Catalyst Award 2011 – deadline 30 November 2011 #artopps
The nomination is open to everyone and is until November 30, 12pm.
The Catalyst Award consists of a prize of HUF 500,000 per project, and a prize designed by an artist.
The award ceremony: December 5, 2011, FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture
Please find here more information about the nomination and jury members:
http://hu.tranzit.org/en/project/0/2011-12-05/catalyst-award-2011
http://katalizatordij2010.blog.hu/
This year, for the second time, the Catalyst Award, founded by tranzit. hu, will be handed out.
The award is given to individuals, projects, and initiatives which, directly or indirectly, have an impact on the contemporary art scene – they contribute to the presentation, discussion and mediation of art with their progressive approach of form or substance. The award equally recognises progressive initiatives without institutional background or support, as well as initiatives emerging within an institutional framework.
The goal of the Catalyst Award is to enhance the appreciation, and its collective character, of inspiring artistic initiatives.
In 2011, the founder invites nominations for the Catalyst Award in two categories:
1. motor (initiatives which have been active for a long time, but function, or functioned, as a catalyst);
2. novelty (initiatives of the recent past which are considered to be catalysts).
Call for Entries – New Technological Art Award Foundation Liedts-Meesen 2012 – deadline 31 March 2012 #artopps
Zebrastraat Gent
Zebrastraat 32/001
9000 Gent
Belgium
http://www.newtechnologicalartaward.be
After update_1 in 2006, with as curator Jean-Marie Dallet, professor and researcher linked to ÉESI, responsible of the laboratory of the école d’art Figures de l’interactivité, Angoulême-Poitiers, France, followed by update_2 in collaboration with the ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe and with as curator Peter Weibel, Director of the ZKM, and finally update_3, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, Service Nouveaux Médias and as curator Christine Van Assche, guardian of the Centre Pompidou, we are determined to continue this series with update_4, to be held from 15th September till 18th of November 2012.
We want to put some new accents in update_4. Previously, the exhibitions were combined with the New Technological Art Award Liedts-Meesen, which enjoyed a growing interest from the part of the artists and the public.
For this reason, we want to increase the importance of this contest by taking the following measures:
* New and adapted rules, which are stricter, and will focus more specifically on the artistic contribution of the new technologies,
* The number of nominees who will have the opportunity to show their works of art during update_4 will pass from 10 to 20,
* Finally, the works will be presented at three sites: Zebrastraat in Ghent, La Cambre in Brussels (for works to be shown in the open air), and iMAL, also in Brussels
As previously, the nominees will be selected by a professional jury, which will also award the final prize of 5000 EUR; besides this, there will also be a prize from the audience.
The second part of the event consists of an exhibition of renowned artists in the field of New Technological Art. Only two or three works will be presented at each site.
To these two activities will be added a third one, namely the organization of a three days colloquium on new tendencies in contemporary art. We will invite a number of artists and personalities from all over the world, who would discuss during the day certain topics related to this art movement. The conclusions of their discussions and the texts of their papers will be published in the form of a reference book, replacing the previously published catalogues.
As you can see, we evolve from the concept of an exhibition combined with a contest, towards an event combining exhibition, contest and colloquium, yielding a reference book.
Call for applications open to all forms of artistic creation – PARIS RIVE GAUCHE – deadline 3 March 2012 #artopps
Semapa, an urban development company of the Paris Rive Gauche area in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, is launching an international call for applications open to all forms of artistic creation.
Aims of the artistic project
Drawing on the specificities and the evolution of its surroundings, the artwork will contribute to enhance and assert the attractivity and the centrality of the site as a bridge between two parts of the city and, on a larger scale, of this blooming area. It will also act as a link between several public sites which have already proven themselves favourable to pursue the
Selection criteria
The provisional budget, including fees and production costs, amounts to 600.000 euros, excluding taxes.
The selection will take place in two steps.
The first part will be open to all applicants; a maximum of five artists will be selected to participate in the second phase. Each of these artists will have until the final trimester of 2012 to produce sketches on the basis of the contract specifications. Each of these proposals will be compensated in the amount of 15.000 euros, including taxes.
Information: http://www.semapa.fr
Scholarships in International MFA Program – deadline 1 December 2011
TRANSART INSTITUTE seeks independent, inquisitive and imaginative artists for its low-residency MFA program. In a uniquely international setting, Transart offers an accredited two year course for working artists, teachers and all professionals in related fields who are seeking advancement in visual arts and new media. The program consists of three intensive summer residencies in Europe filled with lectures, workshops, critiques, seminars, performances and exhibitions and two shorter winter residencies in New York City. In the four semesters between residencies, students create an individual course of study realizing art and research projects with the support of faculty and self-chosen advisors wherever they work and live. A detailed program description is online.
THE MFA PROGRAM is geared towards the development of a sustainable artistic praxis rather than training in certain media or genres, challenging students to think conceptually and work creatively in new ways. Current students work with animation, choreography, curating, digital media, drawing, film, graphic design, installation, intervention, music, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, software, sound, text art, video and writing. More details online.
TRANSART FACULTY comes from a wide range of academic and artistic backgrounds as well as geographic locations. Current theoretical areas of expertise include curatorial work, cyberfeminism, African diaspora, interface technologies, digital arts, continental philosophy, media, social studies in colonialism, capitalism and tourism, word and image relationships, and contemporary asian art history. Studio faculty include international artists working with sound, performance, dance and choreography, photography, drawing, sculpture, film and video, intervention and installation art. Details online.
TRANSART STUDENTS are emerging and mid-career artists and educators at tertiary institutions. Transart Institute’s residencies are a meeting place for cultural exchange. Transart students and alumni will converge for the summer residency from areas as diverse as Italy, Egypt, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia, Canada, Costa Rica, the UK and the US. For many students the time at Transart is a transformational experience. New York based artist Virgil Wong found “The community I’ve become a part of through Transart is already much more immersive than what I’ve developed in ten years of living and working as an artist in New York City”. Photographer and performer Angelika Rinnhofer found that “to work independently can pose a challenge but it also offers freedom and flexibility. Since a large number of students are accomplished artists and earn a living, Transart’s concept is ideal to work toward a degree and to expand one’s artistic career in addition to having a job.” For composer and artist David Dunn “perhaps the most important aspect of the program, to me personally, has been the realization of just how constrained my professional life can be. I have no lack of colleagues or opportunities to present my work but my network of association tends to reinforce a particular set of intellectual and aesthetic assumptions that become ‘the’ set of assumptions. Transart succeeds at prying apart some of those entrenched viewpoints to provide space for new ideas and concerns. The truly international makeup of the students and faculty reinforces this.” More details online.
EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE is December 1st, 2011. Applications can be submitted online.
FOR MORE INFORMATION please contact program leader Klaus Knoll: knoll@transart.org
PHONE: +1 (347) 410-9905
Banff World Media Festival program competition call for entries – early bird deadline 3 February 2012 #artopps
http://www.banffmediafestival.com/registration-2012-banff-program-competition.php
The 2012 Banff World Media Festival Program Competition is now officially open for submissions!
The Banff World Media Awards is the largest international program competition in the content industry, attracting upwards of one-thousand entries from over 30 countries around the world to its annual program categories. This year’s Awards will be announced during the Banff World Media Festival in Banff, Alberta, running June 10-13, 2012 and features some exciting new additions.
“The Banff World Media Awards are now, more than ever, a reflection of the new trends in international programming,” Georges Leclere, Director of the Banff World Media Awards Program Competition said. “We are thrilled to reshape our categories this year, to better group the wonderful programs in all segments of the current traditional, cross-platform and digital entertainment genres.”
New in the Documentary categories, Environmental and Wildlife programs have joined forces to explore environmental themes and issues, as well as natural and wildlife phenomena within one category that explores our natural world. New in the Children and Youth category, Animation Programs will take a special focus on kids programming, while adult-targeted, “prime-time” animations will be eligible for applicable categories in entertainment, drama and interactive programming.
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