Chris Joseph

call: art + blog = blogart?

Call for proposals
Deadline 2 July 2007
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a + b = ba ?
[art + blog = blogart?]

JavaMuseum - http://www.javamuseum.org
is starting its 2nd phase by publishing on open call focussing on the question whether blogs and/or blogging can be tools for creating a new type of net based art. The launch of this new project in September 2007 is planned to be also the occasion for re-launching JavaMuseum after a phase of re-structuring since 2005.

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Call for Proposals: New Forms Festival 2007

The New Forms Festival is an annual cross-disciplinary festival exploring installation, performance, music, film, and electronic arts.

The theme for NFF07 is Re-Use. To use something again, often for a different purpose and usually as an alternative to throwing it out. NFF 07 looks at the ideas of reuse in the media arts. These forms have been able to come from different areas all around us. Whether involving the recycling of equipment, the change in its use, reprogramming material, the sample and mash-up of sound/images and reconstruction of ideas; the concept of reuse has become one of the major entities behind invigorating, changing, and growing media and electronic arts.

Over history art has always seen recontextualization at its very core. Warhol once asked if there was ever really an original idea. Shakespearean tales become modern films, ancient sounds become electronic music anthems. Pop culture drives home sounds and imagery that have changed, grown, and evolved over time. Within this we have seen our cultures mix, grow, and shape shift as ideas get recontextualized and reapproapriated from generation to generation, and culture to culture.

For Re:Use NFF is looking for pieces that challenge these models and trends, recognizing shifts that have taken place as well as new and innovative works that re:use works on formats and in ways not yet seen. As the amount of information we receive on a daily basis increases at a pace far faster that at any other time in history, NFF 07 will become a platform for this mixed media world, and a indicator of what might lie ahead in the years to come.

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for remix_runran, from featuring… from anthra_X

flash source: bacillus_anthracis.fla (84kb)

In October last year a group from the Children’s BBC (CBBC) came into the IOCT to see the space, meet some of the people using it, and have a quick viewing of Inanimate Alice 3. They were a very friendly and on-the-ball group - and they mentioned a CBBC project which has been announced today on BBC News called CBBC World. Think Second Life designed for kids, without any of the money or trading aspects… they are very keen that the environment will be safe for kids, with no chatrooms or facilities for building new parts of the virtual world which could then be abused by users.

It is expected to go live in the summer, with a full launch in the autumn to coincide with the CBBC relaunch.

FUTUREVISUAL
CALL FOR PROJECTS
http://www.futuresonic.com/07/2007_submissions.html

A part of FUTURESONIC 2007
10-12 May, Manchester UK

In 2007 we are inviting submissions of projects at the cutting edge of immersive sound and image.

Deadline: Thursday 15th February 2007

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Shifter 10 : Transparent White
A call or submissions. Deadline March 1 2007

“Milk is not opaque because it is white, - as if white were something opaque. If ‘white’ is a concept which only refers to a visual surface, why isn’t there a colour concept related to ‘white’ that refers to transparent things?”
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Remarks on Colour”

Things that can be imagined but not seen. Things that can be seen but not named. Things that can be imagined but not articulated, nor seen. Things that can be said but not seen or imagined. I think “Transparent White” belongs to the last of these categories.

Of course, I use words loosely here.

But imagine, for instance, contemplating a picture of a Martian landscape. We imagine a place, like a red desert. We look toward its hazy horizon as if we could actually see it. In a way, we imagine the object - the target of our gaze - knowing that we do not (cannot) actually stand on Mars. In fact the only way we can access the object is by seeing it in terms that are imaginable. We look from the wrong context, we are displaced, yet we transpose our horizon onto the picture’s and we see a desert. Desolate but nameable.

Can a word mean without representing something? Or can a word be understood if we do not know or have not seen what it represents?

Shifter’s 9th issue Ruin|Monument focussed on the way in which the empty ruin signifies. Like a vacuum it absorbs everything. Like a mirror it reflects back our pointing fingers. The Monument, it was proposed, is the past (memory) embodied, hurtling backwards towards the future.

If the Ruin is an absence, which is transformed into object by our projections, then Transparent White is fully formed language which does not stick to an object. In a way they are mirror images of each other. While the Monument like the ruin exists physically (it occupies space, we can walk around it, we can photograph it), Transparent White occupies a conceptual site of contention. One is not sure if/ what it could represent. Yet one can imagine using the phrase “Transparent White”, in a poem for instance, and meaning something.

Shifter’s 10th issue “Transparent White” will attempt to engage this untethering of utterances from straightforward representation.

Submissions may be visual and/or textual. The only criterion is that they be static in order to exist on a printable page. Please email submissions to shiftermail@gmail.com

The deadline is March 1st. For ideas that are likely to take longer to actualize, please send a proposal to the editor or let us know what you are thinking about.

Submissions can be jpegs, pdfs, word files or illustrator files. If you are unsure if we can use a particular format please email us to find out.

Please visit the site http://www.shifter-magazine.com to read previous issues of the magazine. Shifter was recently reviewed here: http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2007/01/shifter.html

editor: Sreshta Rit Premnath
associate editor: Gönner Heiliger Von Lügen
critical advisor: Pieter DeHeijde
design + copy: IF Productions

remix for remix_runran, from Alphalaxis

flash source: alphalaxispraxis.fla (92kb)

The contest seeks digital visual artwork submissions to illustrate the titles of 25 Songbook Jackets and 125 Album covers by lyricist James Thomas Fielding. The juried art competition, which seeks to establish a new multimedia artform based on rock “Concept Albums,” offers $6,000 in cash prizes to be awarded to three finalists in each of two categories: Best Songbook Jacket and Best Album Jacket.

The “WORDS WITHOUT VOICES” series combines Art, Music, Language, and Internet Technology, and will be aimed toward the youth market, especially college art instructors and students who study Advertising, Visual Arts, English, Graphic Design, Multimedia, Music, and Web Design. While the contest is open to “anyone who is creative,” state contest restrictions apply. Entry fees are $10 for one entry in one category, $15 to enter both, and $5 apiece for each subsequent submission. All entries will be displayed in the GALLERY OF THE MIND’S EYE at: www.WordsWithoutVoices.com .

The contest is limited to the U.S., Canada and the U.K. The public will select the winners by voting online at the contest website. Final deadline for the competition is August 31, 2007.

Charta Foundation invites you to express your vote and to participate in the Graphics Poster Contest for BucharEST International Film Festival (B-EST IFF - www.b-estfilmfest.com).

Apart from the aim to discover very good quality advertising works, the organizers wish to encourage poster graphics creations and to offer the graphicians (proffesional and amateurs) the opportunity for public acknowledgement, particularly showing great interest in young artists with future perspectives in the graphics design (students in the arts schools).

The novelty of this event consists in the fact that the proposed works will be the subject of the public’s online evaluation on the site of the festival.

The winner of the contest will receive a prize of 400 de euro, offered by the unique sponsor of the event, Printco printing house (www.printco.ro).

The contest starts on the 10th of January and ends on March the 25th 2007. During this period it is possible for the organizers to send to all the contacts selected from a collective list, a regularly (weekly) classification along with participation invitations , either for contestants, or for the public who wishes to vote the proposed creations. We apologize in advance in case these emails will somehow inconvenience somebody, and kindly ask you to point out this discomfort by sending an email to office@b-estfilmfest.com .

If you wish to promote the image of your company, foundation or institution in our contest, please do not hesitate to contact us!

B-EST regards !

Irina-Andreea Malcea,

Festival General Secretary

Phone: +40 741 942 882

e-mail: irina@b-estfilmfest.com

If you wish to express your vote, click on : http://www.b-estfilmfest.com/concurs.php

If you want to submit your work, click on : http://www.b-estfilmfest.com/sign_up.php

…….. in order to be the B-EST, please do the BEST and take a look at the contest’s regulations, terms and conditions of participation just by a quick click on : http://www.b-estfilmfest.com/templates/ro/contest_conditions.html

CHARTA FOUNDATION - RABAT Str, Nr. 13A, sector 1, Bucharest, ROMANIA, CUI F.C.15640920

The International Pixelstorm-Award is a digital competition, in which all submissions are visible immediately on the web.

When the award is announced, the platform www.pixelstorm-award.ch is usually open for submissions during three weeks. Within this timespan, participants are invited to upload their works. After a short check, the submissions are published online.

A large number of designers and artists from all areas of the world compete with each other and submit entries every year. The intermediate result of the competition is always visible and encourages more people to participate. Even while the platform is open, the pixel-community will start evaluating the submissions, and electing their own audience award.

The main prize however - the golden pixel - is assigned by an international jury and given to the winners during the pricegiving ceremony. The ceremony is broadcasted on the Web through several Webcams and an online chat.

The pixelstorm-award is an invention of Andres Wanner. The association “Friends of the pixelstorm” - a group of alumni of the Basel School of Design - is organizing it about once every year. The pixelstorm-award is a noncommercial event that tries to depend on a minimum amount of finance and strongly relies on the enthusiasm of the participants.

The pixelstorm-award will be announced for the fourth time very soon. The deadline for participation will last from Jan 8th 2007 until Jan 30th 2007. The pricegiving ceremony will take place on Feb 24th in two locations in Basel and Zurich, and - of course - on the web.

The highlights of the last years, and the recordings of the awards-ceremonies can be seen here:

http://www.pixelstorm-award.ch