7th Gwangju Biennale
Global Institute: Experiments in Transnational Education
Workshops in Seoul and Gwangju, Korea
August 11 to 23, 2008
Deadline for applications: July 18, 2008
http://www.gb.or.kr
The 7th Gwangju Biennale is accepting applications for the Global Institute as part of Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions. The Global Institute consists of two programs: Open Studio and Arenas and Systems, organized into a series of workshops and clinics beginning in mid-August. Participants are invited to apply to either program based on their area of focus. Applicants should be at an upper undergraduate or graduate level, and should be able to demonstrate knowledge of contemporary artistic practice. In both programs, participants will work with a rich community of artists, curators, critics, and intellectuals, to examine the theoretical and historical questions currently being raised around contemporary art.
Open Studio begins by raising questions about where the artist’s studio is located in the changing context of global art practice. At a time when the studio has shifted into a veritable factory floor, artistic production can be seen as moving from the ethos of small-scale production, to one of hyperproduction. In Open Studio, invited speakers, artists, and architects will consider the conditions of production, examining how artists shift between different modes of thinking and making. The meetings will address scales, modes, contexts, and sites of inquiry, including academies, residencies, workshops, and travel as part of a global network of artistic and cultural production.
Arenas and Systems
It is possible, in the year of the Beijing Olympics, a year when 11 major international art exhibitions open throughout Asia-Pacific, to suggest that we are witnessing the beginning of the Asian century. In the same way that the 19th and 20th centuries were respectively the domains of Europe and America, Asia today clearly embodies many forces and energies of modernity – some similar, some quite unique. Given this scenario, new situations and institutions are emerging in Asia, invariably deploying a politics of spectacle, in turn requiring critical consideration. Arenas and Systems will involve various curators, critics, artists, and thinkers, all working in a series of workshops designed to engage the production, and reception, of these new formations.
Participants will be provided accommodation in both Seoul and Gwangju, lunch vouchers, and roundtrip transportation between Seoul and Gwangju during the Global Institute’s Session 1 (8/11-8/23). Applicants will be responsible for covering their airfare to/from Korea, obtaining a visa (if necessary) to enter Korea, and living expenses during their stay. Should the participants decide to extend their visit at the end of Session 1, they will be responsible for all their own expenses, including accommodation. All sessions of the Global Institute will be conducted in English and Korean.
The Global Institute is held in collaboration with the Korean National University of Arts, Seoul; Chonam National University, Gwangju; the San Francisco Art Institute; and the Royal College of Art, London.
For further information, please contact:
LEE, Sohl
Project Coordinator, Exhibition Team
THE GWANGJU BIENNALE FOUNDATION
tel 82.(0)62.608.4335 fax 82.(0)62.608.4335
Biennale 2-gil Buk-gu Gwangju, South Korea
sohl.lee@gmail.com
or check http://www.gb.or.kr
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The purpose of the competition is to award prizes to electronic works of art created with artificial life technologies
- Projects will be accepted from 15 June to 6 October 2008
- For this edition of VIDA 11.0, the prize money has doubled to 80,000 Euros
- The competition rules and all the information on previous editions can be viewed on the Vida Internet website http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida
One of Telefónica Foundation's main objectives is to promote the relationship between art and the new technologies. As a part of this goal, Telefónica Foundation is announcing the eleventh edition of the international VIDA competition to recognize artistic excellence in the field of artificial life and
related disciplines.
The competition is open to art projects that explore the interaction between "synthetic" life and "organic" life as a reflection of the field of artificial life. 572 artists from 32 countries have participated in the ten previous editions and prizes have been awarded to more than 100 projects which included robots, electronic avatars, chaotic algorithms, cellular automats, computer viruses and
virtual ecologies.
VIDA 11.0 will award a total of 80,000 euros to winning projects in two categories: one open to already-finished projects and another as an incentive for production in Ibero-America, Spain and Portugal. The winning works of art will be exhibited, as usual, at the Telefónica Foundation stand
at ARCO.
The works of art submitted will be reviewed by an international panel made up by Mónica Bello Bugallo (Spain); Daniel Canogar (Spain); José Carlos Mariátegui (Peru); Sally Jane Norman (France-New Zealand); Simón Penny (United States-Australia) and Nell Tenhaaf (Canada). Terms and conditions of the competition, which is open to participants from all over the world, are available in Spanish, English, German, Portuguese, Korean and Chinese.
More information:
Entry Period: 15 June to 6 October 2008
Complete competition rules at http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/vida
Para más información / For further information
FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA
Tel: +34 91 5840646
Área de Comunicación
Fax: +34 91 5230885
Gran Vía 28, 7ª planta
28013 MADRID
prensafundacion@telefonica.es
http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com
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Call for Applications
MA Fine Arts, York St John University,
United Kingdom
Further information: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/MAFineArts
Contact: admissions@yorksj.ac.uk
Overview
York St John University now offers a one-year full time or two years part-time taught Masters programme in Fine Arts. We have designed a curriculum entirely focused on developing artists’ abilities and capacities for professional, vocational and academic innovation. We emphasise relationships between composition, reflection, practice and dissemination across a dynamic breadth of fine arts disciplines such as digital arts, lens-based media, painting and drawing, performance art and sculptural installation. The programme lays equal emphasis upon developing both studio and commission practice, ensuring engagement with wider culture and society. We seek capable, questioning and dedicated practitioners from across a diversity of fine arts practice whether in the UK, Europe or beyond to contribute to our research-driven learning environment and to make the most of the opportunities our programme offers.
Programme Aims
The MA Fine Arts programme will enable you to develop and locate your practice in relation to current bodies of knowledge and practice in the fine arts, building a strong and increasingly confident practice through awareness and interaction with current contexts of professional practice. You will improve and deepen your academic knowledge, skills and methodological awareness, potentially providing preparation for advanced practice-based research in the fine arts. There will also be opportunity to engage with potential for crossing disciplines both within and beyond current fine arts practice.
Entry requirements
Candidates for entry to the MA programme would normally posses either:
- A good undergraduate degree in a related subject or branch of Fine Arts or Visual Arts practice as Single or Joint Honours or potentially in a Major/Minor combination.
- Experience of working in a professional arts environment or extensive experience of arts practice.
International students will need to demonstrate equivalent experience/qualifications as UK/EU students and evidence of English Language competence where necessary. All candidates will submit an application form in the first instance, followed by a portfolio of work and interview where appropriate.
Key Features
- The developing artist’s practice is at the centre of the programme and you will take practice-based modules throughout the degree.
- Delivery will make use of workshop, studio, seminar and virtual environments, providing an opportunity to explore the interrelationships between practice, reflection and knowledge.
- The existence of parallel MA Fine Arts and MA Performance programmes within the Faculty will provide students with opportunities to develop cross-disciplinary awareness and practices.
- The programme is designed to enhance the reflective strategies you employ in your creative decision making and your awareness of issues of dissemination within your present and future practice.
- Teaching, learning and research enables discovery of ways in which composition, creation, dissemination in the production of fine arts practice has evolved into its present media and forms.
Staff
A team of highly committed practitioners and academics will work closely with you to provide a great learning experience. Visiting lecturers and guest speakers will also make key inputs to enrich the programme and broaden your knowledge.
To discuss this opportunity please contact Roddy Hunter, Head of Fine Arts at r.hunter@yorksj.ac.uk
York St John University, Lord Mayor's Walk, York. YO31 7EX, United Kingdom.
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 624624 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 612512
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