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Amsterdam, The Netherlands
European Cultural Foundation
ALMOST REAL
an international working conference exploring diverse and innovative ideas on artistic strategies in a rapidly changing Europe
www.artforsocialchange.org
Over the past five years, our Art for Social Change programme has promoted participatory art in Europe, enabling thousands of young people to take part in creative projects, and challenging many professional artists to engage with communities. ALMOST REAL offers an encounter with the vivid results of this programme and an opportunity to discuss related issues with a large international audience. The ten existing Art for Social Change Resource Centres will be represented.
ALMOST REAL is a meeting for approximately 150 practitioners active in the arts and social change. It is for artists, researchers, producers, policy makers, cultural theorists, activists, pioneers and students who are interested in witnessing and discussing proposals concerning artistic practice and social transformation. It combines daily key note addresses with best practice examples, thematic debate, expert panels, field trips and creative interventions.
Information society brings the world’s conflicts to our doorstep. Unavoidable confrontations with local and global realities have turned us into eye witnesses and force us to decide whether to become accomplices or remain haunted by our need to respond.
ALMOST REAL will look at how artists perceive and make sense of ‘reality’. It will consider the extent to which artists want and should want to effect social change. And it will ask: Change on whose terms?
We believe that Art for Social Change could be many things. It has to strive for an experimental quality that opens into new territories and invites others to join in a larger enterprise. Therefore ALMOST REAL is not only paying attention to how this engaged work is done in the present (or has been done in the past) but especially focuses on how and where it might be done in the future: By way of cross-disciplinary approaches, the use of new technologies and 'out there', within the small towns and villages that are such an essential part of European civilisation.
ALMOST REAL has chosen 'participatory media' and 'rural interventions' as its two main topics.
ALMOST REAL starts on Thursday March 11 and lasts until Sunday March 14, 2004. It will be based at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (the geographical centre point of The Netherlands) and from there it will operate in a site-specific manner to locate our discussions where they make sense.
Prior to the event ALMOST REAL offers a multidisciplinary master class from February 29 to March 11, to a selected group of max. 25 emerging practitioners from different European countries.
We are also producing a hybrid sourcebook that collects artists’ statements in order to locate ALMOST REAL in a rich and inspiring context. We deliberately welcome (textual and visual) contributions that answer the crucial question: Where does art matter and where does it leave its mark?
The preliminary programme will be published in October 2003, followed by information on registration, application for the master class, fees and the availability of grants.
Want to stay posted? Please send us your full postal address, so we can send you the programme and registration form. We welcome further suggestions on people, initiatives or networks that should be included in our mailing list.
ALMOST REAL is initiated by the European Cultural Foundation in association with their Art for Social Change Resource Centres: Multimedia Institute MAMA (Zagreb, Croatia), REX Cultural Centre (Belgrade, Serbia), Alterart (Travnik, Bosnia), PAC Multimedia (Skopje, Macedonia), Montenegro Mobil Art (Podgorica), Association of Theatre in Education Wybrzezak (Gdansk, Poland), Truc Sferique (Zilina, Slovakia), Creative Center (Tartu, Estonia), Culture and Information Centre K@2 (Karosta, Latvia) and The Red House (Sofia, Bulgaria).
The meeting is organized in partnership with Centraal Museum Utrecht (www.centraalmuseum.nl)
Coordinators: Marijke Hoogenboom and Vincent de Boer, in collaboration with the Art for Social Change team.
Kontakt:
European Cultural Foundation
almostreal@eurocult.org
www.eurocult.org
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Tielrode, Belgium
Sztuka Fabryka
Stencil Mail-Art project "Szablony"
design and cut out your own stencil and to send it to us
For the 16th "Independent Arts"-Festival on Saturday 10 April 2004.
Definition: The central staircase hall of the Festival building will be turned into a gallery of 'stencil graffiti'. 'Stencil graffiti' is graffiti made by means of cut out pictures in cardboard or hard plastic where is sprayed upon, so that when you remove the stencil the picture is reproduced on the wall.
We want to ask you to design and cut out your own stencil and to send it to us.
Remark: We know that contributing to this project will ask some of your time. Yet, we hope that you would like to explore this medium and would like to take some of your time to make a fine contribution. Serious contributions only please as the most creative and artistic only can be used for the permanent decoration of the staircase hall. If you only want to participate to this project to get a catalogue, then we advice you not to participate but to contribute to Mail-Art projects which ask less time.
Size: Maximum size of the stencil is A4 or 21 by 30 cm.
Material of the stencil should give the possibility to spray your design several times.
Exhibition: All contributions will be exhibited, the creative and artistic stencils will be used for the permanent decoration of a staircase hall into a graffiti gallery. Contributing artists will be added.
Catalogue to every contribution, in return for your effort the catalogue will be transformed into an artistbook about the subject.
The Festival website provides you more information about this topic and a current list of contributions while the project develops.
Rok prijave: March 2004
Kontakt:
Sztuka Fabryka
c/o De Decker Geert
Kerkstraat 290
9140 Tielrode
Belgium
http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/
Vir podatka: The Calls and Opps List
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Mooste, Estonia
Mooste Guest Studio (MOGS)
Artist-in-Residence program in Estonia
The studio is available to use free of charge from early March through November. People working in all disciplines of art, e.g. visual and media arts, poetry, music, criticism, research etc are encouraged to apply.
Residency operates since 2002. Artists are welcome from around the world. Residency periods can be arranged from 1 to 6 months.
Artists are expected to find their own means for travel and per diem for living/insurance costs for the residency. MOGS can help with some materials and special tools on previous mutual agreement. Assistance with making contacts to Estonian galleries, curators and art schools is also possible. MOGS appreciates artworks donated by the resident artists for its collection.
The main studio space (41m2) is furnished and heated by a wood stove (electric heaters can be added if necessary). There is a bedroom (17m2), kitchen and bathroom supplied with mattresses, bed linen, blankets, towels, cooking utensils and washing machine. In 2003 MOGS will host a small media lab as a pilot program in an additional room (currently a library). The artist in residence stays in the bedroom and has access to the kitchen, studio space, media lab, and bathroom. Occasional events such as workshops or the annual PostsovkhoZ summer event may require the resident artist to temporarily share the facilities (artists will be notified of the conditions previous to arrival). All the rooms have internet access (wireless and wired). Medialab facilities include: Sony TCR- DRV25e mini dv camera, P4 computer, digital video and sound editing possibilities, VCR.
MOGS is spacious, comfortable and quiet which allows for a concentrated working atmosphere although climate conditions in Estonia vary throughout the year. During the colder months the resident artist should be prepared to handle the conditions (bring warm clothes). As guests are expected to be independent, basic tasks such as building fires to heat the stoves, cooking and shopping will become part of the daily routine.
In the village of Mooste (approx. 900 people) there is a chemist (pharmacy), small food shops, and a first aid clinic. It is possible to use the village sauna and library. There are daily bus connections to Tartu (40 km to the north, the second biggest town in Estonia) and Tallinn where other shops and services can be found.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please download and complete the residency application form from the web. On a separate sheet of paper briefly describe your reasons for coming to Mooste and intended goals for the residency period.
Razpisni obrazec
Rok prijave: 01/10/03
Kontakt:
MOKS
Tartu mnt.41
63701 Ahja, Polva maakond
Estonia
tel: GSM +372 51 38 599
fax: +372 79 21 529
mogs@mooste.ee
http://mooste.ee/mogs
Vir podatka: SCCA-Ljubljana
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Tambacounda, Senegal
Datum dogodka: 3 - 20 December 2004
CAP
International art exchange with Tambacounda
Submissions are welcome from painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers, actors, writers, craftsmen, designers, storytellers, moviemakers, and video artists from throughout the world.
http://universes-in-universe.de/islam/eng...
A total of 105 artists will be invited. One third of the participating artists will be selected respectively from Senegal, from the rest of Africa, and from the other continents of the world.
It is the fourth edition of this art exchange project that has taken place yearly since 2001 and was originally limited to Tambacounda, Dakar, and Swiss Geneva, thereby engendering the name of "TGD" projects. It has been initiated by the artist Ousmane Dia, who himself originates from Tambacounda and lives in Geneva, in order to support art and culture in his homeland and to promote international exchange with it. An artists’ association, the CAP (Collectif d’Artistes Plasticiens), was founded for the realization of the project.
The Tambacounda district (with the capital of the same name) is the largest, economically weakest, and yet the culturally richest administrative area of Senegal. The population is very young (59 percent of the inhabitants under 20 years old) and is 96 percent Muslim.
Workshops will begin in December 2004 - the results of which will then be presented to the local population in the city of Tambacounda in a festival with performances, concerts, exhibitions, and other events.
The event organizers will cover the participants’ expenses for lodging, food, and transportation from Dakar. Local materials, tools, and equipment will also be provided. The international guests must pay themselves for transportation from their place of departure to Dakar.
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CAP is Collectif d'Artistes Plasticiens operating in Geneva since 2000.
Rok prijave: 30/11/03
Kontakt:
CAP
Ousmane Dia
95, boulevard de la Cluse
1205 Geneve
Switzerland
odia@bluewin.ch
http://www.le-cap.ch
Vir podatka: Universes in Universe
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Vienna, Austria
Datum dogodka: April/May 2004, autumn 2004
Tanzquartier Wien
artists-in-residence from Eastern/Central/Southeastern Europe
Please send your application including a letter of recommendation or recommend up to max. four artists (choreographers/performers)
The two residencies per year of a duration of each two months in spring (april/May) and autumn (September/October, can be later) shall open a multilayered exchange among international artists and create complex working conditions.
Brief outline:
- participation at the daily training/workshop programme
- with international artists and highly qualified teachers
- on specific contemporary approaches
- visit of all performances at Tanzquartier Wien, of open laboratories, lectures and discussions
- research and development of own artistic work: a studio is at the disposal of the resident artist (professional equipment)
- option to present own work in the studio to the audience
- (after previous negociation)
Use of all research and working facilities at the Centre for Theory and Information library, mediatheque, video editing, internet.
During the residence choreographers/performers Vienna based will be invited to discuss the artistic approaches following specific interests and the field of work of the resident artist.
Future option among all possible collaborations:
Continuation of the artistic exchange with colleagues from Austria within the Carte Blanche-Programme: a one-week professional exchange, studio disposal, accomodation/travel/per diem covered.
SELECTION:
a jury of 5 persons will meet in November 2003 to define the residencies for 2004
- target group: chroeographers/performers who are interested in also developing their artistic work within another cultural context.
-Sense for innovation as well as strong interest in experimentation are required.
a cooperation of KulturKontakt Austria and Tanzquartier Wien
Rok prijave: 20/10/03
Kontakt:
Tanzquartier Wien, Theorie- und Informationszentrum
Martina Hochmuth
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Wien
Austria
tel: +43-1-581 35 91-80, mobil +43-(0)664-8140409
fax: +43-1-5813591-12
m.hochmuth@tqw.at
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Abstracts: 10th Sept '03
PixelRaiders 2
6 ˆ 8 April 2004
Venue: Sheffield Hallam University, UK
www.pixelraiders.org
Applied, visual, performance artists and designers are using
digital technologies for new processes, virtual materials,
exhibition, performance and creative strategies. A culture
of cross-disciplinary material and digital process is evolving
through a range of departments in creative education. This
challenges commentary and understanding about hybrid
practices that integrate physical, virtual and screen based
making.
PixelRaiders 2 explores the issues, discourse and reflective
practice at the heart of digital making. This international
refereed conference follows up the highly successful one
day Pixel Raiders symposium held in March 2002 at London‚s
Victoria and Albert Museum. The conference seeks to
promote new discourses and perspectives around some
critical questions, including:
- How does the artist and the commentator communicate
hybrid practices?
- In what ways do new technologies enhance the collaborative
nature of practice, presentation and performance?
- How does the digital workspace impact on practice?
- Should technology and technique become invisible?
PixelRaiders 2 is a conference to explore how digital practices
are being integrated into and are evolving from making processes.
We welcome contributions from a practical, theoretical,
educational, historical, technological, curatorial perspective.
The core theme of the conference is the integration of digital
practices within the applied, visual, performance arts, design,
and media production. Key elements being material, process,
digital integration and transition. We are particularly keen that
practitioners and research students in these fields participate
in the conference.
Refereed Journal:
As well as a publication that will be produced for the conference,
a special edition of The Design Journal will be produced
subsequent to the event and will include selected papers
submitted to the PixelRaider2 conference 2004.
Topics:
We aim to encourage as many different perspectives and
research interests as we can around this central theme.
However, the following topics are of primary significance:
- Analysis of the changing role of the maker and her/his
creative identity.
- The nature and concerns of the discourse that surrounds
such practices
- The impact of the digital workspace on the experience
and nature of making
- The social dimensions of digital creativity in the arts / or
the social dimensions of digital creativity
- Evolving interfaces between disciplines such as applied,
visual, performance art, design and media production
- Educational implications of digital making
- The value and sustainability of material skills education
- The cultural role and significance of the handmade object
in the digital age
International Conference Committee and Board of Referees:
Simon Biggs ˆ Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Sarah Braddock ˆ Falmouth College of Art, UK
Stephen Boyd Davies - Middlesex University, UK
Katie Bunnell - Falmouth College of Art, UK
Augustus Casely Hayford ˆ British Museum, UK
Lina Dzuverovic-Russell ˆ Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK.
Charlie Gere ˆ Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Carol Gray ˆ Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, UK
Jane Harris ˆ Central Saint Martins, UK
Tanya Harrod ˆ Royal College of Art, UK
Janis Jefferies ˆ Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
Mirja Kalviainen ˆ Kuopio Academy of Design, Finland
Malcolm McCullough - Taubman College of Architecture and Planning and School
of
Art and Design, University of Michigan, USA
Franziska Nori ˆ Digital Craft Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Mike Press ˆ Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Jane Prophet ˆ University of Westminster, London, UK
Casey Reas ˆ Ivrea, Italy and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Paul Sermon ˆ Salford University, UK
Helen Sloan - Director, SCAN, UK
Marjan Unger - The Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pauline Van Mourik Broekman ˆ Mute Magazine, UK
Presentation categories:
Submissions may be made for either oral presentation of a full paper or a
poster presentation.
Schedule:
Deadline for abstracts: 10th September 2003
Submission to pixelraiders@shu.ac.uk
Use the abstract form available from www.pixelraiders.org
Notification of accepted abstracts: 1st October 2003
Deadline for full papers: 21st November 2003
Notification of accepted papers: 16th January 2004
Deadline for revised papers: 20th February 2004
Conference convenors:
The joint convenors of the conference are:
Jane Harris, Central St Martins College of Art and Design:
Mike Press, Sheffield Hallam University
Contact:
Conference website:
www.pixelraiders.org
This will provide full details on the conference as it develops.
Email: pixelraiders@shu.ac.uk
best
Simon
Simon Biggs
simon@littlepig.org.uk
http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
http://www.greatwall.org.uk/
http://www.babel.uk.net/
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NYU's Fales Library seeks Video Preservation Assistant for NEA grant work
Video Preservation Assistant, NEA Video Preservation Project
Fales Library and Special Collections, New York University
The Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University seeks 1 full-time project assistant to work on a ten-month NEA-funded preservation project for video materials held in the Fales Library's Downtown Collection. Established in 1994, the Downtown Collection documents the explosion of artistic experimentation that took place in SoHo and the Lower East Side from 1970 through the early 1990's. The collection currently holds over 10,000 printed items, 4,000 linear feet of archives, and approx. 1,400 videotapes. The video holdings represent original artworks, documentation of artistic performances; and interviews with artists, writers, and performers. The collection is the only one of its kind and is heavily used by students and scholars who are studying the downtown scene and its far-reaching influence on the development of artistic culture in the past two decades.
Description and Responsibilities: Goals of the project include the creation of an item level inventory of all video materials held in the Downtown Collection, and the development of a condition survey and risk assessment of tapes including the prioritization of materials needing immediate preservation work. This work will guide the development of the Library's three-year preservation plan for the treatment and re-mastering of video materials from the Downtown Collection. The project will also include general research and correspondence with artists and donors in locating tape masters and original elements, when needed.
Requirements: Bachelor's degree with archival or special collections experience. Successfully demonstrated skills organizing collections with diverse and obsolete video formats. Knowledge of or experience with moving image descriptive and cataloging standards, video production terminology and general handling of magnetic media materials, preferred. Applicants must have excellent communication, word-processing, and database management skills and be detail-oriented.
To apply for the position, please send your resume and a cover letter to:
Fales Library and Special Collections
New York University
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Attn: Video Preservation Project
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Experimental theater director sought for one-woman show in NYC in December.
Hello fellow artists, Please pass this on to interested friends or pass it on to yourself! I am looking for experimental theatre director, preferably with multi-media experience for one-woman show to go up early December, approximately 20-30 mins. At the Producer's Club in mid-town. Multidisciplinary, text-based,movement-theater-butoh approach, great topic - women & madness. This version is lo-tech, but I will be expanding the Madness into full-length multi-media show down the road and apply for festivals and other NYC joints. For those that don't know my work, I am a performance artist, writer, dancer and actress with NYC & UK produced shows. I am more than happy to send you my resume & some pics (my website is coming soon!). Small stipend is avaialable. I am also looking for a light op for both my piece and the piece before mine - simple cues, great experience for a student. Katherine Adamenko kdadamenko@yahoo.com
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Call for time based work by student/emerging artists, George Mason University.
Call for artwork by art students of the post graduate level and young emerging artists. We are currently looking for time-based work. I am curating a new web and site based project at George Mason University in Northern Virginia and want to show new video, digital and film work by graduates and emerging artists from the UK as well as the work we have from the USA.
InterVentions is an InterArts project curated by graduate students that is looking to create long term international relationships with artists and curators. It is based in the AVT department here at GMU, . InterArts is run by Claire MacDonald, one of the editors of the British journal Performance Research. We are developing intermedia work here at graduate and undergraduate level, we have an extensive digital program and we will be showing our own student work as well as work from students of Steve Bradley, who showed in Hull last year at the Roots festival. Next semester we will have British artist Philip Warnell as a Visiting Lecturer and hope to make new curatorial practice part of the curriculum. The INTERVENTIONS exhibition will take place throughout the month of October of this year. Our web site address is:
http://beauty.gmu.edu/interventions
With Best Wishes, Lara Oliveira
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NOVEMBER 3 DEADLINE FOR ARITST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM AT HARVESTWORKS DIGITAL MEDIA ARTS CENTER
596 Broadway, Suite 602, NY, NY 10012/corner of Broadway & Houston
212-431-1130 (p), 212-431-7693(f)
www.harvestworks.org
Overview: The Harvestworks Artist In Residence Program offers commissions of up to $4000 to make a new work in our state of the art digital media facility. Each artist receives a $700 fee with the balance of the award posted in a "facilities account" which is used to manage and produce the work. The artist works with a team comprised of a project manager, engineer and programmer (if required). Work produced in the program is premiered in the Harvestworks’ 5.1 Presentation Lab. Residents are also included in Creative Contact, an Internet compilation of digital artwork on the Harvestworks website.
How to apply: Instructions on how to apply and application forms can be found online @ http://www.harvestworks.org. Please contact Harvestworks if you would like a hard copy sent to you in the mail. Application seminars will be held in late September to assist artists in the development of their projects. Check our website at http://www.harvestworks.org for dates and times.
Questions: Questions can be directed to Hans Tammen at 212.431.1130 ext. 10 or by email at
hanst@harvestworks.org
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OCTOBER 1 DEADLINE FOR College Art Association MEMBERS EXHIBITION: Suspension: Sonic Absorption
The College Art Association is happy to announce this unusual call for entries for its Members Exhibition to be held in conjunction with the Annual Conference in Seattle in February of 2004.
College Art Association
Call for Entries:
Suspension: Sonic Absorption
February 17 - April 4, 2004
Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
For eligibility and application instructions, please visit http://www.collegeart.org/caa/conference/2004/member_exhibit.html
The call is open to all 2004 CAA individual members. Membership forms for 2004 will be available after September 1, 2003. Please call CAA directly for membership information at www.collegeart.org or call 212.691.1051 ext 12.
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October 1 DEADLINE FOR Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program
Smack Mellon offers free studio space to eligible artists for a one-year period in DUMBO, Brooklyn. The program provides artists working in all visual arts media a free private studio space and a $2000 to $5000 fellowship. The program does not provide living space. Artists also have access to shared facilities that include a fabrication shop, G4 computer with editing, DVD burner and CD read/write capabilities, scanners, VCR and monitor, high-speed Internet access via T1 lines and technical support. Three of the artists selected will receive an Emerging Artist Fellowship funded by the New York Community Trust.
For eligibility requirements and application instructions, please visit www.smackmellon.org
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OCTOBER 1 DEADLINE FOR Artspace’s Summer Artist-in-Residence Program IN RALEIGH, NC
Artspace’s Summer Artist-in-Residence Program provides an open studio to an established artist for four weeks, culminating in an exhibition at the Artspace gallery in Raleigh, NC. The residency and subsequent exhibition are intended to provide new insight on the mediums and processes of contemporary art and artmaking. Visual artists of all disciplines, video artists, computer artists, filmmakers, and performance artists are all eligible. Residents receive a stipend of $2,000, studio space, exhibition space, and access to technical support. As part of Artspace’s Summer Arts Program, residents are responsible for teaching one adult workshop and two youth classes. There is an application fee of $25. For complete application information, call 919.821.2787 or visit www.artspacenc.org.