Saturday, January 28, 2012

Vision Forum Workshop Bears Unexpected Fruit.

Vision Forum congratulates Leonora Hamill to winning the HSBC photography prize 2012. The first images in the prize-winning series 'Art in Progress' were carried out during a Vision Forum workshop in Guangzhou in 2008 and Leo has been developing the series ever since.

More about Leo, the photographs and the prize here, here and here. Keep up the good work!

Thursday, January 19, 2012

BANCO DE TEMPO


Ö - A Möbius Trip curator Isabel Löfgren is showing an installation about temporality and travel (what could be more VF?) with Patricia Gouvêa at Galeria de Lago in Rio de Janeiro. More info here.

Natalia Kamia's latest.



Enjoy!

Third time the charm? The 3rd Open Call this week.

CALL FOR CURATORIAL RESIDENTS 2012-13

221A Artist Run Centre is seeking project proposals from curators commencing late 2012. 221A has implemented the curatorial residencies program to encourage a diversity of curatorial approaches to this nascent interdisciplinary field. Emerging and professional curators and curatorial collectives are encouraged to submit which may include recent graduates and practicing artists, designers and architects. Projects may include exhibitions, performances, publications, talks or workshops. Proposals should discuss a viewpoint, theory, or approach that the project hopes to foster as well as include its relation to the organizations mandate.

More info here.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Friday, January 6, 2012

! OPEN CALL !


For participation in the International Teletext Art Festival held in Helsinki in March 2012. DL 25th Jan! (www.fixc.fi/itaf)

ITAF is organised by FixC cooperative (http;//www.fixc.fi) in collaboration with YLE the national broadcast corporation of Finland.

The works will be shown on YLE Teletext pages 8.3.2012 -8.4.2012 / the Internet and presented in the one evening TELETEXT event 8.3.

Artists are welcome to participate with 24 -page animations (1 page + 24 sub -pages) or single image works (much easier).

Rules:
1. We have a 0 € budget so by participating you give us a permission to show your work for one month on the ITAF teletext pages / Internet and the TELETEXT event free of charge (the copyright remains with the artist)
2. No porn, ads or copyright infringements (Rules given to us by YLE)
3. Deadline for submitted works is 25th Jan 2012
4. All works must meet the teletext standard

All participating artists names will be published on FixC web site on 1.2.2012, If there are more submissions than we can present we will invite a non-FixC member to do the selection.


Follow the link for a technical guide and a free Teletext editor by Microtel a project curated by ambientTV.net in 2006:

http://projects.lektrolab.com/microtel/

More Teletext info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext

Monday, January 2, 2012

NOWISWERE 10


DEAR READERS OF NOWISWERE

FOR THE 10TH ISSUE WE HAVE INVITED SOLEDAD GARCIA-SAAVEDRA, LISA SKURET AND MARIANNE ZAMECZNIK TO FEATURE AN ARTIST OF THEIR CHOICE AND CONTRIBUTE A TEXT RELATED TO HIS/HER PRACTISE. LIKEWISE WE INVITED HEMAN CHONG TO FEATURE A SELECTION OF HIS NEW SERIES OF PAINTINGS AND COMMISSIONED PER HÜTTNER TO COMPOSE A TEXT IN-RELATION TO THEM.

DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY HERE.

VERONIKA HAUER & FATOS ÜSTEK
EDITORS