ARTLAB 2008

The Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts is
pleased to announce another funding round for its ArtLab initiative
with a closing date of 14 December for projects commencing in 2008.

ArtLab aims to foster experimentation and collaboration between
artists from multiple disciplines to explore new artistic practice.
It aims to establish an environment that encourages genre-crossing
collaborations and the creation of original, cross-media arts
projects with emphasis placed upon innovation, risk, artistic
integrity and the creation of new ideas.

While ArtLab aims to promote the importance of research and
development activity and provide artists with time to critically
explore aspects of their practice, the project may involve
presentation of work in progress or seek peer feedback via some other
public forum.

The main objectives of the program, however, are to provide a
significant opportunity for:

New collaborations between artists that explore creative risk-taking
and experimental practice
Promoting the importance and critical role of research and
development and experimental practice in the arts to a wide audience.

The Inter-Arts Office is offering a grant of $75,000 for new
collaborations between artists to engage in this significant period
of interdisciplinary research and creative development.

Application closing date:

14 December 2007.

For further information visit www.ozco.gov.au/artlab08

or if you would like to speak to Inter-Arts staff contact Lia Kemp
on:

Tel: 02 9215 9116

Toll-free: 1800 226 912

The Inter-Arts Office of the Australia Council for the Arts is
pleased to announce another funding round for its ArtLab initiative
with a closing date of 14 December for projects commencing in 2008.

ArtLab aims to foster experimentation and collaboration between
artists from multiple disciplines to explore new artistic practice.
It aims to establish an environment that encourages genre-crossing
collaborations and the creation of original, cross-media arts
projects with emphasis placed upon innovation, risk, artistic
integrity and the creation of new ideas.

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SNEAK PREVIEW & CALL FOR PROPOSALS

 http://www.avfestival.co.uk/
Newcastle, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland, UK

First deadline for proposals: 15 October 2007 http://www.avfestival.co.uk/opportunitie…

AV Festival is an international festival of electronic arts, featuring visual art, music and moving image. A biennial event, the festival takes place in Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough in the North East of England. The next AV Festival will be held 28 February - 8 March 2008.

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ISEA invites submissions to the conference of the International
Symposium on Electronic Art 2008 that will be held in Singapore between
25th & 30th July 2008. This symposium consists of three aspects of peer
reviewed conference(s), internationally juried exhibition(s) and
various in-conjunction and partner events.

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A quick response fund managed by the Australian Network for Art and
Technology (ANAT) offering grants of up to $3,000 for Australian artists
to attend national and international events. The aim is to enable
professional development for Australian media arts practitioners by
facilitating their participation in national and international
residencies, exhibitions, workshops and conferences related to art,
science and/or technology, which might otherwise be outside of their
financial constraints.
Applicants must be ANAT members.
Tel 08 8231 9037,  anat at anat.org.au  href=”http://www.anat.org” title=”http://www.anat.
” target=”_blank”>www.anat.org.au/pages/

Introduction

Piemonte Share announces the fourth edition of the Festival by calling a competition
Piemonte Share Award . See registration form.
Registration
SHARE AWARD : DIGITAL ART PRIZE 2008

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Cypher, M., Richardson, I., 2006. An actor-network approach to games and virtual environments. Joint Computer Games and Interactive Entertainment Conference, 2006, 4-6 December 2006 Perth,

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martijn tellinga (netherlands)
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8pm Mon 20th August
The Bakery, 233 James St, Northbridge
$15/$10 at the door 

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*** Please forward this information as widely as possible ***

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ will take place
in Paris in November 2007, at the Centre
Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and
in other key locations. The same program will be
presented in Madrid in April 2008 and in Berlin
in June 2008.
Those three events will propose an international
programming focusing on film, video and
multimedia, gathering works of artists and
filmmakers acknowledged on the international
scene along with young artists and not much
distributed filmmakers.

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ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANISATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR
SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN
TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA CYCLES, without any
restriction of length or genre. All submissions
are free, without any limitation of geographic
origin.
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CINEMA AND VIDEO CYCLES (all film and video formats)
* Video / Video art / Experimental video
* Experimental Film
* Documentary, experimental documentary
* Fiction - short, medium and feature length
* Animation movie

MULTIMEDIA CYCLES
* Installation * Net art * Performance, concert

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Video and film submissions are received on DVD.
ALL submissions are sent by postal mail, enclosed
with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL THE
15th of AUGUST, 2007. Entry forms and information
regarding the ‘Rencontres internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid’ are available on our website http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm
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The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ offer more than
a simple presentation of the works. They
introduce an intercultural forum gathering
various guests from all over the world - artists
and filmmakers, institutions and emerging
organisations - to testify of the vivacity of
creation and its distribution, but also of the
artistic and cultural contexts that often are
experiencing deep changes. The festival reflects
specificities and crossings of art practices
between new cinema and contemporary art, explores
media art practices and their critical purposes,
and work out this necessary time when points of
view meet and are exchanged.
The festival aims at presenting those works to a
broad audience, at creating circulations between
different art practices and between different
audiences, as well as creating new exchanges
between artists, filmmakers and professionals.
The ‘Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid’, an event without
competition, are supported by French, German,
Spanish and international cultural institutions. http://art-action.org/en_soutien.htm
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SPREAD OUT THIS PIECE OF
INFORMATION to creative organizations, art
networks, production companies, artists and
filmmakers you are in contact with.

Best wishes.
The Rencontres Internationales

2007 ANAT Emerging Technologies Mentorship

ANAT is offering the opportunity for young and emerging practitioners
working with distributed, portable, online, wearable, gaming, mobile
and emerging platforms to undertake a three-month mentorship with an
established practitioner of their choice.

The mentorship enables an emerging artist to explore new creative
directions, to expand technical skills and increase knowledge of
networks, debates and business practice. Applicants are invited to
select a mentor and develop a program of activity spanning a
three-month period. By utilising emerging technologies the mentor may
be accessed locally, nationally or internationally and the successful
applicant will maintain a blog for the duration of the mentorship on
the ANAT server.

Applicants must be emerging technologies practitioners who are 30 years
or under. The mentorship will provide a fee for the mentoree ($7,200
excl GST) and a fee for the mentor ($1,800 excl GST). The mentorship
program should be completed by early December 2007.

ANAT APPLICATIONS CLOSE 3 AUGUST 2007
ANAT guidelines and application
forms are available on our web site  http://www.anat.org.au. For
further information please contact Gavin Artz, ANAT General Manager -
 manager at anat.org.au, 08 8231 9037, Monday - Friday, 10am - 4pm CST.

This mentorship is a part of the Australian Government’s Young &
Emerging Artists Initiative through the Australia Council, its arts
funding and advisory body. Australian Media Arts Organsiations d.lux,
Experimenta and MAAP are also offering mentorships:

+ d.lux will hold their mentorship inside Second Life or a similar
online virtual community, contact  malcolm at dlux.org.au for more
information.
+ Experimenta’s focus is on Site Related and/or Public
Work, contact  kentia at expeirmenta.org for more information.
+ MAAP will focus on projects that intersect or consider connections with the Asia
Pacific regions, contact  info at maap.org.au for more information.

ANAT gratefully acknowledges the assistance of CraftSouth in
establishing the ANAT Emerging Technologies Mentorship Program.