Call: DISONANCIAS 2007/08 seeks innovative media artists

DISONANCIAS 2007/08

Call for artists to work on joint
research projects in 9 companies and
investigation centres in Spain.





Deadline for applications: 3 October 2007, 9 am.
Collaboration period: from November 2007 to July 2008 (9 months)
To consult the rules and to apply on-line, go to: http://
www.disonancias.com


DISONANCIAS is pleased to announce the call for proposals from
international artists to work on joint research projects with heads
of R&D&I in companies and research centres located in the Basque
Country (Spain).

DISONANCIAS is a platform that promotes relationships between artists
and companies, research centres or public organisations in order to
foster innovation in all its aspects and transmit to society the
importance of developing creative environments.

Artists are requested to develop a prototype, procedure or idea based
on a framework predefined by one of the nine participating entities:
DORLET, EiTB, FUNDACIÓN IKERTIA, GRUPO SARKIS/LAGUNKETA, IMAR, LANIK,
LANTEGI BATUAK, POLO GARAIA and TECNALIA. The concepts they want to
investigate can be grouped in two main fields:

- concepts dealing with the organisation of territory and ways of
interrelating people and resources: sustainable urban environment
models (TECNALIA), ways of relating between disabled people
integrated into the job market and their social network (LANTEGI
BATUAK) or the interrelationship dynamics between the members of an
technological park (POLO GARAIA);

- technological or material application/developments: most of the
researches in this section deal with architecture and urban issues:
domotics (DORLET), interactive urban furniture (IMAR), environmental
architecture (GRUPO SARKIS / LAGUNKETA), transformable architecture
(LANIK), or health emergency in public spaces (FUNDACIÓN IKERTIA).

In the special case of EiTB (Basque Radio and Television), the artist
(s) is requested to research into the documentary format based on the
creation of an audiovisual work dealing with all the collaboration
projects.

The submitted proposals will be examined by an international jury
comprising Cecilia Andersson, Bronac Ferran, Jose Pérez de Lama and
Juan Mari Uzkudun. The final decision will be taken by the hosting
entities and will be communicated at the end of October 2007.

DISONANCIAS gives priority to the involvement of artists:
- interested in working around the interaction between different
social and cultural systems and projects that favour group work;
- who use science or technology as a basis for their work, or who
reflect upon it.

The call is open to artists working with any type of medium and in
any discipline, either individually or as a group. There is no limit
on age, nationality or place of residence.

The selected artists or group of artists will each receive the amount
of 8,000 net euros as a fee for the work carried out and for their
travel and accommodation costs. The costs that may be generated in
the development of the research work and associated with external
companies and suppliers should not exceed 5,000 euros + VAT, and they
should be previously approved by the hosting entity.

Full information on the participating companies and research centres,
on the concepts they want to investigate, and on the rules for
participation is available at http://www.disonancias.com.

DISONANCIAS is sponsored by the SPRI / the Basque Government
(Industry, Trade and Tourism Department) and promoted by Grupo
Xabide. DISONANCIAS is member of http://
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Call: Gladstone Hotel seeks contemporary art and design projects

COME UP TO MY ROOM 2008
The Gladstone Hotel's 5th Annual Alternative Design Event
Feb 22-24, 2008

Expression of Interest Deadline: Aug. 20th (no later than 5pm)


The Gladstone Hotel seeks proposals for innovative, cutting-edge
contemporary art and design projects for the annual alternative design
event, Come Up To My Room 2008. The fifth installment will take place from
February 22-24, 2008 at the Gladstone Hotel, in over 12 rooms on 2nd floor
of the historic Gladstone Hotel.

Ideal candidates for juried consideration are practitioners who produce,
focus and dedicate their practice in the areas of; experimental,
inter-disciplinary, self-taught, hand-made/craft-based, installation, and
environmental, art & design projects (including graphic, new media,
lens-based: photography, film & video.) We are looking for practitioners and
emerging designers who approach design with radical personal vision to
create site-specific installations.

Please submit hardcopy or electronic proposals (MS-WORD docs only) no later
than 5pm, August 20th, 2007. Proposals should include a; CD of 5-10 images,
or jpegs/website url, CV, a 150 word bio of the artist, designer, or
collectives, and a 1 page proposal specific to CUTMR 2008. This exhibition
is curated by artist and not by proposed projects. Please do not submit
detailed proposals. For more information please read
http://www.gladstonehotel.com/callsforinterest.html

Participation fees are $650 + GST for room installations and $150 + GST for
public space projects; includes installation day and 3-day space rental,
exhibition administration, coordination, and inclusion in the promotion,
publicity, marketing materials, and exhibition catalogue.

To see press coverage of past CUTMR events
http://www.gladstonehotel.com/press.html

To see photos of past CUTMR installations
http://www.gladstonehotel.com/cutmr2007.html

For more information contact the curators:

Pamila Matharu, pmatharu@rogers.com (+1) 416 846 6230
Christina Zeidler, christina@gladstonehotel.com (+1) 416 531 4635 ext. 7102

For more information regarding pricing, exhibition details and contracts
contact:

Chris Mitchell, chrism@gladstonehotel.com (+1) 416 531 4635 ext. 7105

Submit proposals to:

Gladstone Hotel, Attention: CUTMR Curators, 1214 Queen St W Toronto ON

Or email to christina@gladstonehotel.com or pmatharu@rogers.com and cc
chrism@gladstonehotel.com

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: 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: Open Space seeks submissions

At Open Space we strive to provide an arena where artistic meanings aren’t fixed or absolute, and where exhibitions, performances and individual works of art encourage reaction, dialogue and debate. The interaction and cross-pollination that occurs between visual art, performance, new music, new media, literature and contemporary thought continues to be a primary focus of our programming. This is the mandate which defines Open Space.

Programming Advisory Committee

Programming is set by the Director and Curator in consultation with the Programming Advisory Committee members.

The Programming Advisory Committee (PAC) is composed of Open Space members. The PAC provides the conceptual direction for decisions regarding proposals and solicitations from specific artists, performers, curators and musicians. Once a proposal is approved, the commitee works with staff and the Director to arrange resources and publicity for the production of the event. Accepted proposals are supported by an exhibition monograph or catalogue, and extensive publicity.

Programs and Submission Deadlines

Open Space presents solo and group exhibitions produced in-house or through independent curatorials, performance based art, readings, concerts and multi-disciplinary events.

Programming opportunities beyond curated exhibitions include:

* PERFORMATIVE presents individual works and thematic series of performance-based works;
* COLLABORATORY combines an exploratory research sensibility (i.e. laboratory) and collaborative efforts, to open new territories for artists and their relationship with their peers and audience;
* ROVING PROJECTS presentations act as a counterpoint to exhibitions and scheduled performances. Uually Roving Projects are usually short in duration (one week), experimental, multi-disciplinary works situated inside and outside the main gallery.
* MONDAY NIGHTS@OPEN SPACE as a monthly event of performative based activities that subvert the traditional notion of art production. MONDAY NIGHTS encourages a range of projects that include: performances, new music, workshops, artist talks and meetings, small installations and site-related work where activity takes place outside conventional art domains.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions from artists and curators for exhibitions are accepted on an ongoing basis.

For all submissions, include the following:

* a one page description of your exhibition, project or proposal,
* a recent curriculum vitae,
* slides, VHS (NTSC) format videotapes, CDs or other appropriate documentation of your work,
* a list of any special equipment required (see our equipment list and floorplans), and
* sufficient postage for the return of your submission.

Mail or courier your proposal to:

Programming
Open Space
510 Fort Street, 2nd Floor
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada
V8W 1E6

Open Space does not accept submissions by email or fax.

CARFAC fees

Open Space pays artist fees for all exhibitions, performances and other presentations. In all cases, these fees are equal to or above the minimum copyright fees as recommended by CARFAC (Canadian Artist's Representation). Open Space also pays one-way shipping for artworks, covers the cost of in-house production of an exhibition monograph, digital photo documentation and appropriate publicity.

Callout: Spatial Audio Creative Engineering Network Seeking Sound Art

SPATIAL AUDIO CREATIVE ENGINEERING NETWORK AND CREATIVE

CALL FOR SOUND DESIGN or SOUND ARTWORK.

Submission Deadline 16 April 2007.


In partnership with leading audio company and soundcard designer
Creative, SpACE-Net would like to commission a specific piece of sound
design or a specific sound artwork, with interactive spatial audio
considerations at the core of the composition, design and delivery
process.

The selected artist will be supplied with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Elite Pro Sound, a set of GigaWorks S750 7.1 loudspeakers and Creative’s
custom ISACT software for interactive spatial audio composition.

The work should be produced, delivered and presented using this
technology, which will be the artist’s to keep. In addition SpACE-Net
will contribute £500 to cover artist’s fees and expenses related to the
completion of this work.

The ISACT toolset incorporates a library for building interactive
spatial audio compositions into software applications. It is likely,
therefore, that the commission will be won either by an artist with
software development skills or by a software engineer / artist partnership.

We expect the final work to be completed by September 2007 for
presentation at a future SpACE-Net related event.

Please download the full text of the call for works at
http://www.space-net.org.uk/node/76 for further details and information
on how to apply.

Enquiries to: jude@space-net.org.uk

Electronic submission to info@space-net.org.uk is encouraged wherever
possible.