WE OFFER:

To spend a summer week as a part of 2 Prague theater festvals (Zero Point and Behind the Door) with the legends of perfoming arts and actively participate in their workshops

1 stipendium for a participant who will be chosen by us – best motivation letter

Meeting the young generation with authorities of performing arts

Passing on experience, creation work, and thinking to young artists

Maintain the fragile continuity in performing arts through a unique poetics of individual artists

Contacts, creating conditions for future cooperation, both at European level

Meeting with other artistic genres and different approaches as a prompt for further artistic work

The participants of the workshops will have an opportunity to present their work at the Forman brother's boat Tajemství  last day of the festival

WE REQUIRE:

motivation letter

curriculum vitae

Program of workshops:

Master Class: Matěj Matějka (July 14 - 17 + July 19 - 22)
Group 1: Sabine Seume, Ferenc Fehar , Bartlomiej Ostapczuk , (July 17 - 22)
Group 2:   Réka Szabó, Tantehorse – Radim Vizváry,  Juschka Weigel(July 17 - 22)

When: July 14 or 17 – July 22, 2012

Where: Prague, Czech Republic

Fees:
€150,- / weekly attendance at 1 of 3 workshop groups + free entry to all performances

€220,- / weekly attendance at 1 of 3 workshop groups + free entry to all performances + accommodation in Prague

special sale for the students of our artistic partner schools

Deadline registration: May 31, 2012
Registration and more info: nultybod@gmail.com
Websites: www. nultybod.cz

The educative program Performing Arts for the Future is a project of 7 workshops for young artists and students from all over Europe. The inspiring idea is to create conditions for meeting emerging artists with legends of new theater. All participants of the workshops have free entry for the festival productions and they form the core of the festival. Participants are actively involved into the festival events and build contacts for future cooperation. Last year, they managed to arrange a very close cooperation between them and the Hungarian group: The Bladder Circus Company.

This year these great artists as workshop leaders were invited. Matěj Matějka from The Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, German dancer  Juschka Weigel and butoh performer Sabine Seume who studied under the direction of Pina Bausch. Bartlomiej Ostapczuk, a representant of the Polish Mime Centrum in Warsaw, Ferenc Fehér and Réka Szabo from Hungary. After an excellent experience and great satisfaction of the participants from previous years, Radim Vizváry from Tantehorse will also be a leader of one of the workshops. 

Last day of the festival, the participants will have an opportunity to present their work at the Forman brother's boat Tajemství

Open to Interpretation is now calling on photographers to submit images for consideration in a juried book competition.

Project Details
Open to Interpretation is a collaborative book project bringing together photographers, poets and writers. Each book begins with a themed call for photos. The chosen photos become the literary inspiration for the writers' submissions. A book is created that matches each winning photo with two stories or poems that offer different interpretations of the image. The unique collaboration adds new dimensions to both the photos and the written word.

Theme: Fading Light
Judge: George Slade, Principal at re: photographica
Submission Fee: $40 for 5 images, $10 each additional
Deadline for Submission: June 26, 2012

Awards
$1000 Cover Image
$500 Judge's Selection Award

Judge
George Slade has provided fine photographic artists and their audiences with insightful interpretation and curatorial expertise in exhibitions, classes, writings, lectures, and face-to-face exchanges for over 25 years. Formerly the artistic director of Minnesota Center for Photography, the director of the McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers Program, and recently the curator at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, George is a veteran presence at portfolio review events like Fotofest, Photolucida, Critical Mass, PhotoNOLA, and the Society for Photographic Education's regional and national conferences. In the last three years he juried regional and national exhibitions for the Coalition of Photographic Arts (Milwaukee), New Directions 2009 at the Wallspace Gallery (Seattle), the 2011 Clarence John Laughlin Award at the New Orleans Photographic Alliance, the New England Photography Biennial at the Danforth Museum of Art (Framingham, MA), and IRevelar at the Naomi Silva Gallery in Atlanta. George received a 2007 award from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program; his writings and reviews appear extensively in print and online; some may be found at his web site, re:photographica. He lives in Minneapolis with his partner Stephanie and their children.

Entries are submitted online at http://www.open2interpretation.com/subm … light.html

Open to Interpretation
Juried Book Competition of Photography, Poetry and Prose
www.open2interpretation.com
651-312-0113

About HMK
HMK {Hotel Mariakapel} is an artist-run residency and project space in Hoorn, a 15th century town by the IJsselmeer, just 40 km north of Amsterdam. In the old center of the town, in a medieval orphanage with a semi public inner garden and former Maria Chapel, HMK receives artist from all over the world.

The programme involves artists and curators working in a wide range of media, focusing on installation and context based work, video and performance art. Projects are developed both in the surroundings of Hoorn, public space and in the exhibition space. In 2012 HMK was kindly supported by several local and national foundations.

We offer:
A free stay at our residency to complete a period of work culminating in a final exhibition in the adjacent exhibition space.
Full and free use of all accommodation and living facilities (private room, wireless internet, shared kitchen, washing machine / dryer, basic tools, some audio & video equipment ). We can host 8 people in 4 bedrooms, with projects by larger groups and different residencies overlapping it is likely you'll be sharing a room
**
Please note: HMK aims to provide a budget to resident artists depending on individual projects, but strongly advises artists to secure additional funding elsewhere. In this budget we aim to offer a small artist fee, free use of the guesthouse and its facilities, possible reimbursement for travel costs and reimbursement of productioncosts.
HMK is responsible for all mail-outs and promotional activity in relation to the shows, which include regional, national and international contacts.
Residencies vary in length and depend on the nature of the work; we feel between one and two months is a good duration. The length of the residency is agreed in advance. The resulting exhibitions which are open to the public, usually take place for 3-4 weeks.

We are looking for:
Projects that make full use of the unique opportunities offered. The long stays at HMK lead to intensive local and international collaboration while developing new individual and/or group work for an exhibition or other presentation in HMK and/or in Hoorn. We are also keen on artistic projects that do not only focus on art itself but that, in content or practice, are able to step outside the box and make connections outside an art-context.
HMK focuses on collaborations and group-projects (between 3 and 6 artists); the nature of the collaboration is important to us. Preferably you work with artists or others with whom you haven't (extensively) worked with before.
Things to consider when applying:
We strongly advise you to read into the wider context of Hoorn and HMK prior to submitting a proposal. The context of HMK includes the geographical positioning; a small town setting (eg, absence of an University or a large local art scene/discourse); the combination of a locally rooted art-initiative with exhibitions of national appeal.
Proposals must focus mainly on content of the work and the process of working resulting in a presentation in our chapel/exhibition space, please do not propose to exhibit pre-existing work.
Projects must have a strong international component (i.e. cooperation with artists from different countries) We consider it to be an advantage when a group has one Dutch component, but this is not obligated.
Do not take this too literally, feel free to propose the unexpected, and be bold!

Please note: Sending in your applicationform can only be done by regular mail.

Who may apply:
Artists, as a group. We do not consider individual proposals.

The applicationform is to be found at our website; www.hotelmariakapel.nl

Deadline: June 1st 2012
(Proposals are only eligible when postmarked June 1st 2012 at the latest)

Bamako Symposium 2012 will bring together artists, theorists and cultural entrepreneurs from around the world to interact and exchange dialogues on the useful and non-useful impacts of media arts on the global marketplace of ideas. With the practical acts and theoretical presentations, the symposium aims to promote critical dialogues on the best practices around the world on how the media arts feed civilizations. It asks:  How are the media arts worldwide feeding civilizations? What are the implications for tapping the abundant local resources in Mali in the 21st century?

Nka Foundation and Balani’s Association call for proposals for theoretical presentations and practical acts such as workshops, mini-projects, and artistic interventions involving the diversity of expressions in and applications via digital arts, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual arts, internet  arts, interactive arts technologies, computer robotics, and the arts as biotechnology in society.

Interested individuals and collaborative groups should apply by submitting the abstract of their proposed paper or practical act (200 words maximum) in English or French with a brief biography (200 words maximum) of the presenter to Kadiatou Dembele at dembele_kadi2000@yahoo.fr, and copy the e-mail to balanise@yahoo.fr and info@nkafoundation.org. For information on our other projects, visit http://www.nkafoundation.org/projects.html.

Date: November 2-16, 2012     
Venue: Sang Arts Village, Sang near Tamale in Northern Region of Ghana

Date: May 17-31, 2012   
Venue: Abetenim Arts Village near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana

International Media Arts Collaboratory is a two-week group residency.  We view the collaboratory as a relational platform in which media arts specialists from around the world come together to collaborate among themselves and/or with the local community in the creation and appreciation of media arts for knowledge sharing and cross-fertilization of skills.  Participants will live and work together in our arts village or homestay in the rural township we serve.  Project welcomes individual or team proposals involving artistic production, or theoretical presentations on how media arts contribute to the global marketplace of ideas. The theme is open.

Organizers will provide accommodation and food; an accepted applicant will contribute participation fee of €200 toward food.  The international participant is responsible for costs of own airfare and proposed project.  We suggest that participants apply for travel grants through their national art councils or other sources. To register, candidates should send CV/resume and a motivational letter on your proposed work with subject "Media Arts Collaboratory" to info@nkafoundation.org/ nkaprojects@gmx.com. Applications will be reviewed until space is filled.  For details on our projects go to www.nkafoundation.org.
   
 
OUR POSTAL ADDRESS    In Ghana: Nka Foundation, Box Up 1115, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi.
In Burkina Faso: Nka Foundation, 04 BP 399, Ouagadougou 04.

Atelier Beeldend Vermogen

Wanting to spend some time in a quiet, rural environment to focus on what really matters? Preparing a dissertation, recording your new album, working on your new novel or producing new art works?

Take the oppurtunity to apply for an art residency in Walkenried, Germany

To be able to focus on your artistic mission - and, depending upon your individual needs - we are accommodating various in time limited options arranged in one to three week periods, throughout the year.

Located in an 19th century 'Haus", with two indoor studios and two outdoor studios to work in, presentation room, places to relax and community rooms to share, WiFi Internet, kitchen, heating (wood), private carpark and garden. Brushes, paint, specific equipment and specialized personal tools to be brought with you, or aquired at the spot. Use of music room with Grand piano, Steinweg organ and small pipe organ at additional costs *).

Situated in the small village of Walkenried, Germany, Europe at the south edge of the beautiful Harz Mountain Region (European Nature Park) between Kassel (115 km), Hannover (129 km) and Leipzig (165 km)

How to apply?

Use our submission management system: http://nictoglobe.submishmash.com/Submit

or

send an email with your detailed proposal to: art-residency-walkenried@nictoglobe.com

Proposal have to include at least the following:

• Duration and period,
• Number of participants
• Description of project,
• Name(s) of participant(s),
• Art discipline,
• Institutional support if applicable,
• Contact person personalia.

Accommodation Costs: **)

300,00 Euro one week period
500,00 Euro two week period
700,00 Euro three week period
900,00 Euro four week period

Maximum number of residency guests: 5

*) To protect our vulnerable musical instruments the music studio is charged on a weekly usage basis:
75,00 Euro: one week

**) Additional charge for bedding and cleaning costs:
10,00 Euro per person per week

Travel costs to and from Germany are to be provisioned by the artist(s) or the applying organisation(s)

Different arrangements and or longer periods on demand

Suitable for bigger groups, seminars or workshops

Location adress: Harzstrasse 21, Walkenried, Germany

Easy reachable by train (Hannover, Kassel, Leipzig) and car

VIDEOHOLICA Video Art Festival in Varna, Bulgaria is accepting now video art submissions for its 5th anniversary edition.

The 5th VIDEOHOLICA is planned to take place between 25th and 30th July 2012 in Varna within the framework of the International Biennial for Visual Arts AUGUST IN ART.

The 5th VIDEOHOLICA will animate again with evening video art projections the Varna public and outdoor spaces, such as the inner yard of the Varna Archaeology Museum, the back yard of the Varna Puppet Theatre, the Rakovina Open-Air Stage in the Varna Sea Garden, Music Cafe 'LOOK', the Roman Baths, Cultural House 'Harmony' yard and other. Along with the evening video art screenings, VIDEOHOLICA 2012 will introduce to the Varna public established local and international video art partners' activities and honored video artists' talks, in parallel with discussions and exhibitions to take place in gallery, museum and alternative spaces in Varna, presenting the video art on a global scale.

The 5th anniversary edition of VIDEOHOLICA will award the following prizes:
First Prize – GOLDEN VIDEOHOLIC
Second Prize – SILVER VIDEOHOLIC
Third Prize – BRONZE VIDEOHOLIC
Award for young Bulgarian author – YOUNG VIDEOHOLIC

The decisions about the pre-selections are taken by the curatorial team of VIDEOHOLICA 2012. Decisions about the awards and special selection 2012 will be taken by the 5-member jury, made up of internationally recognized artists and art professionals. All the applicants, who observe the rules and the deadline, will have admission to the jury, which will take place in July 2012. The pre-selection results will be announced by the middle of July 2012. The awarded video artists will be announced at the closing ceremony of VIDEOHOLICA 2012. The international jury will make also a special selection of 15 video art works, which will be representing VIDEOHOLICA 2012 to national and international video and contemporary art events.

The theme of VIDEOHOLICA 2012 is free.

This year's VIDEOHOLICA festival has a submission fee of 10 EUR.

In return, to facilitate the submission process, VIDEOHOLICA 2012 will accept both regular mail applications as well as online applications.

VIDEOHOLICA 2012 OPEN CALL will run until 30th June 2012 and all applications are very welcome.

For contacts, terms and conditions and application form, please visit www.videoholica.org

Call for Participation - Art Media Humanities Program
The 11th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality
Nov 5 - 8, 2012, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
http://ismar.vgtc.org/

The fields of Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) seek to
interactively mix virtual media with a person's perception of the
physical world around them.  Whether interactively combining physical
and virtual objects and environments in 3D, or reacting to location or
other aspects of a users context, these paradigms enable fascinating new
types of user interfaces, and are beginning to show significant impact
on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, and
MR/AR concepts are applicable to a wide range of applications. Since
1998, ISMAR and its forerunner events, IWAR/ISAR and ISMR, have been the
premier forums in this vital field.

This year we are proud to present the 11th IEEE International Symposium
on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2012). The symposium will be held
on Nov. 5 - 8, 2012 at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, USA. We invite you all
to participate in this great event for the exchange of new ideas in this
exciting field!

    * ISMAR 2012 now invites contributions to a range of categories for the
     the Arts, Media and Humanities (AMH) program: *

    - Papers and Posters
    - Innovation Workshops
    - Informative Tutorials
    - Demonstrations
    - Art Exhibits

                    Arts, Media & Humanities Program

The 2012 ISMAR Arts, Media and Humanities (AMH) program invites artists,
designers, and scholars to explore the potential of Mixed and Augmented
Reality.  Artists and designers are invited to present and contextualize
creative work in MR or AR media forms and to reflect on the place of
these technologies in various fields of art and design. Scholars are
invited to present work that analyzes or critiques AR/MR in the contexts
of current social forms or the history of art and media. We welcome
papers, posters, and demos, as well as proposals for panels and workshops.

Topics of interest include Mixed and Augmented Reality works in relation
to, but not limited to:

* Media art
    - Performing arts
    - Art History
    - Architecture
    - Urban design
    - Game and toys
    - Cultural Heritage
    - Social media

* Fields and approaches of interest include, but are not limited to:
    - Media Studies
    - Cultural Studies
    - Literary Studies
    - Game Studies
    - Practitioner Case Studies
    - Design research
    - Communications

                Important Deadlines

Paper and Poster Abstracts - ** Required **: May 18, 23:59 US Pacific Time
Paper and Poster Submission : May 25, 23:59 US Pacific Time
Notification for Papers and Posters: Aug 8
Camera-ready copy: Sept 7

Workshop Proposals : April 10
Tutorial & Panel Proposals : June 15
Demonstrations : August 10
Art Exhibits: August 10

                Further Information & Contact

For detailed information on topics, submission and formatting, visit the
website at http://ismar.vgtc.org/.

If you have further questions, feel free to email info@ismar12.org, or
contact the AMH chairs at the email addresses given below.

Arts, Media and Humanities chairs: amh_chairs@ismar12.org
    Jay Bolter, Georgia Tech
    Henry Duh, NUS
    Sean White, Nokia

A selection of the Sheffield Fringe programme will be screened at MAMBA (Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires), and again at Angus-Hughes Gallery in London as part of a touring programme. The selection is headed by Esther Johnson.
Entry Guidelines
Please send film/video entries on PAL or Region Free DVD to:

Sheffield Fringe
c/o Dingo Bill Productions
58 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3QT
UK


Alternatively please email info@sheffieldfringe.com with a weblink to your works.

Only the following information is required along with your film/video work:
Title:
Year:
Running time:
Format:
Synopsis (max 50 words):
Website:

–There is no entry fee, or restrictions in year of production, or in number of works submitted.
–Individual works must not exceed 30 min. in total running time.
–Exhibition/screening copies must be available on Pal/Region Free DVD.
–Unfortunately we are unable to give feedback on works not selected.

Deadline: 9th March 2011 
www.sheffieldfringe.com