International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2006 Exhibitions:

-After Urban - University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA - USA (February 2007). The deadline for applications is December 30, 2006.

The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

arch. Luca Curci
via Casamassima, 75
70010 - Capurso (Bari) - Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

email: artexpo@lucacurci.com
more details: www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Appledore Arts is inviting artists to submit proposals for the 10th Appledore Visual Arts Festival. Please submit proposals for any of the following categories:

1. Events
2. Residencies
3. Festival Photographer
4. Drop-in Workshops
5. Schools Arts Project

Theme: Wide River
Deadline: October 16th, 2006

Please send all applications to Call for Artists, 3 Marine Parade, Appledore, Devon, EX39 1PJ

Third annual
SNAP TO GRID
The UN-Juried Show
Every Entry Shown!

Click here to register: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=113493

September 14 - October 7, 2006
Opening Reception Thursday September 14, 7 - 9pm

Show your work at our gallery in our Un-Juried Show: Snap to Grid. In our third annual exhibition of this kind participants each upload one image to be printed on high quality paper and hung in a grid in our gallery. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.

After the exhibition the images and artist information will be available to view in our artist portfolios. Artwork for future exhibits will be selected from the portfolios, and will also be available for review by area gallerists, curators and arts journalists. The ultimate exhibit. The ultimate resume builder. Everybody wins!

Entry fee $30US. Proceeds benefit gallery programs. Show is international, open to all geographical locations.

Entrants submit one JPEG file of original work up to 3mb. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Digital video stills and screen shots of web/new media are acceptable.

Multiple entries are permitted. $30 registration fee for each additional image. Multiple entries will be grouped together in exhibition installation. Affiliated artists may also be grouped together.

Exhibit is limited to space available, early entry is advised. Prints are 8.5x11 inches on Heavyweight Matte paper with Epson Archival pigment, allowing for one inch border.

Gallery Statement:
Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open Call" exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980's) where every work submitted is exhibited. The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge. The show represents a snapshot of a current moment in art history when digital imaging has reached the hands of the many, an age where culture belongs to the "mobblogers" around the globe. From Thailand to Texas, amateur to academic, beautiful to banal and beyond the monumental quantity and variety of "Snap to Grid" becomes an aesthetic experience where each individual piece adds to an agglomerative effect that has a life of its own.

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

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2006 Exhibitions:

- Temporary Cities - Video Art & Architecture event at the National Centre for Contemporary arts NCCA in Moscow, Russia (September 18-22, 2006). The deadline for applications is August 15, 2006.

The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

arch. Luca Curci
via Casamassima, 75
70010 - Capurso (Bari) - Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

email: artexpo@lucacurci.com
more details: www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

Original art EXPO 26th till 29th October 2006 in Rotterdam Holland.

In October 2006 artist and public come face to face for 4 whole days. From the 26th till the 29th of October Promotie Advies is organizing an Art EXPO with the Van Nelle Design Factory as its setting in Rotterdam.

In this historical building, where once coffee was roasted, you can both display and sell your works of art. The Van Nelle Design Factory is situated close to the A20 motorway and is clearly signposted. Parking does not present a problem as there is adequate on street parking (free) as well as site parking (paid). We are able to offer you a unique location and the opportunity to show and discuss your art with a live audience. The spacious exhibition hall (4,000 m2) will be fitted with 6m2 stands. There will be a cafetaria corner with an indoor terrace for visitors to enjoy a beverage, or to grab a bite to eat and listen to music.

To promote this Art EXPO we intend to advertise in national, area and business newspapers as well as via local and national radio airtime. In Rotterdam itself we will display posters. We plan to do our utmost to draw a wide audience. You can be a part of this 4 day international art EXPO for the sum of € 453,78 per stand van 6 m2.

Please apply for the booking form which provides an overview of what is all included in de the price. For additional information you can always reach us by phone, e-mail or consult our website: www.originalartcollection.com

All the latest news concerning the art expo will be published there.

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2006 Exhibitions:

- Temporary Cities - Video Art & Architecture event at the Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania (September 14-16, 2006). The deadline for applications is June 30, 2006.

The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

arch. Luca Curci
via Casamassima, 75
70010 - Capurso (Bari) - Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.

email: artexpo@lucacurci.com
more details: www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

LACDA announces our juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable.

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 June 8-July 1, 2006. 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.

Direct link to for registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=110175
Online registration only.

Complete prospectus: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

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

Director: Rex Bruce

For questions email us at lacda@lacda.com
No phone calls please.

The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) seeks creative proposals from visual artists for Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007. This multi-disciplinary and co-curatorial project, which was first initiated in 2004, encourages artists to engage in a dialogue with the community, residences, and businesses of Jamaica, NY through their creative activities. The project focuses on site-specific, experimental and/or participatory art practices for both indoor and outdoor spaces, exploring the specific cultural geography of Jamaica, NY within the broad scope of the relationship between art, economy, and globalization. If you would like to participate in the project, please send the following items to JCAL by June 15, 2006 (postmarked deadline):

• A brief description of your intended work with preferred site and logistic information
• If available, digital reproductions (drawings, designs, or segments) of your proposed work
• Digital reproductions of past works that are related to your proposed work
• A list of the digital reproductions, which includes the title, year, media, and dimensions for each work. You may also add a brief description of each work.
• An Artist’s Statement of 250 words or less
• Your CV
• SASE

We strongly recommend that you visit JCAL and Jamaica Avenue (148th Street – 168th Street) prior to your proposal conception and propose works that are appropriate for the theme and our curatorial approach of this project. We will not entertain works that are not site-inspired. For additional information about this project, please visit the initial Jamaica Flux 2004 page on JCAL’s website at http://www.jcal.org/detail.asp?item=214&p=1&r=sum and review the catalogue, Jamaica Flux, which is distributed by the Distributed Art Publishers and is available at the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens Public Libraries, and online bookstores.
Artists will be selected based on the strength of their artistic creativity and vision as well as their ability and commitment to the realization of their proposed work that meets the conceptual framework and the physical settings of this project. Selected artists will be invited to further develop and realize their visions during a 14-month period from August 2006 through September 2007. Each invited artist will receive a stipend of $500. Depending upon funding, up to $2,000 could be available to subsidize the costs of production and/or materials.
A curatorial team, currently comprised of Heng-Gil Han, JCAL’s Curator, Koan Jeff Baysa, independent curator, and Olu Oguibe, artist and art-historian, will collectively review each proposal. Additional curators and scholars will join the team as the project develops during the spring of 2006. Selected artists will be announced by the end of July 2006.

I. Premises of the Project and its Goals
Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007, organized by the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, is a contemporary public art commission project which includes the creation, presentation, and interpretation of 25 ephemeral artworks. As an outgrowth of the previous, very successful Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2004, this project assumes the point of view that an exhibition is not just a show representing an idea or an entity. An exhibition, when considered seriously, is a programmatic action with corporeal effects and consequences. Through this project, JCAL, a multi-disciplinary and community-based organization, performs its vital function to serve the NY art world and the community by promoting contemporary art culture and providing seminal aids to improve social, political, and economic conditions of urban renewal.
Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 challenges existing assumptions about community-based art institutions and exhibition practices, and simultaneously explores the cultural geography of Jamaica with a hope to contribute to the elucidation of the relationship between art, commerce, urban renewal, and community. This collaborative and multidisciplinary project is designed to stimulate interaction between artists, residents, and commercial vendors about ways that art can provide cultural and social understanding, be a catalyst for economic improvement in communities, as well as strengthen the relationship of JCAL to community residents and the artistic community.

The goals of Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 are to:
• Make contemporary art practices accessible and an integral part of daily life in the community.
• Raise the cultural profile of Jamaica, New York and encourage cultural tourism to this community.
• Provide artists, curators, and writers with opportunities and material support to realize their ideas and creative endeavors.

The project also serves as a catalyst for residents and businesses to celebrate the past and future arts and culture of Jamaica through exhibitions, performances, and forums. Hence the title Jamaica Flux, derived from the historical “Fluxus” movement, represents the transformation of Jamaica Avenue; Workspace the opportunity to provide artists with stipends and a space for creative expression; and Windows, a transparency between art, community life, and economy.

II. Project’s Themes, Process and Media
Themes: Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 seeks prominent artwork with an explicit awareness of place and time. Due to the demographic profile, economic status, and geographical factors of the community of Jamaica, the artwork could deal with a variety of issues relevant to contemporary art and culture, including issues of constructive identity, cultural heritage, or immigrants’ experiences. In addition, the artwork could explore the issues of cultural tourism, commodification of art and culture, and urban development as it relates to issues of displacement, economic stratification, and class division. Additional possibilities could embrace subject matters such as the examination of the institutional functions of JCAL or other organizations within the community, or could identify specific characteristics of the urban landscapes of Jamaica, NY. Artwork could be realized as maps, audio tours, directional signs, show-window designs, and architectural designs that transform commercial spaces into a space for artistic expression of the personal experience. Other possibilities include day and night street photography, video documentations of interviews with community members, images that address concerns of community members, or performances that involve the participation of community members. These themes and examples are not meant to limit, but rather to stimulate artistic creativity. Any ideas that explore the cultural geography of Jamaica, NY, in relation to the issues of art and global/local economy, are welcome. The proposed work should be suitable and exciting for the public spaces, stores, and outdoor spaces.
Collaboration between artists, curators, community members, and organizations: Works will be newly created for the project, giving participating artists the flexibility to respond to the opportunities and limitations of each site while engaging in a truly collaborative process with business owners and community members. JCAL will work closely with neighborhood institutions, businesses, and residents to facilitate the project. Organizations such as Queens Public Library, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Greater Jamaica Development Corp., and King Manor Park will support the project. Businesses such as The Farmer’s Market, Kids World, Jimmy Jazz, and Nubian Heritage will be encouraged to collaborate with artists in the creation of art that will be shown in windows and stores, which will expand the horizons of the integration of art into life. Participating artists are also encouraged to interact with members of the community as well as to identify a specific site that they would like to incorporate in their work. Though JCAL will be responsible for securing the proposed sites, the artists’ willingness and commitment to the engagement with the community is vital and highly required to gain optimal outcomes and a meaningful experience of making site-specific art that will be presented in a non-art space setting. Once selected, artists will attend several meetings with curators and participating site hosts. They will then submit drawings, sketches, and maquettes and work in collaboration with host site representatives and curators to determine the scope and details of each project. Proposed projects will be approved by the end of December 2006, giving artists more than nine months to complete their work.
Media: Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 seeks a broad range of visual artists working in any media at any stage of their careers. 25 artists or artist collectives will be selected and will be requested to create site-specific ephemeral works. Artists working in any media, including sculpture, installation, performance, video, film, drawing, design, and painting will be eligible for selection to create work that integrates art into life. Artists are encouraged to create artwork in hybrid forms that fuse art and life in different aspects such as art and commerce, art and science, art and politics, and art and technology. Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 seeks process-oriented artwork that fosters the involvement of the community and the audience in the arts.

III. Project Components and Tentative Schedules
1. October 6, 2007 – November 17, 2007: The centerpiece of Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows 2007 is a six-week exhibition featuring site-specific visual art in a variety of locations along Jamaica Avenue from 148th to the 168th street, including banks, mall lobbies, stores, restaurants, street corners, phone booths, parks, and other public spaces.
2. October 6, 2007 – January 12, 2008: A ten-week companion exhibition in JCAL’s main gallery. In an effort to give historic context to site-specific art practices as well as to provide visitors with a behind-the-scenes look at art-making processes, the gallery exhibitions will feature art-historically paradigmatic works along with participating artists’ sketches, inspirational notes, and experimental renderings generated during the process of project conception and realization.
3. Public programs throughout the duration of the project: JCAL will offer educational and public programs throughout the duration of the project to enhance the experience of the exhibition and contemporary art. Programs include neighborhood walking tours to visit the site-specific art installations, artist talks and discussions, a one-day symposium, and educational activities for young audiences.
4. Publication, Printed Materials, and Dissemination of Experience and Knowledge: JCAL will publish a comprehensive, full-color exhibition catalogue that documents the project in all aspects and includes artist profiles, reproductions of artwork, and critical texts on site-specific art practices.

IV. Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning History and Introduction
The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning is a 34-year-old multidisciplinary urban arts center serving the residents of Southeast Queens and New York City. Tens of thousands of people of all ages and backgrounds participate in our wide array of education, performing arts, and visual arts programs annually.
JCAL’s land-marked, neo-Renaissance building features a 1,650 square foot visual arts gallery, a 99-seat proscenium theater, three painting and three dance studios, a ceramics studio, a computer lab, and a soundproof music studio. JCAL’s programs include contemporary visual arts exhibitions and an artist-in-residency program; a multicultural series of music, theater, and dance performances; free arts and educational programs for youth; in-school artist residencies; and an extensive series of affordable workshops in fine and applied arts, drama, dance, creative writing, and music.
The Visual Arts Program has been the cornerstone of JCAL’s programming since the Center’s inception and JCAL continues to present up to four major gallery exhibitions each year. JCAL also offers a yearlong artist residency program and provides individual artists with support through lectures and discussion events, networking opportunities, and career development workshops. Over the last three decades, JCAL’s gallery has featured contemporary artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Isamu Noguchi among other mid-career artists in order to support their continuous creative endeavors and devotion to arts. Through the Workspace Program, JCAL has featured solo-exhibitions of Lorna Simpson, Wangechi Mutu, Rajkamal Kahlon, and others at early stages of their careers. JCAL continues to support the creation and presentation of thought-provoking new works by emerging and under-represented visual artists.

Through its Visual Arts Program, JCAL aims to:
• Encourage the development and exhibit the work of under-represented artists, especially artists of color, women, and emerging artists.
• Provide our constituency with free access to contemporary visual art that reflects the rich cultural diversity and urban relevance of Southeast Queens.
• Serve as an arts advocacy organization providing New York artists, particularly those residing in the outer boroughs, with career resources and support.

V. Location and Community Profile
Jamaica, NY is one of the mostly ethnically diverse communities in the country. The neighborhood is home to primarily African-, Caribbean-, Latin-, and Asian-Americans, as well as a growing population of recent immigrants from countries including Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria, India, and the Philippines.
Jamaica was a prominent center for commerce and government in the early part of the century, but, like many neighborhoods across the United States, saw a significant period of economic decline in the 1960s. The establishment of the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning in 1972 played a pivotal role in the early efforts to revitalize the community and in the last three decades, Jamaica has seen a flurry of growth and expansion. The AirTrain, Queens County Family Courthouse, several major hotel chains, and the renovation of the former First Reformed Dutch Church are just a few of the large-scale construction projects that have taken place in our community in the last five years alone.
Today, Jamaica Avenue is once again a thriving commercial district featuring hip-hop clothing stores, electronics shops, shoe stores, independent shopping malls, and restaurants ranging from Caribbean bakeries to fast food restaurants to cafés serving Salvadoran, Columbian, Guyanese, or Pakistani specialties. Recent growth has brought large retail chain stores, new banks, and a multiplex movie theater to the area.
Foot traffic in front of JCAL averages approximately 13,000 people per day and Jamaica Avenue attracts busloads of shoppers, from as far away as Detroit and Baltimore, every weekend. The neighborhood houses several government buildings and is also a major transportation hub: the Long Island Railroad, several subway lines, countless busses, and the AirTrain, which provides a ten minute ride to JFK Airport, all stop within five blocks of the Center.

Electronic Artworks

The collective IDEO (a collective of Strasbourg video artists including Olivier Lelong, Christian Nicolas, Céline Trouillet and Simon Welch) and the Fort of Mutzig (constructed in 1895 in Alsace and nicknamed “Feste Kaiser Wilhelm II”, it was the biggest German Empire fortification) are seeking works about the First World War, war in general, combat, uprisings, human destruction, video war games, the useful or playful manipulation of arms, power, etc.
All types of single channel videos (fictional/experimental/art video/animation/documentary) will be projected onto the walls of the Fort of Mutzig in the open air one evening in July 2006, weather permitting. Performances, video installations, sound installations and interactive installations are also planned.

Deadline for artistic project propositions : 30 June 2006
Please enclose a description of the work proposed as well as a synopsis, technical information and requirements (editing, text, translation, etc), a photograph of the work and a CV. The number of project propositions per artist is unlimited, recent works must be finished at the time of submission. Accepted formats: DVD -/+, CD/DVD, Audio-CD. Please write “for cultural purposes only” on the envelope.

Please send submissions to:
Céline Trouillet
28, Rue du Piémont des Vosges
67310 Flexbourg - France

email: celinetrouillet@yahoo.fr
website: www.mutzig.net

Cinematexas International Short Film Festival

Since its inception in 1995 as a tiny student showcase, the festival has grown rapidly, mutating with each new edition. Our competition program is a forum, an ongoing argument, a free zone for celebrating and exchanging stories, for collaborations and for exposing audiences to brave and radical forays in cinema. We seek out and reward films that provoke, expose and explore the short format as a genre in itself, arduously defending the beauty, social role and integrity of the moving image. Although our first and primary focus was and is short film, over the years we have come to understand and champion this truth: artistic expression cannot be confined to a camera, projector and a screen. You can download the Call for Entries form on the website.

address/location of event: Austin, Texas (USA)
entry deadline: June 2, 2006
exhibition date: September 20-24, 2006

email: programming@cinematexas.org
website: www.cinematexas.org

2006 OPEN JURIED EXHIBITION CALL FOR ENTRIES

Open to all artists internationally working in any photographic media—including collage, digital, traditional, alternative, and new media. There is no restriction on subject matter. Artists may enter up to 10 pieces by CD only (no slides or prints). Entry fee is $5 per image; early entry is $3 per image if entry is received by April 22, 2006. Entry fees are waived entirely for Photomedia Center members. Absolutely no entries will be accepted via email. A completed application form is required and must be included with your submission. The acceptable file formats must be either JPEG or TIFF only. Please label images clearly with the work’s title. Files should be no larger than 800 pixels on the image’s longest side at 72 ppi. Label the CD with your name. For notification, you must include either an email address or a self addressed, stamped envelope.
Selected works will be exhibited online at the Photomedia Center, www.photomediacenter.org, during the month of August 2006. One artist will be selected for a solo featured exhibit at the Photomedia Center the following year. Works from the show may be purchased for the Photomedia Center’s permanent collection. Accepted works can be offered for sale during the show. See the prospectus for full guidelines, which can be downloaded as a pdf at www.photomediacenter.org/06Entrycall.html

All entries should be sent to: Photomedia Center, P.O. Box 8518, Erie PA 16505, USA
Postmark deadline for entries: June 10, 2006.

ABOUT THE JUROR
Gary Cardot is an art photographer who teaches photography and art history at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. For 14 years he was the director of the Cummings Gallery at Mercyhurst. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Ohio University and the University of Massachusetts and an MFA in photography from the California Institute of the Arts. He recently had a one-person show at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, NY and exhibits regionally and nationally.

The Manifesta 6 School is now accepting applications from cultural producers across the whole spectrum, including visual artists, architects, writers, filmmakers, journalists, curators, composers, performers and others, who are interested in participating full-time in the School programme. Invited participants will be expected to reside in Nicosia for the duration of the semester. English is the language of communication in all the departments. The Manifesta 6 School is the central project of Manifesta 6, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, which will take place in Nicosia from 23 September to 17 December 2006. The School is both the site and the content of the Biennial, and is its sole activity. Conceived and developed by the curators of Manifesta 6, Mai Abu ElDahab, Anton Vidokle and Florian Waldvogel, the School will offer three thematic transdisciplinary departments comprising lecture series, publications, screenings, performances, exhibitions, radio and TV program mes, workshops and other activities.
The deadline for the application is 1 March 2006, and the invited participants will be notified by 30 March 2006. There is no fee for participation in the School but participants are responsible for their own living expenses. In some cases, financial support may be available. Check the Manifesta 6 website regularly for updates. Please note that all aspects of the Manifesta 6 School program are subject to change without notice.
Manifesta 6 is organised by Nicosia for Art Ltd., member of the Nicosia Municipality, and the International Foundation Manifesta. Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art is initiated and co-produced by the International Foundation Manifesta, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
1. Please provide a brief biography of yourself in no more than 200 words.
2. Which of the departments of the Manifesta 6 School are you most interested in, based on the general descriptions provided below? Please explain your reasons in no more than one page. Although applications are submitted to specific departments, participants will be able to attend all the School’s activities.
DEPARTMENT I: Influenced by a broad range of critical thinkers including Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and inspiring cultural producers as diverse as Laibach, Eyal Weizman, Jerome Bel and Jacques Tati, this department will look at agency and modes of participation within the cultural field on the socio-political scale. It will address the mechanisms employed by power structures such as public institutions, academia, media and corporations, and examine architecture as a significant ideological force. Within this framework, the department advances creative production as a means of individual and social empowerment.
DEPARTMENT II: The topics of this department include: ‘What’s Left?’—why and how advanced culture aligns itself with the politics of progress; ‘Poetics of Circulation’, which considers the ethical/aesthetic value of inserting poetics and subjectivity into the classical Marxist equation; and ‘Recording Nothing’, an inquiry into how contemporary artistic and literary works that refer to documents can reveal the withdrawal of what we think is still there after a surpassing disaster. The advisors for this department include: Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, Jalal Toufic and Tirdad Zolghadr.
DEPARTMENT III: This department focuses on knowledge production by looking at the methods by which new meanings are produced and disseminated, and at the social and economic transformations induced by movement, both literal and metaphorical. It will look specifically at Cyprus as a case study of complex political reality and location. It will address the bipolarity of nature and nurture within the context of contemporary society in relation to new technologies and examine the language of science as a defining social force in understanding contemporary life on both the individual and social level.
3. In no more than two pages, please send any additional information that you feel is relevant to representing yourself for the purposes of this application. Do not send résumés or letters of recommendation.

Thinktank Concept
The Thinktank is a proposal for a groupware, an online collaborative environment, which offers practitioners from the artistic, social and political field online spaces for group work. During its research phase the Thinktank invites artists, architects, designers, programmers and people from the social and cultural field to envision with us what this working environment should consist of.
As part of this research we're aiming to further our insights into modes, dynamics and values at play in collaborative work, investigating how they can be facilitated by virtual structures. Thinktank 0.1 has now opened its office in Public Space With A Roof, an artist-run space in Amsterdam. Between Sunday the 19th and Sunday the 26th of February we are inviting participants to join conversations around specific aspects of (online) collaboration in the project space and via a virtual communication platform. Throughout this week we will publish regular newsletters.

Please join us through the platform www.think-tank.nl and in the project space Public Space With A Roof.
Thinktank www.thinktank.con-gress.net
a groupware research and development project
Inga Zimprich, project lead
Elske Rosenfeld, research coordination

Advisors: Jeanne van Heeswijk, Jouke Kleerebezem
Workshops at Public Space With A Roof, Amsterdam during February 2006

The communication platform is developed by Ingrid Stoijnic & Bert Balcaen

Publication design by Selina Bütler, Paul Gangloff and Matthias Kreuzer
The research will be published in March 2006 in a POD - printing on demand
model, inspired by www.metamute.com magazine for culture and politics after the net.
Thinktank is supported by Jan van Eyck Academie
Thinktank is guest of Het Blauwe Huis, a residency for the mind

Thinktank collaborates with Knosos, a software development project run at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Hoogeschool Mechelen, BE

The groupware Thinktank will be based on www.drupal.org

Public Space With A Roof is kindly supported by Mondriaan Foundation.

OPEN CALL FOR DIGITAL ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY: Los Angeles Center For Digital Art "TOP 40" Juried Show

LACDA announces our "TOP 40" juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of 2D artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Open to all geographical locations. Forty (!) selected winners recieve one print up to 24x36 on museum quality paper to be shown in an international group exhibition in our gallery from March 9-April 1, 2006. Deadline: February 26. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists. Entry fee is $30US.

Direct link for registration: www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=103863

Complete information and prospectus: lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

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. We are located in the burgeoning Gallery Row district of downtown Los Angeles.

Call for entries: The Consequence of Light - Black and White or Monochrome Juried Online Photography Competition. Deadline date for submissions: February 28, 2006.

For full details and on-line entry form: www.artromgallery.com

ARTROM Gallery, Rome,Italy is inviting photographers worldwide, to participate in The Consequence of Light. All photographic processes, traditional and digital, are welcome. The theme or subject matter for the Competition is open.

Photography is changing and changing fast, but the power of the black and white or monochrome photograph to transmit and express emotion remains. Today we live in a full color world, but black and white (and monochrome) is back because it's beautiful, and feels real. Dedicated purists have never left it, and lately artists and designers are returning and rediscovering it. This International Competition is dedicated to showing the continuing validity of this mode of revealing what the artist sees from behind the lens, translated into lights and darks. The juror is the acclaimed Italian photographer Andrea Bastogi.

All photographers and artists who submit images will be presented in the on-line Exhibition - the Consequence of Light, which opens March 30, 2006 at www.artromgallery.com. This Exhibition will be heavily promoted in the media press.

Entry fee: 30 euro to submit up to 5 images, 25 euro for previously participating artists, free for AG GUILD Members.

Gallery Information: ARTROM Gallery, Rome, Italy, focuses on supporting initiatives which help promote artists and their creative research, through Competitions, Exhibitions, One Person Shows, and Membership in the ARTROM Gallery GUILD.

International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short.films to include in the next 2006 Exhibitions:

- River's Edge Film Festival (August 17-20, 2006 - Paducah, Kentucky, USA). The Rivers Edge Film Festival is a four day event built around the showing of quality indipendent film from around the world. Our focus is both on the film lover, providing multiple venues in which to experience the best the world cinema has to offer, and on the film maker, offering opportunities for exhibition, education, and networking with contemporaries. There will be four screening venues, and International ArtExpo Collection will be screened at least twice during the festival. Festival staff will introduce each film or film series before the screening and a question and answer period will follow each film, if the filmmaker is present. The deadline for applications is March 30, 2006.

The number of works with you can participate is unlimited. All works must be on DVD (PAL or NTSC), no matter what the original source medium. The duration may be any, with a preference given to a max lenght of 15 minutes. If you are interested, send your video submissions (Name/Surname, City/Country, Film title, Running time, Brief film synopsis) with a CV/biography, videography and an introduction about the piece to:

Luca Curci
via Casamassima, 75
70010 - Capurso (Bari) - Italy

International ArtExpo is a not for profit organization that provides a significant forum for cultural dialogue between all artists from different cultures and countries. We depend on the support of you. ArtExpo is grateful to all of the institutions, corporations, and individuals who support our efforts. We work with a number of national and international galleries as well as publishers, museums, curators and writers from all over the world. We help artists through solo and group exhibitions, gallery representation, magazine reviews and advertisements, press releases, internet promotion, as well as various curatorial projects.

Participation open to: professional artists, architects and designers, associate groups and studios.
submission deadline: January 31, 2006
email: artexpo@lucacurci.com
more details: www.lucacurci.com/artexpo

The Euroasian Premium 2006, The Annual International Festival of Architecture and Design, Russia (international award)

Fabulous and universal event to find, award and promote your pioneering projects as long as we deal with innovative architectural and design ideas. Various contests and doings of wide profile which are made to extend cooperation between the Ural school of architecture and design and architects and designers from around the world. A good way to make you get together and more.

The festival consists of the following competitions and events:
- Architecture and City planning
- Environmental design
- Final projects of graduating students from the Art and Architecture program
- Best publications on architecture, design and art
- Lectures, workshops, exhibitions and round–table discussions, all concerning the main trends of contemporary architecture, city planning and urban space

registration deadline: May 30, 2006
submission deadline: June 5, 2006
Participation open to: professional architects and designers, associate groups and studios, students and teachers of architectural and design faculties and programs.

The festival begins in December, 2005 and ends in June, 2006.
information: The coordinator of "The Euroasian Premium" Dimitry Maksimov
email: konkurs@upress.ru
website: www.upress.ru/premium/index.php?lan=2

Belluard Bollwerk International

The Belluard Festival (BBI) is an event that produces and presents artistic projects in Fribourg (Switzerland) since 1983. It takes place yearly early Summer in a medieval fortress.

The BBI is looking for relevant and innovative projects.
- Any form or means serving the project's purpose is admitted.

- The projects will be supported by the BBI (organization, distribution, promotion). They will be presented during the festival and labelled as BBI productions.

Rules:
1. The contest is open to all.
2. Each project is to be presented on 2 A4-format pages at most. A detailed budget shall be included. Plans, drawings, photos, videos, recordings... are highly recommended.
3. Projects must be sent by January 17th, 2006 at the latest (postal stamp is proof) at Belluard Bollwerk International, Contest 2006, PO Box 214, CH - 1701 Fribourg. Or by email, at info@belluard.ch
4. The projects are evaluated by an international jury. No mail will be exchanged.
5. All participants shall be made aware of the results by February 17th, 2006.
6. The material sent will not be returned.

info:
Belluard Bollwerk International
PO Box 214 - CH - 1701 Fribourg
Tel +41 26 321 24 20
Fax +41 26 321 24 21
info@belluard.ch
www.belluard.ch
www.belluard.ch/contest2006

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