25 September 2006
No. 43
EXHIBITIONS
Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, Mo
The Universal Symbol for Emptiness -Curated by Calvin Phelps, Los Angeles
Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, PA
EVENTS
Trampoline Nottingham, UK – Platform for New Media Art : Urban Play
FILM & VIDEO
AirVideo, Conjunction AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
GRANTS
Fondation Daniel Langlois, Grants for Researchers in Residence, Montreal, Quebec
POSITIONS
Assistant Painting Professor , Dept of Art at the Univ of CA
PROPOSALS
Pathogeographies - Feel Tank Chicago
PUBLIC ART
The Junction, Cambridge, UK
RESIDENCY Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York City
Akiyoshidai International Art Village residence program trans_2006-2007, Japan
EXHIBITIONS
Boots Contemporary Art Space, St. Louis, Mo
Seeking submission for exhibition and publication
Boot Print - a publication dedicated to contemporary art.
Commencing in 2007, Boot Print will serve as a bulletin board of cogitations, initiatives and information. Published by artists, Boot Print welcomes contributions that choose to discuss Art beyond the known institutional walls, geographical art centers, and parameters of the Artdome.
Boot Print invites contributors from all art corners of the world to illuminate the art activities, projects, theories, and convictions responsible for affecting you on a personal, political, socioeconomic or cultural level.
Boot print will consider: interviews, articles, reviews, critiques, researches, prose, caustic cartoons, and anecdotes. All this and more are wanted and appreciated. Submissions are welcomed by anyone sincerely involved in the promotion, production, and consumption of Contemporary Art. Visit the Boot Print page regularly for updates and calls for submissions.
Submission deadline for Boot Print issue No. 1: Friday, December 1, 2006.
Submission Guidelines
All contributors will be contacted once the final selection of texts is completed in December 2006.
For more information and questions contact boot print editor Georgia Kotretsos georgia@bootsart.com
Boots Contemporary Art Space seek submissions from Artists, Curators or Public Art Projects
Guidelines for Artists
Boots Contemporary Art Space reviews slides, videotapes and DVDs for artists wishing to have their work considered for future exhibition.
Guidelines for Curators or Public Art Projects
Boots Contemporary Art Space reviews proposals for Curators, Art Collectives or Public art project wishing to have their work considered for future exhibitions.
Information and question contact boots@bootsart.com
About Boots
Boots Contemporary Art Space is an art-laboratory on the south side of Saint Louis, Missouri. Located in the historic Antique Row District on Cherokee Street, this shotgun brick building was once a shoe repair shop in the early 1900's. The fading images of boots on the storefront served as the inspiration for the name.
As an artist run space our mission is to provide emerging to mid-career artists and curators, local, national, and international, with an art lab that will support them in creating and showcasing new work. We are in the process of planning a wide-range of programs and exhibitions that will stimulate a creative dialogue between the Saint Louis art community and the contemporary art world.
Boots Contemporary Art Space 2307 Cherokee St. Louis, MO 63118 314-772-BOOT(2668)
The Universal Symbol for Emptiness, Los Angeles
Curated by Calvin Phelps - fall 2006
If emptiness can be defined as "an experience of being without, of not having," then we have all, in our lives, experienced a form of emptiness. It is arguably a presupposed position starting from our birth and a state that we attempt to fill with experience throughout our lives. The state of emptiness is a point of beginning in both Eastern thought and Christianity, and can be seen alternatively as the ideal point of spaciousness and freedom or the point of crisis, deficiency and oppressiveness.
In psychoanalysis, C.G. Jung's concept of the collective unconscious refers to the part of a person's unconscious that is common to all people. Jung theorized that particular symbolic subject matter do exist across all cultures, through all time, and in every person. Is emptiness an unconscious part of us that can have a representative archetype? If so, what is it and how can it be depicted?
This exhibition tries to answer these questions, while raising more provocative ones. The work in this exhibition does not simply evoke the personal- psychoanalytical artists' response to trauma or loss, but looks at the various forms the void of emptiness can and does take.
More Information
Please submit images of works for consideration for this exhibition to Calvin Phelps, 411 S Main St #413, Los Angeles, CA 90013 or email mail@calvinphelps.com.
Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, PA
Deadline : November 30, 2006
The Bruce Gallery is a non-profit art space located on the ground floor of Doucette Hall on the campus of Edinboro University. It is funded through the Edinboro Student Government Association (SGA), with additional funding from the Edinboro Art Department and the Erie Council on the Arts. On average the gallery sponsors seven shows per academic year ranging from group shows to solo exhibitions of both emerging and established artists. We also accommodate our local and university population with annual faculty and student exhibitions and a juried high school exhibition on a biannual basis.
We provide a valuable service to the Northwestern Pennsylvania region via the introduction and exhibition of national-caliber artists. As our own art department is quite large, with an enrollment of 1,000 students, we are interested in an eclectic mixture of media and artistic expressions. Artists are chosen at the discretion of the gallery's director and the Bruce Gallery Board and an open “Call for Submissions” is posted annually. The 07/08 entry deadline is November 30, 2006 (postmarked).
The Bruce Gallery of Edinboro University is seeking qualified emerging and established artists for solo or small (2-3 person) exhibitions of our Board's compilation in the 2007/08exhibition season. Complete and documented curated exhibition proposals are also welcomed. All media, including installation are encouraged. Electronic hardware must be supplied by artist if applicable. Postmarked deadline is November 30, 2006. Please include 10 slides for visual work (DVD/CDR) acceptable for time- based work, etc., SASE, Artist Statement, CV and any other documentation to:
Bruce Gallery, c/o John Bavaro, Director, Doucette Hall, 215 Meadville Street, Edinboro, PA 16444.
Or contact : jbavaro@edinboro.edu
EVENTS
Trampoline Nottingham – Platform for New Media Art : Urban Play
Deadline: 23rd October 2006
Event to be held on 23rd November 2006
The city is paved with pixels, the flow of traffic becomes the flow of bits, the flow of people, the flow of electrons. Streets and circuit diagrams become meshed. The race has begun.
Each one of us becomes a player in the game of the city, furiously manipulating the control pad, tapping buttons, flicking switches. Leaping from platforms, scaling the walls – the concrete/media playground is before us.
Hurtling around corners, lunging up surfaces, shooting through the streets. Join the rush and surge of the city, find new ways to play the game.
Trampoline invites you to participate in ‘Urban Play’ a one day event held on 23rd November in Nottingham, UK. Its objective is to merge video gaming, art and design with the investigation of the city space. The structures of the city are increasingly pervaded by new media with screens, cctv, electronic networks, mobile devices, implements often designed to control our movement through urban space and even to remove us from our surroundings. We wish to investigate how new media can form an even tighter relationship with our immediate environment – challenge and subvert its conventional structures – hacking the city.
What we are looking for:
We are searching for work which explores urban space and methods of play, in particular projects which combine these areas in examining and utilising new media elements of the city. We invite you to submit proposals of urban games, creative computer games, video, interactive installation, audio guides, sound, music and performance – exploring play, gaming, new media and the city. We especially encourage the submission of participatory works which promote a high degree of audience involvement – this includes informal exploratory workshops as well as completed projects.
Key points to focus the proposal on are:
The relation between the work and the city
The element of play
Its encouragement of audience participation
How to Submit work:
Please fill in the Submission Form, downloadable here
Trampoline, 14-18 Broadway Media Centre, Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL, UK
FILM & VIDEO
AirVideo, Conjunction AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
Deadline : Ongoing
AirVideo is a series of artists’ film and video events co-curated by Matt Roberts of The Conjunction Group and Yu-Chen Wang of BasementArtProject.com. Each film and video programme will be based around an issue prevalent in contemporary video practice.
The events will take place at the Conjunction AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent on November 17th, 2006 and March 23rd and July 27th, 2007. If you would like your work to be considered please email airvideo@hotmail.co.uk for further details or submit your video (QuickTime 320x240 less than 3mins for preview) to submissions@basementartproject.com
GRANTS
Fondation Daniel Langlois, Grants for Researchers in Residence, Montreal, Quebec
Deadline : 31 October , 2006
Created in the spring of 1997 through a donation from Daniel Langlois, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology is a private, non-profit charitable organisation with international activities.
The Foundation aims to further artistic and scientific knowledge and understanding. Through its actions, it seeks to bring art and science closer together within a technological context. On the one hand, the Foundation nurtures a critical awareness of the impact of technology on human beings and their natural and cultural environments. On the other hand, it promotes the exploration of aesthetics suited for environments shaped by human beings.
The Foundation’s programs are designed to further learning among individuals, groups and organisations in order to promote new knowledge and new uses of digital media and information technology.
For the Foundation, the concept of knowledge is based on interactions among researchers, artists, scientists and other individuals, as well as organisations who are both the source and recipients of various forms of knowledge. It therefore also seeks to promote the emergence of knowledge founded on local practices that contribute to the growth and well-being of people in their communities and milieu.
A number of changes were recently made to this program, including the introduction of two research components: CR+D documentary collections and archival fonds and Information architecture and online publishing. As in previous years, the Daniel Langlois Foundation will award two research grants for 2007. The proposals selected will allow researchers to work at the Foundation's Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D). Anyone interested in submitting a research proposal is asked to read the new program guidelines, which can be found at:
[Guidelines - PDF format]
Please note: an online form is now available on our site and must be used by anyone wishing to apply for this program
For Complete Information
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology
3530 Saint-Laurent Blvd., Suite 402
Montreal, Quebec
H2X 2V1 Canada
Telephone: (514) 987-7177
Fax: (514) 987-7492
POSITIONS
Assistant Painting Professor , Dept of Art at the Univ of CA
Deadline Dec 31, 2006
Tenure track position for Assistant Professor in Painting available for the Dept of Art at the Univ of CA, Riverside, starting Jul 1, 2007.
Open to artists working in painting, possessing a broad understanding of contemporary visual arts. Must have MFA in studio art/painting with additional disciplinary focus in one of the following areas: photography, video/film, art theory, sculpture, installation, or 3-D.
PROFESSOR Must have significant exhibition history, broad understanding of history and contemporary practice within medium, and practical and theoretical implications of new technologies.
Responsibilities: participate in shaping curriculum that is inclusive of both technical and critical issues, teach 5 courses/academic year, and participate in the formation of other departmental planning. Salary commensurate with education & experience.
Please send applications with cover letter, CV, statement of teaching philosophy, adequate representation of production with supplemental material, 4 references, and SASE, for returns, to:
Professor Charles Long,
Painting Search,
Dept of Art UC
Riverside, 900 Univ Av 235 Arts Bldg,
Riverside CA 9252106ll15
PROPOSALS
Pathogeographies (or, other people’s baggage), Feel Tank Chicago
“At the Edge” series, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Deadline : Nov 01, 2006
Feel Tank is a Chicago collective that’s been taking the emotional temperature of the body politic for four years. We are now investigating the making of that temperature. We’re interested in the political potential of “bad feelings” like hopelessness, apathy, anxiety, fear, and numbness. For Pathogeographies, we’re also interested in other people’s baggage. The term “pathogeography” is modeled on the Situationists’ psychogeography but substitutes pathos (feeling) for psyche (the soul) to emphasize the emotional investments and ephemeral experiences circulating throughout the political and cultural landscape. We invite other collectives and individuals—artists and non-artists alike—to create “suitcases“ (real or imagined) carrying tools to create, collect, and record political/emotional scenes. Projects will take place in the city of Chicago and elsewhere. We ask only that you return something from your project to the gallery to be inspected, collated, discussed, distributed, and diverted to new uses. How do you carry your pile of political feelings, and how do you want to encourage others to carry theirs? We want to foment exuberant political imaginaries. To this end, we call on you, your ideas, energy, and participation.
The project will function in four parts: Raw Material, Moving Company, Slow Feeling, and the Body Politic. Raw Material will be a site in the gallery—a location where people can gather, discuss, brainstorm and work—and the aggregation of materials/tools that participants will bring and that Feel Tank will provide. Moving Company extends the project out into the pathopolitical world, as participants wander through the city or direct themselves to specific destinations, carrying suitcases/toolkits to make scenes and produce situations, conversations, and interventions. Slow Feeling, a space in the gallery, will include small temporary exhibitions, video screenings, memory banks and archives, a reading room, and an audio tent. Body Politic concludes the project, manifesting as projects in the gallery and as public happenings that coalesce and articulate the results of individual and collaborative projects/research. The project begins March 6-9 and reconvenes in and out of the gallery June 15-July 7. It will conclude July 4- 7, 2007 with the longawaited Fifth Annual International Parade of the Politically Depressed.
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: A CALL FOR SUITCASES
A suitcase may be large or small, real or conceptual. We define a suitcase as a container of any shape for a collection of tools, objects, instructions, necessities, and/or ideas that you want to activate. It might also contain emotional baggage, ripe for unpacking. Ideally, a suitcase will be accompanied by a willingness to carry out and document a Moving Company project for which it provides the tools. (These projects need not take place in Chicago.) It might contain Raw Material that visitors to the gallery can use as they wish. It might also, simply, be a list of instructions. Send a short description of what you have in mind to bodypolitic@gmail.com with the subject line “Suitcase” by November 1, 2006. Please limit it to no more than 250 words. We’ll be in touch about specifics/logistics.
A CALL FOR PROPOSALS for Slow Feeling
We’re also interested in proposals and suggestions for discussions, demonstrations, performances, videos, audio pieces, and projects for Slow Feeling events (not all of them slow). Please send ONLY a short proposal of no more than 250 words with the subject line “Slow Feeling” to bodypolitic@gmail.com, by November 1, 2006
Preliminary call for proposals ONLY.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND ACTUAL WORK OR DOCUMENTATION AT THIS TIME!
PDF Call
More Information
PUBLIC ART
The Junction, Cambridge, UK
Deadline : 29 September, 2006
The Junction in Cambridge, UK, is seeking to commission an artist (individual or collective) to produce an innovative and exciting high profile public artwork encompassing new technologies for the south façade of its original auditorium. This is the second of two commissions funded by Turnstone Partners and Arts Council England East for the site, the first being Bins and Benches by Greyworld in 2005. Expressions of interest are invited from artists, to be received before the 1st October 2006.
The budget for this commission is £60,000 (to include fee, production and installation costs).
For more information, including a detailed brief, please click here
RESIDENCY
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York City
Deadline : November 01, 2006
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York City offers two exciting opportunities for individual artists as part of their Artist In Residence programs. Please forward this to artists who might be interested in applying.
Detailed information, eligibility requirements and application forms can be found on our website
a) New Works Residencies 2007
The Harvestworks Artist In Residence Program offers commissions of up to $4000 to make a new work in our state of the art digital media facility. Each artist receives a $700 fee with the balance of the award posted in a' "facilities account" which is used to manage and produce the work. The artist works with a team comprised of a project manager, engineer and programmer (if required).
New works may include the creation of a new video work with a surround sound audio mix, audio recording and mastering of a surround sound piece, the creation of a new web art work and the development of a live interactive music/video/installation system using Max/MSP/Jitter. Up to 12 residencies will be selected (depending on project size and funding) along with two alternates in the event any resident artist cannot participate. Priority will be given to the creative use of the Harvestworks' production facility and the innovative use of sound and/or picture. Emerging artists and artists of color are encouraged to apply.
b) VanLier Residency 2007 for Young Digital Media Artists
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center is offering two Van Lier Internships to eligible young digital media artists at the post- graduate level living in New York City. Each internship carries a stipend of $6,000 and a $4,000 facilities account to create work in the Harvestworks audio and multi-media studios.
Artists are expected to create a new work in our studios and interface with our staff on career development and community projects. Projects are expected to take six months to one year.
Funded by the Van Lier Foundation of the New York Community Trust, the internships are intended to advance the professional development of post-graduate digital media artists who have few financial and technical resources, and to promote diversity, equity and access in the arts.
Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible with funds from mediaThe foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund, The Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, JP Morgan Chase Foundation and the Rodney White Foundation.
HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St)
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212-431-1130
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleeker, W/R Prince
Akiyoshidai International Art Village residence program trans_2006-2007, Japan
Deadline : 30 September, 2006
"trans" is a prefix which means go beyond,get across,cross,change and convert.The Residence Program creates a place for the artists' new encounters and experiments for their future activities.The artists will acquire the new ideas through their encounter with the culture and the people of the area where they stay.And they in turn will give new views and ideas to the local citizens.After the residence program,the artists will convey their experience based on the vernacular life style and its typical geographic conditions to the place where they will visit in the world.We hope the residency program,the at the Akiyoshidai International Art Village will provide the field where they can go beyond the boeders of their cultures,exchange their thoughts and communicate with each other.
Residency period: January 10 - March 20,2007
Acceptable applicants: Young and un- established artists[no limitations on disciplines and specific age]
Conditions for application:
Artists who are able to stay in the art village for the designated period of time.
Artists who are willing to cooperate our project such as lectures, workshop, school visiting and exhibition.
Artists who are able to speak English.
Artists who will cooperate to publicity of AIAV to cooperate to be taken documentation of the working processes.
Artists who are willing to cooperate the collaborative education program between the Art University in Yamaguchi.
More information and application forms
