ISEA 2009 – deadline 17 November 2008

Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) is an international nonprofit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies.

Abstracts for papers and descriptors of artworks/projects, panels and workshops etc are sought for ISEA 2009 that will illuminate both the near and long term Future of Digital Media Culture. Papers that present research outcomes, track trends or developments, describe case studies or works in progress, are speculative projections, challenge existing paradigms or record a history, are all welcome. Submissions are encouraged from any professional, craft or scholarly field that relates to communications art/design, cultural expression, practice and aesthetics, and the technical means by which they are enabled.

Deadline: 17 November
Festival Dates: 23 August – 1 September, 2009
For more information, contact contact admin [at] isea2009.org
http://www.isea2009.org/wordpress/

Europa Neurotisch – deadline 10 November 2008

Deadline for application is 10 november 2008
Open to all media.
Exhibition dates: 22 november till 5 december 2008, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

OPEN CALL:
Europa Neurotisch

Giving one answer to “What is Europe?” is complicated; at first it’s a continent but also a political and economical union of the more prosperous countries residing in the continent.

Today one could argue that Europe as a word would direct more to the European Union than to the continent itself, and therefore would place itself more into the context of one economic and political unit.

But although this process takes place in the light of democracy, does it reflect it’s inhabitants unity? Is there a unity at all?

Within this show we would like to address these questions in an almost informal way, the show could be seen as sort of a roadmovie; sights, sounds, ideas make up a fabric that as a whole could be described as Europe.

The show is not intended as a demystifying collection of answers regarding the sole identity of Europe, but more as an eclectic look at the whole concept of Europe.

Therefore the type of works we are looking can deal with micro or macro Europe; they can be political, personal, social, as long as the work has a tie to europe we are interested.

A catalogue will be made of all the works presented in the show wich afterwards will be mailed to all participants in the show.

This show will be the starting point of a series of shows dealing in some way with Europe, a second show is planned in the second half of 2009.

This call is open to individual artists, as well as collectives and artist run spaces.
There is no restriction to size or material, however we have no funding for transportation.

More info about Petersburg Project Space:
http://petersburgprojectspace.org/

Deadline for application is 10 november 2008.

Send your materials to:

Petersburg Project Space
Frans de Wollantstraat 84
1018 SC Amsterdam
Netherlands

Or if digital you can send it to:

info [at] petersburgprojectspace.org

Call for artists – RADIATOR: Going Underground – deadline 14 November 2008

CALL FOR ARTISTS

RADIATOR: Going Underground *

* Sousveillance – the counterpart to surveillance, where the ‘observed’ turns around, to face and watch the ‘observer’, recording the observers actions and movements.

Radiator Festival & Symposium
part of the Performing Space series

Nottingham 13th – 18th of Jan 2009

WHEN AND WHERE

January 2009 in Nottingham, Derby and Leicester, East Midlands, UK

WHAT IT IS

Even as we enter a period of recession, there may be yet a glimmer of hope. Are we facing an about turn from the last 30 years of Milton Friedman inspired economics that has left our cities wastelands of corporate monoculture? If so, there are still a few questions left unanswered…

In an era when the phrase “affects a conservation area” has been no obstacle to the planning application for a shopping centre housing solely global brands; when 12 million pounds has been spent in the East Midlands for extending CCTV systems that have miserable figures for reducing crime; when urban regeneration means the extension of the corporate high street to the exclusion of independent, local communities; when half of the entire UK population now shops in barely 1000 giant superstores….

Where do we go for explanations?

Why are our everyday movements constantly monitored and the details of our lives banked?

How is where we live a reflection of our wants, desires and taxes or the interests of powerful outside forces?

Who are the self proclaimed guardians that watch over us in our cities and who are the gatekeepers to Fortress Britain?

To unpick these questions and more, Radiator will place 5 artists at the urban coalface – the offices and backrooms of companies and institutions – where the fates of our city spaces are stamped and sealed.

Architects, planning departments, telemarketeers, city council offices, surveillance and monitoring centres – just some of the types of agencies we want our artists to infiltrate as sleeper agents, biding their time in observation, gathering information, doing work for the agency and for us.

During this time we expect our artist agents to file daily copy, to write blogs, to post pictures and draw thought maps and to eventually give a thorough account of their activities and their discoveries at a debriefing meeting, otherwise known as the Radiator Symposium on Performing Space that will take place this Autumn 08 in partnership with Nottingham Trent University.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for proposals from artists and practitioners outlining ideas for covert research into the effect of everyday business and government on the technologies and architecture that shape our cities and working day environments.

Included in the proposal should be details of how these findings obtained could be exhibited to the public.

WHAT WE OFFER

– We offer a research stipend of £1200 plus production expenses towards exhibition

– Exhibition during the Radiator Festival in the East Midlands

– A position in the Radiator Symposium on Performing Space at Broadway

– A chance to develop work further for touring internationally in 2009

WHAT WE REQUIRE

– A proposal, which shouldn’t be more than 2 sides of A4 (excluding biogs, CVs etc) which includes details of:

– Organisation, institution, department or company your residency or research will be with

– What question, approach or method you plan to use as the axis of your research

– Details of how your research might be collected, collated and exhibited including budget.

– A biography and/ or CV of past and current work

– Visual material on DVD or CDROM or internet

– a filled in submissions form (link below)

DEADLINE: Fri 14th Nov 08

To download the submissions form please go to

http://www.radiator-festival.org/content/news.php?id_artist=63

Art Tech Media 08 call for entries – deadline 31 October 2008

International Artist Call ART TECH MEDIA 08

Art, Science, Technology, Innovation and Society

Calling on all creatives of the world to participate.
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