Flag Metamorphoses – ongoing deadline www.flag-metamorphoses.net Flag Metamorphoses is an ongoing participatory and collaborative art project curated by Myriam Thyes. The concept is simple – the flags of every nation in the world transforming into each other through flash animations. It’s a great example of an idea that opens up a wealth of possibilities for artistic political comment, and the relationship between two flags/countries as realised through (meta)morphing animations can be understood quickly by viewers in any country. My contribution (by far one of the least accomplished animations in the project, I’m not ashamed to admit!) was the UK Union Jack to the flag of Barbados, representing both the 1966 independence of Barbados from Britain, and my own maternal Barbadian heritage. There are 33 animations so far, and Myriam does a fantastic job of getting the project seen at festivals and other screenings (see below) all around the world. Visit the site for more about the project and how to enter your own work. Screenings: 6-7/2009: Urban Screens , Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia 5/2009: Kunstverein Rhein-Sieg, Siegburg, Germany 4/2009: 17 Days Video Series, University of Virginia, McIntire Department of Art, Charlottesville, USA 4/2009: Building Paradise, 7+FIG Art Space, Los Angeles, USA (April – May 2009) 4/2009: International Animated Film Festival ReAnimacja, Lodz, Poland 3/2009: Algorithmia, San Fransisco, USA 2/2009: 17 Days Video Series, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA 9/2008: 17 Days Video Series, Alfred State College, New York, USA 9/2008: Goethe Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK 8/2008: Herzloos, Het Hijgend Hert, Breda, Netherlands (August 12) 8/2008: Concorto Film Festival, Milan, Italy (August 27 – 31) 7/2008: Festival Miden 2008, Kalamata, Greece 6/2008: IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Sofia, Bulgaria 5/2008: Art Tech Media 07, Madrid, Spain 4-6/2008: ‘Nothing to Declare’, 4th Triennale Oberschwaben, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany 3/2008: AZYL Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia 2/2008: Our Friends Are Electric, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia 2/2008: FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), Porto Alegre, Brazil 1/2008: 4th edition Mediterranean Environmental Award, Almeria, Spain 12/2007: Videomedeja 11th International Video Festival, videomedeja.org/ , Museum of Voivodina, Novi Sad, Croatia 11/2007: Flip Animation Festival, www.flipfestival.co.uk , Wolverhampton, UK 10/2007: URBAN SCREENS, Manchester, UK 10/2007: Festival Animatu, Beja, Portugal 09/2007: Pixilerations [v.4] media art festival, FirstWorksProv, Providence, Rhode Island, USA 08/2007: One Minute Film & Videofestival, Kunstraum Aarau, Switzerland 07/2007: Centro Comercial, Tehuacán, Mexico 06/2007: TACTICS OF RESISTANCE, Constantin Brancusi Exhibition Centre, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova 03/2007: Victory Media Network, 3090 Olive Street, Dallas, USA 03/2007: FLEFF (Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival) , Ithaca, NY, USA 03/2007: DUTA Visual Arts Biennial, Douala, Cameroon 03/2007: Traverse Video, Toulouse, France 01/2007: ‘Projected Weekends’ , The Digital Hub, Dublin, Ireland 10/2006: Canarias Mediafest, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 10/2006: Dialog Festival Winterthur, Switzerland 10/2006: relate art, Meilen and Zurich, Switzerland 09/2006: FLAG METAMORPHOSES ON THE BIG SCREENS, central stations of Zurich, Basel, Bern and Geneva, Switzerland 09/2006: Paraflows 06, Vienna, Austria 09/2006: Square Eyes Festival, State of the Image interactive media festival, Arnhem, Netherlands 07/2006: Multimedia Prize winner, AVANCA 06 , Avanca, Portugal 06/2006: Eighth International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium, Havana, Cuba 06/2006: Festival of Nations, Ebensee, Austria 05/2006: Pixeldance, Thessaloniki, Greece 04/2006: D>Art.2006, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia 04/2006: Independent Arts Festival, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium and Eindhoven, Netherlands 03/2006: FILE-RIO (International Electronic Language Festival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 03/2006: AniMOweb Festival, Modena, Italy