Call For Applications – Grants For Contemporary Creation Matadero Madrid 2008, deadline 7 December 2007

Call For Applications

Grant Application Form 2008: www.mataderomadrid.com/ayudas

The Arts Area at the Town Hall of Madrid, through its Matadero Madrid project, aims to support initiatives destined to stimulate artistic creation and contemporary thought and strengthen its dissemination and bring it closer to the people.

The Arts Area of the Town Hall of Madrid, through Matadero Madrid will maintain a commitment to dialogue and support with the successful applicants throughout the project.

Modes

For this call, the total available funds are 355.000 euros, distributed in three programmes:

A) Independent Areas Programme: destined for spaces devoted to the production and programming of activities related to contemporary creation.

This mode is for foundation or cultural associations, not-for-profit organisation which maintain permanent spaces in the city of Madrid, open to the public and used mainly for the development and dissemination of artistic creation and contemporary thought.
The grants under this programme will consist of funding and/or institutional support.
The total grants may not exceed 30,000 euros per space.

B) General Programme: destined for the production of work, innovative projects and activities with freely chosen bases and content, and the international promotion of these.

This is open to individuals or groups, foundation or cultural associations, not-for-profit organisations in the area of artistic creation which, independently of nationality and place of residence, work in the city of Madrid.
The grants under this programme will consist of funding and/or institutional support.

The total grants may not exceed 20,000 euros per project.

C) Intermediæ-Matadero Madrid Programme: destined for projects, work production and/or activities which must take place within the Intermediae-Matadero Madrid context (contemporary creation). The fundaments and content of the projects submitted under this mode must be related to the fundamental ideas of Intermediae (see Annex I).

This is open to individuals or groups, foundation or cultural associations, not-for-profit organisations in the area of artistic creation which, independently of nationality and place of residence, work in the city of Madrid.

The projects submitted under this section may receive support of a diverse nature: funding, material and technical resources, spaces for production, exhibition and dissemination for the project, assessment and support for administrative and institutional processes.

The total grants may not exceed 18,000 euros per project.

Conditions

The funds will be granted in accordance with the evaluation of the proposals submitted, within the limits established for each mode.

This call for applications does not oblige the Arts Area to grant the maximum amount available in full.

The activities which take place using the grants made under this call cannot be for commercial purposes nor be publicised in the name of organisations other than the authors and agents thereof.

In the case of beneficiaries of grants under previous editions of this scheme (2006 and 2007), in order to apply for these grants, the relevant activity report must have been presented, in line with the conditions of the relevant year.

Documentation, presentation and deadline

The period for presentation and submission of projects is from 23rd October to 7th December 2007. After this time no application or additional information will be accepted. Applications sent by post, with a postmark dated within this period will be accepted.
The application must be made using the APPLICATION FORM included in this document. This form may be attached to additional documentation as considered necessary by the applicant for consideration of the project. Only one application should be submitted per proposal.

The application form can be obtained via the link included at the end of this document, or in person at MataderoMadrid, Paseo de la Chopera, 14, opening hours Mon-Fri 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 21:00; or at the Registro del Área de Gobierno de Las Artes, C/ Gran Vía, 24, Planta Baja, Mon-Fri from 9:00 to 14:00.

Each applicant may submit as many projects as considered necessary, and these may submitted under one, several or all modes (A, B, and C).

Projects must be presented:

a. By hand or by post, addressed to “Convocatoria Creación Matadero Madrid 2008” at:
Registro General del Área de Las Artes
Ayuntamiento de Madrid
C/ Gran Vía, 24. Planta Baja, 28013 Madrid
Opening Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00 to 14:00

b. Electronic applications:
(Complete the form under the title “Application Form” and select “Send Application”).
The electronic application can include additional documentation in a compressed file format: .zip .rar .tar or .gz to a maximum of 4 MB. Electronic applications received after midnight on 7th December 2007 will not be accepted
for consideration.

If more than one electronic application is submitted for the same project only the latest version received will be considered.
If the application is made electronically and additional material submitted by post, a printed copy of the electronic application form must be included with the latter.

404 Festival of Art and Technology, Rosario, Argentina – deadline 20 December 2007

Open call

“404 festival” 5th edition

deadline: december 20th 2007

“Astas Romas” calls authors to submit works for the v edition of the “404 festival” / 2008

“Astas Romas” calls international artists and theorists to submit their works for the fifth edition of the “404 festival – art & technology” 2008 on the following disciplines:

Net-art / still image / animation / video / music / audio-visual set / theory / performance / installation

Participation in this festival is open and free for all.

Terms and form: www.404festival.com

Turbulence ShiftSpace commissions – deadline 25 February 2008

TURBULENCE COMMISSION: “THE SHIFTSPACE COMMISSIONS PROGRAM” BY DAN PHIFFER AND MUSHON ZER-AVIV

Turbulence has commissioned ShiftSpace and now ShiftSpace commissions you. Ten development grants of up to $2,000 will be awarded to individuals and collectives using ShiftSpace as a platform to create new “Spaces” and “Trails”.

About ShiftSpace: While the Internet’s design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. The web is undergoing a transformation whose promise is user empowerment — but who controls the terms of this new read/write web? The web has followed the physical movement of the city’s social center from the (public) town square to the (private) mall. ShiftSpace attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web.

By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions — which are called “Shifts”. Users can choose between several authoring tools – called “Spaces” — that allow web users to annotate, modify and shift the content of a page and through ShiftSpace, share that shift with the rest of the web.”Trails” are maps of shifts (shiftspace content) that create meta-layer navigation across websites. These trails might be used as a platform for collaborative research, for curating net art exhibitions, or as a way to facilitate a context-based public debate.

Go to the commissions site (http://turbulence.org/works/shiftspace), watch the introductory video, apply for a grant and help us spread the word.

“The ShiftSpace Commissions Program” is a 2007 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site. It was made possible with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Technarte – International Conference on Art Technology, Call for Papers – deadline 14 January 2008

BILBAO, SPAIN – TECHNARTE CALL FOR PAPERS

Technarte is an International Conference on Art Technology and has caught the interest of professionals around the world. The upcoming edition of the Technarte International Conference will take place in Bilbao on 24th and 25th April 2008, and aims to present the advantages that Technology offers artists to realise their works of art, as well as to create a suitable environment for the reflection on the relation between both disciplines: Art Technology.

Technarte invites both manufacturers and experts in Art Technology, to share their experiences in some of the proposed themes.

Papers can be sent via the Technarte website or by e-mail to technarte@technarte.org

Deadline: 14th January 2008.

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