Open Call for {SØNiK}Fest :: Next event: Saturday, February 25, 2012 :: Deadline: Monday, February 6th, 2012 ::

The next {SØNiK} event will take place February 25, 2011. {SØNiK} takes place over two nights, and submissions are open to all works in sound, new media, performance, and video. Please email sonik@sonikfest.info if you would like to submit your work.

Submission Guidelines: Submissions are accepted via email, by linking to a website or an online audio/video account where the works can be viewed, if available. Continue reading

Artisphere presents New Media Exhibit: Data/Fields :: Thursday, September 22, 2011 through Sunday, November 27, 2011 :: Five International Artists Explore the Flow and Transfer of Sensory Data :: Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia ::

Internationally renowned sound artist Richard Chartiere brings together a celebrated group of international artists for a thought-provoking new media exhibit which explores the connection between the viewer and the flow and transfer of data at Artisphere from Thursday, September 22 –Sunday, November 27, 2011. These selected and commissioned works by Caleb Coppock (U.S.), Mark Fell (U.K.), Andy Graydon (U.S./Germany), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan), France Jobin (Canada) act as hubs of sensory information-sites of signal, noise, presence, and absence. Data/Fields marks the artists’ gallery debut in the Washington, DC-area and includes two premiere exhibitions in the United States. Continue reading

Call for Participation :: Qwartz New Media Arts Award: Sound in process :: Location: tbc France :: Registration before 09.01.2011

Qwartz 8 | Sound in Process: New Media Arts category rewards innovative works integrating new technologies and media in their own creative process and involving sound creation in particular. Are accepted every artwork dealing, using, expressing and/or processing sonic material and presenting it through innovative and creative media and supports, such as sound art, audiovisual installations and live performances, real-time processing… Sound work published on commercial aids won’t be accepted. Digital works not dealing with sound (or a little) neither. Continue reading

PIXILERATIONS [v.8] :: New Media Fringe Festival @ FirstWorks :: September 22nd-October 2nd, 2011 :: Call for Work: Deadline for entries extended to April 19, 2011 :: To submit work: http://pixilerations.org/2011/submission.html

PIXILERATIONS [v.8] is a new media festival in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) that investigates the state of new media arts through installations, performances and film/video screenings. It is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival (www.first-works.org), a multidimensional performing arts festival in Providence each fall. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Brown University, and the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture + Tourism. Now in its eighth year, Pixilerations is one of the foremost venues for new media artwork in New England. Continue reading

Taming Technology - Addomesticare la Tecnologia :: April 22-23, 2011 — Associazione Culturale Nub in Montale (PT) + April 29-30, 2011 — Le Murate, via delle carceri, Italy (at the historical prison complex of Le Murate and at the club Cargo).

Switch - Creative Social Network in collaboration with Associazione Culturale Nub and Tempo Reale present Taming Technology, a two day program including performances, DJ sets, installations, lectures and workshops exploring the territory between music, art and new media. The focus will be on practices such as physical computing, interface and interaction design, hardware hacking and biological computation, framed as fields of research capable of providing new connections between the virtual domain and the physical world. Continue reading

14th Media Art Biennale: WRO 2011 Alternative Now: Call for works :: Deadline for Submissions: January 5, 2011 ::

The WRO Media Art Biennale is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms created using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues
in art and society.

Over the years, the WRO Biennales have raised a variety of questions about creative approaches to new technologies and the expanding technosphere of social media – about the creative crossover realms that arise where art and science, economics and social activism intersect. Continue reading

Academy of Media Arts Cologne– annual exhibition 2010 of films, concerts, performances :: July 15 - 18, 2010 :: Opening: July, 15; 6:30 pm :: Filzengraben 2, D-50676 Cologne, Germany.

The Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), inaugurated in 1990, offers an educational concept that cross-links and integrates the fields of Film, Art and Theory in one single degree course titled “Audiovisual Media”. This is unique in Germany and contrasts with the traditional academic class or master student principle of art academies and other art schools where study courses are divided into classes or subjects. The curriculum promotes an interdisciplinary and multifaceted involvement with media arts. Continue reading

DEADLINE EXTENDED Upgrade International 2010: Soft Borders :: October 18-21, 2010 :: Sao Paulo, Brazil :: Call for Participation — Deadline: May 7, 2010.

We invite proposals of papers, posters and workshops for Soft Borders - the 4th Upgrade! International Conference & Festival on New Media Art, that will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from Oct 18th to 21st.

All the information about submitting proposals and the event can be also found online at the conference official website.

A brief summary only is required for the selection process. This should be submitted electronically via the online submission system, by 30/April/2010. You will be asked to create an account with the system before uploading your summary. Continue reading

TINT opens its Arts Lab in May 2010 to provide an online platform for artists to present and develop ideas through critical feedback and open discourse. Based on a framework of constructive critique and knowledgeable support, participating artists are invited to explore their work within the boundaries of media art. Participating artists will be required to develop their project in their own workspace, documenting their progress thoroughly at all stages from conceptional to realization in a dedicated blog. With the labs focus on the documentation of these usually opaque processes we enable a dedicated team of artists, theorist and practitioners as well as the wider community to respond to the project and provide thereby the possibility for artistic development. Once all the first round projects are completed, they will be jointly presented in a TINT curated event in a London based venue. Continue reading

MICA Hosts New Media Exhibition :: November 2-20, 2009 :: Reception: November 5; 6-9 p.m. :: Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Rosenberg Gallery, Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD.

Now in its fourth year, the SSI.4 Sight.Sound [interaction] exhibition at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) synthesizes a diverse selection of work that celebrates the language of interaction, new media technologies and the aesthetics of experimentation within an artistic context. The exhibition offers a broad selection of work from local and internationally recognized artists. Continue reading