Call: 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival
Date: Submissions due January 15, 2008; Source: 7a*11d Collective

This is the call for submissions for 7a*11d's 7th International Festival of Performance Art in 11 years, taking place in Toronto from October 22 ñ November 2, 2008. Organized by an unincorporated non-profit group of artists, 7a*11d presents a series of performance art events and artist projects in a festival setting. Our purpose is to offer a professional showcase for new and progressive performance
art works. Artist organizers will select emerging and established artists of the highest quality from around the world that showcase the breadth and depth of performance art as a genre. We pay artist fees and try to subsidize travel, but please note that our budget is limited and not adequate to support troupes or companies.

PLUS:
D2D Direct to Documentation: A video program of performance documentation. Can't come to the Festival? We still want to see your work! Send us an edited tape [five minutes or less on NTSCVHS, Hi-8,
mini-DV, CD or DVD] of your performance documentation or performance for camera. (No PAL or SECAM tapes, please!) Selected tapes will be curated into a screening program. Artist fees will be paid
for those selected for screening.

For pdf and html versions of the full application, see http://www.7a-11d.ca

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: Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists seeks printmakers for SNAP Gallery

Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Main Gallery Submission Deadline: October 2, 2007
Studio Gallery Submission Deadline: Ongoing

Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists has issued a Call For Submissions to local, national, & international print and print-related artists, collectives, & collaborations, to propose exhibitions for SNAP's Main Gallery, and/ or Studio Gallery.

Please check out SNAP - Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists facebook site http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2447761456, or SNAP's main website www.snapartists.com for submission details and deadlines.

Please forward this Call For Submissions to all print & print-related artists locally, nationally, & internationally that you think might be interested in these exciting print exhibiting opportunities. Interested in receiving submissions from print artists working in 'traditional' areas of print, as well as artists who are pushing the boundaries of print.

Call: Artengine seeks sport-themed art

SUPERFAN

Artengine
February/March 2008
Call for proposals
Deadline September 21st, 2007

Goals; runs; touchdowns; strokes; points; rank; wins; losses; world
records; time trials; points against; plus/minus; fumbles; strikeouts;
shut outs; power play goal percentage; total personal fouls; fourth
down conversions; intentional walks.

This short list shines only a small light on the statistical
landscape of sport. The generation of this detailed documentation of
competitive sports produces a vast and massive movement of numerical
information back and forth through newspapers, magazine, websites,
specialty channels and newscasts. Like an athletic stock market,
talent is commodified, codified and reduced to columns of percentage
points. With this call for new electronic artworks Artengine hopes to
bring a poetic perspective to this statistical landscape.

In Winter of 2008 Artengine will present Superfan, to be exhibited in
public locations in Ottawa's Elgin Street area, a popular night-life
district with many sports bars. The theme of the commissioned work is
to be centred around the statistical information generated from
professional and amateur sport.

Proposals from all disciplines will be considered however, some
preference will be given to art works with greater engagements with
the technological aspects of their production and presentation.

Artists are encouraged to keep in mind that the commissioned works
may be presented in the context of a sports bar or similar public
location, and so fragile or expensive interactive projects may be
difficult to secure.


Commissioned Artists will receive:

1$1000.00 commissioning fee for the creation and presentation of the work.
2$200.00 towards production materials.
3Producing membership for one year. This membership gives access to
Artengine facilities and equipment. (For those artists from outside
the Outouais region a On-line Membership will be awarded.) Please
check artengine.ca/html/newmember-e.php for more information on
Artengine memberships.

Proposals should include:

1Project Proposal (2 pages max.)
2Artist Statement (1 page max.)
3Current CV (3 pages max.)
4Supporting Materials (digital images; websites; video documentation
etc. Please do not send 35 mm Slides.)
5Self-addressed envelope with sufficient postage.

For further information and questions please contact Ryan Stec,
Artistic Director at artistic@artengine.ca.
Send submissions to:

Superfan Commissioning Project
c/o Artengine
2 Daly, Suite M70
Ottawa, ON
K1N 6E2

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SUPERFAN

Artengine
Février/mars 2008
Appel de projets
Date limite : le 21 septembre 2007

But ; course ; touché ; coup ; point ; rang ; victoire ; défaite ;
record mondial ; contre-la-montre ; point contre ; plus/moins ;
échappée ; retrait sur prises ; blanchissage ; pourcentage de buts
marqués en avantage numérique ; total de fautes personnelles ;
conversion de quatrième touchés ; but sur balles intentionnel.

Cette liste éclaire qu'une infime partie du paysage statistique des
sports. La documentation détaillée, voire obsessive des sports
compétitifs génère une masse imposante de données quantitatives. Telle
la Bourse, les résultats sont compilés dans les journaux, les
magazines, les sites Web, les canaux spécialisés et les téléjournaux.
Alors que les athlètes sont codifiés et transformés en commodités, la
performance risque-t-elle d'être réduite à des tables de points de
pourcentage ? Grâce à cet appel de nouveaux projets électroniques,
Artengine espère insuffler une nouvelle signification au paysage
statistique des sports..

L'exposition Superfan d'Artengine sera présentée dans différents
lieux publics sur la rue Elgin à Ottawa, un quartier populaire de vie
nocturne qui abrite plusieurs bars d'ambiance sportive. Les ?uvres
commandées aborderont le thème de l'information statistique produite
par le sport professionnel et amateur.

Artengine accordera une préférence aux projets qui feront preuve d'un
engagement important envers les aspects technologiques de la
production et de la présentation.

Les commandes seront présentées dans un bar d'ambiance sportive ou un
lieu public semblable. L'artiste doit ainsi tenir compte que les
équipements fragiles ou dispendieux pourraient être difficiles à
protéger.


Les artistes recevront :

1.un cachet de 1 000 $ pour la création et la présentation de la commande ;
2.une contribution de 200 $ à l'achat de matériaux de production ;
3.une adhésion de production pour un an, ce qui donne accès aux
équipements d'Artengine. (Pour les artistes à l'extérieur de la région
de l'Outaouais, Artengine leur accordera une adhésion en ligne.)
Veuillez consulter artengine.ca/html/newmember-e.php pour des
informations complètes sur l'adhésion et les différents statuts de
membre.

Les propositions devraient inclure :

1.une proposition de projet (2 pages max.) ;
2.un énoncé artistique (1 page max.) ;
3.un curriculum vitæ à jour (3 pages max.) ;
4.des documents à l'appui (images numériques, sites Web, documents
vidéo, etc. – s'il vous plaît, n'envoyez pas de diapositives 35 mm) ;
5.une enveloppe pré affranchie.

Pour plus d'information, veuillez contacter Ryan Stec, directeur
artistique à artistic@artengine.ca.

Veuillez envoyer les propositions à :

Projet de commandes Superfan
a/s Artengine
2 Daly, Bureau M70
Ottawa (Ontario) K1N 6E2 --


Ryan Stec
Artistic Director
Artengine
2 Daly Ave. Ottawa, ON
K2P 0G5 613.482.0119

Call: Media Arts Residency Program: The Western Front

Call for Project Proposals

Media Arts Residency Program: The Western Front



The Media Arts Residency Program at the Western Front promotes
experimentation and innovation by inviting local, national, and
international artists to research and produce new works in media arts.
In keeping with the Western Front's emphasis on the interdisciplinary,
this program forefronts unique explorations of undefined creative
arenas including, but not limited to: site-specific gestures,
experimental projects, process pieces and unusual initiatives in media
art practice today.

The Media Arts program seeks to present a range of artists: artists
of all levels of experience are strongly encouraged to apply, as are
artists from diverse sexual orientations and cultural backgrounds.
Applications from artists from other disciplines who wish to expand
their creative practices into media arts are welcomed.

Projects are made possible through access to production facilities
and technical support from an expert team of qualified staff and
volunteers. Financial support is available in the form of travel
expenses and artist fees. Residency length varies according to
personal needs and can range in duration from one week to six weeks.
For further details, visit www.front.bc.ca or contact
media@front.bc.ca .

Artists wishing to be considered for the 2008/2009 programming year
are invited to submit proposals to Western Front's Media Arts
Residency Program on or before September 5th, 2007.

Candidates should send a project description, expected timeline and
CV by email or post to:

Alissa Firth-Eagland
Director and Curator of Media Arts
The Western Front
303 East 8th Avenue
Vancouver BC, V5T 1S1

media@front.bc.ca

604-876-9343

www.front.bc.ca

Call: Call for proposals for "The Garage Show"

Please feel Free to pass this ON! Thanks. ~ Jeff

Call For Proposals - The Garage Show

Themes: Intervention/ Urbanism/ Public Spaces and Private Spaces/ Garage- Related Activities

Lane Level Projects is seeking artists to create installation and/or performance works for garages to be exhibited in a one day art event in Regina, SK on September 8th, 2007.

The Garage Show is Lane Level Project's first exhibition. Lane Level Projects is a Regina based artists’ collective. Our mandate is to introduce the work of local contemporary installation, multimedia and performance artists into private and semi-private venues: homes, garages, yards and gardens. Our inaugural project, The Garage Show, will culminate in a one-day exhibition/performance event in the garages and alleys of Regina’s Cathedral Area. Visual and performance artists will create site-specific installations and/or performances in response to the private spaces of people’s garages and the public spaces of the alleys that feed into them.

An artists fee will be paid to the artists that are selected.

Proposals / Submissions should include:
- CV/resume and a brief bio including your discipline(s) and your roles within these.
- A one page project description which outlines the underlying ideas, processes involved, and material result of the proposed work or action, including timeline and workplan. (This will help us facilitate the right space for you.)
- Technical requirements for the successful completion of you project.
- Examples of past work enclosed in a SASE: 5-10 slides or jpegs on Cd-Rom, video on DVD

Submission Deadline: August 10th

Mail project Proposals to:
Lane Level Projects
c/o Jeff Nye
P.O. Box 374, Lumsden SK S0G 3C0

Call: Vtape seeks curators for "Curatorial Incubator" Project

Vtape's award-winning project The Curatorial Incubator returns!


This year, The Curatorial Incubator, v.5 - VIDEO ANIMATION "What's Up Doc?"
will be a search for animated gems. Artists use animation techniques to
critique the media, to conjure up the spirits, to play with history and look
into the future. Participants in What's Up Doc? hone their curatorial skills
in the media arts through workshops, independent research and writing,
culminating in a public presentation of their selected titles, accompanied
by a fully illustrated publication.


Research phase (July-August) includes: workshops conducted by established
curators, artists and arts professionals specializing in media arts and an
interest in animation,
free access to the vast research facilities on site at Vtape, with over 3500
tapes by 800+ artists and over 2000 articles on video art, and support for
external research in locating previews and screening copies of works.


Presentation phase (Sept 29 - Nov 3, 2007) includes: an exhibition of all
the curated programmes with an introduction by the curator, and a fully
illustrated catalogue of all the programmes with curatorial essays.


Proposals must include: an up-to-date c.v.; a statement of intention (1 page
in total) that outlines your interest in video animation and why you want to
be part of The Curatorial Incubator, v.5 - What's Up Doc? video and
animation; examples of critical writing you have done (published or
non-published); examples of any curatorial or organizational work you have
done.


Please indicate your availability for workshops July 28-29 and/or August
11-12, 2007). NOTE: If you are from outside of Toronto, please indicate how
you would cover the costs of your travel to the workshops (to be held over 1
weekend) and research at Vtape (minimum 1 week). And don't worry; you won't
be held to your original proposal but keep in mind that the jury will need
to get an idea of what kind of work you are going to be searching for.
Surprises are to be expected along the way. That's what research is all
about.


Send applications to:
Lisa Steele, Creative Director, Vtape
401 Richmond St. West, #452, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8
lisas@vtape.org


DEADLINE: July 13, 2007
Info: lisas@vtape.org - www.vtape.org

Call: ctrl_alt_del festival in Istanbul seeks audio artists

OPEN CALL
for ctrl_alt_del

project-ctrl-alt-del.com/opencall_07.htm
project-ctrl-alt-del.com

In 2007, ctrl_alt_del will be realized by NOMAD in corporation with Istanbul
Technical University ­ MIAM and Kadir Has University. The base of the
project will be Kadir Has University which is located on Golden Horn. This
year ctrl_alt_del will include Opening Concert, Performance Series (live),
Workshops, Panels, Presentations, Open Call, Field Studies/Workshops,
Exhibition, Radio Programmes, Publication and CD release. The theme of
ctrl_alt_del in 2007 will be ³remote orienteering². As the first dedicated
sound art festival in Turkey, ctrl_alt_del enjoyed a great deal of
international publicity in 2003 and 2005. For the third ctrl_alt_del to be
held in September 2007, we are now looking for interesting, provocative,
subversive, experimental and sophisticated works. 5 pieces will be selected
by the jury and will be presented during ctrl_alt_del.

THEME
The practice of ³remote orienteering² suggests generating content and
schematics in our conduct. Equally applicable for radical means of urban
subversion, ³remote orienteering² is the key process which the entries of
ctrl-alt-del should be directed.

The pieces are asked to be compliant with the following subjects in order to
create an intellectual climate of comprehension and discussion:

1. sounds for orientation, or sound as orientation.
2. distant sounds or sound in spatial contexts
3. sound and cultural subversion

SUBMISSION MATERIALS
1. Two audio CD¹s (original and a copy) of only ONE piece is the format of
the submission. Piece will not be more than 4 minutes long. Projects which
rely on specific visual documentation can be submitted on a DVD, but in any
case clip should not be longer than 4 minutes.
2. The name of the participant and the name of the piece(s) should be
written on this CD with a permanent marker.
3. An A4 size page with name, address, e-mail and telephone number of the
participant, and the names of the piece will be submitted.
4. An optional, separate A4 size page with a description, clarification or
reflection could be submitted depending completely on the desire of the
participant. These optional documents will not be used for evaluation, but
they could be used in later stages.

The works should be at the below mailing address before the 29th of June,
2007:
Basak Senova PK 16 Suadiye 34741 Istanbul, Turkey

ANNOUNCEMENT
Selected works and their owners will be announced in August 2007 on the
NOMAD website:
http://www.nomad-tv.net/

All of the submitted material will be kept in NOMAD archive

Call: Open Space seeks audio artists

AUDIOSPACE – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – DEADLINE JUNE 15, 2007

http://www.openspace.ca/audiospace/2007/2007-call-for-submissions.html

Open Space Artist-Run Centre in Victoria, BC, Canada, announces a
Call for Submissions for Audiospace, a web-audio site on the Open
Space website openspace.ca.? In its 35 years of supporting and
promoting experimentalism in the arts, Open Space has a long
tradition of discussing and exploring the practice and impact of new
media and new methods of audio dissemination.? We continue the
adventure with the 3rd edition of Audiospace and a Call for
Submissions, Where Does It Begin? developed by sound artist Chantal
Dumas.



Where Does It Begin?


For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be

- Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

"The question of how a work of art comes into being is a fascinating
one. At one time or another, we have all had the experience of being
struck by a piece of art. We ask ourselves: were did that idea come
from? In general, we all agree about the elusive nature of the
creative process, and confronted with our inability to define how it
works, we choose to talk of mystery.

The creative process allows the passage from the unconscious to the
conscious and to the visible. I am interested in understanding where
it all begins -- the internal movement, and its materialization:

What is the starting point of the creative act? What is it that
generates an emotion, a turbulence so strong that it provokes the need
within us to create something? At what moment does a piece of art
start to be «written»? What path does it follow? What is it that
allows it to pass from inside to outside? What is it that leads to
its materialization via sound, paper, color, or movement?

These questions are at the core of sound art. I am inviting you to
reflect on them by creating a short sound piece of your own.

Here is a starting point from which I suggest you work. The rest is
up to you.

ATMOSPHERE: spicy. STYLE: confined. COLOR: elegant.

Duration: 7 minutes maximum
Dynamics: as necessary
Please attach to your submission a short text answering these two
questions:
When did you feel that the work was starting to be «written»?
How did that first become evident to you?"

-Chantal Dumas, March 2007



SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
By June 15, 2007 please submit your project electronically to Open
Space New Music audiospace.openspace@gmail.com with the subject
heading SUBMISSION and include the following:

- MP3 format audio file (192KBit/sec)*, between 5 and 7 minutes
- One paragraph Bio
- Description of the work

(* Other file or streaming formats are acceptable, but becomes the
responsibility of the submitter to provide support for users.)


All submissions will be open to public listening, discussion and a
jury selection process via the openspace.ca site from June 16 to
September 14, 2007.? Submitting artists are invited to maintain a
virtual presence on the openspace.ca site through the duration of the
contest through forums and other forms of interaction with Chantal
Dumas, other participants and site visitors. All submitted works will
be featured during a Virtual Live Audiospace event September 15, 2007
at Open Space and remote locations TBA, during which the results of
the public jury process will be announced. All submitted works will
become permanent additions to openspace.ca and will be featured until
the next Audiospace edition.

$600 will be distributed amongst winners of categories to be
determined by the participants through the contest. This year's
edition of Audiospace is intended to explore the connection between
artists and the jury process by involving them directly, and also
with the nature of digital audio and new forms of audio consumption.
Artists will be encouraged to discuss these topics amongst themselves
and with visitors to openspace.ca

For questions and comments about audiospace, please direct emails
with Audiospace in the subject heading to:
audiospace.openspace@gmail.com

Open Space
510 Fort Street
Victoria, BC
www.openspace.ca
250.383.8833

Call: La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario Call for Submissions

La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
Call for submissions
GNO's 2008-2009 season


The GNO, concretely supports the development of various mediums and forms of
expression in experimental art and offers timely opportunities for reflexion
or creation.

The GNO invites artists, groups of artists and currators working in
experimental art to submit a proposal for an exhibition.

This proposal should include:

1. A resumé
2. A detailed description of exhibition or project
3. An artist statement
4. Ten slides or digital images of recent work, with description
5. Self-address-self-stamp envelope

Send your submission to:

Exhibition Selection Committee
La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario
P.O. Box 242, Station B
174 Elgin
Sudbury, Ontario P3E 4N5

visit www.gn-o.org

The deadline for receiving submissions is July 31 2007.

Conctact Person : Danielle Tremblay Director
174 Elgin Street, Sudbury Ontario
1877 358 6615 or (705) 673-4927
website at www.gn-o.org
email info@gn-o.org

Call: The Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer System (Tabletop2007) seeks papers

The Second IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive
Human-Computer System (Tabletop2007)

Newport, Rhode Island, USA, October 10-12, 2007.
Held in conjunction with ACM UIST 2007

http://www.ieeetabletop2007.org/

Supported by IEEE

The use of the tabletop as an input/output device is an exciting and
emerging research area. This cross-disciplinary domain brings together
experts in projector based display systems, augmented reality, user
interface technologies, multi-modal interaction, input and sensing
technologies, CSCW, and information visualization.

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers in
the field so that they can present and exchange current results of
ongoing investigations.

We encourage researchers and developers to present in the following
areas as they relate to interactive tabletops:
* Applications
* Gesture-Based Interfaces
* Multi-Modal Interfaces
* Speech Interfaces
* Tangible Interfaces
* User Interface Technologies
* Computer Supported Collaboration Systems
* Middleware and Network Support
* Augmented Reality
* Social Protocols
* HapticRendering
* Information Visualization
* Horizontal Display Hardware
* Sensing and Input Technologies


Paper Submission:

We invite submissions of two kinds - regular research papers of up to 8
pages and short papers of up to 4 pages describing original research on
investigations into horizontal oriented user interface based (tabletop)
systems.

Each paper must be submitted as a single PDF file in IEEE Computer
Science Press format (described at
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf).

Each paper will be peer reviewed by no less than three experts in the
field.
Accepted research papers will be included in the IEEE proceedings and
presented in the paper sessions.

Submission details will be available at:
http://www.ieeetabletop2007.org/


Important Dates:

June 8th, 2007: Paper titles and abstracts due
June 15th, 2007: Paper submissions due
July 12th, 2007: Notification of acceptance sent to
authors
October 10-12, 2007: Tabletop2007 workshop, Newport,
RI.


Chairs:

General Co-Chairs:
Andy Wilson (Microsoft Research) awilson [at] microsoft [dot] com
Clifton Forlines (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) forlines [at] merl
[dot] com

Program Chair:
Kathy Ryall (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs) ryall [at] merl [dot]
com

Program Co-Chair:
Stacey Scott (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) sdscott [at] mit
[dot] edu