New Music USA’s New Grantmaking Strategy Drives Online Curation :: New program funds projects and promotes them through an online showcase, giving artists tools to connect with the world ::

In fall 2013, New Music USA will open a new chapter in public advocacy for new music. The organization will reconfigure five current grantmaking programs into a unified channel of support for a wide range of new music projects. Awarded applications will be promoted on newmusicusa.org and offer a new way for the public to connect with artists. Continue reading

Marler Media Art Awards 2013 :: © Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Creiler Platz 1, Rathaus
D-45768 Marl, Germany :: Call for entries :: Submission deadline: 17 May 2013
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Since 1984 the Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten Marl has hosted the Video Art Award, and since 2002 the Sound Art Award, which will be further developed to the EUROPEAN SOUNDART AWARD. Continue reading

Dear Friends,

We need your support! Donations are tax-deductible for US Residents.

About to embark on its 33rd year, New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. — an independent not-for-profit organization founded in New York City — continues to commission networked art for its world-renowned website Turbulence.org (1996-): its over 220 works span a crucial 16-year period of exploration and innovation in digital networked environments, ranging from hypertext to data visualization, blogs to social networks, and interactive dance/musical compositions to 3-D architecture and iPhone apps.

The following commissions launched in 2012:

• We Ping Good Things To Life: An Interactive Networked Installation in 5 Acts by Ephraim & Sadie Hatfield
• Space Video by Kate Armstrong and Michael Tippett
• Searching for Michelle/SFM by Maja Kalogera
• Memorial Project for Jobbers’ Canyon Built with ConAgra Products by Nicholas O’Brien
• Awkward_NYC, or New York City Map of Awkward Social Interactions in Public Spaces by Zannah Marsh
• Word Market by Belen Gache
• Crow_Sourcing by Andy Deck
• WoodEar by Peter Traub
• Panemoticon by Ali Miharbi and John Priestley

L-Carrier, by Eli Keszler, was installed and performed at Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, and Chris Mann’s Public Works was performed at Issue Project Room.

Launching in 2013 are:

“Nothing You’ve Done” by Jason Nelson; “iSKY-TV” by iKatun; “Constellations over Playas” by Joe Moore; “Mark-It” by Esmerelda Kosmatopolous; “Submersible” by Yotam Mann; and “Valley of the Deer” by Jillian Mcdonald.

Andy Deck and Zannah Marsh will participate in a panel discussion about artistic uses of participatory media at Harvestworks. And Peter Traub will exhibit “WoodEar” at Pace Digital Gallery.

Please help us keep doing what we’re doing by making a donation via PayPal on http://turbulence.org or by sending a check to:

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
124 Bourne Street
Roslindale, MA 02131
United States of America

We wish you all a peaceful and prosperous 2013.

Warmly,

Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green
Co-Directors

PS: Connect with us on Facebook (turbulence.org; nrpa.org) and on Twitter.

Share your ideas for the next generation of musical instruments at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition.

An annual event to find the world’s best new ideas in musicality, design and engineering, Wired magazine has called the competition an “X-Prize for music,” and contestants have likened it to a TED Conference for new musical instrument designers.

Submissions are being accepted online until November 15, 2012. Preliminary and final performances will take place in Atlanta April 11-12, 2013, where contestants will battle for $10,000 in cash prizes.
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Live Interfaces: Performance, Art, Music :: September 7-8, 2012 :: ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds, East Yorkshire LS2 9JT, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland :: Registration until August 30, £30 for both days.

Live Interfaces is an international conference on research and practice in live performance technology. The conference seeks to investigate cross-disciplinary understandings of performance technology with a particular focus on issues related to the notion of liveness in interaction. A preliminary programme with a list of papers and performances is available here.

Here is a summary of the conference structure: Continue reading

Call for Papers:: The Status Of Sound: Writing Histories Of Sonic Art :: Due August 15, 2012 :: Notification: September 1, 2012

Is “sound art” defined more by the medium of sound or the context of art? It is with this deceptively simple question that we invite papers for The Status of Sound: Writing Histories of Sonic Art, an interdisciplinary conference on sound art and experimental music to be hosted at the Graduate Center, City University of New York on Friday, November 30, 2012, with Dr. Christoph Cox, Hampshire College, serving as the moderator for a roundtable of eminent scholars, composers, and artists including David Grubbs, Branden Joseph, and Marina Rosenfeld. Continue reading

((( MUME 2012 ))) :: 1st International Workshop on Musical Metacreation :: to be held at the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE’12) :: Stanford, Palo Alto, California, USA :: October 9, 2012 :: Deadline for Paper and Demo Submissions extended to: July 15, 2012 :: Continue reading

MutaMorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty :: International Conference :: December 6-8, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic :: Reminder of the Call for Abstracts :: We invite you to respond to the Tribute to Uncertainty theme and/or to address one of the 21 streams of interest led by 28 conference Attractors :: Do you have something original to say about our world that is increasingly fuzzy, unstable and chaotic? Are you interested in how crisis, uncertainty and complexity can come together in order to question the known as well as predict and/or model yet unknown? Do you want to share projects intrinsically linking domains of scientific, artistic and technological research and creativity that can be introduced as relevant tools for better understanding of our common future? Deadline: July 1, 2012 :: Continue reading

ISEA2013 :: Open Call for Artwork :: ISEA 2013 Sydney: Resistance is Futile :: Deadline: Friday, 6th August 2012 (midnight) ::

ISEA 2013 will be held in Sydney from 7th to 16th June 2013 and will consist of exhibitions, performances, symposium and public events. It will also support residencies and associated events throughout regional NSW and across Australia leading into and out of the core event.

This is our open call for artwork from individual and International artists or organisations wishing to present work in association with ISEA 2013. The deadline for this call is Friday, 6th August 2012. Continue reading

Live Interfaces: Performance, Art, Music :: September 7-8, 2012 :: ICSRiM, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK :: On-line submissions now open :: Live Coding workshop with Thor Magnusson :: Special Issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) :: Related conferences - TaPRA and ICMC ::

1. Online Submissions now open: If you would like to present a paper or performance during the conference, please submit a proposal in abstract form at: http://lipam.lurk.org/ Please use the provided template, and note the requirements detailed on the website.The deadline for both papers and performance proposals is 17th June, 2012. Continue reading