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Visual Arts Residency Program, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA. Deadline: 30 September. http://www.bemiscenter.org
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Grizedale Arts Grants 2004/5, UK. 10 Research and development grants towards development of new work in any media. Deadline: 26 September. http://www.grizedale.org
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b3 Media Digital Shorts Scheme, London UK. call for submissions. NB open to Black and Asian filmmakers in the Greater London region. Deadline: 26 September. For an application form and guidelines contact b3 media by email shorts@b3media.co.uk or go to http://www.b3media.net
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NESTA Dream Time Fellowship - New Funding Opportunity for exceptional artists, technologists and scientists, UK. NB Only open to UK residents. Deadline: 10 October. http://www.nesta.org.uk/dreamtime
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Munich, Germany
Datum dogodka: October 1-5, 2003
D-A-S-H -- networking against racsim and exclusion
SAMPLE IMAGE
Invitation to a 5-day workshop in Rome about editing, encoding, streaming and distributing audio-visual content across borders and networks
SAMPLE IMAGE is the second of a series of workshops D-A-S-H is organizing on a europe wide level. In a five-day seminar in Weimar, last May, we discussed what the actual impact of open source and open publishing concepts could be for grassroots activism and the fight against racism and exclusion.
During this workshop the idea of an exchange network for effective sharing of high-bandwith material was presented. Video material, in particular, should be distributed widely under a creative commons license that explitely enables the use and the re-use of the offered content.
But this network, which was later dubbed V2V, could serve a wide range of purposes: from a clearing house that researches and presents open standards for the encoding, sharing and meta-tagging of audiovisuals to a distributed content provider which provides unfettered access to a collaboratively curated as well as automatically updated and archived film programme.
The workshop in Weimar has been characterized by a broad and general debate about openness. This has set off the conceptual design of a couple of new common projects. In Rome now, the goal is to pick up the ideas of blurring borders between producing and distributing, creating and curating, screening and viewing, and do a reality-check.
- How can we realize the potential of a foreseeable technological development, and what are the past and current obstacles?
- What issues of authorship and copyright or -left need to be addressed and challenged?
We are fully aware, that the real impact of images with open sources will be revealed neither on technological nor juridical, but content level. It is about nothing less than the creation and dissemination of virtual images that everyone can read, write and execute.
Virtual images that may constitute a digital commons: Visualizing the narratives of a movement of movements that run through the local and become global, reaccessing the cinematic heritage of other generations, empowering colaborative story-telling, propagating fast sharing of content, skills and ressources, enabling multiple connections between creative nodes and networks.
SAMPLE IMAGE is the title of the workshop, taking place in Rome, in the first days of october. First of all, SAMPLE IMAGE will be generously hosted and co-produced by one of the most proactive and lively environments for contemporary video production: Candida TV and the self-managed cultural center Forte Prenestino are offering their facilities for a comprehensive 5-day working session on editing, encoding, streaming screening and distributing audio-visual content across borders and networks.
The workshop takes place in a media-landscape plotted by an enormous degree of monopolization and private control. In response to that a spontaneous movement of micro-tv-stations also known as tele street broadcasting either terrestrial or via satellite has emerged within the last few months. So the Roma workshop may turn out as an excellent opportunity to get in touch with a wide range of italian media activists and exchange first-hand information.
The conceptual design of the workshop tries to hold the balance between an engaging structure and open spaces for spontaneous teamwork. The aim is to make each session as interactive as possible, but at the same time to provide well-engineered basic information.
To accomplish this the workshop will run on four different tracks:
1. MORNING SESSIONS:
The first half of each day will be devoted to in-depth presentations of cutting-edge projects. These presentations are designed to look behind the curtain of the user interface, in order to discuss the directions of code development and to understand the tactical and strategical context of each project.
Invited Projects include: Telestreet, Tapestry, Frequency Clock, Pure Data, Cinerella, Engage TV, European Newsreel, Sub TV, Hybrid Videotracks, New global Vision, Candida TV, Bignoisefilms, Community Edit, Wastun, V2V - Video Syndication and others
2. AFTERNOON SESSIONS:
In small workgroups we will work on the practical challenges of audio-visual content production and distribution. The worksgroups are meant to meet the needs of both self-assigned newbies and expert producers. The goal is to kickstart skill-sharing on various levels.
These workgroups follow three tracks:
A -- EDITING
A critical reflection of the processes of assembling, mixing and editing audio-visual content
What aesthetic strategies do we employ in independent and political video? Where are they appropriate? What connection can our work have to real communities or territories? What creative ways are there of involving communities and making room for collective or multiple authorship? What other mediums do we involve in creating and editing video? What are the experiences with cross-medium deployments blurring the lines between mediums, images and objects? What potentials exist beyond the restrictions of proprietary software and commercial environments? Is there such a thing as a special way of editing for streaming in networking environment in relation to traditional tape distribution offline?
B -- ENCODING
A valuable commitment to a collaborative approach on encoding
What really happens when content is compressed? What are the advantages of the different exchange formats? Is there a need for a common standard and what could be the criteria? How to keep up to date with the rapid development of ever new codecs and containers? How to document and exchange experiences with the various encoding standards?
C -- DISTRIBUTING
A shared vision of how to organize sustainable networks for distribution
How to effectively use the net as a distribution channel for high-quality audio and video material? How do we syndicate content between independent and autonomous nodes? What kind of meta-data have to be provided and how to diffuse them? What is the future meaning of push- and pull-concepts, on- and offline screenings, broad- and narrowcasting, live and on demand? Where is the impact of video felt? What creative strategies have we and can we employ to bring video into effective and perhaps unusual situations? What current networks of distribution exist and how have they worked?
3. EXPERIMENTAL SESSIONS:
A collective effort to get some practical work done
From setting up a streaming video studio with consumer electronics to collaborative writing on manuals and how-to's. From configuring a server as a node in the V2V network to setting up a livestream. From using wireless networks for the transmission of video-signals to ultra-quick presentations of useful tips and hints in the beginning and the end of each session.
4. LATE NIGHT SHOWS:
The output of the experimental sessions will be seemlessly directed into showcasing the creative potential of the participating groups and media centers: Each night parties, VJing sessions or Live streams are prepared or may break out at any moment.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
SAMPLE IMAGE is organized by D-A-S-H -- networking against racsim and exclusion in cooperation with CANDIDA TV.
D-A-S-H offers reimbursement of the travel expanses to a limited number of participants and accomodation.
Please register online at http://idash.org or write an email.
We also encourage remote participation and contributions. Please get in touch with: roma-l@emdash.org.
SPONSORS
D-A-S-H has been funded with support from the European Comission.
D-A-S-H is sponsored by the Bundesministerium fuer Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) (Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Seniors, Women and Youth), Sonderprogramm Jugend fuerr Toleranz und Demokratie, gegen Rechtsextremismus, Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Antisemitismus.
Kontakt:
JFF - Institut für Medienpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis
admin@d-a-s-h.org
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Massachusetts Berkshires, USA
Millay Colony
Millay Colony accepts 6 artists to Millay Barn on 600 acres of woods, fields & streams bordering the Massachusetts Berkshires, New York each month.
Millay accommodates painters, collagists, sculptors, photographers, novelists, poets, non-fiction writers, biographers, playwrights, screenwriters, performance artists & composers in a setting designed to accommodate creativity. Each artist is provided with private studio & separate living quarters for 1 month in "art's unbounded time". Artists at Millay have no obligations on their time other than those generated by their art. Artists from US & overseas may apply.
Kontakt:
Millay Colony
tel: +1 (518) 392-3103
application@millaycolony.org
http://www.millaycolony.org/
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August 29, 2003
Greetings!
The San Francisco International Film Festival, the celebration of film art and filmmakers, which has presented the best in world cinema since 1957, announces the call for entries for its 47th Festival to run April 15 – 29, 2004. The 15-day Festival presents 200 films from 50 countries and reaches an audience of 94,000 film lovers, filmmakers, industry representatives and journalists. Narrative features, documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental, youth-produced works and television productions on film, video and digital media, which have been completed after April 30, 2003, may be submitted. The Festival highlights current trends in international film and video production with an emphasis on work that has not yet secured U.S. distribution.
Filmmakers are encouraged to access comprehensive information and eligibility requirements and to complete the entry form online at the San Francisco Film Society Web site, www.sffs.org, beginning September 2. Entry forms and eligibility requirements can also be requested by email, gga@sffs.org (for Golden Gate Awards) or programming@sffs.org (for narrative features); by fax 415.561.5099 or by mail Programming Department, San Francisco Film Society, 39 Mesa Street, Suite 110, The Presidio, San Francisco CA 94129, USA. The entry deadline for all submissions is 5:00 pm PST, November 12, 2003.
APPLY ONLINE!
Starting Tuesday, September 2, you can submit your film online at our website http://www.sffs.org. Additionally, all the rules and regulations will be posted then. You can still submit the old-fashioned way by downloading the attached Adobe Acrobat PDF. It requires Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded for free at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us programming@sffs.org
Thank you.
Programming Department
San Francisco Film Society
39 Mesa St, Ste 110, The Presidio
San Francisco, CA 94129 USA
415-561-5000 (tel)
415-561-5099 (fax)
programming@sffs.org
http://www.sffs.org/ (enter online!)
presenter of the
47th San Francisco International Film Festival
April 15-29, 2004
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Telstra Broadband Fund Information Session: Call for Applications
DATE: 28th August
TIME: 11am-12noon
APPLICATIONS DUE: 18th September
COST: Free
VENUE: Theatrette, Ground Floor, 30 Pirie Street
Adelaide
PRESENTER: Justin Lam, Commercial Advisor, Telstra Broadband Fund
If you think you have an amazing idea that offers people better ways to use broadband internet, the Telstra Broadband Fund could give you $250,000 to bring it to life. To be eligible, your idea must involve new and innovative broadband applications, content, tools or technologies with wide appeal for broadband delivery to Australian businesses and consumers.
For more information, please visit:
ONLINE: http://www.broadbandfund.telstra.com
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Accepting high-quality feature submissions. ArtAfterNext seeks artworks that challenge technologically, intellectually, and aesthetically.
The show airs twice weekly on the Austin Music Network, a non-profit cable channel promoting the arts.
We are open to considering all appropriate work, including:
video art
music video
animation
motion graphics
performance video
short films / film excerpts (not exceeding 20 minutes), or
other work that can be shown in a television broadcast format
(All creative media, including 2D/3D work and literature, is potentially acceptable, but the work must be presented in a video format so that it is suitable for broadcast, i.e. an interview with a 2D artist accompanied by video images of her/his work.)
MiniDV is the preferred submission format (SP mode only), but we also accept Beta, DVCAM, 3/4", DVD, and CDROM. Eligible submissions must be of broadcast quality, and you must confirm that you own or hold the rights to the work. Please include artist contact/bio information and a brief description of the work, including any previous screenings and recognition received. Submission materials will not be returned. No deadline, no compensation.
Send to:
ArtAfterNext Submissions
c/o Austin Music Network
4209 Airport Blvd
Austin, TX 78722
Thanks! Questions? Contact AMN@artafternext.org
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Drift: Sound Art + Experimental Music
Call For Participation
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New Media Scotland calls for participation for Drift - an exploration of sound art and experimental music which comprises live events, radio broadcasts, moving image and publications.
The accessibility of the Internet together with new tools and methods for digital recording, manipulation, reproduction and distribution have changed forever the way that we think about and interact with sound, giving us new ways to communicate our ideas. An increasing number of artists, producers, DJ's and sonic creators, from a broad spectrum of disciplines and varying modes of practice, are exploring streaming media as a viable format. We want to open up this channel further.
We are offering four opportunities to take part in Drift, details follow. Further information, guidelines and application forms available from the Drift web site:
http://www.mediascot.org/drift
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Drift Radio Art Commission 2003
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New Media Scotland invites proposals for radio art projects for Drift. We aim to commission a new radio art work for broadcast both online and on-air, via audio streaming and FM transmission.
Fee - £1,000
Support - We will provide practical assistance, access to streaming media tools, and can offer some limited technical support on a negotiated basis. New Media Scotland will facilitate the broadcast of the commissioned work.
Eligibility - Only artists based in Scotland can apply
We will not accept proposals for:
- audio documentation of projects that exist in another form
- projects which have already been produced
Guidelines and application form available from http://www.mediascot.org/drift
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Drift Radio Programme Proposals
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New Media Scotland invites proposals for radio art programmes. We want to provide a platform for your ideas - one-off events, regular shows, experimental sound projects, radio art work for broadcast both online and on-air, via audio streaming and FM transmission.
We cannot pay a fee for this opportunity, but we will support you to realise your programme ideas.
Support - We will provide practical assistance, access to streaming media tools, and can offer some limited technical support on a negotiated basis. New Media Scotland will facilitate the broadcast of your programmes.
Eligibility - Open to artists, musicians, producers based in Scotland and the UK
Guidelines and Programme Summary form available from http://www.mediascot.org/drift
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Resonant Cities: Call for Sound Works
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New Media Scotland seeks sound works for 'Resonant Cities': Internet radio streaming that explore the sonic identity of our surrounding space and that engage with the fragmented 'noise' of the city soundscape: people, traffic, communication intrusions, mobile phones, radio traffic, city wildlife, buildings...
We are particularly interested in audio works which involve one or several of the following ideas or processes:
- Acoustic Ecology - Acousmatics - Phonography - Sonic research - Radio art, Internet radio - Microsound - Lowercase sound - Internet communication media and audio streaming - Electronic communities - Artists' software for sound and music - Sound work developed using open source processes and principles - Generative sound - Sound archives - Spoken word / oral history - Field recordings - The re-purposing / representing of existing analogue sound recordings, such as amateur recordings, scientific recordings, and accidental, lost or abandoned recordings -
The works selected by the Drift team will then be curated into themed streams that will be available via this web site.
Our intention is to expand the audience for the work, encourage appreciation of sound art, and broaden access to a genre which is too often labelled as esoteric and inaccessible.
We cannot pay a fee for this opportunity, but we will facilitate the broadcast of your work.
Eligibility - Open to artists, musicians, producers in the UK and across the globe.
Guidelines and submission form available from http://www.mediascot.org/drift
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Drift Touring Video Programme: Call for Moving Image Works
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New Media Scotland seeks sound-based moving image works for Drift. We plan to curate and tour a feature-length programme of short moving image works. We are looking for films and videos which take as their starting point sound art or experimental music. This can include experimental moving image works by artists and films made by musicians, as well as pieces which combine performance aesthetics with sound.
The Drift moving image programme will tour to venues in Scotland, the UK and internationally. A specially designed brochure will be produced featuring information on the artists and their works.
Fee - Selected artists will be paid a fee for the rights to tour the work.
Eligibility - Open to artists, musicians, producers based in Scotland and the UK.
Guidelines and submission form available from http://www.mediascot.org/drift
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Drift organised by New Media Scotland. Supported by the Scottish Arts Council and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology.
For further information, visit the Drift web site http://www.mediascot.org/drift
or contact New Media Scotland at the address below.
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info@mediascot.org
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New Media Scotland tel: +44 131 477 3774
P.O. Box 23434, Edinburgh EH7 5SZ fax: +44 131 477 3775
Scotland, UK http://www.mediascot.org
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