Chris Joseph

Call for entries
Deadline 10 June 2007

The International Festival of New Film will take place from 15th to 22nd september 2007.

All submissions must include a vhs (pal, ntsc) preview tape or cd-rom, dvd as applicable accompanied by an entry form completed in Croatian or English along with the supporting documentation.

All work must have been completed after 1st of January 2006. The deadline for entries is 10th of June 2007. Screening copies must reach Split by 1st of September 2007.

All preview entries should be mailed as small packet, and must be clearly labelled for custom purposes as follows: video cassette, no commercial value, cultural exchange only, preview tapes, cd roms, dvds & documents will not be returned.

There is no limit to the duration of films or videos, selection panel will select work for competition, international juries will award prizes.

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Call for entries
Deadlines:
30 June 2007 - main competition
25 July 2007 - competition H2O

We are pleased to inform you that you can send your videos, digital works, video installations, etc. to VAD, Video and Digital Arts International Festival Competition of Girona (Spain), that will take place from October 17 to 21.

NEW CALL FOR ENTRIES – THEMATIC ANNUAL LINE!

This year we start a new thematic line, in addition to the general call for entries: “H2O”. Send us your audiovisual works where water is the element of discourse, of aesthetic speculation, or social debate.

We invite you to visit our website www.vadfestival.net were you will find all the necessary information to participate: application form, terms and conditions, awards, etc. as well as previous program of the festival.

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Call for entries
Deadline: ongoing

call for web based works.

00130gallery Helsinki will start web art link project on summer 2007. We are collecting links to web art.
All links will be published on gallerys website. you can send links and work description to : 00130gallery@gmail.com

www.00130gallery.net

Laisle.com video art screenings

Dear video artists - Laisle.com will be doing regular video art screenings through the year of 2007, mainly at espaço 27, a venue who have recently open.

We invite you to send works to be selected for the screenings.

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What is Education UK Island? Education UK Island is a not for profit educational island (private virtual space) in Second Life, constructed to provide a ’safe’ location for U.K. virtual education. The island is available to UK educators and their students.

What do we offer? Education UK Island’s art and design gallery has been created to enable practitioners and learners to exhibit their work in Second Life. These displays could be anything from watercolour paintings and photography, to pottery, clothes design, sculptures, flower arranging, interactive art installations or poetry recitals. The only constraint is your imagination. The gallery also offers opportunities for students of exhibition design to develop and trial exhibitions and display stands for events.

We are offering free space on Education UK Island to display work within the art gallery, smaller empty office spaces or open areas

We are happy to work with participants to set up exhibitions. We would anticipate exhibitions to run for at least 3 months, dependant on interest. Available floor space is negotiable.

What is the application closing date? There is no closing date! We will accept applications on an ongoing basis.

Who is it for? Groups, course participants, tutors or teachers of art, design, fashion, photography, exhibition design or craft, poetry and visual media.

Are there any age restrictions? The main Grid of Second Life, and therefore, Education UK island is for adults only (18+).

Who owns my work? Exhibitors retain full rights and ownership of their work. Visitors to the island cannot take a copy of the work unless the creator allows the appropriate privileges.

How to apply. Further information can be obtained in-world by Instant Messaging Susan Williams or Chris Eggplant, or by email:
mailto:susan@sleducationuk.net using the subject line “Education UK - Art and Design space”. Informal discussion is welcomed from potential applicants.

Alternatively, please download an application form from:
http://www.sleducationuk.net/?q=node/1

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Last Thursday the IOCT Salon welcomed Scott Rettberg from the Electronic Literature Organization and writers John Cayley, Jon Ingold and Kate Pullinger to talk about the work they have on the ELC Volume 1. It was a great night - too short, as always - but I thought I’d post up some of the blogs that discuss the night in more detail:

Jess Laccetti

Grand Text Auto (Scott Rettberg)

Scott Rettberg’s Remarks from the UK Electronic Literature Collection Launch (plus links to two new reviews of the collection)

Techsty - Literatura i Nowe Media (Mariusz Pisarski, in Polish)

[from WRT - Writer Response Theory]

At the ELO’s “Future of Electronic Literature” conference at the University of Maryland a panel was held on international (non-English) works. To facilitate that discussion, the members of that panel developed a wiki, which is now available at WRT:

Wiki of International Electronic Literature

The wiki features scholars, works, and organizations from around the globe that focus on electronic literature. With your help, we plan to develop that list as a resource for other scholars and teachers of electronic literature.

The primary motivation of the panel was to examine the field of electronic literature beyond the English-language realms that so often dominate discussion (and origin-narratives) and to promote (and connect to) international scholarship across language lines to foster a more global network of electronic literary scholarship. Here, I reference pervasive narratives of the origins of electronic literature (from hypertext to IF to chatbots) in English in the United States, even though works from beyond English (from I-Ching to Rayuela) are often cited as inspirations.

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is pleased to announce two new additions to its series of publications. N. Katherine Hayles’s primer, “Electronic Literature: What Is It?” and Joseph Tabbi’s “Setting a Direction for the Directory: Toward a Semantic Literary Web” are now available on the Electronic Literature Organization’s website.

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New competition for designers to get their sting on propeller TV (Sky 195)

Graphic designers, TV, film and video makers can enter a new ident competition that will see the winning work shown on national ‘art-house television’ channel propeller tv (Sky 195) later this year. Creatives are being asked to design and produce a propeller sting that will lead in and out of programmes. A panel of industry specialists will choose their favourite sting and the winner will be shown on the channel in alternate programme slots. The winning entry will be awarded a cash prize of £1000.

Entries need to be between 3 or 5 seconds long and must use the propeller logo, colours and music. Entries must be received no later than 29 June 2007 when the competition closes. For further information, propeller ident materials and competition entry guidelines, anyone wishing to enter should contact John
Offord at propeller TV by email: mailto:john@propellertv.co.uk and visit http://www.propellertv.co.uk

Talking about the competition, John Offord said: “Ident television branding is one of the most important elements in a station’s marketing. Everyone recognizes Lambie-Nairn’s BBC balloon ident and it means something to people. Propeller is all about finding and showcasing the latest talent and original ideas and this is a fantastic opportunity for designers and videomakers to be as creative as they can be and to have their work profiled nationally.”