Call for entries to the European Media Art Festival – deadline 5 December 2011 #artopps

Submissions: European Media Art Festival
Categories: Arts, Award/ Prize, Installation, Media Arts / Digital, Music / Sound, Video

// CALL FOR ENTRIES

// WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE EMAF BY 05 DECEMBER 2011 !

// INFOS AND APPLICATION DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE AT WWW.EMAF.DE

// We look forward to receiving your entries to the European Media Art Festival competition, with new works. You’re invited to send us
films, videos, installation- and performance projects or expanded media works. Please use the online forms for all submissions.

// EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, galleries
and an audience of experts the festival has a great impact on the topics and aesthetics of Media Arts.

Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances and new digital formats, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements from the pulsating area of “Media Art – Society”. The Festival sees itself as a place of
experimentation and a laboratory where extraordinary works, experiments and ventures are created and presented.

// AWARDS
At the festival an international jury will select the >EMAF Award< for a trend-setting work in Media Art, the >Newcomer Award< and the >Dialogpreis< of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of intercultural exchange. Furthermore, the jury of the German Federal Association of Film Journalists will award the
prize for the best German experimental film.

// CINEMA
Experimental shorts and feature films, music videos, new forms of narration and documentation as well as specials and retrospectives.

// EXHIBITION
From 18 April to 27 May 2012 the festival will present current media installations in the Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche and other locations in Osnabrueck.

// EXPANDED MEDIA
Artistic projects in media-arts, performances, digital music and sound projects, as well as the latest concepts of expanded cinema.

//MEDIA CAMPUS
The contact and project exchange forum for new projects,tendencies and concepts from the media universities, academies of art and design colleges of Europe.

// CONGRESS
Theoretical debates covering the various issues of the festival in talks, workshops, artist presentations and panel discussions.

We warmly invite you to shape and discover the trends of experimental media-arts in Osnabrueck in April 2012.

// Concept and directors board: Hermann Noering, Alfred Rotert,
Ralf Sausmikat

// SPONSORS
- nordmedia – Die Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH
- Stadt Osnabrueck
- Auswaertiges Amt
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Stiftung Niedersachsen
- EU Funding EFRE
- as well as donations from further sponsors.

Contact/Address/Postal:

European Media Art Festival
Lohstrasse 45 a,
D-49074 Osnabrueck

phone +49 (0) 5 41 – 2 16 58,
fax +49 (0) 5 41 – 2 83 27
mail: info(at)emaf.de
www.emaf.de
www.dca-project.eu the new European archive project.

b-side multi-media Festival 2012 commissions – deadline 5 November 2011 #artopps

b-side multi-media Festival 2012 – Artist Commission Brief

http://www.b-side.org.uk/

b-side is a biennial multi-media, site-specific arts festival, animating public spaces in Weymouth and Portland. Inspired by the ‘flip’ side of vinyl recordings, b-side offers opportunities for artists and audiences to explore the less commercial aspects of South West coastal resorts.

b-side is offering a number of commissions to create new, temporary, site-responsive work to be showcased, alongside other events and activities, as part of a programme for the 2012 b-side Festival. The festival will take place as part of the ‘Maritime Mix’ London 2012 Cultural Olympiad by The Sea during which, Weymouth and Portland will be hosting the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Sailing events.

b-side festival 2012 is programmed for:
July 30th – August 11th 2012 in Weymouth during the Olympic period
Sept 1st – 8th 2012 on Portland during the Paralympic period

Proposals are invited from artists working across all media [visual art, performance/live art, sound, film, digital media, text based work, social media and
socially engaged practice].

Key concepts: Portals, entry and exit points, bridges, mapped and off the map, boundaries, borders and barricades, peripheries and margins, outposts. If your work
resonates with any of themes, we want to hear from you!

Fees:
We are inviting proposals for three categories:
Category 1: Up to £1500 Category 2: Up to £3000 Category 3: Up to £5000

All fees include production, installation costs, travel and accommodation – we are looking for exciting deliverable ideas that explore or highlight the flip side of Weymouth & Portland.

NB There is a limited budget to support extended stays in residency or research and development prior to making the work should this be necessary to realise your idea. Successful applicants will have access to curatorial support, installation assistance, venue facilitation and help with finding accommodation.

To apply:
• Please provide ONE document formatted as a PDF to include the following:
• 500 word max proposal outlining your idea including type of space, installation needs, technical assistance, maintenance and any possible health and safety issues.
• An outline draft budget including breakdown of equipment, materials, production costs, installation costs, artist’s fee (which should include your anticipated
travel/accommodation expenses)
• Up to 6 images of previous work within the pdf document (inc links to websites etc)
• Sound or film files may be sent as separate attachments, although links to soundcloud, vimeo, you tube or other appropriate web sites is preferred
• An up to date CV
• Total submission should not exceed 5MB

PLEASE NOTE: PROPOSALS RECEIVED IN ALTERNATIVE FORMATS OR WHICH EXCEED THIS LIMIT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED WITHOUT PRIOR AGREEMENT
Deadline: 5pm Saturday November 5th 2011
Interviews: artists proposing work for the 3rd category (up to £5000) will be invited to an
interview – interviews will take place week beginning November 21st

Please send your proposal by e-mail only to the b-side commissioners:
Amanda Wallwork amanda@b-side.org.uk, Sally Watkins sally@b-side.org.uk, Julie Penfold julie@b-side.org.uk and Sandy Kirkby Festival Producer at producer@b-side.org.uk
Please mark your email subject line: b-side FESTIVAL PROPOSAL
Supporting material may be sent by post if required to: Sandy Kirkby, b-side Festival Producer, The Little Keep, The Barracks, Bridport Road, DORCHESTER, Dorset DT1 1SQ

please include SAE for return

Guidance for Artists
b-side 2012 will use entrance and departure points to and from Weymouth town centre and onto the island of Portland. Commissions will be developed in response to these specific sites. During the Olympic games, Weymouth is expecting 30,000 extra visitors per day. Visitors will arrive by Park and Ride to the Swannery Car Park and be directed by Inner Harbour walk to Westham Bridge, then to the Live Site on Weymouth Beach. Others will arrive by train or boat. b-side wishes to explore, reveal, and mark these routes by commissioning a series of contemporary, innovative, accessible artworks that become part of a semicircular pedestrian route around the town centre.

On Portland some sites are more hidden and require the audience to be more active in engaging with them. There is a list of prospective sites below, although we would welcome other suggestions from artists. During the Paralympic games, visitors are expected to be less numerous, the borough council are committed to a full cultural programme and to using this period to highlight issues around disability and the Paralympic values. B-side also welcomes applications for Portland from deaf and disabled artists whose work relates to the key themes and/or the Paralympic sailing events.

The proposed sites are as follows:
Weymouth:
1. The promontory end of the Pleasure Pier near the ferry terminal (potentially including the café, but this is to be negotiated)
2. Westham Bridge and Inner Harbour walk
3. The Town Bridge
4. Weymouth Railway Station
5. The Pier Bandstand

Some images of above can be seen at: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjwo57hU
Portland:
1. Through Chiswell at the eastern end of Chesil Beach and Fortuneswell – the high street, the ‘Opes’ and alleyways that surround and lead off from Chiswell
2. Chiswell Community Garden
3. Black Barge Beach
4. Brackenbury Centre (the old Brackenbury Infants School Building)
5. A mobile unit which could travel throughout the island
6. Royal Manor Theatre Building
7. Portland Castle
8. Castletown area of Portland
9. Naval Graveyard

Proposals can be for work made for intimate spaces as well as larger public spaces or incorporate a route or journey. Artworks should be site specific/sensitive/responsive and temporary, exploring the fabric, history or contemporary use of the space/place and aim to intrigue and engage audiences.

The curatorial team selecting commissions this year are:
Amanda Wallwork Visual artist and Director/Curator for Sherborne House Arts, b-side Director
Julie Penfold Director/Creative Programmer PVA MediaLab, b-side Director
Sally Watkins Independent artist (site-specific/responsive work), b-side Director
Sandy Kirkby b-side Festival Producer

Queries and Questions:
We have tried to ensure that you have all the information you need at this stage to make a proposal but if you do have questions then please contact any of the b-side team listed below:

Sandy Kirkby producer@b-side.org.uk or 07770 856 253
Sally Watkins sally@b-side.org.uk or 07974 698526
Julie Penfold julie@b-side.org.uk or 01308 459071
Amanda Wallwork amanda@b-side.org.uk or 07816224015

Eyebeam 2012 Fellowships Open Call – deadline 18 November 2011 #artopps

http://eyebeam.org/get-involved-fellowships/calls/2012-fellowships

CONTEXT: Eyebeam is the leading not-for-profit art and technology center in the USA. Our unique collaborative environment fosters fellowships and residencies, research, education, public programming, and a vital web space, eyebeam.org. We are located in the heart of NYC’s Chelsea art district in a resource rich 15,000 sq. ft. space. Please see the Fellows and Projects sections of our web site for information on current and previous work developed at Eyebeam.

OVERVIEW: Eyebeam is seeking applications from artists, hackers, engineers, designers, curators, and creative technologists to participate in our Fellowship program. Fellows at Eyebeam spearhead new research and develop new work. The ideal Fellow has experience working with and making innovative technological art or creative technology projects, and has a passion for collaborative development. Fellows will bring this experience and working approach to Eyebeam where they will have the opportunity to engage in their own independent projects, projects initiated by other Residents or Fellows, and projects conceived collaboratively with Eyebeam’s staff and research partners.

Up to three Fellows will be selected to join continuing residents and fellows for an upcoming 11-month cycle, ideally beginning in mid-March but potentially in the summer or fall of 2012. If a summer or fall start date is preferable, please indicate that on your application inside the “additional information” section. Selected Fellows will be expected to spend at least four days per week working at Eyebeam. Fellows are expected to contribute to the Eyebeam community as collaborative partners to residents and mentors to youth working at Eyebeam and as principal leads in research initiatives, programs, and public engagement as well as leaders in Research Groups (explained below).

SUPPORT: Fellows receive a $30,000 stipend during their stay in NYC with Eyebeam as well as 24/7 access to Eyebeam equipment and dedicated work areas. It is possible for Fellows to take on additional external teaching or consulting work, as long as s/he can fulfill commitments to Eyebeam at the same time.

For full details visit http://eyebeam.org/get-involved-fellowships/calls/2012-fellowships