This year, Interactive Media students taught by Luciana Parisi and Graham Harwood have been engaging in Moving Forest led by International Artist Shu Lea Cheang. Students have been prototyping for Moving Forest through acts of mass insurgency speculatively planned around the London Olympics.

This remarkable assemblage of interventions comprised operatics based on Matthew Fuller’s libretto, 500 hundred slogans, Pure Data workshops by Marc Widmer & Jonas Ohrstrom (Zurich), prophetic witchcraft from Irational.org’s Kale Brandon and Rachel Baker. Along with input and coordination from Furtherfield.org, The Victoria & Albert Museum, Space studios, London.

We are now accepting applications for the MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, 2012-13, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London. Apply now!

For futher information about the course, please visit our website

http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-interactive-media-critical-theory-practice/

(For the Moving Forest Interventions please check the heading: Current Students Projects or http://2012.imiant.org.uk)

or contact me directly.

thank you.

best

Luciana Parisi and Graham Harwood
(http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/l-parisi/
http://mediashed.org/)

Deadline: Thursday 1st, March, 2012

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

22 February: Make a Plant Thirst Detector

Rough Trade East – London
6:30 to 9pm.

Have you ever wanted to know when your plants are thirsty? Wouldn’t it be grand if they would turn a little light on to tell you when they were dry? Join us for a workshop where you will make your own sensor, and your own electronic circuit to tell you when your thirsty plant needs attention.

Get Your Tickets Here

Deadline: Wednesday 22nd, February, 2012

11 February: DIY Speaker Workshop
Rough Trade East – London
10AM to 1PM

Join us for a workshop where we teach you how to solder an amplifier and then attach it to a pair of exciters which transform almost any material into a speaker. Work with our resident expert sound engineer who has many years of speaker making experience to understand the best way to get the best audio response from your own hand made speakers.

Get Your Tickets Here

Deadline: Saturday 11th, February, 2012

Northumbria and Sunderland Universities operate a collaborative AHRC Block Grant Partnership to support quality research and professional training in the Arts & Humanities. Studentships cover stipend and fees subject to eligibility criteria, and are available for uptake from September/October 2012.

The successful candidate will join an Art and Design research area judged to have World-Leading and Internationally Significant research outputs in the recent Research Assessment Exercise, and with particular experience of Practice-Led research.

The successful candidate will join a curating research area CRUMB, judged to have World-Leading research outputs, and with a history of research partners including BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center (New York) and Lancaster University. To enable interdisciplinary research, CRUMB collaborates with supervisors from research areas in Design (including Design4Science), Photography, Video and Digital Imaging, and Computing. Research proposals are therefore welcome on any of a range of current issues for curating art, and are welcomed whether they address new media art, or other forms of contemporary art or design.

Works which use new media invite a questioning of materiality, space and time, through their use of networks, interactivity, participation, internationalism, and generative processes. These characteristics can also inform the wider field of contemporary art and design, including live art, design, and socially-engaged art, and so offer exciting opportunities to rethink the ways in which curators work. Research proposals are welcome on any of a range of current issues for curating art – including the work’s production, exhibition, reception, documentation and historicisation.

Deadline: 12 noon, Friday 9 March 2012.

Full details, see:

http://nuweb.northumbria.ac.uk/nebgp/d4fineart.php

Deadline: Friday 9th, March, 2012

Culture Lab and ISIS Arts are excited to be launching their second joint, open call for a Resident in 2012. Proposals are invited from practitioners and researchers from across the spectrum of creative art, design and technology to undertake research in Culture Lab for a minimum of 3 weeks between 1 April – 14 December 2012.

Nortd, Lasersaur, (Culture Lab and ISIS Arts residency artists 2011)

An interest in one of the following topics is desirable but applications are also invited from candidates with other interests:
- Data Visualisation / Interactive Visualisation
- New Ways of Interaction and Communication
- Audiovisual and Sound Interfaces/ Biofeedback Applications
- Digital Fabrication
- Social, Cultural and Ethical Practice of Emerging Technologies

You would have use of Culture Lab’s research facilities and equipment, a fee of £2500 (to include travel, accommodation and materials).

Based at Newcastle University, Culture Lab http://culturelab.ncl.ac.uk, is:
- A centre for creative inquiry in the broadest sense of the term
- A world class research facility for experimentation in interactive media
- A university resource to incubate and facilitate interdisciplinary activity
- A leader in the region’s cultural ecology, providing knowledge for a digital
society.

Based in Newcastle City Centre, ISIS Arts is an artist led, visual and media arts organisation, which runs an international programme of commissions, residencies and events. ISIS Arts’ core ethos is to support artists to facilitate international and inter-cultural exchange and to engage as wide an audience as possible in dialogue with artists and artworks. Actively seeking out and engaging with artists of all backgrounds and cultures to produce work that explores identity and challenges prejudice, creating projects of international relevance and local significance.

What we will provide:
- Access to Culture Lab’s highly sought after research facilities which range from an 8-camera motion capture system to a professional standard recording studio and Digital Fabrication Lab. Access to ISIS Arts studio spaces for visiting artists
- Integration into Culture Lab’s community of research staff and students, and ISIS Art’s regional community of artists and practitioners
- A budget of up to £2500 to offset costs of production, living expenses, travel and accommodation

How To Apply
Please submit, via email, to Sarah Greenhalgh (Sarah.Greenhalgh@newcastle.ac.uk) the following:
- A project proposal (up to 2-sides of A4), detailing residency activities and proposed work plan for minimum 3-week period (which can be consecutive or non-consecutive weeks). Include in this document how the residency will further the artistic/research direction you have proposed, as well as a description of a proposed format for public presentation at the end of the residency.
- A budget detailing your proposed use of up to £2500 residency grant.
- Work sample, submitted via a link to a website (Please do not submit attachments via email).
- The dates you would prefer to undertake the residency.
- A curriculum vitae, outlining recent work, exhibition, performance and research activities.

For full details about this opportunity and how to apply please visit the ISIS Arts website: http://www.isisarts.org.uk/opportunities

Deadline: Friday 17th, February, 2012