Chris Joseph Electronic writer and artist

Prix Ars Electronica 2010 call for entries – deadline extended to 17 March 2010

The 24th Prix Ars Electronica – International Competition for CyberArts is open for entries.

From its very inception in 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is an open platform for various disciplines at the intersection of art, technology, science and society. Again more than 3,000 submissions in 2009 have further enhanced the Prix Ars Electronica’s reputation as an internationally representative competition honoring outstanding works in the cyberarts.

The aim of the competition is to continually keep the Prix Ars Electronica updated in line with leading-edge developments in the dynamic field of cyberarts.

In 2010, 6 Golden Nicas, 12 Awards of Distinction and up to 70 Honorary Mentions as well as [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant are presented to participants. The winners will receive a total of 117,500 Euros in prize money.

Prix Ars Electronica 2010
Online Submission Deadline: March 5, 2010

Online Submission: http://prixars.aec.at
Contact: info [at] prixars.aec.at

Categories:
Computer Animation/Film/VFX
Digital Musics & Sound Art
Interactive Art
Hybrid Art
Digital Communities
[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant
u19 – freestyle computing (only for Austria, see details: http://www.u19.at )

Call for entries: Leicester Family Project – deadline 21 March 2010

Call for entries: Leicester Family Project

http://www.leicesterfamily.org

A new and exciting initiative is inviting people from Leicester to share stories and experiences of family life for an online book.

The Leicester Family project, part of the De Montfort University’s Amplified Leicester experiment will explore the realities of family life in Leicester and assess how families have changed through the decades.

The project is looking to record people’s experiences of family life in Leicester, celebrate what it was was like in the past, capture what it’s like today, as well as imagine what families will be like in the future. A selection of entries will be chosen to represent The Leicester Family for an online digital book which will be designed and
produced by April 1st 2010.

Entries can be presented through any creative form, from song to poetry, drawings to photo, capturing one of the four themes, The family – defined, The family and Decisions, The Family and Leisure and The Family at Dinner Time. The project will be blogging inspirational ideas to make entries sparkle, until the end of February.

A roadshow is being organised on 13th March at the Etc suite Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre between 10.00-14.00. Contributors can work on their entries on the day or bring along material to be scanned in. The Amplified Leicester team will also be on hand to record one minute videos with families.

To find out more you can visit http://www.leicesterfamily.org or find the project on Myspace, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter @leicesterfamily, Ning.com and Youtube by typing in Leicester Family. Entries will need to be emailed to competition@leicesterfamily.org or added to the Flickr group by 21st March 2010. There are a selection of prizes for the best contributions, including National Book Tokens and a family portrait sitting with Maz courtesy of Maz Mashru Leicester.

Thank you

Farhana Shaikh
Project Co-ordinator

Find us online and in these social networks…

http://www.leicesterfamily.org

http://www.flickr.com/groups/leicesterfamily/

http://leicesterfamily.ning.com/

http://www.myspace.com/leicesterfamily

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Leicester-Family-Project/314621010100

Call for Papers – Transmission: HOSPITALITY, Sheffield, UK (1-3 July 2010) – deadline 15 March 2010

Call for Papers
Transmission: HOSPITALITY
Thursday 1st – Saturday 3rd July 2010
Sheffield, UK

Call for Papers – deadline 15 March 2010

Guests: Clegg and Guttmann<http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/north+west/manchester/art39574> (Artists, Germany), Juliet Flower MacCannell<http://www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/DetailDept.CFM?ID=3300> (Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English, UC Irvine) Ahuvia Kahane<http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Classics/AK/index.html> (Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway, University of London), Esther Leslie<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/staff/LeslieEsther> (Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London) Dany Nobus<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/leadership/nobus.bspx> (Professor, School of Social Sciences, Brunel, University West London), Blake Stimson<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=1059> (Professor of Art History, University of California)

Transmission: Hospitality aims to address the relation between the various modes of analysis and communication that comprehend art. This conference will be set in a transdisciplinary and transcultural context where dialogues between artists, writers, critics, curators, and academics will be welcomed as a method for generating, mediating, and reflecting experience and knowledge about the way art is received.

Hospitality speaks about art through a form that responds to how art is encountered, discussed and, perhaps most importantly, received. This theme will be explored over the three days of the conference through the topics of Host, Stranger, and Friend. Here we will consider the ethics of hospitality, of making the stranger welcome. A host has a standard of conduct, and historically, hospitality has been seen as a code, a duty, a virtue, and a law. There is a bond between host and guest, and indeed, it is one that may exceed the bond of family – a bond one may be called to defer in place of the guest, as the guest must take precedence. Hospitality derives from hospes, formed from hostis, a stranger. Stranger joins with polis, the state. There is a duty of care. Rather than a fetishising of the social encounter or the reduction of conversation to an aesthetic genre, this international conference takes up discussions on hospitality, incorporating both the stranger and the friend. Here we will ask how art can inform the politics, ethics, and cultural meaning that lie at the heart of the relation between host and guest.

We invite papers and proposal for panels of three speakers on any aspect of the conference theme. Abstracts will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of academics and artists. Topics may include but are not limited to:

Host:
art and responsibility, art and ethics, art and psychoanalysis, cultures of curating, hospitality and film

Stranger:
art and the foreigner (or the odd, eccentric and uncanny), art and philosophy, multidisciplinary practice

Friend:
art and dialogue, art and community, art and politics, collaborative practice

Each of the conference papers will be published on the Transmission website. Papers from the conference will also be considered for publication in the forthcoming issue of Transmission Annual.

The conference is being developed in association with Meadows School of the Arts<http://www.smu.edu/meadows.aspx>, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, USA) and will include the launch of the new journal Transmission Annual (Artwords) and the opening of Transmission: Interrupted in the SIA Gallery.

Proposals
Contributors are invited to reflect on the themes outlined above and to present their work in one of the Dialogue session at the conference.

You are invited to submit a proposal in the form of a written abstract, which will be peer-reviewed by a selection of international artists, writers and academics. Successful authors will be invited to present a 20 minute paper in a panel at the conference.

Guidelines for Abstracts:
The deadline for abstracts is Monday 15 March. You are invited to submit either an abstract for an individual paper or a proposal for a panel of papers on a theme relevant the conference as described above. Please provide full contact details with your abstract or panel proposal.

Abstracts for individual papers should be no longer than 250 words and proposals for panels of three papers should be no longer than 500 words. Please submit by email to Transmission@shu.ac.uk

For further details, see the Conference webpages at www.transmission.uk.com<http://www.transmission.uk.com/>

Venue and Contact Details:
Transmission will be hosted by the Art & Design Research Centre<http://www3.shu.ac.uk/c3ri/ADRC.cfm>, Sheffield Hallam University and will take place from 1st – 3rd July 2010 at:

Furnival Building
153 Arundel Street
City Campus
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield
S1 2NU

http://www.transmission.uk.com

transmission@shu.ac.uk

Call for Artwork, Papers, Videos and Participation, D-ART 2010 – deadline 1 March 2010

Deadline: March 1st, 2010
Please post. Apologies for multiple listings.
Questions email: ursyn@unco.edu

International Conferences iV and CGIV 2010
Symposium and Online Digital Art Gallery D-ART 2010
iV London, UK and CGIV Sydney, AU

http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/CAVE.htm

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Call for Artwork, Papers, Videos and Participation

Scope:
Authors are invited to send their extended abstract or the full paper to the chairperson of symposium.
Artists are invited to submit their current digital artwork for exhibition in IV 2010 and CGIV 2010- at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/.
Papers presenting original research with the theme of ‘DIGITAL ART’ are being sought. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Preparing artists to learn programming, preparing programmers to learn aesthetics
Interrelationship between disciplines. How computer graphics can influence computer science and software engineering
Issues in digital art: Technical challenge and artistic quality, criticism, perception in the field
Art and visualization of spatial, tonal, and temporal domains: Industry, Academia, Media
New media arts approaches within medical science and technology
Game and interactive multimedia
Information technology in visual arts and culture, visual art for IT Visualization
Cognitive Science issues, digital art and visual learning: critical and abstract thinking, problem finding
The role of digital art and graphics in production of web video for marketing
Digital fabrication methods. Process (including collaborative efforts)
History of computer graphics and art
Copyright (representation through a detail, watermark, resolution)

Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/PAPERS.htm
Further information: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/

Important Dates:
1 March 2010 submission of artwork
1 March 2010 – Submission of papers & Submission of tutorials: https://www.conftool.net/IV10/
30 April 2010 – Submission of camera-ready & early registration closes
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All queries and application materials should be sent to:

Anna Ursyn
School of Art and Design
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley CO 80639, USA
T: (Int. +1) 970 – 351-2476
F: (Int. +1) 970 – 351-2299
E: ursyn@unco.edu

Call for entries: FILE PRIX LUX – deadline 5 March 2010

FILE PRIX LUX is an international prize that will be granted to professionals in the area of electronic-digital languages. It is an unprecedented initiative in Latin America. The award ceremony will happen on July 26, 2010, in the SESI – São Paulo theater, along with the FILE 2010 exhibition. FILE PRIX LUX will grant seven prizes (first place, second place, and five honorable mentions) to each of three categories, thus offering 21 prizes in money, in the total amount of 285,000 reais. Besides the jury’s selection, there will be a popular vote through the FILE PRIX LUX website. The categories are: interactive art, digital language, and electronic sonority. Non-awarded projects can also participate in the exhibition, as long as they are accepted by the judging committee.

details: http://www.fileprixlux.org
deadline: March 5 2010