artists newsletter
 
 
31 July 2007
No.73

COMPETITION
Art and Artificial Life. VIDA 10.0, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid
CRATER NEW YORK: a Lunar Drawing Contest, Location One, New York, NY

DIGITAL
PixelPops!, Orkney Isles, Scotland, UK

EXHIBITION
Annual Members Exhibition 2007, Studio Voltaire, London
WAG (Wearable Art Gala), The Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, B.C, Canada

FESTIVAL
Big Screen Festival 2007, International Video Festival in China

FILM & VIDEO
60x60 Secs : motiroti, 360_Britain India Pakistan

GRANT
Collaborative Research Grants, Getty Foundation, Los Angeles

POSITIONS
Galerie assistant (Registrar), Full-Time, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin

PROPOSALS
BRAIN, Exit Art, New York, NY














COMPETITION
Art and Artificial Life. VIDA 10.0, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid

Fundación Telefónica is attempting to promote the convergence of Art, Science and Technology by holding an international competition which rewards those works of art developed using Artificial Life technologies.

At previous editions, prizes were given to art projects created with robots, electronic avatars, chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automatons, computer viruses, virtual ecologies which evolve by interacting with the participant and works which delve into social aspects of Artificial Life.

Selected Projects

A total of 20,000 euros will be awarded to the projects selected by the jury:

First prize: 10,000 euros
Second prize: 7,000 euros
Third prize: 3,000 euros

Exhibition

The selected projects will be exhibited at the International Contemporary Art Fair (ARCO) in Madrid in February 2008.

Incentive for Production

The competition's second category will help finance Artificial Life art projects (and those of associated disciplines) that have not yet been made. The competition is open to participants from anywhere in Latin America, Spain and Portugal.

Jury

The works submitted will be examined by an international jury that will be meeting as of November 7, 2007. The prize winners' names and special mentions will be announced at an award ceremony.

Members of the Jury
Mónica Bello Bugallo, Spain
Daniel Canogar, Spain
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Canada/Mexico
José-Carlos Mariátegui, Peru
Nell Tenhaaf, Canada
Simon Penny, USA/Australia

Dates:
Project submission dates:
September 17-October 22, 2007.
Deliberation by the jury:
November 7-9, 2007.

You may send your proposal in along with the application form and required materials to any of the following addresses:

SPAIN
Ángeles Pérez Muela
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Gran Vía, 32. 5a planta
28013 Madrid, Spain
Phone: 34 91 584 23 05
Fax: 34 91 584 0656

PERU
Ana María Castañeta
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Av. Arequipa 1155
Santa Beatriz
Lima, Peru
Phone: 511 210 1544
Fax: 511 419 0501

ARGENTINA
Silvana Spadaccini
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Arenales 1540
1061 Capital Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Phone: 5411 4333 1317
Fax: 5411 4333 1307

CHILE
Claudia Villaseca
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Providencia, 111 - P. 25
Santiago, Chile
Phone: 562 691 3741
Fax: 562 236 7138

BRAZIL
Adriana Lomonaco
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundação Telefônica
Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 1188 -- conjuntos 33 e 34
CEP 01451-001 São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Phone: 5511 3035 1956
Fax: 5511 3035 1950

MÉXICO
Francisco Mijares
VIDA 10.0
International Competition 2007
Fundación Telefónica
Av. Prolongación Paseo de la Reforma, 1200 -- piso 08
Colonia Cruz Manca. Cuajimalpa de Morelos
C.P. 05349 -- México D.F. México
Phone: 5255 1616 7587
Fax: 5255 1616 8053

For further information on the competition, please write to: Ángeles Pérez Muela: angeles.perezmuela@telefonica.es

Applicants may consult the winning projects from previous years at the VIDA website, in order to determine whether their projects fit in with the philosophy.











CRATER NEW YORK: a Lunar Drawing Contest, Location One, New York, NY

September 6th -26th, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6th / 6-8 pm
Drawing Contest: September 6-26, rounds begin at 12:30 pm
Awards Ceremony: Wednesday, September 26th / 6-9 pm
Location One: 26 Greene Street NYC 10013
Gallery hours: Tue - Sat, 12 - 6 pm

To kick off the 2007-2008 season Location One presents Crater New York, a participatory project created by the artist duo of Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese. The project takes on the form of a drawing contest that is free and open to the public, artists and not-artists alike. Contestants fill out an entry form and select either digital or analog medium to create a rendering of the model installation of the Moon that will be placed at the center of the gallery. On one of two computer stations or two traditional artist easels, contestants will have ? hour to complete their drawing, which will then be hung on the walls of Location One?s main gallery for the duration of the project. The winner will be chosen by a panel of judges including artists, critics, real estate developers and celebrities. The Jury will be announced in September. Three prizes will be awarded on September 26th with each winner receiving a deed for a plot of land on the Moon.
At a time when many seek a virtual life in metaverses like?, when property on the moon is available for sale and ownership, Ligorano/Reese have devised a contest to evaluate contemporary artist skills in hand drawing and computer aided design. Using the moon as a drawing model, this project recontextualizes the tradition and practice of the "en plein air" landscape.

Proceedings of the drawing challenge and the work created will be shown simultaneously in Second Life, hosted by artist/critic Richard Minsky in his SLART gallery outpost on the island of Artopolis, and will also be live-streamed on Location One's website. Joining mankind's ancient fascination with the small celestial body that circles the Earth, Ligorano/Reese's interactive performance-exhibition invokes questions about imagination, representation, and judgment. It explores the concepts of virtual space and virtual reality, as well as artistic practice, the place of artists in society and in the future of New York. Will artists have to move to the moon to afford working and living space? Will they help redefine outer-borough living? To this end Ligorano/Reese have asked several artists to participate in populating the 8 foot diameter maquette of the moon by creating models of the first lunar artist colonies, using recycled materials in novel ways.
The contest is free and open to all visitors of Location One, with prior sign-up and registration. There will be two contest sessions on weekdays, and four sessions on Saturdays. Thirteen contest match-ups, reflecting the 13 annual lunar cycles, for a chance to own a piece of the pie in the sky.

Crater New York has received generous contributions from Tekserve, the Apple Specialist, and Material for the Arts.

LIGORANO/REESE
Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have collaborated as Ligorano/Reese since the early 80's. Their work examines contemporary trends in society and the media through the manipulation of images and sound from print, television, the Internet, and radio. Their installations, limited edition multiples and artists books have been exhibited at Jim Kempner Fine Art, Kent Gallery, the Beall Center, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Frankfurt, Germany, MIT MediaLab, Museum of Arts & Design, the Neuberger Museum of Art, and Lincoln Center. They have received fellowships and funding from the Jerome Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA, Art Matters and have been artists in residence at the MacDowell Colony and Djerassi Resident Artists Program.

LOCATION ONE is a not-for-profit organization devoted to convergence between visual, performing and digital arts in a time of rapidly changing technology. We invite artists from different disciplines and from different countries to work in our studios. We ask them to experiment with the new technologies of artistic creation, interaction and delivery. We urge them to collaborate in creating new works and give them virtual Internet spaces and physical gallery space to exhibit the results. Our goals are to foster the creation of new work, new forms of expression, and new capabilities in artists, and to advance new awareness in all those we reach.

ENTRY FORM [pdf]

DIGITAL
PixelPops!, Orkney Isles, Scotland, UK

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 25th, 2007.
ONLINE SUBMISSIONS

This year we are looking for digital work that is short and fast (small in file size and quick in linear time). The 2007 exhibits will be held at various airfields in the northern Orkney Isles, home of the "The World's Shortest Scheduled Flight".

ACCEPTED FORMAT: .MOV files. Maximum file size: 5MB Maximum Length: 2 MINUTES (approximately equal to the shortest scheduled flight time).

EXHIBITION DATE: OCTOBER 2007

2007 CURATOR/ORGANIZER: ROBB MITCHELL . As a curator, producer and event organiser, Robb Mitchell has had founding roles in the development of many interdisciplinary creative initiatives including The Chateau , Free Gallery , Machinista Glasgow 2004 and the new media / hacklab Electron Club at Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) Glasgow. He is also a board member of Clydeside Initiative for the Arts ( Studio Warehouse). With New Media Scotland he organised the Scottish node of the Upgrade! international network of art & technology gatherings.

ABOUT PIXEL POPS!: PixelPops!, now in its 3rd year, is an ongoing, traveling series of annual digital art exhibits, each with its own theme and each curated in a new location by a new individual. The series is wildly organic in the sense that it changes with each year's new locale and the creativity that each new curator brings to it. Year after year the online catalogue continues to grow and provide new resonances and global connections in artistic interpretation. PixelPops was founded by and is set in motion each year (from afar) by Colleen Tully . Previous guest curators have been Cynthia Beth Rubin (New Haven, 2005), Natalia Vasquez, Joan Sanchez, Michal Blazek (Prague, 2006)

EXHIBITION
Annual Members Exhibition 2007, Studio Voltaire, London

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 14 September 2007
PROVISIONAL EXHIBITION DATES: 24 November - 21 December 2007

We are pleased to announce the selectors for the Annual Members Exhibition 2007. Studio Voltaire's annual open submission exhibition aims to showcase the strength and diversity of its membership, which currently comprises over 200 artists. The exhibition is open to entry to all artists, working in any medium, who are studio or external members of Studio Voltaire. Every year, the changing panel, made up of artists, writers and curators select artists' work. This year's selectors will be:

· Stuart Comer, Curator - Film, Tate Modern
· Polly Staple, Writer and Curator
· Christabel Stewart, Co-Director, HOTEL

Selectors biographies:
Curator of Film at Tate Modern, Stuart Comer oversees film and video work for the Tate Collection and Displays and organises an extensive programme of lectures and screenings focusing on current cultural issues and the history of artists film. He has contributed to numerous publications and periodicals, including Artforum, Frieze, Afterall, Parkett and Art Review. Recent freelance curatorial projects include 'An American Family' at CASCO, Utrecht and Kunstverein Munich; 'America's Most Wanted' for The Artists' Cinema at the 2006 Frieze Art Fair, London; and Double Lunar Trouble at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. He is also a co-curator of the 2007 Lyon Biennial.

Polly Staple is a curator and writer based in London. She has most recently co-curated a touring, survey show of contemporary film and video from the UK, You have not been honest, produced by the British Council which opened at Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples in May 2007. She is Editor at Large of frieze magazine and was formerly Director of Frieze Projects, the curatorial programme realised annually at Frieze Art Fair, London. She was previously Curator at Cubitt Gallery, London and co-editor of Untitled magazine.

Christabel Stewart is a co-Director of HOTEL, a commercial gallery in London, which she co- founded with Darren Flook in 2002. She is the arts editor of Tank Magazine and the mainly internet based project, SHOWstudio. She was previously Assistant Curator of fig-1, an exhibition programme of 50 projects in 50 weeks in 2001.

Further information and application forms













5th Annual WAG (Wearable Art Gala), The Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, B.C, Canada
Deadline: Nov.4, 2007

Design art you can wear. This fun and funky adult event is not a fashion show in the traditional sense - it's an artistic exploration of all types of body adornment.

It features creative experimentation with hair, jewelry, accessories and original one-of-a-kind wearables made from any and all materials, including plastic, metal and paper. Artists have created outfits from everything from computer keyboards and teabags to string licorice and bubble wrap. Artists exhibiting work in the show are supported by an enthusiastic team of volunteers, including hair and makeup stylists, lighting and sound experts and a front-of-house crew. The fun includes door prizes, a silent auction, music and videos.

Download an entry & membership form from the website

Submit drawings, photos or slides along with a brief written description of your project Enclose a $25 membership fee ($15 for students) and a S.A.S.E. with you submission.

Accepted submissions will be showcased at the Alternator Gallery's Wearable Art Gala in March 2008

Send to: Wearable Art Gala, The Alternator Gallery #103-421 Cawston Ave, Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6Z1

for more information email
info@alternatorgallery.com or go to www.alternatorgallery.com

FESTIVAL
Big Screen Festival 2007, International Video Festival in China
Kunming, Yunnan, 27th November 2007 - 1st December 2007
Deadline Sept. 20, 2007

BigScreen Festival, the only international video festival in southwest China, will be back in November 2007, following the enormous success of last year's "Italian productions for the Year of Italy in China". CinaOggi.it, GoKunming.com, and the Yunnan Arts Institute will host the BigScreen Festival, with the collaboration of the Italian Institute of Culture in Beijing.

This year's BigScreen will feature a collection of movies from around the world to be judged by an international jury. Last year's jury members included world-famous directors such as Jia Zhangke (Winner, Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival) and Wang Xiaoshuai (Winner, Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes Film Festival and Silver Bear at Berlin Film Festival).

The event will be divided into three main sections opened to feature movies, shorts, documentaries and animation: "On Competition", "Out of Competition" and "In Focus" (dedicated to selected works).

The five days of the BigScreen Festival will feature concerts by internationally recognized bands plus DJ sets and much more. Additional features for this year that will add to the artistic atmosphere include photo exhibitions with video, and a handicraft exhibition.

BigScreen Festival

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Videomakers and Directors

We invite videomakers and directors to send their works for the selection. Directors can enter more than one work into competition, however for each piece they should submit a separate completed online form. Only movies with English subtitles will be accepted. (Note: Films with no spoken words do not require subtitles). Please send a DVD copy of the movie, a CD with summary (maximum 200 words), a short director's bio (max. 150 words), a document containing all the English subtitles in the work, two images of the movie (.tiff) and one director's photo.

Photographers

We invite photographers to send their works for selection. Please send a DVD with your pictures in high definition (.tiff, 300 dpi). Photographers can also send the "original" printing pictures (20*30 cm). The photos selected will be printed in China. Please include a brief presentation of the photographer and the titles of the pictures in English. The theme for the photography competition will be "Change" This "change" may be Physical, Mental, Emotional or Urban in nature.

Rules and entry form













FILM & VIDEO
60x60 Secs : motiroti, 360_Britain India Pakistan (2007-2010)
Artists Application deadline Friday 14 September 2007

360_ is motiroti's three-year programme of exchanges that will bring to light a rounded and contemporary picture of the cultural dynamics between Britain, India and Pakistan. Sixty films, several international artists' residencies, numerous publications and a new collaboration will bring artists together, to excite imaginations and explore the role that art can play in shaping communication and insight, across boundaries of culture and geography. 60x60 Secs is the first project of this programme.

60x60 Secs
60 one-minute film commissions are offered to sixty artists living in Britain, India and Pakistan, who define themselves as coming from the South Asian Diaspora. Both established and emerging artists, working in a variety of mediums and spanning a wide age range, are invited to present their unique views on how their identities are informed in an age of globalisation.

Nila Madhab Panda and Shalalae Jamil, artists specialising in new media from India and Pakistan, are appointed as Creative Associates to act as curators and mentors. They will be called upon to build alliances and open up possibilities for intercultural dialogue and engagement.

All sixty films will be launched and premiered in Britain, and via the web in March 2008. Following the launch 60x60 Secs will tour in all three countries. These films will work as effectively on TV as in digital arts festivals, in art galleries or within shopping malls and feed into the National Curriculum, translating equally well in Delhi as they do in Lahore and London.

Who can participate
Artists and filmmakers living in Britain, India and Pakistan, who define themselves as coming from the South Asian Diaspora and are interested to unravel complex identities and stories, and in the telling, to contribute and redefine cultures that are evolving.

Further information and Application Form
To download 360_ Overview, 60x60 Secs Artists Criteria and Application Form, please follow the link

For over ten years motiroti has made internationally acclaimed and award winning art that transforms relationships between people, communities and spaces. The company works at the forefront of ever- changing global social realities, challenging and teasing perceptions of artists, institutions and audiences alike.

GRANT
Collaborative Research Grants, Getty Foundation, Los Angeles
Deadline : November 1, 2007

Each year the Getty Foundation awards Collaborative Research Grants to scholarly teams of two or more individuals to pursue interpretive research projects that offer new explanations of art and its history. We strongly encourage collaboration between university and museum-based scholars, and project teams must include at least one art historian. Project funding typically relates to the preparation of a scholarly exhibition or publication, with the emphasis on the early stages of research. Of the ongoing and completed projects in this grant category, several may be of particular interest to members of Visual Culture Caucus.

In 2002, Nicholas Thomas, a well known anthropologist working in visual culture then located at the University of London, led a team of eight scholars and artists in researching the complex history of tattooing in Oceania and its role in cultural exchange between Western and native peoples from the colonial period through the present. This past year Heliana Angotti Salgueiro (University of São Paulo) and Lygia Segela (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro) completed their collaborative research begun in 2004 on the archives of Brazilian photographer Marcel Gautherot, "Travel Images as Icons of Brazil (1930s-1960s.)" The two are now preparing to present this work in an international, traveling exhibition. Currently, a seven- person team led by Saloni Mathur of UCLA and Kavita Singh of Nehru University is investigating the concept of museology within a non-Western, colonial context, using India as a case study. The project has included extensive field research and a blog of findings, which will eventually be organized into a scholarly volume.

These examples highlight just a few of the possibilities available in this grant category. Successful projects have varied widely in subject and approach, and grant funds are generally applied towards salary replacement, travel and research materials and assistance. Please contact Nancy Micklewright (nmicklewright@getty.edu) if you would like to submit an application for the November 1 deadline. We are more than happy to review letters of inquiry in advance and provide guidance concerning the proposal's eligibility and competitiveness.

In the meantime, we invite you to visit our website to see other examples of successful projects and review our guidelines.














POSITIONS
Galerie assistant (Registrar), Full-Time, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
Starting in August 2007

Galerie Volker Diehl exhibits international contemporary artist with 6-8 exhibitions a year and at international art fairs.

We are in search of a flexible, productive and committed person with previous experience in the commercial art market, love of teamwork and contact with the public.

Absolutely necessary skills for this position include a high level of computer efficiency (Mac) for the daily maintenance of our databank (Inventory, Archive, Contacts), the updating of the gallery website, experience with Photoshop and Office. Knowledge of of gallery operating software, in particular Artbutler, is a plus.

Other responsibilities include assisting in preparations for exhibitions and art fairs, organizing transportation of artwork, assisting Artists as well as collectors, day to day office administration, as well as working on independent projects for the gallery.

Fluency (written and spoken) in German and English is necessary.

Please send applications with references via email. info@galerievolkerdiehl.com

Galerie Volker Diehl
Zimmerstrasse 88-91
D - 10117 Berlin
t +49 - 30 22 48 79 22
f +49 - 30 22 48 79 20

PROPOSALS
BRAIN, Exit Art, New York, NY
Deadline: October 15, 2007

The most exciting frontiers in science today are explorations dealing with the brain - a mysterious universe beginning to be illuminated. Thought to be the most complex form of matter in the universe, the brain has many mysteries. The 21st century has seen rapid developments in neuroscience causing scientists and theologians to reconsider the complex and often ephemeral relationship between cognition and emotion. The brain is the engine of creativity. It functions as the vital organ of faith, the source of all conception.

How does the brain, a conceptual organ, control our predilections?

How does the brain separate natural impulses from the drive of humanity?

How does the brain work to express emotions?

Exit Art is looking for artists who are visualizing and investigating the physical and metaphorical functions of the brain. Artists can propose works that depict and explore the mysteries of the brain as they relate to consciousness, emotion, memory, physical perception, sensory experiences, and aesthetics.

How to Apply:

Please submit a page description of the documented performance; documentation of the performance (10 slides or images on CD - please send images at low resolution to open quickly or 3-5 minute NTSC VHS or DVD); and a resume. Include a self addressed stamped envelope for the return of your work and an email address for notification purposes. Exit Art is not responsible for returning works submitted without a SASE.

Send Submissions to:

Exit Art
BRAIN
475 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY 10018
Or email brain@exitart.org
No phone calls please.

phone: +44 (0) 870 922 0438

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