Chris Joseph

The One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau (Switzerland) is open to shortfilms up to 60 seconds!

You can submit films in 4 categories:

- Fiction/Documentary
- Animation
- Art/Experimental
- Youth/U18

The films can be sent online! No entry fees!

Our deadline is May 31th 2008

One Minute Film & Video Festival Aarau
P.o.Box 2761
CH-5000 Aarau
Switzerland
www.oneminute.ch

2 | 3 |4 June 2008, 10 am - 5 pm

In a timeframe of three-day participants conceptualize and construct a prototype of an Augmented Reality Game using the ARToolkit, assisted by outstanding international trainers. The focus of the gameplay design will be on the relation between the virtual and the physical. Game rules can be implemented through the software by programming; and they can be implemented physically, in the real world game space; and they can be implemented socially, by designing what is and isn’t allowed when trying to reach the games’ goals.

CALL FOR PROJECTS
INTERACTIVOS? México’08: Technologies of Laughter
From August 1 through 16, 2008
Submissions Deadline: June 8

Led by: Zachary Lieberman (USA), Leslie García (Mexico) & Alejandro Tamayo (Colombia)
A maximum of 10 projects will be carried out in a workshop held at the Centro Multimedia (National Arts Centre) in Mexico DF from 1 to 16 August 2008. At the end of the workshop, the projects will be exhibited at the Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico from 16 August to 14 September 2008.

The workshop aims to use open hardware and software tools to create prototypes that explore the relations between machines and humor/laughter. The workshop aims to explore questions such as:
What mechanisms lead to laughter? And what about its social and political implications? What happens if we understand laughter as a possible form of communication between humans and machines? Can machines have a sense of humor or make us laugh? What kind of narratives/machines can be built to provoke various feelings related to laughter?

Medialab-Prado will cover lodging at a youth hostel and flight expenses for the authors of the selected projects and papers (one person per project/paper).

More information:

http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_mexico08_tecnologias_de_la_risa
interactivos08 [at] mediala-prado.es

With the collaboration of Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECI).

The Holland Animation Film Festival organizes three different competitions.
For each competition is a separate entry form available at http://haff.awn.com/formulieren2008/form.php

52 animated independent short films compete in the competition for independent animation. Deadline for entries is 15 July 2008.
A Grand Prix will be appointed in the narrative section as well in the non-narrative section of this competition. Click here for the regulations.

For applied animated films, in the categories publicity and promotional films, music videos (pop promos), educational and information films, station calls and film leaders the festival organizes the competition for applied animation. Deadline for entries is 15 July 2008. Read also the regulations.

Call for E-Literature, Digital Fiction, Hypertext Fiction, Sequential Text Video, Digital Poetry, E-Poetry, and other forms of Electronic Writing.

The visionary Counterpath Press announces a call for work for Counterpath Online, its digital publishing venue. There is no specific theme, but all work must utilize digital tools to create interactive, moving, responsive, generative or playful creations.

Text only works or documentations of work are not being considered for this issue.

All artworks will be peer-reviewed/juried and the issue will be promoted extensively.

Counterpath Press Online: http://www.counterpathpress.org/cpathonline/issue%202/splash2.html

Please send submissions to Jason Nelson (Guest Editor) as soon as possible. Works that are submitted earlier will be given special consideration (we will ruminate on its beauty and power for much, much longer).
E-Mail: elitpath [at] gmail.com

The final deadline is June 18th 2008.

All work must be accompanied by the following:

1. Description of the work (300 wds.)
2. Artist bio written as a small absurd story (300 wds.)
3. Screen Shot (approx. 300×300, saved as jpeg)

Those authors/artists chosen will be asked to participate in a brief interview regarding their creations. In addition, authors/artists will be asked to write brief reviews (200 words) of another chosen authors/artists work.

Counterpath Press is committed to publishing and supporting intellectually rigorous work of the highest quality, with the highest production values. It is committed to publishing poetry, fiction, drama, cross-genre work, literary and cultural theory and criticism, translations, reprints of out-of-print and hard-to-find titles, as well as supporting a repository of high-quality work through internet publication.

4 NEW SENSATIONS

After the huge success of the inaugural 4 New Sensations prize in 2007, Channel 4 and The Saatchi Gallery are delighted to announce this year’s 4 New Sensations competition for all UK art students graduating from BA and MA courses at UK colleges and universities in 2008. These students will be invited to enter the competition with work from their 2008 degree shows via Saatchi Online. The deadline for entries will be Friday 27 June at 6pm.

4 New Sensations was launched in 2007 by Channel 4 and The Saatchi Gallery to find the most imaginative and talented artists graduating in the UK and to support students leaving art college.

Last year 12 of the 20 shortlisted students were either invited to exhibit their work in galleries or sold work as a result of being selected by the prestigious panel of judges for the competition - the judges last year were artist Antony Gormley, Tim Marlow, the broadcaster and Director of Exhibitions at White Cube gallery, Anita Zabludowicz, co-founder of the Zabludowicz Collection, Sadie Coles, founder of the London gallery Sadie Coles HQ, and Kevin Lygo, Channel 4’s Director of Television and Content. This year’s panel of judges will include the critic and broadcaster Matthew Collings and the gallerist Maureen Paley.

An exhibition of 20 shortlisted artists chosen by the judges will take place at The Truman Brewery, Brick Lane in London during Frieze Week in October. The four finalists of the competition will be given a £1000 bursary to make a new work to present at the exhibition, and each of these ‘New Sensations’ will have a 3 Minute Wonder Channel 4 film made about them which will also be aired in October. The ultimate winner of the competition will be awarded prize money of £3000 to support their future artistic endeavours.

Notes:

· Graduates entering the competition will submit images from their degree shows and a brief pitch for a new work they would like to make if chosen as one of the four finalists. The competition is open to all disciplines. Students must be graduating from a BA or MA course in 2008 and not yet be represented by a gallery.
· The ‘call-to-arms’ will be promoted on Channel 4, Channel4.com, on Saatchi Online and via the UK’s art schools.
· The shortlist of 20 graduates will be chosen by a selection panel from The Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 and profiled in more detail on the website.
· The 4 New Sensations exhibition will be at The Old Truman Brewery in Brick Lane and will run to coincide with Frieze art fair in October.

Call for Papers and Works: Seminar on Electronic Literature in Europe

September 11-13th, 2008 at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway.

The Fall 2008 Bergen Seminar on Electronic Literature in Europe will build upon the work of the e-poetry seminar held in Paris in February 2008 at the University Paris 8, the 2007 e-poetry conference in Paris, the 2007 Remediating Literature Conference in Utrecht, and other recent activity in the field of electronic literature in Europe. The goals of this gathering are:

1) To provide an opportunity for European researchers to share and discuss their current research on electronic literature, e-poetry, and digital narrative forms.

2) To provide a forum for European authors of electronic literature to share, demonstrate, read, or perform their work.

3) To discuss and explore the foundation of a European research network focused on electronic literature, funding opportunities for such a network, and network activities.

The seminar will last three days and will include about 20-30 participants. The day-long meetings during the first two days will consist of short presentations of papers in panel format. Additionally, there will be performances, readings, and demonstrations
of electronic literature in the evenings. The third day of the conference will be dedicated to proposing and discussing the formal
establishment of a research network on electronic literature in Europe. Paper presentations should be in English. Presentation and performances of works can be made in English or in the native languge of the presenter.

Registration for the seminar is free. There may be a fee for a conference dinner only. There will be no simultaneous sessions, so the number of presentation slots available will be limited, but researchers not selected to present are also free to attend. Both electronic literature authors and researchers are encouraged to submit proposals.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Any paper topic related to the seminar theme is welcome. Some subjects might include:

- Close readings of specific works of electronic literature.
- Ontologies and definitions of e-lit forms.
- National or language-group histories (or pre-histories) of e-lit.
- Procedural literacy and electronic literature.
- Relations between e-lit and other literary and artistic forms and movements.
- Issues involved in translating electronic literature.
- Issues involved in recording, archiving, and preserving e-lit.
- Electronic literature in cultural contexts.
- Pedagogy and approaches to teaching e-lit.
- Proposals for research network activities (e.g. archiving projects, publications, establishing a journal, pedagogical resources, etc.).

Presentations of papers should last no longer than 20 minutes.

Researchers should send an abstract of approximately 500 words before June 20th to elit.in.europe [at] gmail.com

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Call for entries
deadline 1 September 2008

VideoChannel - video project environments
http://videochannel.newmediafest.org

is glad to launch a new videoart project, entitled “MOTHER” and invites video and film creators for participating and contributing.

“Mother” as a theme, relates in frist place to everybody’s mother or grandmother and their meaning to the creator. Every human being is a child of a mother, without the mother there is no family , no tribe, no people, no society, no social future. But mother can be interpreted also in different ways, the language uses “mother” in electronics for instance in “motherboard” or in a figurative sense as the roots or basics of being.

Like all VideoChannel projects also “Mother” is planned to be presented online and in physical space via screenings after its launch in October/November 2008.

The regulations and the entry form can be found on http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=292

OPENING RECEPTION: 15 May 2008, 8 pm
EXHIBITION DURATION: 16 May - 22 June 2008
HOSTING INSTITUTION: Mala galerija - Moderna galerija / Museum of Modern
Art, Ljubljana
LOCATION: Slovenska cesta 35, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
WEBSITE: http://www.youownmenow.net
CURATORS: Birgit Rinagl, Franz Thalmair / CONT3XT.NET

WITH WORKS BY:

Mary-Anne Breeze (mez)
Codemanipulator(R)
Christina Goestl, clitoressa.net
Karl Heinz Jeron, Valie Djordjevic
carlos katastrofsky
Joerg Piringer
Marek Walczak, Martin Wattenberg

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ONLINE PARTICIPATION:

Besides general information and documentation about YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME. the website of the exhibition includes the possibility to extend the concept as well as the list of selected works of art. Just go to http://www.youownmenow.net, enter a link of your own choice plus short link-description and submit your preferred work of art. Thank you for your participation!

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Jura Malt Whisky New Writer Retreat

For the first time this year, Scottish Book Trust is offering a new unpublished author the chance to spend the whole of October on the Isle of Jura (the island to which George Orwell retreated to find the seclusion he needed to write 1984) to concentrate on their writing.

The Jura Malt Whisky New Writer Retreat, in partnership with The Times, will give a new writer an exceptional opportunity to develop their writing away from the hustle and bustle of life. The successful applicant will receive:

* A £2,500 bursary
* Exclusive use of the Jura distillery lodge for October 2008
* The option to bring family and/or friends for all or part of their stay in the lodge
* Use of a hire car
* Return travel costs within the UK

The project is open to prose and fiction writers who are not the sole author of a commercially published book, but they must have had a story published in an established magazine or anthology.

Please submit a story that does not exceed 3000 words, the application form and no more than 1000 words on why you wish to spend a month on Jura.

Click here for more information and to download a copy of the application form.

The deadline for applications is 9 June 2008.
The successful applicant will be contacted by the week commencing 28 July.