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: ArtCast has an open call out for sound art

ArtCast: open call for sound art

folly, a leading digital arts organisation working in Lancashire,
Cumbria and online, is developing ArtCast, an ongoing series of
podcasting programmes at www.folly.co.uk, as a platform for public
access to new and innovative sound art.

Building on the success of OWN [SOUND] ART (2007) at www.folly.co.uk/
soundnetwork, a series of podcasts specially commissioned in
partnership with SoundNetwork, folly intends to deliver a quarterly
series of podcasts exploring the possibilities of the medium, and
will launch the first in this series as part of VELOCITY, folly's
second Festival of Digital Culture:

VELOCITY Festival of Digital Culture - See the Bay differently
12th October - 3rd November 2007

VELOCITY is ground-breaking new arts festival where you can explore
digital art in the sublime context of the coastal rail route between
Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness. Presented in and around train
stations, online and for download at www.folly.co.uk

VELOCITY is folly's second annual Festival of Digital Culture and
builds on the success of the f.city festival held in Lancaster city
centre in 2006 which resulted in over 55,000 people engaging with new
media art practice.

VELOCITY will open up new ways of seeing life around Morecambe Bay,
engaging with the vibrant communities that line the coast and
furthering the role that the arts has in sustaining the spectacular
landscape of the South Lakes and North Lancashire.

VELOCITY... celebrating the role of creative technology in connecting
people to places.

folly is calling for open submissions of existing audio work, from
the broad spectrum of contemporary sound art practice. Submissions
should address themes and subjects broadly relating to the ethos of
VELOCITY, including but not limited to: travel, movement, landscape,
engagement with communities, rural sustainability.

VELOCITY will take place on and around the rail route from Lancaster
to Barrow-in-Furness in the North West of England, so folly is
looking for podcastable content which can be downloaded and
experienced on journeys through and around this area. As part of the
festival, folly is also keen to broadcast selected works via the loud
speaker systems at stations along the rail route.

Submissions are welcome from all artists working with sound,
experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists
etc, basically anyone who has created work which they consider to be
suitable for an audio podcast.

folly welcome submissions from international artists

The deadline for submissions is 14th September 2007

Sonic Arts Network, www.sonicartsnetwork.org, will join folly in the
selection of works in late September 2007

Successful submissions will be published as podcasts from 1st October
2007

Please note that there is no fee available for selected works

For more information contact Jennifer Stoddart, folly Programme
Coordinator on jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk or +44 (0)1524 388550

How to submit:
Files should be mp3s, no larger than 32MB. Submissions should be
accompanied by a submission form and equal opportunities monitoring
form, obtainable from jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk or phone +44 (0)
1524 388550

Please send your submissions by email to jennifer.stoddart@folly.co.uk
Or on CD by post to Jennifer Stoddart, Programme Coordinator
folly, 6.4.4 Alston House
White Cross
Lancaster UK
LA1 4XQ

folly is committed to Equal Opportunities in our employment,
programme and services

Job: PLATFORM seeks a Director

PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
DIRECTOR

PLATFORM; a dynamic artist-run centre for photographic and digital art,
seeks candidates for the position of Director to begin as soon as possible.

The ideal candidate will have a strong and committed relationship to
artist-run culture, a sophisticated understanding of contemporary
lens/photo/digital based arts practices, and will be responsible for the
overall leadership, management and public representation of the
organization. The Director will build on PLATFORM's history as one of the
oldest artist run centres in Western Canada, developing the organization's
profile locally, regionally and nationally.


The Director reports to the Board of Directors and will work in tandem with
a part-time Administrative Coordinator.


The responsibilities of the Director include:


Implementation of PLATFORM's mandate and vision in conjunction with Board of
Directors and committees
Management and administration of the organization

Grant-writing with the support of Administrative Coordinator

Fundraising and resource development in collaboration with the Board of
Directors

Representation of the organization to arts institutions, community
organizations and funders

Direction of communications, visual identity, web presence and media profile

Membership liaison and development

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:


Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong organizational, interpersonal and supervisory skills

Management and administrative experience in artist-run centres and/or
cultural organizations

Experience with grant-writing, budgeting and financial statements in
non-profit organizations

Familiarity with artist-run culture, contemporary art and independent
photo/digital art practice

Experience working with Boards of Directors, member-based organizations and
volunteers

A salary of $27,000 will be offered for this position, based on a 30-hour
workweek.

Please submit applications in writing by 5:00 p.m., August 7, 2007
including:


A current Curriculum Vitae
A letter of introduction discussing your experience, qualifications and
motivations for seeking the position

The names, titles, addresses and daytime telephone numbers of three
professional references

A sample of writing: essay or grant application
Emailed or faxed applications will not be accepted. If you wish any support
materials returned, please include a self-addressed, postage-paid envelope.
Applications will be held in confidence. We thank all applicants in advance
for their interest. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Address applications to:

The Hiring Committee, PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts
121 - 100 Arthur Street, Winnipeg Manitoba, R3B 1H3

PLATFORM: Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, was incorporated in 1981
as The Winnipeg Photographers' Group/ Floating Gallery and is an
incorporated, non-profit organization with charitable status. PLATFORM is an
artist run centre for the exhibition, promotion, and production of
photo-based art that fosters an environment of critical discourse for the
regional, national and international arts community. For more information on
PLATFORM, please visit our web site at www.platformgallery.org. PLATFORM is
an equal opportunity employer.


Questions about the position of Director or the application process should
be directed to Lisa Wood, Director at (204) 942-8183 or
info@platformgallery.org

Call: Rhizome Annual Commissions

Rhizome News

February 23, 2007
Rhizome 2007 Commissions: Open Now!
Rhizome is pleased to announce that in 2007 we will commission eleven
new works of Internet-based art with awards ranging from $1000-3000.
The deadline for proposal submission is April 2! This year, we are
funding in two categories: (1) New Works of Internet-based Art and (2)
A Community Project. In the first category, the works may manifest
offline, in an exhibition space, on a handheld device, or on other
media, but must use the Internet as a primary source. The second
commissions category is new this year and will be awarded to one artist
or group whose project will benefit our community by enhancing
communication, participation, or the user experience on the Rhizome
website. The commissions are awarded both by jury and by Rhizome
Members through a community voting process. In addition to receiving an
award, the commissioned art works will be exhibited on Rhizome.org,
installed at the New Museum of Contemporary Art for a celebratory
event, and archived in our ArtBase! archive of digital art. We
encourage you to get involved and spread the word! - Rhizome.org

http://www.rhizome.org/commissions

Call: Soil Digital Media Suite seeking Web Cinema production applicants

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Web Cinema

The Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative and Soil Digital Media Suite
are currently accepting applications for Web Cinema. Web Cinema is a
co-production that seeks to explore the connection between the Web
and film as artistic mediums.

Submissions will be assessed on the artistic merit of the project,
the capacity of the independent filmmaker / artist to complete the
project and the conceptual relevance of the work proposed. All
projects must be created with the Web as a screening venue in mind.
Works should be between 4 and 15 minutes in length.

Proposals must be for new work not previously presented to an
audience and will be selected by a jury comprised of representatives
from the Saskatchewan Filmpool Co-operative and Soil. Production
resources will be available from both the Filmpool and Soil. Projects
must be ready to launch in October 2007 and be archived on the Soil
Web gallery site at http://www.soilmedia.org. Artists retain all
copyrights to their projects which can be linked or stored on Soil's
server. Funding is to be applied to costs for domain names, technical
specialists, membership fees.

Five $1,000.00 production honorariums will be awarded to five
successful applicants who must be independent artists / filmmakers
and who will retain all copyrights to their projects.

Please submit a brief (one-page) synopsis and / or treatment of your
project, a C.V. and 1 example of past work by March 30, 5:00 pm to
the Saskatchewan Filmpool Co-operative, 301-1822 Scarth Street,
Regina, SK (postal code).


If you have received this missive from someone other than Neutral
Ground and would like to be added to the list,
please email neutralground@accesscomm.ca with "ADD" as the subject line.

If you have received this missive in error or would like to be
removed from the list, please reply to
neutralground@accesscomm.ca with "REMOVE" as the subject line.


Neutral Ground & Soil Digital Media Suite
#203 - 1856 Scarth Street
Regina, SK
S4P 2G3
tel: 306-522-7166
fax: 306-522-5075
neutralground@accesscomm.ca


http://www.neutralground.sk.ca
http://www.soilmedia.org

Call for Submissions: Ed Video Media Arts Centre

Ed Video Media Arts Centre – 2007-2008 Call for Submissions!

Ed Video Media Arts Centre in Guelph, Ontario is inviting submissions by
artists and curators for the upcoming programming season of Sept. 2007 –
Sept. 2008. The submission deadline is April 2, 2007.

Our annual Exhibition and Screening series presents regional, national and
international video-based media art work. We encourage a strong
curatorial and artistic practice that is challenging, stimulating, and
provocative. Both emerging and established artists/curators should apply,
and we are interested in all genres of media arts – experimental,
narrative, documentary, feature, installation and inter-disciplinary. Our
aim is to also ensure our presentations address the interests of a diverse
audience, are relevant in the local and national media art community, and
support the development of our producing members.


Please send any support material you wish such as:
• Names of artists and works to be presented
• A brief curatorial statement or description of the work(s)
• A Curriculum Vitae
• Preview tape/DVD of the submitted work
• A proposed budget covering all costs of screening/exhibition
• A self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish it to be returned

Selections will be based on:
• Compatibility with Ed Video’s mandate
• Quality of the work submitted
• Quality of the proposal
• Availability of space/money

Ed Video encourages submissions from curators/artists of all ethnic,
cultural, and religious backgrounds.
We support artists through the payment of artist and copyright fees
according to the guidelines established by CAR/FAC (Canadian Artists'
Representation/Fronts des Artistes Canadiens).

All submissions will be considered by a Selection Committee made up of
artists, curators, community members and Ed Video members. Notice will be
given by April 30, 2005.

Please send submissions to:
Selection Committee
c/o Ed Video Media Arts Centre
16A Wyndham St. N.
P.O. Box 1629
Guelph ON
N1H 6R7

For more information, please visit www.edvideo.org.

For submission inquiries, please contact:

Scott McGovern
Technical and Programming Director
Ed Video Media Arts Centre
(519)836-9811
scott@edvideo.org

Callout: "Global Eyes" at SIGGRAPH 2007

"Global Eyes" SIGGRAPH

Global Eyes, the 2007 ACM SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, is looking for innovative
and creative digital media art from around the world for exhibition in San
Diego, California, USA from August 5-9, 2007. We are looking for works that:
illuminate the role digital media play in shaping, extending, and reflecting
world views and cosmologies; address ecological, social, and political
issues in imaginative and innovative ways; foster respect, tolerance, and
empathy among people and nations.


DEADLINE: January 19, 2007


Info: www.siggraph.org/s2007/presenters/art