Deadlines
March 2007
March 1. Call for Proposals
http://www.oboro.net/appel/index_e.html
OBORO welcomes original projects that promote critical thinking and artistic practices. We accept proposals from artists, artist collectives, and independent curators who are looking to present exhibits, events and conferences as well as to produce publications or do a residency. OBORO also hosts media art related residencies throught its New Media Lab (for more information please visit: http://www.oboro.net/lab/activities.html).
The programming committee looks at artistic vision, Montréal context, diversity and budget when considering a proposal. Before submitting your portfolio please look at our website carefully. It provides a good overview of past artistic content. In terms of work requiring the use of technology, please contact us to make sure we have the resources you need. OBORO pays artist fees in accordance with standards set by representative organizations and bodies responsible for collecting royalties.
December 2006
Dec. 15 Call for Submissions: Creativity & Cognition Conference 2007 (CC2007)
This is the first call for the Creativity & Cognition Conference 2007 (CC2007), which will be held in Washington DC, June 13-15, 2007.
We believe that creativity is a fundamental topic to address the important challenges of knowledge-based societies of the future - and hopefully, CC2007 will make a major contribution in bringing researchers, practitioners, and educators together to advance an understanding of this conference topic, find common themes, and produce rigorous research at the convergence of technology, science, and arts.
The important dates are:
Submission Deadline: December 15, 2006
Author Notification: February 19, 2007
Final formatted papers due: March 19, 2007
A copy of the call for papers is attached to this message, and a conference website is available at:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/
Access to previous Creativity and Cognition Conference materials can be found at:
http://www.creativityandcognition.com/
November 2006
November 1. CAFKA.07 Call for Proposals
Our physical connection to objects and spaces is essential to our being in the world: in the environments we inhabit, in the ways we relate to one another, and in the products we create. We ask artists to consider actual or metaphorical possibilities enabled by the haptic connection, whether achieved through exceptional handling of traditional materials or of new media. The exhibition will take place in and around Kitchener City hall for 11 days at the end of September, 2007.
For more information visit: http://www.contemporaryartforum.ca
November 3. Call for Works : Image Festival 2007
Film + Video early deadline
For more information visit : http://www.imagesfestival.com/index-iF.php
October 2006
October 1 Call for Participation: chico.art.net v.3
chico.art.net is an annual international juried online exhibition that is currently looking for exciting and provocative interactive artwork made for the internet arena. Projects must be made between 2005-2006.
Please no commercial, design, portfolio or traditional media sites.
Deadline: October 1, 2006
E-mail submissions to chicoartnet@gmail.com
Please include project URL, brief description (no more than 100 words), artist statement and browser/technical requirements in the body of the e-mail. No attachments please.
Selected projects will be expected to stay live at the submitted URL through May 2007.
Exhibition opens December 13, 2006.
http://www.csuchico.edu/art/net
chico.art.net v.2 featured works by babel, Shawn Bailey & Jennifer Willet, Jillian McDonald, Dylan Davis, Brian Judy, Juliet Davis and Nicolas Clauss
Produced by The Electronic Arts Program, California State University Chico Department of Art & Art History
Originally from Rhizome.org Raw at September 6, 2006, 14:58, published by nicholas economos Type announcement Genre net, show Keywords interact, exhibition, digital, Internet
October 15 call for submissions net_sight 2006
http://mur.at/verein/net_sight
Idea
Since 1998 mur.at has been working on a virtual NetSculpture which is constantly growing and branching out. This widely ramified Net – the leased line net – offers a democratic and unbureaucratic access to new communication and information technologies to people engaged in the artistic and cultural sector in the area of Graz apart from e-business and e-commerce. The NetNodeSculpture includes an infrastructure which allows continuous work of art organisations and people engaged in the cultural sector.
In order to be able to experience the virtual space in real public space, mur.at initiates a contest for making this virtual sculpture - which is spread over Graz like a network - visible for all.
Target of the contest
For the promotion of NetArt and NetCulture mur.at offers the possibility to deal with the community in an artistic way and to implement the winning project. The virtual sculpture will be transferred to a tangible space in order to be visible also as real locality. Therewith the virtual sculpture becomes a sculpture that can be conceived with all senses in the public space of Graz. The sculpture shall be developed and implemented in various media.
Desired form of submitted projects
desired are...
..artistic projects, which refer and use the contents and infrastructure of mur.at, the nodes and/or the mur.at-community.
..artistic projects which excel at using unconventional ideas of „Visualization“.
..unrealised projects from the various areas of art; projects which deal with the subject of a NetSculpture. This can be projected in form of media- and space- installations, sound projects, memorial tablets, photo or video projects, as long as it appears meaningful with regard to the subject. The expression „Visualization“ shall be considered a metaphor and the type of realisation shall not be limited to a specific medium.
Prize money / Implementation
First prize The project which is ranked first by the jury will be implemented from December 2006 to end of May 2007. The budget for the implementation (incl. remuneration) is € 10.000,-. The project will be showcased during a ceremony.
Appreciation prize The most innovative, but not realizable project will be awarded with an appreciation prize amounting to € 300,-.
Exposition During an exposition opening on December 1, 2006, the 10 best projects will be presented to the public. The budget for the presentation of the concepts is € 200,- each, whereas the form of presentation (choice of media, etc.) is up to the presenters.
There is no splitting of the prizes.
Jury
Members of the Jury:
1 representative of the mur.at team: Johannes Zmölnig: financial treasurer of the mur.at executive committee; artistic-scientific assistant at IEM (Institute for Electronic Music) (Graz, A).
1 representative of the nodes: Reni Hofmüller: media artist and artistic director of ESC im labor (Graz, A).
1 vote of the mur.at-community: every mur.at member has the right to vote. The resulting ranking counts as the community-vote.
Katharina Gsöllpointner: Culture- and mediatheorist (Vienna, A) (to be confirmed).
Inke Arns: Artistic director of hartware medien kunst verein Dortmund. Since 1993 free curator and author with focus on MediaArt, NetCultures, Eastern Europe (Dortmund, Ger) (to be confirmed).
The meeting of the jury is open to the public.
When: Friday, November 3, 2006 at 10:00 hrs Where: mur.at, Leitnergasse 7, A-8010 Graz
Submission
The Call for submissions is open to the general public. The target group consists of people engaged in the artistic and cultural sector with the focus on the community of mur.at. There are no limits of age, education or nationality of the submitting persons.
Please note
Final date for submission is October 15, 2006. The submission may only be made online by filling out the submission form.
All informations for the submission at http://mur.at/verein/net_sight
In addition to the personal data (not visible for the jury), please upload (in pdf format) an abstract (max. 3000 characters) as well as a detailed project description incl. a rough estimate of cost and a time scedule (Attention: only one pdf-file can be uploaded). The submitted projects may not exceed a cost frame of € 10.000,-. Any maintenance activities of the projects must be included in the cost estimate.
Due to the fact that the submitted projects will be handled anonymously, please do not mention names nor logos in the project descriptions. We can only accept submissions which are complete and made anonymous.
We do not assume any liability for the submitted concepts. In case of a refusal of a project, its authors are not entitled to raise any claims upon mur.at or persons acting on behalf of mur.at. mur.at reserves the right to use the submitted material for the purpose of documentation.
Notification
The winners (first prize, appreciation prize, the 10 best projects) will be informed about the results by e-mail until November 10, 2006. In their own interest, the participants in the contest shall strive to be reachable at the e-mail address contained in the submission form during the whole period of notification.
Awards Ceremony / Presentation
When: December 1, 2006 at 19:00 hrs Where: to be defined
The awards ceremony of the contest will be held on December 1, 2006 during the exposition of the 10 best project concepts. The artists are not obliged to present their concepts. The winners (first prize, appreciation prize) commit to personally receive the prizes and present their projects during the exposition. Groups and institutions are requested to nominate one or max. two representatives. Any travel expenses of the winners for the journey to the exposition / presentation will be compensated by mur.at (train: 2nd class; plane: economy class).
The implementation budget and the remuneration for the best project are dedicated to its implementation. mur.at assists in the whole period of implementation and reserves the right to ask for a proof of the adequate utilization of the prize money.
Documentation
It is the intention of mur.at to document the entire contest (incl. all submitted concepts and the finally implemented project) in an online archive.
Contact
For general questions please contact: Andrea Schlemmer (Project Coordinator) mur.at, Verein zur Förderung von Netzwerkkunst Leitnergasse 7, A-8010 Graz tel: ++43/316/82 14 51 ext. 26 cell: ++43/699/126 05 795 fax: ++43/316/82 14 51 ext. 26 e-mail: andrea_at_mur.at (Subject: „net_sight“)
For technical questions please contact the noc-team: Monday to Friday from 10:00 to 16:00 hrs. tel: ++43/316/82 14 51 ext. 55 e-mail: noc_at_mur.at (Subject: „net_sight“)
Oct. 16. VIDA 9.0
VIDA 9.0 is the eighth edition of an international competition created to reward excellence in artistic creativity in the fields of Artificial Life and related disciplines.
In previous years prizes have been awarded to projects that included autonomous robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user participation, and works that highlight the social side of Artificial Life. Applicants should refer to awards previously granted at VIDA’s web page (http://www.telefonica.es/vida) to determine suitability of their project.
Some of the issues explored may include, but are not limited to:
- How autonomous agents shape and interpret our data-saturated environment. - How artifacts (robotics, artifitial intelligence, wetware, etc) challenge pre- - How empathy is created between artificial entities and ourselves. - The anthropomorphization of the datasphere and its inhabitants. - How interactive systems may be designed to spark interest in emerging phenomena involving Artificial Life.
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Oct. 20. CFP, Tangible and Embedded Interaction 2007
http://tangviz.cct.lsu.edu/tei07/
TANGIBLE AND EMBEDDED INTERACTION 2007
held as the 14th Annual Mardi Gras Conference
15-17 February 2007, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Oct. 20 Japan Media Arts Festival
Japan Media Arts Festival is a festival of media arts where works of media arts created using new ways of presentation and distinguished artistic expressions are recognized and creative activities of leading-edge media arts are introduced to a wide audience. Now that a lot of international attention is given to Japanese media art works such as arts, mangas, animations and games, Japan Media Arts Festival, which attempts to establish a new axis of recognition without being constricted by a conventional framework, has received increased attention not only from Japan but also from overseas. The Festival will accept applications from every sphere and will not make distinctions between professional, amateur, independent productions, commercial productions, etc. Beyond the established conventional framework, how far can the potentialities of media arts expand? The Festival requires new creativeness and representational power.
http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/english/festival/gaiyou/index.html
Oct. 20 Call for Projects : STRP - Eindhoven, Netherlands
After a successful first edition, the STRP festival, which took place in Eindhoven, Netherlands at the end of March 2006, is launching a call for projects for its next edition, which will be taking in late April of 2007.
The focus of the festival is the common ground created at the intersection between art, popular culture and technology. The first edition which welcomed over 10 000 visitors, and received very positive attention from the press, made use of performances, installations, lectures, films, etcetera in order to convey this crossroads.
STRP takes place on Strijp-S, the 'holy' ground of the forbidden city of Philips, where in the 20th century numerous technological innovations were made which changed the world. A place where Einstein once worked, the first complete electronic music album was created and the collaboration between le Courboisier and Varese resulted in one of the most interesting amalgamations between art and technology, Le Poeme Electronique for the World Expo in Brussels (1958).
FOR THE 2007 EDITION
STRP is looking for projects, installations, or proposals that concern themselves with interactive art, robotics and/or Live Cinema (in the live cinema category we are looking for projects that rely on both performance and technology in order to become an audio-visual whole). All of the above in a context in which the artistic side is furthered by technology. This year we will also be paying special attention to projects, which involve light in their concept, composition, and/or execution.
The application forms are available in PDF format - http://downloads.strp.nl/strp-call06.pdf RTF format ? http://downloads.strp.nl/strp-call06.rtf
To find out more about the 2006 edition of the festival, including a full line-up, press-releases and photographs please take a look at: http://www.strp.nl
If you have further questions please contact us at info at strp.nl
October 31 Call for appricants, Unconventional Combinations, Inconceivable Creations
Be part of the future of entertainment!
The Canadian Film Centre’s Habitat New Media Lab recognizes that as technologies revolutionize our lives, new opportunities for writers, designers, producers, programmers, filmmakers, visual artists and creative thinkers are emerging. As a resident in the New Media Lab, you’ll push the boundaries of learning and imagination to create product prototypes that are at the intersection of art and technology. Be part of the future of entertainment.
The Canadian Film Centre’s Habitat New Media Lab is currently accepting applications for the Spring 2007 session of the TELUS Interactive Art & Entertainment Programme (IAEP), a five-month, post-graduate residency focused on creating inventive interactive narrative projects for the Canadian and international marketplace.
The TELUS Interactive Arts & Entertainment Programme (IAEP) is Canada's first post-graduate programme for new media training and production, based on a philosophy that compelling new media content is created through a collaborative process harnessing a wide range of creative skills, knowledge and talent. An internationally acclaimed facility, the Habitat New Media lab has produced award-winning new media prototypes ranging from simulation-based interactive documentaries, to wireless storytelling networks, to interactive short films and narrative-driven media installations.
Apply Now - Application Deadline is October 31, 2006
For more information or to request an application please contact: habitat@cdnfilmcentre.com
www.cdnfilmcentre.com
