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Mail Art

Deadline: 1 February 2020

MAIL ART PROJECT 2020 – draw your cover

Size: 12.5″ square // 32 cm x 32 cm
technical support: free.

You can send up to 2 original works by artist.

Visual artists from around the world, adults can participate.

There will be no selection, all received works will be in March 2020 in savona / Italy and Online on our site iyezine.com forever.

The works will not be returned or sold, they will become part of a file for the dissemination of Mail Art.
Participation implies conformity to these bases.
Images representing content to grieve and / or offensive are not allowed.
The authors authorize their works can be displayed on other samples be reproduced in whole or in part in catalogs and dissemination of the exhibition by the organizers of the call.

Interested parties may submit their works to:
Simone Benerecetti
Via dei vacciuoli 1
17100 Savona / Italy


No entry fee


Details:
https://en.iyezine.com/mail-art-project-iye2020-draw-your-favorite-cover/

Photo online exhibition

Deadline: 12 January 2020


Online Exhibition opening in March 2020
In the In-Between seeks contemporary B&W photography in all its forms for its next online exhibition. Primal Sight will be juried by NYC-based curator and writer, Efrem Zelony-Mindell. Selected entries will be included in the online exhibition Primal Sight, to be published on In the In-Between in March 2020.


This exhibition is open to all photographic styles and techniques (in keeping with the theme of B&W)

Entry fee:
-We request a $6 submission fee, which helps to offset our administrative costs and support future programming.
-If you can’t afford the fee or are otherwise opposed to it, you may email your submission to: editor (at) inthein-between (dot) com


Details:
https://www.inthein-between.com/primal-sight-call/

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

Call for experimental film and video

Deadline: 10 February 2020

Videoex invites you to submit your work for the International & Swiss Competition.

We are looking for: experimental, innovative and progressive cinematic works, moving image works that explore the possibilities of film as a medium, expanding the idea of film and cinema, experimental films (8mm / 16mm / 35mm (screened in original format), digital productions (experimental, videoart, essay, experimental documentary,…), innovative animation, experimental digital & graphic productions (to be screened), experimental documentaries, experimental music videos

Works must have been completed since October 2018

Participants may submit a maximum of three (3) works.

No entry fee

Details:
https://videoex.ch/videoex/callforentries/

Online exhibition

Deadline: 1 January 2020


The 22nd edition of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) investigates the theme of INFILTRATIONS and invites submissions for its online exhibition, Radical Infiltrations.

We seek projects that explore radical infiltrations in relation to our natural and virtual environments. And we hope for works that contribute to broadening perspectives and expanding dialogues in our current polarized climate.
Submissions must be accessible for online exhibition without passwords but can include documentation of other iterations/components like live performances or gallery installations.

Seeking counter-games, interactive documentaries, locative media, mobile apps, new media art, radical cartography, tactical media, ultra-short videos, and other emerging form.

No entry fee

Prizes:
US$500,
US$300,
US$200


Details:
https://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/radicalinfiltrations/

Mail art

Deadline: 25 December 2019

Call for mail art.
Send to: 2529 S Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78704 – Austin, Texas, US
Until: December 25, 2019

Slogan: I don’t know you, but I wish you have a wonderful year.
Format: Postcards 4 – 1/4 x 6 inches in paper or cardboard support. Free technique

What will postcards be used for?
All the works received will be exhibited during the first week of 2020 at Maria’s Taco Xpress, an iconic restaurant in the city of Austin
The public who attends the exhibition, can freely take a postcard.

You can write a message for the anonymous recipient on the back of the card.
There is no jury, there is no selection, there is no return of the works

No entry fee

Photo exhibition

Deadline: 31 December 2019

Lusted Men is a collective initiative that collects erotic pictures of men* to create a mouvement that questions gender representation and role through male nudity and eroticism.
It is open to every gender and orientation, amateur or pro photographers.
Please find a text presentation

Where are men*’s bodies in erotic photography?

The bulbous geometry of that bulge between the legs. The detail of a pulsing forearm vein. A drop of sweat dripping down a neck. This is what we want to see and show: the intimacy of male bodies in all shapes, sizes and anatomies.

As such, we’re seeking erotic photos of LUSTED MEN.

We invite you all to join us in creating a king-sized collection of meaty, masculine erotic pictures. Selfies, analog film shots, digital photos, photomontages, screenshots: all your images—whether they be pieces of artwork, or simple snapshots from your phone—can help furnish this gallery of the up-close-and-personal. The collection will be exhibited at Recyclart in Brussels, in 2020.


No entry fee

Details:
https://lustedmen.info/en/

Photography award

Deadline: 4 February 2020


For the 2020 ZEISS Photography Award photographers are asked to respond to the theme Seeing Beyond – Discoveries.

Throughout time the human race has been driven to make discoveries. This might be a personal revelation, a scientific and technological breakthrough or an idea that has led to social change - a new way of thinking that’s revolutionised our everyday lives. Since photography’s inception, many great individuals have seen the camera as a tool to explore and question the world, and used the power of the image to shed light on something new.

You can submit between 5 to 10 images

All entrants must be over 18

Photographs must be taken between the dates of January 1st 2016 and February 4th 2020



No entry fee


Prizes:
A range of ZEISS camera lenses of their choice worth a total of €12,000
€3,000 to cover travel costs for a photo project
Flights and accommodation to attend the Sony World Photography Awards night and the exhibition opening in London in April 2020
ZEISS will also invite the winner to their headquarters in Germany to enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour of the factory and the chance to test out a variety of ZEISS lenses
The winner will also have the chance to collaborate directly with ZEISS and the World Photography Organisation for future projects


Details:
https://www.worldphoto.org/enter/zeiss-photography-award

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/

Weeklong residency in Chile

Deadline: 5 March 2020


SACO Contemporary Art Festival is held annually in the region of Antofagasta in northern Chile, as an independent initiative of the Collective SALE Mobile Platform Contemporary Art, under the direction of Dagmara Wyskiel and production of Christian Nunez. Aims to establish a permanent core of reflection, criticism and dialogue through the work in the territory marked by the absence of institutions dedicated to pursuing these purposes. The world capital of copper mining, proposed as an alternative to deepen excavations no less valuable or less urgent and renewable wealth - creativity and dialogue.

The 9th edition of the Contemporary Art Festival invites artists to participate in the open call for its main exhibition entitled Now or Never. The selected artists will take part in a weeklong residence at ISLA, Latin American Superior Art Institute, with all expenses paid, for the realization and installation of their works. After the opening, they will participate in an immersion trip within the territory, into the interior of the Atacama Desert.

Visual artists of any nationality may participate.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
-all travel costs are covered
- accomodation
- food
- A maximum of U$ 1.500 (one thousand five hundred U.S. dollars) is budgeted for
each intervention
- trip to Atacama Desert

Details:
http://proyectosaco.cl/convocatoria-saco9/

Photography competition

Deadline: 21 January 2020

The Spanish Railways Foundation is inviting entries for the 30th "Caminos de Hierro" Photo Contest, for encouraging creativity in all aspects of the railways.

Each entrant may submit a maximum of three individual photographs or one photographic series related to the world of the railway.




No entry fee

Prizes
1st Prize: 4,000 €
2nd Prize: 2,000 €
Young Photographer’s Prize: 1,200 €
4 additional prizes of 300 € each


Details:
https://ffe.es/caminosdehierro/principal_en.htm

Research residency in France

Deadline: 10 January 2020


The call is aimed at artists conducting a research related to the issues raised by Laboratoire Modulaire and working on digital practices and technologies. A public presentation of the project will be expected at the end of the residency.

The artist-researcher will participate in Laboratoire Modulaire's activities: meetings with the team, artistic and research events, invitations to artists, theoreticians, researchers, etc. He will also have the opportunity to be part of the organization of such activities.

The residency is dedicated to the implementation of a research project. However, because of the close links between research and pedagogy of an art school, pedagogical interventions may take place and will be the subject of a specific agreement.

The research residency will run from spring 2020 to spring 2021

No entry fee

Residency offers:
- grant of 10,000 euros which covers stipend, production costs, travel and per diem
- workspace and will facilitate access to all its equipment
-  Accommodation is possible, subject to availability in the school

Details:
https://www.esam-c2.fr/IMG/pdf/appel_laboratoire_modulaire_2019_en.pdf

Photography award

Deadline: 31 January 2020


This contest is for professionals only and Istanbul Photo Awards’ jury may ask for proofs of the source of the photo or publications on newspapers, magazines or web sites.

Photographers are invited to apply all categories at the same time, both published and unpublished photos. Same photo cannot be submitted into two different categories.

Categories: Single News, Story News, Single Sports and Story Sports.

No entry fee

Prizes:
- The winner of 'Photo of the Year' will be awarded $8,000,
- winner of each category will be given $5,000 for first prize, $3,000 for second prize, and $1,500 for third.

Details:
http://www.istanbulphotoawards.com/

Art competition

Deadline: 7 January 2020

Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 1st “Skies” Online Art Competition for the month of December 2019. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. All entries must include the sky as the primary focus. In that representation the gallery seeks artworks with any perspective of the sky, including clouds, night and day sky, dusk and dawn, storms, stars, moon and planets. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installation art) except sound and video art.

All winning artists will receive a digital award certificate. First, second and third place will be largely displayed with an article about the artist and their work. Winning artwork (First place) will be on the poster of the show. Depending on the number and quality of all submissions received, Merit awards and Honorable Mention awards may also be presented.

This is an international competition and it is open to all artists of 18 years of age or older. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installarion art) except video and sound art.

Entry fee:
15 $ for the 2 images of artwork


Deadline:
http://artroomgalleryonline.com/call_for_artistss.html

Artist Residency in Sweden

Deadline: 12 January 2020


Our residency program is a production based one. We like to give the selected artist the opportunity to work in our many workshops, fully equipped with machineries and tools.
The artist will be invited for a week in March 2020 to do research and get to know us at KKV Luleå (Artist Collective Studio), as well as artists, art institutions and the area we live in. KKV will arrange activities and meetings in the art and cultural context during the stay.

The second part of the residency is two months, between 28th of April and 18th of June. The artist will work independently according to one’s needs and interests. Before the second part of the residency, the artist has to send in a sketch of work plan, his/her needs in terms of workshops, machinery, tools etc. The artist also has to make sure the work material will be in place before coming back in April.
During the stay, we like the artist to present his/her previous work during an 'artist get-to-gather'.

Criteria for applicants
Professional artists with minimum 2 years work experience.
Be 30 year or older.
Live in Europe (we do not accept applications from Swedish Artists on this occasion)

No entry fee

Residency offers:
A grant of 20 000 SEK (SEK- Swedish kronor)
Travel up to 10 000 SEK
Material up to 5 000 SEK
Transportation of work up to 2 000 SEK
Accommodation in private apartment is included

Details:
http://www.swedishlaplandair.se/open-calls/kkv-luleå-2020-43711488

International Art Competition “Botanicals”

Deadline: 19 or 28 December 2019 (there are two dates on the website)



Contemporary Art Room Gallery is proud to announce their 1st “Botanicals” Online Art Competition for the month of December 2019. This is an international competition and artists from around the world are welcome to submit their work. The Botanicals theme may include any work with interpretation of botanical and floral art (flowers, herbs, fruit, leaves, plants and related floral subcjects).

This is an international competition and it is open to all artists of 18 years of age or older. All visual art mediums are acceptable (painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, digital, prints, fiber art, collage or installarion art) except video and sound art.

All winning artists will receive a digital award certificate. First, second and third place will be largely displayed with an article about the artist and their work. Winning artwork (First place) will be on the poster of the show. Depending on the number and quality of all submissions received, Merit awards and Honorable Mention awards may also be presented.

There is no limit to the number of images that an artist can submit.


Entry fee
$15 for 2 images of artwork

Details:
http://artroomgalleryonline.com/call_for_artists.html

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

Residency for curators in Spain

Deadline: 10 January 2020

SAC International Curatorial Residency Program 2020 is the residency program at Barcelona’s Sant Andreu Contemporani, in collaboration with Fabra i Coats - Fàbrica de Creació and Institut Ramon Llull, available to international curators. As part of the program, we are announcing an open call for proposals to choose an international curator who will be part of the Miquel Casablancas Prize for the Visual Arts’ jury in 2020, and will later develop a curatorial project with a selection of catalan artists chosen from applicants to the prize. The project must be presented at the country of residence of the curator or in another international venue that she/he decides.

The purpose of the open call is to offer the curator personal knowledge of the art context through involvement in the jury of the Miquel Casablancas Prize, and to foster, in the context of young art talent, future collaborations between local and foreign cultural actors.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
- covering of expenses of jurying the prize and for the curatorial proposal (1,700 € subject to applicable taxes), for the production of the exhibition (2,000 € subject to applicable taxes),
- accommodation
- travel


Details:
https://santandreucontemporani.org/ca/activitats/open-call-sac-international-curatorial-residency-program-2020

Art Residency in Canada

Deadline: 24 January 2020

The Bentway Conservancy is pleased to announce our second annual Artist Residency program. The 2020 artist residency will focus on The Bentway’s identity as a public space and “living lab” that supports both cultural engagement and physical activity. From free yoga and ice skating, to art installations and public performances, The Bentway is a space where art and recreation meet in ever-evolving ways.

This is a remarkable opportunity for an artist, designer or collective to participate in an open-ended research-based project that contributes to the evolution of The Bentway as both a creative platform and public space.

Applications are open to Toronto-based artists, designers or collectives seeking an opportunity to discover and create within this dynamic public space.

Applicants must be an artist, designer or collective whose practice has previously included
public presentation.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
- A monthly stipend of $1,850
- funds to support the cost of production.
- access to The Bentway’s facilities for storage,
- institutional and execution support

Details:
https://www.thebentway.ca/2019/11/12/call-for-applications-2020-artist-residency/

Photography exhibition

Deadline: 5 January 2020

As the urban population is growing steadily, cities are increasingly facing new important challenges - let them be social, environmental or economical. Our urban experience keeps on transforming and new questions arise every day. How to share the space? How should we build? Where do people work? Is there enough room for sports, health and culture? What is the role of public institutions? Which places are left for the communities? How to integrate the digital world and improve mobility? Which are the alternatives to the cars? How can cities become a responsible actor when climate change is concerned? Which sustainable options do we have? How to create connections? If the issues raised are numerous, they may as well open up new perspectives to enhance the quality of life of citizens. Either documenting the reality or imagining future transformations, we would like to discover the work of photographers embracing this topic.

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The selected artists will take part in a collective exhibition at the gallery of B-Part in Berlin in February 2020.

All the artworks will be listed for the public with their respective price. Each artist is free to determine the price of his/her artwork. In case of sales, 40% of the sales will go to PEP and 60% will be kept by the artist.


After the exhibition, the artists will receive their print for free.


No entry fee

Participation fee: 
29,50 euros/artwork

Details:
https://www.pep.photography/guidelines-rules

Art prize

Deadline: 19 January 2020

The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2020 will be awarded to artists that show significant potential, interesting ideas, a relevant message and skillful execution. We understand that talented artists exist in many forms, so endeavour to appeal to emerging artists of all ages and career paths, whether student, graduate, full-time or part-time, and from any country.

You can submit up to 5 different artworks

Any medium

Accepted media include but are not limited to: paintings, drawings, original prints, photography, sculptures, digitally produced artworks, mixed media constructions, video, sound, digital applications and installations.

Entry fee
Entry fee is £20 for first artwork, then £10 per additional artwork.

Prizes:
The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Overall Award:

£3,000 cash prize award, and £500 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst Emerging Artists Gallery for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Sculpture Award:

£1,750 cash prize award, and £250 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Choice Award:

£1,500 cash prize award, and £250 Cass Art voucher
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize Photography Award:

£1,500 voucher of services with Genesis Imaging
Exhibition of a collection of your photographs in the Ashurst London HQ for Sep-Dec 2020

• The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize New Media Art Award:

£1,500 cash prize award
Exhibition of a collection of your artworks in the Rich Mix Mezzanine Gallery for Nov-Dec 2020

Details:
https://www.artprize.co.uk/

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/

International image contest

Deadline: 26 January 2020

The International Image Festival (FINI), organized by the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, is a multidisciplinary encounter to promote and appreciate the artistic creation and visual communication in a space of reflection and debate about aesthetics and the meaning and value of images in their different genres, expressions, and applications.

The Tenth Edition of FINI will take place on April 24-30, 2020, in the city of Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, having as main topic Water.


The International Image Contest aims to recognize, promote, encourage and diffuse the works, in different genres, expressions and uses of image, of Mexican and foreign creators. The Call for entries is addressed to students and professionals of the image in the genres of Photography, Alternative Techniques, Poster and Documentary Film. The proposals will be examined by a Jury integrated by individuals with great national and international recognition.

FINI 2020 will have as main topic Water, therefore, the registered works must show the relevance of this topic from a biological, philosophical, political, economic, social, or cultural perspective.

Your participation in the International Image Contest will contribute to generating a reflection and raise awareness on the use of this vital liquid.

Genres:
 a. Photography (analog and digital)
 b. Alternative techniques (graphics or digital stamp, photomontage or
 collage)
 c. Documentary (full-length film and short film)
 d. Poster (free technique)

Details:
https://www.uaeh.edu.mx/fini/english.html

Open call for films

Deadline: 5 January 2020

The Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival works on the diffusion of audiovisual & artistic productions coming from alternative and underground cultures. The festival team curates an eclectic programme including film projections (personal and thematic retrospectives), an international short film competition, concerts, exhibitions, talks, workshops and other hybrid cultural forms.
MUFF #4 takes place from April 15 to 19, 2020 in various venues in Marseilles.

At MUFF we carry, without any hierarchy of genre, an undisclosed love for the disturbed, the deranged, the degendered, the non-conformist, curious, weird, hilarious, vindictive, pornographic or boring.

Once selected, the films in the international competition will be submitted to the vote of the audience, who will determine the winner of a symbolic “audience award”. The selected films will be screened in two programs. Each program will be shown twice, on a donation-based entry.
Submission:

Each submitted film has to meet the following criteria:

the registration form has to be completed in order to submit one or more films

the submitted films need to be between 0 and 60 minutes long.

the submitted films need to be achieved after 1/1/2019

previews need to be submitted via a URL link to an online video platform (Vimeo, YouTube, etc…). No link to download previews will be accepted.

subtitles in English or French are mandatory when the original language is not English nor French (French subs are preferred).

Films produced independently are encouraged.

No entry fee

Details:
https://www.festivalmuff.com/AAF-MUFF2020-ENG.pdf

https://www.festivalmuff.com/appel-a-films.html

Photography contest

Deadline: 15 January 2020

On initiative of the Spanish Meteorological Society AME, the EMS announced a first European photo competition on meteorological phenomena – Europhotmeteo (EPM) – in 2009. Following the huge interest in 2009 it was agreed to continue the competition.

Each author can submit one photo.

Digital photos specifically related to clouds or other meteorological phenomena taken within 2018 or 2019 will be accepted.


No entry fee

Prizes:
1st prize: 1,000 €
2nd prize: 500 €
3rd prize: 250 €

Details:
https://www.emetsoc.org/europhotometeo/terms-conditions/

CALL FOR PROJECTS - Residency for filmmakers

Deadline: 15 December 2019

The Atelier 105 residency seeks to give experimental filmmakers access to professional post-production facilities that are often out of their reach. A fully-equipped workspace located in Light Cone's premises gives artists access to a film scanner for the digitization of 16mm & 35mm film in 2K & 4K, an editing station, sound mixing hardware and software, a color-correction monitor, as well as dedicated computers for encoding video files and DCPs. This equipment has been designated by professionals to allow filmmakers to have the best possible tools at their disposal. The filmmaker-in-residence also has full access to Light Cone's documentation center and screening room.

A technical manager specialized in digital post-production is on hand to assist the filmmaker. Filmmakers are free to work alone or accompanied by their technicians. At the beginning of the residency, Light Cone's technical manager can offer training for the available software. The filmmakers who have been selected are also able to consult in advance in order to select the formats that are most compatible with the available software.

First residency session of 2020: February 3 to August 7

Entry fee:
You have to pay 30€ to become a memebr of Light Cone

Details:
https://lightcone.org/en/atelier105

Poster competition

Deadline: 17 January 2020


Every year, the International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago selects the winning poster for the annual Chicago Latino Film Festival.
The selected poster becomes the face of the Festival, as it will be on the cover of half-a-million newsprint programs, invitations, program books, electronic ads, t-shirts and more.

Contest is open to all artists

3 entries per person

No entry fee

Prize
The winner receives $1,000

Details:
https://chicagolatinofilmfestival.org/36postercontest/

Illustration contest

Deadline: 17 January 2020

Win a career-changing commission to illustrate The Folio Society’s new anthology of love poems – applications are now open.

This is the tenth Book Illustration Competition and this time we’re on the hunt for an illustrator for Love Poems, selected and edited by Imtiaz Dharker. There are three poems selected.

You must submit three full-page colour illustrations.
You must submit one illustration for each poem.

Entry fee:
Standard entry: £25
Student entry: £15

Prizes
The winner will be paid £5,000
five runners-up will each receive £500
The winner will be commissioned to complete a further six illustrations and a binding for the book which will be published by The Folio Society.

Photography competition

Deadline:
Professional competition - 14th January 2020
Open competition - 7th January 2020
Youth competition - 31st December 2019

There are three categories left:
• Professional competition
All entrants must be over 18. The Professional competition is judged on a body of work. Photographers must submit a minimum of five (5) and a maximum of ten (10) images and all submissions must be accompanied by a series description.

• Open competition
The competition is open to anyone. The Open competition rewards outstanding single images across ten (10) categories: Architecture, Culture, Creative, Motion, Landscape, Natural World & Wildlife, Portraiture, Still Life, Street Photography, Travel.

• Youth competition
Photographers aged 12-19 are set monthly challenges. Each photographer can enter up to three single images answering the set challenge per month from June 2019 to December 2019. Judges will select up to 10 images per month, including one winner.


No entry fee

Prizes

Professional competition

• Photographer of the Year - $25,000 (USD) / Sony digital imaging equipment / Included in exhibition at Somerset House, London.
• Category winners - Flights & accommodation to awards ceremony in London / Sony digital imaging equipment / Publication in winners’ book / Included in exhibition at Somerset House, London.
• Finalists - Publication in winners’ book / Included in exhibition at Somerset House, London.
• Shortlist - Digital exhibition at Somerset House, London.

Open competition

• Open Competition winner - $5,000 (USD) / Sony digital imaging equipment / Flights and accommodation to the awards ceremony in London / Included in exhibition at Somerset House, London.
• Category winners - Sony digital imaging equipment / Publication in winners’ book / Included in exhibition at Somerset House, London.
• Shortlist - Digital exhibition at Somerset House, London / Publication in winners’ book.

Youth competition

• Youth Photographer of the Year - Flights and accommodation to awards in London / Sony digital imaging equipment / Included in exhibition at Somerset House, London.
• Monthly judges’ selection - showcased on the World Photography Organisation website and Instagram account.


Details:
https://www.worldphoto.org/sony-world-photography-awards

Art residency in Canada

Deadline: 10 January 2020

Est-Nord-Est (ENE) is an artist-run centre whose mission is to provide an international community of artists and authors in contemporary art with support by offering space and time for research and experimentation, as well as privileged access to local resources and knowhow.

The eight-week residency periods, which bring together four artists and one author in the field of contemporary art, are offered in spring, summer, fall, and, in 2020 for the first time, winter.

Originally based on the idea of encounters between sculptors with contemporary practices and those using regional traditional skills, ENE now welcomes contemporary visual-arts artists from all disciplines. The residencies at ENE are intended for professional artists, both established and emerging, from all over the world.

No entry fee


Residency offers:
-honorarium of CAD $1,530
-Access to an individual studio-workshop to be used for work and lodging
-Access to specialized equipment (wood, metal, ceramics)
-Access to a documentation centre (books, magazines)
-Access to local resources
-Technical and logistical support
-Access to a bicycle in summer/ local transportation organized by ENE in winter


Details:
https://estnordest.org/call-for-applications-artists-2020

Artists residency in Dubai

Deadline: 1 January 2020

Alserkal Residency is a platform for artistic and discursive exchange, seeking to support cultural practitioners as they realise projects pertinent to their respective practices. The programme is designed to be immersive and engage the local interdisciplinary community through a series of public events and conversations. Founded by Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal and the Alserkal family, the Residency focuses on research-based and socially-engaged practices. Alserkal Residency is part of Alserkal Arts Foundation.


The Alserkal Residency Summer programme will run from 1 June 2020 - 1 August 2020. Proposals are reviewed competitively by our Selection Committee.

The Alserkal Residency Summer Cycle is open to artists, writers, architects, curators and researchers who are currently citizens and/or permanent residents of the MEASA* region (Middle East, Africa, and South Asia).

*Middle East candidates must be citizens and/or permanent residents of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Turkey.
Africa candidates must be citizens and/or permanent residents of the countries of the continent of Africa.
South Asia candidates must be citizens and/or permanent residents of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and/or Sri Lanka.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
-Return flights from the resident’s home city to Dubai
-Single-room accommodation, in a shared space with up to three other residents
-Monthly living stipend
-Research stipend
-Programming stipend
-24-hour access to an individual studio at Alserkal Residency
-Support from Alserkal Residency team
-Introductions and critiques with international and local art professionals, who are part of Alserkal Avenue’s network of peers

Details:
https://alserkalavenue.ae/en/residence.php

Art residency for photographers

Deadline: 5 January 2020

Landskrona Foto has in recent years been established as one of the Nordic regions’ eminent photography initiatives and includes the renowned Landskrona Foto Festival.


It’s an opportunity for a​ non-Swedish photographer or artist working with photography and/or lens based media to have time and space away from their usual environment and obligations.

The residency takes place for 6 weeks from May 2020.

Landskrona Foto connects the photographer in residency with regional-based photographers, artists and other art professionals through meetings, mentoring, exhibition openings and other networking opportunities.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
-grant of 15000 SEK (approx. 1500 EUR),
-travel expenses to and from the home country (economy only),
-an apartment in Landskrona
-office space with Landskrona Foto crew.

Details:
https://contests.picter.com/landskrona-foto-spring-residency-2020

Artists in Residency in Slovenia

Deadline: 1 January 2020


The AIR Celeia programme has been up and running since 2005. The programme encourages the development and promotion of the contemporary artistic and curatorial practices and is based on open dialogue, exchange and cooperation. It is conceived as a two-month residency for international artists and curators. The residency comes with a fee to the artist, space and time, as well as other structural conditions for artists to take on in-depth research, to develop and implement projects, on their own or in a group. It acquaints and connects its residents with local artistic goings-on, as well as those further afield.
AIR Celeia residents have the opportunity to present their work in an exhibition venue run by the Centre for Contemporary Arts, which can take the form of a lecture, discussion, performance or exhibition.
Selections are based on open calls and invitations.


The Center for Contemporary Arts is publishing an open call for collaboration in the AIR CELEIA 2020 programme.
The selected artist will be offered a two-month stay in the Center’s residential flat, which is located in the Celje city centre, in the immediate vicinity of the Center for Contemporary Arts and the local art district.
The Center for Contemporary Arts will arrange for the artist to connect with the city and forge contacts with the local art community, as well as become acquainted with art events locally and further afield.
The artist will also have the possibility of presenting themselves in an artist talk in one of the exhibition spaces of the Center for Contemporary Arts and the opportunity to show their work in a solo exhibition at the Likovni salon Gallery in 2021.

In order to apply, please send the following documents:
• Personal data (name, surname, date of birth)
• Contact details (address, telephone and e-mail)
• Letter of motivation
• Portfolio
Please send applications to the e-mail address below.
centersodobnihumetnosti@celje.si


No entry fee

Residency offers:
-The residence includes a kitchen, studio, bedroom, bathroom and Internet,
- grant of € 600 per month
- travel expenses up to € 300

Details:
https://csu.si/en/open-call/air-celeia-open-call-2020/

Artist residency in Philippines

Deadline: 5 January 2020

Applications are now open for the annual instalment of The Travel Writers Workshop - Asia (TTWW - Asia), an intensive week-long outdoors camp and writing fellowship which aims to create spaces for Asian and non-Asian travelers and emerging travel writers.

Submissions should be set or based within Asia.

There are ten (10) writing fellowships available.

No entry fee

Residency offers:
-free board and lodging, and domestic transportation allowance
- study on the craft and techniques of travel writing across genres through lectures, discussions, critique, mentoring, and writing exercises as well as inputs on publishing, arts project management, and travel photography, while touring in partner establishments and tourist spots in Siargao.


Details:
https://www.cfplist.com/CFP/22314

Open call for filmmakers

Deadline: 15 January 2020


That One Film Festival is a biennial film festival dedicated to screening and exhibiting works of moving image that are experimental, weird, obsessive, no/low budget, avant-garde and fun. We are committed to supporting emerging and experimental creators, as well as engaging and educating audiences by facilitating film screenings and broadening an understanding of what moving image can be. We enthusiastically encourage and invite experimental filmmakers, emerging artists, students and other creators to exhibit their work and engage the Delaware County community.

Entry fee:
12$

Details:
https://www.thatonefilmfestival.com

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/

Open call for electronic art

Deadline: 14 January 2020

Since 2000 FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. With annual exhibitions in São, in addition to participations in national and international events, FILE is the biggest electronic art event in Latin America. For 2020, artists and researchers can submit their works in the main categories: Interactive Art, Digital Language, Electronic Sonority, Workshops, Symposium and Led Show.

Each participant may send up to 3 proposals of works that have been accomplished in the last 3 years

Categories:
Digital Language: As digital language are understood all the research and experiences in the wide scope of the multiple disciplines that uses digital media.
Electronic Sonority: As electronic sonority are understood all research and experiences in the wide scope of sounds, having therefore a wider comprehension than the ambit of music, and open to possible transversalities with other disciplines.
Interactive Arts: As interactive arts are understood all research and experiences in the ambit of art that uses interactive media and which take into account the relationship between the work and its viewer; works inserted in the intersecting fields of art and science, technology, among others …
Led Show: “In situ” installations, of public character, to be displayed in LED facade of the FIESP-SP building
Symposium: Talk proposals that have the aim to expand an international discussion on electronic digital culture in its interdisciplinary extension.
Workshop: Projects that has the main purpose of transferring knowledge and also the research on the use of computing – and other technological languages – for creative purposes


No entry fee


Details:
https://file.org.br/highlight/opencall_file2020/

Open call for short films

Deadline: 15 January 2020

We’re bringing back the Black Girl* Magic Film Series and we’re looking for short film and video submissions by Black womxn* FTLI filmmakers for a screening during Black History Month in Berlin, Germany. Our third installment of the series is being presented in collaboration with White Guilt Clean Up and Frauenkreise Berlin, where it will take place. The resilience and power of creativity in the face of discrimination, injustice, and everyday violence is truly magical. We are excited to celebrate Blackness beyond mainstream tropes and through the lenses of Black womxn* once again with new filmmakers and and new stories.
What we’re looking for:

Short films and videos by Black womxn* FLTI of any genre and exploring any theme. Bonus for films with themes of creativity, power, resilience, and joy of Black Girl* Magic. We’re looking to fill about 90 minutes of runtime.



No entry fee

There will be artist fee for selected artists

Details:
https://artistswac.org/call-for-short-film-submissions-black-girl-magic/

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/

Open call for poets and filmmakers

Deadline: 3 May 2020


Poets, media artists, video artists, and filmmakers are called to submit their work to The 3rd Annual Film and Video Poetry Symposium!

Through the month of July 2020 this festival and symposium will screen a large scope of film and video projects developed through the medium of poetry. The symposium programmers also curate and present a 30-day gallery exhibit in conjunction with the film screenings. There are no restrictions regarding when films or video work are produced or if the work has premiered regionally or internationally. There are also no running time restrictions.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium is accepting digital-poetry, poetry video, Cin(E)-Poetry, spoken word films, videopoema, choreopoems, visual poetry, poetry films, filmpoems, poetronica, and media poetry.

The Film and Video Poetry Symposium also encourages experimental film and video work that explores language and/or literature whether it be oral, written, visual, or symbolic. This includes the essay film or cinematic essay, non-narrative work, and the avant-guard. We strongly consider work that challenges traditional and current visual communication methods while continuing to function as a mode for experimenting with narrative and personal expression.

Performance material, virtual reality projects, video mapping, installation proposals, and video art presentations that hybrid text or contain strong aspects of poetry are encouraged.

entry fee:
20 USD


Details:
https://www.fvpsociety.com/2020-film-and-video-poetry-symposium

Art fair

Deadline: 9 March 2020

Visual artists and makers working in any medium, at any stage of their careers, are invited to apply for a chance to be a part #TOAF59 (July 10-12 @ Nathan Phillips Square). With 130,000+ visitors spending $2M on art over one weekend, you will grow your network, be part of a juried showcase, and be eligible to be recognized by one of TOAF’s prestigious awards, with of $40,000 cash and in-kind awarded each year.


Entry fee:
$50, or $30 for students.

There are also Booth Fees (These are prices in 2019 - Subject to change for 2020)
10'x10' Regular Booth: $575
10'x10' Prime Location Booth*: $690
10'x10' Budget-Friendly Booth: $475
10'x10' Student Booth**: $250
10'x5' Emerging Artist Packages including tent and booth fee: $450

Details:
https://torontooutdoor.art/

Biennial of drawing 2020

Deadline: 31 May 2020

The organizer of the event is OSTEN Skopje, North Macedonia. The Biennial is rather focused on a contemporary drawing, but in its widest interpretation. Feel free to submit your most innovative and creative works. Only original works are eligible for submission (not photos of the works).


Entry fee:
55 USD

Prizes:
GRAND PRIX FOR LIFE ACHIEVEMENT
SPECIAL GRAND PRIX (on the occasion of 75 years OSTEN)
WORLD CULTURAL HERITAGE AWARD
5 FIRST AWARDS (5x 1000$)
5 GOLDEN OSTEN AWARDS
(Participation at the Artists Residency Program “Golden Osten” in Skopje )
JURY’s SPECIAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
OSTEN’s SPECIAL AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
WAVA AWARDS (World Association of Visual Arts)


Details:
https://obdskopje.com.mk/en/

Art conference

Deadline: 31 March 2020

The fourth international conference "Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science" will take place November 26–28, 2020, in Austria, hosted by the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Including theoretical and art practice presentations, TTT2020 continues to focus (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is
inspired by technology and science, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.

Submissions are welcome from all art and research fields and cutting-edge technology in arts-based research. Suggested, but not exclusive topics, are those associated with: Biopunk, hybridity and aesthetics of mutation; Cyborg, augmentation and bοdy modification; Post-gender, transgressive identities and social models; Psychopharmacology, somatechnology, and post-humanism; Chemistry of the mind, natural healers, and mind enhancement; Biotechnology, DIYbio, and biohacking; Ethology, human and nonhuman; Evolution, genetics, and extended evolutionary synthesis; Cyber-eroticism, sex technology, and techno-lust; Biopolitics, displacement, and resistance.

Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science reminds applicants that this conference was formed with the intention to allow for non-restrictive topics and discussions. TTT expects authors to delve into the most obscure, pathological, visionary and/or licentious lines of questioning. So if you have topics that touch on the deepest taboos in art and technology studies, transgressions to reveal that cause seismic activity on the fault-lines of the art and science divide, or even seemingly unmentionable, cultish, transcendental SciArt visions to impart upon us, then this is the venue to allow those novel subterranean and of the beyond whispers come out loud. TTT2020 offers a platform to engage in an openly liminal discussion. This is your chance to present concepts deemed: difficult, un-sutured, challenging, giddy, tawdry, festering, elated, illuminated, libidinal, queer, unpalatable, convulsive, feral and mutagenic. Please let TTT be an echo chamber of fearless ideation and know that this is a space for free range concepts and raw cognition unencumbered by topical limits.


The conference language is English. Proposals are submitted for consideration to the members of the scientific and artistic committee.

No entry fee

Details:
https://avarts.ionio.gr/ttt/

Photography contest

Deadline: 6 January 2020

The competition is open to everyone between 14 and 25 years old, regardless of his or her country of residence.

The photographs must accurately reflect the theme, "Reveal the Silk Roads", through representations of Gastronomy and Food Production, Music and Dance, and Traditional Sports and Games

Maximum of 20 photographs per artist

No entry fee

Prizes
In each age category, three photographs will be awarded:

1st prize: A professional digital single-lens reflex camera equipped with 18-55mm lens
2nd prize: Semi-professional digital camera
3rd prize: Digital camera

In addition, winners will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the award ceremony.

Details:
https://unescosilkroadphotocontest.org/en

Nature photography competition

Deadline: 5 January 2020

8 categories:

Magnificent Wilderness (landscape photography)
The Beauty of Plants (plant phtography)
Nature as Art (shape, colour and abstraction of nature)
Artist of Wings (bird photography)
The World of Mammals (images of mammals)
Diversity of all other Animals (animal kingdom except birds and mammals)
Moments in Nature (images of special moments in nature)
Aerial Views of Nature (nature pictures by multicopter)

Artist may submit 5 images in each category.

No more than 25 total images.


Entry fee
The entry fee is € 20 per person

Prizes
The overall winner will receive € 2,500.
Each of the category winners will receive € 500.
The Junior Award winner will receive € 500 and Olympus camera equipment worth € 1,700

Total sum of prizes is more than 30,000 € (12,000 in cash, 18,000 in special prizes)

Details:
https://www.glanzlichter.com/guidelines.cfm

Deadline: ongoing



ArtOpenCalls website is visited by both: artists and curators or art gallery owners. That is why we plan to create a special place on the website where the artists will be able to show themselves to the curators, gallery owners and all art fans. It'll be a place where one can look for inspiration for their own work and share their achievements.



Every week or so we will try to pick most interesting artworks, and post them on facebook and/or instagram. Informations about artists will be posted at website of ArtOpenCalls https://artopencalls.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

There is no restriction in theme. There is no restriction in art medium.

We want to give you a chance to promote you and your art.



Rules (as simple as it can be):



1. All artists from around the world may enter this contest



2. The Entrant guarantees that the work entered for the competition is original and that he or she is the sole owner of the exploitation rights attached to this work. As such, the Entrant shall personally obtain permission from any third parties [both actual persons featured, and third parties that may claim intellectual property rights to the aforementioned photographs or videos (for example, photographs or videos featuring architectural monuments or sculpture)] having participated directly or indirectly in producing the work and/or who believes themselves to hold any right whatsoever concerning it. In the event of a third party claim, the Entrant will be liable for any eventual payments resulting therefrom.



3. Artists must be over 18 years old


4. Only completed entries will be taken under evaluation


5.  Artists give unlimited in time permission to the ArtOpenCalls to publish images or videos sent by artist in the selection process:

- on the website of ArtOpenCalls

- on Facebook page of ArtOpenCalls

- on instagram account of ArtOpenCalls

All authors will be credited under the image/video of artwork


6. Taking part in the competition means accepting its rules.



No entry fee


Link to submission:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YTfpXNE0aHjtAqKuHsD_rthK_cnvcLFb-sh5nX72ikU



contact:

If you have any questions please contact through facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/artopencalls/

To see artists selected in the past please visit:
https://artopencalls.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html

Photography and film awards

Deadline: 5 January 2020

Siena International Photo Awards is a photographic contest open to professional and non-professional photographers from all around the world.

There are 10 categories:

· Journeys & Adventures
· Fascinating faces and characters
· The beauty of the nature
· Animals in their Environment
· Architecture & Urban Spaces
· Sports in action
· Story-telling (sequences of images that tell a story)
· Still Life
· Documentary & Photojournalism
· Short Documentary Film

Entry fee:

Professional photographers and amateurs
· 1 image: free to enter
· 3 images: € 20
· Photo story: € 35

Short Documentary Film
· € 35 per entry

Under 20 (born after 27 October 1999)
· 3 images: free to enter
· Photo story: € 35

Prizes:
SIPAContest Photo of the Year - € 1.500,00 worth of photography equipment
Best Author - € 500,00 worth of photography equipment
SIPAContest Storyboard Winner - € 500,00 worth of photography equipment
There are more prizes and awards.

Details:
https://sipacontest.com/contest/regulation/

Photo competition 2020

Deadline: 2 January 2020

Send your images to participate in Asferico 2020, one of the most important contest of naturalistic photography, arrived at its 14th edition.

Each entrant is allowed a total of thirty (30) entries

CATEGORIES

A - Landscape The majesty of a scenario or the intimacy of a glimpse represent the inspiration of every photographer, who has to instill the feeling of amazement given by the uncontaminated nature.

B - Underwater worlds The underwater world is unknown to most people. The submarine life (plants, animals or habitats), from marine to freshwater environments, is a fascinating subject and it can be portrayed with images able to tell their essence in a unique and unforgettable experience.

C - Mammals - D - Birds - E - Other animals C – D – E The fantastic diversity of shapes, behaviors and relationships of the animal kingdom can be pictured through portraits, settings or action scenes able to instill the character or the soul of the subject in an original and exciting way.

F - Plants and fungi The delicacy of a flower or the strength of an ancient tree are few examples of a biodiversity that can be portrayed in many different ways through the sensitivity of a careful observer.

G - Composition and forms The beauty of nature can be resumed with imagination and creativity playing with shapes and colors and with blurry and reflections while looking for unique and personal visions.

H - Man and nature A combination of contrasts and contradictions, but also of balances and coexistence. Every photographer for once in his/her life must have photographed meaningful pictures able to impress the observer sensitizing to a respect for nature that is often lacking.


Entry fee
€25.

There is no entry fee for the young photographers (aged 17 and under).


Prizes:
The overall winner will receive:
- €3.000
- 10 days trekking in Malawi
- carbon gimbal type Kevlass Z

Each of the category winners will receive a prize of €500.
The runner up of each category will receive €250.

Two young photographers will each receive €200 gift card.



Details:
https://lnx.asferico.com/concorso/en/home_english/

Comic competition 2020

Deadline: 4 January 2020

Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne annually publishes a competition. It should offer comic creators the opportunity to face an international comparison and present it to the general public.

We connect us with other people, the clima is linked with the whole globe and for some of us, the heating at home is connected with the cellphone. How we do get connected – no matter if voluntarily or unavoidably – is still individual at the moment. But how is that in the future: what is the benefit of more networking, where does this lead us to? What is the advantage, what are the risks? How do we handle networking in the future?

Draw us your comic, that includes the topic «networked» in any form.

Categories:
18 years or older
13 to 17 years
up to 12 years of age Reference date is the deadline

Format: A4 or A3 (other formats will be disqualified)

Form and number of pages: Only comics (stories in picture form), no entries via e-mail. Maximum 4 pages (only 1 comic story).

No entry fee

Prizes:
Fumetto will award three prizes in each of three categories: 18 years or older, 13 to 17 years, up to 12 years of age. The winners will receive cash prizes.


Details:
https://www.fumetto.ch/en/wettbewerbe/fumetto-wettbewerb-2020/

Site-specific commission

Deadline: 12 January 2020


A once in a lifetime opportunity to create a site-specific commission on the sub-Antarctic
Island of South Georgia.

This commission by the South Georgia Heritage Trust (SGHT) will celebrate the whale
through a reinterpretation of the former Flensing Plan, offering a message of hope for future
generations by demonstrating how humankind can move from exploitation to conservation.

Eligibility:
Open to individuals, collaborative partnerships or organisations from varying artistic
disciplines.
Open to mid-career or established practitioners with a proven interest in one or
more of the following areas - cultural heritage, the natural environment, ecological
issues or conservation.
5+ years’ experience practicing in your chosen artform

There are two stages of application process
After the first stage, three selected proposals will be given a fee of £3000 (based on Scottish Artist
Union rates) to prepare for Stage 2, the fee covers all expenses including travel for
interview.

no entry fee

Residency offers:
- Artist Fee £50,000 (incl. of VAT if applicable)
(we expect the period of engagement to be 24 months, but this is subject to
concept, production, Government priorities, maintenance & fundraising – artist fee
covers all stages outlined below)
- Production Budget of between £150,000.00 – £2,000,000.00


Details:
http://www.sght.org/commission-grytviken-whaling-station-south-georgia