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The 25th Chelsea International Fine Art Competition?Now accepting entries – Deadline March 14th, 2010

The management of Agora Gallery, located in Chelsea, the hub of New York City’s international art scene, has been the sponsor of international fine art competitions since 1984. Currently, the gallery hosts the annual Chelsea International Fine Art Competition.

“Carving a space for new talent is very much at the core of our business,” says Agora Gallery Director Angela Di Bello who has vast experience on the art circuit.

Juror selected artists will gain exposure by exhibiting their work in the famed Chelsea Art Gallery District and their work will be promoted both online and in print. Our fine art contests are juried by influential voices in the New York art world;This year’s competition juror will be Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator of the Guggenheim Museum.

As part of our ongoing commitment to giving back to the community we live and work in, Agora Gallery donates 25% of its proceeds from the sale of artwork from the art competition exhibition to the non-profit organization Art Start (www.art-start.org). Through its innovative programs, Art Start brings together art, artists and children in need throughout the New York Metropolitan Area.

*FLOSSManuals Translation Sprint (Spanish)*

March 2 – 6, 2010
Where: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain)

Translation Sprint of 2 FLOSS Manuals in Medialab-Prado (Madrid) from March 2 through 6. We we’ll be collaboratively translating into Spanish *Inkscape Manual* and *Collaborative Futures*. Participation is free but previous registration is required. You can also participate online!

Event organized by FLOSSmanuals and Medialab-Prado, in collaboration with Escuela de Arte 10 of Madrid, and coordinated by Jennifer Dopazo.

All the info here:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/encuentro_flossmanuals_en_espanol
http://en.flossmanuals.net/Inkscape
http://en.flossmanuals.net/collaborativefutures/

Medialab-Prado
Plaza de las Letras
Calle Alameda, 15
28014 Madrid (Spain)

International Conferences iV and CGIV 2010

Symposium and Online Digital Art Gallery D-ART 2010
iV London, UK and CGIV Sydney, AU
http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/CAVE.htm

Call for Artwork, Papers, Videos and Participation

Scope:
Authors are invited to send their extended abstract or the full paper to the chairperson of symposium.
Artists are invited to submit their current digital artwork for exhibition in IV 2010 and CGIV 2010- at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/.
Papers presenting original research with the theme of ‘DIGITAL ART’ are being sought. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):
Preparing artists to learn programming, preparing programmers to learn aesthetics
Interrelationship between disciplines. How computer graphics can influence computer science and software engineering
Issues in digital art: Technical challenge and artistic quality, criticism, perception in the field
Art and visualization of spatial, tonal, and temporal domains: Industry, Academia, Media
New media arts approaches within medical science and technology
Game and interactive multimedia
Information technology in visual arts and culture, visual art for IT Visualization
Cognitive Science issues, digital art and visual learning: critical and abstract thinking, problem finding
The role of digital art and graphics in production of web video for marketing
Digital fabrication methods. Process (including collaborative efforts)
History of computer graphics and art
Copyright (representation through a detail, watermark, resolution)

Submission procedures: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/PAPERS.htm
Further information: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/

Important Dates:
1 March 2010 submission of artwork
1 March 2010 ? Submission of papers & Submission of tutorials: https://www.conftool.net/IV10/
30 April 2010 ? Submission of camera-ready & early registration closes

All queries and application materials should be sent to:

Anna Ursyn
School of Art and Design
University of Northern Colorado
Greeley CO 80639, USA
T: (Int. +1) 970 – 351-2476
F: (Int. +1) 970 – 351-2299
E: ursyn@unco.edu

Announcing Vague Terrain 16: Architecture/Action

The latest of edition of Vague Terrain presents a timely and nuanced consideration of ubiquitous computing. Guest curated by the American artist/programmer Joshua Noble, the issue provides a window into the practices of several leading researchers. Given the arrival of gestural interfaces and preliminary deployments of augmented reality technology and “intelligent” architecture, it is an important moment for thinking about the relationship between technology and the body. Noble on this current milieu: “All technologies reshape the body and the space around the body, from the bow and arrow to the steam engine to the telephone. It may be that we are beginning to truly see how computing and ubiquitous devices will once again reshape our bodies and our conceptions of ourselves in space.”

The issue features text, interview and project contributions from: Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Golan Levin, Pierre Proske, Mark Shepard and Marilena Skvara.

To view the issue please visit: http://vagueterrain.net/journal16

Greg J. Smith & Neil Wiernik
http://vagueterrain.net

II Semana de vídeo Iberoamericano

Del 23 al 27 de Febrero de 2010-02-20

 

La Nave Spacial

www.lanavespacial.com

Plaza del Pelícano 4. Local 1 – Sevilla

 

VideoartWorld

Caja sol / Obra Social

 

Día 1.

 

-         Anna Bella Geiger: Pasajes (1974, 9´30”). Brasil

-         Ximena Cuevas: Befote televisión (1984, 1¨43) México

-         Coco Fusco y Paula Heredia : The Couple in the cage (1993.31´00¨) Cuba / USA

-         Angie Bonino : New World Order (2008. 5´29¨) Perú.

-         Enrique Ramírez: Imágenes de una memoria (2006. 9´00¨) Chile.

 

Día 2

      

-         Regina José Galindo: Confesión (2007. 2´22¨) Guatemala

-         Beth Moysés: Día a día (1998. 6´52¨) Brasil

-         Ana Luisa Sanchez – Law: Navigator (2009. 3´13¨) Panamá

-         Teresa Puppo, Gabriela Larrañaga y Graciela Taquini: Secretos (2007.5´) Urugay / Argentina).

-         Patricia Betancur: Yo amo (2008. 5´00¨) Uruguay.

 

Día 3

 

-         Juan Aizpitarte: Over game (2008. 9´30¨) España

-         Verónica Ruth Frias: Apalos (2009. 4´31¨) España

-         Ángel García Roldán: Nàrke (2008.22´00¨) España

-         Tete Álvarez: En un momento (2009,2´29¨)España

-         Marisa Mancilla: Plumes(2009,4´04¨) España

-         Amparo Garrido: Remanecer (2008, 14¨40¨) España

-         Anna Gimein: Rehearsal 2 (2007, 2¨34¨) España / USA.

 

Dia 4

 

-         Ernesto Oroza: Anestesia (2006, 8´18¨) Cuba

-         Glenda León: Mar Interno (2006. 1´20¨)Cuba

-         Lázaro Saavedra: El ideólogo de buen corazón (2006, 2´47¨) Cuba

-         Celia Yunior: Bojeo (2006/2007, 7´31¨) Cuba

-         Reinier Nande Pérez: Juegos discretos (2006.12´12¨) Cuba.

-         Lisandra Ramírez: El viejo (3´50¨) Cuba.

 

Día 5

 

-         Ana Claudia Garcia: Mi adorable mariposa (el aleteo) (2003,4´51¨) Argentina.

-         Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Cardoso Flea Circus (1996.8´00¨) Colombia

-         Nicolás Dumit: For art´s sake (2005, 3´13¨)República Dominicana.

-         Teresa Serrano: A room of her own (2003. 6´42¨)México.

-         Azucena Losana: Loco(2008, 1´44¨) Argentina .

 

* Selección ¨Proyecto circo de La Habana” comisariada por Ada Azor.

Final Call for Papers for Film-Philosophy III

The University of Warwick, with the support of its Humanities Research Centre and the British Society of Aesthetics, is hosting Film-Philosophy III: the third annual conference of the Film-Philosophy journal, 15-17 July 2010.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers: James Conant, Thomas Wartenberg, Sarah Cooper, Erica Carter, John Mullarkey and Richard Dyer.

We welcome proposals for 30 minute papers that explore any aspect of the relationships between film, film studies and philosophy. Proposals should be up to 500 words in length and should be sent to film.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk by 28 February 2010.

Details of conference registration, on-campus accommodation and conference dinner arrangements can be found on the conference website at www.warwick.ac.uk/go/film-philosophy

For general enquiries please contact film.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk

_netart latino database_

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este libro ha sido editado para poner en circulación quinientas copias facsimilares (treinta y cinco de ellas numeradas y firmadas por el autor) de la _netart latino database_ de brian mackern, adquirida por el meiac el uno de enero de dos mil ocho por noventa y nueve céntimos de euro.

dirección editorial: nilo casares

textos: laura baigorri, giselle beiguelman, nilo casares, brian mackern, lila pagola y gustavo romano

traducción y revisión de textos: polisemia

imágenes: joaquín torres-garcía (pág 32), rafael marchetti (pág 107), brian mackern y los artistas capturados.

diseño: fündc < http://www.fundc.com>

publica: meiac (museo extremeño e iberoamericano de arte contemporáneo)
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imprenta: indugrafic

© consejería de cultura. junta de extremadura
© de los textos, traducciones e imágenes sus autores.
salvo en los casos de lila pagola, con licencia creative commons by sa argentina 2.5, y de nilo casares, cedido al dominio público.

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arriba español

this book was published for the purpose of distributing five hundred facsimile copies (thirty five numbered and signed by the author) of the _netart latino database_ by brian mackern, acquired by the meiac on the first of january, two thousand and eight, at the price of ninety-nine cents (euros).

edited by: nilo casares

texts: laura baigorri, giselle beiguelman, nilo casares, brian mackern, lila pagola y gustavo romano

translation and proof reading: polisemia

images: joaquín torres-garcía (p. 32), rafael marchetti (p. 107), brian mackern and the artists reproduced here.

design: fündc < http://www.fundc.com>

published by: meiac (museo extremeño e iberoamericano de arte contemporáneo)
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http://www.meiac.es]

printers: indugrafic

© regional ministry of culture. regional government of extremadura
© of the texts, translations and images, their authors.
except in the cases of lila pagola, with creative commons licence by sa argentina 2.5, and nilo casares, granted to the public domain.

isbn: 978-84-613-4394-2
national book catalogue number: ba-56-2010

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copyleft (todos os direitos ao reve’s) nilo casares

life is too short to drink bad wine / la vida es demasiado breve como para beber mal vino / a vida é muito curta para beber vinho mau / la vita è troppo corta per bersi un vino scadente / het leven is te kort om slechte wijn te drinken

beijos em espiral:: besos en espiral:: besades en espiral:: baisers en spirale:: baci a spirale:: spiral kisses :: spiral kyssar:: spiraalzoenen:: pocalunki spiralowe:: muxu kiribilatuak:: kierteisia suukkoja:: spiralni poljupci:: spiralküsse:: spiraal soene

http://comisario.net
http://twitter.com/140_pulsaciones

Próximas actividades / Upcoming Activities · 15/02/10 – 21/02/10

Taller Open Up: proyectos para la fachada digital de Medialab-Prado
9 – 23 febrero
Conferencias y taller internacional de desarrollo colaborativo de siete proyectos para dotar de contenido a la fachada digital de Medialab-Prado. Profesores del taller: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas y Víctor Viña. Dirigido por Nerea Calvillo.

Martes, 16 febrero / 19:00h

En el marco del taller se celebra la conferencia de Jennifer Steimkamp (Orbits) y la presentación del profesor Chandler Mcwilliams (Repetición repetición) [streaming en directo] [+info]
Imagen: “Loom” de Jennifer Steinkamp, 2003

:: PRÓXIMAS SEMANAS ::

Taller Licencias para vivir
25, 26 y 27 febrero

Reflexión sobre los dispositivos conceptuales y jurídicos destinados a reforzar la autonomía de las comunidades rurales, indígenas o populares y urbanas cuya creatividad no parece verse ni reflejada ni protegida en las leyes de derecho de autor en vigor. Invitamos a participar a cualquier persona o colectivo interesado en aportar propuestas y debatir casos de estudio relacionados. Dirigido por Carolina Botero y Jordi Claramonte. [+info]


Encuentro FLOSSManuals en español
2 – 6 marzo

Sprint de traducción al español de los manuales Floss “Inkscape Manual” y “Collaborative Futures”. Para participar es necesario inscripción previa. Organizado por FLOSSmanuals y Medialab-Prado, en colaboración con la Escuela de Arte 10 de Madrid. Coordinado por Jennifer Dopazo. [+info]

:: CONVOCATORIAS ABIERTAS ::

Interactivos? LABoral: When Process Becomes Paradigm
Convocatoria para proyectos
Cierre de la convocatoria: 22 febrero
Fechas del taller: 8 al 20 abril

Convocatoria para la presentación de proyectos para participar en Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, dentro del programa destinado a artistas y creadores de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón). Se seleccionarán un máximo de ocho propuestas para su desarrollo colaborativo en el taller previo a la exposición When Process Becomes Paradigm, el 23 de abril de 2010. En colaboración con Medialab-Prado. [+info]


Convocatoria de Ayudas a la Creación Contemporánea – Matadero Madrid 2010
Recepción de solicitudes: hasta 16 febrero

Matadero Madrid convoca ayudas a la creación contemporánea por un total de 355.000 euros con tres modalidades de participación: A) Programa de espacios y agentes culturales independientes; B) Programa de creadores: destinado a la producción de obra de creadores individuales y colectivos; y C) Programa Matadero Madrid (incluye ayudas para proyectos dirigidos a la fachada digital de Medialab-Prado).
Bases y formulario de solicitud disponibles en: www.mataderomadrid.com

Más información en http://medialab-prado.es

English:

:: HIGHLIGHT ::

Open Up Workshop – projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado
February 9 through 23

International workshop for the collaborative development of seven projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado. Teachers: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed by Nerea Calvillo.

Tuesday, February 16 / 7:00 pm

Within the framework of the workshop there will be a lecture by Jennifer Steimkamp (Orbits) and a presentation by tutor Chandler Mcwilliams (Repetition Repetition). [Live Streaming] [+info]
Image: “Loom” by Jennifer Steinkamp, 2003

:: NEXT WEEKS ::

Licenses to Live Workshop
February 25, 26 and 27

Reflection about conceptual and law concepts to reinforce the autonomy of rural, indigenous and popular communities whose creativity seems not to be protected by copyright licenses. We invite everyone to present proposals and debate case studies. Directed by Carolina Botero and Jordi Claramonte. [+info]


Meeting: FLOSSManuals in Spanish
March 2 through 6

Sprint of translation into Spanish of “Inkscape Manual” and “Collaborative Futures” Floss manuals. Registration required. Organized by FLOSSmanuals and Medialab-Prado, in collaboration with Escuela de Arte 10 of Madrid. Coordinated by Jennifer Dopazo. [+info]

:: OPEN CALLS ::

Interactivos? LABoral: When Process Becomes Paradigm
Call for projects
Deadline: February 22
Dates of the workshop: April 8 through 20

Call for the presentation of projects to take part in Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, as part of the programme for artists and creators of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijon, Spain). A maximum of eight proposals will be selected to be collaboratively developed in the workshop that will take place prior to the opening of the exhibition When Process Becomes Paradigm, on April 23, 2010. In collaboration with Medialab-Prado. [+info]


Grants Matadero Madrid 2010
Deadline: February 16

Matadero Madrid issues a call for grants for contemporary creation. For this call, the total available funds are 355,000 euros, distributed in three programmes: A) Programme for spaces and independent cultural agents; B) Creators’ Programme; C) Matadero Madrid Programme (includes grants for projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado). Guidelines and submission form: www.mataderomadrid.com.

More information: http://medialab-prado.es

TELIC: Facs of Life screening on Sunday, February 21

Sunday, February 21 at 7pm

On Sunday, February 21, we are lucky to have Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson visiting us from Paris to screen their 2009 film, Facs of Life. The screening will begin at 7pm, but we invite you to come earlier for a conversation with Silvia and Graeme.

Facs of Life departs from Gilles Deleuze’s Vicennes seminar of 1975-1976 and follows several individuals who participated there as students. In the words of the filmmakers, it “is a ?lm of conceptual/poetic dispositifs that charts trajectories of those affected by Gilles Deleuze’s laboratory of machinic thought at the Centre Expérimental Universitaire de Paris 8 – Vincennes (1969-1980). The film generates its lignes d’erre and its cinematographic territories from a series of encounters: with videos of Deleuze’s courses at Vincennes made by a group of militant cineastes; with several of those who attended the seminar and who appear in these images; with the woods of Vincennes where the university buildings (pulled down in 1980) once stood; with students of the new Paris 8 university at St Denis; and inevitably with the phantoms of revolution that continue to haunt our desires.”

A trailer can be found here:

http://www.streaming.mmu.ac.uk/eri/deleuze/facs_of_life.wmv
http://facsoflife.wordpress.com

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Telic Arts Exchange
951 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012
http://telic.info
tel: 213.229.8907

RETHINK KAKOTOPIA & The Children of Ceausescu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb 4th 2010

Tensta Konsthall is proud to present a double exhibition opening and a real kick off to our spring schedule.

RETHINK KAKOTOPIA curated by Elisabeth Delin Hansen (Director of the Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen)

The Children of Ceausescu curated by William Easton

Opening on Saturday February 20th 13.00 – 18.00
Exhibition period: February 20th – April 10th 2010

RETHINK KAKOTOPIA
Artists: Lise Autogena & Joshua Portway, Bill Burns, Haubitz + Zoche, Tue Greenfort, Tea Mäkipää, Cornelia Parker, Superflex and Fiona Tan.

Kakotopia was the term used by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham to describe a negative state of society, an anti-utopia characterized by chaos and disintegration. At the beginning of the 21st century, mankind, due to climate changes, finds itself in a state in which a change of the conditions for life on our planet seems to have become ever clearer. The exact consequences are uncertain and highly debated; but many things seem to indicate that they may be extensive. RETHINK KAKOTOPIA takes this very kakotopia as its point of departure: a situation in which faith in technological solutions wrestles with apocalyptic visions, drawing on deeply rooted fantasies of disaster.

The Children of Ceausescu
Images: Kent Klich
Texts: Herta Müller

Kent Klich has worked on the project The Children of Ceausescu since 1994 when he first visited some of the sate orphanages in Romania. The work documents the worst AIDS epidemic among children the world has ever seen. Through the deliberate refusal to see the disease as a problem, regarding it only as something affecting western Capitalism, the Romanian dictator Nicholae Ceausescu exacerbated the tragedy of mass orphanhood caused by his own social policies. When thousands of sick and malnourished orphan children across Romania were given quick pick-me-up blood transfusions that proved to be tainted with HIV, AIDS spread rapidly. The result has been a human catastrophe with tens of thousands of HIV positive children living in some of the worst conditions imaginable. Following the overthrow of Ceausescu’s regime, the lives of these children have improved, but as Klich documents, the social stigma of AIDS and the continuing levels of extreme poverty, coupled with ethnic and class differences in present day Romania continue to play a role in shaping this tragedy.

In 2000 Klich approached Herta Müller to write a text to accompany his images. Müller’s account of her work as a teacher in the former communist Romania creates a chilling echo for Klich’s photographs. As with much of her work she writes in a style that is paired down to the nub, stripped of any unnecessary poetic embroidery that seems to throw his portraits into stark relief. In 2004 Klich made another visit and interviewed the children he had met earlier, who by then were teenagers some reunited with their parents. The result was a video made with Brita Landoff and included in the exhibition “No Name Fever” shown at the Museum of World Culture in 2004.

The combination of text, photographs and video create an exhibition that is challenging and perhaps even harrowing in its directness. Like other works by Klich it his integrity and care that creates a bridge between audience and subject and the result is as sincere as it is moving.

RETHINK – Contemporary Art & Climate Change is organized by the Alexandra Institute – a research-based limited company that bridges the gap between the IT corporate sector, research and education. The exhibition is curated as a collaboration between the National Gallery of Denmark, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, and the Alexandra Institute, in which each is represented with their particular part of the overall exhibition in their own venue (Alexandra’s part is exhibited at Moesgård Museum in Århus): RETHINK Relations, RETHINK The Implicit, RETHINK Information and RETHINK Kakotopia – the latter being Nikolaj’s contribution and the exhibition on show at Tensta Konsthall.

RETHINK – Contemporary Art & Climate Change has been elected as the “Nordic Exhibition of the Year 2009-2010″ by the Nordic Culture Fund and has received support from the Branding Denmark Fund, the City of Copenhagen and the Danish Arts Council’s Committee for Visual Art. The exhibition was a part of the official cultural programme in connection with the UN Global Climate Summit, COP 15, Copenhagen, December 7 to 18 2009.

TENSTA KONSTHALL, TAXINGEGRÄND 10, BOX 4001, 163 04 SPÅNGA
T: 08-36 07 63 | F: 08-36 25 60 | ÖPPET ONS-LOR 12.00-17.00

Tensta Konsthall stöds av Stockholms Stad, Kulturrådet, Stockholms Läns Landsting, Framtidens Kultur och Allmänna Arvsfonden.

www.tenstakonsthall.se