U.S. Artists International Deadline: January 8, 2010

The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation's "U.S. Artists International" application for engagements taking place between March 1, 2010 and February 28, 2011 ends on January 8, 2010.

The program is committed to ensuring that the impressive range of expression and creativity of the performing arts in the United States is represented abroad. USArtists International provides support for American dance, music, and theater ensembles and solo artists invited to perform at significant international festivals anywhere in the world outside the United States and its territories.

For more information about USArtists International, including program guidelines and application:

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
http://www.midatlanticarts.org
Attention: Sara Nash, Program Associate, International at saran@midatlanticarts.org.

"Descubrimientos", PHotoEspaña Call, Deadline: Feb. 7, 2010

PHotoEspaña, Madrid’s International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, invites photographers of all nationalities and disciplines to present their work to Descubrimientos PHE.

"Descubrimientos" PHE is PHotoEspaña´s portfolio review that will take place from June 10 to 12, 2010. The portfolio review offers photographers the opportunity to show their work in individual sessions to eight curators and editors specialized in the field.

A jury will select seventy photographers to participate in the portfolio review, who will also present their work in a collective exhibition at the Complejo El Águila in the Official Section of the Festival and will opt for the Descubrimientos PHE Epson Award, which consists in an individual exhibition in PHotoEspaña 2011.

Some of the reviewers in 2010 are:

Ignacio Andreu Editor, C Photo Magazine, Madrid
Olivia Gideon Thomson Director, WE FOLK, London
Markus Hartmann International Publishing Director, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
Alessandra Mauro Editorial director, Contrasto, Milan
Yossi Milo Director, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
James Reid Photography Editor, Wallpaper, London
Sandra Philips Senior Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Kathy Ryan Picture Editor, New York Times Magazine
Agnès Sire Director, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Wim Van Senderen Curator, The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague
Marta Ponsa Director of projects, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Inka Graeve Ingelmann, Head of the Department Photography and New Media, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Deadline for entries: Sunday February 7, 2010

More info: www.phe.es/descubrimientos

Open Up: International Call for Digital Facade Projects, Deadline: December 10, 2009

Dates of the workshop: February 9 through 23, 2010

Venue: Medialab-Prado in Madrid (Spain)

Worskhop tutors: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas, and Víctor Viña. Directed and coordinated by Nerea Calvillo.

Open Up is a workshop focused on the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado's building. This call is meant for project proposals to be collaboratively developed during the workshop-seminar taking place in Madrid from February 9 through 23, 2010.

The goals of the workshop are to explore the relationship between the urban screen and public space, to experiment with the screen’s communicative, narrative and visual capacities, and to investigate its potential to offer new forms of participation. Selected projects will be developed under the supervision of teachers, technical assistants and an extensive group of collaborators.

Projects submitted to this call should take the following ideas into consideration: the development of strategies for public participation, activation of urban space through the screen, fostering public visibility of agents that normally have none, visualization of public collectives; interaction with portable devices, etc. All those interested in collaborating in one of the selected projects can sign in from January 5 through February 8, 2010.

Medialab-Prado will provide lodging for participants residing outside of Madrid and will consider the possibility of covering travel expenses wholly or in part, on a case by case basis.

More information, call guidelines and submission form:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/open_up
medianeralab@medialab-prado.es

Image: View of Medialab-Prado's Digital Facade from Plaza de las Letras (Madrid)

Art and Artificial Life in the 12th edition of the International Vida Prizes, Deadline: Oct. 1, 2009

Fundación Telefónica, since its outset, has sought to support art-related technological innovation and has therefore paid close attention to new media art. In this context, the foundation founded VIDA, an international competition which rewards electronic works of art produced with artificial life technologies.

VIDA 12.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. It is looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own.

VIDA 12.0 is searching for projects that relate technology with biology and that research synthetic characteristics of modern life. In previous editions, prizes have been awarded to artistic projects created with robots, avatars, recursive chaotic algorithms, knowbots, cellular automata, computer viruses, virtual ecologies that evolve with user interaction, interactive architectures, augmented reality pieces and works that explore the social aspects of A-life.

A total of €40,000 will be awarded to the three projects selected by the jury: First prize: €18,000(*), Second prize: €14,000(*), Third prize: €8,000(*). The winning pieces may be exhibited at Fundación Telefónica Virtual Gallery and in the exhibitions related to art and new technologies it organises or takes part in. Works of art submitted must not be more than two years old. This enables the Competition to keep updated and aware of the last technological trends in the field of artificial life.

More info.: http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/certamen_vida/en/index.htm

Call for Long-term Studio Rentals at Hangar, Barcelona. Deadline: October 20, 2009

Long-term (maximum 2-year) studio rentals available at Hangar a visual arts production centre situated in the Poblenou area of Barcelona.

Availability: as of November 2009 or January 2010.

Addressed to: Artists or groups who occasionally need a studio for developing projects or specific commissions, artists who are starting out and need a studio (for up to two years) or artists moving to Barcelona on a temporary basis.

Deadline: October 20, 2009

2009 Rates (VAT included)

(11)30 m2 studios: €136.05 /month
(1) 44 m2 studio: €196.87 /month
(2) 54 m2 studios: €240.41 /month
(1) 60 m2 studio: €266.54 /month

More about Hangar: http://www.hangar.org/drupal/?q=content/what-hangar
Application form: http://www.hangar.org/tallers/?estades=llargues&llengua=en

Visualizar '09: "Public Data, Data in Public" - Deadline October 5, 2009

Medialab-Prado will be holding an international workshop-seminar on data visualization this fall and has announced a call for projects and papers to be collectively produced and presented publicly with the support of Bestiario.

Workshop focus: implications of using data structure visualization to aid in public processes of decision-making. Selected projects and papers will tackle the topic of Open Data and Visualization for Government Transparency and Civil Engagement

Seminar dates: November 12 - 27, 2009

Application deadline: October 5, 2009

Application period for collorators: October 16 - November 11, 2009

Location: Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain

Director: José Luis de Vicente --
Teachers: Ben Cerveny (Stamen) - http://stamen.com/
Aaron Koblin - http://www.aaronkoblin.com/
Manuel Lima - http://www.mslima.com/myhome.cfm

More information on Medialab Prado: http://www.medialab-prado.es
Bestiario - http://www.bestiario.org/

Artist-in-Residencies, "Residencia de Estudiantes", Madrid

The "Residencia de Estudiantes" of Madrid announces it's 2009-2010 call for artists interested in a unique residency opportunity in the heart of Madrid, an intense cultural life and exchanges between the arts and sciences.

Deadline: June 26, 2009

Addressed to: Spanish and Latin American artists with a minimum of 2 years professional experience

Age limit: 35 at the time of application.

Disciplines: Visual and performing artists. Creative Writing.

No. of grants: 6

Benefits: one-year residency (room and board), renewable for a second year

Period: September 1, 2009 - August 31, 2010

http://www.residencia.csic.es/bec/bec_frame1.htm

VII International VAD Festival 2009: Call for Video and Digital Arts Submissions

VII VAD Festival, Girona, Spain: International call for independent videos, installations and interactive works.

Deadline: June 30, 2009

Subject: the financial crisis, and the selection will be geared towards works that synthesise with, reflect or speculate on the slogan IMAGINING AN (IM)POSSIBLE FUTURE.

Addressed to: artists of all ages and nationalities

Festival dates: October 15 - 25, 2009 (first weekend will focus on professional activities, a seminar and meet-the-artists events.

VAD award: 2000 euros for best work in the competition.

Metrópolis single-channel video award: selection of 4-5 international works (to be included in a special program (total maximum of 25 minutes) on the festival that will be screened on TVE (Spanish national TV), Channel 2. Prizes vary according to the duration of the work (video art, video dance, independent documentary, music videos, animation (no narrataive fiction).

For further information and application instructions:

http://2009.vadfestival.net/
info@vadfestival.net
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Ciutat d'Olot Visual Arts and Curatorial Grants, 2009

The Institut de Cultura of the city of Olot announces the 2009 Visual Arts Grants with the aim of promoting artistic production.

Collaborating entity: Generalitat de Catalunya

Location: the city of Olot is located in the Catalan province of Girona

Grant benefits: 18,000 euros to be distributed between two to five projects.

Grants addressed to: individual artists or collectives

Age and nationality: no limitation

Deadline: September 30, 2009

For more information and application procedures: http://www.olot.org/cultura/zerou
Email: zerou@olot.cat