Moving Words call for submissions

MOVING WORDS
(edited by Camille Bacos, Jeremy Hight, & Carol Novack)

We are looking for narratives, fictions, word and language games and plays, all sorts of poetic forms, in fragments and entireties. We are looking for visually stimulating presentations, with or without custom-made audio elements, but preferably with. Surprise and delight us!

Here are some samples of moving words we love:
http://artport.whitney.org/gatepages/artists/nakatani/new_index.html ;
http://slippingglimpse.org/ ; http://www.yorku.ca/caitlin/waves/ ;

http://nmartproject.net/agricola/mpc/volume6/encoded.html

A comprehensive article about what’s broadly referred to as “electronic literature” may be accessed at http://eliterature.org/pad/elp.html .

Submit up to two works, and please prepare your file/s as follows:
QuickTime movies, h.264, “Fast Start,” 640 x 480 or 720X480 , for 16:9 use max. 720X480 with letter box , Data Rate 2000 kbits/sec. Audio AAC, Stereo, 16 bit, 44.100 kHz, duration no longer than 12 minutes. We accept flash & window media player formats.

Please submit your works directly to our server. For FTP info please send an email to movingwords [at] madhattersreview.com (with “Moving Words Submission” in the subject line) and include the following information (feel free to cut and paste):

1. YOUR name; email address; bio – max 250 words.

2. Name AND exact file name of pieces to be uploaded: i.e. Lucy in the Sky, lucysky2.mov

3. Permission to publish email address in Issue 12. YES ___ NO ___

4. Do you wish to include a bio pic? YES ___ NO ___

Flag Metamorphoses call for Flash animations – ongoing deadline

http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net

Next deadline: March 30, 2010 (and ongoing)

Flag Metamorphoses is a participatory art project – a continuously growing series of animations with many authors: The flags of every nation in the world will transform into each other through flash animations. Between each two flags, scenes appear to show an aspect of the relations between the two countries – an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidizing and re-mixing of diverse national iconography. Flag Metamorphoses lays stress on the relations between nations as changing ones. Each artist who creates a flag animation expresses such a relation in his/her own way. You too can contribute!

To find out how to participate, to see Flash flag animations, the list of exhibitions and festivals, and to read the full concept, please visit: www.flag-metamorphoses.net

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LES METAMORPHOSES DES DRAPEAUX

http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net

Prochaine date d’inscription: 30 mars 2010.

Un projet artistique collectif – une série d´animations qui s’ accroît en permanence et à laquelle participent de nombreux auteurs: tous les drapeaux nationaux du monde se métamorphosent et se fondent entre eux dans des animations Flash. Les médias numériques permettent de faire danser les symboles… Les signes visuels vont interrogés sur leur sens, les animations transforment leur valeur, débouchent sur de nouveaux liens. Il s’agit donc d’amplifier les formations visuelles existantes avec des dessins et des figures qui expriment un aspect de la relation du premier pays avec le pays du drapeau suivant.

Appel à la participation de nombreux auteurs: Par la présente, j’invite toutes celles et tous ceux – dans le monde entier – qui sont intéressés par la conception et la création d’une animation pour cette série.
Pour voir des animations, le concept et les conditions pour participer et pour savoir de plus, visitez: www.flag-metamorphoses.net

Sound Around You – participatory project from University of Salford, UK

http://www.soundaroundyou.com

The University of Salford is building a sound map of the UK as part of a new study into how sounds in our everyday environment make us feel.

They are asking people across the UK to use their mobile phones (or another audio recording device if their phone is not compatible) to record 10-15 second clips from different sound environments, or ‘soundscapes’ from a family car journey to a busy shopping centre, and to upload them to our virtual map, along with their opinions of them and why they chose to record it.

Recordings and responses will be analysed by acoustic scientists and significant findings will be reported on this website.

Sound Around You aims to raise awareness of how our soundscape influences us and could have far reaching implications for professions and social groups ranging from urban planners to house buyers.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre 3 or 6 month residencies – ongoing deadline

http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/information/artistsinresidence.shtml

Artists’ Residencies at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales: 3 or 6 months. Applications are accepted at any time; the next selection deadline being in late 2009.

Aberystwyth Arts Centre: www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk

Funded by the Esmee Faribairn foundation, Artist residences are intended to give artists ‘time out’ to develop their work.

Become a Reviewer on Furtherfield.org

www.furtherfield.org

Furtherfield receives regular submissions inviting us to feature and review artworks and projects from artists and art groups from all over the world. We have an excellent team of reviewers working with us. Yet, because we are receiving more innovative and high quality artworks for review than we ever have before, it is not easy keeping up with the workload. So, we need more reviewers.

What would you be reviewing?

Media art, net art, open source art and projects, software art, D.I.Y groups, culture and related social networks, live networked art, live Internet tv, tactical media, art blogs, net films, media art connected- self institutions, psychogeography, hacktivism, video game culture, activist games, as well as publictions/books, events, exhibitions online and in physical space, and related conferences. You will be expected to receive suggestions for review, as well as choose your own projects of interest.

We welcome contributions from all kinds of writers – and are always interested in bi-lingual reviewers who are able to introduce/translate work by non-English-speaking cultures. We also want reviewers who are writing about ‘media art and ecology’ and the contemporary ideas and work coming out of this vibrant and relevant practice. Also, we want you to share your ideas with us in presenting and supporting a diverse movement that we value.

If like us, you are passionately and critically engaged in investigating and being part of the constant shifts and reinvention of this ever changing and dynamic – fluid and creative practice, you will be with good company. And as you would expect, there is no money in this but you will be part of a team who believes in what they are doing.

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer at Furtherfield and wish to know more about how to join the crew, please contact marc garrett – marc.garrett at furtherfield.org

Note: Please do not reply unless you are sure that you are definitely interested.

Temporary space call for photos of your local kebab place

Temporary space – contemporary art project asks your participation! Simple, just take a photo.

Temporaryspace.org is a contemporary art project run by two Finnish artists, Jonna Johansson and Juan Kasari. Tourism, globalisation and consuming as a cultural phenomenon are the main subjects of the project.

At the moment we are doing a big photo installation, which includes several hundreds of pictures of kebab restaurants around the world. We kindly ask you to take a photo (non professional snapshot) of your local kebab place (from outside) and send it to us. All the pictures will be part of the big installation and all the participants will be mentioned on temporaryspace.org website.

Maximum size of photos 5mb.

temporaryspaceproject [at] gmail.com

more info: www.temporaryspace.org