New Codes: Athens Video Art Festival 2012 :: Miltiadou 18, 10560 – Monastiraki, Athens, Greece :: Call for Entries — Deadline: April 5.

Athens Video Art Festival, always faithful in experimentation and constant self-criticism as contemporary art and life prerequisites, welcomes 2012 with its eighth official edition. AVAF extends an open invitation to artists who are interested in developing their ideas by experimenting on the platform of new technologies, under no thematic restrictions, in 7 categories:

Video Art – Animation – Installations – Digital Image – Web Art – Performance – Music

For precise information and submission forms whoever interested can visit the official website of the festival.

Athens Video Art Festival (AVAF) is an annual digital arts and new media festival taking place in Greece, mainly Athens. Being part of an international art network, it reflects a wide range of ideas and developments in the art world.

It aims at bringing together experimental projects of contemporary artists and at promoting free expression, exchange of ideas, and creative interaction while exhibiting new media and new technologies application in arts.

Through a variety of creative forms, it presents alternative ways of ‘viewing’ urban landscape and of perceiving art, and new codes of interaction between art and contemporary societies.