ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2015, Open call

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2015, Finland, call for proposals
Deadline:16.12.2014

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival is an international contemporary arts festival presenting site-specific works made for public space in Kuopio, Finland. ANTI presents live, sonic, visual and text-based art from today’s most exciting and innovative artists. A truly international festival and Finland’s foremost presenter of Live Art, ANTI is a meeting place for artists and audiences fascinated by how art shapes the spaces of everyday life.
In September 2015 ANTI Festival will collaborate with the Kuopio Marathon to present a unique series of cultural events created in response to the race. We invite proposals for projects that engage with one or more of the following areas:
·      Duration, longevity and time; the long and short of time-based activities
·      Sport and culture, sporting culture, cultural sport
·      The body and endurance – expanded ideas of endurance: political, social, cultural forms of endured activity; the social agency of endurance
·      The quantified self: fitness culture, technology and performance
·      The race, racing and competitive frameworks
·      Participation and mass events – the individual and the many
·      The enthusiast and the amateur: the cultural agency of the ‘trained’ every-person
·      Topographic trajectories and spatial intervention: running/reading/using the city
ANTI is a site-specific festival – we do not show projects in traditional cultural spaces, thus projects have a direct relationship with the spaces and places they are shown in. When proposing a project please make it clear where your project would ideally be located, and why. The 2015 festival will take place in and round the Kuopio Marathon – projects are imagined to establish a number of relationships with the race itself; some may engage directly with the event while others might happen in parallel to it etc.
The Kuopio Marathon was first held in 1998. 2015 will see around 2,500 runners take part. The event comprises a mix of distances – full marathon, half marathon, 10K (walk or run) and a series of races for children. The events takes place across the 4th and 5th of September. For more information: http://www.kuopiomaraton.com
Before making your proposal it may be beneficial to spend some time with the online archive of previous festival editions: http://www.antifestival.com
The proposal process
All proposals must be sent using this electronic form (https://anti.gruppo.fi/online-applications/index.php/survey/index/sid/426793/lang/en) and written in English. The form allows a link to be made to online documentation of previous work and for applicants to attach a CV and max three supporting images. Proposals that do not strictly conform to these guidelines will not be considered.
The proposal deadline is 16.12.2014
ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival 1 - 6 September 2015
Kuopio, Finland
Further information: info@antifestival.com

16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015, Poland

16th Media Art Biennale WRO 2015, Poland

Dates: May 14–September 2015
Deadline: December 10, 2014

 Program is open to various forms of creative artistic expression and communication made using electronic and/or digital media and completed after January 1, 2013

Entry form, conditions, details: http://www.wro2015.wrocenter.pl


WRO 2015: Test Exposure
The aim of the WRO 2015 Biennale is to give exposure to new media art experiments, individual explorations and approaches investigating the potential of art both to affect and to reflect emerging issues in culture.

Artists are invited to submit works that take on the risks of innovation, inquiry and imagination, using original observations, contemporary technologies and procedures in the process of creating inventive forms, interpreting the present and revising the notion of the future (which no longer seems to be a clearly defined project).

The WRO 2015 Test Exposure Biennale is a testing ground for creative, unconstrained investigations of art's potential to react to the present and to anticipate future challenges.

The WRO Biennale: about
The WRO Media Art Biennale is the major forum for new media art in Poland, and one of the leading international art events in Central Europe. Since its inception in 1989, WRO has been presenting art forms using new media for artistic expression and communication, exploring current creative territories and building a critical perspective toward emerging issues in culture, art, society and technology.

The previous edition of the WRO Biennale—WRO 2013 Pioneering Values Biennale—was held at 18 sites around the city of Wrocław: museums, galleries, art house cinemas, department stores, old factory halls and public space,  where the works of over 200 artists were shown. The exhibitions, concerts, performances, video projections, installations and conferences were attended by more than a thousand accredited guests and over 110,000 visitors. The WRO 2013 Catalog is available both in print and online here.

Artistic director: Piotr Krajewski

WRO Media Art Center Foundation / The WRO Art Center
ul. Widok 7
50-052 Wrocław
Poland

T +0048 71 343 32 40
biennale@wrocenter.pl
http://www.wrocenter.pl