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OPEN CALL - culturia | residency | Berlin

culturia Berlin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:38:45 -0500

culturia | residency | Berlin | open call
residency for artists and researchers
deadline: 26th February 2012
residency period: 1st May – 31st July 2012
culturia is a residency program based in Berlin

brief introduction to culturia
culturia has been building its networks since 2005 and has progressively changed from a residency using temporary spaces in Berlin to develop into
an experimental place where the practice of exploring artistic process became the concept.

idea and program
culturia is a twofold: an art residency and a non-material collection. Strategically declining in its approach to pure studio practice, culturia
invites artists to present projects in close relation between process and presentation.
The main point of the program is to enhance the internal development of the artist during the short-term residency, which can be more valuable
than a production of new objects.

Following this vision culturia has opened, parallel to the realization of the artist’s proposal, a construction of a document that seeks for the understanding of an ideal point of view on art. Here, the approach and medium are chosen by the artist as long as the statement remains “visible” to others.

The non-material collection is used with agreement of artists to safeguard a record of their singular point of view. Gathered materialwill be used for retrospective exhibitions and other eligible events.

open to
Artists and researchers. No restrictions on media.

culturia offers
-Room, simple set up
-Access to culturia partners (workshop services, show rooms, artists, curators and art platforms)
-Offered co-working space
-No studio space is provided

costs
-Total cost of the three month residency is €675
(this is paid in 3 instalments of €225 at the beginning of each month)
-Deposit: 100 € (returned to the resident upon departure)

accommodation information
The hosting place has 4 individual rooms, living room, balcony, kitchen and the necessary equipment to live (washing machine, oven, fridge, Wi-Fi internet connection…). Rooms have the basics: bed and desk (no bedding is given).

expectation
An engaged and responsible development of the proposal in the residency timeframe

deadline for application

Applications for residency period from 1st May – 31st July 2012 will be accepted until 26th February 2012 (closing time for applications - 6pm)

documentation required
In order to apply you must provide the following:

-A completed application form: http://culturia.de/application-form/
-Personal data
-Project proposal (max. 1000 characters)
-Motivation statement (max. 500 characters)
-CV
-Documentation of previous works: website
-Additional PDF or digital data – max 10 MB, must be sent to application@culturia.de

The submission process will close on 26th February 2012 and decisions will be announced on 4th March 2012.

For more information on upcoming deadlines for the remainder of 2012, please visit http://culturia.de/application/

if you have any queries please contact
culturia / Soldiner str. 92, 13359 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 (30) 21464692
E-Mail: info@culturia.de
Web: www.culturia.de

Ageless Male

Carolardsn — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:15:34 -0500

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They Call Me Theirs

Catherine Forster — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:49:25 -0500

They Call Me Theirs addresses man’s desire to mediate the natural environment through technology. Forster’s multi-media project includes sound, sculpture, video and inkjet prints mounted on aluminum panels. By creating an audiovisual experience of the four seasons and placing them inside a rustic cabin, Forster plays with the way we have come to understand and experience nature.

The title of the work is taken from a line in the poem “Hamatreya” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which questions man’s desire to claim ownership of the land that is inherently owned by nature. In the poem, the Earth responds, “How am I theirs, / If they cannot hold me, / But I hold them?”

Similarly, the exhibition holds a sound-insulated cabin or shrine for the viewer to enter. A handcrafted hardwood box containing a small personal monitor with images of the four seasons sits inside. Two different cacophonous soundtracks play from both the interior and exterior of the cabin, highlighting the tension between the realities of the two environments.

Exterior to the cabin is a hanging garden:
“Beckoning with its strong, curving branches, verdant foliage and draping vines of—paint? Forster extracted images of trees from her own digital film stills, then modified them manually with drips and squiggles of paint reminiscent of Jackson Pollock, before digitizing the final images and printing them on aluminum sign panels. Forster tidily encapsulates the human experience of nature in all its artificial glory. (Karen Huang, Newcity Chicago)

Streaming Museum Presents Reflections on John Cage’s Influence on the Arts and Mass Culture

Streaming Museum — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:43:10 -0500

John Cage had a profound impact on the arts and mass culture according to architect Frank Gehry, who reflects upon Cage's legacy in the 1993 film Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam John Cage. In the film, directed by Henning Lohner, Gehry notes that Cage questioned conventions "and in questioning them he was questioning our lives and our world around us.”

In this spirit, Streaming Museum launched a John Cage Centennial Tribute on February 1, featuring John Cage and a collection of visual and sound art and stories by contemporary multi-media artists he has influenced. Inviting further questioning and reflections, this month the museum will present two exclusive screenings of this unique "composed film."

The entire Tribute program will be on view at StreamingMuseum.org through 2012 and select works will be exhibited in public spaces later this year. The Composers Now Festival, founded by internationally renowned composer/conductor, Tania Leon, will feature Streaming Museum’s online program through February 29th. The Festival, now in its third season, is the product of ongoing collaboration between cultural centers throughout NYC who present performances of music by living composers. Post-performance discussions with the composers constitute an important aspect of the programming, engaging audience members and furthering appreciation.

Streaming Museum’s Tribute program

Exclusive screenings of The Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam John Cage (1993) by filmmaker Henning Lohner, sponsored by Mode Records.
February 12 at 2 pm
February 18 at 8pm
Both @ StreamingMuseum.org

Video program curated by Artist / inventor Tom Shannon including Sea-Tails (1983), a film installation by Jackie Matisse, David Tudor, Hillary Davies; and the premiere of 6 AV, by Tom Kovachevich.

The premiere of Notations 21, a video that includes a collection of interviews, music and scores by composers presented in Notations 21, a book by Theresa Sauer inspired by John Cage’s book Notations (1969). Featured composers include Keren Rosenbaum, Joseph Pignato, Michael J. Schumacher, John Kannenberg, Chris Chalfant. The Notations 21 video also offers an opportunity to view and hear scores by composers around the world including Jennifer Walshe, Makoto Nomura, Halim El-Dabh, Takayuki Rai, Guilliermo Gregorio, Rajesh Mehta, Leon Schidlowsky, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Earle Brown and others.

Streaming Museum's Tribute presents visual and sound art and stories about John Cage’s lasting influence on subsequent generations including Cage collaborators William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, Joel Chadabe, Emanuel Pimenta; and multi-media artists, ADACHI Tomomi, Phil Dadson, Lesley Flanigan, Richard Garet, Loris Greaud, Martha Mooke, Marcin Ramocki, Phillip Stearns, Stephen Vitiello, Monika Weiss.

Artists will be joining the program throughout the year.

CONTACT:
Tanya Toft
Tanya@StreamingMuseum.org

ON VIDEOS for hours and hours

alessandra arnò — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:18:25 -0500

ON VIDEOS for hours and hours
Curated by: VisualContainer Italian Videoart Platform
Idea of: Giancarlo Sciascia
Arte Boccanera Gallery, Trento, Italy

Press Conference:25 February 2012, h 11.30 AM
Screening Video: 25 February 2012, h 3.00 PM

25 feb - 3 march 2012

ON VIDEOS for hours and hours
curated by VisualContainer

A day dedicated to the actual trends of national and international videoart.With screenings from a compilation about the identity of the present-day video languages and times of conversation with the curators.

On the grounds of direct comparisons with art professionals and practitioners, it is apparent that videoart is a form of contemporary art that, despite existing for over fifty years, has not yet been assimilated by the art audience in our country, even though they are familiar with the most important art galleries.
In particular, it is possibly even more difficult to keep up with the video offerings of our very days, as a most diverse range of languages and proposals files under the name of videoart, from the most conceptual expressions to the contamination with performance, audio-visual multimedia research and artist’s film.
Whatever such expression may be, videoart is an art form increasingly in vogue in the contemporary scene as being very similar to the communication and social issues of our time and capable of showing artworks that are completely in tangency with the aesthetic and poetic values in current painting and photography.
On such basis, VisualContainer believes that the opportunity to spend a whole day at the Arte Boccanera Contemporanea gallery introducing and discussing the most recent Italian videoart production would be a truly valuable and stimulating opportunity.

ON VIDEOS for hours and hours therefore proposes a special videoart and new media screening, aimed at providing an overview of the possible aesthetic and poetic sceneries of videoart at the beginnig of the third Millennium, by presenting a selection of works produced in the last three years.
Of course, it is very very difficult to demarcate the precise boundaries of contemporary art research and propose final categories with certainty, also because, as above mentioned, the essence of videoart lies in the continuous movement of expressive formulas, but it seems rather reasonable to tell at least 9 categories that could identify what is being proposed by the artists in Italy in the first decade of Y2K, in absolute tangency with what’s also presented at an international level.

For every time, there is a zeitgeist and video art, like the other forms of contemporary art, is once again so abreast of it to provide the most expressive and questioning voice, as very well expressed by the screening on show. Giorgio Fedeli

Presented Artists: Alfred Dong, Alessandra Arno', Luca Christian Mander, Albert Merino, Barbara Agreste, Rita Casdia, Riccardo Arena, Cristobal Catalan, Jacopo Jenna, Barbara Brugola, Natalia Saurin, Valentina Ferrandes, Pascal Caparros, Sabrina Muzi, Maria Korporal, Marzia Moretti, Enrico Bressan.

Galleria Boccanera
via Milano 128/130 Trento, Italy
Info: +39 0461 984206 | +39 340 5747013
info@arteboccanera.com | www.arteboccanera.com

www.visualcontainer.org

Open Call for artists’ film & video works - Sheffield Fringe

sheffieldfringe — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:48:48 -0500

Sheffield Fringe is inviting artist filmmakers from, or living in South Yorkshire, to submit works for their 2012 artists’ film and video screening series in June.

Sheffield Fringe is an artist-led curatorial project, exploring the confluence point between art & documentary practice. It was first staged as a nano festival in June 2011 to coincide with Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Sheffield Fringe was born out of a desire to create a platform dedicated to an expansive understanding of how we make and view documentaries, incorporating a multitude of suggested strategies of reform, coming in particular out of the fine art sector.
Much variation can be sited in how artists and filmmakers approach the use of actuality as a creative, political, and philosophical means for art production. We are looking for works, which inspire dialogues and playful critiques of the documentary form, of documentation, performance and spectatorship.

A selection of the Sheffield Fringe programme will be screened at MAMBA (Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires), and again at Angus-Hughes Gallery in London as part of a touring programme. The selection is headed by Esther Johnson.

ENTRY GUIDELINES
Please send film/video entries on PAL or Region Free DVD to:

Sheffield Fringe
c/o Dingo Bill Productions
58 Charlotte Road
London EC2A 3QT
UK 

Alternatively please email info@sheffieldfringe.com with a weblink to your works.

Only the following information is required along with your film/video work:

Title:
Year:
Running time:
Format:
Synopsis (max 50 words):
Website:

–There is no entry fee, or restrictions in year of production, or in number of works submitted.
–Individual works must not exceed 30 min. in total running time.
–Exhibition/screening copies must be available on Pal/Region Free DVD.
–Unfortunately we are unable to give feedback on works not selected.

Deadline: 9th March 2011

The Unstitute: AAS Residency Launch

The Unstitute — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:17:32 -0500

The Unstitute
www.theunstitute.org

NON-PHYSICAL RESIDENCY #2
AAS - RECEIVERS TEMPLE
08.02.2012-08.05.2012

Welcome Receiver of The Eternal Drone!
You may have been drawn here after experiencing an audio ritual to prepare you, or you may have had a spontaneous gnosis, but now your Third Ear is open and you are ready to receive The Eternal Drone.

The Eternal Drone is the infinitely slow sound of the universe, born in the Big Bang with space and time, which it binds together. The Eternal Drone is the ground from which all other sound arises.  

Please send your Third Ear experiences, text, drawings, photos, video, or anything else the Eternal Drone inspires you to submit, to tools.and.principles@gmail.com. Video can be from a mobile phone or basic camera, as the intensity and atmosphere of these collective activities are what really counts. Selected footage may be included here or on the Tools & Principles of Transformation on All Levels blog, to help inform and educate other Receivers.

http://tools-and-principles.blogspot.com/

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB5249ECC44A7A616&feature=plcp

NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Season II 2012

narsfoundation — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:47 -0500

NARS International Artist Residency Program provides national and international artists with the opportunity to produce new work while engaging with the vibrant arts community in New York City. Artists-in-residence have access to an individual studio space and various professional development programs. Residents have an opportunity to share and present their work through artist talks, workshops, and lectures and receive studio visits by prominent New York City curators, critics and gallerists. The NARS Foundation seeks applications on two levels. The first level includes emerging and mid-career artists, for whom appointments as residents may make a significant impact on their careers. The second level consists of artists with established national and/or international reputations for whom a change of environment may offer refreshment and inspiration. Applications and submissions guidelines are available for download from our website: narsfoundation.org
Applications must be delivered to the office by April 6, 2012. Please note that this is not a postmark date. All application and support materials must be submitted to the NARS office no later than 5pm. A non-refundable application fee of $35 (US) is required with each application.

Call for videos - Festival Miden - 2012

festivalmiden — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:41:30 -0500

Video Art Festival Miden invites all video artists and video creators to participate in this year’s events, which will take place, like the past years, in public spaces at the Historic Centre of the city of Kalamata, Greece, in July 2012.

The festival call is open to every creator (individuals, groups or organizations) of any nationality and background.

The proposed video can be of any genre (video art, experimental video, animation, short movie etc.). Duration under 10 min.

There is no entry fee.

Deadline: March 15, 2012

In its 8th realization, along with the main program, Festival Miden wishes to present the following additional special showcases:
- a special theme program entitled “99%”
- a special theme program entitled “2084”
- a special theme program entitled “(un)natural disaster”
- a special theme program entitled “You and i”
- a special theme program entitled “Celebrating”

Festival Miden also invites artists and creators who come from, have lived or have any kind of love-hate relationship with the city Kalamata (GR) to submit works for the continuous theme program entitled “Local Calling!”. The program aims to create a communication network between artists that are connected or related to Kalamata (the birth city of the festival) in any way.

Please forward this information to any artist whose work fits into these areas.

More info (entry regulations and entry form)at http://www.festivalmiden.gr/prosklisi_eng.html

E-mail: info[at]festivalmiden.gr

OBJECTS ON MY DRESSER: ARTIST TALK AND PERFORMANCE With Sonya Rapoport and Dr. Revathi Vikram

Mills College Art Museum — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:39:24 -0500

As part of MCAM’s current exhibition, Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport, Sonya Rapoport and Dr. Revathi Vikram, psychiatrist, come together to explore the artist's memories of her past work and the life experiences that give her work context. Central to this discussion is Rapoport’s ongoing work Objects On My Dresser: Shared Dynamics, an interactive “netweb plot” from which connections between symbols, words and ideas are made. Over the course of the exhibition, gallery visitors have been invited to participate in this work by manipulating and customizing a new “netweb plot.” Dr. Revathi will analyze the recorded actions and motivations that have created this new plot in an effort to determine a collective Mills consciousness.

This performance with Dr. Revathi is an updating of Rapoport’s original collaboration with psychologist Winifred de Vos.

Spaces of Life: The Art of Sonya Rapoport

Mills College Art Museum — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:35:06 -0500

The art of Sonya Rapoport has long operated as a bridge between the public sphere of intellectual curiosity and scholarship, and the domestic one of spiritual inquiry and nurturing. Spaces of Life presents a group of Rapoport’s interactive works, created between 1980-2010, that function in the intersection between questioning and inviting.

All Women Art Exhibition Now Online and Ready to View

John R Math — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:22:05 -0500

An art competition was held in January 2012 which determined and judged the art for this exhibition. The gallery received submissions from 21 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 39 different states. Overall, there were 1,219 entries that were judged for this art competition. Due to the volume of entries, the gallery decided to create 4 media categories and make awards for each, along with an Overall Category which was selected from the 4 media categories.

Congratulations to the artists who have been designated as this month’s category winners, along with the winning Special Recognition artists. The gallery commends all of the winning artists for their artistic skill and their creativity, as this online art exhibition is indicative of their creativity.

To proceed to the gallery’s “All Women” online art exhibition go to this link: http://www.lightspacetime.com/all-women-art-exhibition-february-2012

"MAR DE FONDO" Gallery Exhibition

ADC CONTEMPORARY & BUILDING BRIDGES Internatio — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:27:29 -0500

“MAR DE FONDO” a solo exhibition by JORGE SARSALE
February 18th- March 25th, 2012

First Prize: International Open Call Building Bridges 2011
Selected by the International Jury: Lisa Melandri – Brent Turner – Laura Feinsilber – Evelyn Pener – and Jaime Delfin Villafuerte

Opening Reception: February 18th, 2012 at 6 pm.
Sponsored by: Consulate General of Argentina in Los Angeles.

ADC Contemporary & Building Bridges International Art Exchange presents “MAR DE FONDO” by Argentinean artist Jorge Sarsale. Mr.
Sarsale graduated from the school of Architecture-UBA in 1978. He has made many solo as well as group exhibitions all over Buenos Aires,
Spain and USA.

"MAR DE FONDO" is a metaphor in Spanish indicating a latent uneasiness.
All this body of work is generated around the installation ESO, installation selected by the International Jury as a first prize for the International
Building Bridges Open Call 2011.

Working with Buenos Aires' printed phone guides and exhibits them in LA, refers to the common destiny between the two cities, Buenos Aires
and Los Angeles, both territories immigration and emigration.

re-new / IMAC 2012

Lars Graugaard — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:24:08 -0500

CYBERNETICS REVISITED – TOWARDS A THIRD ORDER?

re-new / IMAC 2012 has now opened the call for proposals of papers and artistic works. The submission deadline is March 1st, and the event takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark on

November 19-24 2012

The combined media art and conference event is a critical and inclusive project that addresses the use of interactive media in art and everyday use. It combines a reflective attitude with an active approach and it is transversal in that it goes across institution profiles, production formats and consumption segments. The scope includes conferences, workshops, featured keynotes, video programs, installations and performative works. re-new / IMAC is always looking for persons and projects that help steer and scrutinize the vast and ever-expanding realm of contemporary culture.

The overall theme for re-new / IMAC 2012 will frame cybernetics in the un-controlled/-controllable organizations that penetrate and immerse contemporary mankind and society. Interaction, autonomy, innateness, emergence, meta materials, self-construction and -organization are among the factors that contribute to the field.

Proposals
Proposals of maximum 2 pages can be made for full papers, posters and demos in these categories:

(Norbert) Wiener Classic
Cybernetics and (urban) politics
Bio-cybernetics
Interactive media art – towards a ‘third order’?

Artworks
Artistic submission are accepted in all categories relevant to the event theme, with special emphasis on interactive media art forms - performative, installation, participative, collaborative, distributed in sound/music, visual, haptic and cross-media.

For detailed information and submission procedure please go to http://www.re-new.org.

re-new / IMAC 2012 is organized by re-new digital arts forum in collaboration with Aalborg University.

The Antagonist

watersdie contmporary 2 Clunbury Str London N1 6TT — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:10:05 -0500

The Antagonist

Sanam Khatibi, Daniel Medina, Jamie Shovlin

waterside contemporary is pleased to present The Antagonist, an exhibition in which the artists, the viewers and the characters trade their places.
Using the quotidian, the historical and the fictional, the artists explore situations in which subject and object become synonymous. In painting, the archive, and the readymade, the works reflect on personal loss, political power and the ego. Each of these inquiries introduces ambivalence to the conventional producer – consumer – content relationship.
Daniel Medina scrutinises systems which govern both the broad and minute aspects of life – from political borders to individual self-regard. His work dissects maps, plans and images in an unfamiliar way, re-assembling them into systems that require viewers to assume alternative frames of reference and dimensions. In New Order, for instance, the world is re-composed as in a puzzle game, without apparent reason, but with inevitable logic. Medina de-stabilises our pop-experience by setting in motion conflicting sentiments and familiar surfaces. Espejo (Mirror), a sculptural hoax, returns to the viewer his own reflection, but only fleetingly and without certainty. IS/ON, composed of election campaign badges, sets itself in spin until any political attitude loses currency. Once complete, the works place viewer and artists on par, requiring each to select a role – or multiple roles – in the new world-order.
Jamie Shovlin’s Secondaries appears to be a careful presentation of an archive of historical artefacts relating to American history. Close inspection, however, reveals that the sources are rooted as much in fact as in personal memory, that their authenticity is superficial, and that the records are reproductions. Addressing a political era which Shovlin experienced only as a legacy of cultural experiences, the artist assumes authority of historian-curator, employing a pseudo-scientific research method, before revealing that his knowledge is inherited and his perceptions are those of a private citizen. Any reader of this archive is obliged to replicate Shovlin’s own method, taking on multiple points of view at once, and becoming an actor of collective memory.
Sanam Khatibi’s paintings and drawings, while emanating from the world of the fairytale, the infantile and the magical, often depict figures and landscapes in a state of anxiety, hurt and anguish. Through the exploration of how trauma marks everyday experience, Khatibi explores the way that individual experience forms external and collective identity. Khatibi’s subjects are caught in a duality of power and failure, splendour and fragility. The paintings offer few clues as to the cause of their characters’ plight. Denied an explanation and without a sense of direction, they are to be justified, perhaps along with the viewer and the author – in proclaiming I didn’t feel a thing, as in the title of one of Khatibi’s works which features horse-racing jockeys thrown into the air and detached from the animals, gravity or obstacle. Externalising the reassuring narratives, Khatibi forces the viewer to take on the roles of her subjects, and seek motive and reason on their own.
Extending the casual author - artwork – audience relationship, the artists are at once creators and actors, taking on both heroic and less clear-cut roles. As antagonists, they perform anxieties, fallibility and irrationality. Looking on, we are drawn to take a part in the action too. We realise that we are part of the system we act in, and that Khatibi’s disquiet, Shovlin’s historical process and Medina’s territorial self-reflection are just as much our own.

2 March – 14 April 2012 
Private view Thursday 1 March, 6-9pm

Opening times during exhibitions:
Wednesdays-Saturdays: 12-6pm 
First Thursdays: 12-9pm and by appointment.

HMK {Hotel MariaKapel} presents: LASTMINUTE 2012

office12 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:57:03 -0500

Call deadline: 21st February 2012
Residency: 1 March – 1 April 2012

HMK offers a unique LASTMINUTE residency opportunity for visual artists (or collectives)

This spring, HMK opens up a short window of opportunity for visual artists who have an extraordinary project lying around, just waiting to be executed.

If selected, your residency starts on March 1st, and will be finished on Sunday April 1st, with a finissage. HMK will help you find the networks and resources necessary to complete your work and offers you full and free use of all residency facilities, an empty chapel, a small production budget of 1000 Euros, and a travel reimbursement of (up to) 500 Euros. HMK will also take care of PR and the finissage.

Last year, Edwin Stolk was selected for HMK's LASTMINUTE residency. During his stay at HMK, he further developed his concept of 'The Organisation' and used the MariaKapel as his main office.

To apply for the HMK LASTMINUTE residency, send your applicationform to office@hotelmariakapel.nl before February 21st. Application guidelines can be read HERE. Applicationform can be downloaded HERE.

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HMK {Hotel MariaKapel}
HMK is an artist-run residency and project space in Hoorn, a 16th century town by the IJsselmeer, just 40 km north of Amsterdam. In the old center of the town, in a mediaeval orphanage with adjacent inner garden and Maria Chapel, HMK receives artists from all over the world.

Hotel Mariakapel has grown from the ideal to create a concentrated work- and presentation place, where dialogue and collaboration inform experimental, context-based visual art projects. It was set up and is still run by a dedicated team of artists, assisted by local and international volunteers.

The programme involves artists working in a wide range of media, focusing on installation and context based work, video/film and performance art. Projects are developed both in public space and in the chapel’s exhibition space. Artists arrive on an individual basis or in groups, but the aim is always to create new work and during the process, gain from each other’s vision, questions and experience.

NYFA interviews Ecology, Art, + Technology Collaborative, ecoarttech

leila christine nadir — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:33:32 -0500

http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=912&fid=5&sid=156

About ecoarttech:
Leila Nadir and Cary Peppermint started their collaborative to explore environmental issues and convergent media from an interdisciplinary perspective. ecoarttech explores what it means to be a modern ecological being amidst networked environments, including biological systems, global cultural exchanges, international commerce, industrial grids, digital networks, and the world wide web. Merging primitive with emergent technologies, Leila and Cary investigate the overlapping terrain between “nature,” built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces. ecoarttech recently completed commissions for the Whitney Museum of American Art, Turbulence.org of New Radio & Performing Arts, and University of North Texas and has exhibited and lectured at MIT Media Lab, Banff New Media Institute, Smackmellon Gallery, European Media Art Festival, Exit Art Gallery, and Neuberger Museum of Art.

Leila earned her PhD in literature from Columbia University in 2009 and was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities at Wellesley College in 2010-2011. Cary is Assistant Professor of Digital Art at University of Rochester and has created new media art for over twenty years. For more info, visit www.ecoarttech.net.

Love Photo

Con Artist — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:04:48 -0500

A Valentines Day Photo Exhibition
Dedicated to New York City

Love Photo
by Kanako Pine

kanakophoto.com

artport redesign and new commissions: Ursula Endlicher's Sunrise / Sunset and Scott Snibbe's Tripolar app

Christiane Paul — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:08:22 -0500

Visit the redesigned artport @ http://whitney.org/artport
Launched in 2002, the original artport website is being gradually integrated into the museum’s current website, as individual projects are updated.

NEW COMMISSIONS

Scott Snibbe’s Tripolar, originally commissioned by the Whitney for its 2002 CODeDOC exhibition, is now available as an iPhone and iPad app. Tripolar animates the tangled, abstract, and ever-changing forms a pendulum makes as it swings over a magnetic base. It is available from the iTunes store and via the artist’s website: http://www.snibbe.com/store/2012/01/22/tripolar-release/.

Ursula Endlicher's Light and Dark Networks is a new work for Sunrise / Sunset (http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/Artport/Commissions/SunriseSunset), a series of Internet art projects commissioned by the Whitney specifically for whitney.org to mark sunset and sunrise in New York City every day. Unfolding over a timeframe of ten to thirty seconds, each project accompanies a transition of the website’s background color from white (day) to black (night) and vice versa. Light and Dark Networks consists of two online “data performances”— taking place at sunset and sunrise, respectively—inspired by the structures of natural networks and affected by weather and environmental changes. Visitors encounter depictions of a spider’s web at sunrise and a mushroom’s mycelium—a network of hidden branching filaments that absorb nutrients for the mushrooms to grow—at sunset. Virtual creatures, a spider and mushrooms impersonated by the artist, are activated to perform different “data dances” according to the changes in their habitat, which is defined by current New York City weather and carbon dioxide (CO2) levels.
https://twitter.com/#!/litedarknetwork
Also see: http://lightdarknetworks.ursenal.net/

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857

printern2 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:04:57 -0500

India, Mughal, Asia, Museum, exhibition

Call for Exhibition Proposals, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester

HartnettGallery — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:44:22 -0500

The Hartnett Gallery at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York is now accepting proposals from individual artists and groups interested in exhibiting their work during the 2012/13 academic year.

Established in 1972, this unique triangular gallery is located in one of the main buildings of the university, Wilson Commons, which was designed by the renowned architect I.M. Pei. The gallery has a rich exhibition history that includes both artists at the initial stages of their careers and artists who are internationally known.

Proposals should include: 1) a Curriculum Vitae, 2) an Artist’s Statement, 3) a Project Description, specifying spatial and technical needs, 4) 8-10 representative Digital Images, and 5) an Image List (title, date, dimensions, medium).

Please email proposals to: hartnett@mail.rochester.edu.

Submission Deadline: March 19, 2012

Symposium on Digital Literature (Art, Sound, Video)

Eric LeMay — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:16:47 -0500

This week In Media Res is hosting an online symposium on digital literature that will take in a sweep of media, including computational sound, video essays, and interactive narrative. The week's contributors are

Critic Katherine Hayles from Duke University
Video essayist John Bresland from Northwestern University
Digital editor Anmarie Tremble from Born Magazine
Poet and programmer Nick Montfort from MIT
Multimedia writer Eric LeMay from Ohio University

You're invited to contribute to the week's discussion about the future of literature and its merger with other arts.

Lawrence Graham-Brown: Rites of Passage/Sacred Spaces

lawrencegrahambrown — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:02:43 -0500

Lawrence Graham-Brown:
Rites of Passage/Sacred Spaces

Judson Memorial Church,
55 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10021
wheel chair accessible,
entrance at 243 Thompson Street,

Friday March 30, 2012
Hour of worship: 7:00pm
(doors open at 6:00pm)
Offering: $10:00

A performance variable/media production based on Afro, Caribbean, and Gay Folklore via the Ras-Pan-Afro-Homo-Sapien construct. Lawrence and company will venture into socially, sexually, physically and mentally defined sacred spaces and employ liturgical actions of: cleansing/confession, exhortation, mourning/lamentation and Gay, religious, love/sex feast.

Costume design, lighting design, Olfactory notes and Sound design by Lawrence Graham-Brown

This performance/variable media art work was made possible, in part, by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Leslie Lohman Gay and Lesbian Museum and aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art.

This project will also be supported by a digital catalog and forty-five full color, hard copy limited edition catalogs with dust coffin, which will include: DVD, original artwork and essays contributed by: Dr. David Boxer, Director Emeritus and Chief Curator, National Gallery of Jamaica; Keith Morrisson, Professor and former Dean, Tyler School of Art, Temple University and Edwin Ramoran, Independent Curator, NY. signed and numbered.

* This performance contains nudity/No filming or photographs allowed
More info: lawrencegrahambrown.com
Please make a 360degree anticlockwise rotation at door before entering church.

Graham-Brown's work's ritual and cathartic power draws public attention to the existence of popularly held prejudices and acts as a palliative gesture to dispel the trauma and shame to which people of color and gay people are routinely subjected.-Dean Daderko Guest curator, Disconnecting, Reconnecting...Disconnected, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, 2011

Open Call 2012 (1st semester)

ARTErra Residencias Rurais Artisticas — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:53:05 -0500

The ARTErra is a rural art residency structure that support and encourage artistic creation and production.
Housed in a remarkably small rural village, you will find in ARTErra physical spaces and tools for the reception of the project / proposal of the artist or collective of different artistic disciplines.
In addition to a house with several recreational areas and facilities, the ARTErra has a "creation yard" area where are the work spaces (sound studio and booth capturing, studio room, black & white box, glass room and atelier) framed by a garden, a small vegetable garden, an orchard and poultry.
With privileged contacts with some institutions and companies try to enhance and ensure a artist in residency to respond the needs and expectations of the projects accepted.
There currently are open nominations for the 1st half of 2012.
The application process is simple.
Do not hesitate to contact us.

Mail:arterra.geral@gmail.com

Phone-(351)962781090

http://arterra.weebly.com/
http://arterra-residencias.blogspot.com/
We also have a facebook pag
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ARTErra-Resid%C3%AAncias-Rurais-Art%C3%ADsticas/147825495357
and twitter;
http://twitter.com/#!/arterraportugal

Einladung zur Buchpräsentation: “Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan”

Genco Gulan — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:40:40 -0500

(english text below)

Am Freitag, 10.02. laden Sie die Galerie Artist Berlin und der Revolver Verlag zur Präsentation der Monografie Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan, welche vom Kunstwissenschaftler und Kurator Marcus Graf verfasst wurde, ein. Sowohl der Künstler Genco Gülan als auch Marcus Graf und Heike Salchli vom Revolver Verlag werden während der Buchvorstellung anwesend sein. Die Veranstaltung wird in der Galerie Artist Berlin stattfinden, in welcher Genco Gülan zurzeit in der Einzelausstellung Ich bin ein Museum aktuelle Arbeiten zeigt. Somit wird der Besucher die Möglichkeit haben, das Werk Gülans sowohl in Buchform als auch durch reale Kunstwerke zu erfahren.

Wir würden uns freuen, Sie bei der Buchpräsentation begrüßen zu dürfen.
Genco Gülan, Marcus Graf, Heike Salchli

Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan
Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan ist eine Analyse und Einführung in das Werk des zeitgenössischen Istanbuler Künstlers Genco Gülan, der seit Mitter der 90er Jahre aufgrund seines konzeptuell komplexen und ästhetisch pluralistischen Werkes zu den führenden Figuren der türkischen Gegenwartskunstszene zählt.

Neben der Gründung seines eigenen Museums als Kunstprojekt, welches später zu einer realen Institution wurde, und der Organisation der weltweit ersten Web Biennale für Netzkunst, wurden seine interdisziplinären und inter-medialen Arbeiten international ausgiebig ausgestellt und gesammelt.

Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan zeigt wie der Künstler, für den das Chaos Istanbuls eine seiner Hauptquellen bezeichnet, den gegenwärtigen Stand unserer Realität hinterfragt, indem er den Status Quo unser gesellschaftlichen Ordnung ekonstruiert und neue Strategien für eine positivere Entwicklung von Kunst und Gesellschaft vorschlägt.
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Invitation to Book Launch:
“Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan”

On Friday, 10th of February, Gallery Artist and Revolver Publishing House are pleased to invite you to the Berlin book launch of Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan the first monographic review of the visual artist Genco Gülan, written by the art historian and curator Marcus Graf. Both, Genco Gülan and Marcus Graf will attend the book launch together with Heike Salchli from Revolver Publishing. The event will take place at Gallery Artist Berlin, where Genco Gülan has currently a one man show called I am a Museum. So, the visitor of the book launch will also have the chance to experience the existing work of Gülan not only via a printed medium but also through his real art works.

We are looking forward to seeing you,
Genco Gülan, Marcus Graf, Heike Salchli
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Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan

Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan is an analysis and introduction to the work and thought of the visual artist Genco Gülan, who since the mid-90’s due to his conceptually complex and aesthetically pluralistic pieces, became a leading figure in Turkey’s contemporary art scene. Besides founding his own museum as an art project, which later became an actual institution, and organizing the world’s first Webbiennial for Net Art, his interdisciplinary and inter-medial work is vastly exhibited and collected nationally and abroad. Conceptual Colors of Genco Gülan presents how the artist, using Istanbul’s chaos as main source for his work, questions the current state of our reality by deconstructing our current state of social disorder, and proposes strategies for a positive development of art and society.

INFORMAL MARKET WORLDS - international research forum on urban informality, UC San Diego, Feb 16/17, 2012

mooshammer — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:01:52 -0500

The Center for Urban Ecologies and the Center on Global Justice at UC San Diego, and the FWF Science Fund research project ‘Other Markets’ present

INFORMAL MARKET WORLDS

an international research forum on the trading places of urban informality

Thursday, February 16, 2012, 10am-7pm
Friday, February 17, 2012, 10am-7pm

at Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall
University of California San Diego

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A two-day event of presentations and discussions, 'Informal Market Worlds' will bring together research on the architecture and visual culture of informal markets with a range of case studies from across the Americas and beyond. In addition to input from theorists in the fields of urbanism and political economy, the meeting will include presentations by architects, artists and activists on a range of markets such as the La Salada market in Buenos Aires, the Tri Border Area of Ciudad del Este, the Dominican border markets, street markets in the US or the informal economies of El Tepito in Mexico City.

Informal markets have emerged as a vital part of cities around the world, from the new mega-cities of the Global South to the old centers of political and economic power. Spurred by deregulation and accelerating global flows, they are commonly tolerated as shock-absorbers of widening social divisions. Yet, whenever these markets show signs of establishing realms of their own official rhetoric paints them as threat to social and economic order, often followed by governmental actions of demolition, re-location or privatization.

Debating the spatial culture of informal markets as an arena of negotiation between multiple political demands, social actors and environmental constraints, 'Informal Market Worlds' departs from the question of how we can build more equal participation in the space of economy vis-à-vis the economy of space. In what ways can the spatial practices and cultural mechanisms that sustain informal markets help us in articulating progressive policies more adapt to the transnational realities of today's populations?

Speakers include:
Raul Cardenas, Teddy Cruz, Julian D’Angiolillo, Laurent Gutierrez, Alfonso Hernandez, Hou Hanru, Rick Lowe, Peter Mörtenböck, Helge Mooshammer, Alfonso Morales, Gerald Murray, Valerie Portefaix, Fernando Rabossi, Ananya Roy, Ignacio Valero, Matias Viegener, Cog-nate Collective and others.

This research gathering at UCSD is part of an itinerant series of conferences world-wide and will be followed by meetings in Hong Kong/Shanghai (fall 2012) and Istanbul (spring 2013). Outcomes of these gatherings will be published in an atlas and a textbook by NAi Publishers, Rotterdam in 2013.

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For a detailed program please refer to: www.othermarkets.org

This event is free and open to the public.
No registration required.

Supported by
UCSD – Visual Arts Department & Calit2
Goldsmiths College London
FWF Science Fund

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The Center for Urban Ecologies, CUE, at UCSD has been recently co-founded by Teddy Cruz and Kyong Park, seeking new critical interfaces between top-down urban policies and bottom-up community activism, while enabling new forms of public culture through urban pedagogy and the visualization of socio-political and economic processes. CUE is affiliated with the Division of Arts and Humanities and Visual Art Department. Because it just began operations, there is currently no accessible website. For more information, though, CUE was responsible for The Political Equator 3, an itinerant event across the San Diego-Tijuana border: www.politicalequator.org

The international research project 'Other Markets: Networked Ecologies in 21st Century Urban Transformation' investigates the architectures and cultural logics of informal markets as a decisive yet often overlooked theatre of urban transformation. By engaging directly with the modalities of spatial production of informal economies it seeks to expand the debate currently divided along the question whether informal structures are first and foremost the low-cost equivalent of global deregulation or whether they provide the space for the emergence of alternative social formations. ‘Other Markets’ is led by Helge Mooshammer and Peter Mörtenböck, based at Vienna University of Technology and Goldsmiths College, London and is funded by the FWF Science Fund. For further information please visit the project website: www.othermarkets.org

5th Annual Digital Graffiti

brett phares — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:20:22 -0500

Submissions for Digital Graffiti at Alys Beach 2012 are now being accepted.

For two spectacular evenings the white walls of Alys Beach will be marked up, albeit temporarily, by projected art.

Submit innovative and visually compelling examples of
> generative art
> experimental short films
> animation
> sound, motion and/or light responsive installations

for projection onto the town walls of Alys Beach, June 8-9, 2012. Alys Beach is considered one of the world’s most progressive towns in environmental sustainability standards; special consideration will be given to work that address connections to architecture and environment. There is NO ENTRY FEE; deadline for submissions is April 2, 2012.

Prizes will be awarded in various categories, as judged by a panel of art and industry experts, including:

> Best of Show, $5,000
> Most Innovative/Experimental Submission, $2,000
> Best in Florida (artists residing full-time in state of Florida), $1,000
> Best Animated Submission, $1,000
> Curator’s Choice, $1,000

For more information, visit http://www.digitalgraffiti.com/submit-entry for more details.

Join the Craigslist Revolution! Bashar al-Assad is looking for a job!

Joseph DeLappe — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:19:41 -0500

I've posted an ad on the Craigslist in Reno. http://reno.craigslist.org/res/2834603489.html Join me please in re-posting this ad to your local Craigslist! Please email me and let me know where you have posted this and send me the URL! delappe@unr.edu

"I am Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria and Regional Secretary of the Ba'ath Party. The circumstances of my current employment may soon be coming to an end, therefore I am looking for a new job! I will consider all offers of temporary and/or long-term employment. I am especially interested in working abroad. I am expert in all aspects of despotic rule, including torture, general corruption and fixed elections (in the 2007 referendum I received 97.2% of the vote!). While my experience has been resoundingly in the nepotistic dictatorial sector, I would also consider accepting work as a babysitter, dog-walker, prison guard or stand-up comedian. Anything really. My hobbies include crochet, charades and angry birds. References available on request!"

Digital Media Faculty Position @ Drexel University

Jichen Zhu — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:56:18 -0500

I am pleased to bring to your attention a position opening for a Program Director in our rapidly growing Digital Media Program in the Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at Drexel University.

Our Digital Media Program is a dynamic innovative program founded in 1998. It offers a broad curriculum in digital media with courses in animation, game development and web design; our educational program is grounded firmly in a liberal arts tradition. We currently enroll 158 undergraduate students and 26 accelerated and graduate students in our MS. Program. We have a growing full time 7 member faculty of whom 5 are tenured or tenure track. When enrollment reaches 200 undergraduates, we expect to become a Department offering robust full programs in the 3 digital media areas mentioned above.

We are looking for a tenure track Program Director candidate with a broad knowledge of the field interested in helping us transition to a Department. Thank you kindly for your consideration. If additional information is needed, please contact Troy W. Finamore, Digital Media Program Director at: twf23@drexel.edu

Art and Technology Piece at The Tech Museum

The Tech Open Source — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:43:53 -0500

The Tech Museum
The Tech Museum seeks to commission a unique, long term, art and technology-based installation. Piece will open with the Zero1 Biennial in September 2012.

Request for Proposal
The Tech Museum in San Jose CA (http://www.thetech.org) is hosting an open Request for Proposals (RFP) for a long-term art and technology installation.

Proposal Deadline:
Monday, April 9, 2012
Noon PST

Project Description:
The Tech Museum seeks to commission a unique, long-term, art and technology-based installation. Piece will open with the Zero1 Biennial in September 2012.

The installation should have an “art and technology” emphasis and ideally be described as embodied, interactive, sociable, and tangible. Piece should be relevant to The Tech Museum’s mission to “inspire the innovator in everyone”.

For this particular piece, big is better than small. Tangible is better than virtual. Multi-sensory is better than single-sense. Motion is better than static. Muti-participant is better than single-participant. Consider how the piece can be interactive and responsive.

The actual placement for the piece has not been determined, so consider that it should function in a variety of indoor settings. Sculptural pieces may be a good fit. Consider an "in the round" approach, potentially allowing the piece to be viewed or interacted with from all sides. It should “inspire the innovator in everyone” through a sense of delight and wonder that is emotional.

Additional Details:
- Approximate footprint: 10 feet x 10 feet (3 meters x 3 meters).
- Fabrication is expected to be completed by The Tech Museum with supporting contractors.
- An exception to this would be made for pieces or components which can only be fabricated with the the contributing artist’s sole expertise.
- The mission of The Tech Museum is to “inspire the innovator in everyone.”
- The theme of the Zero1 2012 Biennial is “Seeking Silicon Valley”.

Budget:
Project should be feasibly constructed with a fabrication budget of approximately $25k USD.
A separate commission for the contributing artist will be negotiated.

How to submit a Proposal:
There are two ways to submit your Proposal:
1. Go to http://open.thetech.org/requests/art-and-technology-piece-tech-museum, create an account, and submit a Project in response to this Request. Note: Do not include your commission range in your posted Proposal—we will contact you directly.
2. If this is not possible for some reason, or if you do not wish to post your proposal online, then email your proposal to opensource@thetech.org.

* Do not wait until the deadline, as decision may be made much earlier than the deadline.

* Questions?: opensource@thetech.org

* On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/thetechos

About The Tech Museum
The Tech Museum is a hands-on technology and science museum for people of all ages and backgrounds. The museum - located in the Capital of Silicon Valley - is a non-profit learning resource established to engage people in exploring and experiencing technologies affecting their lives. Through programs such as The Tech Challenge presented by Cisco, our annual team design competition for youth, and internationally renowned programs such as The Tech Awards presented by Applied Materials, Inc., The Tech Museum celebrates the present and encourages the development of innovative ideas for a more promising future (http://www.thetech.org/about/).

About the ZERO1 Biennial
The ZERO1 Biennial, distributed throughout Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area, is North America’s most significant showcase of work at the nexus of art and technology. Through exhibitions, public art, performances, and speaker events the ZERO1 Biennial presents work by a global community of innovative artists who are reshaping contemporary culture. In 2012, opening events take place September 12-16, 2012 and feature a nighttime street festival in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District on Friday, September 14th (http://zero1.org/programs/biennial).

Deadline:
Mon, 2012-04-09 12:00 PST

radio djs for a spotless mind

lucy hunter — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:02:03 -0500

consider all the music you don't listen to because it reminds you of your ex. don't you wish those songs didn't bum you out? lucy hunter and rick boyle are here to help. we host a show on WBAR Barnard College Radio - though we prefer to call it a "music reclamation project" - where we play all those songs for you. every week we help the broken-hearted mend their music libraries, sharing both our own tragic romances and those of others.

we hope that by broadcasting these tracks into the ether, you will cancel out the intimacy you associate with them. it's angsty and prone to generous oversharing - college radio par excellance.

please submit your playlists (anecdotes welcomed) to musicreclamationproject@gmail.com.
our show airs fridays 6-8am, but is available 24/7 online at http://www.wbar.org/station/archives.
indicate if you are interested in being a guest host.

lovingly yours,
lucy and rick

Collaborate on an innovative, game-changing project

JanaJana — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:42:59 -0500

Do you have an interest in interactive design, pervasive gaming and augmented reality? Would you like to help develop a project that will literally transform New York? Are you dissatisfied with traditional approaches to arts education and outreach?
If you answered "Yes" to these questions, I would really like to hear from you. I am in the very early stages of developing a project which - I hope - will take New Yorkers and visitors on an unexpected adventure. But I need help.
I am looking for collaborators with the necessary skillset in terms of programming experience as well as a genuine interest and enthusiasm for helping people engage with the arts.
Please do get in touch if you would like to find out more.
At this stage, I do not have any funding but I have a great deal of experience in fundraising and a number of contacts who I will approach once I have established a collective of people to help produce this project.
You can reach me at Jana.E.Phillips@gmail.com

Call to Artists: LESP Keyholder Residency 2012

Lower East Side Printshop — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:43:25 -0500

KEYHOLDER RESIDENCY PROGRAM

The Keyholder Residency Program offers emerging artists free 24-hour access to printmaking facilities to develop new work and foster their artistic careers. Residencies are one year long, starting on April 1, 2012, and take place in the Printshop’s shared Artists’ Studio. Facilities are available for intaglio, relief, monoprint, waterbased silkscreen, digital processes, and other techniques that employ the tools at hand.

Keyholders work independently in a productive atmosphere alongside other contemporary artists. Artists from all disciplines are eligible to apply; printmaking skills are not required, but some familiarity with the medium is recommended. Basic instruction in printmaking is provided for new Keyholders. Technical assistance is not included in the program, but is available at additional cost.

Participation is limited and competitive. Applications are evaluated by a panelist of seasoned artists, curators, critics, and art professionals based on the quality of submitted artwork. Artists currently without a studio space are encouraged to apply.

Keyholder Residency includes:
• 24-hour studio access
• $1,000 stipend
• storage space
• basic supplies (newsprint, blotters, solvents, cleaners)
• one free class in printmaking and consultations with Master Printers
• 20% discount on all Printshop classes
• free career development workshops
• free digital documentation of selected works produced during the residency
• inclusion in the Printshop's permanent collection
• opportunities to show new work in exhibitions presented by the Printshop

Eligibility:
• Only legal US residents may apply (i.e., Social Security cardholders)
• Students enrolled in any kind of degree program at the time of the residency are not eligible
• Keyholder Residencies are limited to emerging artists only. The Printshop defines emerging artists as under-recognized and under-represented artists in early stages in their careers

DEADLINE: March 1, 2012
Drop off by 6pm or postmark, no exceptions. Send to:

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
Keyholder Residency Program
306 West 37th Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10018
212-673-5390

Please go to http://printshop.org/web/Create/KeyholderResidences/index.html
for more information, or email Christine Walia, Programs Director at Christine@printshop.org

Faculty Search: Digital Art and Design

carlos rosas — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:32:04 -0500

Faculty Search: Digital Art and Design

THE PENNSYVLANIA STATE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS
The Pennsylvania State University is a multicampus public research university, that educates students and improves the well-being and health of individuals and communities through integrated programs of teaching, research and service.

The School of Visual Arts offers a B.A. and BFA in Art, a B.S. in Art Education,and a B.Des. in Interdisciplinary Digital Studio. Graduate programs offer an MFA in Art and M.S., M.P.S. and Ph.D.s in Art Education.

For more information on curriculum and programs, please visit:
http://sova.psu.edu

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FACULTY POSITION
POSITION AVAILABLE: DIGITAL ART AND DESIGN

DESCRIPTION: Assistant Professor of Art. This is a nine month, tenure-track position.

QUALIFICATIONS: Graduate degree (M.A., MFA, Ph.D. or equivalent) in Digital Art, Digital Design, New Media or related field. College-level teaching experience required. Demonstrated commitment to professional activity; knowledgeable of digital art and design and new media technologies, as applied to critical and contemporary practice; and, a thorough knowledge of contemporary art/design, theory and criticism, are all expected. Demonstrated commitment to inter- and cross-disciplinary collaboration in teaching and research within the College and the University is desired.

The committee is encouraging applications from qualified candidates whose teaching and creative work engages one or more of the following areas of creative research: 3D/4D modeling and animation, interactive design, game development and object oriented programming.

RESPONSIBILITIES: A commitment to excellence in both teaching and creative work is expected. The candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the School of Visual Arts' Interdisciplinary Digital Studio Program, which offers a digital design degree (Bachelor of Design) and in the New Media Studio Program, offering Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees. Active participation in graduate program across all disciplines, plus other school duties, is expected.

STARTING DATE: August 2012.

SALARY: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Materials should be submitted by January 6, 2012 or until filled. Search will remain open, until a suitable candidate is identified.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Applicants should submit letters of application, CVs, brief artist/design statements on creative research, teaching philosophies, 20 images (work images/media/project urls, etc.), 10 images (student work) and the names and contact information for four references, online (http://psu.slideroom.com).

EEO/AA Policy
Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity in the workplace.

Faculty Search: Digital Design and Building Fabrication

carlos rosas — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:10:54 -0500

Faculty Search: Digital Design and Building Fabrication

The Pennsylvania State University Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

The Department of Architecture at The Pennsylvania State University announces an opening for a tenure-track position at a rank commensurate with experience, with the appointment beginning in the 2012 fall semester.

The candidate will teach in the accredited Bachelor of Architecture and the Master of Architecture program and will be expected to contribute to the teaching mission of the Department, the Stuckeman School, the College of Arts and Architecture, and the University. The candidate should have a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching, research and/or creative practice that integrates architecture and design computing. The successful candidate is expected to integrate digital design throughout the architectural curriculum, such as design studio with a digital emphasis, as well as lecture and seminar courses in digital design and building fabrication. The candidate will bring intellectual leadership to this area of design and help expand existing digital curricula.

A demonstrated interest in inter- and cross-disciplinary collaboration in teaching and research within the College and University is desired. The appointee will be expected to pursue a clear research, creative/scholarly, or professional agenda, as well as contribute to the University and the professional communities. A terminal degree in architecture or a related field is required. Professional experience, architectural licensure and/or a Ph.D. are preferred. Information about The Pennsylvania State University, the College of Arts and Architecture, and the Department of Architecture may be obtained online at www.artsandarchitecture.psu.edu and www.arch.psu.edu.

Applicants must submit:
• a cover letter that positions the applicant in the arena of computation and outlines the area of expertise;
• a brief statement of teaching philosophy and methods;
• a brief statement of research and creative/professional interests and agenda;
• curriculum vitae;
• names/addresses of three references; and
• an abbreviated portfolio (not to exceed 10 pages) that includes selected samples of teaching, creative accomplishments, research, and professional practice projects. A more thorough and complete portfolio may be requested of selected finalists.

Chair of Architecture Search Committee: Ute Poerschke, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Architecture. Please submit all material in pdf-format to: Mary Cavanaugh: mcc6@psu.edu. Reviews of applications will begin January 9, 2012, and continue until the position is filled. U.Ed. Arc 07-91

AA/EOE: Women and minorities are strongly encouraged to apply. Penn State is committed to affirmative action, equal opportunity, and the diversity of its workforce

Executive Director, Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources

Jax Deluca — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:19:42 -0500

Position:
Squeaky Wheel / Buffalo Media Resources in Buffalo, New York, seeks a passionate and committed Executive Director to lead its not-for-profit media arts organization in fulfilling its three-fold mission to provide access, education, and artistic support to community media makers and artists in Western New York.

Serving media makers since 1985, Squeaky Wheel offers an exciting array of media programs, including: on-site educational workshops and in-school programs in film, video & digital arts; an annual publication, The Squealer; screenings and exhibitions of local and visiting artists; artist residencies; editing and equipment rental/access.

The Executive Director supervises a staff of four, plus film, video, digital arts instructors and volunteers; develops programs and membership; manages finances and grant writing, and implements private foundation fundraising. The ED also represents Squeaky Wheel within the Buffalo / Western New York community and advocates and promotes on behalf of the organization in the larger media arts field.

Responsibilities
• Grant writer for all general operating, program and capital grants.
• Work with Board of Directors and Staff to develop and implement short and long term strategic plans and policies of the organization.
• Develop and oversee programs relevant to the mission of the organization.
• Oversee all finances.
• Coordinate and implement fundraising and development plan.
• Represent organization locally and nationally.
• Hire and supervise staff.
• Advocacy and promotion on behalf of organization and the larger media arts field.

Qualifications
• 3 years experience in non-profit arts organization or program management.
• Bachelor degree required. Advanced degree in Media Arts, Arts Administration or related preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proven track record of successful grant writing and fund development.

Compensation
• Salary $40K, commensurate with experience
• Health benefits
• Holiday, vacation, paid sick time
• Access to cameras, editing facilities, digital stations, archival media

Application review will begin February 20th and continue until filled.

In a single .pdf file sent to EdSearch@squeaky.org, please include a cover letter outlining your qualifications and grant writing experience, resume/CV, and the names and contact information of three references. Please include “ED Search” in the subject line. Squeaky Wheel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Web Application Developer

Keith Poplawski — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:33:35 -0500

ALLDAYEVERYDAY seeks an NYC-based permanent or freelance Ruby on Rails developer to start immediately. You’d be working on challenging projects for interesting clients, including Nike, ALDO, and The Standard Hotel.

Ideally, you:
•love details, and pride yourself on getting them right
•believe coding well is more important than coding quickly
•can code quickly anyway
•solve problems methodically, and aren’t afraid to ask for help

Your responsibilities would include:
•working from our SoHo office
•writing clean, well-commented code
•reviewing other people’s code, with the rest of our dev team
•delivering new features on time
•reporting to our Digital Producer and Digital Director

Your qualifications:
•2-5 years experience with Ruby on Rails, HTML, and CSS.
•knowledge and love jQuery, but you could write useful JavaScript without it.
•knowledge and love of Heroku
•experience with Git

Extra credit for experience with node.js and Coffeescript.

Executive Director, Western New York Book Arts Center

Jax Deluca — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:11:09 -0500

The Western New York Book Arts Center (WNYBAC) seeks an Executive Director with proven leadership, organizational, interpersonal and communication skills. The preferred candidate will have a practical grounding in arts advocacy and a working knowledge of the non-profit sector including board development and strategic planning. Responsibilities will include oversight of the facilities, budget, fundraising and staff. A bachelor’s degree with a graduate degree in a related field preferred. Compensation is $40K + benefits. Review of applications begins February 1, 2012 and will continue until the position is filled. To apply send a cover letter and resume in one PDF file to: employment (at) wnybookarts.org

Creative Programmers & Web/Software Developers

sky frostenson — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:46:35 -0500

Linden Lab has a variety of full-time job openings for creative technologists. Candidates should be interested in pushing the limits of interactive expression via shared creativity tools. Positions include data visualization, new feature development for Second Life, and R&D roles for new products other than Second Life.

Experience with any creative programming toolkit such as OF, Processing, Cinder, etc. is acceptable, as well as traditional web/software languages (javascript, python, php, ruby, C++).

Please review our list of open positions, apply if interested, and forward freely!

Wayfinding Artist/Designer

Sarah Beth Nesbit — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:09:36 -0500

WAYFINDING ARTIST/DESIGNER
Deadline February 17, 2011

ZERO1 Biennial
The ZERO1 Biennial, distributed throughout Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area, is North America’s most significant showcase of work produced at the nexus of art and technology. Through curated exhibitions, public art installations, performances, and artist talks the ZERO1 Biennial presents work by a global community of innovative artists who are reshaping contemporary culture. Established in 2006, the ZER01 Biennial has presented the work of over 500 artists from 50+ countries; commissioned 80 original works of art (making ZERO1 one of the largest commissioning bodies in the United States); attracted over 100,000 visitors from around the world, and contributed $20 million in economic revenue to the region.

Snapshot
ZERO1 is seeking qualifications from artists and designers to create an innovative solution for the 2012 Biennial wayfinding and signage system. The 2012 Biennial will be a regional-wide event spanning San Jose, San Francisco and the East Bay. The signage and wayfinding system will need to display ZERO1’s brand creatively, and also to be useable/adapted in different sizes, for different locations, while integrating technology, where possible, in order to be interactive.

Objectives
The objective of this project is to create wayfinding signage that is:
• Attracts attention e.g. is visually compelling and recognisable both day and night
• Reflects the 2012 Biennial theme: Seeking Silicon Valley
• Adapts to different Biennial sites
• Connects the locations visually through a unified system
• Can withstand natural elements
• Integrates use of technology, such as tags that provide more Biennial detail
• Maximizes user experience: seamless and clear info access.
• Enhances user engagement: multi-way communication / participatory experience.

Requirements
• Experience designing larger-scale graphics; knowledgeable about physical production
• Capable of translating the Biennial brand into the design
• Open to exploring innovative options but sensitive to a nonprofit’s budget constraints
• Available to see the project from design through execution and make changes as needed
• Engaged/inspired by contemporary art and artists

Submission Requirements
1. Images or links of prior work that relate to this call, a minimum of 5 but no more than 10.
2. A brief narrative of your interest and reaction to the project and how your experience is relevant.
3. Current resume

Timeline
• Qualifications will be accepted until February 17, 2011
• Artist Selection and notification by February 24, 2012
• Design completion by May 1, 2012
• Production complete Sept 1, 2012

Budget
The total Fee for the Design of the project is $5,000 which includes Artist resources, materials and travel expenses, to be paid $1,500 on approval of the design direction; and $2,000 upon design handover and $1,500 completion of wayfinding signage. Production and installation of the wayfinding budget is $30,000.

Submission
Please submit all materials and questions to Sarah Beth Nesbit at sarahbeth@zero1.org by February 17, 2011

The Shift Webzine Editor

Sunghee Kim — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:33:05 -0500

The Shift Webzine is a bimonthly webzine on new media culture.
The Shift Webzine welcomes editors around the world with innovative speculations and passion for new media culture.

Position Description

-Columnist
500-1500 words essay/bimonthly
Requirements: Understanding of new media art and
critical writing.

-Reviewer
300-1000 words reviews for book or events/bimonthly
Requirements: General understanding and interest in new media art.

For further inquiries please use our facebook page
www.facebook.com/TheShiftWebzine
or email
Sunghee Kim(sungheekim@theshiftwebzine.com)

*Important!(Columnists only***): Please send 300-500 example essay to

Sunghee Kim(Founder/Developer)
sungheekim@theshiftwebzine.com

by **Feb 29, 2012**

note: These positions are voluntary(unpaid)

3D Animation Full-Time Faculty

marisa — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:11:45 -0500

3D Animation Full-Time Faculty

The Animation department of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invites applications for a full-time position with a multi-year renewable contract in a non-tenure institution.

Begins: Fall 2012

Job Description:

The college is seeking an inspiring 3D computer animation specialist who will complement our animation faculty team; who can be a great mentor for our students; and who is willing to help develop new courses and curricula for our department. The program offers 2D, 3D and stop-motion animation. MICA's Animation students are encouraged to focus on concept and ideas over techniques, to take risks and to develop their own voices as artists.

Responsibilities include teaching three undergraduate studio classes each semester and participation in institutional, department, and committee service. In addition to teaching, all full-time faculty are expected to pursue research and/or professional engagements that contribute to the educational mission of the department and the college.

Requirements:

MFA in animation or a related field
Teaching experience at the college or equivalent level.
A strong background in traditional 3D animation film-making
Connections with the animation industry
Outstanding portfolio of personal and professional work.
Fluency with relevant digital tools and applications
Interest in exploring new technologies
A personal vision reflected in his/her own work and teaching philosophy
Successful Candidate will be required to complete a full background check

Valued but not required:

5 years of full-time teaching experience
5 years of professional animation experience
Knowledge of traditional 2D animation
Knowledge of and ability to teach the history of animation
Administrative experience

Additional Information:

Salary: Commensurate with experience and college policy; excellent benefits package.

Apply: The search committee will review applications as received. Although materials received by January 20, 2012 are best assured of receiving full consideration, the position will remain open until filled. All inquiries, nominations, and applications will be held in the strictest confidence.
For the full position description see our Careers at MICA website link on http://www.mica.edu/hr.
Application Instructions:

To be considered for the position please apply online through SlideRoom (https://micahr.slideroom.com/)

Once you have navigated to SlideRoom you will be asked to login or create a login. If you are creating an account you will be sent an email with instructions to activate your SlideRoom account. You will not be able to login and apply until you have activated your account.

Once you have logged in please follow these instructions. These instructions will also be posted in SlideRoom as you are applying.
Submit through SlideRoom:

One multi-page pdf document that includes:

o Letter of application
o Curriculum Vitae
o Statement describing areas of expertise, research, and professional accomplishments
o Statement of teaching philosophy
o Names, phone numbers, and email addresses for three references

Screen-resolution documentation of recent work:

o Sample should be a short scene, trailer or sample reel from a film.
o Up to four minutes in length.
o Format: h.264 (.mov file)
o Resolution: 380x213 (16:9 HD)
o KBPS: 2000
o Audio: AAC, 48 kHz, 128 kbps
o Maximum file size of 60 MB

Full-resolution work documentation may be requested from you at a future date.
Links to live URLs may be submitted as well, but will be considered as a secondary source.

MICA cannot accept, review or be responsible for hardcopies or original copies of portfolio materials. Please do not submit supplemental or original portfolio materials, as they will not be considered or returned.
AA/EOE

2D/Stop-Motion Animation Full-Time Faculty

marisa — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:55:40 -0500

2D/Stop-Motion Animation Full-Time Faculty

The Animation department of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) invites applications for a full-time position with a multi-year renewable contract in a non-tenure institution.
Begins: Fall 2012
Job Description:

The college is seeking an inspiring 2D and stop-motion animator / artist who will compliment our animation faculty team; who can be a great mentor for our students; and who is willing to help develop the stop-motion side of our department. The curriculum offers 2D, 3D and stop-motion animation. MICA's Animation students are encouraged to focus on concept and ideas over techniques, to take risks and to develop their own voices as artists. In addition to stop-motion, the ideal candidate will be able to teach traditional 2D animation as an art form both technically and aesthetically.

Responsibilities include teaching three undergraduate studio classes each semester and participation in institutional, department, and committee service. In addition to teaching, all full-time faculty are expected to pursue research and/or professional engagements that contribute to the educational mission of the department and the college.

Requirements:

MFA in animation or a related field
Teaching experience at the college or equivalent level.
A strong background in traditional 2D animation film-making
Familiarity with the animation process from storyboard to postproduction
Knowledge of the history of animation
Connections with the animation industry
A personal vision reflected in his/her own work and teaching philosophy
Outstanding portfolio of personal and professional work.
Knowledge of multiple animation techniques such as traditional cutouts, puppets, sand animation, paint on glass, and 2D hand drawn animation
Familiarity with digital tools and applications such as scanners; Adobe PhotoShop; Flash; After Effects; ToonBoom; Dragon; Final Cut Pro.
Successful Candidate will be required to complete a full background check

Valued but not required:

5 years of full-time teaching experience
3 years of professional animation experience
A knowledge of 3D animation.
Ability to teach the history of animation
Administrative experience

One multi-page pdf document with:

Screen-resolution documentation of recent work:

Rhizome Intern

Zoë Salditch — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:36:56 -0500

RHIZOME Intern (part-time, unpaid)
Rhizome is a leading arts organization dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology. Through open platforms for exchange and collaboration, our website serves to encourage and expand the communities around these practices. Our programs include commissioning, editorial initiatives, exhibitions, and preservation. Rhizome is an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. For more information about Rhizome, visit:
http://rhizome.org/

Rhizome seeks a highly organized, responsible and mature candidate for a part-time internship. Responsibilities include assisting with the daily administrative upkeep of the organization, research and production support of the Rhizome website, coordination of organizational projects, correspondence with artists, members, and press, and management of various social media platforms. Interns must be familiar with contemporary art and savvy with the web and new technologies.

The position is 8 - 16 hours per week at the Rhizome office, which is located at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Manhattan. The intern will report to the Program Manager and Director. Candidates must be based in New York and must be able to commit to one semester or 4 months beginning January 2012. This position is unpaid, but academic credit may be arranged.

QUALIFICATIONS: Candidates must be well versed with social media and the web. A keen interest in Arts and Non-profit Administration is a plus. The candidate should have strong writing and analytical skills. Knowledge of Microsoft Office software is required and basic experience with Photoshop is preferred.

TO APPLY: Please email a cover letter, resume or CV, to zoe.salditch [at] rhizome [dot] org. Review of applications will begin immediately. Deadline is January 15th, 2012.

Adjunct Professor, Dymanic Web Design

anita Allyn — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:20:32 -0500

The Digital Arts Major, housed in the Art Department at The College of New Jersey, is searching for an effective faculty who is a wiz with dynamic web design and can teach this second-level web class on the college level.

The College of New Jersey is located in between Philadelphia and New York City, close to Princeton, NJ. http://www.tcnj.edu/
To apply, please submit the following materials by e-mail to Anita Allyn (allyn@tcnj.edu):

- Letter of application
- Curriculum Vitae
- Statement of teaching philosophy
- Samples of work, including ten images/URLs of your projects and images/URLs of work from previous students
- Names and contact information of three references

DEADLINE: January 10
Please pass this notice to anyone who may be interested. The class begins the week of 1/17/2012 and is offered Thursday evenings, 5:30-9:20.

Art+Design Internship

saatchionline — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:15:13 -0500

Who Are We?
Saatchi Online is the leading online marketplace for emerging artists around the globe. The site was launched by the Saatchi Gallery in London, known the world over for discovering emerging talent, as a way to give artists not represented by galleries a platform to show their work to a global audience. Today Saatchi Online is a place where collectors, art lovers and everyone in between can discover and buy work from artists in over 100 countries, skipping the formalities of the traditional gallery structure.

Who Are We Looking For?
Do you have a love of art? Are you inspired by great design?
Are you curious, passionate and personable?
Are you a hard working self-starter who is eager to learn?
Want to work closely with a small team of people at an early stage start-up who are committed to changing the way art is discovered and sold online?

If you answered yes, perhaps you'd like to intern with Saatchi Online? This internship is an amazing opportunity to work closely with the design, curation and marketing teams.

Details:
Art + Design Internship
Jan. '12 - May '12
For credit (unpaid)

Required Skills:
Photoshop & Illustrator
Strong writing skills.
Wordpress & InDesign a strong plus
Must be comfortable with social media platforms (Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Polyvore etc.)
Art Knowledge is a requirement. Applicant must have a vast knowledge and appreciation for several art forms, styles and a sharp eye for techniques used and details.

Interested? Please send us:
- A cover letter telling us why us a bit about yourself
- A link to your portfolio / design work
- A resume

Email us at internships@saatchionline.com
No calls please!

P.S. We're located in downtown LA (Chinatown).

Check us out:
saatchionline.com
facebook.com/saatchionline
@SaatchiOnline
http://pinterest.com/saatchionline/

Tenure-Track Faculty, History of Design-MassArt

massart1 — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:54:58 -0500

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Department of the History of Art, seeks a specialist in the History of Design for a full-time, tenure-track position to start September 2012. Candidates should demonstrate a broad knowledge of design and expertise in one or more of the College's studio concentrations in the fields of design and decorative arts. Candidates are expected to have experience with a variety of teaching methods and/or curricular perspectives. Responsibilities include developing and teaching survey-level courses on the history of design, as well as specialized upper-level courses and seminars, as part of an ongoing expansion of our curriculum. Courses in the History of Art Department are required of all studio majors. The Department also offers its own major, in which students gain an in-depth knowledge of global art history. The College is considering the feasibility of establishing an M.A. program in the History of Art.

The History of Art Department comprises eight full-time faculty members whose specialties range from ancient to contemporary. The College is located next to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. MassArt's renowned exhibitions, visiting artists, and lecture series play a vital role in the cultural community of Boston and New England.

The person hired for this position will be responsible for ensuring that affirmative action, equal opportunity and diversity are integrally tied to all actions and decisions for which they are responsible and which fall within the scope of the Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity/Diversity Plan.

Review of applications will begin on Tuesday, January 3, and will continue until the position is filled.

Representatives of the search committee will attend the College Art Association meeting in Los Angeles, February 22-25, and will be available for informational discussions with selected candidates by prior appointment.

REQUIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Ph.D. by August 31, 2012 and college-level teaching experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
*Demonstrated evidence of current scholarly activity
*Teaching experience beyond a teaching assistantship

Art Fair Assistant

AffordableArtFair — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:20:18 -0500

The Affordable Art Fair LA
The Event Deck at LA L.I.V.E
January 18 – 22, 2011

Position: Fair Assistant.
Please note that this is a volunteer position. Each Fair Assistant will be provided with a $15 lunch voucher to redeem at the Fair Café.

Schedule: Monday January 16 – Monday January 23, 2012 inclusive.
*Varied hours depending on availability.

Overview: Twelve years ago, Will Ramsay broke the mold of the traditional art fair by creating the Affordable Art Fair, where contemporary, original art is accessible to a wide audience through a friendly and welcoming environment. The fair emphasizes that one does not need to be an art expert or billionaire to purchase works of art by living artists. With the
fair taking place annually in Amsterdam, Bristol, Brussels, London (spring and fall), Melbourne, Milan, New York (spring and fall), North London, Singapore, and Sydney, $300 million worth of art has been sold at the fairs and we welcomed our one millionth visitor in November 2011. The mission of the fair worldwide is to serve those buying their first work of art to the traditional collector. The brand’s continued success is because we produce a professionally managed
event, bring in a varied audience, and maintain quality exhibitors.

Fair Assistants will get a behind the scene look at how a contemporary art fair is planned and managed. Assistants will learn about event planning, gain exposure to the arts and be part of an important cultural event.

Requirements: Fair Assistants should be interested in the arts or in event management. All assistants need to have an upbeat attitude and be willing to do whatever job comes up. Flexibility, organization, and an eagerness to help are essential qualities. All fair assistants should be willing and able to work long hours, and be prepared to be on their feet for long stretches of time. It is a fun project to work on and a fun team to work with, and we are happy to discuss the position and the company further.