Call for dance performances
http://www.aerowaves.org/info/what-is-aerowaves

Aerowaves is a cross-border dance performance network. It offers
opportunities to younger artists working in Europe who wish to perform
their work in other European countries during 2011. Aerowaves is open to a
wide range of artists and work.
Aerowaves knows that sometimes work is premiered in September and you have
to wait for your first performance before you can send the DVD. If this is
you, please get in touch and discuss the options – Aerowaves tries to be
flexible where they can.

Eligibility:
- Work made in geographical Europe
- Work between 15 and 40 minutes duration
- Work that can share a triple bill, with simple technical requirements
- Work by postgraduate but not undergraduate students
- Submission of 2 identical DVDs of the work to be presented
- Previous Aerowaves applicants, successful or unsuccessful, may apply
with a different work
- Applications that are received not later than Monday 20 September 2010
- Some circumstances may be exceptional.

eDward - The Young Filmmaker’s Award
is the international film-competition
for young talents and is announced by eDIT 13. Filmmaker’s Festival

http://www.filmmakersfestival.com

Prove your talent and creativity with a 30-second-film and win prizes in a
total of 4.000 Euro. The competition is open to young filmmakers up to 30.
They must have been born on or after 1.1.1980. Students, agency juniors and free film-creative especially are called worldwide to take part individually or in teams.

The topic of the competition: WATER
Deadline for entries is Friday, 20. August 2010.

http://www.ed-ward.de

eDIT 13. Filmmaker’s Festival
http://www.filmmakersfestival.com/

Open call for submissions
www.voxfeminae.net/2010
VFFF seeks to find, exhibit and award films that explore aspects of gender, gender roles & identities. Subjects include gender equity, gender non-stereotypes, relationships, feminist and lgbtiq themes.

Information

- VFFF accepts narrative, documentary, animation and experimental films and videos of all lengths by artists of all gender identities (female, male, non-defining, gender variant…).

Only parameter is that the submitted films and videos are discussing gender issues.

- Films and videos must have been completed no earlier than January 1, 2000.

- If the original film or video is in a language other than English, then film must have hardcore subtitles in English.

- Acceptable formats for exhibition are: MiniDV, DVD and Beta SP Pal.

- Online submission form on http://www.voxfeminae.net/prijave/ must be completed. File with submission details will be generated; please print it out, sign it and send it with the film on address provided in the submission form. Package must specify “no commercial value - for cultural purposes”

- Acceptable format for preview screeners is DVD. DVDs must be labeled with film title.

You will be notified of Festival selections by September 1, 2010.
Entry Fees: None
Vox Feminae Film Award: Audience votes will decide on $500 cash prize

Contact:
Vox Feminae Festival
Nova cesta 24
10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
phone: +385 95 835 99 47
dalia [dot] pintaric [at] gmail [dot] com
www.voxfeminae.net

Art & Artificial Life International Competition
Fundación Telefónica Madrid/Spain

At a time when the notion of life is once again located in an uncertain domain, a wide range of artistic initiatives come together to illustrate and investigate this phenomenon; they examine the impact on the collective conscience and the way it is manifested in cultural, technological and social thought.

Over the last decade, in the same formal space, VIDA has been bringing together inter-disciplinary projects that respond to this situation. By means of formal strategies that defy the boundaries between existing practices, these projects offer new ways of reflecting on what we understand by life and artificial life.

Fundación Telefónica announces the VIDA 13.0 Art & Artificial Life International Competition, which for the last twelve years has awarded prizes for artistic projects using technological mediums offering innovative approaches to research into artificial life.

The projects may be based on systems which emulate, imitate or speculate on the notion of life through current research and technology. These systems may involve attributes of agency and autonomy which display specific behaviour, are dynamic, react to their surroundings and evolve, and which question the frontiers between what is alive and what is not, between synthetic and organic life.

As in previous years there are two categories to the competition:
FINISHED PROJECTS

In this category VIDA 13.0 will award prizes to artistic ALife projects developed after 2008. The sum of 40,000 Euros will be shared between the projects selected by the jury: First Prize: 18,000 Euros, Second Prize: 14,000 Euros, and Third Prize: 8,000 Euros. In addition seven honourable mentions will be awarded.
ARTISTIC PRODUCTION INCENTIVES IN IBEROAMERICA, SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

In this category VIDA 13.0 helps to fund artistic ALife projects that have not yet been produced. This is aimed at citizens or residents of countries comprising Latin America, Spain and Portugal. The sum of 40,000 Euros will be shared between the selected projects.
The winning projects will be subsequently exhibited at the VIDA Gallery,

http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/arteytecnologia/galeriavida/.
and may be presented in exhibitions related to art and new technologies organised by Fundación Telefónica or in which it takes part.

DATES

Period for submission of projects: from 19th July to 7th November 2010.
JURY

The works submitted will be examined by an international panel composed of José-Carlos Mariátegui (Peru), Mónica Bello Bugallo (Spain), Nell Tenhaaf (Canada) Rodrigo Alonso (Argentina), Simon Penny (USA/Australia), Zhan Ga (China) and Francisco Serrano (General Director of Fundación Telefónica).
ENQUIRIES

Queries may be addressed to the FAQs section of the website, by e-mail to vida [at] telefonica [dot] es or by calling (0034) 91 584 23 00

CALL FOR VIDEOART 2010

The Festival is open to all international videoartists.
The Festival is dedicated exclusively to videoart.
Participation is free.
There is no theme.

Between all submitted videos, will be done a final selection based on vote of a Prejury composed by experts.
The selected artworks will be screened on GIGUK 2010 on 30 October 2010 in Giessen/Germany.

CATEGORIES
• Clips : Viewing time should be maximum 7 minutes.
• One Minutes : Viewing time must be maximum 60 seconds.

DEADLINE
• The complete application should be received by 15 August 2010 at the latest.
• After the complete application has been received, you will be notified by E-mail.
• Applications, which will arrive after August 15, are NOT valid.

TECHNICAL FEATURES FOR APPLYING
• You can apply with maximum 1 video in category “Clips” and with maximum 3 videos in category “One Minutes”.
• The videos must be sent in format .mpeg, .avi or .mov (PAL).
• If the original version of the film is in another language than English or German, than the screening copy should be subtitled in English or German.
• Do not send (mini)DV or HDV tapes, Hi-8 or digital Hi-8, DVCPRO or betacam tapes. They cannot be viewed. DVD NTSC cannot be viewed either.

COPYRIGHTS
All rights on videos remain property of author. The author assert, under his/her own liability, the complete right of use on used materials (images, sounds, videos) and that compose the artwork; the author undertake completely the liability for any breach of copyright laws.
The artist accept that his/her own videos will be broadcasted online and offline, on site www.giguk.de.
All the videos, selected or not, can be screened in any other place or event related to Festival, online or offline, with exclusion of any commercial use.
Still-frame from videos can be freely used for the Festival communication, mentioning title and author of artwork.

RETURN OF APPLICATION
No application will be returned. All the material will remain as archive of GIGUK.

HOW TO APPLY?
Complete application form online, send video on CD/DVD via postal.

Bureau Wolfwerke
GIGUK Gießen VideoArt Festival
Wolf D. Schreiber
Landgraf-Philipp-Platz 9
35390 Gießen
Germany

Write on the envelope: NO commercial value – for cultural use.

GIGUK is a non-profit Festival with a very small budget so unfortunately we can’t offer artistic fees, accomodation or travel expenses.
We are unable to accept deliveries which do not have the full postage required.

JURY CRITERIA
As the festival is open for productions of different kind, works have to be judged that often can hardly be compared. This problem would not be solved by establishing categories (like “animition” or “political”), as many videos would belong to more then one of these.
Therefore the jury decided to define “focal points”. They are not exclusive, and the jury will look in each case at the other aspects too. But they give the chance to determine the juries’ main focus for each work. So one of these focal points MUST be named by the author for his work:
– visual experience
– social, political or ethical statement
– narrative process
– coherence between the visual and auditive part
– conceptual aspect (i.e. integration in art discourses)

The jury will applicate these criteria in judging the videos:
Originality of idea or concept
Sense for composition and sense for rhythm
Quality of the narration (if there is a narrative dimension in the work)
Adequacy of time and effort in production and technique and relationship between production quality and intention: Neither a low effort nor a low production quality are generally negative, if they are handled in a conscious way or if they are conceptually not important to a work. On the other hand of course high quality can be important if the work’s concept needs them. But perfection alone doesn’t impress us.
Utilization of time (only for the OneMinutes): how precise has been worked with this short time span?

more: www.giguk.de

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