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CIMATICS – International Festival for Digital Art & Culture

Cimatics aims at supporting innovative experiments and outstanding productions in the fields of audiovisual and digital culture. Cimatics Platform is a framework for initiating and facilitating audiovisual productions, events, publications and workshops. Cimatics Festival focuses on presenting to a large and diverse public what is taking place at the cross-roads of art, media, music, design or technology.

For this 7th edition of the Cimatics festival, we try to go at full throttle again with todays image culture. As an audiovisual festival Cimatics puts the focus both on art, media, design and music. We invite you for a mix of concerts, film-screenings, exhibitions, workshops, conferences, public interventions and parties.

Brussels, Belgium – 22th – 30th April 2011

www.cimatics.com/entries

Cimatics is spread out all over the city of Brussels. For 10 days and nights it will be hosted by numerous venues, both underground and above. It intends to be a citywide international festival for advanced creativity, a node where underground, pop and art become mixed in an exciting cultural mash-up.

Cimatics is an ongoing experiment. What was initially a festival for VJing, and soon after for live audiovisual art, has now become an exercise and celebration focusing on ‘advanced creativity’. Todays urban and digital culture in all its diversity.

Festival theme: ‘Participatory Culture’

In 2011 we are hosting an unusual festival-edition with a global urban scope focusing on participatory culture. The event is open for any collaborations of public initiatives aiming at art, media, music and people all over the world. Contact us to take part with your project wherever it is located.

Contact:
Cimatics vzw
Onderwijsstraat 51
B-1070 Brussels
Belgium

phone: +32 [0] 2 520 07 82
fax: +32 [0] 475 497 110
info@cimaticsfestival.com
www.cimatics.com/cms_site

Deadline: Tuesday 30th, November, 2010

TINT Arts Lab Opens its Doors with its First Season!

We are delighted to announce our new TINT Arts Lab! Signifying the next stage for TINT in realising our core aims. Fostering a strong, sustainable and questioning media arts community!

The TINT Arts Lab is a platform that offers invited artists a space to present a new project in the form of a self contained blog. Its motivation is to nurture an open and public discussion of the projects concept, context, development, presentation and documentation between the artists, a core team of commentators, which include; Michael Demers, Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Greg J. Smiths and Pau Waelder and also the interested media arts community (that’s you!). Please don’t shy away to express your own thoughts. Critical but fair feedback to the artist’s projects and the arts lab in general is highly appreciated. The arts lab is in its first season and we see it in a beta phase.

Born out of curiosity it shall remain an open platform in constant change. A probe that will help to learn more about media arts and its motivations, modes of production, documentation, and reception in an age of crowd-sourced networked complexity.

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Poole Literary Festival New Media Prize

Poole Literary Festival is delighted to announce their partnership with The Media School at Bournemouth University to establish a Prize for New Media Writing. The prize will allow writers working with New Media to showcase their skills, provoke discussion and raise awareness of new media writing and the future of the written word. The competition is now open for entries. The deadline for entries to reach us is Midday, 15th September 2010. Click here for information on how to enter and here to see who is on the judging panel.
Michael Bhaskar, a member of the judging panel, said: “This award is breaking genuinely new ground in looking at how digital technology is transforming written communication. As the first award of its kind globally it will be a landmark in the increasingly exciting arena of new media writing and I am thrilled to be involved.”
http://www.poolelitfest.com/new-media-prize.php

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Deadline: Wednesday 15th, September, 2010