MTAA’s Self-Selected Super St*rs :: April 29, 2008; 8:00 pm :: Industry City, 55 33rd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY.

MTAA shoot and simultaneously screen two films’ starring you. Are you great at off-the-cuff repartee? Look good taking a nap? Able to read bad sci-fi scripts out loud without laughing? Or are you just perfect at hanging out and being you? MTAA needs you to star in our low budget and barely (if at all) scripted film. Think Chelsea Girls meets Plan 9 from Outer Space while watching Empire. Continue reading

[Image: Mark Amerika] New Works with Mobile Phones: Mark Amerika, Chris Fry and Max Schleser (Chaired by Tom Corby) :: May 2, 2008, 6.30 - 8.30 pm :: Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW [Nearest Tube Oxford Circus; Map] :: Please email corbyt [at] wmin.ac.uk to be put on the guest list.

The Centre for Research in Art, Education and Media (CREAM) invites you to presentations and discussions of new work using mobile phones by Mark Amerika, Chris Fry and Max Schleser.

Mark Amerika will be showing his new work which composites various art personas and artworks into a narrative sequence of mobile phone video images that conjure up both the spirits of the past as well as hauntological actors of the present. Continue reading

Fictive Days is a two-week performance studio for the collective research of fictional characters. Taking place during the New Life Berlin Festival in June 2008, six to eight artists/researchers will be selected to live and work closely together in a large Berlin apartment. To participate in the project, you must apply to be a mainstream film character. For two full weeks you must adopt the identity of this character and always act as you believe this character would.

During the course of Fictive Days, everyday functions in the project apartment will be arranged solely on the structures of famous film scenes involving the performing characters. Consequently, everything that happens during the two weeks can be understood as a scene. Continue reading

Urban Screens Melbourne 08: Conference: Mobile Publics; October 3-5, 2008 :: Multimedia exhibition; October 3 – 8, 2008 :: Calls for film&video, multimedia projects and poster presentations :: Deadline for poster presentations: May 24, 2008 :: Deadline for film&video / multimedia projects: May 31, 2008.

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide events around the redefinition of a growing digital infrastructure of moving images in public space. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place at Federation Square, Melbourne. Federation Square is a unique cultural and community oriented multimedia precinct, centred around a significant 38m2 public LED screen. Continue reading

Willem de Ridder - presentation + screening of Here is Always Somewhere Else: The Life of Bas Jan Ader :: April 12, 2008; 6:00 pm :: TELIC Arts Exchange, 975 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA :: Due to the size of the installation of the Gravity Art exhibition (open until April 26), seating is extremely limited; you can reserve a seat by making a $5 donation to TELIC.

Willem de Ridder has been pioneering his entire life in the arts and the media. In the beginning of the sixties he brought in Holland all the modern young composers together in the MES (Mood Engineering Society), which resulted in the very first art performances and happenings. Continue reading

Light Industry is a new venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. Developed and overseen by Thomas Beard and Ed Halter, the project will begin as a series of weekly events in Sunset Park this spring and summer, each organized by a different artist, critic, or curator, including Peggy Ahwesh, Cory Arcangel, Rebecca Cleman, Ben Coonley and Michael Smith, Bradley Eros and Brian Frye, eteam, Kendra Gaeta and Laris Kreslins, David Gatten, Lia Gangitano, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Nick Hallett, K8 Hardy, William E. Jones, Andrew Lampert, Dennis Lim, Mark McElhatten, MTAA, Marisa Olson, Jacob Perlin, Seth Price, Jennifer Reeves, Eddo Stern, and Dan Streible, among others. Continue reading

Free Soil will present a bus tour, outdoor film / video festival and on-site exchange (June 5-7, 2008) in conjunction with the 2nd Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge in San Jose, California :: Call for Submissions - Onsite Learning Exchange / Post Tour Teach-In :: Deadline: March 30, 2008.

Building upon the energy of our first bus tour — A Journey through the techno-utopian beginnings and environmental currents of the Silicon Valley — Free Soil would like to use this year’s gathering of artists and practitioners to think about how we learn. How can we use our tools and practice to reflect and engage with the world around us? Continue reading

Calling All Women Everywhere: Overheated Symphony is an all-women directed interactive mobile phone film. This cinematic symphony of women’s voices from around the world is part of the Birds Eye View film festival taking place in London next month which showcases the work of female film-makers. Women across the world are being asked to make a short film -a “quick flick” - between 40 seconds and four minutes long on a mobile phone and then send it via the internet to a London-based film director who will edit all together. Continue reading

[Image: Simulate Editions - unique and authenticated virtual art objects by Nathaniel Stern] Crossing the Void II - Chris Ashley, Scott Kildall, Nathaniel Stern, Jon Coffelt, and Claire Keating :: Ten Cubed Gallery, Second Life :: Opening Receptions: January 31, 2008; 7 pm EST (4 pm SLT) and February 1, 2008; 3 pm GMT (7 am SLT).

Artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern have each been exploring performance and performativity in their archival prints. Kildall restages then remediates iconic performance artworks in Second Life, and Stern straps on a scanner appendage and battery pack, and performs images into existence; both processes produce art objects in the real world. Continue reading

ATA (Artists’ Television Access) Film and Video Festival! :: Call for Submissons: independent and experimental film & video running less than 20 minutes :: POSTMARK DEADLINE: May 15, 2008.

The ATA Film & Video Festival was founded in 2006 to showcase some of the best short works by independent and experimental film and video artists exhibiting locally, nationally and internationally. The festival includes several nights of screenings and installations in our Mission District storefront gallery and a lunch for the filmmakers. Throughout the year, work from the festival is broadcast to the San Francisco community on ATV, ATA’s weekly cable-access television show, and screened in other national and international venues.