Contemporary Istanbul will take place from 25th to 28th November 2010. As the most extensive contemporary art event in Turkey, Contemporary Istanbul now accepts applications for its fifth international edition in the year of 2010 European Capital of Culture.

Download Application Form:
http://www.contemporaryistanbul.com/exhibitors/application_form.php

Visit website: www.contemporaryistanbul.com
For inquiries: info@contemporaryistanbul.com

Formatted version and complete prospectus: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

LACDA announces our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. The competition is international, open to all geographical locations.

Registration fee is $30US (three images). Multiple entries permitted, additional $30 entry fee for each three images.

The selected winner receives 10 prints up to 44x60 inches on canvas or museum quality paper (approximately a $1500-$2000 value) to be shown in a solo exhibition in our main gallery from February 11-March 6, 2010. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artist.

Second place prizes: Five second place winners will receive one print of their work up to 24x36 inches ($150-$200 in value) to be included in upcoming group shows. Second place winners will be scheduled into group shows within twelve months of announcement of winners. Consideration is given to placing these works in shows appropriate to their style, genre and/or content. These shows will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.

Special consideration will be given to all entrants for inclusion in future shows at LACDA. Many entrants from past competitions have already been included in our exhibits.

Jurors:
Edward Robinson, LACMA
Max Presneill, Torrance Art Museum
Rex Bruce, L.A. Center for Digital Art

Deadline for entries: January 19, 2010
Winners Announced: January 26, 2010
Exhibit Dates: February 11-March 6, 2010

Registration fee is $30US.

Direct link to for registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=195164
Online registration only.

Complete prospectus: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html
For questions email us at lacda@lacda.com. No phone calls please.

About the jurors:
EDWARD ROBINSON is the Associate Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). He curated the Los Angeles presentation of New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape, co-curated The Sum of Myself: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Collection, and is working on the upcoming exhibition William Eggleston: Democratic Camera (Fall, 2010). New media components of these exhibitions include commissioning a video installation by the Center for Land Use Intrepretation on the theme of oil in the landscape; 'Testament' by Nathalie Bookchin, a meditation on the collective self-portrait garnered by on-line vlogging; and the presentation of Eggleston's video work, Stranded in Canton. He contributes regularly to LACMA's blog, Unframed, including a recent series of video interviews with LA-based photographers. He earned his PhD at Oxford University in theHistory of Art and Photography and his BA in Art History at Brown University. Formerly the Beaumont and Newhall Curatorial Fellow in the Dept. of Photography at MoMA, he initiated and organized over four years a number of exhibitions and programs. He has collaborated with such artists as Reneke Dijkstra, Nan Goldin, Stuart Klipper, Boris Mihailov, Vik Muniz, Mark Steinmetz, and Beat Streuli. He has served as well as the editor of Blind Spot magazine, has published a number of articles on photographic history, and has taught at New York University and Yale University.

MAX PRESNEILL is an artist and the Director and Curator for the Torrance Art Museum as well as the former Founder and Director of Raid Projects (1998-2008) and Director of the Mark Moore Gallery (2005-8). He has extensive experience internationally as a curator having organized exhibitions often including new media and photography for museums, institutes and galleries in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Mexico City, Sydney, Istanbul, Paris, and other international cities as well as numerous projects in New York and the rest of the US in addition to over 100 exhibitions for Raid Projects. He has worked as an art critic and as a Professor of Fine Art at several universities in the UK and the US. As a practicing artist himself he has shown regularly throughout the US and internationally. He has also sat on the Selection Committee’s for NOVA Young Art Fair (Chicago), PULSE Art Fair (New York/Miami/London) and the PILOT program and publication (London) amongst others, and will be a speaker at the 2010 American Association of Museums Conference.

REX BRUCE is the founder and director of Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. He founded the digital program at Artists Television Access (San Francisco) for which he curated exhibits and created curriculum. He received his masters from SFSU in Interdisciplinary Art where he also taught and developed curriculum for many years. His work has been shown internationally for over twenty years. Most recently he has emerged as a significant artist and organizer in the burgeoning Renaissance in downtown Los Angeles as well as becoming a leader in the exploding international scene revolving around art and technology. Video and photography from his current series have been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art (Poland), Guggenheim Gallery (Chapman University), California Museum of Photography (U.C. Riverside), New Media Center Santa Ana, Found Gallery, Start SOMA San Francisco, Center for Political Graphics (L.A.), Niche.LA Video Art, Silver Lake Film Festival, Downtown Film Festival–Los Angeles, photoLA, photoSF, and LACDA.

Gallery Information:
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art is dedicated to the propagation of all forms of digital art, supporting local, international, emerging and established artists. We have an ongoing schedule of exhibits and competitions, and produce editions of wide format archival prints.

Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
www.lacda.com

The Municipality of Maribor under supervision of UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes, Paris) calls for the international, public, anonymous architecture competition for the new building of the UGM / Maribor Art Gallery. With this competition the UGM and Municipality of Maribor would like to acquire architecture proposal for the building, which will become the leading contemporary cultural centre, the engine of the urban regeneration of the Drava embankment and an example of sustainable architectural planning. The new building is planned to be completed by 2012, when Maribor will hold the title 'European Capital of Culture'. The proposals for the New Maribor Art Gallery will be judged by Director of Tate Liverpool Christoph Grunenberg (UK) and architects Peter L. Wilson (AUS), Jürgen Hermann Mayer (GER), Hrvoje Njirić (CRO), Stojan Skalicky (SLO), Matevž Čelik (SLO), Marko Studen (SLO).

The New UGM building is going to host a collection of Slovenian modern and contemporary visual art, present national and international contemporary art exhibitions and offer heterogeneous programmes for all generations. The vision of the New UGM is to develop as an open institution with high-level content, to be a driving force of knowledge and creativity and a juncture point of creative activities as a destination for the whole family.

Within the framework of the competition, the applicants have to elaborate an architectural solution for the New UGM complex and a town planning solution for the North-West part of the building plot. The architectural solution for the New UGM includes besides the central gallery spaces (8000m2) the Architectural Centre (500 m2), Children's Museum (700 m2), Center of Creative Industries (1200 m2), Museum Café (650 m2), open outdoor space (1500 m2) and an underground garage.

The International Architecture Competition under the title 'European Capital of Culture 2012 – River Drava 2012' unifies three tendering tasks for the projects: 1) The New Maribor Art Gallery (UGM) with 14.800 m2; 2) Rejuvenation of the river Drava embankments; and 3) The new foot bridge over the river Drava, adjacent to the historic Old Bridge. The participants can apply for the first, second, third or all three of the projects. We are looking forward to March 2010 when proposals by architects from all over the globe will arrive.

You can download tender documents from the website of the Association of Architects of Maribor or the Chamber of Architecture and Spacial Planning of Slovenia. The registration is closing on 4 January 2010, the deadline for competition entry submission is the 26 February 2010, and on 24 March 2010 two international juries will announce the results.

More information:
Association of Architects of Maribor
Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning of Slovenia
International Union of Architects

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