International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Deadline:
23.05.2016


The entry is open for fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films to the main programme (World Under Canvas, In The Short Run) and to The Short Films Competition.

The submission is free of charge.

World Under Canvas:
- Feature fiction and documentary films (longer than 60 min);
- Films before the official Polish theatrical release;
- Films made in 2015 or 2016, older when it will be a Polish premiere of film.

In The Short Run:
- Short films (less than 60 min);
- Films made in 2015 or 2016, older when it will be a Polish premiere of film.

Short Films Competition
- The Competition is organized by The TWO RIVERSIDES Association.
- In the Competition take part:
- Short films (shorter than 35 min.);
- Films made in 2015 or 2016, older when it will be a Polish premiere of film.

Details:
http://www.dwabrzegi.pl/en/regulations/

Deadline:
27.03.2016

10. IN OUT FESTIVAL 2016 - call for applications
Experiments / Video / Documents / Animations

This year we invite artists to take part in the open competition for experimental, video, documentary and animations. This year's edition is dedicated to "Theatricality". Applications shall be sent by 27th of March 2016. Films shall fulfil the following requirements: created with any technique; duration: from 1 to 20 minutes; the film should be produced between 2014 and 2016.

Awards:
- The first award PLN 5 000.00 funded by the the Marshal of the Pomorskie Voivodeship, Mieczysław Struk.
- The second award PLN 4 000.00 funded by Laznia CCA.
- Moreover, the Jury shall award special mentions.

IN OUT Festival is ongoing since 2005. This year’s edition aims to take closer look at the subject of what can theatre and theatricality represent for video art and visual artists, and what can video and video makers represent for theatre. How does the theatre’s function change in new media’s field of influence? Do theatrical strategies work in connection with other media – and how? And finally: how can we theatricalise moving image?

Within Festival there is an open competition for works of experimental, video, documentary, and animations. The competiton has two stages, during the first one, until 8th of April 2016 the jury will choose 20 artists whose works would qualify to the second stage and those will be presented during the reviews and exhibition in CCA Łaźnia. Artists will be invited to Gdańsk.

One can refer to the term "Negative" not only as the photographic film that represents the essential image movement of the video art—a materialistic process of appearing—but also as an adjective indicating a sense of feminine passiveness with an implication of antagonistic denial. The term "Horizon" embodies the dynamics within the liminal space between the heaven and earth, which is conditioned by the correlation between the perspective of the spectator and her circumstance of the surrounding. Negative Horizon stands for those invisible scenes that inhabit opposite to, behind, or underneath the normative visibility.

The exhibition engages with artistic visions and their corresponding projection in mechanical motion pictures to expose an unseen reality that is constituted by the mundaneness of mobility. A sense of movement is embodied by the economic and political exiles who result from contemporary geopolitics in conjunction with the disruption of citizenship caused by human trafficking beyond political borders. As these trans-national/trans-regional movements gradually become a part of more and more lives, Negative Horizon addresses the question of whether the state of movement expands our horizons or makes us increasingly blind to exploitation by legitimizing the meaning of mobility.


REGULATIONS

Open to all domestic and international artists at the age of 18 or above, working with 　　video art. May enter as an individual or as a group. Maximum two entries are allowed 　　for each individual or group.
Entries are restricted to single-channel videos created after January/1st /2010 those 　　have not been previously shown in any exhibitions in Taiwan.
Length of the video: Unrestricted.
Format: Unrestricted.

ENTRY:

Entries are only accepted via applying online.
Go to the link Complete the entry information as directed.
Entry deadline: April 30, 2016. 23:59 p.m. (Taipei, GMT+8).

Deadline:
1.08.2016



SFC Shoah Film Collection is looking for new contributions in order to continue the success story which started 6 years ago on 27 January 2010 – the International Holocaust Memorial Day – commemorating the 65th liberation of the Concentration Camp of Auschwitz, when this unique media art and peace initiative was laucnhed in the context of “Draft Title: Shoah” and “A Virtual Memorial Foundation”

Since then, each year on 27 January Shoah Film Collection is releasing traditionally its new call for the coming year – so also this year, on Tuesday, 27 January 2016 – deadline 1 September 2016.

This media art and peace initiative by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, media artist and curator from Cologne (artvideoKOELN international, Cologne International videoart Festival) is addressed to the young generations of artists and filmmakers to deal with the topic of Shoah and collective trauma caused by totalitarianism by using new (audio-visual) technologies and contemporary approaches in order to keep vivid the memory of the collective trauma by senstizing people via art. During the past years, a collection of 70 outstanding art film and videos by artists from 15 countries deveoped, from the experiment to the documentary.

In order to make the more than 80 videos of the collection available to a wider public, Wilfried Agricola de Cologne set up an experimental event structure, named: “AVMCI – A Virtual Memorial Commeorative Interventions” placing Shoah Film Collection into complementary interventions like the screening, projection and installation of the videos, a symposium with an international artists meeting, lectures, exhibitions, artistic performances of different kind, artists talks, discussions ansd much more, in order to activate the artists, as well as the audience.

Until now, there were in total 12 presentations in Russia, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Cambodia and Israel, whereby 2012 the first pilot project, standing under the Patronage of the European Parliament was realised in Latvia – A Virtual Memorial Riga 2012 – dedicated to the victims of Riga Ghetto, to be followed by the pilot project in Lithuania 2013 – A Virtual Memorial Vilnius 2013 – a tribute to the victims of Vilna Ghetto, “A Virtual Memorial Warsaw 2013 -a tribute to the victims of Warsaw Ghetto and A Virtual Memorial Milan 2014 – a tribute to the Italian victims of Holocaust – all events were standing under the Patronage of the European Parliament. More info http://avmci.a-virtual-memorial.org

Shoah Film Collection would like to bring closer to the people what the Holocaust is meaning to mankind and future generations by encouraging artists to face and reflect the aspect of humanity which was lost widely during the era of Nazizm, but not completely. Now more than 70 years after the end of the Holocaust, however, as the idea of totalitarian ideologies and systems to exterminate all those who do not fit in these insane idealogies, the Holocaust never was really finished, because in all parts on the globe, there were genocides and political systems were waging war against the own peolpe, and they still do.

The daily news are overwhelemed by reports from all parts on the globe giving evidence, the Holocaust is going on, always in new kinds of shapes. In this way, again and again such insane ideologies are producing continuously victims – all the millions of refugees from Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America are witnesses these days and give evidence of the same kind of inhumanity which was characterizing Nazism, Fascism, Stalinism, Communism or any other kind of -“isms” terrorizing people all over the world.

In terms of the initiative of Shoah Film Collection – it is the process of losing one’s humanity through discrimination, persecution and extermination – which is of artistic interest – a universal topic – in this way – it is humanity standing in the center of Shoah Film Collection – and artists are invited to transform their visions how to save humanity in that kind of global terror aimed to exterminate the human race, as such.

The Holocaust must not happen again! Hiroshima must not happen again! The genocide in Cambodia must not happen again! The genocide in Rwanda must not happen again! – the list could be continued endlessly – demonstrating that nothing has changed after end of World War II and insane, inhuman ideologies are again and again attracting masses of people anywhere.

Shoah Film Collection and its manifestations are looking for new audio-visual works using video as a medium in all its variety.

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Regulations
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– Deadline: 01 August 2016
– Wanted: single channel videos by film and videomakers from all countries on the globe to be submitted exclusively online.
– SFC is looking for innovative and experimental approaches in dealing with contents and technology
– The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2000-2015. The submission of extracts is not accepted!!
– Duration: 60 seconds up to max 15 minutes (exceptions possible on request)
– Max 3 films/videos can be submitted.
– Creations using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
– The preview copy should be uploaded for download by using the free upload platform WE TRANSFER www.wetransfer.com (up to 2GB) or make the film available for download on VIMEO www.vimeo.com!!
.mpeg2 (DVD), . mov (Quicktime, H264 codec only), .mp4, .wmv (Windows Media), .DVavi
– only selected artists will be notified after the deadline and invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video in best screening quality.

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Entry Form – please cut and paste
Please use for each video a new entry form
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1.
artist/director

a) full name
b) full address
c) email, URL
d) short bio (max. 100 words, English only)

2.
film/video

a) title English – original (max 3 works)
b) URL home page, (Internet address for download)
c) year of production
d) duration
e) work synopsis (max. 100 words/submission, English only)
f) 2 screenshots for each submitted work (jpg, 800×600 px)

Please add this declaration & sign it with your full name & email address
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I, the submitter/author, declare to be the holder of all rights on the submitted work.
In case the work is selected, I give – until revoke – SFC – Shoah Film Collection the permission to include the work in the project context online and in physical space for screenings /exhibitions free of charge and use screenshots for non-commercial promotional purposes free of charge, as well. Until revoke means, that the author can remove his work at any time.
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Please use for each submission a separate entry form
extended deadline: 1 August 2016

Please use this email address for submitting
artvideokoeln (at) gmail.com
and following subject line
“SFC 2016”

Deadline:
18.03.2016


Details:
http://www.indexartcenter.org/?page_id=520

Deadline:
15.08.2016

Purpose of the Festival

Presentation of trendsetting, ambitious, auteur cinema. The Festival presents a cinema showing independent and bold content, taking up substantial and original subjects, seeking to establish cultural bridges between different regions—geographical as well as social. The Festival discovers talented young artists, both Polish and foreign, and extensively promotes their films. The Festival is open to artists from all over the world.

The Festival holds four competitions:

Deadline:
30.09.2016

Submitting entry to the Competition consists in sending an original version of a hand-made drawing to the Organizer.

The subject matter of the drawing shall cover such topics as fish, fishermen, cast-net fishing, etc., and meet the conditions laid down in these Regulations.

 The format of the works submitted to the Competition shall not exceed the A3 size format.

 Each participant of the Competition is entitled to demonstrate the maximum 2 of works.

Details:
http://www.okniemodlin.org/771/regulamin-contest-rules-karpik-2016.html

Deadline:
08.05.2016

If you are profesional sculptor or architect, eventually student of one these fields, we are inviting you to participate in our international competition.

Best projects will be realized in public space in Gdansk Poland.

Objective:

Making and installing one spatial form and three artistic installations inspired by the idea of freedom in the broad sense of the word, of high artistic value, that will be put in the public space of Gdańsk.

TECHNICAL CONDITIONS