Chris Joseph

Festival: April 22-26 2009

Submission Deadline: October 15 2008

Categories: Experimental and artistic media productions.

Requirements: See website

Awards: Non-competitive, artist fees are paid

Entry fees: None

Administrative address: VIVO Media Arts Centre, 1965 Main Street, Vancouver, BC , Canada V5T 3C1
Tel: +1 604 872 8337

Email address: festival@signalandnoise.ca

Website: http://www.signalandnoise.ca

This year there is no theme, we just want to know what artists are making. Send us your electronic arts, video, audio, new media, film, net, av performance — analogue and digital experiments, site specific ambient interiors and exterior, thought experiments, new genres, relational activities.

“Deep Philosophical Questions” is a new digital story at webyarns.com. Comic strips and philosophy are combined in this story to answer six important questions that slip between the cracks of serious philosophy, into a place where logic and pedantry have no play.

This work can be seen at http://www.DeepPhilosophicalQuestions.com

AHRC workshop on ephemeral media, University of Nottingham, 21-22 July 2009
http://www.ephemeralmedia.co.uk/

The ephemeral media workshop is part of the AHRC’s ‘Beyond Text’ research programme and is designed to facilitate discussion in a small group environment. It can provide travel (up to £100), accommodation, and subsistence costs to all accepted participants. To apply for the workshop, please send a 250 word paper proposal and a short biography highlighting relevant research interests or publications to generalenquiries [at] ephemeralmedia.co.uk by 10th December 2008.

key speakers: Professor John Caldwell (UCLA), Professor William Uricchio (MIT), Charlie Mawer (Executive Creative Director, Red Bee Media)

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The CAPE AFRICA PLATFORM (CAPE) is a groundbreaking cultural project located in Cape Town, South Africa. CAPE aims to culturally connect Cape Town, South Africa, Africa and the Diaspora by creating a contemporary African art event - rooted in the local but global in impact.

CAPE is seeking multiple proposals from artists for CAPE 09, its second biennale exhibition of contemporary African Culture, to take place from 2 May till 19 June 2009. Please download our 1-minute video if you are interested.

CAPE 09 is about life today: the people, the connections and networks they make up - from creatively understanding new media, to analyzing how questions of colonialism have been deeply transformed by networked society.

CAPE 09 seeks to explore networks that accentuate the contemporary characteristics of Africa and provide a stage for communications between communities and citizens activities.

The narrative of the event is initiated from the city of Cape Town itself. The city as a network requires a re-imagining of how we move and engage with each other. Artists are therefore asked to propose public interactions rather than exhibitions, and to intervene or present their works in a series of pre-selected networked spaces that represent the every day that is our common ground: venues and sites, both public and private, along the axis Church Square (CAPE’s office/gallery space) - Metrorail Station, through Parliament and Plein Street. Potential satellite exhibition sites are Lookout Hill, Khayelitsha and the CAPE’s Arts Awareness Programme areas Nyanga, Manenberg and Klapmuts.

For its second biennale CAPE has been working with a team of five young curators. In addition to their proposals CAPE is currently seeking proposals for small and medium-sized interactions through this call.

CAPE aims at a local audience, particularly addressing Cape Town’s youth.

Proposals for CAPE 09 may pre-empt (larger or follow-up) events for CAPE 2010 (May – July 2010).

Proposals must include artists’ biographies, venue/site description (in case this forms part of the proposal) and detailed logistic and budgetary information.

Deadline for proposals: 30 October 2008

Proposals may be posted to PO Box 15806, Vlaeberg 8018 or be hand-delivered to 8 Spin Street, Cape Town 8000.

For more information call 27-21-461 2325 or write to info [at] capeafrica.org

CAPE reserves the right to select or refuse any submission, even not to select any.

The launch of a new flagship book from the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT) & Liverpool University Press, which brings together authors, artists and designers to interrogate the future of humanity:

Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (2008), Edited by Andy Miah

Tickets: £25 / £20 concessions
Date: 30 October, 2008, 10am-6pm
Location, FACT, Liverpool

Confirmed Speakers include: Russell Blackford, Paul Brown, Michael Burton, Revital Cohen, etoy.CORPORATION, Ernest Edmonds, Steve Fuller, Norman M. Klein, Andy Miah, Fiona Raby, Mike Stubbs.

Full details about the event and book, including reservation details, are available at: http://humanfutures.wordpress.com/

For any further information, please contact: gabrielle.jenks [at] fact.co.uk

TURN*ON
Artivistic 2009 (Fall)
Montreal, Canada
http://artivistic.org

The world to come is so sexy. We are unstoppable for we are fueled with an incredible urge to embrace the pleasure provided by difference, exchange and freedom. Our actions today are charged with an energy that is animated by the rise of change and a movement that is simply irresistible.

New movements are arising at the intersections of sex, politics and technology. These movements are inspired by, as well as critical of, the long traditions of struggle they stem from, remixing gender bending, sex work (and play), and media activism. From body hacking to the implosion of the service economy, where are we today and what new possibilities can we envision and nurture?

For its upcoming fourth edition, Artivistic is going sexy. Discussing, questioning, and imagining the past, present, future, and infinite possibilities of sex. While keeping issues of power and control in question, we want to turn to the potency of pleasure, curiosity, humor, and desire in order to TURN*ON that which has yet to be thought and experienced differently.

Building on previous generations of gatherings, Artivistic 2009 asks the following questions:

* What kind of world is worth fantasizing about? How can imagination act as a productive tool to think sex with and beyond the body? Fantasy always plays a role in political projects when we imagine the “world we want”, but how does that fantasy become reality? Where does the line blur? What feedback loops are created between what we desire and the lives we live everyday?

* What actually makes resistance irresistible? The different notions of sex, gender and sexuality draw our attention to the task of naming. That task can be appropriated in liberating ways. How do we move away from tired and troublesome terminology in order to create different relationships that unleash new ways of thinking (and relating) and new strategies for political action? How can reimagining sex contribute to a process of decolonization in every sense of the word?

* What are the alternative infrastructures of sex? Sex is everywhere. Everyone talks about sex and this can tend to be polarizing and unproductive. How we address sex might get us somewhere more, say… stimulating, by welcoming the critical analysis of the production and consumption of sex, and an exploration of self-organized, even intimate, initiatives. What new libidinal economies of service and information are emerging with respect to sex work and how can we struggle for the rights of communities forging these new paths?

In line with the self-organized aspect of the upcoming gathering, the Artivistic collective seeks proposals that intervene in the very (infra)structure of the event, welcoming proposals that involve food, space, venue, communications, hardware, software, skill sharing, documentation, dissemination and so on. The gathering further encourages submissions that take on the challenge of collective participation and collaboration, opening onto unconventional praxes and theses of knowledge production.

Artivistic is an international transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate.

To submit a proposal, please use the online form via: http://artivistic.org

Alternatively, you can send your proposal to: participation [at] artivistic.org

Deadline: 1st November 2008

Questions: info [at] artivistic.org

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PICTURE THIS: MATTHEW NOEL-TOD’S BLIND CARBON COPY

PREVIEW: FRIDAY 03 OCTOBER 2008 6-9PM
EXHIBITION DATES: 04 OCTOBER – 15 NOVEMBER 2008

Blind Carbon Copy is built from many sources. The film includes a performance undertaken by six actors, a dancer, a baby, various life drawing sessions and two bands; one based around guitar and drums, the other electronics. In bringing these things together the video asks where the point of translation occurs, where does concrete meaning lie and what takes precedent in these moments?

William Fowler, Curator of Artists’ Moving Image, BFI National Archive

Based on an evocative script collaged from Matthew Noel-Tod’s personal email correspondence re-interpreted via a combination of spoken, physical and musical performances Blind Carbon Copy rethinks 1970s artists’ performance and addresses technology and disembodiment.

This exhibition contains nudity, adult language and strobing imagery.

Exhibition Information

Picture This
Mardyke Ferry Road
Spike Island
Bristol BS1 6UU
Tel:+44 (0) 117 925 7010
office [at] picture-this.org.uk
www.picture-this.org.uk

open:
Wednesday – Saturday 12 – 5.30pm and by appointment
Admission free

Blind Carbon Copy is a Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network and Picture This co-production produced as part of the Bristol Mean Time Residency.