Screengrab: New Media Arts Award :: Call For Artists — Deadline: July 2, 2012.

The 2012 Screengrab New Media Arts Award and associated exhibition is looking for challenging creative works by media arts practitioners working in screen based media to submit works on the theme of Control.

The contemporary media milieu would suggest an evolving devolution of the traditional notion of the “society of control”. The boundaries of enclosures and spaces are no longer the rigid and defined perimeters they once were. The browser, the mobile camera/ screen are new enabling simulations the user can exploit to navigate alternative pathways, to experience new modes of expression and to participate in global cultural exchange. Continue reading

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

Videobrasil em Contexto Prize — Residency for Visual Artists with a Research-based Practice :: Open Call — Deadline: June 4, 2012. Continue reading

Bioart and Textiles Workshop with Anna Dumitriu :: May 26, 2012; 11:00 am - 4:00 pm (UTC+01) :: The Barn Gallery, St. John’s College, The University of Oxford, St. Giles, Oxford, UK (map) :: Reserve your space here.

On this practical and theoretical workshop with Anna Dumitriu, participants will begin to learn how to work safely with bacteria as an artistic medium using commonly available supplies. They will start to develop a bacteriocentric view of the world, understand the textile techniques used in the exhibition and discuss the new advances in clinical microbiology being investigated by the Modernising Medical Microbiology Project. The workshop will also look at other key artists in the field of bioart, issues of public engagement in science, ethics, and the nature of collaborative art/science practice.

This coincides with the exhibition Normal Flora: Bioart Responses to Modernising Medical Microbiology.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. is now accepting proposals for its Turbulence.org Commissions Program. The deadline for New York practitioners is May 31, 2012; June 30, 2012 for everyone else. The Application Guidelines are here.

Turbulence.org is the oldest and most consistent net art commissions site in the world. Now celebrating 16 years it has commissioned, exhibited and archived over 200 works. We are also in the process of archiving the collection at the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. You can read about the project in Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital by Annet Dekker and Rachel Somers-Miles.

Please support this inspiring and important project! Local Autonomy Networks (Autonets) is a line of mesh networked electronic clothing with the goal of building autonomous local networks that don’t rely on corporate infrastructure to function, inspired by community based, anti-racist, prison abolitionist responses to gendered violence. The project is focused on creating networks of communication to increase community autonomy and reduce violence against women, LGBTQI people, people of color and other groups who continue to survive violence on a daily basis. The Autonets garments, when activated, will alert everyone in range of the the local mesh network who is wearing another autonet garment that someone needs help and will indicate that person’s direction and distance. More here.

Listen to KPFK’s interview with Micha Cárdenas:

ReLocate: Community Engagement and Solidarity :: Kivalina and Shishmaref, Alaska - Call For Civic Media Artist — Deadline: May 28, 2012. Continue reading

PLATFORM3: B∃SETZT– Discourse on Art, Politics and Aesthetics :: International Video Call — Deadline: June 1, 2012.

PLATFORM3 - Spaces for Contemporary Art is a unique, progressive art location in Munich. Since March 2009 it has been offering space for local as well as international exhibitions and discourse projects. It is a production location as well as experimental field for artists, young curators and culture managers.

In the summer of 2012 PLATFORM3 is organizing a series of events on the topic of occupying strategies in art. Besides lectures by experts and panel discussions, there will also be a screening on the topic of art in urban space. Continue reading

Deep Thought V.2 is an artificial intelligence machine, a futuristic fortune teller who uses Twitter as its memory center, from which extracted phrases to communicate in random and poetic way with its environment. Deep Thought analyzes brain signals with galvanic sensors, understanding moods from the variation of current in the skin. It then uses this information to generate searches inside its Twitter memory to find and select phrases to communicate.

Wanted tweets #dtv2: We seek people who share their deep thoughts, micro-poems, micro-philosophy and derivatives. This will help us to extend the memory of our fortune teller, poet, thinker, futurist, machine. Just add hashtag #dtv2 in your tweets.