Memefest Festival of Socially Responsive Communication and Art 2012: Debt (la dette, χρέος, dolg, задолженность, долг, debito, дълг, ŝuldo, חוב, schuld, deuda, borc …) :: Call for Submissions — Deadline May 30.

Memefest, an international organization dedicated to promoting new, productive and relevant forms of cultural activism, together with the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, this year introduces the Memefest/ Griffith-QCA award for ‘Imaginative Critical Intervention’. Continue reading

The 15th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) Distributed Microtopias :: Call For Submissions — Deadline: August 15, 2012. Continue reading

Low Lives 4: Networked Performance Festival — 60 live performance-based works over two days, each transmitted over the web and projected in real time at venues across the globe :: April 27, 2012; 8:30 - 11:30 pm (EST) and April 28; 3:00 - 6:00 pm (EST) :: Streamed at www.lowlives.net.

The project celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond geographical and cultural borders, offering global audiences the opportunity to consider live performance in both physical and virtual space. By featuring performances at numerous venues and broadcasting those works via online networks, Low Lives provides a new model for efficiently presenting, viewing, and archiving live performance-based art. Continue reading

Visualizar el sonido [Visualizing sound]: Representations of Sound in Contemporary Creation :: until June 25, 2012 :: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial, Los Prados 121, 33394 Gijón (Asturias), Spain. Continue reading

Fonlad 2012 Call For Artists — Deadline: March 31. Continue reading

Cynetart 2012 Award :: November 15-21, 2012 :: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56, Dresden, Saxony 01109, Germany :: Call for Entries — Deadline: March 31.

Cynetart is an international festival for computer based art in Dresden. The 16th Edition of the festival will present an exhibition of the winning projects and selected competition entries, first-class performances and a programme with live sets of international electronic musicians and VJs at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and other selected spots in Dresden.

The competition is open to artists, designers and scientists who dedicate themselves in their artistic and reflective discussion in particular interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Continue reading

Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival :: April 27-28, 2012 :: Open Call for Proposals
 — Deadline: March 25.

Now entering its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Artists working in any media are invited to submit proposals for live performance-based works. Continue reading

Resonate 2012 :: March 16-17, 2012 :: Belgrade, Serbia.

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 Continue reading

Espacio Enter Canarias, Art, Science, Innovation :: November 8-11, 2012 :: Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands :: Call for Projects — Deadline: May 30, 2012.

Espacio Enter Canarias is a International Festival for all sectors related to art and digital culture, for ideas that will allow us to design the future of technological innovation.

Art-Science-Innovation: Digitals Communities - Storytelling geoespacial - Artificial Life- Software Art - Transgenic Art- Generative Art - Videogames :: Robotic - Open Source- Animation, 2D, 3D - Videocreation - Net-art- Blog, Videoblog - Videodance - Creation for mobile platforms - Apps development. Continue reading