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Artist Opportunities 40
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11 August 2006
No. 40
COMPETITION
Castellón International Painting Prize, Spain
Video Phone Portrait Prize 2006
EXHIBITIONS
RIDER Project, New York - Art of the Neubees
LiveBox Gallery, Chicago - Mod 70s Show
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (lacada) - SNAP TO
GRID
FESTIVAL
Select Media Festival 5, Chicago
d.u.m.b.o. arts center, New York - The 10th annual
d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge
FILM
The Projection Gallery, Liverpool
MAGAZINE
SHIFTER 9 - Ruin|Monument
PUBLICATION
Daily Constitutional, Richmond, VA
STUDIO
Studio Share, London
COMPETITION
Castellón International Painting Prize, Spain
Deadline : 31 August
The 3rd edition of the Castellón County Council
International Painting Prize is open to any artist
regardless nationality, age or residency. Euro 60,000
top
prize, one of the highest in the world. The Prize is
dedicated to expanded painting and has a strong
international jury.
international jury:
- Franz Ackermann, artist
- Barry Schwabsky, writer and art critic.
- Javier Panera, Director Domus Artium (DA2),
Salamanca.
- Karen Wright, Editor Modern Painters magazine
- Wences Rambla, Professor of Aesthetics at the
University Jaime I Castellón.
pre-jury are:
- Martin Herbert, art critic, regular contributor to
Artforum
- Rosa Ulpiano, independent art critic and curator,
Valencia
- Paco Barragán, artistic director prize and
independent curator
More information and application guide lines
Video Phone Portrait Prize 2006
Deadline : 31 August
Create an inventive video portrait lasting no longer
than 30 seconds using a mobile phone. The objective
is to sell yourself to an employer/client by illustrating
how your services are of benefit to their organisation.
The winner will receive £5,000 and in addition,
various design vacancies will be offered at
competitive salaries. All the entries will be compiled
onto DVDs and presented to industry friends and
potential employers.
More
information
Application form (pdf)
EXHIBITIONS
RIDER Project, New York - Art of the Neubees
CALL FOR ENTRIES:
What to Submit:
- up to five pieces of work, pdf or jpg images
- statement and resume
- sculpture and installation work make include a
detail image of the work as well
- video or sound artists may send a DVD or CD,
please send an email requesting the address
Please send submissions to:
riderneubee@yahoo.com
(*Please note that the RIDER Project is a do-it-
yourself (d.i.y.) gallery created by participating
artists. All artists will be required to help construct
the gallery, "gallery-sit", and assist with the cost of
the truck rental. Artists must be in N.Y.C. for the
duration of the show. 'Alternative' accommodations
possible for artists travelling from abroad.)
EXHIBITION DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED
About the RIDER Project
The RIDER Project is a mobile gallery promoting mobile
art and positive social change. For the last four years
the nomadic RIDER gallery has brought new ideas,
thoughts and feelings into diverse neighborhoods
throughout N.Y.C. See www.art-anon.org for more
information!
LiveBox Gallery, Chicago
Mod 70s Show
Deadline October 1, 2006
LiveBox Gallery issues an open call for its' Mod 70s
show. Single channel video and animation interpreting
or inspired by the pop culture happening labeled "MOD
70s", will be screened at Hejfina, in the Bucktown
neighborhood of Chicago. Hejfina is a boutique on a
main shopping street in Chicago. The space also
serves as an interactive design lab, hosting
installations by up and coming Chicago artists and
various speakers on current topics in art and
architecture. All submissions must be suitable for
open public viewing. Work will be screened through
Hejfina's shop window and inside the store. Work
screened on the window monitor will not have audio.
Inside monitors will have audio and video.
Format: All entries must include a "digital" (CD)
resume, bio, artist statement and short synopsis of
the project, and jpg images. Video should be NTSC
DVD, if your piece is in PAL, please send mini DV
tape. Please use a standard DVD case (7"X5") not a
cassette case, and pack in bubble envelop. Note
materials will not be returned, unless specifically
requested. Please note whether you would be willing
to screen your work silently on the window monitor.
For additional information, check submissions on the
website
http://www.liveboxgallery.com
Or contact Catherine Forster at
liveboxg@netscape.net. (815) 236 5692.
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (lacada)
SNAP TO GRID, the UN-Juried show
Deadline : August 27, 2006
Show Dates:
September 14-October 7
Opening Reception Thursday September 14, 7-
9pm
Show your work at our gallery in our Un-Juried Show:
Snap to Grid. In a historically unprecedented
exhibition participants each upload one image to be
printed on high quality paper and hung in a grid in our
gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will
include a reception for the artists.
After the exhibition the images and artist information
will be available to gallery visitors to view in our artist
portfolios. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected
from the portfolios, and will also be available for
review by area gallerists, curators and arts
journalists. Everybody wins!
Entry fee $30US.
Show is international, open to all geographical
locations.
Entrants submit one JPEG file of original work up to
2mb. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where
digital processes of any kind were integral to the
creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video
stills and screen shots of web/new media are
acceptable.
More information and registration
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art (lacada)
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
323 646 9427
email: lacda (at)
lacda.com
FESTIVAL
Select Media Festival 5, Chicago
CALL FOR PROJECTS, WORKSHOPS, VIDEOS AND ART
ACTION
Deadline for projects: September 7,
2006
Select Media Festival 5 takes place Oct 13 to Oct 22,
2006 throughout Chicago.
SMF5: The DIY Academy
We are seeking documentaries, short films,
animations, new media projects, workshops,
skillshares, presentations and media to share and
present.
Select Media Festival features video programs, brand
new media, installations, performance programs,
street art, public projects as well as experimental and
advanced music. Our goal is to share innovative art
and technology projects as well as culturally and
socially charged work. The festival is produced by
Public Media Institute and Lumpen. It is organized by
artists and activists from Chicago.
This years festivals components include:
- The Film/Video Program: Docs, shorts, animation.
kick ass work.
- TLVSN: we will be airing and creating cable tv
episodes during the festival. You can send us your tv
to air on cable access too
- The Other net and The Brand New Media: Net
based and technology driven projects, and the new
media channels.
- Performance Program: Live music and
performance.
DIY Academy : How to XYZ :: This year we want to
share ideas strategies and practical applications for
intervention, agitation and public. Workshops,
skillshares, presentations and ideas on how to __ the
__ are welcome.
Please help us re-ignite dormant forces.
Select Media festival 5
contact: edmar
ed(at)lumpen.com
Select
Media Festival 5
Send material to:
Select Media Festival 5
960 W 31st St
Chicago Il 60608
USA
d.u.m.b.o. arts center, New York
The 10th annual d.u.m.b.o. art under the bridge
Deadline August 22 / 29
Attention artists!
Take a walk in the extraordinary neighborhood of
DUMBO, Brooklyn, and let your imagination run riot
because the deadline for submissions for the 10th
Anniversary Art Under The Bridge Festival (October
13/14/15, 2006) is coming soon. The water, the
waterfront, the streets and sidewalks, the lobbies,
elevators, and building facades of the 27-block
DUMBO neighborhood are yours in which to present
your art to an anticipated 200,000+ visitors. The
festival generates extensive publicity and media
attention each year and this fall receives an added
boost with the Village Voice signing up as the
festival’s title sponsor. Don’t miss this unprecedented
opportunity for exposure and a chance to be part of
DUMBO’s infamous creative ferment – get your ideas
into the d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac) NOW!
OPEN STUDIOS
submit name, audio address including suite
num ber, 'phone number, e-mail address, primary art
me dium and $25.00 cash or check per per&n made
out to 'd.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac).' Studios must be
in DUMBO. SIGN UP NOW.
Plus, we are seeking proposds for:
PROJECT GLOW
Sponsored by Con Edison.
Proposals are being accepted for light installations
and sculptures to illuminate the waterfront and
Brooklyn Bridge Park. Deadline August 22.
SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION AND
SCULPTURE
Site –specific sculpture, installations, and
environmental interventions on the waterfront, on the
bridges, under the bridges, on streets, in parks and
elsewhere. Art ists are encouraged to use sound,
lights, and audience participation. Deadline August
22.
ELEVATOR & LOBBYART
Create projects that use lobbies and elevators
located in d.u.m.b.o. Past projects have included
lights, sound, projections, and soap. This category
offers a way to engage festival spectators in existing
corporate environ ments. Deadline August
22.
ROVING PERFORMANCE/LIVE ART
Captivate a vast audience with live art activities
through out the weekend of the festival. You may
schedule specific times for your performance, or act
as a wandering art piece. Deadline August
22.
WATER ART
In, on, over, under the water, onshore and offshore,
art ists are urged to explore the possibilities for art
on the river within Brooklyn Bridge Park and elsewhere
in the neighborhood. Deadline August 22.
SIMULTANEOUS PROJECTIONS
Slides, film loops, videos and motion graphics to simu -
taneously illuminate streets, buildings and windows.
Deadline open ended.
VIDEO_DUMBO
This event is primarily designed to showcase new
work of video artists living in the greater New
YorkCity area All genres are eligible, however, the
focus of the festival is on video art. Accepted
formats: DVD and MiniDV. . $15.00 entry fee.
Deadline August 29, 2006.
Detailed proposals are required for all categories.
Proposals should include artist's resume, written and
visual informa tion about the project (sketches,
photographs, video etc.), examples of previous work
and lists of technical requirements, possible locations
in DUMBO. and contact information.
Please submit TWO COPIES of each
proposal.
(dac)'s curatorial staff is available war-round to meet
with artists interested in participating.
Entry forms and guidelines may be picked up at the
(dac) gallery or
downloaded from the website
Drop off at
d.u.m.b.o. arts center
30 Washington Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
for more information 718.694.0831 or
mail@dumboartscenter.org
FILM
The Projection Gallery, Liverpool
Deadline : 31 August
The Projection Gallery is currently taking applications
for submission of works on video, time-based
installations, filmic documentation, performance,
dance, storytelling, multimedia, sculpture, installation,
and other media.
Artist-run space in Liverpool during the Biennial. The
programme will feature screenings of short films,
animations, and documentaries, alongside dance,
experimental broadcasts, streaming, blips, idents,
anti-adverts and beyond. The space is a custom-
installed 60-seater cinema and gallery running
throughout the Liverpool Biennial September-
November 2006, in the city centre.
Submissions: DVD / CD / Mini DV / VHS preferred
More information
Applications must be sent by post.
on DVD/CD/VHS/slide to:
7 Wayland Avenue, Hackney Downs, London, E8 2HP,
U.K
info@theprojectiongallery.com
MAGAZINE
SHIFTER 9 - Ruin|Monument
"..A spectral figure now appears before him -
the "genius of Tombs and Ruins" - and spirits him
high, into the air, from which lofty vantage he sees
the globe spotted with deserts, fires, and fugitive
and desolate peoples. It is a law of nature Volney
surmises, that all things must fall into ruin. But the
apparation corrects him: the hideous earthly vision
above which he floats at a sublime distance, is not
natural at all. It is, precisely, human history."
-A description of a passage from Comte de
Volney's Les Ruines, ou Meditation, sur les revolutions
des empire, (1792) - Excerpted from Brian Dillon's
essay "Fragments From a History of Ruin"
"A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an
angel looking as though he is about to move away
from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes
are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread.
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face
is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a
chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe
which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of
his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the
dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a
storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in
his wings with such a violence that the angel can no
longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him
into the future to which his back is turned, while the
pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is
what we call progress."
-Walter Benjamin, from "Thesis on the Philosophy
of History"
The word monument derives from monere - to remind,
warn. The monument as we think of it, the emblem
which always points idealistically, emphatically
towards utopia, a dream, is fatalistically anchored to
a memory, that which has already been. Furthermore
the monument is the memory of a dream, a failed
utopia. As Svetlana Boym might say, the monument is
the ruin of the future - the future that never
happened.
I wonder if we can propose a re-reading of Benjamin's
proposition as follows: We are the angels of history.
We look towards the ruin of past events formulating
constellations (chains of events). We understand the
future that is behind us through these constellations.
The storm from Paradise which propels us towards
the future is precisely the same as the storm which
has destroyed our past. It is this contradiction which
allows us to continue moving backwards as we
imagine the future as the next ruin in our unfinished
constellation. The ruin is the embodiment of the
future - history. The Ruin is The Monument.
This issue of Shifter, Ruin|Monument will attempt to
explore these questions - questions which are
pressing as a city just built has been once again
destroyed. The monument here? Relegious dogma,
Political power, Machismo. We the angels read our
newspapers, the winds of paradise catching under
our wings.
- The fragmented | The unified
- The fractured | The intact
- The erased | The extant
- The silence | The voice
- The fleeting | The fallen
Specifications:
Please send all submissions/ questions to
shiftermail@gmail.com
Images should be formatted as jpgs, 8-10" wide at
120 dpi
Texts can be sent as word docs or pdf's
SHIFTER is a topical online magazine that showcases
the work of emerging artists and writers and can be
viewed at : www.shifter-magazine.com
SHIFTER also hosts the ongoing web-based project
titled "The Museum of Contextual Amputations."
Please visit
www.MuseumOfContextualAmputations.org
for more information.
PUBLICATION
Daily Constitutional, Richmond, VA
Deadline: Received by August 24th, 2006
WANTED: Artist's Writing, Artists who Write,
Text-Based Work, Manifestoes, "Classified Ads",
Letters to the Editor, Comics, Jokes, Food, Issue
Specific Proposals, Multi Issue Ideas, Rants, Raves,
Gobbledygook and other STUFF.
Description: Writings and submissions
wanted for publication. Daily Constitutional is an
artist run project consisting of the publication of a
magazine in themed issues, the first of which was
released December 2005 at the Miami Art Fairs and
the second issue was released at scopeHamptons,
July 14-16th, 2006. Daily Constitutional is currently
seeking writing submissions for the third issue as well
as writings that may span several issues. In addition
Daily Constitutional is also accepting proposals for
work made specifically for the publication. Proposals
may be for a single issue or may span several issues
utilizing the magazine's interior or the back cover.
The themes of the first and second issues were:
Issue I, "Art"; Issue II, "Between". For more insight as
to what we are doing, or to read or purchase past
issues please visit us at:
www.dailyconstitutional.org
Mission Statement: The mission of this
publication is to provide an outlet and forum for the
individual Artist's voice, rather than the cacophony
that is the art world at large (galleries, critics,
curators, museums, patrons and finally the artists
themselves). To provide a place to express,
exchange and discuss, without interpretation, the
artist's opinions, ideas and discoveries within one's
practice. This publication can only be made possible,
through a collaboration of individual Artists.
Eligibility: Open to all national and
international Visual and Performing Artists
More information and previous issues can be found
here
Contact information and Submissions:
Daily Constitutional
Attn: Submissions
PO Box 4683
Richmond, VA 23220
Submissions: submissions@dailyconstitutional.org
Questions: info@dailyconstitutional.org
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