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Rencontres Internationales

CALL FOR ENTRIES:
Until the 25th of August, 2008

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
FILM / VIDEO / MULTIMEDIA

http://art-action.org

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009.

Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.

ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANISATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN FOR FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA PROPOSALS, without any restriction of length or genre. All submissions are free, without limitation of geographical origin.

Film and video cycle (any film and video format)
* Video / Experimental video
* Fiction - short, medium and feature length
* Documentary, experimental documentary
* Experimental Film
* Animation

Multimedia cycle
* Video installation, multimedia installation
* Net art
* Multimedia performance, multimedia concert

Video and film submissions are received on DVD. ALL submissions are sent by postal mail, enclosed with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL THE 25th of AUGUST, 2008 (postmarked). Entry form and information regarding the ‘Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid’ are posted on our website http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm

PLEASE FORWARD this piece of information to creative organizations, art networks, production organizations, artists and filmmakers you are in contact with.

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ offers more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify of their reflections and of their experiences, but also of artistic and cultural contexts that are often experiencing deep changes.

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ reflects specificities and convergences of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.

The event aims at presenting those works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. It wishes to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a demanding program opened to everyone.

Paris/Berlin/Madrid
In 2007, the ‘Rencontres Internationales’, which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and different audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume national museum in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia national museum and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid.

The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ is a non commercial event without competition, supported by French, German, Spanish and international institutions http://art-action.org/fr_soutien.htm

After Storm, Huangshan Mountains, China, Leping Zah

The Center for Fine Art Photography call for entries for
The Art in Nature Fine Art photography show
Deadline September 16, 2008
$600 in Awards
More Info at http://www.c4fap.org

The Art in Nature will illustrate all aspects of nature in its many tableaus: landscape, seascape, wildlife, floral, water, environment, and weather. The exhibition is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combination of both. Information and online submissions at The Center for Fine Art Photography www.c4fap.org or email questions to cfe@c4fap.org .
Exhibition and Awards:
With selection for this exhibition, artists and their work will be seen by an international audience of collectors, curators, art consultants and others who appreciate the fine art of photography.
• Juror’s Selection award: $300
• Director’s Selection award: $200
• Gallery Visitor’s Choice Award: $100
• Two Artists’ ShowCase Online subscriptions – the Center’s new online image marketing website (preview at www.artists-showcase.org)
• All exhibitors are included in the Center’s online gallery
• Inclusion in the Center’s 2008 Exhibition Collection CD which is distributed to selected galleries, collectors, design houses and corporations world wide
Important Dates
• Entries due: September 16, 2008
• Notice of acceptance: September 26, 2008
• Exhibition dates: December 5, 2008 – January 3, 2009
Public and Artists’ Reception during the Fort Collins Gallery Walk: December 5, 2008

You can also see other Call for Entries at http://www.c4fap.org/call_for_entries.asp

Kunstverein Hildesheim and Roemer-und Pelizaeus- Museum

Ariane Michel, “Sur la Terre”, video still, 2005.

observing beast, time, evolution
Art and Science
September 7 to November 2, 2008

Opening September 7, 11 am
Kunstverein Hildesheim
http://www.kunstverein-hildesheim.de

Roemer-und Pelizaeus- Museum
http://www.rpmuseum.de

A joint project of the Kunstverein Hildesheim and the Roemer- und Pelizaeus- Museum Hildesheim

Mark Dion, Frank Hesse, Katie Holten, Sanna Kannisto, Ursula Hansbauer & Wolfgang Konrad, Künstlerkollektiv finger, Jochen Lempert, Ariane Michel, Helen Mirra, Jürgen Stollhans & Federico Geller, Susan Turcot, Lois & Franziska Weinberger

What is life? How long will our fossil resources last? What is time? Who is responsible for climate change? Are we permitted to intervene in evolution?

Questions concerning genetic research, natural catastrophes, and species extinction were fields long reserved for the natural sciences. They are now also dealt with on a political and economic level. After the most recent UN Climate Report their brisance can be brought to a head in the question: Can the Earth be saved?

Against this very current backdrop, the Kunstverein in cooperation with the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim has invited over a dozen contemporary artists to position their works. The show taking place simultaneously in both houses and integrates the museum’s paleontological collection.

The participating artists have worked for many years in the context of the natural sciences, research, and ecology. For the Hildesheim exhibition they have taken up topics from the museum’s geological collection and employed scientific methodology for their own fictional documentations. They slip into the role of amateur scientists setting up beehives, baiting birds of paradise, or collecting gene data. They undertake expeditions to the edges of the earth with the verve of an explorer or archive weeds, inspects, and trees in the urban space.

As the exhibition title suggests, they observe animals, reflect on the passage of time, and devote themselves to subtle changes in our environment.

Curated by Elke Falat and Sabine Mila Kunz

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog, 128 pages, color, German/English

Exhibition venues:

Kunstverein Hildesheim
Kehrwieder 2
31134 Hildesheim
Wednesday to Saturday 3–6 p.m.
Sunday 11– 6 p.m.
http://www.kunstverein-hildesheim.de

Roemer-und Pelizaeus- Museum
Am Steine 1-2
31134 Hildesheim
Tuesday to Sunday 10– 6 p.m.
http://www.rpmuseum.de

The exhibition is supported by funds from the State of Lower Saxony, the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, the Sparkasse Hildesheim and the Friedrich Weinhagen Stiftung.

Contact:
Elke Falat
Kunstverein Hildesheim
kontakt@kunstverein-hildesheim.de

Henie Onstad Art Centre

Per-Oscar Leu
Americka (If it was not for you, We would all speak German) (2007)
Sculpture.

REALITY EFFECTS –
when reality is put to work
23.08 - 09.11.2008

Henie Onstad Art Centre
Sonja Henies vei 31
N-1311 Høvikodden
Norway
Tel: +47 67 80 48 80

http://www.hok.no

SHAINA ANAND (IN), FIA BACKSTRÖM (SE), GOLDIN + SENNEBY (SE), PER OSKAR LEU (NO), KATYA SANDER (DK), ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI (PL), MATIAS FALDBAKKEN (NO), DORIT MARGREITER (AU), SANJA IVEKOVIC (HR).

REALITY EFFECTS – when reality is put to work is an exhibition that gives free rein to fiction, while at the same time perceiving the art space as a virtual space with a construed and sometimes false perception of reality.

The exhibition addresses phenomena such as the new global economy, human migration and the perception of reality via the media. How can reality be “put to work” and how is it generated and communicated via the media? The works of art featured at this exhibition examine in a pragmatic, discursive or analytical way how our view and concept of “reality” has changed in the face of the new economy and the influence of the media. Rather than utopian or idealistic perspectives, the works favour a more anthropological investigation into these phenomena, resulting in different fictitious and “real” stories and an active intervention in people’s everyday lives.

REALITY EFFECTS – when reality is put to work is a part of Høvikodden LIVE – Henie Onstad Art Centre’s annual arena for cross-artistic projects and events. The opening on 23rd August marks the 40th anniversary of the Art Centre. Apart from the main exhibition, the anniversary celebrations will include the world premiere performance of two commissioned works, and the official opening of the Art Centre´s new, outdoor stage.

Music programme:
• August 23rd: Commissioned work: SPUNK (NO), Commissioned work: Lasse Marhaug (NO), Motorpsycho + Deathprod (NO)
• August 31st: Cory Arcangel (US), Nils Bech (NO), Opsvik & Jennings (NO / US)
• September 7th: Kjell Bjørgeengen (NO), Keith Rowe (GBR), Philipp Wachsmann (GBR)
• September 14th: Alexander Rishaug / Marius Watz (NO), Eric Malmberg (SE), Lasse Marhaug (NO)
• September 21st: Christian Wallumrød Ensemble (NO)
• September 28th: Håkon Kornstad (NO), Rockettothesky (NO), OSLO INN (NO)

Curators: Caroline Ugelstad, Tone Hansen
Music coordinator: Lars Mørch Finborud

More info at http://www.hok.no