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CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2010 - FESTIVAL BELLUARD BOLLWERK INTERNATIONAL, Fribourg, Switzerland

CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2010 - FESTIVAL BELLUARD BOLLWERK INTERNATIONAL
URBAN MYTH
Deadline : October 19th 2009

www.belluard.ch

The Festival Belluard Bollwerk International and the Pour-cent culturel Migros are looking for artistic projects that are dealing with Urban Myths.

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An urban myth or urban legend is a modern story of obscure origin, consisting of unusual elements of humor, caution or horror, and thought to be true by those circulating them. Urban legends might be based on true facts, but they are often distorted, exaggerated, or sensationalized over time.

The most remarkable thing about urban legends is that so many people believe them and pass them on, without verifying if they are true. People frequently allege that such tales happened to a "friend of a friend”. Few urban legends can be traced to their actual origins.

Urban legends circulate in varying forms and are sometimes repeated in the media or distributed by e-mail. In some cases their diffusion might even be organized, in order to manipulate the masses.
Despite its name, a typical urban legend does not necessarily originate in an urban setting. The term is simply used to differentiate modern legend from traditional folklore in preindustrial times.

- The Festival Belluard Bollwerk International and the Pour-cent culturel Migros are looking for playful and radical projects that analyse, spread, fake, unveil, disrupt, modify, invent, refine and / or realise urban myths.

- Projects can take the form of performance work, interventions in the public space, installations, work with new media, artist-led walks, provocations that use media such as internet, radio, newspapers, etc.

- The call is open to all: to artists and practitioners from other fields, to Fribourg residents and people from other places, to individuals or groups.

- Selected proposals will be realised as a part of the Belluard Festival 2010.

- The projects can take place in one of the festival venues, on another location in Fribourg or in the public space.

- Projects will be selected by a jury of arts practitioners and experts from other fields.

- Selected proposals will have the possibility to be further developed during a residency in Fribourg, in collaboration with specialists from different fields.†

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RULES

1. Each project is to be presented on maximum three A4-format pages (including drawings, photo’s, plans, etc), along with a budget and personal details (name, postal and email address, telephone number).

2. Applications must be written in English, German or French. (German and French applications should include an English summary of 1000 characters).

3. Projects must be sent by October 19th 2009 to Belluard Bollwerk International, Contest 2010, PO Box 214, 1701 Fribourg, Switzerland (postal stamp is proof) or to info@belluard.ch, with as subject ‘CONTEST 2010’. (11 pm Swiss time at the latest)

4. The results will be announced latest mid December 2009.

5. The jury reserves the right not to comment on its decision.

6.The material sent will not be returned.

7. For each selected project there will be a minimum artistic budget of 2’500 CHF plus a production budget for the realization of the project and presentation during the Belluard Festival 2010.

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PARTICIPANTS HAVE TO BE AVAILABLE FOR
1. Mentoring in Fribourg by a group of specialists in February 2010 (exact dates tbc).
2. A production period in Fribourg in June 2010.
3. The project will be presented during the Belluard Festival 2010, between June 21st and July 6th 2010 (exact dates tbc).

BELLUARD BOLLWERK INTERNATIONAL
Case Postale 214
CH-1701 Fribourg
Switzerland
T. +41 (0)26 321 24 20
www.belluard.ch

11th annual APAture festival, San Francisco

11th annual APAture festival of emerging Asian American artists.
Deadline : July 11, 2009

Kearny Street Workshop, the oldest Asian Pacific American multidisciplinary organization in the United States, is now accepting submissions for the 11th annual APAture festival of emerging Asian American artists.

Each September, APAture showcases about 100 artists at venues throughout San Francisco, making it the Bay Area's biggest platform for Asian American art.

We are accepting submissions in five disciplines: visual arts, film & video, music, literary arts and performing arts. The deadline to submit is July 11, 2009.

More information and apply online!
http://www.kearnystreet.org/programs/ksw-next/apature2009/index.html

Questions? Contact apature@kearnystreet.org

http://kearnystreet.org

Detours, Super 8 film festival, Santorini, Greece

Détours 2009: 10th-12th July
Deadline : June 10th, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the second annual Festival Detours, a Super 8 film festival in Santorini, Greece, will be occurring this summer July 10th-12th.  For these three nights, once again the white walls of Oia village will be adorned with several Super 8 projections for travelers and locals alike.
 
But first, collaboration is both the necessity and the beauty of this project.
So please: Send us your Super 8 films! Send us your friend's Super 8 films! Send us yourself!
We are hoping to provide a true international array of contemporary Super 8 film work. We are accepting all genres of film including animation, documentary, fiction, and experimental film. Films will be projected in several locations throughout the village, and will be played not with audio but with live music accompaniment. 
 
Visit  www.festivaldetours.org for more info, an entry form, or contact info.

Submissions deadline: JUNE 10th.
No entry fees.
 
Happy filming,
 
Pauline, Madeleine, Nerea and Libby

www.festivaldetours.org

Call For Proposals: CologneOFF V

Call For Proposals: CologneOFF V
Deadline: September 1, 2009

http://coff.newmediafest.org

CologneOFF V -  5th edition of Cologne Online Film Festival is planned to be launched in November 2009

under 3 festival themes

1. On Violence
2. Taboo? - Taboo!
3. One Minute Films - on memory & identity

Entry
VideoChannel - video project environments
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

invites artists and directors for submitting videos/films, i.e. narratives and documentations (max 15 min.) experimenting with new concepts of transforming artistic contents into moving images,
new forms of representing und new technologies

All entry details and the submission form can be found on netEX - networked experience
http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1030

About CologneOFF
CologneOFF - Cologne Online Film Festival founded in 2006 as a new type of mobile film & video festival taking place simultaneously online and physical space in cooperation with partner festivals, is directed by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

The first 4 festival editions
CologneOFF I - "Identityscapes" - 2006
CologneOFF II - "Image vs Music" - 2006
CologneOFF III - "Toon! Toon! - art cartoons and animates narriatives" - 2007
Cologne IV - "Here We Are" - 2008

were presented between 2006 and 2009 in cooperation with festivals in India, The Netherlands Venezuela, Argentina, France Serbia, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, Mexico, Bosnia-Hercegovia and others

More info on http://coff.newmediafest.org

4th Annual Artists' Television Access (ATA) Film & Video Festival, San Francisco

 4th Annual Artists' Television Access (ATA) Film & Video Festival
Deadline: May 29, 2009

Artists' Television Access invites experimental film and video makers to submit their work (20 minutes or less) to its 4th Annual ATA Film and Video Festival. Video, Super 8 and 16 mm animation, documentary, narrative, abstract, found footage based and other works will be accepted.

The ATA Film and Video Festival is committed to showcasing films and videos that use an unconventional stylistic and technical approach and bring up subjects or concepts that not only entertain, but also provoke, our diverse audience. The festival also includes installations in ATA's Mission District storefront gallery, a lunch for the filmmakers, and new in our 4th year, a discussion forum for the exchange of ideas amongst filmmakers, curators and audiences.

Submission fee: $10
Festival will take place in October 2009
More information and submission form: http://festival.atasite.org

Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
http://www.atasite.org

 

Baume & Mercier International Award 2010, Rome

Baume & Mercier International Award 2010
Deadline : 16 April, 2009

Based on a photographic form of expression, the creation of the project can be presented with printed images, videos and installations.

The winner will present the project at the next Rome Photography Festival in 2010.

The Theme for 2009 is: "Declinations of Joy: visions and portrayals".

To be considered send: A summary of your project(max one page), your CV (max one page), a critical presentation of the project written by a curator (max one page, a minimum of 10 images of the project presented (sketches, test photos etc..)a portfolio, examples of any publications.

Material must be sent both on paper and on CD Rom or DVD

The objective of this initiative is to support original projects of quality and provide these with an opportunity to be created in excellent conditions in terms of production, exhibiting, publication and communication, guaranteeing international prestige and visibility to the winner of the award.

Further Information
www.zoneattive.it
info.za@palaexpo.it

Baume & Mercier International Award, Zone Attive, Viale di Porta, Ardeatina, 55 - 00153 Rome

Optica, International Festival of Videoart 2009, Gijón-Asturias Spain

Optica, International Festival of Videoart 2009, Gijón-Asturias Spain
Deadline : June 30th, 2009

 

Are you Optica?
http://www.opticafestival.com

Optica is one of the first projects of its kind and, at the same time, is among the contemporary art events which attracts the most media attention.

This initiative, organized by the Asociación Cultural Colectivo Interferencias, offers a forum for interchange and promotion that encourages an encounter with visual experimentation at an international level. To experiment means to go in search of the unknown. Videoart breaks established precepts, conferring prominence on the essence of film: light, sound and movement, in some cases resulting in pure abstraction. That's why it's one of the most natural and genuine forms of audio-visual culture, to the degree that it demands a subjective perception of space-time, through the technology of the electronic image.

We seek to provoke reactions in the spectator's personal world-view, to stir up his private apprehensions. We aim to explore reality, but via a deconstruction of its constituting elements. We want to discover how we create our memories; how not only fantasy but pre-established patterns come to form part of the articulation of space and architecture; how we domesticate life by resorting to codes.

To set out on the path leading to video art means exploring the byways of observation. An observation which through the years has been transmuted, revealing to us its complicity with history and its discursive potential transformed into cultural image.

If you’re inside the world of the videoart: independent artist, curator, vj, institution…, it would be a pleasure for us that you take part of our program. For that reason, we’d like to invite you to make a proposal for Optica 2009.

Note for Galleries
Optica offers the opportunity to present new video works by emerging and established artists. The participation is through invitation and it is free of charges.

A jury composed of people linked to the world of contemporary art will select the best work within each section. These will be awarded the Optica Prize 2009 for best videoart work.

You can send your work together with the submission form to:

Optica, International Festival of Videoart 2009
P.O. Box 529
33200 Gijón-Asturias
Spain
 
Any enquiry about how to take part of the Festival, deadlines, formats, running time, themes,... must be sent at enquiries@opticafestival.com

SUBMISSION FORMS
http://www.opticafestival.com/participa_2.htm

 

 

X Media Forum - ХХХI Moscow International Film Festival

X Media Forum in the frame of ХХХI Moscow International Film Festival
Deadline : May, 5th, 2009

23-28 June 2009

Organizers
Centre for art and culture MediaArtLab, MediaFest
http://www.mediaartlab.ru/

Platforms
"October" Cinema hall, "GazGallery", Central House of Cinema, "Era" Foundation

10 YEARS:
countries: more than 50
press: more than 300 publications and video-reports
artists: more than 15 000 works in the competition program, more than 30 screenings of special programs
guests: more than 30
jury: more than 40
institutions: more than 50

website - http://www.mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/?language=en

Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) is held since 1959 and gradually it has become one of most respectable and prestigious film-forums in the world. In 1973 MIFF was registered by the International Federation of Film-producers associations (FIAPF) as an «A» class film festival alongside with those in Berlin, Cannes, San-Sebastian, Karlovy Vary and Venice.

This is the 10 year Media Forum is organized as part of the Moscow International Film Festival. The role of new media in audiovisual art and culture received due recognition and Media Forum was immediately introduced into the official program of MIFF.

Media Forum is the first event of such scale in Russia and it reveals a new vision of the world of new media culture and new screen technologies to the professionals, critics and public in general. The objective of Media Forum is to demonstrate the connection between traditional and modern branches of screen culture, the impact of technological innovations on visual arts.

The programme was started in 2000 at an initiative of Aleksei Isaev, a well-known Russian media artist, curator and theorist of the new media, who founded and directed the Moscow MediaArtLab Centre.

"Contemporary screen culture finds opportunities for the most rapid, clear and actual reflexion to changes or alterations in viewer mentality. It defines this experience as avant-garde and progressive. Newest tendencies of contemporary culture connected with new technologies make it possible for us to describe this part of culture as possessing own content and audience. The audience is attracted by communicational art model, which allows for the viewers' interactive participation in the art work dramatic composition" (Aleksei Isaev)

Media Forum as action is an exchange of ideas, infusion of new forces into contemporary culture and vice versa. It is an attempt to demonsrtate the logic of new thought and new communications. At the moment it is inside media culture that new ideas go through trial and approbation, ideas that cannot be realized in contemporary art context.

COMPETITION ENTRYFORM
http://www.mediaforum.mediaartlab.ru/mf_entryform_2009_competition.pdf

 

OPEN CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS - VIDEOHOLICA 2009, BULGARIA

OPEN CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS - VIDEOHOLICA 2009, BULGARIA

VIDEOHOLICA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2009,
VARNA 2nd EDITION  PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS 

The 2nd edition of the VIDEOHOLICA INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL 2009 will take place in Varna from 7 until 17 of August 2009.  VIDEOHOLICA 2009 will present a series of video art projections and exhibitions as well as discussions and workshops concerning video art topics in traditional gallery spaces in Varna and also in nontraditional outdoor public spaces, virgin for contemporary art environment, or where it is less known. 

The 2nd festival edition will pass under the PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS motto.  We believe this title corresponds with the core aims of VIDEOHOLICA FESTIVAL and also it is definitely provoking, actual, and gives opportunity to stimulate original visual art proposals covering very wide sphere of problems and meanings. Nowadays, in time of global financial crisis, the motto in question focuses on two contrast models that control the world - luxury and poverty - in the broad sense of the meaning.

The motto also corresponds with the concept of "high" art and the video art as one of the most popular contemporary media, which nowadays is becoming more and more accessible for the artists around the world. In the frames of the PEKING DUCK OR VIDEO IN TIME OF CRISIS motto, this year's festival edition gives certain directions for approach and development of the idea of international collaboration and partnership, concerning video art phenomenon with its complicated meaning and sense. 

Application details
http://www.videoholica.org/en_apply.htm

The decisions will be made by the 5-member jury. All the applicants, who observe the rules and the deadline, will have admission to the jury, which will take place in the early July 2009. The final results will be announced and sent to the applicants by e-mail approximately by the middle of July 2009.

 The jury will make representative selection of 20 movies.

There is no submission fee.

VIDEOHOLICA 2009 open call will run until 20 of June 2009 and all applications are very welcome!  For contacts, terms and conditions & application form, please visit www.videoholica.org

 

Terminal’s First Annual Short Video Festival, Clarksville, TN

Terminal’s First Annual Short Video Festival, Clarksville, TN
Deadline March 1, 2009

Terminal, the Department of Art, and The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University invite artists to submit short videos for consideration for inclusion in Terminal’s First Annual Short Video Festival.

Submission Guidelines:
In an email send:
* a short resume
* a short statement
* a link to the video on the web (no more than 5 minutes in length)

Selected artists will be asked to submit their videos as NTSC formatted Hi-Resolution Quicktime and MPEG files.
Screening: April 17, 2009

Terminal
http://www.terminalapsu.org/

E-mail submissions to jonesb@apsu.edu

About Terminal
terminal is a space sponsored by the department of art and the center for the creative arts at austin peay state university to showcase and examine internet and new media art. the site is directed and maintained by barry jones, associate professor of art at austin peay state university the first exhibition was launched on 10.29.07 and corresponded with a gallery exhibition in the trahern gallery on the campus of apsu