2011 Madrid Procesos - Call for Artists Projects - Deadline: May 31, 2011

AVAM (Associated Visual Artists of Madrid), sponsored by the Madrid Regional Government, invites entries for a competition to select four artistic projects for inclusion in Madrid Procesos 11. This Open Call forms part of the Madrid Procesos programme, an initiative promoted by AVAM and supported by the Madrid Regional Government in order to improve the conditions experienced by plastic and visual artists as they produce and create their work.

This open call has two categories whose aim is to select four artistic projects:

Category 1: Madrid Procesos 11/ Madrid. The selection of two artistic projects which will be produced principally with existing resources in the Madrid Region during a period of approximately four months (July-October 2011).

Category 2: Madrid Procesos 11/ Berlin. The selection of two artistic projects for total or partial production in residence at the Karl Hofer Society of the Circle of Friends of the University of the Arts in Berlin during an exact period of two months (15 August –15 October 2011).

Participants:

Artists of any nationality or age may present projects, either individually or collectively. In the latter case, the collective must designate one member as a representative.

Projects:

Participants must present an original and unpublished project which is in the production stage or is to be partially or totally produced during the duration of the grant.

There is no incompatibility with any other grant for the same project, but this must be specified (when applicable) in the documentation presented.

The project must be produced primarily using resources available within the Madrid Region, with the various stages of this process to be visible during the entire duration of the Madrid Procesos 11 programme.

Benefits:

-The sum provided for the project is 5.000 € (Taxable Amount + VAT), which corresponds to the following: materials, stays, travel, insurance, production fees, authors' rights and any other expense related to the production of the project. Fees and authors' rights must be calculated at around 30% of the total grant.

According to the tax legislation in force, expense invoices must be received in full i.e. transactions subject to VAT including the corresponding deduction.

- Timely presentation of the programme of projects in the Madrid Regional Government's CA2M, the Dos de Mayo Art Centre.

Selection of projects:

At least 50% of the artists selected must either have been born in Madrid or be residents in Madrid Region during 2011.

Further information and application procedure:


http://avam.net/madridprocesos11/madridprocesos11_english.htm

INLAND - Campo Adentro Residency Program, Spain. Deadline: Feb. 10, 2011

The Inland Project - Art, Agriculture and Countryside - is a project about territories, geopolitics, culture and identity and the relationship between countryside and city in Spain today.

Residencies addressed to: Spanish and international artists of all disciplines (visual arts, music, dance, etc.), individuals or grupos, who want to try and influence the relationship between art and agriculture, rural and urban areas. No age limit. Excellent command of the Spanish language required for two of the three project options.

Duration: 3 weeks to 2 months

Deadline: February 14 (receipt date) Feb. 10 (latest postmark date)

Sponsors: Spanish Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs
Spanish Ministry of Culture
Fundación Marcelino Botín

For complete information and application form: http://www.campoadentro.es

Can Xalant, Mataró, Barcelona Open Calls, Deadline: March 12, 2011

Can Xalant, Center for Creation of Visual Arts and Contemporary Thought, located in Mataró, Barcelona, announces two open calls for projects of intervention in the public spaces of Mataró and Vic, Barcelona.

The project "Ceci n’est pas une voiture. Nomadic devices loom around the museum" is born as a documentation and reflection exercise on the construction of mobile devices as elements of an expanded concept of the Museum or going as far as being an alternative to it.

It is a research project that aims at cataloguing and reflecting on those projects which, circulating in the public space, challenge the conventional notion of the Museum and reformulate instead the functions of the exhibition display as a nomadic platform nurturing direct and self-managed participation, development of social research and dissemination of educational experiences.

The project is carried out as a series of activities each of which is designed as a Parking episode. Parking 01, the first of this series, was developed and presented in Can Xalant in July 2010. The project as a whole is a build up of successive Parkings to be carried out throughout 2011. A more detailed definition of the project can be found on the following websites: http:/idensitat.net - http://canxalant.org – http://acvic.org

Parking 02. Open call for a project of intervention in the public space of Mataró using Idensitat’s Dispositivo Itinerante.



Dispositivo Itinerante [DI]
At different moments in 2009 and 2010, the Dispositivo Itinerante (Touring Device) has been part of workshops and seminars as an itinerant exhibition that conveys specific activities generated by Idensitat.

It has taken part in the iD Barrio project and was present at various activities of educational activities and intervention in the public space in Calaf (Espacio Hivernacle Cultural), Prat de Llobregat (Torre Muntadas), Barcelona (La Capella) and Manresa (Passeig Pere III).

It pursues the idea of an exhibition that expands in the territory and serves as a transmitter – receiver of data. Its itinerant nature allows affecting specific aspects of the territory through mobility. The Dispositivo Itinerante is a way to demonstrate and display one of Idensitat’s main objectives, which is to be an itinerant production space, which travels within the territory with the projects it produces, while generating insights, analysis and proposals for change.

In this case it is proposed as a support element that is integrated into the project selected from the open call, and can be modified and adapted to its needs. The Dispositivo Itinerante has some additional elements such as projector, various tables, chairs, projection screens and vertical supports.

Parking 03. Open call for a project of intervention in the public space of Vic using Can Xalant’s CX-R caravan.



CX-R is an adapted mobile caravan. Its portability allows the center to expand into the public arena, establish collaborations with its environment, and expand its scope of action and repercussion.

CX-R was designed and produced in 2009 by Argentine architects a77 (Gustavo Diéguez y Lucas Gilardi) and Pau Faus as a result of a workshop aiming at the collective construction of infrastructure for the courtyard of the center, through the development of a network of institutions and people in the immediate environment.

The laboratory was conceived as a process of physical construction, but also as a platform for social interaction to define a program. wecanxalant.blogspot.com

Since its opening, CX-R has been requested for different uses: artistic-educational interventions in schools, neighborhood festivals, stage for performances, artistic interventions, among others. CX-R can be modified for each application and project.

Deadline: March 12, 2011

Who can participate?

Both open calls are for artists who provide proposals of intervention in the public space from a trans-disciplinary perspective and the willingness to interact with different strategies within the social space of Mataró and Vic (Barcelona).

Participants will have to make a proposal that incorporates Idensitat’s Dispositivo Itinerante in the case of Mataró and Can Xalant’s CX-R in the case of Vic, and that will be carried out in the public space of the city.

The concept of space is to be understood in its dual capacity, physical and social. There are no prerequisites apart from these mentioned above; the project can therefore tackle cultural, political, educational or any other issue. At any rate, the strategy and formalization will have to deal with elements of latent tension in public space. The final location of the selected proposal in the public space will be subject to obtaining a municipal permit.

Calendar
The proposals will be carried out during a residency of 30 days, between May 1 and June 30, 2011.

More info. about Can Xalant: http://canxalant.org

Descubrimientos PHE Portfolio Review, Madrid. Deadline: February 13, 2011

Descubrimientos PHE is PHotoEspaña's portfolio review, offering photographers the opportunity to present their work to curators and editors specialized in the field with the objetive of generating professional outlets for their work.


From June 2 - 4, 2011 participants will present their portfolios in Madrid to 8 professionals during individual, 20-minute appointments.

Deadline: February 13, 2011

More more information about the PHotoEspaña Fair (June 1 - July 24, 2011) and registration forms for the Descubrimientos PHE Portfolio Reviews: http://www.phe.es/festival/?ed=2011

Montehermoso Cultural Center, Vitoria, Spain: Deadline: March 13, 2011

The Montehermoso Culturall Center, located in Vitoria, province of Alava, Spain, announces its Art and Research Awards aimed at facilitating the production, dissemination and exhibition of contemporary art projects. Awards are offered for:

- Production of contemporary art projects
- Curatorship
- Research (min. of one award is earmarked for projects related to the History of Feminist Art in Spain.)
- Development of a film scripts.

Deadline: March 13, 2011

More information: http://www.montehermoso.net/index.php?i=ing

ECAT, Toledo - 2011 Call for Projects. Deadline: December 10, 2010

The "Fundación de Cultura y Deporte" of the Regional Government of Castille-La Mancha will be selecting 5 projects to form part of it the exhibition programming of the "Espacio Contemporáneo Archivo de Toledo - ECAT".

Eligibility: Spanish and international artists. No age limitatation. Addressed to individual artists or collectives.

Financing: Maximum of 7.000 euros per project. Former church floor plans follow:














For additional information and application form: http://espacioecat.es

Krea Contemporary Expression Creation Program, deadline Nov. 30, 2010

KREA Contemporary Expression, located in Vitoria, Alava, is a centre that provides resources, a place for training and a meeting point where contemporary creation and culture from a multi-disciplinary and networking standpoint is encouraged.

The Creation Program is of strategic importance to KREA Contemporary Expression which fosters research, training, circulation and exhibition projects and pays special attention to young artists.

Visual arts, music, literary arts, dance and theatre are fields of creation that KREA Contemporary Expression has committed to, in addition to a concept of culture open to other spheres of social interest.

For more information about Krea, it's artist-in-residency program and it's new architectural project: http://www.kreared.com/en/krea

"New Life" Residency for Artists at Manifesta 8, Murcia, Spain Deadline August 15, 2010

Wooloo.org invites artists to apply for a unique residency at Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art in Spain in the fields of Conceptual, Curating, Mixed Media, Performance, Sound Art.

NEW LIFE RESIDENCY is the world’s first non-visual residency program for artists. The residency is organized as part of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, and will take place this fall in the Region of Murcia, Spain.

For one week each, five artists will be selected to live and work in a dark, visually distorted exhibition space. To support them in their life and work for the week, the artist will collaborate with a local Murcian assistant who is blind.

In cooperation with her/his assistant, the artist will use the one-week residency to create a guided tour of the non-visual space and experience in which s/he is living. The blind assistant will be the guide of this tour in darkness and the tour will be open to the biennial audience.

Deadline: August 15, 2010

All applicants must apply with their precise concept for this guided tour. A tour of a social sculpture, so to speak.

Apart from the guided tour, the five selected concept proposals will furthermore be exhibited in one of the main museum locations of Manifesta 8 and will be on view throughout the biennial from September 30th, 2010 (preview) to January 9th, 2011.

The five residency periods are:

September 27th to October 2nd, 2010

October 4th to October 9th, 2010

October 11th to October 16th, 2010

October 18th to October 23th, 2010

October 25th to October 30th, 2010

Financial Benefits: Travel, living and production costs will be covered for the selected artists.

Important Note: Due to the site-specific nature of the project and its local collaboration, applicants who speak Spanish will be preferred.

For more info.: http://www.wooloo.org/residency

Arteleku Studios, San Sebastian. Deadline: May 14, 2010

Located in the Loiola District in the outskirts of San Sebastian, about 2 kms. from the city center, Arteleku occupies an industrial building and has been an art center since 1987.

It also offers studios for rent. When applying for a studio, those interested must send their CV, a dossier about their work and a report on the project they wish to carry out, at the same time specifying the period during which they wish to rent it.

Deadline: May 14, 2010

The rental fee is 42 euros a month, which include the free use of the centre’s workshops (with the exception of lithography workshop) and facilities.

People who take up a place working at Arteleku have to look for their own lodging and be able to cover other maintenance costs. The center, however, offers help to find housing.

For further information: www.arteleku.net
Email: arteleku@gipuzkoa.net

Pilar Juncosa Grants for Training, Experimentation and Creation at the Miró Graphic Art Workshops in Palma de Mallorca. Deadline: Aug. 31, 2010

The Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró of Mallorca announces:

- 5 grants to take part in workshops and courses at the Fundación Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca. Each grant covers free enrollment in one of the courses workshops to be held in 2011 and up to 1,500 euros for travel expenses.

- 2 grants to train at other international graphic art workshops and/or art centers.

One center (The Slade School of Fine Arts, University Collage London) has been selected for its proven experience. Grant covers 3,000 euros, plus the use of a studio and access to the Slade Workshops. www.ucl.ac.uk/slade

The other, national or international, can be freely chosen by applicants. Grant totals 3,000 euros.

More information: http://miro.palmademallorca.es/

Madrid Procesos 2010. International Call for Projects. Deadline: May 10, 2010

AVAM (Associated Visual Artists of Madrid) with the sponsorship of the Madrid Regional Government, announces an international call to select four artistic projects for inclusion in Madrid Procesos 10 Program.

This initiative is promoted by AVAM and backed by the Madrid Regional Government.

Objective: to improve the conditions experienced by plastic and visual artists when they are producing and creating work.
Deadline: May 10, 2010
More information and application procedures:

http://www.avam.net/madridprocesos10/madridprocesos10_english.htm

Medialab-Prado, Madrid - Interactivos?'10: Neighborhood Science Deadline April 19, 2010

Medialab-Prado announces a call for the presentation of projects and papers to be developed and presented during Interactivos?'10: Neighborhood Science Workshop to take place between June 7 - 23, 2010.

The workshop will include the participation of: Platoniq, Douglas Repetto, and the working team formed by Andrés Burbano, Alejandro Araque, Alejandro Duque and Alejandro Tamayo.

Deadline: April 19, 2010

List of selected proposals: April 28, 2010

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

Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Alava, Spain. Art & Research Grants. Deadline March 31, 2010

This cultural center, located in historic Vitoria, is housed in a 16th century Renaissance palace and an 1885 Water Tank connected by an underground corridor.

The Art and Research (max. 8) awards are aimed at facilitating the production, dissemination and exhibition of contemporary art projects.

Financial aid: for the production of contemporary art projects, curatorial work or the research and development of a film script. A minimum of one award is earmarked for researching the History of Feminist Art in Spain

Art Projects: max. 10,000 euros/project
Curatorial Projects: max. 21,000 euros/project
Research Projects: max. 9,000 euros/project

For more information, international call, application guidlines, etc.:
http://www.montehermoso.net/pagina.php?m1=28&m2=29&id_p=111

Matadero-Madrid Contemporary Creation Awards, 2010. Deadline February 16, 2010

The three following programs close their application period on February 16, 2010:

A. Existing Spaces and Independent Cultural Professionals Program: addressed to permanent existing spaces and cultural managers dedicated to contemporary art, its thought process, development and dissemination (max. 20.000 euros or max. 30.000 euros, respectively). Applicants must be actively dedicated to the programming, organization and promotion of contemporary art in the city of Madrid.

B. Program for Artist Creation: addressed to (Spanish or foreign, resident or non-resident) individual artists and art collectives with innovative projects and activities to be developed in the city of Madrid (max. 15.000 euros/project).

C. Matadero Madrid Program: addressed to projects and/or activities to be carried out by Spanish or foreign, resident or non-resident artists, artist collectives or non profit organizations in the spaces and institutions currently active in Matadero Madrid. Also open to the production of projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado, Plaza de las Letras, Madrid (max. 18.000 or 6.000 euros, respectively).

Grant announcement (Spanish version only), Matadero Madrid floor plans and application form available at:
http://www.mataderomadrid.com

Medialab-Prado International Call for Projects, Deadline February 15, 2010

Call for the presentation of projects to take part in Interactivos? When Process Becomes Paradigm, as part of the program for artists and creators of the 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 23rd 2010.

The deadline for entries is February 15, 2010.

Dates of the workshop: April 8 through 20, 2010. The artists invited to lead the workshop will be Antoni Abad, Allison Kudla and Roman Kirscher.

For more info.: http://medialab-prado.es/article/convocatoria_interactivos_laboral

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