Chris Joseph

The Images Festival is now accepting installation, live/performance, and new media submissions for our 22nd Festival, to be held in April 2009. In addition to screenings in a cinema, the Images Festival annually exhibits a growing number of projects beyond the cinema’s walls. Images works with Toronto galleries, production centres, performance and music groups and other alternative exhibition spaces to show artworks incorporating the moving image and interactive media, music and performance. We welcome any and all takes on the definition of what that means.

There is no fee to submit work in these categories and Images pays artist fees for all works presented at the festival. The deadline for submitting your work is July 15, 2008 (postmark). Works created on or after January 1, 2006 are eligible for this year’s festival. Please note: this is a call specifically for gallery, performance, and new media based work. We’ll be posting a call for Film and Video works in July with a deadline of October 31.

A PDF of the call and guidelines can be found on our website. An online fillable form will also be active in the next day or two. Click SUBMIT in the left-hand menu frame: http://www.imagesfestival.com

If you have any trouble with the forms, or would like them emailed to you, please contact images [at] imagesfestival.com

The Electronic Literature Organization seeks submissions for the Electronic Literature Collection, volume 2. We invite the submission of literary works that take advantage of the capabilities and contexts provided by the computer. Works will be accepted from June 1 to September 30, 2008. Up to three works per author will be considered; previously published works will be considered.

The Electronic Literature Collection is a biannual publication of current and older electronic literature in a form suitable for individual, public library, and classroom use. Volume 1, presently available both online (http://collection.eliterature.org) and as a packaged, cross-platform CD-ROM, has been used in dozens of courses at universities in the United States and internationally, and has been widely reviewed in the United States and Europe. It is also available as a CD-ROM insert with N. Katherine Hayles’ full-length study, Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008).

Volume 2, comprising approximately 50 works, will likewise be available online, and as a cross-platform DVD in a case appropriate for library processing, marking, and distribution. The contents of the Collection are offered under a Creative Commons license so that libraries and educational institutions will be allowed to duplicate and install works and individuals will be free to share the disc with others.

The editorial collective for the second volume of the Electronic Literature Collection, to be published in 2009, is Laura Borràs Castanyer, Talan Memmott, Rita Raley and Brian Kim Stefans. This collective will review the submitted work and select pieces for the Collection.

Literary quality will be the chief criterion for selection of works. Other aspects considered will include innovative use of electronic techniques, quality and navigability of interface, and adequate representation of the diverse forms of electronic literature in the collection as a whole. For volume 2, we are considering works of electronic literature in video.

Works submitted should function on both Macintosh OS X (10.5) and Windows Vista. Works should function without requiring users to purchase or install additional software. Submissions may require software that is typically pre-installed on contemporary computers, such as a web browser, and are allowed to use the current versions of the most common plugins.

To have a work considered, all the authors of the work must agree that if their work is published in the Collection, they will license it under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License, which will permit others to copy and freely redistribute the work, provided the work is attributed to its authors, that it is redistributed non-commercially, and that it is not used in the creation of derivative works. No other limitation is made regarding the author’s use of any work submitted or accepted.

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