Artipedia - Call for Entries

This is the final deadline prompt for KSW - CFS - W13.

Submisions are also being accepted for W12, an issue devoted to music and
language. See website for details.

Deadlines: Friday, December 1st.

Send sumbissions to: paratext@kswnet.org

The original CFS is below. Please read it carefully before submitting.

Other upcoming KSW events include:
Friday December 1st: Launch of LINE Books (titles by Natalie Simpson, Roger
Farr, Garry Morse, and Reg Johanson) at Spartacus Books
Friday December 15 or Saturday December 16: Colin Smith and Dorothy Lusk at
1067.

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KSW - CFS - W13

Kootenay School of Writing - Call for Submissions
W13: The Paraliterary Issue

“Interesting, but it’s not literature.”

The Kootenay School of Writing is seeking submissions for the 13th issue of
W magazine, to focus on “paraliterary” or nonliterary writing projects.

The thesis driving W13 is that as the parameters of poetic practice/praxis
are reshaped in coming decades, more and more writing that now seems
unclassifiable, except as “interesting, but not literature”, will become
imaginable within expanded, and culturally more pertinent, definitions of
poetry.

Below is a brainstormed list of paraliterary possibilities, by no means
exhaustive. Note that for the purposes of W13 it doesn’t matter if the texts
are legit or faked, fact or fiction, personal or impersonal, creative or
uncreative.

1. informational texts (surveys; polls; maps; statistical charts;
chronologies; diagrams;
2. conspiracy theories; research results)
3. notational projects (diaries; ongoing notes; classroom notes; records;
lists; inventories;
4. specialised glossaries and lexicons)
5. annotational projects (annotations of other texts)
6. pseudo theory; pseudo poetics, pseudo philosophy; pseudo theology; pseudo
manifestos; pseudo research
7. amateur science and pseudo sciences (investigations into: linguistics;
etymology; astrology; astronomy; biology; ‘pataphysics or “pataphysics)
8. occult writings (automatic writing; ouija board transcriptions;
transcriptions of divinations; predictions; tarot readings of persons or
texts)
9. found texts and found text-objects (scans or transcripts of interesting
documents; posters; ephemera; ads; letters; notes; signs; report cards)
10. collections of texts (blurbs; phone messages; subject lines; typos in
famous works)
11. interviews from interesting social contexts (faked or real; raw
transcriptions of speech)
12. documentary writings and mockumentary writings
13. alphabetic projects (new alphabets; spelling reforms; codes;
encryptions, stereograms)
14. scriptural projects (i.e., investigations of how scriptural systems and
technologies interact with writing)
15. excerpts from artists’ book projects (incl text-based photographic
projects; photos of book sculptures)
16. photos/snapshots with significant textual content/context
17. conceptual writing; text-based conceptual works
18. uncreative writing
19. text-based visual art
20. outsider writings
21. graphic musical scores
22. certain cut-ups, aleatoric and erasure writings
23. certain visual/concrete poetry
24. certain flarf
25. certain song lyrics (if appreciable as “outsider” texts)

If you’re still unsure whether what you have in mind or on hand is right for
the issue, direct queries to paratext@kswnet.org. We can point you to
examples of interesting paraliterary works and writers, or talk to you about
specific projects and ideas.

In the meantime, the easiest ways to look into the paraliterary might be to
pick up a copy of McCaffery and Rasula’s anthology Imagining Language, or to
check out the Conceptual Writing and the Outsiders sections of UbuWeb. You
might also give a thought to the forthcoming anthology Against Expression
(Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds.) that will feature a historical
range of so-called “uncreative” writings, or look at some of the
transdisciplinary writings published in the Western Front’s FRONT magazine,
some of the work in DELUXE RUBBER CHICKEN, and in the better indie zines and
micro-magazines. You could also look at the found texts in FOUND magazine,
or read up on text-based projects by visual artists.

We’re looking for new works/texts, but will gladly consider
previously-published material, depending on when, where and how it was
published. It can be helpful if the work is accompanied by a brief statement
of method, means or intent.

Send submissions by email or by meatmail to:

KSW - CFS - W13
309-207 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 1H6, CANADA
paratext@kswnet.org
Submissions due by: December 01, 2006.
If sent by email please write “KSW - CFS - W13″ in the subject line
Include SASE and an email contact if sent by snail

W13 pays: $25 CAD per published page, to a maximum of $75 CAD. (And yes,
you’ll be paid for found texts/text-objects.)

W is published in pdf only, long works are therefore acceptable. There is no
particular page-count or word-count requirement or limit, but the budget for
W13 is not unlimited. Remember that pdf can accommodate full-colour images,
embedded audio files, and weblinks.

Publishing in W means that your work will remain virtually “in print” much
longer than in a paper magazine, and will be accessible to a more
geographically dispersed audience. Almost every issue of W, including back
issues, is downloaded from the KSW website dozens of times per month.

Links:

the Kootenay School of Writing’s new website
www.kswnet.org

Imagining Language
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8216

UbuWeb
http://www.ubu.com/

Found Magazine
http://www.foundmagazine.com

the KOOTENAY SCHOOL of WRITING 309-207 West Hastings St. Vancouver, BC V6B
1H6 CANADA Phone: 604.313.6903 website: www.kswnet.org

Dear all,

My name is Sylvia Skene, I’m a library media technician at Langara College,
and I have been part of the organizing committee for Fast Forward, a media
showcase for documentary, business, children’s, educational, and other film
and video programs, for most of its fourteen years.

I’m hoping that some of you might be interested in the independent
filmmakers’ booth I’m putting together for the next showcase April 25th and
26th, 2007. I’d like to reach filmmakers who do not already have a
distributor, but have public performance rights so that their productions
may be shown in class.

As you may have already guessed, the three hundred or so evaluators who
attend Fast Forward are mainly librarians, teachers and faculty from
schools, colleges, universities and libraries. Many are keen to view
productions created locally, especially those on topical issues or that
support particular curriculum or courses.

If you’re interested in your productions being featured at this showcase,
please let me know, and I will send you a package with the details and cost
for this service. If you want to know more about Fast Forward, please see
the link below. And if you know of anyone else who may be interested, feel
free to pass on this message.

Thanks,
Sylvia Skene

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Library Technician
Advanced Education Media Acquisitions Centre
Langara College
100 West 49th Ave
Vancouver, BC V5Y 2Z6
http://www.langara.bc.ca/aemac/

w:604-323-5217 f:604-323-5475
sskene@langara.bc.ca
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Fast Forward Educational Media Showcase
April 25-26th, 2007
http://www.langara.bc.ca/ffwd/

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Subtle Technologies 2007

in situ
art € body € medicine

May 24th ­ May 27th 2007
University of Toronto, Toronto Canada

Submission Deadline January 3, 2007.

Subtle Technologies is a four-day multidisciplinary Festival exploring
complex and subtle relationships between art and science. The annual
international event combines symposia, exhibitions, workshops and
performances that juxtapose cutting-edge artistic projects and
scientific exploration.

For the 10th Annual Festival, Subtle Technologies invites
practitioners of arts, sciences and medicines, and those who study
their context, historians, ethicists, and other critical thinkers to
contemplate how these disciplines can work together and reshape
perspectives on the body.

As scientific and technological breakthroughs prominently occupy our
culture, we ask where the boundaries are. We are interested in
investigating how we relate bodies in situ: as parts, as a whole, as
systems; how we identify, map, modify, protect, violate, and heal.

We invite a wide interpretation of bodies including the molecular,
physical, cultural, economic, legal, political, energetic, electrical
and spiritual.

A range of approaches are welcome, including interdisciplinary work,
specialized presentation proposals that focus on a single topic in
depth, and general discussions that draw upon multiple topics. We
welcome a diversity of presentation formats, including those
practitioners who may not emphasize the use of science and technology.

Proposals for the following will be considered:
workshops, performances, poster sessions, and symposium presentations.

How to Apply:
Details are available on the online submissions form found on our website:
http://www.subtletechnologies.com/2007/

Examples of possible topics include:

Racial and Personalized Medicine
Tele-Medicine
Pharmaceuticalized Body
Organ Trafficking
Inter- Species Communications
History of Medicine
Reproductive Technologies
Addictions and Obsessions
Sexual / Gendered Body
Body Machine Interfaces and Sensors
Violated Body
Embryoid Bodies and Stem Cells
Infectious Agents and Diseases
Local or Traditional Healing Practices
New Therapeutic Paradigms
Population Dynamics and the Environment
Spiritual Body
Extropian and Post Human Investigations
Body and Performance, Body and Rituals
Bioethics
Trangenic Bodies and Tissue Engineering
Genomics Proteomics Metablomics and other -omics

For Questions, contact us at:
(email) programs [at] subtletechnologies [dot] com
(phone) 416.532.5018

Subtle Technologies is hosted by the University of Toronto, and
supported by Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council.
Toronto Arts Council, Canadian Heritage.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
ON TORONTO ISLAND, TORONTO, CANADA
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Artscape is currently accepting applications for the
Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program
taking place June 1st ­ 30th, 2007.
Submission Deadline: February 21st, 2007, 4pm EST
2007 Program Dates: June 1st - 30th
For further information including the Guidelines for Submissions,
Application Form and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, please visit
Artscape¹s website at http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/gpiarp
ABOUT THE GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The Gibraltar Point Residency transcends political, aesthetic and geographic
boundaries, welcomes diversity and provides a spawning ground for unique
cultural alliances. The program is open to Canadian and international
artists who are engaged in the research, development or creation of work.
Emerging, mid-career and established professional artists are invited to
apply. Participants in the residency program receive accommodation, a
private work studio and all meals at no cost. Travel and material costs are
the responsibility of participating artists.
The residency program aims to further the professional development of
artists by: enabling the creation and production of new work; fostering an
exchange of ideas and influences; encouraging the sharing of expertise;
inspiring new works of art and creative collaborations; and building
relationships between artists working in different media. The program is
designed and managed by Artscape and takes place for a single 30-day term
each calendar year at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto
Island.
ABOUT THE GIBRALTAR POINT CENTRE FOR THE ARTS AND TORONTO ISLAND
Situated on the south-western beachfront of Toronto Island, The Gibraltar
Point Centre for the Arts owes its name to its location marked by Toronto’s
oldest landmark ­ the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, which was erected in 1808.
Operated by Artscape, this 30,000 square foot unique facility provides
permanent studio space to more than a dozen artists and a Retreat Centre
which can be rented for a variety of functions. In addition to hosting the
Residency Program, the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts features Artscape
Lodge; a short-term rental service with accommodation and work studios for
up to 13 visiting artists.
Toronto Island is a peaceful 230-hectare natural park in Toronto’s harbour,
a short 15-minute ferry ride from the thriving downtown core of Canada¹s
cultural capital. The Island is part of the Carolinian Zone which includes
flora and fauna not found anywhere else in Canada. Naturalized areas and
wildlife reserves make it a popular stopover point for southern song birds.
The Island is also home to approximately 800 individuals whose remarkable
community boasts one of the highest per capita populations of artists in
Canada and is the largest urban car-free community in North America.
Mail submissions to:
GIBRALTAR POINT INTERNATIONAL ARTIST RESIDENCY PROGRAM
Artscape
Suite 111 - 60 Atlantic Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M6K 1X9
Canada
Submission Deadline: February 21st, 2007, 4pm EST
2007 Program Dates: June 1st - 30th
GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS, APPLICATION FORM AND ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED
QUESTIONS CAN BE FOUND AT http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca/gpiarp
For questions regarding the Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency
Program
please contact by email only residency@torontoartscape.on.ca
The Gibraltar Point International Artist Residency Program is hosted and
managed by Artscape with the generous support of the City of Toronto and the
Ontario Arts Council
Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, Artscape is a Toronto-based
non-profit enterprise that unlocks the creative potential of people and
places. Artscape’s work encompasses building creative places, developing
creative districts and clusters, and cultivating cities on a local, national
and international level. http://www.torontoartscape.on.ca
Original artwork + photo: Tine Bech, 2006 alumnus
Media Contact: Liz Kohn, Director of Communications, 416-392-1038 x25

Skowhegan is an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging
visual artists, providing an exceptionally stimulating and rigorous
environment to support artistic creation and interaction.

Artists are provided with a concentrated period to work, created with the
support and critical assistance of a distinguished faculty of Resident and
Visiting Artists. Founded in 1946 by artists, and still governed by artists
for artists, the program provides an atmosphere in which participants are
encouraged to work and explore free of the expectations of the marketplace
and academia. As always this year’s Faculty of distinguished artists
reflects a broad formal and conceptual spectrum of approaches to art-making.
Through its admissions process Skowhegan seeks to bring together a gifted
and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to
art-making and inquiry. Sixty-five participants are accepted annually.
Applicants must be at least 21 years old before the session begins. An
academic background in art is not required. The admissions panels consider
both those who are enrolled in academic programs and artists who have been
working independently. Skowhegan’s financial assistance program helps ensure
that artists accepted to the School may participate regardless of
their financial status. A variety of full and partial scholarships are
available to those who provide evidence of financial need. Skowhegan also
works in partnership with several schools and art departments to provide
Matching Fellowships.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2007

A detailed description of the program, financial assistance opportunities
and the 2007 application are now available online at:
www.skowheganart.org

To request a poster for display at your school, please email
mail@skowheganart.org.

The new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bolzano, Italy, is looking for a

DIRECTOR

The MUSEION in Bolzano, Italy, will open in spring 2008.

Role:
The Director will be responsible, from 2007 onwards, for leading the new organization, its economic and administrative management, personnel and external commercial relationships.

Above all the director serves as the artistic director of the museum itself with the goal of acquiring, conserving, researching, presenting, and the promotion of art from the 1950’s onwards. There will be a particular emphasis on contemporary art. The foundation envisages becoming an important meeting place for international art institutions and organizations that promote contemporary art from the Italian region of Alto-Adige.

Requirements:
- Artistic and/or cultural institution management experience.
- Excellent knowledge of the international contemporary art scene.
- Excellent knowledge of English and ideally of the two official languages of the Province of Bolzano, Italian and German.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.

Duration of the appointment: 4 years with the potential to be extended

Additional information about the position and the application process can be found: http://www.museion.it/eng/1147.html

Qualified and interested candidates are invited to send a letter of application and resume preferably via e-mail to: monika.eggenhofer@ezi.net or to Egon Zehnder International, Bauernmarkt 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Application deadline: Friday, 15.12.2006

Bolzano, October 2006
Foundation board

The historical relationship between art and language has often
occasioned lively and compelling work. AREA SNEAKS, a new print and
online journal, seeks to touch the live wire where language and visual
art meet.

Gertrude Stein’s Paris artist salon, Velemir Khlebnikov and Vladimir
Tatlin’s constructive collaboration, Bernadette Mayer and Vito
Acconci’s editorial partnership, Augusto de Campos’s concrete
engagement with Brazilian modernism and Mike Kelley’s interest in
systems of literary knowledge have each provided potential models of
positive exchange between artists and writers. AREA SNEAKS hopes to
maintain this dialogue by creating a fellowship of discourse within an
open community of contemporary artists and writers.

AREA SNEAKS seeks work drawn from the full range of visual and
language arts. We are interested in placing artists and writers
working in a variety of media and with a variety of materials into
dialogue. Artist projects, poetry, historical papers, speculative
essays on art and language, poetics statements, collaborations,
imaginative theses, conceptual writing, photographic essays,
performance documents, interviews with artists and writers,
architectural critiques and film analyses are only a few of the types
of work we will consider.

Submissions and proposals are accepted by email and post.

Deadline for Issue 1: January 15th, 2007.
Submissions received after January 15th will be considered for future issues.

Email submissions:
All email submissions or project proposals should be sent to
areasneaks@gmail.com
Please send submissions as a Microsoft Word document attachment and
include a brief cover-letter; images should be sent as an attachment
in GIF or JPEG formats.

Postal Submissions:
Send your submission along with a brief cover-letter, contact
information, and a SASE to
Joseph Mosconi
1588 Oak Grove Dr.
Los Angeles, CA
90041

Call for Submissions

Sideshow Spectacular: Animated Anomalies
Curated by Lisa Morse and Amy Baker
March 2007

The program will focus on animated media that deals with a critique of
popular culture. The sideshow in a circus has always been where the
human desire for the grotesque is given a specific price and a
marginalized existence; where the grotesque transcends its outer form
to reveal the layers of its involvement in our human destiny.

Specifications: Shorts, up to 10 minutes, completed since 2005.

Screening formats: Film (16mm), Video (preferably mini DV).

Submission preview formats: VHS, DVD. You must include a brief
description and bio (50-70 words), and the year of completion.

Submission deadline: January 12th 2007 Artist fees will be paid.

If you’d like your submission previews returned, please include a
self-addressed, stamped return envelope.

The Centre for Art Tapes
Attn: Animated Anomalies
5600 Sackville St., Suite 207
Halifax, NS
B3J 1L2

420-8115
cfat.programming@ns.sympatico.ca

Mireille Bourgeois
Programming Coordinator
Centre For Art Tapes
serving media artists since 1979…

The Kamloops Art Gallery invites all amateur, student, and
professional video makers from Kamloops and the TNRD to make a short
video (maximum 5 minutes) and enter it into the “Kami” Short Video
Competition. All submissions will be screened at the KAG on Sunday,
March 18, 2007, starting at 1pm. The theme for the competition is “the
place where I live,” and videos must be suitable for viewers of all
ages. The theme may be interpreted as literally or metaphorically as
you like. Deadline for submissions is 5 pm, Friday, March 2, 2007.

The “Kami” Short Video Competition coincides with the Kamloops Art
Gallery’s exhibition of Brian Stockton’s video series The Saskatchewan
Trilogy, from January 21 to March 18, 2007. Inspired by Stockton’s
musings on his home province, the Gallery wants to know how people in
our own region see and interpret, through moving images, the place
where they live.

On Sunday, March 18, 2007, 1pm, the competition begins! Admission is a
non-perishable Food Bank donation. With refreshments and popcorn, all
videos will be screened in the order they were received at the
Gallery, and at the end of the day, the audience will vote for their
favourite. One winner will go home with a surprise “Kami” award!

For submission criteria, entry forms, or more information, please
visit or call the Kamloops Art Gallery at (250) 377-2400. Information
is also available on the Gallery website, www.kag.bc.ca . The
competition is open to all Kamloops and TNRD residents, excluding KAG
staff members and their immediate families. The Gallery reserves the
right to reject or refuse any video that does not meet the submission
criteria. Videos can be submitted on DVD or VHS (NTSC only). Please
cue all VHS tapes to the start of your video.

Please direct all media inquiries to James Gordon, Marketing and
Communications Coordinator, Kamloops Art Gallery, (250) 377-2403, or
jgordon@kag.bc.ca

The Magenta Foundation is pleased to announce Year 3 of its Emerging
Photographers Call for Submissions

THIS IS AN OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Magenta Foundation, Canada’s first arts publishing house, is
announcing year three of its Emerging Photographers exchange.
Preview of last years competition
http://www.magentafoundation.org/en/projects/ep2006.html

All photographers in Canada, the US and the UK under the age of 34 can submit.

All requirements and details on how to submit are on our website
www.magentafoundation.org

Year 3 Jurors will be:
Daniel Faria from the Monte Clark Gallery in Toronto
Darren Ching from Photo District News in New York
Simon Bainbridge from the British Journal of Photography in London
and introducing Rebecca McClelland from the Sunday Times in London

The winners of this competition will be published in a high quality
art book with an exhibition in Toronto Oct 2007.
Other prizes to be announced. Stay Tuned.

DEADLINE: December 31st, 2006

PLEASE SUBMIT via www.magentafoundation.org

APPLY EARLY!
www.magentafoundation.org