Horse Bazaar, Digital Fringe and Wild Animus present an exciting new youth digital arts prize. Make a video clip 20 metres wide! $2000 will be awarded for the best panoramic digital art piece made to accompany a Wild Animus track. The prize will go to the screen-based content that best uses Horse Bazaar’s unique panoramic projection system. The panoramic projection system created at Horse Bazaar is inspired by the huge panoramic painted canvases of the 19th century. The system uses modern technology to create large-scale panoramas in digital form. Six projectors are tiled together to create a seamless 20 metre digital canvas that envelops the bar. Casting aside the traditional 4:3 screen format, visual artists are asked to produce digital content at an 8:1 ratio. Entrants must be students or 30yrs or under to enter. Download Wild Animus tunes and artwork, and make your piece by compiling your stills, animation or video in Watchout for the Horse Bazaar projection system. Come in and test the show in the space if you are able.
Submission deadline – Friday 21st September 5pm
http://www.wildanimus.com.au/competition
Hidden Lives is a space to reflect on your innermost thoughts, dreams, hopes, fears and imaginings. Pause, let your soul drift, listen and then reveal your hidden life to the world. Hidden Lives aims to become a unique global artwork brimming with intimate, beautiful and moving self-expressions from people all over the world. Hidden Lives is a social experiment dabbling in the realms of authentic expression and intimate revelation. The website responses are uniquely personal and yet undeniably universal. When people have the opportunity and courage to share their hidden lives, it is a powerful reminder that, for everything that separates us, we are all intimately connected. The aesthetic of the website revolves around the concept of windows into the soul. People’s hidden lives are represented in a vast collection of windows. As you hover over a window, it lights up with a hint to its contents, inviting you to explore deeper into the person’s soul. You can explore the hidden lives of people from around the world in a myriad of ways. The home page presents a random assortment of entries and you can also view entries by specific categories and countries while also sorting entries by most recent, most votes, age and screen name. Play around and see what lives are unveiled.
http://www.hiddenlives.com.au/
Add Art is a Firefox extension in development which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated database. For many, replacing ads with blank space would be enough. Add Art attempts to do something more interesting than just blocking ads – it turns your browser into an art gallery. Every time you visit a website you’ll also see a spattering of images by a young contemporary artist. The project will be supported by a small website providing information on the current artists and curator, along with a schedule of past and upcoming Add Art shows. Each 2 weeks will showcase 5-8 artists selected by emerging and established curators. Images will have to be cropped to standard banner sizes or can be custom made for the project. Artists can target sites (such as every ad on FoxNews.com) and/or default to any page on the internet with ads. One artist will be shown per page. The curatorial duty will be passed among curators through recommendations, word of mouth, and solicitations to the Add Art site.
http://www.addart.eyebeam.org/
JavaMuseum- Forum for Internet Technology in Contemporary Art www.javamuseum.org is looking for Internet based art (netart) for a series of features starting in November 2007 on occasion of NewMediaFest2007.
In this framework, the first of these features will become the third exhibition component besides the shows -“Seven Ways for Saying Internet with Net Art” curated by Elena Julia Rossi (Rome), who is, among others, also responsable for the netart shows at MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Rome/Italy – and “a+b=ba? art +blog=blogart?”
JavaMuseum, founded in 2000 as a virtual museum, is one of the relevant platforms for Internet based art on the net.
Under the direction of Wilfried Agricola de Cologne, JavaMuseum realised 18 showcases and competitions of netart in a global context between 2001 and 2005 and is hosting a comprehensive collection of netart from the years 2000-2004
including more than 350 artists.
In 2006 and 2007, JavaMuseum was undergoing a restructuration phase and launched JIP – JavaMuseum Interview Project – http://jip.javamuseum.org, which will contain more than 100 interviews by professionals in the field of art and New Media. after its relaunch in November 2007.
JavaMuseum is looking for netart projects, which are completed after 1 January 2004 and not part of JavaMuseum, yet, max. 5 project proposals can be submitted.
The entry form can be found on
http://netex.nmartproject.net/?p=138
EngageMedia will be assisting in covering the APEC counter convergence in Sydney this week. We’re looking for video makers going to the APEC summit to help us cover a range of angles on the EngageMedia site. If you are planning on being there, are looking for other video makers, or have to content to contribute content then let us know.
http://engagemedia.org/apec
For other coverage please see http://sydney.indymedia.org
