| 06 June 2007
No.66
CURATORS
Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe,
Apex Art , New York
LabforCulture.org
FILM &
VIDEO
LOYAL ROOFTOPS 2007, Kassel, Germany
OVNI 2008,
Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Spain.
GRANT
Travel Grants. Film London Film-makers'
Festival Fund, UK
MAGAZINE
Itch, Cape Town, South
Africa
PRIZE
$5000 MONA HORSE BAZAAR PRIZE,
Melbourne, Australia
PROPOSALS
West Space,
Melbourne, Australia
RESIDENCY
NEA International
Digital Film-maker Residency 2007, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, USA.
CURATORS
Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe, Apex Art , New
York
Curators* are invited to send one work each by two
different artists to the "Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe."
All works must be received between June 16 - July 5.
Exhibition July 7 - August 11, 2007
Works
must measure 8 inches x 10 inches with a maximum depth/height
of 4 inches, including any framing. Works can be vertical,
horizontal, or lay flat. If a work goes on the wall, it must have a
hole or a hook for hanging; if it sits on a flat surface it will be
shown at table height, next to others; it cannot be toxic, or wet
(although we will fill any "lakes or indents" with clear water if
requested).
On the back of each piece include the artist's and
curator's names and email addresses. Drop off during gallery hours
or mail to:
apexart
attn: Most Curatorial Biennial
291
Church Street
New York, NY 10013
Works will not be
returned or insured and pieces larger or smaller than 8x10 will not
be accepted.. No COD's will be accepted. All works must be
received between June 16 - July 5.
All works will be
shown on our site if you send a 72 dpi jpeg image of 300 x 240
pixels. Thanks for doing this.
During the show all works
will be available by anonymous bidding, starting with a $10 donation
and going up in $10 increments. All proceeds will go directly to the
Robin Hood Foundation of NYC. Absolutely no funds will go to
apexart. Submissions must be by the curator in one package. They may
be dropped off or mailed.
All submissions are accepted,
nothing (legal) will be censored. Everyone is invited to attend the
opening June 27 from 6 to 8pm at apexart either in person or via
Internet camera feed, login to be made available via email prior to
opening.
Up to 1000 works will be accepted, but phone
calls will not. Email all inquiries to info@apexart.org, we'll get
right back to you.
FAQ's:
Q: Can I submit more
than two artists for the exhibition?
A: No.
Q: When will the
works be available for pick up/distribution?
A: August 4 - (the
final day of exhibition)
Q. Can really famous curators and/or
artists participate?
A: You bet. apexart treats everyone the
same
Q: Why should I bother? This sounds like another situation
that takes advantage of artists.
A: Depending what else is on
your resume it looks good, funds go to a really good cause and its
an opportunity to have fun making something that you wouldn't
otherwise make. Participation won't make you a famous artist if you
aren't one already. Have fun, don't spend too much time or money.
Limited postage funds available on an as needed basis.
*curators can be artists, writers, or anyone so inclined.
Thank you for your participation! go to our website
LabforCulture.org
Deadline
July 1, 2007
LabforCulture.org is the essential online
tool for everyone involved in arts and culture who creates,
collaborates, shares and produces across borders in Europe. This
interactive web platform was launched in 2006 to encourage dialogue,
networking and collaboration across physical, cultural and
imaginative borders across 48 countries in the broader Europe.
Initiated by the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and jointly
developed and supported by many of Europe's leading cultural
organisations, LabforCulture offers a wealth of essential
information, debate and research - including all the latest news,
vital funding tips, blogs and a vast searchable database of cultural
organisations operating from Rome to Reykjavík.
LabforCulture.org will celebrate its first anniversary in
the summer of 2007 and in this context we are pleased to announce a
call for an experienced media art curator or curatorial
collaboration to conceptualise and manage an online presentation of
specially commissioned artworks, for presentation in early 2008.
This is an open call to Europe-based curators to
propose a creative concept for the LabforCulture anniversary
project, be responsible for the ultimate selection of artworks and
critically reflect on the project throughout its duration and after
its end. The concept and commissioned artworks should address,
challenge and rethink issues such as cross border dialogue, cultural
intersections, crossings or networks, in the context of
LabforCulture and cultural cooperation in the broader Europe. The
curatorial proposal will contextualise and document the work in
relation to the scope, content and technological framework of
LabforCulture.org.
More
Information and guidelines
FILM & VIDEO
LOYAL ROOFTOPS 2007, Kassel, Germany
As part of
the program of the festival 'Bürgerstolz
und Weltfrieden' (Civil Pride & Urban Peace) we offer a
billboard for screening video works from the 15. May to the 24
September 2007.
Each piece should point at social grievances
and/or the struggle of independent culture /cultural institutions...
Works will be shown without sound and should tick with its visuals
only. Each work will be shown at least for one evening. All
participating artists will be present on our info media.
More
information and application
Send your DVD to:
Martin
Dege
Menzelstrasse 13
D - 34121 Kassel
dege (ät)
uni-kassel.de
OVNI
2008, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona, Spain.
Deadline: 1 July 2007
The Observatory Archives are
intentional in nature and organized around specific themes, bringing
together material that supports a critique of contemporary culture
through different approaches such as video art, independent
documentary and mass media archeology.
Although the archives
include many different kinds of works, they all share a commitment
to free expression, and reflect upon our individual and collective
fears and pleasures. Together, they create a multifaceted vision,
thousands of small eyes probing and exploring our world and
proclaiming other possible worlds. A discourse that values
heterogeneity, plurality, contradiction and subjectivity; an
antidote to the cloning and repetition of corporate mass media. In
the 14 years of OVNI's existence, the Observatory Archives have
grown to include more than 1400 projects.
More
Information
GRANT
Travel Grants. Film London Film-makers' Festival Fund,
UK
Deadline : 15 June 2007
Film London's Film-makers'
Festival Fund (FFF) aims to support the development of individual
film-makers' and moving image artists' careers, by providing travel
grants for attendance at a small number of overseas festivals where
films have been selected and are in competition.
In a
limited number of festivals where films are in competition,
contributions are also available towards costs of striking a first
film print or production of digital masters where required by the
festival for screening.
More
Information and
application
MAGAZINE
Itch, Cape Town, South Africa
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS:
TUESDAY 31 July 2007
We are delighted to let you know
that we are launching a new online version of ITCH
magazine.
This doesn't mean that print is dead. Far from
it. We still intend to publish a paper and ink magazine annually.
But for now, weíd like to offer a new platform for creative and
literary work. We hope that you agree that itís worthwhile to do
this. We certainly think so!
Each online magazine will have
an abstract "theme" and will consist of the best original,
unpublished- elsewhere submissions received. It will be curated and
designed by the ITCH team.
Our mandate and vision and
inspiration remain the same: to create quality media platforms for
new creative literary and visual work that may otherwise not be
published. Weíve just decided to do it in binary code rather than
ink and paper for a little while.
We hereby cordially invite
submissions for our first online magazine. For full submission
guidelines and theme information, please click through to the
submissions guidelines
Successful contributors will be
invited to contribute new work to the "invited contributors section"
of the next print magazine.
Please forward this mail to
anyone you think may be interested in sharing their work with an
appreciative audience. Don't hesitate to contact the editor
mehita@itch.com with any queries.
PRIZE
$5000 MONA HORSE BAZAAR PRIZE, Melbourne,
Australia
Entries close on July 13th
MONA
is offering world's richest prize for the production of
panoramic content.
The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize for panoramic
content is an open digital art prize for the production of screen-
based content that best uses Horse Bazaar's unique panoramic
projection system. The screens are custom-built for the environment
and extend for nearly 20 metres around the bar. Casting aside the
traditional 4:3 screen format, visual artists are asked to produce
digital content at an 8:1 ratio. The Mona Horse Bazaar Prize aims to
cultivate the appreciation and production of panoramic virtual
décor. This is an acquisitional competition; winning pieces will
become a part of the MONA art collection.
Entries close
on July 13th. Submissions will be shown at Horse Bazaar in the
lead up to the gala and award night that will take place on Saturday
21st July. Entry is unrestricted and artists are invited to submit
multiple entries should they so desire. International entries are
welcome. Feel free to spread the word!
Panoramic
projection
The panoramic projection system created at Horse
Bazaar is inspired by the huge panoramic painted canvases of the
19th century. The system uses modern technology to create
large-scale panoramas in digital form. Six projectors are tiled
together to create a seamless 20 metre digital canvas that envelops
the bar. Using only light, the bar can be reshaped in an instant - a
kind of virtual décor.
Recent software and hardware
developments have made panoramic digital content production and
projection readily accessible. Horse Bazaar is pioneering the
application of this technology in Melbourne. The concept of virtual
décor is typically innovative. Horse Bazaar has employed it in the
production of virtual sets for plays, to tailor make backdrops for
gigs and events, to host virtual dance parties in Second Life, and
to enhance the general ambience of the bar.
The Horse Bazaar
Prize rewards innovative and subtle panoramic works that set mood
and re-shape the room. Judges are asked to consider how the
submissions engage elements such as innovative use of the entire
projection surface, consideration of the projection environment,
aesthetic and compositional values, virtual décor, conceptual
innovation, technical proficiency, social cultural or political
content. Yet Horse Bazaar doesn't want to direct people's
submissions - we like to be surprised.
More
Information and application
guidelines
PROPOSALS
West Space, Melbourne, Australia
Proposals due 5pm
Wednesday 27 June 2007.
Invites artists to submit
proposals to exhibit between February - June 2008
Please also
note that West Space will maintain the duration of exhibition length
at 3 weeks in 2008. Exhibition fees will not
increase
About
Founded in 1993, West Space is one
of Australia's longest running artist run organisations. West Space
Inc continues to build on its excellent record of providing a
supportive and flexible venue for the presentation of innovative
contemporary art and its ensuing dialogue.
West Space has
developed a unique identity amongst Australian arts organisations.
This reputation has been forged through a sustained belief in the
importance of artist-run initiatives to practitioners, audiences and
the art industry. As an organisation that is run by artists it is
fully engaged with the multiplicity of practices that artists
embrace. The artists on the committee are active in a variety of
artistic fields, and in daily contact with current concerns and
artistic developments. An accountant and a lawyer oversee financial
management and legal issues.
Importantly, West Space acts as
a working model that gives artists direct control over the means and
conditions of presenting their work to the public. While many
artists exhibiting at West Space are young or emerging, there is
also a significant number of established artists that actively
choose to exhibit at Artist Run Spaces like West Space because of
the dynamic communication and artistic freedom that they offer. Two
thirds of West Space programming consists of application-based
exhibitions. Around one third of the program consists of the West
Space Projects Program. This Program includes exhibitions, exchanges
and West Space publications.
The
Gallery
West Space operates three exhibition spaces. Gallery
3 operates as a normal gallery or as an audio/visual room.
- The floor is polished concrete and the walls are plasterboard.
- A section of wall between galleries One and Two is moveable,
and its position can be negotiated between exhibitors.
- A quality gallery lighting system provides flexible
illumination of the spaces. Galleries One and Two feature
theatre-type spotlight systems or bright fluoro bank lighting,
while Gallery 3 has halogen lighting.
Who can apply
- West Space welcomes proposals by practitioners working in all
fields of creative endeavour. These fields broadly include visual
and audiovisual arts, new media, sound, design, craft, literature,
performance.
- West Space welcomes proposals by emerging and established
practitioners.
- Applications for solo or group exhibitions are welcome.
- West Space does not exhibit work by current undergraduate
students, but accepts proposals from undergraduate students for
exhibitions that will commence after their studies are complete.
- West Space selects proposals with a view to programming a
first class calender of events. We seek to balance emerging and
experienced artists, while presenting a broad range of media and
critical approaches.
Audio/Visual work
Gallery
Three at West Space is well suited to Audio/Visual work. It has a
dark grey carpet, good acoustics and a sound proof door to the
space. (This does not in any way preclude the use of Galleries One
or Two for Audio/Visual work, or the use of Gallery Three for non AV
work).
Exhibition Fees for 2008
Gallery One : Aus
$ $790
Gallery Two : Aus $590
Gallery Three : Aus
$390
Prices include GST
Included in the exhibition
fee:
- Three week exhibition.
- Design and printing of invitation and statement/bio cards
(artists receive approx 100 copies).
- West Space mailout (including postage & envelopes) to
around 360 subscribers, galleries, media, institutions, curators
etc.
- Email out to over 1800 subscribers
- Art Almanac line listing.
- Promotion of your exhibition on the West Space website.
- In-gallery archive and web presence of visual and other
documentation of your exhibition.
- Minding of the gallery by West Space volunteers for a
proportion of the exhibition.
- Opening bar service provided by the West Space committee
(drinks for sale, food is not included).
More
information and application
For further inquiries or
media quality images please contact Mark Feary at the gallery on Ph:
(03) 9328 8712 or e-mail: info@westspace.org.au
West
Space
1st Floor, 15-19 Anthony Street
Melbourne Vic 3000,
Australia
T: +61 3 9328
8712
RESIDENCY
NEA International Digital Film-maker Residency 2007,
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, USA.
Deadline: 16 June
2007
Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources is a
grassroots, artist-run, non-profit media arts center founded in 1985
to promote and support film, video, computer, digital, and audio art
by media artists and community members.
This four week
National Endowment for the Arts funded residency offers one month
unlimited access to 16mm production and post-production systems, the
G5 Final Cut Pro digital editing system and digital video cameras.
The month-long residency includes lodging in a funky, nearby hotel,
travel, and a $1000 artist's stipend paid in two installments. This
Artist's Residency is directed toward experimental filmmakers who
are interested in using new technologies but lack the resources for
access and training. In addition to the artist completing and
exhibiting at least one new work, the terms of the residency include
teaching one local workshop (4 - 8 hours) on any topic related to
media art and curating one evening screening of films / videos which
relate to the resident's own creative investigations. The selected
artist will be notified by June 30, 2007 and may fulfill the terms
of the residency between August and November 2007.
More
information and application
Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St.,
Buffalo NY
14202
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