Artist’s Commission: Magnetic Events
Enchanted Parks is an innovative outdoor arts programme presented as part of the annual NewcastleGateshead Winter Festival cultural programme presented by culture10.

Enchanted Parks 2008 will be a winter arts trail of outdoor visual arts and performing arts installations by artists, supported by producers Magnetic Events. The commissions will be for not only visual arts but for proposals that use combined arts forms including sound, multi-media, music, spoken word. Proposals are invited for outdoor artworks that can realised within a commission budget of £ 2,000 to £ 5,000. Ten to fifteen art works will be commissioned...website

LIGHTWAVE 2009 OPEN CALL
Calling all techno-artists, playful scientists, renegade engineers, architects, sculptors, lighting designers, fashion designers, guerrilla projectionists and inventors!

LIGHTWAVE returns to the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin following the unprecedented success and international acclaim received in its phenomenal inaugural show. Bigger, better and raising the bar, LIGHTWAVE 2009 promises to mesmerize audiences not only within the Science Gallery, but to captivate on-lookers city wide as interactive experiences, roving installations and participatory workshops flood the creative, cultural quarters of Dublin.

Interested applicants are encouraged to send new, in-progress or interdisciplinary project proposals (installations, events, workshops) highlighting interactivity, connectivity, participation and public engagement both confined by, and freed from the gallery walls. We are looking for proposals of the highest standard that incorporate art, science and new technology in exciting and engaging projects focusing on light.

Examples of project themes already proposed are the development of sustainable light sources in Africa, light pollution, effects of light on the body and the creative control of light through technology. Fresh and innovative projects that investigate a variety of themes are very welcome...website

transmediale.09 - DEEP NORTH & STRUCTURES: festival for art and digital culture berlin
As leading international festivals for art and digital culture as well as adventurous music and related visual arts, transmediale are calling for submissions to the transmediale Award
competition and the Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

*transmediale* presents and pursues the advancement of artistic positions reflecting on the socio-cultural, political and economic impact of new technologies. It seeks out artistic practices that not only respond to scientific or technical developments, but that try to shape the way in which we think about and experience the technologies which impact virtually all aspects of our daily lives. As such, transmediale understands media technologies as cultural techniques that need to be embraced in order to comprehend,
critique, and shape global societies.

*club transmediale* (CTM) is a prominent international festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental music, as well as the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of sound and club culture. CTM presents projects that experiment with new aesthetic parameters and new forms of cooperation, develop possibilities for informational and economic self-determination, and reflect on the role of contemporary music against the backdrop of technological and social transformations.

For the 2009 edition, the festivals have each set a specific thematic focus. Visit transmediele for details on the themes and how to submit...website

VIDEOMEDEJA - 12 INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL
Like previous years VIDEOMEDEJA are looking for new video art works and short films, media installations, live audiovisual performances, network based projects for this festival

They are glad to receive proposals from curators and producers/distributors for the non-competitive special screenings. Categories:

video | film
media installations | network | live projects

awards:
Sphinx award - for the best video
Bogdanka Poznanovic award - for the best media installation, network or live project

Themet: POP Video - What is a popular video today?
The title direct ones thoughts to at least two directions at the same time:

* one is the music video production, video clips of famous performers;
* two is the artistic direction whose most prominent representative is certainly Andy Warhol and Nam June Palk

...website

Wellcome Trust, Public Engagement Arts Awards
These Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts, and that take place in the United Kingdom or Republic of Ireland. The scheme aims to stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science through the arts; examine the social, cultural and ethical impact of biomedical science; support formal and informal learning; encourage new ways of thinking; and encourage high quality interdisciplinary practice and collaborative partnerships in arts, science or education practice.

All art forms are covered by the programme: dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft, photography, creative writing or digital media. The trust invites applications for projects that engage adult audiences or young people.

Projects should have some biomedical scientific input either through a scientist taking on an advisory role or through direct collaboration. Applicants are encouraged to investigate new methods of interdisciplinary working as well as new models of engagement in biomedical science.

Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists...website

Deadline: 10 Oct 08

Small to medium sized projects will be funded up to and including £30,000.

Visit the Welcome Trust website for more details

Environment 2.0: Futuresonic 2009
Each year Futuresonic presents public sphere artworks exploring the themes of the social, city and technology, and since 2006 has developed the Environment 2.0 theme in collaboration with ImaginationLancaster, a major new interdisciplinary research lab at Lancaster University.

'Through Cracks In The Pavement' is an exhibition on the environment, climate change and the city. It will present newly commissioned artworks that seek to inspire social change and to enhance environmental sustainability. Featured artworks will be participatory, sited in public space, and in an urban context. It will present projects creating precedents for social change through creative, participatory interventions involving artists, technologists and environmental advocates.

The centrepiece of the 2009 festival will be an exhibition titled Through Cracks In The Pavement.

Futuresonic invites submissions of artworks, social innovations or technological interventions. They can be of any scale, no matter how large or small, and take place over any length of time, from years to a few hours. A condition is that they are implemented in the live phase of the project during Futuresonic 2009 in Manchester UK.

A commission valued at GBP 5000 is available to create a new artwork, plus Futuresonic can support a limited number of other projects...website

Deadline: 31 Oct 08
1700

Submit work on DVD. Films should not exceed 10 minutes in length.

Artists must also include a statement (no more than 1 side of A4) about your work and a copy of your CV.

For further information contact Victoria Manifold

E: vmanifold
T: 0191 332 4058

FOR GOD'S SAKE! @ PIXXELPOINT 2008 – International New Media Art Festival
How the media change the way we imagine / represent / honour / curse the divinity

Whether we like it or not, spirituality has shaped the evolution of the media, and in turn has been amply influenced by it. Two of the most effective technological brand identities, the Big Brother symbol and the Second Life logo, are blatantly inspired by the divine eye. “God games” are among the most popular videogames, and our passion for high tech gadgets is akin to idolatry. The total absorption commanded by videogame playing, right down to the position adopted by players, is our new form of prayer.

Search engines have come to acquire the status of modern-day oracles. "It’s true, I read it on Google", is an everyday assertion that sounds like an act of faith. If religion is (or was) the opium of the people, in the 90s it was a banality to say the same of television – just as it
is today of Youtube. And satellite vision, made popular by GPS systems and Google Earth, on the one hand imitates the divine viewpoint, while on the other allows everyone to adopt it.

Contemporary artistic projects have raised these issues on many occasions, exploring technological fetishism, the oracular nature of the internet, the fideistic attitude we have towards the media and the evangelizing bent of those who produce them. This art often takes a critical approach, but also looks for an authentic vehicle of spirituality in the media. Taking this as its theme, Pixxelpoint 2008 addresses saints and heretics alike, looking for projects which explore the relationship between media and spirituality at a key point in human history, a time of civilization clashes and neocon upsurges, apocalyptic nightmares and hopes for a new enlightenment...website

Nanotechnology, Nanoscale Science and Art
Leonardo, in collaboration with the Exploratorium under the auspices of the Nanotech Informal Science Education Network, will publish a series of special sections periodically over the next 5 years exploring the intersections of nanotech/science and art. We are especially seeking submissions of artworks (visual, performance, sound, etc.) with artist's statements explaining the relationship of the work to nanotech/science; essays from scientists, engineers and scholars exploring the connection between nanotech/science and art; and essays and visuals aiming at nanotech/science education that use the arts as a pedagogical tool...website