They are looking for internet-, computer-, sonar-, robotic-, wifi- and cellphone-connected art projects and mixed media installations, all for public areas. Video Art and Animation considered.

To apply: send an email with your CV and letter of interest to: newmediadaet@gmail.com

Deadline: Wednesday 15th, December, 2010

details: http://www.commarts.com/competitions/interactive
deadline: October 8 2010

Deadline: Friday 8th, October, 2010

details: http://www.pixxelpoint.org
deadline: September 30 2010

Deadline: Thursday 30th, September, 2010

details: http://www.award.szpilman.de/
Deadline: September 30 2010

Deadline: Thursday 30th, September, 2010

Hors Pistes is more than 30 programs exploring trends in contemporary visual creation, as well as an exhibition space based on a specific theme. This year : SPORT

The festival, which is non competitive, will be held in 2011, January 21st to 30th, at the Centre Pompidou.

SUBMISSIONS

Section one:

• Any international 20-65 minute length work completed after January 2009 is eligible for entry.

Section two: thematic EXHIBITION ON SPORTS

• Any international 1-20 minute length work is eligible for entry.
• Any year of production
• No submission fee is required
• Works may be screened in either 16 or 35 mm film format or in Beta or mini DV video.
• A DVD of the work imperatively accompanied by the sender’s contact information should be sent to:

Centre Pompidou
HORS PISTES
75191 Paris CEDEX 04,
France

WORKS SELECTION

• A pre-selection is made by the organizing committee. The final selection is made by a group composed of programmers from the Centre Pompidou along with two outside guests.
• &nbsp ; Participants whose work has been selected are notified by e-mail no later than December 15th, 2010.?

FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/#!/hors.pistes?ref=ts

Deadline: Friday 15th, October, 2010

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

What it is:
Storytelling, whether fiction or non-fiction, written specifically for delivery and reading/viewing on a PC or Mac, on the web, or via mobile phone.
Could be thought of as a short story, a novel, a documentary, or poetry.
However, ‘writing’ and ‘literature’ in the digital age now can include words, images, film, animation, and interactivity for the audience.
New media writing can be created using any equipment you wish, from a word processor, to a DV camera; you can shoot photos on your mobile phone, or scan objects on you desktop scanner – anything goes, as long as you have an engaging story to tell (or poetry to express).
You can tell your story by combining any number of media elements, e.g. words on a screen combined with images and video clips.

What it isn’t:
A story/poem written for print which you upload to a webpage or place on a CDROM.
Simply screens of words uploaded to your blog.
Simply a slide show of photos uploaded to Flickr.
Simply a video uploaded to YouTube.

What do we mean by ‘interactivity for the audience’?

Typically new media writing exploits the potential of the web, and so offers the reader/viewer of the narrative a range of ‘activity’ beyond simply reading text or watching film.
For example, a viewer might need to click the mouse on a word or image on screen to activate the next sequence of text, or to link them to the next ‘chapter’.
In some cases, interactivity might involve the reader/viewer in making choices about how the story progresses (remember those ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ books).
There might be game-like elements, e.g. answer a question before the next episode or chapter is activated.
There might be a choice of themes for the reader/viewer to explore, rather than follow the conventional chapter 1,2.3,4 pattern.
Some new media narratives allow readers/viewers to follow characters, again rather than the usual chapter structure.
It’s up to you to use new media inventively to build your narrative; and it’s up to you to include interactivity engagingly for the reader/viewer.

What do we want when you enter the New Media Writing Competition?
Your work must be a complete story, i.e. have a discernible beginning middle and end; or be a complete poem or collection of poems, i.e have a title/s and clearly defined textual and visual boundaries.
It must be clearly your own work. If we can’t work out where your piece ends and someone else’s work begins we may have to disqualify your entry..
It must use interactive elements for the reader/viewer, and these must be effective in telling your story or expressing your poetic ideas.
Make sure you supply us with an active link (URL) to your story or poem – your work must be online for us to be able to read/view it.
Make sure you are not breaking anyone’s copyright if you have sourced material from anywhere other than your imagination, e.g. an image downloaded form Google. If we suspect copyright has been infringed we may have to disqualify your entry.
Our judging criteria:
Innovative use of new media to create an engaging, satisfying narrative, or poetry
Ease of accessibility for the reader/viewer
Effective use of interactive elements
Show us that new media can do things ‘old’ media can’t!

http://www.poolelitfest.com/new-media-prize.php

Deadline: Wednesday 15th, September, 2010

The UdK Berlin is one of the biggest, most traditional institutions of advanced artistic education in the world. It has the right to award doctorates and post-doctoral lecturing qualifications and offers more than 40 study courses covering the full spectrum of the arts and related academic fields. With its Colleges of Fine Art, Design, Music and Performing Arts and the Central Institute of Continuing Education it is one of the few centres of advanced art education in Germany with university status.

The Competition:

Art and science are moving towards one another, discovering common issues and working methods. The creative, imaginative processes in the arts and sciences are similar, whereas the concrete realisation of their results tends to differ. Repeatedly, this difference is the source of productive tension and areas of friction. In all disciplines of the arts and sciences, further developments over recent decades have been characterised by mutual influences and efforts at differentiation. Today, traditional dividing lines between the spheres can no longer be maintained; they are being newly defined and presented in their permeability. This competition aims to give the impetus and opportunity to artists (fine art, media, architecture, design, music, theatre, visual communication etc.) and scientists to work between the priorities of the arts or between the arts and science.

Participants:

Individuals and groups are eligible to participate. Full-time employees of the UdK Berlin, as well as students of the UdK Berlin and other colleges/universities are excluded.

Prize:

The prize will be awarded on a biennial basis and is endowed with 7,500 Euros.

Jury:

The jury under the chairmanship of the President of the UdK Berlin consists of the Chair of the Commission for Artistic and Scientific Projects at the UdK Berlin, the Director of the Postgraduate School of the UdK Berlin and four additional jurors who do not belong to the UdK Berlin in any way and have shown outstanding achievements in their own professional fields.

Contact partner:

Universität der Künste Berlin
Communications and Marketing
Inge Scheffler / Joachim Schwalbe
Postfach 120544
D-10595 Berlin
Fax: +49 (0) 30 3185 2821
E-mail: udk-preis@udk-berlin.de

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia ( http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp )
Special Issue on ‘Mobile Digital Interactive Storytelling’

Until recently a location’s memory could mainly be accessed through media surrogates, such as books, drawings, film or audio files, or through face?to?face encounters with people who were able to knit people into the rich but hidden experience fabric of a place. The integration of low cost pervasive and personal technology in the form of mobile devices and augmented reality into our everyday life starts to change our expectations about how to perceive the world around us.

We are now able to leave traces of our emotional or intellectual experience as virtual attachments to any location. As a result we expect that any place, indoors or outdoors, reveals itself to us by confronting us with connection, context, and uncommon perspectives. Yet, any exploration is in itself an experience and so we desire that the revelation is compelling and enjoyable on an individual and group level. We expect to experience the world around us as a continuous, flexible, and networked exchange of ideas that are routed in where and who we are and how these intrinsic facets of our experience are connected to those of others.

For this special issue we solicit novel papers describing approaches in digital storytelling that address the challenges posed by real world environments experienced through mobile devices. We look for work solutions for redefining our understanding of narrative structure and theory through interactivity in computer?generated story worlds that are tightly interwoven with the places we visit, the objects we touch, and the people we meet. Emphasis will be given to work that seamlessly integrate computerised story telling with real world experiences, including but not limited to:
• Real?time techniques for interactive storytelling
• Story generation and plot management engines for mobile environments
• Interactive digital storytelling: theories, methods, and concepts applied to real world environments
• Emotion design for storytelling
• Educational digital storytelling
• Experience design for interactive storytelling
• Mobile urban drama
• Novel narrative forms inspired by new technology
• Storytelling and augmented reality
• Collaborative environments for interactive storytelling
• Interactive storytelling and gaming
• Interactive and pro?active authoring environments
• Evaluation and user experience reports of interactive storytelling applications

Papers should be not longer than 7000 words including references and should follow the NHRM author instructions. Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham

Important dates:
September 10, 2010 – Paper submission deadline
November 8, 2010 – Authors notification
December 14, 2010 – Camera?ready version
Summer 2011 – Publication

Guest Editors:
Frank Nack, ILPS, University of Amsterdam, nack@uva.nl
Annika Waern, Interaction Laboratory, SICS, annika@sics.se

Deadline: Friday 10th, September, 2010

The Observatory Archives are intentional in nature and organized around
specific themes, bringing together material that supports a critique of
contemporary culture through different approaches such as video art,
independent documentary and mass media archaeology.

The call for works is open to all themes within the mentioned areas,
including as well non edited, archival or found footage.

OVNI 2011: http://desorg.org

OVNI – Arxius de l’Observatori
Montalegre, 5
08001 Barcelona- Spain
www.desorg.org
ovni@desorg.org
ph. 00 34 93 306 41 00
fax. 00 34 93 302 24 23

Deadline: Wednesday 15th, September, 2010