Chris Joseph Electronic writer and artist

1Jul/090

Call for entries – International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009 – deadline 31 July 2009

Call for entries:
International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009
CREAM Competition

http://ifamy.jp/

Organizer:
The Organizing Committee of the International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009

Purpose of CREAM Competition:
International Festival For Arts and Media Yokohama 2009, a pioneer project of “Creative City Yokohama”, could not be categorized as either an ordinary film festivals or a contemporary art exhibition. Along with the judges who are leading figures of diverse domains, this festival’s CREAM competition program aims to propose a brand new visual expression and experience.Due to recent technological developments, we live our everyday lives surrounded by and connected to the world through various types of visual communication. Creating visual works is nothing out of ordinary nowadays and it is no longer a privilege for people who are involved in particular artistic activities but for every single one of us. CREAM competition craves a new visual expression, or works that cross the borderlines between different genres of art such as contemporary art, film, performing art, music and etc., and therefore inspire and influence the future generations.

Submission of the Works:
1. The Competition is open to moving image works with experimental character and radical spirit of any genre.
2. The Competition is open to moving image works of any format, such as screening, exhibition, performance, network-mediated works, outdoor projection, and etc.
3. Everyone, regardless of age, gender or nationality, is eligible to enter the competition. Group work is also allowed.
4. All works submitted should be completed no earlier than 1st of May 2008.

1Jul/090

Call For Entries – Award New Media Foundation Liedts-Meesen – deadline 1 November 2009

www.zebrastraat.be

At the occasion of the Update III exhibition that is organised as a Biennial event at the Zebrastraat Gent, the Liedts-Meesen Foundation will award for the second time, a work by a living artist distinguishing himself or herself in the field of digital art. This award will consist of a cash purse and a showcase in the Update IV to be held in 2012.

Entry forms and guidelines available at http://www.zebrastraat.be
http://www.zebrastraat.be/kunst_3_91.html

Deadline November 1 2009- Final Deadline

The upcoming exhibition, Update III (in 2010), will be held in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, under the artistic direction of the exhibition’s commissioner Christine Van Assche.
At the same time, the 10 works selected for the Liedts-Meesen Foundation award will be exhibited and integrated into the publication accompanying the exhibition.