ELO Directory Editors: Accepting Nominations and Applications – deadline 30 September 2009

The Electronic Literature Organization is accepting nominations and applications for two Directory Editors. The positions are part of the NEH-funded “The Electronic Literature Directory: Collaborative Knowledge Management for the Literary Humanities.” The project uses open source content management and social networking software to develop a descriptive metadata vocabulary for the ELO’s comprehensive directory of electronic literature. We seek editors to join a dynamic and growing team distributed at institutions around the world.

Editors are hired as consultants on the project at a rate of $3600 for 150 hours of work over an 18 month period. Directory Editors will receive training at an upcoming ELO meeting (to be announced soon). The Directory Editor position is especially suitable for early-career academics and Ph.D. students focused on electronic literature, digital textuality and archiving, and related topics.

We welcome nominations of suitable applicants, as well as complete applications. Nominations should include contact information for the nominee and a brief evaluation of the nominee’s suitability for the project. Applications should include a letter indicating interest and suitability for the project, along with a current CV. Final deadline for applications and nominations is September 30. Send applications and nominations, as well as questions about the position, to Sandy Baldwin: clc [at] mail.wvu.edu.

Call for Entries Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid – postal deadline 5 September 2009

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The call for entries for the next Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid is open until September 5 and 15, 2009.

The next Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid will take place in Paris from November 30 to December 9 at the Centre Pompidou, the Jeu de Paume national museum and other venues. The same programme will be presented in Madrid in April 2010 and in Berlin in July 2010.

Those three events will feature an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers recognized on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.

ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PROPOSALS, without any restrictions for length or genre. All submissions are free, regardless of geographical origin… [click here >>>]

? FILMS AND VIDEOS – any film and video format
* Video / Experimental video
* Fiction, exp. fiction / Short, middle and full length
* Documentary, exp. documentary
* Experimental film
* Animation

? MULTIMEDIA
* Video installation, multimedia installation * Net art * Multimedia concert, multimedia performance

TO ENTER A PROPOSAL CLICK HERE >>>

You may have the opportunity to choose between two types of registration:
? Until September 5, 2009: Entry form to use with regular mail
? Until September 15, 2009: 100% online entry form with video upload

PLEASE FORWARD this information to creative organizations, art networks, production organizations, artists and filmmakers you are in contact with.

The Patching Zone 2010 – deadline 15 September 2009

The Patching Zone: real projects for real people

Call for students, young artists and designers to participate in three projects in 2010.

The Patching Zone is a unique opportunity for international and Dutch students/artists/designers who want to expand their experience and knowledge exponentially. The Patching Zone produces innovative small scale sustainable projects in real situations with real people using the processpatching-method that facilitates trans disciplinary collaboration. Be part of the Patching Zone team and work for a year on one of our projects. The Patching Zone will assist with looking for temporary housing and the team members receive a modest fee.

The projects -all starting January 2010:

* Digital Art Lab. location: Zoetermeer (The Hague area)
Research question: what should the new art courses for the digital generation look like?
Keywords: art education, game design, youth culture, augmented reality, performing arts, music, peer 2 peer learning
The project focuses on the connection with young people, the digital generation, and aims to provide them with a digital art lab in the former theatre space of CKC (local culture and art centre) . The training will be built around small digital projects and will result in a cross-media performance, all in close collaboration with the staff of the centre and the users.
Runtime: January through December 2010, applications for 1 or 2 semesters accepted.

* Recycle-X-. location: Dordrecht (Rotterdam area)
Research question: how can we gear up the former main street of Dordrecht towards becoming a sustainable cultural axis of the town?
Keywords: ecology, design, urban planning, site specific interventions, wearable technology, art and culture industry

A project in collaboration with local organisations that consists of a series of ecological interventions against gentrification and a number of workshops focusing on recycling and urban design that ultimately leads to a practice based plan for the ‘cultural main structure’ in the centre of Dordrecht. A small team will initiate several highly visible yet subtle performances that stimulate the general public to rethink their cultural paradigm in respect to their direct cultural environment. For students with a background in site specific interventions, urban planning, ecology, anthropology, wearable technology, cultural industry and social studies, Recycle X will be especially relevant.
Runtime: January through July 2010.

* Living Lab Rotterdam South (Rotterdam area)
Research question: how can we create a living lab node in the southern part of Rotterdam? How can we use the lab to mature creative talent of young people in the neighbourhood and provide training for careers in gaming, multimedia design, dancing, rapping, music (creative industry)? How can we stimulate and support cultural entrepreneurship?
Keywords: gaming, street dance, rap, music, training, design, living lab, creative entrepreneurship, creative industry, art and culture

The Big South project moves on where Go-for-IT!, the citygame The Patching zone is currently producing in Rotterdam Zuid, stops. A Digital Lab will be built where a major end-event will be produced, together with our partners and young people from the area. For the Big South project The Patching Zone invites Ma- and PhD students to respond.
Runtime: January through December 2010,

Jury
All applications will be reviewed and juried based on its (discipline specific) quality, expertise about the field, the motivation for trans disciplinary collaboration and its creative approach towards the theme.
The first round of selections will be done by an expert jury. In a final round The Patching Zone core team and representatives of the involved partners will review the pre-selected proposals for the team composition and expertise matches.

detailed information as well as the application form on www.patchingzone.net

Call for entries – Kunstfilmtag (Art house film day) – deadline 19 September 2009

CALL FOR ENTRY Kunstfilmtag (art-house-film-day) Düsseldorf, Germany
Deadline 19.9.09
http://www.kunstfilmtag.de/index.php?id=30

The Kunstfilmtag ( art-house-film-day ) originated as a free artist project with a festival character and is a tradition of exhibitions, initiatives and events organised and curated by artists. Located in the auditorium of the Artist Society “Malkasten“ in Düsseldorf it presents the diversity of film- and video creations by artists in Düsseldorf, together with international media art and artistic films from all around the world in one comprehensive program.

The Kunstfilmtag 2009 directs its focus on the relationship between picture and sound. Noise, music, voice, silence – subtle, quiet or loud: in its spacious presence, sound is not just creating a consolidation of ambiences and moods, but also has the ability to form a contrast to the moving picture or to define it. Sound forms the acoustic, which significantly co-determines the perception and relevance of the picture. As originally autonomous forms of expression, for the duration of the film they will enter into an alliance. Whether synchronic, asynchronic, parallel or descant – the marriage of both raw materials, picture and sound,
creates something unique, new – as an essential platform of the audio-visual concept.

Whether the work is a documentary, structural, essayistic, poetic or performative: The artist decides on the modus, the style, in which sound and picture coincide.

for submission: please have a look at the english-section of the website:
http://www.kunstfilmtag.de/index.php?id=30