Call for applications: Research Curator – Videogames, V&A Museum – deadline 1 September 2015

http://www.callforcurators.com/2015/08/10/research-curator-videogames/ Deadline: September 1, 2015 Job Title: Research Curator – Videogames Division: Collections Department/Section: Design, Architecture & Digital Pay band: 5 Contract: Fixed term to August 2017 Reporting to: Senior Curator / Keeper Design, Architecture & Digital Background The V&A is working toward a major exhibition on contemporary videogame design. Opening in summer 2017, the exhibition will be the first … Read More

Call for papers, workshops, art and exhibitions – Balance-UnbALaNce conference 2016, Columbia – deadline 10 October 2015

Balance-UnbALaNce 2016 — Arts + Sciences x Technology = Environment / Responsability — “Data Science + Eco Action” May 9 to 11, 2016 University of Caldas, Manizales, Colombia Call for participation Balance-Unbalance (BunB) is an International Conference designed to use art as a catalyst to explore intersections between NATURE, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and SOCIETY as we move into an era of … Read More

Open call for artists in 10 galleries all over Spain – deadline 28 August 2015

http://www.premio-ora.es O.R.A. is an open call for proposals. Spanish and foreign artists can apply with no restrictions on age, thinking, technique or any other factor. The prize encourages the participation of artists of all levels. The jury of O.R.A. is composed by 10 professional galleries, art spaces and art centers interested in discovering new projects to be exhibited. Each of … Read More

Call for videos – 9th Cyberfest 2015/16, ‘Patterns of the Mind’ – deadline 15 August 2015

Curatorial team is now accepting submissions for the CYBERFEST’s Video Art Program. The upcoming CYBERFEST takes place Fall 2015-Spring 2016 in Bogota, St. Petersburg, and New York. For the 9th annual edition, CYBERFEST is excited to expand its programming to Latin America SOFA in Bogota, Columbia’s most influential festival celebrating art, technology, and engineering. Selections for The CYBERFEST Video Program … Read More

Free online course – From Ink to Sound: Decoding Musical Manuscripts (7 weeks) – starts 2 November 2015

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/from-ink-to-sound Travel through the history of musical notation, learning how to decode medieval music manuscripts, with this free online course. ABOUT THE COURSE Nowadays music is all around us: we listen to it while we are on our way to work, when preparing lunch or even while showering. All this music is written down in its own language – the … Read More

Call for writers, directors, producers, choreographers, composers, designers – IdeasTap Presents The Old Vic 12 – deadline 4 September 2015

http://competitions.hiive.co.uk/Opportunities/Brief/IdeasTap-presents-the-Old-Vic-12-Choreographer-020915 IdeasTap Presents… The Old Vic 12 offers writers, directors, producers, choreographers, composers and designers the chance to be part of new Artistic Director Matthew Warchus’ first season at the helm of the legendary theatre. Twelve talented emerging artists will spend nearly a year working together and with The Old Vic team to create three new pieces of work that … Read More

Free edX Electronic Literature course (online, 6 weeks, self-paced) – starts 12 October, 2015

https://www.edx.org/course/electronic-literature-davidsonx-d004x Interactive Fiction. Chatterbots. Hypertext and kinetic poetry. Explore these avant garde forms and other new media in this exciting class. About this course Love letters generated by a computer. An online poem two hundred trillion stanzas long. A mystery novel in the form of a wiki. The story of Inanimate Alice, told through videos and instant messages. An ocean … Read More

Call for submissions – Experiments in Cinema v11.4 – deadline 1 November 2015

http://www.experimentsincinema.org/ Experiments in Cinema v11.4 (made of 100% pure ingredients) call for submissions!! Basement Films’ annual international film festival is proud to announce our call for submissions for Experiments in Cinema v11.4 (April 6-10, 2016). Our call for submissions is open from August 1 – November 1, 2015 so don’t wait! See www.experimentsincinema.org for our online submissions form. For additional … Read More

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Call for works: Deep Breaths – deadline 10 August 2015

Karras Performance Festival at ARC Gallery Deep Breaths invites time-based works (video, audio/sound, performances) that use the breath as material or as a theoretical point of departure. Often relegated to a bodily function, this call seeks to broaden the breath’s expanse beyond the physical and asks artists to consider other ways to engage the breath. Some initial points of departure: … Read More