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Opportunities: Call for participants de Appel Curatorial Programme 2016-17

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Participants of de Appel Curatorial Programme 2015-16 at the Istanbul Biennial. Courtesy de Appel arts centre

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
DE APPEL CURATORIAL PROGRAMME 2016-17

Deadline: 18 January 2016

de Appel arts centre
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
www.deappel.nl

Initiated in 1994, the Curatorial Programme of de Appel arts centre aims to offer young curators a condensed package of experiences and skills that can be seen as instruments to refine their thinking and enhance the development of their professional career. It is one of the oldest curatorial programmes, but continues to adjust its curriculum to new circumstances in the curatorial field.
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Opportunities: Call for Entries for the 19th Japan Media Arts Festival

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Hedwig HEINSMAN / Niki SMIT / Simon van der LINDEN, 3RD, 2014. Interactive Installation. Image from the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival (Entertainment Division, Excellence Award) Courtesy the artists and Japan Media Arts Festival

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
19TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

Deadline: 9 September 2015 (18:00 Japan Standard Time)

The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts (Media Geijutsu) that honors outstanding works from a diverse range of media – from animation and comics to media art and games. The festival gives awards in each of its four divisions: Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga. Since its inception in 1997, the festival has recognized significant works of high artistry and creativity, and in addition to a yearly Exhibition of Award-winning Works has held other events, such as symposiums, screenings, and showcases.

Entries are sought from professional, amateur, independent and commercial creators across the globe. Works completed or released between September 3, 2014 and September 9, 2015 are eligible for entry in the four divisions – Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga.
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Opportunities: Open call for proposals for EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial 2016

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EVA International 2014 Edition AGITATIONISM, curated by Bassam El Baroni, exhibition venue detail, Photo: Deirdre Power

OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial 2016

Still (the) Barbarians
Curated by Koyo Kouoh
16 April–10 July 2016

Deadline: 12.00pm IST* 15 June 2015

www.opencall.eva.ie

EVA International – Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that the 37th edition in 2016 will be curated by Koyo Kouoh, independent curator and founding artistic director of RAW Material Company, a centre for art, knowledge and society in Dakar, Senegal.

EVA 2016 will be titled Still (the) Barbarians and will investigate the post-colonial condition of Ireland as a point of departure from where artistic reflections, critical redefinitions and political transformations are articulated. The biennial programme will address artistic, architectural, literary and critical positions that interpret colonial effects on the psyche, landscape and imagination, and that continue to shape our present condition. Artists’ projects will be selected through an open call for proposals. Proposals are invited from individual artists or groups in response to the curatorial project Still (the) Barbarians and in the context of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
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Opportunities: Diagonale + BIAN 2016 – Call for Submissions / Appel à  projets | digital art / art numérique

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DIAGONALE + BIAN 2016
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | DIGITAL ART

Deadline: 2 June 2015

Diagonale joins the 3rd International Digital Arts Biennial – BIAN (May–June 2016). In this context, the center is launching a call for projects which relate to Diagonale’s mandate and the theme of the Biennale 2016: AUTOMATA. Curators and artists are invited to submit a proposal until June 2, 2015. The project chosen will be part of the official program of Diagonale and BIAN. It will be presented at the gallery Diagonal May–June 2016 (dates to be confirmed). Continue reading “Opportunities: Diagonale + BIAN 2016 – Call for Submissions / Appel à  projets | digital art / art numérique”

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Opportunities: Sound Development City Artist Expedition 2015 – Call for projects

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Impression from last year’s expedition: John Grzinich working on his project “Listening in Context”. Photo: Joëlle Kost, 2014

CALL FOR PROJECTS
SOUND DEVELOPMENT CITY
ARTIST EXPEDITION 2015

When: 9 – 27 September 2015
Where: Belgrade – Athens

Deadline: 19 April 2015

sound-development-city.com/now/en/
info@sound-development-city.com

The Artist Expedition Sound Development City was initiated in 2012 by Sound Development with the aim of providing creative freedom to artists working in various disciplines. Each year in late summer, Sound Development City organizes a three-week expedition to two European cities. Ten selected artists working on individual projects are part of the expedition team.

The fourth edition of Sound Development City is heading towards southeast Europe and will take place in Belgrade and Athens from September 9 to 27.

Sound Development City is looking for independent and dedicated project proposals and work theses that are to be tested and put into practice during a three-week expedition to Belgrade and Athens in September 2015.

We are interested in interventions, installations, performances, experiments, moving images, and artistic research projects and concepts which benefit from being on the road, and probe urban environments as sites of both playfulness and social involvement. The projects should be research-based and developed towards this open horizon.
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Opportunities: Open Call for the International Creator Residency Program 2015 at Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo

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Image courtesy of Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo. © TOKYO WONDER SITE

OPEN CALL FOR THE INTERNATIONAL CREATOR RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2015
at Tokyo Wonder Site

Deadline: 31 March 2015

Tokyo Wonder Site Residency program is the platform of creation and research for international creators in diverse fields of creation. Young emerging, middle standing, international leading
creators gather and explore their ideas in the heart of Tokyo, where global creative city with multi-layers of creativity from traditional culture to cutting edge technology. Tokyo Wonder Site Residency program has been organized by the partnership and collaboration with art centers and cultural institutions around the world since its establishment in 2006.

We intend to strengthen the network of creators from Asia. This open call program ‘International Creator Residency Program’ is for established and productive international creators in the field of Visual Art. We provide financial support to allow participants approximately three month work in residency culminating in a presentation and participating TWS art programs. Through this program, creators will expand their activities in Japan, and gain a jumping board to the international art scene. We are now calling for creators who can perform new creative activities during their programs at TWS Residency for three months.
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Opportunities: Call for Applications – International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2015–16, Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck


David Rych shooting Déja-vu / Variations on Collectivity, Art and Revolution, short film, 2013. Photo: Tiroler Künstlerschaft.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2015–16
Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen,
Innsbruck, Austria
buchsenhausen.at

Deadline: 30 January 2015 (Postmark)

Duration: One Semester during 2015-2016
(5 October 2015 – 14 February 2016 or 15 February 2016 – 26 June 2016)

The International Fellowship Program for Art and Theory has taken place in Büchsenhausen since spring 2003. The program is based on the idea of generating and maintaining a context for production and discussion, in which artists and theoreticians can connect and reflect on international art and societal discourses in relation to local topics and issues. At the same time, it offers an artistic laboratory of experimentation, where new artistic practices and strategies may be tried out.
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Opportunities: Call for submissions / Appel de dossiers, SKOL, Montréal

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
SKOL, Montreal

Deadline: 17 November 17 2014

SKOL is now accepting submissions for its 2015-2016 programming year.

Submissions may be for exhibitions or one-off projects such as: interventions, curatorial projects, workshops, master classes, performances, lectures, archive-based researches, fundraising projects, or any combination of these forms within a more ambitious proposal.
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Opportunities: HIAP Residency Programme, Helsinki

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HIAP Suomenlinna stidop cpmplex. Image courtesy of HIAP

HIAP RESIDENCY PROGRAMME

Deadline for Application: 31 October 2014

The HIAP Residency Programme is offered to arts professionals from a wide range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, Visual and Media Arts, Dance, Theatre and Literature. A residency includes accommodation and studio space at HIAP Studios free of charge for the duration of 1–3 months. The studios, which combine living and working space, are located in Cable Factory and on the island of Suomenlinna, both in Helsinki, Finland.
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Opportunities: Call for Applications – Van Eyck, Maastricht, the Netherlands

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Image courtesy the Van Eyck Academie

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
For a working period starting March 2015
at Van Eyck
Maastricht, the Netherlands

Deadline: 1 October 2014

The Van Eyck welcomes promising and established artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, curators, and thinkers. Every applicant shares our belief that insight comes through exchange with other: insight in the meaning of things, in your own practice, in the (art) world. Besides working in your own studio, you are expected to take an active part in the Van Eyck programme, to participate in one of the Mirror Labs and to be involved in one or more In-Labs. Continue reading “Opportunities: Call for Applications – Van Eyck, Maastricht, the Netherlands”