Deadline: 11 March 2021

"Lab.18 art contest, is a call for submissions open to all kind of artists. Works allowed in the art competition are: drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, graphics, mix media and video. A great opportunity for the artists, which can win a cash prize, have the opportunity to exhibit the artworks and much more. 

The following types of works are admitted: Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Mixed media, Digital, Video, Graphics, Net art, other (all visual works that can be reproduced through a picture are allowed).

The contest is addressed to professional and amateur artists, graphic designers, painters, photographers, etc. from all over the world. 

Entry fee

45€

Prizes / Awards

5000,00€

- collaboration award for a new Malamegi collection

- artwork acquisition award

- cash prize

- monographic book prize

Details:

https://www.lab.malamegi.com/

 

Deadline: 28 February 2021

Festival for Experimental Music, Sound Art & Performance

No entry fee

Organizer provides

We can pay for travel, accommodation and food.

Details:

www.experimance.de

 

Deadline: 3 January 2021

a.topos Venice is pleased to present THE CREATIVE ROOM, an original initiative created by the Curatorial Collective to promote emerging creatives, following the CC’s commitment to enhance their visibility by providing an exhibition space to selected artists in the venetian contemporary art scene.

In this OPEN CALL first edition, we are inviting participants to send proposals that address a challenge imposed by the exceptional reality of lockdown and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: How to recreate oneself? Exercising the gaze towards the outside? Repositioning self as subject/object? Share your artwork with us so that we can convert our gallery in an extension of your own CREATIVE ROOM.

Entry fee:

20€

Prizes / Awards:

2 exhibitions

Details:

https://atoposvenice.com/thecreativeroom

 

Performance festival

Deadline: 30.10.2020

Festival will take place from May 25th - 30th 2021in Hildesheim, Germany.

We are looking for six guest-performances considering especially the scope of performing arts, although works which align with related art forms or have a transdisciplinary approach are also welcome to be submitted.

No entry fee

Festival offers:

• Salary

• travel expenses, accommodation and food during the festival

Details:

http://transeuropa-festival.de/2021/call-for-arts/

 

sound installations and/or live music performances

Artist in Residency India

Deadline: 20 February 2020


Artists of all disciplines creating in any media are welcome to apply: dance, theatre, music, sound, performance art, writing, painting, drawing, printmaking, textiles, culinary, photography, video/film, animation, architecture, sculpture (any material), ceramics, mixed-media / multi-media, interdisciplinary, installation, other new/alternative media, etc. Researchers, curators, and art critics are also welcome to apply. Open to emerging and established artists.

Sessions:
1. Session:   10th October – 4th November 2020
2. Session:   5th November – 30th November 2020
3. Session:   1st December – 25th December 2020
4. Session:   6th January – 31st January 2021
5. Session:   1st February – 25th February 2021


No entry fee

Residency fee:
$650 USD Residency fee


Residency offers:
Accommodation (Private tents with bed and bedding)
Meals (Vegetarian breakfast, lunch, dinner included)
Tea (coffee on request)
Studio space
Exhibition opportunity
Invitation letter
Local sight-seeing
Internet
Electricity
Basic kitchen
Printer B/W
First aid kit (medical box)
Basic tools
Farm Studio residency provides three types of working spaces where artists can explore their art and ideas in the rural Rajasthani environment; at the Farm Studio indoor studio, the outdoor and farm environment, and in Andore Village.

Details:
https://farmingstudio.wordpress.com/art-residency/

Open call for papers and artworks

Deadline: 15 January 2020

Economia – The Limited Edition is a conference taking place at Natlab, the former Philips physics laboratory, aiming to invent new avenues for playful and imaginative future developments in Economics.

In the search for new economic insights and alternatives to the current model, why not start by treating the economy like any other social and cultural construct, taking ownership so that we can reshape and rework it as we see fit? We welcome academic researchers, designers, artists, scientists, students, scholars, (social) entrepreneurs, visionaries and other creative thinkers and practitioners to submit proposals for Economia – The Limited Edition with regards to the following themes:

1. The economy as evolution
2. The economy as a game
3. The economy as magic
4. The economy as a playground
5. The economy as a caretaker
6. The economy of the commons


Proposal Requirements

Proposals should explore at least one (or more) of the proposed themes. The selected participants will be invited to present their paper/research as part of the conference in Eindhoven.

Artwork proposals

We will select art projects based on quality, feasibility and the connection to the theme.

No entry fee

but there are Conference Registration Fee (Notifications of acceptance will be sent before 28th of February 2020)

Early Bird: €30,00 until 1st of April 2020 / Full Price: €40.00.
Student Early Bird: €15.00 / Student Full Price: €20.00.
Early Bird registration will be open from the end of January, 2020.

Conference offers:
- limited funding available to support the travel/ accommodation of independent artists/researchers.
- limited budget to cover for artists fee


Details:
https://www.baltanlaboratories.org/library/call-for-papers-and-artworks-economia-2020

Art residency in Germany

Deadline: 20 January 2020

The programme is aimed at international artists whose work relates to the historical disciplines represented at the Bauhaus and the subsequent developments of these core disciplines – among them painting, product design, textile design, music, theatre, performance, architecture and photography.

The Bauhaus Residency comprises three different possibilities for participation: an Open Call, which is addressed to artists who are part of an artist collective and which is hosted by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation together with the GfZk – Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig; a group of invited artists and authors; and a Shared Residency for young musicians with the Kurt Weil Fest GmbH.


The Open Call is aimed at artists working collectively (2 to a maximum of 5 people). Of particular interest are works that engage and reflect on social contexts in novel ways as well as other approaches to modernity. In the spirit of the programme’s emphasis on the fictional (that is, the shaped, formed and invented), the main focus will be on a critical examination of the working process itself. Therefore, we are looking for innovative ways of presenting the processes of art making and development. A connection to the 2020 theme of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: “Habitat” is desirable. “Habitat” conceives of habitation as a cultural practice, thus distancing itself from modernist understandings of housing as a universally applicable ‘living machine.’

Preferred time of residency (22 April – 14 July or 1 September – 31 November)

No entry fee

Residency offers:
- Living and work space in the Muche / Schlemmer House
- An expense allowance for three months of 4,800 euros in total
- Opportunities for giving presentations and performances and engaging in discussions during their stay
- Support in their research work, in organising events along with technical assistance and public relations activities
- Public presentations of their work in the Gropius House for a period of up to 6 months

Details:
https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/open-call-bauhaus-residency-2020.html

Art project in United Arab Emirates

Deadline: 10 January 2020

The Sharjah Art Foundation Production Programme broadens the possibilities for the production of art in the MENASA region (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region) by supporting innovation and excellence in artistic practice through the encouragement of experimentation and risk-taking. Placing artists at the core of its mission, the foundation offers grants and professional support for the realisation of projects selected from an open call.

Arts practitioners are invited to propose imaginative, ambitious and inspirational projects that will transform our understanding of what art is and how it can be experienced. With this initiative, we at Sharjah Art Foundation hope to engage and challenge artists, our audiences and ourselves aesthetically, intellectually, emotionally, socially and politically.

We welcome visual art proposals from artists, collectives and collaborative groups. These collaborations may be between visual artists and choreographers, composers, filmmakers, writers, curators, theorists or other professionals working in fields such as science or philosophy.

In 2020, we are offering production grants to artists working in a range of media, including sculpture, installation, time-based media, artist’s books and performance.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
$200,000 is available in this application cycle

Details:
http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/events/open-call-sharjah-art-foundation-production-programme

Virtual Reality & Arts Festival

Deadline: 9 February 2020

VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival Hamburg is the first international Virtual Reality & Arts Festival. Since its first edition in 2018 VRHAM! has established itself as an important date in the international VR art scene. The festival is a platform for extraordinary national and international artists who are literally exploring new dimension via the unique medium of Virtual Reality. From 5 to 13 June 2020 VRHAM!’s third edition will take place at Hamburg’s Oberhafenquartier.
For the 2020 program VRHAM! is looking for the most innovative artistic VR experiences.


We accept artistic Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality projects. Whether it is installations, 360° films, performances or interactive works – we are interested in new narratives, unconventional approaches and unusual artistic positions as well as your idea for the physical presentation of your project. Submit your work from 5 December – 2019 until 9 February 2020.


No entry fee

Prizes:
5,000,- Euros


Details:
https://www.vrham.de/en/

Feminist Art festival 2020

Deadline: 27 January 2020

For more than twenty years Studio XX has been producing HTMlles, a feminist festival of media arts and digital culture. The festival has established itself as a socially-engaged space, addressing an urgent current issue with each edition. Every two years, HTMlles mobilizes local, national and international artists, theorists, and activists working at the intersection of art and technology, and unfolds in artist-run centres, cultural spaces, and university research laboratories throughout Montreal.


The next edition of the HTMlles Festival will take place in 2020, 10 years before the fixed deadline set by the IPCC for implementing major changes that will limit global warming to 1.5 ˚C (1). In the meantime, public discourse about “crisis,” “cataclysm,” or even “apocalypse,” feeds the collective imagination, leading to an increasing sense of eco-anxiety.


HTMlles is looking for projects that are freely articulated around these environmental, temporal and/or relational issues. These could be critical and creative proposals, inspired by (but not limited to) eco-feminisms, cyber-feminisms, queer studies, Afro-futurist, Sino-futurist and futurist indigenous movements, cli-fi, hopepunk and solar punk, deconstructing greenwashing and whitewashing.

HTMlles welcomes proposals from artists, curators and activists who identify as women, trans, gender non-conforming, and queer, as well as from collectives and organizations that promote inclusive and intersectional feminist values.

We are looking for DIY, techno-critical, and innovative proposals. We hope that the projects proposed within the framework of this call will express, rethink, and explore topics related to the environmental crisis through a critical use of media arts and digital tools.

Examples of media / formats: Virtual reality, videos, installations, IRL or URL performances, video game art, networked works, round tables, conferences, workshops, bio art, 3D animation, augmented reality, public interventions, geolocated media – or something so cutting-edge we haven’t even heard of it yet…


No entry fee

Details:
https://studioxx.org/en/activities/htmlles-2020-call-for-proposals/

Media art festival

Deadline: 1 February 2020

Vector Festival is an annual media arts event dedicated to showcasing experimental art works that engage critically with digital technologies.

The festival is proudly participatory and community-oriented. Hosted by InterAccess and co-curated by Katie Micak and Martin Zeilinger, Vector Festival takes place at arts venues and in public spaces across the City of Toronto.

Since its inception, Vector Festival has been innovative in its inclusion of game-based digital art alongside other new media disciplines. Continuing this focus for the 2020 edition, the festival’s curators pose a deceptively simple question: what comes after gamification?

Now that game culture and game technologies have become so pervasive in popular culture, how do experimental media artists respond critically to the rampant gamifying of everyday life? From online social interaction to digital finance, from education to military conflict, from politics and environmental issues to the ways in which humans (and machines) express themselves creatively, what comes after gamification?

The Festival will take place between July 16-19, 2020, with the flagship exhibition extended until August 22, 2020.

Categories:

FLAGSHIP EXHIBITION
Digital and post-digital art works including interactive installations, experimental game mods, sculptural work, screen-based work, sound art, etc.

ONLINE P ROJECTS
Web-based projects and digital artworks that can be presented online, including experimental interactive and time-based digital projects.

FESTIVAL SCREENING
Experimental film/video/machinima works.

PERFORMANCE
Performance-based proposals including chiptune, sound art, live coding, A/V performances, and telematic performances for virtual and public spaces.

SITE-SPECIFIC OUTDOOR SCREENING
To be presented on two large-scale (4.88 x 8.64 m) outdoor LED screens for a public audience of all ages.

GIFs
Animated GIFs intended for presentation on public screens across Toronto.

CURATORIAL SUBMISSIONS
This year, we also invite curators/curatorial collectives to submit proposals for machinima screenings (on a theme of your choosing). If you are considering a curatorial submission, we encourage you to contact the Vector Festival team for additional practical details.

No entry fee

All artists and curators selected for participation will receive fees in accordance with the up-to-date CARFAC Fee schedule, as well as support to apply for external funding.

Details:
http://vectorfestival.org

Open call for performative events

Deadline: 23 February 2020


Kunstraum Lakeside invites artists and cultural practitioners to participate in the 2020 program by submitting their own “Statement.” We are looking for performative pieces that relate to the annual topic while experimenting with modes of representation in the visual arts in the context of an institution at the interface between art, science, and technology.


The 2020 year of programs at Kunstraum Lakeside is devoted to the concept of “format.” While the fields of inquiry for the previous two years, artistic research and the artistic process, had the potential to emancipate themselves from the artwork and become an independent form, and in turn a work of art in their own right, format as a working hypothesis is marshalled against the notion of fixed content.

Three production days are available for the realization of each “Statement.” These three days include both setup and breakdown at Kunstraum Lakeside. The Kunstraum will be open to the public on one of the three days. Please choose the best two dates for you from those available as shown below.

— Statement #09: June 25, 2020 (production dates, June 24–26 2020)
— Statement #10: July 2, 2020 (production dates, July 1–3 2020)
— Statement #11: January 14, 2021 (production dates, January 13–15 2021)
— Statement #12: January 21, 2021 (production dates, January 20–22 2021)

No entry fee

Organizers provide:
1000 euros of production funding including fees, travel and accommodation expenses

Details:
http://www.lakeside-kunstraum.at/en/opencall2020/

Art research

Deadline: 31 January 2020

The focus of xCoAx is on the unpredictable overlaps between the freedom of creativity and the rules of algorithms, between human nature and machine technology, with the aim to evolve towards new directions in aesthetics.

In 2020 xCoAx will take place in Graz, Austria, directly adjoining the symposium ALGORITHMS THAT MATTER (ALMAT). On the two days preceding XCOAX, ALMAT gathers artists and researchers to present and discuss the relations between algorithmic agency and artistic research, the practice of algorithmic experimentation and its impact on compositional process. ALMAT has issued a separate call for participation and reduced combi-tickets are available for xCoAx + ALMAT (see Registration).

xCoAx 2020 calls for papers, artworks, performances and research works-in-progress by scholars, artists, performers and students, respectively, working on any of the multi-disciplinary facets of this event, which will take over Graz for 3 days.


You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work that includes but is not limited to the following topics:
Computation Communication Aesthetics X Algorithms / Systems / Models Artificial Aesthetics Artificial Intelligence Audiovisuals / Multimodality Creativity Design Interaction Games Generative Art / Design History Mechatronics / Physical Computing Music / Sound Art Performance Philosophy of Art / of Computation Technology / Ethics / Epistemology.

Conference takes place in Graz, 8-10 July

Categories:
PAPER
ARTWORKS
PERFORMANCES

Entry fee:
€ 90 TO € 220

Details:
http://xcoax.org

Open call for artists

Deadline: 25 January 2020

Little Islands Festival is a festival for people, places, ideas, images. A summer feast of audiovisual arts based in Sikinos island with the intent to connect more and more little Greek islands every year. LIF creates the motivation for gatherings outside the city walls and connects a local and international artistic community with the uniqueness of cycladic islands. Little Islands Festival in its third edition, invites artists working on audiovisual and digital creation to submit their proposals in the following categories. The project theme is open.

Artists can submit more than one proposal and in more than one category. A separate application form must be completed for each proposal.



Video Art (up to 10min)
Animation (up to 20min)
Short Film
Performance
Installation
Digital Art
3D Mapping
Soundscape
VJ Art


No entry fee

Details:
https://littleislandsfest.com/2019/10/24/open-call-for-artists-2/

Art contest

Deadline: 15 March 2020

This is an open call for artists to communicate what they see as the banality of evil in our daily lives. It poses a challenge to communicate that which has never been communicated before and create a platform for groundbreaking ideas to be brought into our collectivity.

Artists the world over are invited to submit.

Only one artwork per entry is accepted.

Winners of each category will be invited to Germany to be a part of the exhibition to receive the art award.

Top 10 artworks in each of the 4 categories will be exhibited at the final exhibition in Berlin, Germany.

Categories:
1. Painting & Drawing
2. Sculpture
3. Photography and Media Art
4. Performance Art

No entry fee

Prizes:
The winner of each category will receive US $2000.

Details:
https://www.boeart.org/

Artist in Residency in Sofia

Deadline: 30 December 2019

One playwright/dramaturg/theatre, dance or performance maker will be invited to Sofia to put the beginning of a piece that would reflect critically on a topic related to the 30-year anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of communism and the neoliberal consensus that followed across unified Europe and beyond.

We are interested in various different positions and points of view towards the East-West division, the current crisis of liberal democracies and the possible ways forward for the future. We expect the selected resident to use their stay in Sofia to research, discuss and understand the local context and how it fits in the larger shifting geopolitical frame.


Entry fee:
21 EUR

Residency offers:
-free accommodation in a shared apartment in central Sofia
-stipend of 600 EUR

Details:
http://radarsofia.org/2019/11/24/new-radar-residency-open-call/

18-day scholarship in Berlin

Deadline: 8 December 2019


The International Forum is a 18-day scholarship programme of the Theatertreffen in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut and Pro Helvetia that promotes young artists from all parts of the world.

The open call is aimed at artists interested in theatre up to the age of 35 from all artistic disciplines. The International Forum sees itself as a platform for comprehensive theoretical and practical exchange. The programme includes the presentation of the invited artists and their aesthetic practice in lectures, the participation in workshops held by renowned artists, experts from various disciplines and scholars, opportunities to see theatre productions invited to Theatertreffen and Stückemarkt, open space events and discussions on contemporary art as well as excursions into the diverse cultural landscape of Berlin.

The programme includes the presentation of the invited artists and an exchange of their artistic practices, opportunities to see productions invited to the Theatertreffen as well as the staged readings and performances of the Stückemarkt and to attend workshops held by renowned artists, experts and
researchers from various disciplines, open space events and discussions on current trends in contemporary art as well as excursions into the diverse cultural landscape of Berlin.

No entry fee

Scholarship includes:
- tickets to Theatertreffen-performances and selected Stückemarkt-events
- travel expenses (full coverage / partial coverage / no coverage – depending on country of origin, most economic travel option)
- expenses for travel within Berlin by public transport
- hotel accommodation incl. breakfast (excluding fellows who are residents in Berlin)
- per diem (according to the performance agreement, this depends on the country of origin and does not apply to fellows who are residents in Berlin)
- catering


Details:
https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/theatertreffen/das-festival/internationales-forum/open-call/open-call.html

Conference

Deadline: 31  December 2019


It is a conference taking place at Natlab, the former Philips physics laboratory, aiming to invent new avenues for playful and imaginative future developments in Economics.
We welcome academic researchers, designers, artists, scientists, students, scholars, (social) entrepreneurs, visionaries and other creative thinkers and practitioners to submit proposals. The selected participants will be invited to present their paper/research as part of the conference in Eindhoven.

Economia – The Limited Edition is a conference taking place at Natlab, the former Philips physics laboratory, aiming to invent new avenues for playful and imaginative future developments in Economics.

Themes:
1. The economy as evolution
2. The economy as a game
3. The economy as magic
4. The economy as a playground
5. The economy as a caretaker
6. The economy of the commons

Proposal Requirements

Proposals should explore at least one (or more) of the proposed themes. The selected participants will be invited to present their paper/research as part of the conference in Eindhoven.

Artwork proposals

We will select art projects based on quality, feasibility and the connection to the theme. We have limited budget to cover for artists fee, lodging and travel.

Travel and Accommodation

Participants are kindly requested to cover their own travel and accommodation costs (limited funding is available in some cases – see below). We will provide you with an official invitation letter, encouraging you to apply for travel support from your home university. During the conference, lunch and drinks will be provided.

Funding for independent applicants

We have limited funding available to support the travel/ accommodation of independent artists/researchers. We also welcome proposals from countries outside the EU. For more information how to be eligible, please contact us after acceptance of your proposal.

Conference Registration Fee

Early Bird: €30,00 until 1st of April 2020 / Full Price: €40.00.
Student Early Bird: €15.00 / Student Full Price: €20.00.
Early Bird registration will be open from the end of January, 2020.


Details:
https://www.baltanlaboratories.org/library/call-for-papers-and-artworks-economia-2020

Art award

Deadline: 8 November 2019 (extended deadline)

The YouFab Award seeks and evaluates works that promote the asking of new questions and push the limits of current 'Fab' models.We want to challenge the status quo, fight “sound judgement”, and hack “common sense”.
We look forward to gathering works that align to this spirit with great anticipation.

YouFab is category-free. All works are acceptable for submission, whether they fall under the category of art, performance, architecture, or a multidisciplinary area. Products and services are also acceptable.
If the work is in it’s draft or prototypal stage, we will base our evaluation on the way it has been attempted and it’s future potential.

Conviviality
Emerging from the space between the old and new OS

Whenever I look at events and revolutions that are shaking up the world, I relive the feeling that systems from an older era are finally approaching their limit. Regardless if we are thinking of issues in business, culture, or politics, it has become more and more challenging to address them through a stream of constant updates, and the limitations of the entire system have become increasingly apparent. When people perceive this to be a minor issue and attempt to find a solution to it, they are led to a myriad of problems entrenched in the entire industry, issues with the legal system, or even problems associated with deep-rooted mindsets, which often result in them ultimately losing sight of the actual site of the problem itself.


Categories:
- students
- general

No entry fee

Prizes:
Grand Prize:
Trophy/ 1000 USD

First Prize 1 Winner
Trophy/ 500 USD

STUDENT Prize 1 Winner
Award Certificate / 300USD

GENERAL  Prize 1 Winner
Award Certificate / 300USD

SPECIAL Prize 1 WINNER
Award Certificate / 1000 - 3000 USD


Details:
https://www.youfab.info/2019/entryinfo.html