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OPEN CALL: Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2019

The fifth anniversary of the internationally successful Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize is open for entries. The prize is open to artists working across all genres, styles and backgrounds. The extended deadline is the 24 February 2019.

This year the prize launches two new awards – a Photography Award supported by Fujifilm and Genesis Imaging and a New Media Award supported by Rich Mix.

These new opportunities join the already existing awards which support all other mediums. We are a prize that focuses on supporting not just winners but all artists involved.

PRIZES INCLUDE:

Prize value increased to £9,000 prizes, for the Overall Winner, the Employee Choice Award, the Sculpture Award, New Media Award and Photography award.

Includes £1,000 of vouchers from Cass Art for 3 Winners

Included £1,000 production services from Genesis Imaging
Three month solo exhibitions in London, England
Group Show for 25 Shortlisted Artists in May – July 2019
Early entries will feature in our ongoing campaigns to clients, invitations to our informative talks.

For further information and the application form see here http://www.artprize.co.uk/or please email artprize@oaktreeandtiger.com with questions.

New York (US), 13-31 December 2018

CYFEST-12: ID international media art festival

Video Media Art: Personal Identity

CYFEST-12: ID premieres December 13th at the renowned Made in NY Media Center BY IFP. The inaugural event will set in motion it’s year-long, multi-city festival; geared towards exhibiting new media work which explores the dynamics of identity in our ever-expanding digital culture; focusing on levels of tech:intimacy, self augmentation, identity health, and technological personas at large.

Marisa-Benito_Ductiles

CYFEST has joined forces with Rome-based curator Valentino Catricalà, of Rome Media Art Festival (MAXXI Museum), and Carla Gannis, Assistant Chairperson of Digital Arts at Pratt, to bring a thematic three-part video program to IFP. The video art program will include a video screening organized by Cyland’s video curator, Victoria Ilyushkina, a large scale multi-channel video installation by esteemed video artist, Daniele Puppi, and a video installation created by Pratt Digital Arts MFA students.

Made in NY Media Center by IFP

30 John Street DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Thursday, December 13th 6pm- 10pm
On view: December 13th -31^st

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CYFEST-12: ID. THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL

Portrait genre at birth was a way to depict a person in a best moment of his life — at the apogee of his maturity, power, deeds. Today everyone can have numerous portraits as long as he has a gadget with internet access. Fascinated Narcissus stares at the device and sees an unsteady figure on a screen. Swiping left and right he chooses his reflection for today.

One can compile an endless selfportrait gallery of avatars for all occasions. Figures could be a bit adjusted or transformed beyond recognititon. Existence splits into multitude accounts in all forms of virtual communication with world (from Facebook, WarCraft, Uber to email client and bank account). ID floats between virtual and real, fictional and truthful, body and item.

In this regard device has got an ID and provides keeping person’s ID at the same time. ID makes unknown known, named, atributed. ID authorisation provides access and prevents outsiders’ entering. Login and password are a lock and a picklock. ID is a polysemantic term — from psychoanalysis to identity documents. We wonder what represents ID in the world of people and things, what additional meanings emerge during their interaction and what they lead us to.

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DIGITAL MEDIA SCREENING: PERSONAL IDENTITY

CYLAND VIDEO CURATOR: VICTORIA ILYUSHKINA

The technological progress of recent years has strengthened the ties between humanity and technology, machines and artificial intellect, and made the interaction between organic and synthetic life more intimate.

People and machines learn from each other with the help of neural networks. People’s consciousness undergoes certain changes. They develop a different outlook on the notions of life and death, moral problems of scientific experiments, territorial and virtual boundaries, tracking sysscsctems and total digital control. Personalities surrounded by a mirror cube of social networks hide behind their avatars and continue to exist in their accounts even after death. If you are absent from social networks, does it mean that no one knows about your existence, or is it a way of avoiding media control? The preservation of memory and transfer of information onto a digital database, and the fast development of artificial intellect and its humanization makes us face the inevitable question of personality identification. Who are we What is our future going to be like? This program is dedicated to a contemplation of these problems by contemporary artists.

Emma Bayer – Incorporeal (2018, Russia)
Masha Godovannaya – Laika. The last flight (2017, Russia)
Mascha Danzis – Saint nicknames (2018, Germany)
Gioula Papadopoulou – Fall (2018, Greece)
Summer McCorkle – Psychogeography (2018, USA)
Mahta Hosseini – Where ever I am, let me be; the sky is mine (2018, Iran)
Citron / Lunardi (Selene Citron and Luca Lunardi) – Back up my memories (2018)
Necko (Juan Manuel Carrillo Rosales) – RANDOM / Part of Transhumanity Project (2018, Spain)
Di Hu – Urban sculptures (2017, China)
Marisa Benito – Ductiles (2018, Spain)
Virgina Lee Montgomery – CUT COPY SPHINX (2018, USA)
Joe Hambleton – Stasis in Flux (2018, Canada)
Bram Lattré – Il muro cattivo (2016, Belgium)
Yanina Chernykh – Cap of Invisibility (2017, Russia)
Vladimir Abikh – God with us (2018, Russia)
Elena Artemenko – Game (2018, Russia)
DVENEODNA – How and What I remember (2018, Russia)
Reza Masoud – Everything is under control (2018, Iran)
Marina Blinova – Who is the player? (2018, Russia)
Nataliya Lyakh – Untitled 2 (2017, Russia)

E.V.O.D.E.V.O.R.E.V.O.

PRATT DIGITAL ARTS MFA STUDENTS VIDEO INSTALLATION / CURATED BY: CARLA GANNIS

Designed to explore the genetic and memetic evolution, devolution, and re-evolution of the human consciousness. These topics, represented by three interconnecting 45-second animated loops, combine to tell a story about our collective personhood.

PSYCHEDELIC LOCK BY DANIELE PUPPI

VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2016 / CURATED BY VALENTINO CATRICALÀ

Two enjoined led monitors appear in a space defined by two angular walls. An image is passed instantly from one monitor to the other accompanied by a forceful rhythmic sound both sustained and hypnotic. In the passage from one dimension to the other the image projected acquires a double physicality, thus defining the very space between the two dimensions – the architectural (physical) and the extreme limitations of movement. In the juncture between the two monitors, passing from one temporal dimension to another, a new image, a new space for perception is created establishing a relationship between two distant realities. A sort of “door” which offers similar stories of two diverse periods in time to coexist.

CYFEST is one of the largest international media art festivals, it was founded in St. Petersburg in 2007 by independent artists and curators. The festival promotes the emergence of new forms of art and high technology interactions, developing professional connections between artists, curators, engineers and programmers around the world and exposing wide audiences to the works in the field of robotics, video art, sound art and net art.

More info: http://cyland.org/lab/cyfest-12-id-premieres-december-13th-at-the-renowned-made-in-ny-media-center-by-ifp/

The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam

Call for Contribution iPRES 2019

We are pleased to announce that the Call for Contributions for iPRES2019 is now open. iPRES is the premier international conference on the preservation and long term management of digital materials. The 16th International Conference on Digital Preservation will be held on September 16-20, 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

We invite original contributions that describe practice- and theory-informed approaches to scientific models, daily practice, collaborative efforts, creative solutions, and the progress your organization has made in digital preservation.

Call for Contributions
We welcome full papers and short papers as well as proposals for workshops, tutorials, posters, panel discussions and for a hackathon. Submissions should relate to the overall conference theme, Eye on the Horizon, describing the cutting edge of our domain and crossing into other domains.

We encourage submissions which describe collaborations across and beyond cultural heritage domains, and we welcome proposals that describe research and practice in agencies of all sizes and in all sectors. You can find details about the submission process and the topics of interest now online at www.ipres2019.org/call-for-contributions Please remember this Call will close on 18 March, 2019.

Don’t want to miss out on any information?
All information regarding the conference is on our website: www.ipres2019.org. Please pre-register for the iPRES Newsletter via communications@ipres2019.org and get updates on all the important dates. You can also follow us via @iPRES2019 on both Twitter and Instagram. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@ipres2019.org or contact one of the Programme Committee Chairs directly.

We look forward to hosting you in The Netherlands, with an inspirational tailor made iPRES2019 programme and historical Amsterdam on the horizon.

Deadline for submitting artworks is 28 February

ANIMA MUNDI, the 2019 edition of ITSLIQUID International Festival, is now open for applicants

The festival focuses on the concept of ANIMA MUNDI, that according to several historical cultures, religions and philosophical systems, is an intrinsic connection between all living entities on the planet, which relates to the world in a similar way as the human soul is connected to the human body.

Plato expressed his thought about the ANIMA MUNDI in the Timaeus, “this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence… a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related”.

ANIMA MUNDI is the invisible energy behind all the natural and the artificial elements that allows the planet to live. Thanks to the hidden connections of ANIMA MUNDI, all the ecosystems of the Earth, before and after the appearance of the mankind, found their equilibrium, their ways to live and to develop themselves, to transform and to evolve. All the beings of the planet, plants, minerals, animals are permeated by a secret force that has always stimulated the human thought and research.

The festival aims to discover these multiple forms of hidden connections between the soul and the body, the mankind and the natural elements, the natural spaces and the cities. We invite artists to show their reflections about the various ways in which the ANIMA MUNDI expresses the relationships among all the existing entities and the natural and cultural systems, and to represent by their artistic works the processes of the evolution of the world in which we all live. Artists, designers and architects are invited to talk about ANIMA MUNDI through photo reportage of cities, hidden places, photographic documentaries, personal experiences, presenting their works of photography, painting, sculpture/installation, design and architecture, video-art and live performance.

ANIMA MUNDI festival is organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci (founder and director of THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, ITS LIQUID GROUP and LUCA CURCI ARCHITECTS), in collaboration with Venice Events at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space, and organized and curated by Arch. Luca Curci in other prestigious venues and historical buildings.

Deadline for applications is February 28, 2019 (11.59 PM of your local time)

For more information about ANIMA MUNDI festival fill the form on ITSLIQUID website or send an e-mail: lucacurci@lucacurci.com

Vienna (Austria), 5 December 2018

EU-China: Silk Road Cultural Dialogues

The overall objective of this session, that is organized in the framework of ICT2018 research and innovation event of the Europeana Commission, intends to account for China’s “soft power” strategy and Europe’s multicultural identity and scope that puts the role of culture in the spotlight.

Culture is digitally preserved and exposed and disseminated through digital channels. Various Standards, Techniques and Solutions in the field of digital heritage and cultural expression are used in East and West. Know how transfer and adaptation of common means in this aspect are crucial as to make Sino-European Culture exchange possible and effective.

Research projects and exchange will be beneficial for both parts. China is investing in approaching the West. Additional relevant H2020 calls will pave the way to research cooperation and common development of interfaces, Techniques and Solutions.

Agenda

16:30 – Introduction, Professor Andreas Georgopoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Laboratory of Photogrammetry, Greece

16:35 – Pitch on the European Status, Antonella Fresa, CEO Promoter S.r.l., Italy

16:40 – Chinese Status, Xiaoming Zhang, Deputy Director of the China National Center for Culture Studies (CASS)

16:45 – Sample Projects’ Proposals, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, CEO PostScriptum, Greece

16:50 – Wrap Up

Austria Center

1 Bruno-Kreisky-Platz Vienna

Room 2.31

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/eu-china-silk-road-cultural-dialogues-tickets-52719559622?ref=enivtefor001

The digital edition is part of a new partnership between Musebooks and the Tate to make select publications available online

Tate’s Edward Burne-Jones exhibition catalogue now digitized on Musebooks

Edward Burne-Jones, the catalogue accompanying the current major exhibition at Tate Britain in London, has now been digitized with Musebooks. The digital edition appears as part of a new partnership between Musebooks and the Tate to make select publications available online in the innovative Musebooks format. The format allows readers to zoom in on images at high resolution and easily switch between 3 different reading modes: text view, image view, and page view.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition celebrating one of the most important and versatile artists of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Edward Burne-Jones covers the artist’s career from drawings and paintings to stained glass, tapestries, ceramic tiles and more.
Rejecting the modern world of the industrial of nineteenth-century England, Burne-Jones and fellow Pre-Raphaelites such as William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti instead looked back to medieval art and culture for inspiration.

More information: www.musebooks.world/eu/en/edward-burne-jones.html
Preview: www.musebooks.world/eu/en/reading/preview/434

Full Book: email sophia.rochmes @ musebooks.world for an access code to the full book

About Musebooks
The Musebooks format is the first digital reading experience specially designed for art books. This alternative to e-books, which are not suited for image-heavy books, offers 3 reading modes and image zoom and gallery functions. Musebooks are stored in the reader’s personal cloud library and are accessible on all devices via a web browser or the free Musebooks app. Other Musebooks partners include The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Thames & Hudson in London, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels and the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

all the activities, workshop, performances and laboratories will take place in Cagliari, Italy

Technological Artistic Residence “A.R.T.E”: 2018-2019 programme

TECHNOLOGICAL ARTISTIC RESIDENCE – “A.R.T.E” Augmented Reality Theatre Experience presents the following activities to take place in 2018-2019.

PROGRAMME:

NOVEMBER 30, h 10.30 am, SPAZIO OSC, via Newton 12 – Cagliari

OPEN TALK about “A.R.T.E”

Minwal Theater Company (Lebanon) and Kyber Theater (Italy) talk with the students of Cagliari High Schools, involved in this project.

NOVEMBER 30, DECEMBER 1st and 2nd, from 4 pm to 8 pm, SPAZIO OSC, via Newton 12

WORKSHOP: THEATRE DIRECTION AND NEW MEDIA

directed by the theatre director Jad Hakawati – Minwal Theater (Lebanon).

DECEMBER 14/15, h 9 pm, SPAZIO OSC Via Newton 12; DECEMBER 16, 6 pm – SPAZIO OSC, Via Newton 12.

THEATER AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES PERFORMANCE: “THE FEAR DIVORES THE SOUL”

V.E.I.A. association (France), Minwal Theater (Lebanon) Kyber Teatro (Italy), in collaboration with Theater en vol and Chajka (theatre companies) and with other Sardinian artists under 35, AM Artist and Simone Murtas, visual artist.

DECEMBER 17, from 4 pm to 8 pm, SPAZIO OSC via Newton 12,

WORKSHOP: “Visual Show with TouchDesigner”

by and with AM Artist, Andrea Montis and Simone Murtas, visual artists. In collaboration with M / Ind – Independent Minds Review of Club-Culture & Self-production, by BASSTATION

DECEMBER 18/19, from 4 pm to 8 pm, Spazio OSC , Via Newton 12,

WORKSHOP: “COMPUTER VISON & INTERACTION”

on max smp, open cv tracking object. by and with Matthieu Tercieux, V.E.I.A association (FRANCE) with M / Ind – Independent Minds Review of Club-Culture & Self-production, by BASSTATION.

DECEMBER the 21st, from 21.30 until late night – SPAZIO OSC, Via Newton 12,

DIGITAL PARTY: INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION “VOUS ETES ON A.R.T.E. – Augmented Reality Theater Experience
by Matthieu Tercieux and Edouard Souillot (V.E.I.A Company -France) Kyber Teatro (Italy), Simone Murtas AM Artist, local artists under 35, and local DJs: ALESSIO MEREU, FABRIZIO BARBERIS, ANDREA COSSU, b2b, WTTM , in collaboration with M / Ind – Independent Minds Review of Club-Culture & Self-production, by BASSTATION.

JANUARY the 10th, h 5.30 pm – “Capitini” Aula Magna, Faculty of Humanities – University of Cagliari, Via Is Mirrionis 1

CONFERENCE: “THE EYE OF THE MACHINE”

by Simone Arcagni
With University of Cagliari Partnership.

JANUARY – FEBRUARY – MARCH , SPAZIO OSC, Via Newton 12,

INTERCULTURAL THEATER WORKSHOP “To conquer the ubiquity”
by the cultural/educational mediator and actor Naoufel Soussi (Aman,company on social field) and the theater actress and cultural entertainer Paola Atzeni (Tana Teatro company), under the supervision of Claudia Pupillo (theatre director and playwright).

MARCH / SPAZIO OSC, Via Newton 12,

POETRY SLAM LABORATORY by the performer and slammer Sergio Garau; PERFORMANCE DIGITAL POETRY SLAM with Sergio Garau (performer and slammer) and Kyber Teatro.

For all the laboratories of the period February-March, it’s planned a collaboration with the Social Collaborative Enviroments group -CRS4 COMPANY- to create an interactive multimedia production of Poetry Slam with the national slammer Sergio Garau.
The production will be born from the artistic – digital experimentation between the digital creative team of Kyber Teatro, the poetry slamm scenic language, the Social Wall CRS4 and other immersive and interactive technologies and surfaces.

More information: http://www.kyberteatro.it/en/residenze-art-tech.asp

Museums Dahlem, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Takustraße 40, 14195 Berlin

Daring participation! The REACH project workshop on Institutional Heritage is just started!

Four international workshops on different aspects of participation will be held in the frame of REACH. The first one is being running right now in Berlin.
During the two days event around 20-25 experts will meet and discuss many aspects of all kinds of possibilities for participation in the institutional care for cultural heritage.

Mostly targeted to cultural institutions and public administrations, the workshop addresses the following themes:

Core functions and activities to be faced by cultural heritage institutions
Who can and should be involved in which area of work?
How can citizens get involved for mutual benefit?
What actions are necessary for lasting participation?
Best practice examples

Get more information here.

Taipei (Taiwan), 17 November 2018 to 10 March 2019

Taipei Biennial 2018: Post-Nature — A Museum as an Ecosystem

The Taipei Biennial is the most important exhibition for promoting contemporary art held by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. In 1998, after more than a decade of changes in the format, and in order to adapt to the ‘biennial’ trend, and to promote Taiwan’s contemporary art internationally, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum began to invite internationally-renowned curators to cooperate with curators from Taiwan. Since then, the Taipei Biennial has introduced new artistic ideas from around the world that act as a driver of dialogue between Taiwan and other cultures, becoming a primary symbol of Taiwan’s contemporary art development and international artistic exchange.

The 2018 edition is co-curated by Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda, and focuses on the interconnectivity of ecosystemic structures formed between humans and nature and aims to serve as a platform for social experimentation, generating new interdisciplinary possibilities for long-lasting, community-driven, bottom-up synergies. This Biennial aims to investigate how museum as an institution exists as, and within, a social, cultural, economic and political ecosystem.

Taipei Biennal website: https://www.taipeibiennial.org/?lang=EN

Article appeared on Hyperallergic: https://hyperallergic.com/471444/taipei-biennial-2018-post-nature-museum-ecosystem-tfam/

Brussels (Belgium), 6th February 2019

Modernising Cultural and Creative Industries within the EU

Cultural and Creative sectors occupy a significant place in today’s European economy, by contributing to innovation, investment, digital modernisation and cultural tourism. The Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) generate indeed around €509 billion per year, representing 5.3% of the EU’s total GDP and employ 12 million full-time jobs, which constitutes 7.5% of the EU’s employment and the third largest employer sector in the EU (European Commission, 2018). More than the economic value added to the EU’s GDP, cultural and creative sectors promote the European culture within and beyond the EU’s borders. In a political context characterised by the questioning of the European project, cultural and creative sectors have the potential to strengthen the European identities, cultural diversity and values; favour the critical thinking and build bridge between art, culture, business and technology in order to bring the European citizens closer.

In the last years, the EU has developed various projects in the framework of the 2015-18 Work Plan for Culture and the 2020 Horizon programmes to finance and support Cultural and Creative Industries. However, market fragmentation, insufficient access to finance and uncertainties in salaries conditions continue to undermine the cultural participation and development. In response to the Council’s invitation to do more in the cultural sector, in May 2018 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a New European Agenda for Culture. The New Agenda aims to harness the power of culture and cultural diversity for social cohesion; bolster the common European identity; support jobs and growth in cultural and creative sectors and to strengthen international cultural relations.

With the evolution of globalisation and digitalisation in modern life, the New European Agenda for Culture embraces the innovation in cultural and creative sectors. This goes with the adaptation of education and training to address the technological and business skills deficit and bring about evolution in the cultural sector. Moreover, it is currently assessed that there is a need for continuous assessment to ensure that the regulatory framework complies with intellectual property rights, consumer protection, online distribution and the establishment and operation of business rules in a digital era.

This timely symposium will evaluate recent initiatives and policy developments in the field of Cultural and Creative Industries from the EU to tackle the emerging challenges to the sector. Participants will exchange views, perspectives and good practices on the possible strategies to tackle these challenges, and will debate the role of CCIs in national politics, education, international communication and social inclusion.

Delegates will:

Find out about the European initiatives to boost the CCIs sector, such as the New Agenda for Culture of 2018.
Discuss the CCIs’ role in creating social cohesion and mutual identity within the EU
Explore ways to adapt to the changes in the creative and cultural sectors in a global and digital era
Identify ways to get access to the European market for companies operating in the CCIs
Analyse methods to tackle current challenges in the cultural sectors such as artists’ mobility and contract stability
Learn from good practices of other members states aimed at supporting the creative and cultural sectors based on cultural exchanges

To view our brochure, including the full event programme, click here.

20% early registration discount off the standard delegate rates (subject to type of organisation and terms and conditions) for bookings received by the 28th December 2018

Website and registration: https://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/JB06-PPE2?ss=bk&tg=bp1