra due modi molto particolari di fare videoarte: l'animazione, realizzata quasi totalmente in post produzione, e la video performance, dove la realtà viene ancora registrata in tempo reale, (read more) (posted on 2013-02-07)

FONLAD bestOFF 2005-2012

The Web Art Center presents an exhibition of the best works presented at FONLAD Festival since its creation in 2005. For this purpose were chosen by José Vieira, the best 8 photos, 8 videos and 8 web art projects, from the collection of the festival. The FONLAD Festival is a festival of digital art that is presented every year on the internet and in different parts of the globe, having a physical component, by the presentation of screenings, exhibitions and video installations, held in Coimbra, Portugal. One of the key components of the project is the dissemination on the Internet of the ar (read more) (posted on 2013-02-07)

Fonlad festival

Fonlad festival is seeking for video, photography and web art works to present and schedule several events, from exhibitions to video installations, workshops to residency programs in partnership with several international festivals. Works: video, animation, photography, digital painting and web art Theme: Art Surfaces Dead line: March 31 Residencies dead line: February 28 Submissions: www.fonlad.net Concept: The On Line Festival for Digital Arts reaches its 9th edition under the paradigm shift and renewal. Centered on the Space for Arts, Media & Performance, aims to celebrate the 50 ye (read more) (posted on 2013-02-07)

art:screen

art:screen is interested in receiving new entries for art:screen's collaboration with Kulturhuset Borgen, Gislaved, Sweden. For the autumn 2013 art:screen will be curating three new programs for Kulturhuset Borgen's room for moving image. art:screen is looking for new, innovative and contemporary works and only consider entries made by emerging and established artists that is art-form committed and is suitable to show as a single-channel projection. Except from an open call with a non-thematic entry, art:screen also welcomes entries reflecting on the themes or topics: - Four Degrees - Sh (read more) (posted on 2013-02-02)

Limit - Berlin video art

Espace [im] Média is a biennial event devoted to media art and digital culture. The festival’s program joins regional and province-wide communities around a palette of artists and speakers from Quebec, the rest of Canada and abroad. This unique event casts a singular glance at the upheavals brought about by new technologies in the creative and knowledge fields. The fourth edition of this festival will be held in August and September 2013 and will give pride of place to monumental works presented in public spaces in downtown Sherbrooke. Espace [im] Média is presented by the contemporary art (read more) (posted on 2013-02-02)

Code D.

(new media) An International Competitive Exhibit of Works of New Media Entry fee: $10 All artists included in the project receive a complimentary copy of the full-color companion exhibit catalog. Art and Science are intertwined throughout history. New media in art arise from a variety of places– sometimes the artist's lab, sometimes the scientist's and engineer's, and other times from someplace completely unexpected. Inevitably this is driven by curiosity, a need for new means of expressing complex ideas, and often enough the simple desire to create something novel. As part of its ongoing (read more) (posted on 2013-02-02)

Visioni d’arte

Rassegna di videoarte Organizzata da Ca’ Foscari Cinema A cura di Elisabetta Di Sopra Selezioni a cura di: Le Momo Electronique (C.A.R.M.A.), Bruno Di Marino, Aurora Fonda e Chiara Tavella Giovedì 31 gennaio 2013 ore 15:00 / Spazio espositivo A+A Venezia In occasione di “Visioni d’arte”, una due giorni dedicata agli audiovisivi di ricerca organizzata da Ca’ Foscari Cinema a cura di Elisabetta Di Sopra, C.A.R.M.A. - Centro d’Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate è stato chiamato a presentare una selezione di opere dal proprio archivio. Giovedì 31 gennaio presso il prestigi (read more) (posted on 2013-02-02)

Freedom of Others

Curator: Guli Silberstein Salisbury Arts Centre, Bedwin Street, Salisbury, SP1 3UT 8 January – 3 March 2013 The motto of the exhibition is ‘art as communication’. The video works deal with socio-political issues, reacting to reality by creating audio-visual responses. Collaboratively presented, they invite thought and discussion. In these video art works, the hero is the suppressed and the subordinate. In the show, a few cases of this difficult position are presented, a fraction from reality, including issues of gender, race, politics and family. The video works explore moments of (read more) (posted on 2013-02-02)

Videoart & New Media Audio-Visual Art

Spain and International/ It is left open without restrictions a call to select, by means of a criteria in which will be valued particularly the experimentation, the innovation and the risk, the creations of all those audio-visual artists who wish that their works are part of the TRANSMADATAC project. This project is dedicated to divulge Video Art and Audio Visual-Art in all its modalities, any processes of image-sound interaction without exclusion of experimental-expanded cinema, with the aim to disclose to the great public a view of the consolidated video artists and offer a platform for all (read more) (posted on 2013-02-02)

Hors Pistes 2013

Since 2006, Hors Pistes has pursued its passion for the contemporary moving images and their diversity. Screenings, performances, video, installations, and digital art: the event offers a varied and international selection of these creations. It showcases visual works investigating the world we live in by challenging narrative forms. OPENING On Friday the 18th of January, at 8pm, the opening evening presents a performance by the american artist Laura Heit. It will be followed at 9 pm by the exhibition vernissage at the lowest level of the Centre Pompidou. SCREENINGS Hors Pistes offers an (read more) (posted on 2013-02-02)