From its very inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is an open platform for various disciplines at the intersection of art, technology, science and society. The event calls for entries in seven categories, including a youth competition.

Prix Ars Electronica 2012

Online Submission: http://prixars.aec.at

Deadline: March 02, 2012

Contact: info@prixars.aec.at

Categories:
Computer Animation/Film/VFX
Digital Musics & Sound Art
Interactive Art
Hybrid Art
Digital Communities
[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant
u19 Create Your World (only for Austria, see details: www.u19.at)

Prizes:
Prize money (total): € 117.500

6 Golden Nicas
12 Awards of Distinctions
[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant
up to 70 Honorary Mentions

Looking forward to your submissions!

Your Prix Ars Electronica Team 2012

Deadline: Friday 2nd, March, 2012

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 quality, the experimentation, the innovation and the risk, the creations of all those audio-visual artists who wish that their works are promoted and broadcast through the independent program Transfera and MADATAC04.

The content of the TV program Transfera is exclusively dedicated to divulge Video Art and Audio Visual Art in all its modalities (any processes of image-sound interaction, without exclusion of the experimental cinema), with the aim to disclose to the great public a view of the consolidated video artists and offer a platform for all those emergent video artists with a future projection who contribute with renewing proposals, avoid conventional visual language and does not find their place in other mass media spaces.

Due to the difficult challenge that supposes to mantain a project of this spread, destined essentially to compensate the well-known mediatic absence, the relation with the artists will be based on a principle of promotion and visibility, a guideline directed to strengthen the sustainability of the program. However, all the received material will enter, unless the authors express the contrary, in the selection for the IV Edition of MADATAC, the Contemporary Audio-Visual & New Media Arts Festival, that Transfera organize on December12th, 2012 in Madrid, Spain. This event will serve to prize the best videos among the selected and emitted in the program during the related period, as a compensation for their participation:

MADATAC AWARDS

Five awards of a cutting-edge sculpture, with the international artistic and professional recognition implicit in receiving this already prestigious award.

BEST VIDEO ART WORK
MOST INNOVATIVE WORK
MOST PROMISING VIDEO ARTIST
BEST VISUAL-AURAL INTERACTION
SPECIAL AUDIENCE AWARD (voted by the festival audiences)

METRÓPOLIS AWARDS

The well-known TV programme Metrópolis (shown on Channel 2 of Spanish public television) will select and award works from the Official Section, totalling 27 minutes. Winning artists will be paid €100 per minute for broadcasting rights and the winning videos will be shown in a special programme dedicated to MADATAC to be broadcast on TVE2 at the end of the festival.

TRANSFERA AWARDS

MADATAC and the auction house, Subastas Segre, will select three preselected pieces from the Official Sections, to be sold at public auction at 18, Calle Segre, Madrid. The works will be exhibited during some weeks until the auction day and the starting price will be around 350€-400€ for editions of 3 copies on DVD. Artists will receive the final sale price less a percentage commission for administration and sale fees.

Participants must send their works, preferable not to exceed the 20’ although we made exceptions if the video merits it, in a PAL DVD, or uncompressed mpeg or mov files (at least 720×576 16:9 resolution, preferably HD), with quality for broadcasting, spanish/english subtitles if needed, two jpg stills of the video, a brief CV and a filled and signed form agreement for broadcast permission.

The interested can also send a brief promotional video statement about themselves and their work (not more than 4 minutes long), that will be included on Transfera TV as an artist presentation.

There are not restrictions for the age of all the participants around the world, nor for the amount of material desired to send.

There is no criteria as to the subject of the works, though the IV edition of MADATAC will give preponderance to the concept: CYBORGS AND AUDIOVISUAL ART FOR THE END OF THE TIMES

We only ask that the submitted works will not be shown or prized in any other festival celebrated at least 3 months before, or at the same time that MADATAC takes place, as to maintain the uniqueness of the work.

Transfera cannot return the sent material.

Participation in this project implies the acceptance of all its rules.

This year deadline (post stamped) is September 3th, 2012.

To receive more information on the call please write to: info@madatac.es

All materials has to be sent to the following address:

MADATAC/TRANSFERA
C/Galeno 41
28232 Las Rozas
Madrid ESPAÑA (SPAIN)
www.madatac.es
www.transfera.es

Deadline: Monday 3rd, September, 2012

Summer / Autumn 2012 ::: Finland

One of the most international creative residency programs in the arctic area welcoming over 80 selected visual artists, curators, musicians, writers, performance artists, photographers and designers per year.

It is an inspiring place to explore & expand your creative practice and thinking, produce original works and collaborate with other ambitious artists & creative professionals.

The quality facilities, the communication between the guests and Arteles staff/ network together with the surrounding nature & silence brings an amazing level to the contact zone of post-contemporary art and life.

FOR ————————————–

Creative professionals from the fields of Visual Arts, Media Art, Music & Sound, Performing Arts, Design, Architecture, Literature, Research

RESIDENCY PERIODS ————————

1-3 months / between July – November 2012

LOCATIONS ——————————–

Arteles Creative Center
Hahmajärventie 26
38490 Hämeenkyrö
Finland

APPLY ONLINE & READ MORE —————–

www.arteles.org/creativecenter.html
We would greatly appreciate if this information is being shared/forwarded with others it might interest. All the information can be freely published on websites and in social/other media.

Best Regards,

Arteles Team
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Arteles Creative Center
Hahmajärventie 26, 38490 Haukijärvi, Finland
info@arteles.org
+358 3 410 23 787
www.arteles.org

Deadline: Saturday 31st, March, 2012

The HEX Pixel Gallery in KCMO, USA is looking for artists to showcase in our monthly digital art opening. We have had three openings so far with a huge turnout and are looking forward to keeping the momentum going with more and more shows. The response from the Rhizome community has been outstanding!

To see some photos of our previous shows please check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/hexgallery

About HEX:
____We feature the work of one or more artists for one evening on the first friday of every month, which are huge occasions here in Kansas City.
____Our space has 3 large 1080p projectors, media drives, computers and access to a lot of other stuff we can set up that we can use to play back video or interactive art. We are making a point to have no printed collateral of any kind. We’ll be mounting iPads around the space to allow people to read more information about the artist. All publicity and signage in the space is digital.
___If you are interested in showing at HEX Pixel Gallery please send a CV and/or artist statement and links to a few pieces of your work to contact@hexpixelgallery.com

___Things to consider when applying:
1. HEX is heavily focused on high resolution digital work, so please know that HEX prefers HD content over SD, especially for single channel video work. This also means that we do not show still artwork.
2. HEX is only open one day a month, so interactive or installation work needs to be temporary and able to be quickly installed and uninstalled.
3. HEX thinks your haircut is great! Where did you get it done?
__________Love HEX.

Link: http://hexpixelgallery.com/

HEX Pixel Gallery
1906 Wyandotte
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
United States of America

Deadline: Tuesday 31st, July, 2012

404 International Festival of Art & Technology has been awarded by “Fondo Nacional de las Artes” (National Arts Founding) for the production of the ninth season, wich will be organized in different phases throughout 2012.

404 Festival launches an open call destined to artists and researchers from all over the world with the aim of spread and stimulate new media creations.

Authors can submit their works in the following areas:

- Installation
- Net.Art
- Still Image
- Animation
- Video
- Music
- Audiovisual Set
- Theory
- Performance.

Submission is free. Please follow the instructions published on www.404festival.com/eng/opencall.htm

Deadline: Tuesday 28th, February, 2012

Fonlad Festival, the Online Digital Arts Festival, in its 8th edition aims to celebrate Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci and Bruce Numan, proposing as its global theme “Performing Acts”. It seeks to present a body of work that has at its core the record of performances (artistic or not), the body in its many cultural meanings and poses, the registration of events / actions, works that have as a theme or center, the body, move(s), desire(s), anxietie(s), either in the form of video art, video performances, photography or web art.

Deadline: Saturday 31st, March, 2012

details:
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/media/programme/producer/develop/interactive/index_en.htm
deadline: April 13 2012

Deadline: Saturday 14th, April, 2012

After update_1 in 2006, with as curator Jean-Marie Dallet, professor and researcher linked to ÉESI, responsible of the laboratory of the école d’art Figures de l’interactivité, Angoulême-Poitiers, France, followed by update_2 in collaboration with the ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe and with as curator Peter Weibel, Director of the ZKM, and finally update_3, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Service Nouveaux Médias and as curator Christine Van Assche, guardian of the Centre Pompidou, we are determined to continue this series with update_4, to be held from 15th September till 18th of November 2012.

We want to put some new accents in update_4. Previously, the exhibitions were combined with the New Technological Art Award Liedts-Meesen, which enjoyed a growing interest from the part of the artists and the public.

For this reason, we want to increase the importance of this contest by taking the following measures:

* New and adapted rules, which are stricter, and will focus more specifically on the artistic contribution of the new technologies,
* The number of nominees who will have the opportunity to show their works of art during update_4 will pass from 10 to 20,
* Finally, the works will be presented at three sites: Zebrastraat in Ghent, La Cambre in Brussels (for works to be shown in the open air), and iMAL, also in Brussels

As previously, the nominees will be selected by a professional jury, which will also award the final prize of 5000 EUR; besides this, there will also be a prize from the audience.

The second part of the event consists of an exhibition of renowned artists in the field of New Technological Art. Only two or three works will be presented at each site.

To these two activities will be added a third one, namely the organization of a three days colloquium on new tendencies in contemporary art. We will invite a number of artists and personalities from all over the world, who would discuss during the day certain topics related to this art movement. The conclusions of their discussions and the texts of their papers will be published in the form of a reference book, replacing the previously published catalogues.

As you can see, we evolve from the concept of an exhibition combined with a contest, towards an event combining exhibition, contest and colloquium, yielding a reference book.

Deadline: Saturday 31st, March, 2012

Aims of the artistic project
Drawing on the specificities and the evolution of its surroundings, the artwork will contribute to enhance and assert the attractivity and the centrality of the site as a bridge between two parts of the city and, on a larger scale, of this blooming area. It will also act as a link between several public sites which have already proven themselves favourable to pursue.

Selection criteria
The provisional budget, including fees and production costs, amounts to 600.000 euros, excluding taxes.
The selection will take place in two steps.
The first part will be open to all applicants; a maximum of five artists will be selected to participate in the second phase. Each of these artists will have until the final trimester of 2012 to produce sketches on the basis of the contract specifications. Each of these proposals will be compensated in the amount of 15.000 euros, including taxes.

Information: http://www.semapa.fr

Deadline: Saturday 3rd, March, 2012

+ 40:CALL FOR CULTURAL RESISTANCE is a project developed by QUACK2012.ORG with the aim to disseminate the message and the spirit of the iconic guerilla book How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (Dorfman & Mattelart), published in 1971 in Chile.

“How to Read Donald Duck” constitutes a fascinating model of how a work of cultural resistance can successfully reach millions of readers from around the world and from every possible social background. Written in 1971, in the middle of a Chilean revolutionary process, which advanced not just the social and economic emancipation of its citizens but also its cultural liberation from imported forms of mass entertainment, the book was an insolent manifesto that appropriated copyrighted images without consent; the first of its kind to offer a radical interpretation of the neo-liberal values that were being transmitted through the (apparently) not so innocent comic strip characters of the world of Disney.

Burned in Chile on September 11, 1973, the book then spread like wildfire around the world with more than a millions copies in print in a dozen languages. The book became a cornerstone in the field of cultural studies and communication. John Berger aptly called it a “manual for decolonization”.

In 1975, the US government seized 3,500 copies of the book for copyright violations. Even though they lost the case, no one has dared to publish it in the USA. Download the Apendix about this fascinating case.

The call is for electronic art, graphic design (posters, logos, comic strips, stencils), collective action (performance, happenings, flash mobs, etc…) and video (short and animated clips).

The pieces selected will be part of a virtual and physical-site exhibit, interactive and urban installations, video screenings, and a web-conference that will be launched on May 1st, 2012.

check http://www.melloweb.com/QUACK2012/ for more information

Deadline: Friday 16th, March, 2012