Call for Artists

CoLab Techart Fellowship

This CoLab TechArt Fellowship is inspired by Jaaga & BeFantastic.in’s resolve to grow the community of techartists and foster creative engagement in leading digital technologies. The Fellowship is offered online and is directed to aspiring techart practitioners from any discipline of art and design. In the challenges of the times, we present the CoLab Fellowship as online program that opens the doors to exciting possibilities in international collaborations.

Supported by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Bangalore and British Council’s Architecture and Design Festivals and Biennales grant, this edition of the CoLab Fellowship creates a bridge between Germany, South Asia, UK & India. It is a unique  opportunity for a community of hand-picked international fellows to use the limitations of the current moment to explore and showcase collaborative learning and making with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies. Over a two week period we will spend time synchronously four hours daily, working and dialoging with peers and experts who come in as trainers, provocateurs and facilitators. 

the Incurable Caravan's Online Car Show

About

The Incurable Caravan’s Online Car Show is an indefinite online exhibit. All works accepted should expect to be a single element on a larger, scrolling page. The online aspect of the exhibition is deliberate.

The Car Show seeks to intersect traditional, popular, experimental, and outsider styles with an enthusiasm towards all approaches to art-making. We welcome all interpretations of media and automotive transportation.

Guidelines

Works submitted should include, allude to, or represent some elements of a car (doors, windows, wheels, engines, memories, etc.), but how you choose to present these elements is up to you. Not all internal spaces with windows are cars, and not all cars have doors. Your car can be literal, abstract, heartfelt, playful, technical, emotional, or all of the above, to any degree of detail.

Any media capable of existing online is encouraged, especially media that are normally challenging to program or format in other contexts. This includes:

• literary: poetry, short prose (< 500 words), haiku, interviews, interactive fiction
• static visual: all traditional visual media: drawing, painting, photography, graphic/product design. For sculpture, 3D photoscans or multiple photos are acceptable.
• moving visual: short film (< 3m), silent animations (gif/mp4), filmed choreography
• 3D: any 3D model or scene below 50k polygons
• audio: short pieces or songs (< 3m, loopable or not), interactive web audio, original sound design haikus (< 10s)
• multimedia: any combination of the above
• web: any self-contained webapps, games, data viz, generative art, net art, or CSS/SVG/Canvas animations, size restrictions TBD

Proposals for categories not included in this list and works-in-progress are allowed, as long as evidence of progress can be demonstrated on submission. Older works are also allowed, as long as they relate to a car in some form.

For more information on formatting, hosting, and other policies, and to view the submission form, view the full call.

Genius Loci Weimar Festival 2020 // Call for Walk Acts

Call for submissions for walk acts and performances

We are looking for ideas and concepts for the realization of walk acts, installations or performances during our festival from 27-29 November 2020.

Genius Loci Weimar provides a platform for your projects in the fields of multimedia, performance, light art or similar with the walk acts along the festival route.

In an evening walk, festival guests can visit all festival stations from 6 pm till midnight. The stations link this year‘s main locations Marstall, Goethe- and Schiller-Archiv and Altenburg and the entire festival route, which this year is being walked in a guided direction.

YOUR IDEAS FOR THE FESTIVAL ROUTE 2020

Your project can be set at the following locations: 01 Kegelplatz, 02 Parking bay , 03 Grassland on the Riverside Ilm , 04 Passage along the Ilm, 05 Mirror Skulpture, 06 Kegelbrücke, 07 Über dem Kegeltor, 08 Grassland Jenaer Straße. For more information about the locations see below.

Conditions for your submission:

• The project must be weather-resistant.
• The project must be available during the whole weekend from 27 to 29 November 2020, daily between 6pm and midnight.
• During the day, the installation may have to be dismantled or secured (road traffic and public access).
• The project must work with many people in the streets, it must be possible for the spectators to keep this year's distance rules.
• We offer a budget for project realization; accommodation will be paid for.
• The duration of the performance should be 5 minutes.

Alive Inside: Remembering the Body as Earth

Alive Inside: Remembering the Body as Earth

Online Exhibition Opening: October 20

Submission Deadline: October 10

Hearth Studio

www.hearthstudio.org

For this exhibition we are seeking art in a variety of media that conveys the inseparability of the human body and the earth, reimagines the self AS nature/earth, conveys the relationship of self/body/anatomy to animal/earth/landscape, or explores the barriers or forces of destruction/oppression that prohibit self-care/earth-care.

Inherited or imposed stories tell us we are separate from our bodies, each other, and the earth. We receive messaging that values logic over intuition, thoughts over feelings, and mind over body. These stories can become beliefs and these beliefs can become behaviors that lead to isolation, depression and anxiety. But now, more than ever, we have an opportunity for change.  

Turning towards our feeling and sensual selves, our animal selves, and nature, reminds us of our humanness. Discovering home not just in our environment but in our bodies reminds us of our capacities to live in a web of interconnection, finding support in the generative and reciprocal forces of nature. Our inhabited bodies are our first environment and our access point to all that's outside of us. As a species, we are being called to remember this so that we can begin to make new choices that will sustain life on this planet.

Join us in this inquiry and exploration.

Details

Media Accepted:

Works will be displayed in virtual galleries and can include pictures of visual art, videos of movement/dance, music videos or sound recordings, photography, digital art, writing.

Up to 3 pieces of artwork may be submitted for consideration. Email work to hello [op] hearthstudio [punt] org. ?subject=Alive%20Inside" rel="nofollow">hello [op] hearthstudio [punt] org.  

ALL files must be named as follows: LastName_FirstName_Title

For 2-D Media:

Maximum one image per piece. Up to three pieces of work may be submitted. Image files not to exceed 5MB each. Accepted formats include: .jpg, .jpeg, .png

For 3-D Media:

Maximum two images per piece. Up to three pieces of work may be submitted. Image files not to exceed 5MB each. Accepted formats include: .jpg, .jpeg, .png

For Audio and Video:

Maximum one file per piece. Up to three pieces may be submitted. Audio/video files not to exceed 10MB each. Accepted format include: .mp4

For Written Work:

Maximum one file per piece up to 1,000 word count. Up to three pieces may be submitted. Document files not to exceed 5MB each. Accepted formats include: .doc, .docx

Guidelines:

$10 submission fee. Up to 3 pieces of artwork may be submitted for consideration.
Artists can choose to sell works, and agree to complete shipping/delivery themselves.
Artist retains 60% of the sale price. Of the remaining portion, 30% will be donated by Hearth to the Indigenous Environmental Network, and 10% will go towards supporting Hearth.
There will be one gallery of ALL submissions, and one gallery of juried works based on emergent themes (chosen by curators).
On opening night, October 20th, there will be a virtual event to celebrate the show's opening and give artists the opportunity to speak about their work.

By submitting work, artists agree that photographic images and/or video of the artist and/or their artwork, in whole or in part, may be used by Hearth in various forms including but not limited to print, online and social media for the purpose of sharing details of this exhibition, and its participants, with the community. All rights remain with the artist.

Inquiry

Questions to spark inspiration for works:

If you imagined your insides as a landscape what would it look like? If your insides needed a particular landscape for healing what would it be?

What is it like to imagine and consider that you ARE the earth?

How do you relate to the elemental experiences of your body (earth, fire, air, water, metal)? “The Fluid Self” by Emilee Conrad from Life on Land

In what ways do you feel disconnected from nature?  What do you attribute that to? Is it at all a reflection of feeling disconnected from your sensory experience?

Was there an experience in nature that awoke you to take care of your health physical, mental, emotional as an extension of planetary health?

Is there an earth-based ritual that you incorporate into your health and wellness routine and how is this interrelationship meaningful to you? or is there an experience you are performing out in nature to maintain health and wellness, or as an act of environmental activism

What is the relationship between physical harm to bodies/health and pollution/destruction of land? How does this relate to privilege and race?

How does the work of James Lovelock ( Gaia Theory ) resonate with you and why?

Does the work of Johanna Macy resonate with you and why?