LABORATORIO DE ARTE Y ESPACIO SOCIAL
The Laboratorio de Arte y Espacio Social (LAES) is a collaborative research workshop directed by María Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley, Jr. for the Education Department of the Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador (Central Bank Museum of Ecuador).

LAES will offer a free and open space for participants of any discipline to investigate and engage in issues involving the relationship between art and public space. Methodological research that involves working with and understanding public cultural practices are of primary concern within a field that has seen enormous growth of activity both locally and internationally, institutionally and informally, and individually and collectively.

Practices born in or outside the art world system hold numerous promising possibilities depending on the public one chooses to work with. LAES, under the institutional umbrella of the largest museum in Ecuador, will seek to investigate the ties between institutional possibilities and the numerous independent artist/activist led projects in the region. Relationships between art and political movements, collaborative strategies and community work, as well as contemporary and historic forms of public space cultural practices will be investigated.

During the entire month of August, LAES will be lead by a group specializing in various disciplinary practices. The workshop interlocutors include: X. Andrade (Guayaquil, urban anthropology and art practice), María Fernanda Cartagena (Quito-Buenos Aires, visual cultures), Deborah Morillo (Quito, pedagogy and art practice), Bill Kelley, Jr. (Los Angeles, art theory), and invited artists Alejandro Meitin representing the collective Ala Plàstica (La Plata, Argentina) and Graciela Carnevale (Rosario, Argentina) presenting with Tucumàn Arde Archive.

LAES workshop will also feature the exhibition Por qué no te callas? Activismo, desobediencia y medios de comunicación (Why don't you shut up? Activism, disobedience and mediums of communication), a title taken from the headlines after King Juan Carlos of Spain yelled the infamous phrase at Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in 2007, will be hosted by Espacio Arte Actual in Quito and will feature the Tucumàn Arde Archive (Argentina 1968) as well as contemporary video artists: BijaRi (Brazil), Boredom Patrol (USA), Bulbo (Mexico), Etcétera, now Internacional Errorista (Argentina), Ana Fernàndez and Miguel Alvear (Ecuador), Frente 3 de Fevereiro (Brazil), María Teresa Ponce and Fabiano Kueva (Ecuador), and The Yes Men (USA). Por qué no te callas? is organized by María Fernanda Cartagena and Bill Kelley, Jr. Much like the LAES workshop, this exhibition attempts to investigate art's relationship to the changing nature of public space, as well as bridge the gap between historic and contemporary cultural practices forty years after the events of ‘68.

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MILAN IN DIGITAL III
Milan in digital III is a competition dedicated to young artists of new media art, organised by the foundation D'ars Oscar Signorini onlus with the Patronage and the contribution of the Council of Milan - Free Time Sector, the Patronage of the Lombardy Region - Culture, Identity and Autonomy of Lombardy, and of the Chamber of Commerce of Milan - Forum Net Economy.
Milan in digital III's goal consists in giving visibility to artists operating in digital and implies in primis the desire to offer young people the opportunity to grow intellectually and artistically, supplying them with meetings, debates and links with other opposing cultural realities. The competition, moreover, will offer the winners an exhibition and the possibility to deepen their technical capabilities through a residency in the international digital field.
Participation in the competition can only be done online through the official site www.milanoindigitale.it

Regulation:
Who participates: The competition is open to all artists aged between 18 and 35 years, whose projects are constructed around the new possibilities of expression allowed by the digital technologies.

Dates of the Competition:
29-30 May 2008: Opening of the competition Kermesse Milan in digital III at Palazzo Giureconsulti in Milan (debates, workshops with artists, conferences and demonstration events).
15 September 2008: closure of the competition.
13-23 November 2008: exhibition Milan in digital III, of the first ten artists classified, at the Fabbrica del Vapore (Steam Factory) in Milan, realised with the technological sponsorship of EPSON
Summer 2009: workshop in Prague for the three winners of the competition with the organisation TransIStor del CIANT - International centre of Art and New Technologies - www.transistor.ciant.cz

How to Participate:
To participate in Milan in digital III, the artist should connect to the site www.milanoindigitale.it and insert the following material in the correct sections:

1. The personal data requested
2. Information related to the work of art with which the artist intends to participate in the competition (a caption, a brief description including technical notes and the poetic motivation)
3. Attachments with images, videos or links to web pages related to the work of art in the competition
4. Attachments with the curriculum vitae and an identity document or tax number (codice fiscale) (these last documents to be scanned)

The deadline for participation online is 15 September 2008

Selection:
At the end of the competition a panel of experts made up by Pier Luigi Capucci, Antonio Caronia, Francesco Monico, Domenico Quaranta, Paolo Rosa and Franco Torriani will select the winners by observing the following evaluation criteria:

1. pertinence to the type of competition and to the age limits communicated
2. completeness in the presentation of the documents
3. originality in the creative application of the technological tool

Once selection has been made, the ten winning artists will be directly contacted by the management of the competition and their names will be published on the site www.milanoindigitale.it

The prizes:
At the closing of the competition a panel of experts will assess the participating artists' work and announce the first ten classified, who will be protagonists in November 2008 in the Exhibition Milan in Digital III in the spaces of the Fabbrica del Vapore (Steam Factory) in Milan, realised with the technical sponsorship of EPSON. Here the artists will show their work as the conclusive moment of a creative path and occasion of confirmation with the public. Moreover, the first three classified artists will win the chance to participate in one of the international workshops organised by TransiIStor del CIANT - International centre of Art and New Technologies - in Prague in 2009.

Liability and Acceptance of the Competition rules:
The projects sent and presented for selection remain the property of the authors, who authorise their use for free for an unlimited period of time for Milan in digital III. The materials sent, will in no circumstances be returned and will be inserted in the archives of Milan in digital. The winning works of art will become part of the collection of the Foundation D'ars Oscar Signorini onlus, which does not however, have the right to sell the works of art.
By participating in the competition, the artists assume responsibility for all risks and damage which the designs and works of art might suffer during storage and exposition. If the artists intend to insure their works of art against all risks, they should do that at their own expense.
In the case in which the artist is selected as the winner, he/she must guarantee the completion of the exhibition of the work of art with Milan in digital III the day before the inauguration.
The organisers of Milan in Digital III reserve the right to publish the works of art, which participate in the selection, also on different tools and supports, for documentation and promotion of the event, without anything being due to the authors and/or to their assignees.
The sending of the work of art for selection implies the total unconditional acceptance of these regulations pursuant to art 6 paragraph a) Presidential Decree 26/10/2001, no. 430.
These regulations do not constitute an invitation to compete, or an offer to the public or a promise to the public. The selection and judgment of the works of art remains the final decision of the commission on the basis of the criteria expressed herein.
Participation in the competition implies acceptance without reserve of these regulations and it is only the commission, which can make the final decision with regard to controversial cases and to what has not been expressly provided for in these regulations.

Authorisation for the handling of personal data
Each author or other category of participant in the competition, with the signing of this application form, authorises the Management of the exhibition and/or internal collaborators to handle the respective personal data, both manually and digitally, with respect for the minimum security measures as provided by legislative decree 196/03.

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VIDEOS FOR BIVOUAC PROJECTS
Bivouac Projects acts as a transitory gallery, performance space, and screening series providing the community with an opportunity to see experimental film and video works from both local (US artists) and international artists.

Videos not in excess of 15 minutes are requested for submission to a screening/exhibit to be held at multiple venues throughout the Southeast including SCGA beginning in September 2008. Events will be planned monthly so there is no deadline for submissions.

Deadline:
Ongoing - earlier entries will be given preference.

Guidelines:

Videos should be short — under 15.00 minutes. All types of independent/non-commercial work is accepted: experimental, documentary, narrative, non-narrative, controversial, political, personal, etc... Commercial productions and Music Videos need not apply. International and Domestic submissions are encouraged.

Formats Accepted:
DVD (NTSC). Please include: Synopsis, Bio, CV and Contact Information. SASE required for DVD return. Otherwise, all submissions will be added to the Bivouac Projects Video Library for possible inclusion in future curatorial projects. Artists will be contacted for permission prior to having their work included in other programs. Unfortunately, Artist Fees cannot be paid at this time.

Delivery Address
There is no official submission form

Send submissions to: Frank McCauley Assistant Director and Curator SCGA PO Box 1316 Sumter, SC 29151 USA

Artist-in-Residence
Call for applications

Deadline: 27/09/08

Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede
Landkreis Lueneburg,
Fachdienst Schule und Kultur
Auf dem Michaeliskloster 4
D-21335 Lueneburg
Phone: +49-4131-26-1360

http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de

Since 1979 the Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede has been seeking to promote young artists who explore innovative positions in the field of contemporary fine art. Today artists, whose work addresses complex aesthetic, cultural or political issues, rarely find the necessary support to realize their ambitious projects. This is why the Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede wishes to offer these artists the opportunity to develop their work in the course of a residential scholarship of three or six months.

The Kuenstlerstaette Schloss Bleckede offers ideal working conditions. The historic remise of the castle of Bleckede has been restored and transformed into three studios, each of which provides an extensive work space and a comfortable living area. The castle is located in the nature reserve Elbufer Drawehn close to the river Elbe between Hamburg and Lueneburg. Moreover Hamburg and Berlin is within easy reach, both of which have a thriving cultural life. The scholarship includes a monthly grant of Euro 1.400,- , which is made available for up to three scholarship holders at any one time, by the state of Lower Saxony. Previous scholarship winners have included reknown artists like Ulla von Brandenburg, Shannon Bool, Geoffrey Hendricks, Peter Pommerer, Katharina Sieverding, Maki Tamura and Simon Wachsmuth. The residential scholarship will be selected by a jury.

The call for applications is open to all artists of all nationalities. Application forms, criteria and more information are available at http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de

Closing date: 27.09.2008

Landkreis Lueneburg,
Fachdienst Schule und Kultur
Auf dem Michaeliskloster 4
D-21335 Lueneburg
Phone: +49-4131-26-1360
http://www.kuenstlerstaette-bleckede.de

For further information:
Halle für Kunst Lueneburg e.V.
Phone: +49-4131-402001
info@halle-fuer-kunst.de

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Hangar Bicocca

spazio d'arte contemporanea
Milano, Italy

Is looking for its first Artistic Director

Application deadline
September 15, 2008

http://hangarbicocca.it

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