INDONESIAN VISUAL ART ARCHIVE
We are pleased to extend our Call for Papers for the Fourth International Conference on Multimodality (4-ICOM) taking place in Singapore 30 July-1 August 2008. Please see 4-ICOM website (http://multimodal-analysis-lab.org/conf/) for further information, or email us at 4icom@nus.edu.sg
4-ICOM is run in conjunction with the International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA2008) and 4-ICOM conference participants have free access to ISEA2008 digital media exhibitions and galleries.
The closing date for abstracts is 1 June 2008, and registration closes on 7 June 2008.
- Deadline: December 31, 2008
In urban environments we are separated from the consequences of our actions as surely as the tarmac of the road cuts us off from the earth beneath. This physical boundary encourages a phenomenological separation. It is also a symptom and a driver of a global reliance on the private car and fossil fuel. But between the cracks in the pavement, another world flourishes---local activism, recycling, environmental collectives, permaculture, urban gardening.
Artistic and social projects can widen the cracks in the pavements. Such creative innovations might be artworks, social entrepreneurship, scientific intervention or innovations that harness everyday creativity. They might seek to decode the complex relationships between people, nature and technology in urban settings. Or they might be conceived as interventions that can help contribute to profound social change, or suggest alternative possibilities for or critical perspectives on sustainability.
A new relationship is emerging as computing migrates into the environment. When the Earth is mapped, tagged and digitized, it ceases to be inert raw material and becomes instead navigable, computable and manipulable. How will this affect the way that industrial societies have viewed the environment as a resource to be exploited and tamed?
Leonardo is soliciting texts that document the works of artists, researchers, and scholars involved in the exploration of sustainability in urban environments. Themes and issues may include:
- Sustainability in urban environments
- Ubiquitous, pervasive, locative and mobile communication technology
- Growing community
- Sowing seeds of social change
Linked activity includes an Urban Climate Camp forum at ISEA2008 in Singapore in August 2008, and an exhibition and workshop at Futuresonic 2009 in Manchester, U.K., during May 2009. Submissions are welcome in all linked strands of activity.
Guidelines for submitting to Leonardo Journal (MIT Press) can be found on Leonardo On-Line: http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/editorial/edguides.html.
We are looking for suitable candidates to serve as curator for the 2008 PixelPops! show (Fall 2008). PixelPops! is an ongoing, traveling series of annual digital art exhibits. The series is uniquely organic in that it changes with each year's new locale and the creativity each new curator brings to it. Year after year the online catalogue continues to grow and provides new resonances and global connections in artistic interpretation.
If you have the inclination and background to serve as curator please visit http://poppingpixels.org/Curator.asp to fill out the submission form and to learn more about the role of annual curator. Note: This is a non-paid position.
2008 EdLab Digital Art Residency (EDAR)
EDAR 2008 takes place June 15th – August 31st.
Digital media is changing the nature of communication and the way people access and understand information. The EdLab Digital Art Residency (EDAR), supported by the Gottesman Libraries (Teacher College, Columbia University), aims to explore these changes across a broad range of multimedia and technologies. Our goal is to showcase art that challenges our community to reflect on the impact of digital culture. EDAR awards selected artists a $4000 commission to create a work of art and a related exhibition that explores the theme of the artwork alongside the educational goals at Teachers College.
In addition to holding the largest collection of materials devoted to the educating professions, the library has been developing a range of new services to meet the needs of students and faculty members interested in both accessing and producing educational and research materials in multiple media. Included in recent library initiatives have been centers and work groups organized to support educational software development, media design, educational consulting, and publishing. These units are organized within the library, a unit focused on advancing education for the information age.
The library is eager to develop opportunities for students and faculty at the College to interact with professionals in other organizations engaged in the creation of new educational resources. EDAR will bring working art and media professionals from relevant organizations for short visits to the campus where they will have time to interact with the College community. The visiting residents will work on site at EdLab over 12 weeks, and develop an exhibition to be mounted in a library exhibition space. Perhaps even more important is the opportunity to develop professional relationships that would extend beyond the fellowship period.
EDAR artists must:
* Work 12 days on site (80 hours total)
* Host 4 open studio sessions (8 hours total)
* Deliver a finished artwork/installation
* Co-create exhibition materials to accompany the artwork
Application
The application process involves describing a potential digital art project and how it could impact the College community. This information will help us to determine how to structure a valuable collaboration. For more about our community, see the EdLab website and, specifically, our “Foundational Projects.”
Please submit all application materials via email. Please have the following application materials ready by the application deadline: June 2, 2008. Notification is June 6, 2008.
* Cover Letter
* Artist Resume/CV
* Work Samples: include at least 10-20 images no larger then 1024x768 dpi (we suggest including images of at least 5 different artworks)
Selection Process
EDAR is an open call for artists, including internet and computer-based artists, filmmakers, sound and video artists, and artists who work in various forms from physical installation to a virtual Internet project. Terms of EDAR include one commissioned work, teaching the College community through workshops, and designing an educational exhibition. The exhibition will be mounted after the residency period.
EMAIL
edlab@tc.columbia.edu
The international call is open for artists to develop research projects with companies and organisations located in the Basque Country (Spain) between October 2008 and July 2009.
Deadline for applications: 7 July 2008 (9am, local time). Open to artists of any age, nationality or place of residence.
Fee (including travel and lodging expenses): 10,000 euros (up to 12,000 euros in accordance with the geographical origin).
Budget to develop the research work: max. 6.000 euros (to be negotiated with the host entity).
To who is the call directed to
DISONANCIAS gives priority to the involvement of artists who: are committed to their environment; are interested in stimulating interaction between different cultural and social systems; and who can contribute to collective work. The programme is open to artists working with any type of medium and in any discipline.
The selection process is open to artists of any age, nationality or place of residence, either presented individually or as a group. Candidates can present themselves before a maximum of three bodies, and must send one candidature dossier per body, specifying that they are presenting themselves to other bodies/another body in each dossier.
It is essential that the artists accept the fact that they will not be developing an autonomous creation project, but rather one related to and based on certain concepts and prerequisites defined by each participating entity, and that the main objective is research into and/or development of a prototype, procedure or idea that complies with these conditions.
Selection process
The artists will be selected after an international call to which they have to present at least one preliminary project that adapts itself to the research fields previously defined by the participating companies and centres. All the details about the selection process are in the Rules and Regulations document.
Candidates must fill in the registration form (either as individual, or as a group), and write a document in PDF format, containing the following information (in this order), in English, Spanish or Basque (no more than 10 A4 pages and 3MB):
- a brief description of their view of the role of the artist in society today, and their motivation for participating in the project;
- preliminary plan (s) (maximum of two by entity), in relation to the investigation formulated by the organisation;
- resume of their artistic career (if possible, in a literary style; avoid CV format); specificying activities carried out in similar contexts (companies or equivalent), the degree of collaboration and the lessons drawn from the experience.
- availability during the collaboration period and work schedule.
The registration form and PDF document should be sent by email to izenematea[at]disonancias.com before 09.00 (Spanish time) on Monday 7 July, 2008. For enquiries or additional information, the DISONANCIAS organisation will answer by email (izenematea[at]disonancias.com) from28 April to 3 July, 2008.
A jury composed by Jorge Luis Marzo (curator and cultural investigator, www.soymenos.net, Barcelona), Juan Freire (biologist, university professor and entrepreneur; explorer of the role of innovation, strategy and technology in social networks, organisations and cities. www.juanfreire.net, A Coruna), Ana Betancour, (Head of Exhibitions at Stockholm Architecture Museum, Sweden) and Conxita Oliver (Responsible for the line of Investigation and Creation within the Projects Area of the Departament de Cultura i Mijans de Comunicacio de la Generalitat de Catalunya) will make the selection of artists from the dossiers presented.
The DISONANCIAS organisation will personally communicate the jury’s decision to the authors pre-selected in mid-July 2008. The telephone interviews with the host bodies will take place in the third and fourth week of July 2008.
Economic conditions
Each artist or artist group selected will receive a minimum sum of 10,000 euros, not including tax, up to 12,000 euros in accordance with their geographical origin. This amount covers the fees for the work carried out, travel expenses, lodging and subsistence allowance, and the economic compensation for the exploitation rights, without prejudice to the amounts that the artist may eventually receive from the host body deriving from the commercial exploitation of the project, which will be agreed case by case.
The costs that may be generated in the development of the research work and associated with external companies and suppliers (costs relating to working hours of the technicians of the participating entity or materials used are not included here) must not exceed 6,000 euros + VAT, and they must be previously approved by the participating entity.
Attendance conditions
The artists agree to be present on:
- 21 and 22 October 2008 for the methodology meeting that will bring together all the participants and the first visits of the participating entities;
- the dates agreed upon with the participating entity, agreeing to be present a minimum of 20 working days (not necessarily consecutive);
- the dates agreed upon with the company and the DISONANCIAS organisers to present a talk that will be open to the public about the artist’s career and research project;
- the dates agreed upon with the organisers to participate in the party/event at the end of the project.