Technology
Call for Submissions: CURRENTS Festival 2022
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CURRENTS New Media is now accepting submissions for our 2022 art and technology festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Every summer since 2010, CURRENTS New Media presents one of the leading art and technology festivals in the United States. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, CURRENTS brings together the work of established and emerging new media artists from the USA and around the world.
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2021
Notified by: January 10, 2022
Festival Dates: June 17 - 26, 2022
This year’s submission categories include:
-Installations (Interactive and non-interactive)
-Outdoor Installations and Projections
-Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality Environments
-Robotics
-Multimedia Performance
-Digitally Generated or Fabricated Objects
-Wearables
-Interactive Installations for Children
-Experimental Single Channel Video, Documentary, and Animation
Our Mission: CURRENTS New Media champions new media arts and supports artists in creating innovative work. Our annual festival, educational programs, and exhibition space give the public year-round access to immersive and expansive art experiences.
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- Yes
This Show is Curated by a Machine
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The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art invites all artists worldwide to submit work for our final show of the year, This Show is Curated by a Machine" to directly answer the Whitney Museum of American Art's curatorial question "The Next Biennial Should Be Curated by a Machine." https://whitney.org/exhibitions/the-next-biennial
The curator, an AI bot machine, will learn to curate by looking at the art of the 2021 mowna Biennial.
Artists may submit up to 10 works of art per submission. Selected artists will be paid 70% of ticket and membership sales from the show, with the other 30% paying for the creation of the platform. There is no submission fee to apply.
All mediums of art including video art, vr, ar, xr, interactive, gif, painting, drawing, photography, graphics, printmaking, sculpture, sound, fashion, software, performance, and all other wild and newfangled mediums are accepted. Work must have been completed after January 1, 2020. Work shall be original and entirely the work of the artist. Anonymous submissions, works made by bots, collectives, organizations, etc are all allowed.
Deadline for submissions is August 20, 2021 12 PM ET.
"This Show is Curated by a Machine" will run from Sept 23 through January 31, 2022 at mowna.org.
Is your work ready for when the machines take over? Find out by submitting here: https://www.mowna.org/submit/this-show-is-curated-by-a-machine
mowna exists to provide an international online platform for the most timely, diverse, and preeminent artists.
mowna's current exhibition is the 2021 mowna Online Biennial, which is an exhibit of an international pool of artists selected from 44 countries gathered through a free call for submissions process that ran from January through March of 2021.
support: ticket to the 2021 mowna Biennial https://www.mowna.org/tickets
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OPEN CALL FOR CREATIVES – DIGITAL SUPERPOWER! LAB
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We are looking for 5 young womxn/LGBTQ creatives/artists based in London to join other participants in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe to collectively explore gender safety issues in their cities.
Participants will join a series of remote workshops and use a custom gesture-based data collection web platform developed by UK-based artist, Ling Tan to explore and collect data surrounding their own and their communities' experiences of gender safety in their own city.
Participants will be guided in ways to map, visualise and narrativise their individual and collective data and findings in their own artistic medium (e.g graphic design, data visualisation, performance, photography, storytelling, poetry, etc).
Participants will receive a participation fee of £133 and funds to cover data for online engagements. There will also be an opportunity to present their work surrounding the topic at this year's Fak'ugesi Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Deadline: 23 August 2021
More info: https://fakugesi.co.za/calldigitalsuperpower/
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OPEN CALL - RAKE COMMUNITY 2021: PRACTITIONERS-IN-RESIDENCE
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Calling artists, researchers, writers, data analysts, journalists, activists, academics, scientists, community groups, curators, photographers, poets and everyone else to submit to RAKE Community 2021: Practitioners-in-Residence!
RAKE Community is an autonomous platform for practitioners to develop research-based visual enquiries. It aims to build a framework for socially and politically driven projects while promoting accessible exchange outside of traditional routes or institutions.
After an intensive two-month collaboration initiative in 2020 followed by a year of fascinating takeovers on the community Instagram page, we are pleased to launch the second iteration of the programme which will take the form of a series of digital residencies on the platform throughout the rest of 2021.
The selected practitioners will be designated one month to carry out their own solo research on Instagram, where each will be expected to present a series of posts showcasing the development of their research - no formal outcomes are required. Practitioners will be encouraged to communicate, critique and collaborate with one another throughout the entire period, with the support of RAKE members.
Applicants are asked to consider the theme (IN)VISIBILITY - which seeks to capture the duality between the visible and the obscured, wherever it may occur. Encompassing secrecy, in-between spaces, that which is ’hidden in plain sight’, and the visualisation of the unseen.
We are particularly interested in proposals that are of an investigative nature; that are politically-, socially- or data-driven; or that critically utilise new online tools or open-source inquiry techniques and technologies.
The programme will include regular feedback sessions and communication with RAKE members and fellow selected participants. Practitioners-in-residence will also be invited to join the RAKE Community online workspace for ongoing feedback and support from a growing network of artists, writers and researchers, and will have the opportunity to contribute a piece for RAKE Post during their residencies.
Practitioners/ collectives of all disciplines and at any stage in their careers who want to experiment with new processes of interdisciplinary research and visual expression are invited to apply. Proposals are encouraged from all over the world. We especially welcome submissions from underrepresented voices. Unfortunately, as RAKE Community has no external funding, it's not possible for us to offer funding for practitioners-in-residence (or ourselves as facilitators) during this year’s program.
Entry Fee:
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Reimagine Drawing $100K Challenge
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Mental Canvas, Inc. is a software technology company whose unique platform has reimagined drawing for the digital age by enabling creations that can be experienced outside the confines of a page or a single moment in time. Mental Canvas picks up where pen and paper leave off, taking drawing to a place it's never been. Now, we're calling on creatives to join us in redefining what it means to draw. With $100K in prizes and 18 winners, we're looking for the most impressive and imaginative scenes created with Mental Canvas Draw™.
Learn more at: https://mentalcanvas.com/challenge
Dates: The Challenge runs from July 14, 2021 to Oct 11, 2021. There will be mini challenges for cash prizes throughout the duration of the contest. Registration is now open, and registration provides access to submission instructions.
Categories: The challenge spans five categories: Architecture and Places, Education, Comics, Napkin Sketches, and Storytelling. Entrants may submit to multiple categories and the judges reserve the right to assign a category to an entry. The grand prizes will be selected from the entire group of entries, regardless of category.
Eligibility: The competition is international, open to ages 13+. See details on the FAQ page.
Sponsors & Partners: The competition is sponsored by Mental Canvas. In partnership with: Microsoft Surface, Andrews McMeel Universal, Go Comics!, Complex Networks, Havas Health +, Hearst, Perkins Eastman, and San Francisco Chronicle
Judges: The judges will remain anonymous. There will be a panel of several judges, primarily from the partner companies as well as select external experts.
Fees: There is no cost to enter, and there is a limited time promotional version of Mental Canvas Draw available for free on the iOS app store and the Microsoft store.
The total value of all prizes is $100,000 (USD). There will be a 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner for the grand prize along with 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each of the 5 categories (18 prizes in total). The prize breakdown is as follows:
- Grand prize (across all submissions, regardless of category):
- 1st: $25,000
- 2nd: $15,000
- 3rd: $10,000
- Categories Winners (in each of the 5 categories):
- 1st: $5,000 (x5 winners)
- 2nd: $3,000 (x5 winners)
- 3rd: $2,000 (x5 winners)
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17th Athens Digital Arts Festival | Tāctus
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Tāctus
Deadline: 15th of August
- touched, having been touched, grasped, having been grasped
- reached, having been reached, arrived at, having been arrived at
- attained to, having been attained to
- moved, having been moved, affected, having been affected
- pulse of music in music theory, consisted of beats in a repeating yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level.
This period redefined the notion of contact on a worldwide level. The International Festival of Digital Arts in Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival, is calling the artistic, technological and scientific world to submit their proposals for our hybrid (online and physical) edition of ADAF 2021 titled Tāctus focusing on the redefinition of human connection, both as a form of communication and physical contact
The past year, humanity went through a unique experience that affected everyday life, especially human relations. Human interaction of any form came in the spotlight, got fetishized, commented on, and coloured with all shorts of feelings, deconstructed and reconstructed with every possible way so it can pull through this situation. Connection became the object of discourse, expectation, deprivation, struggle, revolution.
Humanity is reinstating the notion of connection/communication, restoring it in public consciousness as the “beat” of this world. During this procedure and with the help of new media for its implementation, a new meaning of the notion was created that is not yet explored nor fully defined. Technology has been utilized gaining more and more ground offering contactless connection as a substitute in its struggle to fill in the physical void. For some this came as a release and to others as punishment, for everyone thought was an experience that forever changed the way we perceive human relations
Installations,Video Art, Performances, Web Art, Animation, Digital Image, VR/AR, Games, Talks, Workshops, Kids (which contains all the above for children) are the categories on which you can submit your projects here by filling in the according form below. The submission form for both physical and online festivals is the same. The shortlisted artists will be contacted via email for the process of their proposal and possible details for the display of their project.
Tāctus, in latin, touch, arrive, achieve, as well as beat/pulse in music.
A new norm, hybrid between physical and digital world,
join us in exploring.
The festival offers awards for the 3 first places of each of its categories. During the exhibition, the audience will be able to vote for their favorite artworks and choose winners. The nomination will happen in a beautiful award ceremony, after the festival. During the ceremony, artist will be called to speak about their work and present themselves, while they will receive a unique trophy, mentioning the artwork, the place the work received and the name of the artist. Additionally artists will receive, special stickers and laurels of the festival to add in their website, artwork e.t.c. as they choose. Winning artworks will be featured in parallel activities of the festival with mention of their winning place.
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