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. The event calls for entries in seven categories, including a youth competition.

Prix Ars Electronica 2012

Online Submission: http://prixars.aec.at

Deadline: March 02, 2012

Contact: info@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 Create Your World (only for Austria, see details: www.u19.at)

Prizes:
Prize money (total): € 117.500

6 Golden Nicas
12 Awards of Distinctions
[the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant
up to 70 Honorary Mentions

Looking forward to your submissions!

Your Prix Ars Electronica Team 2012

Spain and International/ It is left open without restrictions a call to select, by means of a criteria in which will be valued particularly the quality, the experimentation, the innovation and the risk, the creations of all those audio-visual artists who wish that their works are promoted and broadcast through the independent program Transfera and MADATAC04.

The content of the TV program Transfera is exclusively dedicated to divulge Video Art and Audio Visual Art in all its modalities (any processes of image-sound interaction, without exclusion of the experimental cinema), with the aim to disclose to the great public a view of the consolidated video artists and offer a platform for all those emergent video artists with a future projection who contribute with renewing proposals, avoid conventional visual language and does not find their place in other mass media spaces.

Due to the difficult challenge that supposes to mantain a project of this spread, destined essentially to compensate the well-known mediatic absence, the relation with the artists will be based on a principle of promotion and visibility, a guideline directed to strengthen the sustainability of the program. However, all the received material will enter, unless the authors express the contrary, in the selection for the IV Edition of MADATAC, the Contemporary Audio-Visual & New Media Arts Festival, that Transfera organize on December12th, 2012 in Madrid, Spain. This event will serve to prize the best videos among the selected and emitted in the program during the related period, as a compensation for their participation:

MADATAC AWARDS

Five awards of a cutting-edge sculpture, with the international artistic and professional recognition implicit in receiving this already prestigious award.

BEST VIDEO ART WORK
MOST INNOVATIVE WORK
MOST PROMISING VIDEO ARTIST
BEST VISUAL-AURAL INTERACTION
SPECIAL AUDIENCE AWARD (voted by the festival audiences)

METRÓPOLIS AWARDS

The well-known TV programme Metrópolis (shown on Channel 2 of Spanish public television) will select and award works from the Official Section, totalling 27 minutes. Winning artists will be paid €100 per minute for broadcasting rights and the winning videos will be shown in a special programme dedicated to MADATAC to be broadcast on TVE2 at the end of the festival.

TRANSFERA AWARDS

MADATAC and the auction house, Subastas Segre, will select three preselected pieces from the Official Sections, to be sold at public auction at 18, Calle Segre, Madrid. The works will be exhibited during some weeks until the auction day and the starting price will be around 350€-400€ for editions of 3 copies on DVD. Artists will receive the final sale price less a percentage commission for administration and sale fees.

Participants must send their works, preferable not to exceed the 20’ although we made exceptions if the video merits it, in a PAL DVD, or uncompressed mpeg or mov files (at least 720x576 16:9 resolution, preferably HD), with quality for broadcasting, spanish/english subtitles if needed, two jpg stills of the video, a brief CV and a filled and signed form agreement for broadcast permission.

The interested can also send a brief promotional video statement about themselves and their work (not more than 4 minutes long), that will be included on Transfera TV as an artist presentation.

There are not restrictions for the age of all the participants around the world, nor for the amount of material desired to send.

There is no criteria as to the subject of the works, though the IV edition of MADATAC will give preponderance to the concept: CYBORGS AND AUDIOVISUAL ART FOR THE END OF THE TIMES

We only ask that the submitted works will not be shown or prized in any other festival celebrated at least 3 months before, or at the same time that MADATAC takes place, as to maintain the uniqueness of the work.

Transfera cannot return the sent material.

Participation in this project implies the acceptance of all its rules.

This year deadline (post stamped) is September 3th, 2012.

To receive more information on the call please write to: info@madatac.es

All materials has to be sent to the following address:

MADATAC/TRANSFERA
C/Galeno 41
28232 Las Rozas
Madrid ESPAÑA (SPAIN)
www.madatac.es
www.transfera.es

Summer / Autumn 2012 ::: Finland

One of the most international creative residency programs in the arctic area welcoming over 80 selected visual artists, curators, musicians, writers, performance artists, photographers and designers per year.

It is an inspiring place to explore & expand your creative practice and thinking, produce original works and collaborate with other ambitious artists & creative professionals.

The quality facilities, the communication between the guests and Arteles staff/ network together with the surrounding nature & silence brings an amazing level to the contact zone of post-contemporary art and life.

FOR ————————————–

Creative professionals from the fields of Visual Arts, Media Art, Music & Sound, Performing Arts, Design, Architecture, Literature, Research

RESIDENCY PERIODS ————————

1-3 months / between July – November 2012

LOCATIONS ——————————–

Arteles Creative Center
Hahmajärventie 26
38490 Hämeenkyrö
Finland

APPLY ONLINE & READ MORE —————–

www.arteles.org/creativecenter.html
DEADLINE for the applications: 31st of March 2012

We would greatly appreciate if this information is being shared/forwarded with others it might interest. All the information can be freely published on websites and in social/other media.

Best Regards,

Arteles Team
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Arteles Creative Center
Hahmajärventie 26, 38490 Haukijärvi, Finland
info@arteles.org
+358 3 410 23 787
www.arteles.org

The HEX Pixel Gallery in KCMO, USA is looking for artists to showcase in our monthly digital art opening. We have had three openings so far with a huge turnout and are looking forward to keeping the momentum going with more and more shows. The response from the Rhizome community has been outstanding!

To see some photos of our previous shows please check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/hexgallery

About HEX:
____We feature the work of one or more artists for one evening on the first friday of every month, which are huge occasions here in Kansas City.
____Our space has 3 large 1080p projectors, media drives, computers and access to a lot of other stuff we can set up that we can use to play back video or interactive art. We are making a point to have no printed collateral of any kind. We’ll be mounting iPads around the space to allow people to read more information about the artist. All publicity and signage in the space is digital.
___If you are interested in showing at HEX Pixel Gallery please send a CV and/or artist statement and links to a few pieces of your work to contact@hexpixelgallery.com

___Things to consider when applying:
1. HEX is heavily focused on high resolution digital work, so please know that HEX prefers HD content over SD, especially for single channel video work. This also means that we do not show still artwork.
2. HEX is only open one day a month, so interactive or installation work needs to be temporary and able to be quickly installed and uninstalled.
3. HEX thinks your haircut is great! Where did you get it done?
__________Love HEX.

Link: http://hexpixelgallery.com/

HEX Pixel Gallery
1906 Wyandotte
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
United States of America

404 International Festival of Art & Technology has been awarded by “Fondo Nacional de las Artes” (National Arts Founding) for the production of the ninth season, wich will be organized in different phases throughout 2012.

404 Festival launches an open call destined to artists and researchers from all over the world with the aim of spread and stimulate new media creations.

Authors can submit their works in the following areas:

- Installation
- Net.Art
- Still Image
- Animation
- Video
- Music
- Audiovisual Set
- Theory
- Performance.

Submission is free. Please follow the instructions published on www.404festival.com/eng/opencall.htm

Besides exhibition entrance, FILE will receive as well from January 06 to February 29, 2012 proposals for lectures and workshops to participate at FILE Symposium and Workshop 2012. Both events will happen simultaneously during the first week of FILE 2012 exhibition, in São Paulo.

Click here to know the General Regulations of FILE 2012 and access the Registration Forms.–>

http://filefestival.org/

Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer enters its 5th year as a conference focused upon questions concerning the player. With current debates in the Games Studies considering the effect of gamification upon our conceptions of work and leisure, the increasing prominence of pervasive gaming, location-based gaming and ARGs, and the validity of procedurality as an analytical approach versus more player-centric models, such inquiries seem more pertinent than ever before. Under the Mask is a conference dedicated to understanding the many facets of the player; the psychological, political, social, cultural and historical aspects of the user and their interactions with both games (analog and digital) and the wider culture.

Under the Mask is organized by the University of Bedfordshire, UK, in association with the University of Hertfordshire, UK and the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. This year's keynote will be provided by DiGRA Vice-President Dr. Esther MacCallum-Stewart.

Possible conference topics include (but are not limited to):
• How is gaming situated within, and informed by, the player's everyday life?
• Procedurality versus the player; is it really a versus scenario?
• Gamification and its potential benefits and impediments.
• What theoretical perspectives are most productive? What are their limitations?
• What consequences are there to the increasing surveillance of players within online games?
• What role does sex and gender assume in game culture and community?
• Are there consequences of play for gamers, psychologically, politically, socially and culturally?
• The impact (or lack thereof) of gamer culture on traditional institutions, such as governments, NGOs, commercial and statutory institutions.

Call for papers:
• New methodologies or adapted methodologies for studying the player;
• Case studies of users in social settings;
• Case studies of social networking, gamification and alternate reality gaming;
• Case studies of the relationship between gender and games;
• Case studies of gamers in competitive/professional settings;
• Case studies of government, NGO and mainstream institutional gaming;
• Methodologies relating to Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology;
• Genre and its relation to player performance;
• The role of professional, casual and social gaming within game culture and
• Presentations/Analyses of fan fiction and fan art.

Abstracts of 250 words, accompanied by contact details and a brief biography to be received by the 16th March 2012 to: utmgamer@gmail.com

Call for Practice Proposals

As part of the conference, we are keen to support the practice of making games and game-related artefacts. If you have a game proposal you would like to run at the conference, or have any projects, works in progress, etc. you would like to display/have people play on the day, we would like to hear from you.
The deadline for practice-based submissions is 2nd May 2012. We will discuss submissions with you on a rolling basis up until this date.

Please email submissions to utmgamer@gmail.com

For further information, please go to:

http://underthemask.wikidot.com

Conference Organizers

Prof Luke Hockley
Steven Conway
Alison Gazzard
Gavin Stewart

Contact Details
c/o Gavin Stewart
A105
School of Media, Art & Design
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
LU1 3JU

Join us for Being Social, our opening exhibition of contemporary artworks that explore how our lives - personal and political - are being shaped by digital technologies.

Furtherfield has established an international reputation as London's first gallery for networked media art since 2004. With this exciting move to a more public space we invite the public, artists and techies - amateurs, professionals, celebrated stars and private enthusiasts - to engage with local and global, everyday and epic themes in a process of imaginative collaboration and exchange.

Saturday 25 February 2012
1-4pm

Furtherfield Gallery
McKenzie Pavilion, Finsbury Park
London, N4 2NQ
T: +44 (0) 208 802 2827
E: info@ furtherfield.org
W: www.furtherfield.org/gallery

Dress code: sociable

Please RSVP by 17 February 2012 to info@furtherfield.org

For more information please download the press release (313kb)

http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery-files/Being-Social-Furtherfield-gallery-launch-press-release.pdf

or contact Alessandra Scapin on +44 (0) 2088022827 or ale@furtherfield.org

Furtherfield - A living, breathing, thriving network
http://www.furtherfield.org - for art, technology and social change since 1997

Fonlad Festival, the Online Digital Arts Festival, in its 8th edition aims to celebrate Nam June Paik, Vito Acconci and Bruce Numan, proposing as its global theme "Performing Acts". It seeks to present a body of work that has at its core the record of performances (artistic or not), the body in its many cultural meanings and poses, the registration of events / actions, works that have as a theme or center, the body, move(s), desire(s), anxietie(s), either in the form of video art, video performances, photography or web art.