Santa Fe International New Media Festival – Call for Sumissions #currents2012 #arts #geekgirl

Santa Fe International New Media Festival_ _22 June – 8 July 2012 :: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA :

Call for Sumissions Submissions due 1 February 2012. Digital Dome submissions due 2 March 2012

The 3rd Annual Santa Fe International New Media Art Festival will explore the role of technology and the diverse applicaiotns of New Media in the arts. The Festival will be held in venues throughout Santa Fe including the digital dome facility at the Institute for American Indian Arts. #currents 2012 will also offer panel discussions and workshops and multimedia performances. Submission categories include single channel video, video and sound installations, interative new media, animation, computer/software modulated sculpture, multimedia performance, experimental or interactive documentary video, digital dome projection, art-gaming and web-art. http://www.currentsnewmedia.org/submissionguidel.html

Ars Bioarctica art&science residency in 2012 #bioart #geekgirl

Ars Bioarctica art&science residency in 2012 :: Call for Applications
Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, Finland :: Applications due 31 January 2012
The Finnish Bioart socienty is seeking applications for the 2012 Ars Bioartica art&science residency the emphasis of the residency is the Arctic environment and art&science collaboration and is is open for artists and art&science research teams.The residency takes place in the facilities of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, which provides the residents with a combined living and working environment, a basic laboratory, internet connection and sauna and access to all scientific equipment, laboratory facilities, the library and seminar room as well as the usage of field equipment. A dedicated contact person in Kilpisjärvi will familiarise residents with the local environment and customs.  For applications or questions please contact Erich Berger: erich.berger@bioartsociety.fi
http://bioartsociety.fi

Crochet Sushi #art #sushi #crochet #geekgirl

crochet-sushi

Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2 #unconstrained #geekgirl

_Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2: Unconstrained_ 
_Call for projects closes 12 December 2011_ 

Technological frontiers have expanded beyond the ability of an individual to comprehend their complexity. Yet, these frontiers permeate our everyday experiences. How does your smartphone function? How was your toaster made? What tools do you use to earn money? How many different forms of communication do you experience in one day? How well do YOU understand the technology in your life? How well do you need to? Media Lab Melbourne is seeking proposals for devices or services as statements on the complexity of our everyday technology and systems. Successful applications will work with Media Lab Melbourne and collaborators to realise these proposals during a sprint over 9 days beginning on the 21st of January 2012.  As this is a collaborative sprint it is not important what skills you have but how effective your idea is!  Media Lab Melbourne will support projects with technical and production support. Should a person live interstate and wish to attend, we are also able to provide basic travel and accommodation for the duration of the sprint.  Selected participants will be notified on the 16th of December.  At this point there will be a second call for collaborators to assist in the creation of the selected projects. Applicants who are not selected in the initial call are welcome to participate as collaborators. 

http://www.medialabmelbourne.com.au/

Feminist art in the 1970s and 1980s in Australia – A different temporality #Melbourne #feminist #geekgirl

Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Soft geometry 1982

Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia

A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 brings together feminist approaches to temporality in the visual arts, with a focus on the late 1970s and early 1980s in Australia.

Rather than simply presenting a summary of feminist practice at the time, the selected works reflect prevalent debates and modes of practice. They focus upon dematerialisation of the art object, the role of film theory, and the adoption of diaristic and durational modes of practice, including performance, photography and film.

The exhibition presents the work of Micky Allan, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Bonita Ely, Sue Ford, Helen Grace, Lyndal Jones and Jenny Watson.

According to Max Delany, director of MUMA, the exhibition is long overdue.

“Focussing on a critical, albeit under-represented, period in recent contemporary art practice, A Different Temporality invokes a radical history and dynamic body of work, of particular relevance to the social turn in current art practice, which we hope will stimulate new debates and further action and reflection,” Mr Delany said.

A Different Temporality presents a diverse selection of art that engages with the concept of temporality as both metaphor and subject.  While it might not openly exemplify an overriding logic, the collection illustrates various feminist approaches to history, as well as repetition and flow, and the concept of cinematic montage – which continue to resonate in the present.

Dr Kyla McFarlane, exhibition curator said the artists represented in the exhibition shared an interest in time, seen through the adoption of mediums including film and performance, which places them at the forefront of innovative art practice.

“The diverse – sometimes oppositional – approaches to political and cultural debates by these women artists shows us something of the complex recent history of feminist art practice in Australia,” Dr McFarlane said.

A Different Temporality: Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice will be on display at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Caulfield campus until 17th December 2011.

Three performative Video works by Emile Zile #Melbourne #video #byob #geekgirl

An evening of three performative video works by Emile Zile [http://emilezile.com/] Emile Zile at the Open Archive project space. Pre-recorded music, Facial recognition, Office stationery; Stone, Portraiture, Cinema, YouTube, Liquids; Sweat, Voice, Scream, Smile. Building on a background of single-channel and performative video art, Emile Zile’s current research focuses on photographic portraiture with contemporary image-making techniques, site-specific audiovisual performance and the use of the internet as a site for mourning, transgression and revelation.

97 Nicholson Street Abbotsford, Melbourne,Victoria.
30 November 2011, 7pm

Also of interest  

The Body is a Big Place #installation #art #Sydney #geekgirl

Installation by Helen Pynor & Peta Clancy
with sound by Gail Priest

The Body is a Big Place by Helen Pynor and Peta Clancy is a new media commission exploring the fluidity between bodily boundaries inherent to the organ transplantation process, the ambiguous boundary between life and death, and the complex and multilayered responses reported by organ transplant recipients.

November 4 – 26
Opening November 3, 6-8
Exhibition open 10am – 5pm
Performances Mon Nov 7 & 21, 5pm (time may vary)
Performance Space
CarriageWorks, Wilson St Eveleigh/Redfern, Sydney, Australia
www.performancespace.com.au

Burlesque Ball – Melbourne Show #burlesque #theatre

Burlesque Ball

Starring:
Catherine D’Lish (Seattle),
Tigger! (New York),
Melody Mangler (Vancouver),
Imogen Kelly (Sydney),
Lola The Vamp (Melbourne),
Rita Fontaine (Sydney)
& Bella de Jac (Melbourne)

Melbourne 11th Nov

The final tease: www.burlesqueball.com

Center for Chemical Evolution: Seed Grants #artists #evolution #chemistry #geekgirl

Center for Chemical Evolution :: Exploratory Seed Grants for Visiting Artists
Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, USA :: Proposals due 1 December 2011

The Center for Chemical Evolution (CCE) is an NSF and NASA funded, multi-institutional research effort to study the question and determine the origins of evolution. The scientists at CCE are at the forefront of demonstrating that small molecules present in the early earth and its atmosphere react with one another, self-assemble and respond to environmental pressures to form larger molecules that resemble biology’s macromolecules.  With this research, the CCE is able to test the basic theory that formation of these important materials could ultimately have led to evolution.  The central mission of the CCE is to bring this cutting-edge research to the public, to diversify the audience of people interested in chemistry and to use these discoveries to educate and generate excitement about science. The CCE, with the Center for Creative Arts at Emory University is looking to provide seed funds of up to US$3000 to creative and performing artists who are interested in collaborating with CCE scientists to create unique works of art that explore the theme of Chemical Evolution and develop an outreach plan to bring these works of art to diverse audiences.
http://www.centerforchemicalevolution.com

_Bio-Tech Evolution :: Engagement with the Non-Human_

 _Bio-Tech Evolution :: Engagement with the Non-Human_  _Call for Submissions for Exhibition closes 4 November 2011_ 

This exhibition will be used to examine interactions between humans, technology, and biology, with the aim of re-invigorating the social, cultural and environmental value ofv non-human life. Artworks that contain / deal with “wet biology” are encouraged, ethics /quarantine clearance must also be confirmed if this is required.  The exhibition will be held at the Spectrum Project Space, Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia. Please email word documents and Jpegs  to Donna Franklin at donna_franki@yahoo.com,  including an Artist Statement, 300 word Biography, contact details and a photograph of proposed work or previous work for further information.  The Exhibition will run for two weeks in either May or June 2012. 
http://www.sca.ecu.edu.au/