Call: IEG seeks artworks for exchange themed exhibition

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Jurors: Lori Gordon and Jennifer Delos Reyes, Directors

In conjunction with the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (SJICA), the Infinite Exchange Gallery (IEG) will participate in the upcoming ZERO1 biennial in 2008. This event will take place on June 6, 2008, from 6-11 pm. The festival will be closing down the street, to present an art street fair. Spaces along this street will be open late for the evening including Macla, Works, Anno Domini, the Quilt Museum and Space 47. For more information, visit the Zero1 website: 01sj.org.

IEG knows the value of art and believes that everyone should have access to it in their daily lives. It is in essence, an art market functioning outside of the 'art market' constraints. Located within this type of setting, the venue serves as a place where people can feel comfortable bargaining and trading.

Presenting works and services in exchange for non-monetary trades, artists determine what they feel the value of their work is and what they want in exchange for it. This agreement ensures the cooperative collaboration that manifests between the gallery representatives and the buyer. The viewers are thereby invited to swap and potentially even haggle in exchange for what they want.

Deadline for entries:
Received by January 15, 2008
Exhibition event:
June 6, 2008, from 6-11 pm.
Work Samples:
Digital files -- Up to five jpgs (under 2 MB).
Supporting Materials:
Corresponding image list with: artist name, title of work, size, medium, and year
Artist Resume
1 paragraph artist statement.
Please send submissions to: infinite.exchange.gallery@gmail.com
Note: Accepted artists are required to be present for the event.
www.lorigordon.com/ieg/ | www.jendelosreyes.com/ieg/

Bios:
Delos Reyes and Gordon have been collaborating on various projects, since meeting at a residency program in New York at The Kitchen in 2006. Both artists are interested in work that investigates relational aesthetics, gift economies and activities of the everyday. They are founders of the LRH Collective.

Delos Reyes is currently completing her MFA at the University of Regina, where she coordinated the conference Open Engagement, an event focused on 'art after aesthetic distance' for her final thesis project. She has exhibited videos, installations, and site-specific participatory work across North America. She has received several awards and grants including a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Masters Grant.

Gordon received her MFA at the California College of the Arts. She is the recipient of a SECA Award nomination and the Murphy Cadogan Fellowship from the San Francisco Foundation. Exhibition venues include Richmond Arts Center, San Jose Museum of Art, Mission17, Southern Exposure, Temescal Amity Works, RockPaperScissors, The Kitchen (NYC). In 2008 she will be curating an exhibition at Ampersand International Arts in San Francisco.

Call: Papers wanted for "Uncertain Vibes: Tension, Contrast and Change in Electronic Dance Music"

Session:
Uncertain Vibes: Tension, Contrast and Change in Electronic Dance Music
Cultures

>From house to techno, dubstep to psytrance, electronic dance music
cultures (EDMC) are contexts for popular ekstasis and the carnivalesque
flourishing in social dance movements possessing unprecedented
popularity. With inheritance from Jamaican dancehall and sound system
traditions, New York disco and house Dionysia, Detroit techno and
Afrofuturism, UK rave and the ?chemical generation?, Goa trance and
psychedelia, etc, EDMCs are sites humming with diverse social,
stylistic, and technical influences. At the same time, EDMCs are highly
contested, with adversaries committed to repressive policies and
regulatory practices, or political mobilizations and adaptive moves to
maintain the vibe. As a result of this traffic and buzz (including that
generated by police helicopters), EDM genres are hives of contrast,
tension, and indeterminacy. Are aesthetic contrasts and social
contradictions resolved in the mix? What are the outcomes of tension
between adversaries? Are new dance musics and youth cultures emerging
from these dramas? If so, what do they look and sound like? Papers will
address these and related themes.

The official deadline for abstracts (150 words max) is Nov 30 2007.
Please post proposals to me (Graham St John) at
g.stjohn@uq.edu.au

The conference details at: http://www.crossroads2008.org/

Thanks

Graham St John

Call: MUTEK 2008

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

It's time to submit your projects for the 9th edition of the MUTEK festival, which will take place from May 28th to June 1st. All artists with projects exploring new aesthetic avenues in electronic music and digital creation are invited to submit work. We would especially be interested in discovering work from the audio-visual spectrum, but all electronic music and digital creativity is welcome.

Please send your submissions by email or via regular mail, by December 15th, 2007. We strongly encourage applicants to accompany their submissions with live recordings of their performances:

Submissions 2008
c/o MUTEK
473 Blvd. St Joseph East
Montreal, Quebec
H2J 1J8, CANADA

Please note that we cannot confirm the receipt of packages. Artists will be contacted if their projets have been selected for the festival. The process of selection will take place during the months of January and February. We would like to thank, in advance, all artists who express interest in the festival and who submit their work for candidacy.

Call: Blue Oyster: New Zealand 2008 International Summer Residency

Blue Oyster: New Zealand 2008 International Summer Residency

Mon Nov 19, 2007
(Eastern Time - Montreal)
http://www.blueoyster.org.nz/proposals.htm (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

New Zealand 2008 International Summer Residency
CALL ON NOW for Proposals:

The Blue Oyster Gallery is currently seeking proposals from international practitioners for their 2008 summer residency. The residency will allow an artist to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand, for four weeks to produce a project which engages with the Dunedin community.
For further information and application forms please download the following files:
Download further info here
Download application form here (.doc format)
Download application form here (.pdf format)

Or contact:
Gallery Director- Michelle Armistead,
email: blueoyster@blueoyster.org.nz,
ph: +64 3 479 0197

Making Exhibition Proposals:

The Blue Oyster makes one main call for proposals annually. The deadline for exhibitions occurring in 2008 has already past. There will be another call made in the first half of 2008 for 2009 exhibitions.

There will be other calls for proposals from time to time for specific projects during 2008 and proposals are welcome at any time but may not be considered immediately.
The proposals received will be discussed by a panel, generally made up of the current board members and the gallery manager, for inclusion in the programme.

The Blue Oyster prioritises projects that are speculative experimental and innovative in their genre. Age, sex and ethnicity are not used as criteria and will not influence the selection decisions. Non inclusion in the programme is not a reflection on the quality of the individual artist, high quality projects may still be declined for various programming reasons.

What should I include in my proposal?

You should apply in your own words but below are some suggestions for length and content.

1. Outline of the projects conceptual/ artistic/ political/ philosophical explorations. 200-400 words, maximum 1 page (A4)

2. Outline of the specifics of the proposed project and how you intend to address the space. As there is more than one space available, please indicate how much and what kind of space your project needs. Also indicate any special requirements, equipment or technical support. It may help to address the gallery flooplan.
1-2 pages (more if needed)

3. Examples of previous work that are strongly relevant to your proposed project. Where possible choose images that will give the panel a realistic sense of what your planned exhibition is likely to involve. Label the works with size medium and date, also make sure you label works in progress and studio shots.
3-4 images (no more than 10).

4. A concise C.V. that explains your professional background and experience.

5. Any other material that may help the panel assess your project, for example catalogues from previous work, letters of support, reviews.

Note: Please do not assume we are familiar with your work when submitting proposals. As the trust does change membership from time to time, some trust members may not be familiar with your work, even if you have previously shown with us.


Money/ Financial conditions:

The Gallery is supported entirely by grants. Our major contributor is Creative New Zealand supplemented where possible by smaller grants from various other sources (including Dunedin City Council and Community Trust of Otago)
Because our income is not stable the exact proportion of what we are able to provide is set every six months. Should your project be accepted, financial conditions will be notified in writing well before the commencement of setup.

We take no commissions on sales and will not prevent work being offered for sale but selling work, or to be more specific work that is focused on being saleable is not what the gallery is for, projects with strong commercial intent will generally not be accepted.

Available equipment:

The gallery owns two data projectors and DVD players, which need to be booked well in advance. We will help source equipment for projects as much as we can, however final responsibility for installing the project remains the artists.

Call: Guelph booking opportunities for VJs

Hello strangers, my name is Ricky, I deejay under the name Ricky Bionix
and host a residency in Guelph every Thursday night which I have just
recently moved from the Albion Hotel to a new venue called the
Salsateria. Amongst other changes that go hand in hand with the move is
that I would like to place greater emphasis on artist involvement and
visual atmosphere. I've had a local video artist, Scott McGovern of Ed
Video mixing video live at the event before and will have a Toronto
artist visiting on the 8th to project his time lapse photography (he
will also be playing a dj set earlier in the night). This idea is still
defining itself and so I am open to suggestions and various ways of
going about things.

This post is a call out to visual artists, mostly in the realm of
projection, although I am open to other ideas. I would like to book
artists to show their stuff at this weekly event. Pay will not be
phenomenal (yeah, it's tough for everyone), but we'll get you here and
back and you'll have an opportunity to share your work.

If interested, please email me at daydream.nation.music
[at]gmail[dot]com letting me know who you are, what you do (links are
great), and what sort of compensation you would expect.

Hope to hear from you soon. Feel free to pass this along to friends who
might be interested.


~*ricky

DAYDREAM NATION new & used music
37 Macdonell street, Guelph ON N1H 2Z4
Canada (519)824-4148

Call: "Surveillance City" Themed call for new media and performance works

TRAMPOLINE, YEAR 10

Mon Nov 12, 2007
(Eastern Time - Montreal)
www.trampoline.org.uk/TrampolineUK/ (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

TRAMPOLINE, YEAR 10

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS


29th November 2007, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham

7.00p.m. - Late


DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Mon 12th Nov 07

EVENT TO BE HELD ON: Thur 29th Nov 07


Trampoline celebrates over 10 years in new media art...


THE THEME: THE SURVEILLANCE CITY

If we are not to be played and lost like Pawns scrabbling on the surface of
a chessboard we need to understand the rules of the game we are engaged in.

As developers buy up our city centres for regeneration into 'desirable
properties for the market', a similar appropriation is taking place within
the spectrum that lies above. The air we breathe is itself becoming digital
real estate, an intangible landscape carried on radio waves, filling the
voids of our cities like Dark Matter.

The new city is coming – a city whose spaces are connected by hidden
electronic passages and data crawl-throughs, spaces where our movements are
traceable, recordable and identifiable by the litter of data we carelessly
drop and the Web 2.0 we unwittingly spin in the chatter of our networks.

Trampoline celebrates over 10 years in new media art in November with a look
at how artists are teaching themselves the game plan for this wireless,
super conductive urban landscape that is emerging around us.


Trampoline is calling for submissions in 2 areas of interest:

1. SURVEILLANCE CITY
>From video, animation, installation, sculpture, performance, live music, and
web streaming Trampoline welcomes all forms of artistic expression with a
critique of digital culture.

2. NEW MEDIA PERFORMANCE
In addition to this, Trampoline will curate a programme of new media
performance celebrating the diversity of 10 years in this area. Of
particular interest are performance video, live streaming, audio tours and
participatory, mobile projects.

For further details on how to submit work, please go to
www.trampoline.org.uk/TrampolineUK/


A Trampoline project with financial support by Arts Council England

Call: Festival Of Listening seeks sound artists

FESTIVAL OF LISTENING

Thu Nov 15, 2007
(Eastern Time - Montreal)
http://www.phonurgia.org (map)
Calendar: Audio Calls

> FESTIVAL OF LISTENING // Last Call // Deadline for submission =
> november 15
> ______________________________________________________________________
> _____
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This is your last chance to submit works to the Festival of Listening
> "Phonurgia Nova"
>
> Arles 007, Festival of Listening is an online and on site festival for
> radio and sound art.
>
> The Festival of Listening invites authors, radio producers, artists,
> students, programmers, sound designers, musicians, to contribute
> with their
> works to the sound festival.
>
> The Festival is an open platform for radio-art. Every one from any
> continent
> is warmly welcomed.
>
> Before you submit works, please read carefully the whole text of the
> "call for project" on our website, about conditions,
> technicalities, etc.
>
> You can send submissions by filling the entry form on our web site.
>
> http://www.phonurgia.org will tell you where, when, how to proceed,
> with the
> support of whom we are acting, and so on...
>
> With kind regards
> Marc Jacquin
> and the phonurgia nova team
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> phonurgia nova is a non-profit organisation and an independent
> audio-art-university-lab based in Arles/France
> the radiolab is in an evolving process of exchange with initiatives of
> individuals and european institutions based on mutual sympathy.
> Among them we must quote :
> UER/EBU
> Radio France
> French Ministery of Culture
> INA-GRM
> IMEB Bourges
> GMVL
> CIDMA
> SACEM
> Musée of Contemporary art, Musée Réattu
> Ville d'Arles
> Région PACA
> CG 13

Call: video artist sought for Video Processing performance

Matteo Milani and Federico Placidi (U.S.O. Project) are currently
seeking a video artist for Video Processing performances and which
will take place in 2008 in conjunction with Live Electronic laptop
sets.
This call is open to all types of current interactive works in any form:
* Installations
* Generative Art
* Cross Media (involving sensors)
* Net.Art

There's no deadline to submit proposals.

Matteo Milani
www.usoproject.com

Call: FutureSonic 2008 Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas seeks artists

FutureSonic 2008

Thu Feb 7, 2008
(Eastern Time - Montreal)
http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved (map)



FUTURESONIC 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas
1-4 May, Manchester, UK

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to submit
proposals to its Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS strands. Join us
for one of the biggest Social's of the year.

A GBP 5000 commission plus many other opportunities are available:
Art and Conference deadlines -- 5pm 18th December 2007
Music and EVNTS deadlines -- 5pm 7th February 2008


THE SOCIAL - SOCIAL NETWORKING UNPLUGGED

The Futuresonic 2008 theme is The Social - Social Networking Unplugged.
Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation
but in
groups, placing the relations between people first. Beyond the hype
lies ever greater isolation and conformity. Join us as we go in
search of the social.

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved

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FUTURESONIC ART - SUBMIT NOW

A commission valued at GBP 5000 is available to create a new artwork,
plus Futuresonic can support a limited number of other projects,
addressing the Social Networking Unplugged theme. Futuresonic's art
strand focuses on social and participatory artworks which re-imagine
the city.

Art Submissions deadline -- 5pm, 18th December 2007

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved

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FUTURESONIC IDEAS - SUBMIT NOW

The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies
Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and
session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social
interaction and experimentation are encouraged. Conference theme -
Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking.

Conference Submissions deadline -- 5pm, 18th December 2007

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved


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FUTURESONIC MUSIC - SUBMIT NOW

In 2008 we invite musicians to share their take on innovative,
original and daring 21st century music with our audience.
Futuresonic's roots are in post-dub electronic music, and it
showcases genre defying great live music. Futuresonic will be able to
support a limited number of performances.

Music Submissions deadline -- 5pm, 7th February 2008

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved


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FUTURESONIC EVNTS - SUBMIT NOW

Futuresonic now invites any programmer, curator, promoter, label or
artist group anywhere in the world to take part in EVNTS 2008, a city-
wide showcase of affiliated events. EVNTS has grown into a community
of people who each year return to give the festival an extra edge.
Awards of GBP 1000 and GBP 500 are available via the EVNT Competition.

EVNTS Competition deadline -- 5pm, 7th February 2008
EVNTS 2008 showcase deadline -- 5pm, 20th March 2008

http://www.futuresonic.com/getinvolved


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TICKETS

CONFERENCE PASS

Early Bird Delegate Pass
GBP 60 (must be bought by February 1 2008)
Advance Delegate Pass
GBP 100
Delegate Pass (on the door)
GBP 150
Students/Concessions
GBP 30

Further discounts available for group bookings.

A limited number of pay-what-you-can Day Passes will be available on
each day of the conference.

The Conference Pass includes access to all festival events.

Email your name, address and contact details to
ideas2008@futuresonic.com and we will send you full details on
Futuresonic Conference 2008 as well as priority booking options.

OTHER FESTIVAL TICKETS

Details of Weekender Wristbands and Events Tickets available soon.

http://www.futuresonic.com


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FUTURESONIC 2008

Futuresonic has 4 strands: Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS. Currently in
its 12th year, the festival occupies the orbits of both music and
digital culture.

A focus in recent years has been presenting artworks in unexpected
city spaces, and on social art and social technologies.

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to get social
and present new types of collaborative social experience at
Futuresonic 2008.

This is a time when we see how electronic communication can isolate
us, as more and more people drown in a deluge of email that generates
stress, even reducing IQ; and it is 40 years since people took to the
streets of Paris in 1968 calling for society to be abolished.

Join us as we go in search of the social today.

Web 2.0...
I take part
you take part
he takes part
we take part
you all take part
they profit.
(Slogan from Paris '68, remixed)

http://www.futuresonic.com

Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England North West and
presented in association with Imagination at Lancaster.

Call: Audio composers wanted for "the Listening Shell" sound sculpture

Call for submissions


As part of a work in progress, designer Dody Nash would like to hear
from composers who would be interested in writing a short piece (2-5
mins) for her sound sculpture, the Listening Shell, which will be
exhibited at the V&A Museum from 20 November to Feb 2008. The
Listening Shell was originally commissioned for the 2004 Berio
festival at the South Bank Center, with a soundscape by Sound
Intermedia.

At the V&A, sound element will comprise of digital works by theatre
composers and contemporary composers and there is the opportunity to
present a further two pieces from SAN composers.

For further details, please contact her on info@dodynash.com.