Fonlad 2012 Call For Artists — Deadline: March 31. Continue reading

Cynetart 2012 Award :: November 15-21, 2012 :: Festspielhaus Hellerau, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 56, Dresden, Saxony 01109, Germany :: Call for Entries — Deadline: March 31.

Cynetart is an international festival for computer based art in Dresden. The 16th Edition of the festival will present an exhibition of the winning projects and selected competition entries, first-class performances and a programme with live sets of international electronic musicians and VJs at the Festspielhaus Hellerau and other selected spots in Dresden.

The competition is open to artists, designers and scientists who dedicate themselves in their artistic and reflective discussion in particular interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. Continue reading

Low Lives 4 Networked Performance Festival :: April 27-28, 2012 :: Open Call for Proposals
 — Deadline: March 25.

Now entering its fourth year, Low Lives is an international festival of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Artists working in any media are invited to submit proposals for live performance-based works. Continue reading

Resonate 2012 :: March 16-17, 2012 :: Belgrade, Serbia.

New Codes: Athens Video Art Festival 2012 :: Miltiadou 18, 10560 – Monastiraki, Athens, Greece :: Call for Entries — Deadline: April 5.

Athens Video Art Festival, always faithful in experimentation and constant self-criticism as contemporary art and life prerequisites, welcomes 2012 with its eighth official edition. AVAF extends an open invitation to artists who are interested in developing their ideas by experimenting on the platform of new technologies, under no thematic restrictions, in 7 categories:

Video Art – Animation – Installations – Digital Image – Web Art – Performance – Music Continue reading

Espacio Enter Canarias, Art, Science, Innovation :: November 8-11, 2012 :: Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands :: Call for Projects — Deadline: May 30, 2012.

Espacio Enter Canarias is a International Festival for all sectors related to art and digital culture, for ideas that will allow us to design the future of technological innovation.

Art-Science-Innovation: Digitals Communities – Storytelling geoespacial – Artificial Life- Software Art – Transgenic Art- Generative Art – Videogames :: Robotic – Open Source- Animation, 2D, 3D – Videocreation – Net-art- Blog, Videoblog – Videodance – Creation for mobile platforms – Apps development. Continue reading

The HTMlles 10: Risky Business — Feminist festival of media arts + digital culture :: November 10-18, 2012 :: :: Call for Proposals — Deadline: April 2.

The 10th edition of the HTMlles will take up the notion of risk. To risk: to gain or to lose (it is uncertain), to expose oneself to a possibility… Risk is a potential. Whether used positively or negatively, the idea of risk implies that of evaluation, action and distribution, and thus, power. While the term “risk” evolved with the development of capitalism, the concept of “risk society” is about twenty years old and has been used by scholars to describe how modern society organizes around the idea of risk, that is, in response to a future (which society should be able to manage). Continue reading

404 International Festival of Art & Technology :: Open Call — Deadline: February 28, 2012. Continue reading

Artefact Festival for Art and Media: The Social Contract :: February 14-23, 2012 :: STUK arts centre, Naamsestraat 96, Leuven, 3000, Belgium. Continue reading

The reSource for transmedial culture, a new framework for the transmediale festival, aims to create a distributed platform for networking, curating and research throughout the year 2012 and beyond by envisioning the festival as a peer-production context of sharing knowledge and practices. Continue reading