ASSERTION: Online Journal of Art and Action – deadline 1 September 2007

ASSERTION

Surrealists, Dadaists, Modernists, Noise Makers, Poets, Expressionists and Critical Thinkers

Seeking artists of various media, and writers for the premier issue of Assertion, a bi-montly reaction of Art and Action. For a full description and submission guidelines see our website.

http://www.aspectarts.com

Looking for photography, montage, collage, automatic writing, intentional painting, sound art, video, abstraction and exaltation of the ‘real’. Use your imagination and send us a bit of it.

You must be 18 or over to submit material; all work must be original. No submission fee. Email Submission.

Deadline: September 1, 2007

Call for Online Digital Media: ‘Ubuntu’ at FLEFF 2008 – deadline 1 November 2007

Radically reconfigured for the 21st century in 2006, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) is a multimedia festival that explores the theme of sustainability and the environment within a large global conversation that embraces a range of political, economic, social, and aesthetic issues, including labour, war, health, disease, intellectual property, software, remix culture, economics, archives, HIV/AIDS, women’s rights, and human rights.

‘Ubuntu’, the online digital media exhibition for FLEFF 2008, takes its name from Bantu-language African philosophies that foreground interconnectedness and interdependence through expressions such as ‘a person is a person through persons’ and ‘I am because we are’. The exhibition applies this conception of intersubjectivity to explore understandings of environmentalism—ways that it affects us collectively, suggesting that online digital media can affect awareness and positive change.

The curators of ‘Ubuntu’ are looking for submissions of online digital/new media art and video that explore issues related to the four ‘content streams’ of this year’s festival: camouflage, counterpoint, games, and gastronomica. (See details below.) We are particularly interested in collaborative work, interactive work, multiscreen or multilinear work, and work that underscore the aesthetics of the political and the politicisation of the aesthetic. Submissions from artists living and working in the global South are of particular interest. Selected works will be exhibited and archived on the festival’s official web site.

Birds Eye View – deadline 1 October 2007

Birds Eye View: Call for Interactive, New Technology Artworks

In 2008 Birds Eye View will launch its new strand “PRESS PLAY. New media and interactive art”, exhibiting the work of selected women artists working creatively with the moving image and new technology.

Birds Eye View, the UK’s first major women’s film festival, is calling for innovative playful artworks that utilise new technologies when working with moving images for the launch of it’s new Interactive strand in the 2008 BEV festival.