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

Media Art Grants 2014, Open calls

Media Art Grants 2014 
Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art 
and  Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists of the Sparda-Bank 2014
Deadline: February 16, 2014

Media Art Grants 2014

Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three production and residency grants—10,000 EUR each—to promote international artistic efforts in the field of media art.

The grants from the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art were created in 2001, and are recognized internationally for their support of the production in the wide range of media art, from video art and net-based projects to audio or audio-visual installations.
The grant covers a period of six months—July–December 2014—and requires residence in Oldenburg for at least one month.
The project or artistic work should be completed within the six-month grant period. An international jury of experts will choose the grant winners.
Online application here

Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists of the Sparda-Bank 2014

The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award up to five grants for artistic works in the area of new media.
–two grants to the amount of 3,000 EUR and participation in the Award for Emerging Artists exhibition at the ERH;
–up to three artists will be acknowledged by having their work presented in the Award for Emerging Artists exhibition at the ERH.

The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art would like to recognize new stances in media art and support the winning artists with grants and/or an exhibition. The prize is intended to lastingly promote the careers of young media artists.
Awards will be given to existing works from the broad spectrum of media art, from net-based projects or video art to audio or audio-visual installations.
International artists up to the age of 35 may participate. 
An international jury of experts will choose the prize winners.
Online application here. 
For further information, please contact info@edith-russ-haus.de

About Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art opened in 2000 and is devoted to a wide range of current issues related to media art. Exhibitions by international artists and presentations, performances, concerts, workshops and lectures by media artists and theorists are regularly organized. Important past exhibitions have dealt with key contemporary themes such as Something Other Than Photography: Photo&Media andGeneration i.2 – The Aesthetics of the Digital in the 21st Century; important media artists have been presented in solo exhibitions. In October 2013, the first exhibition of the winners of the Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artists of the Sparda-Bank was presented: Kuai Shen with the space and sound installation Oh!m1gas: biomimetic stridulation environment and ss-io (Hyun Ju Song und Mi Lyoung Bae) with the generative audiovisual installation The Moment.
Since 2001, the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art has conducted a regular guest-artist programme, which up to now has sponsored and implemented 35 artistic proposals. To this end, two one-room apartments and a residential studio are available in the guesthouse of the Edith-Russ-Haus, and grant recipients can call upon the institutional support of the institution in implementing their projects.

contacts:
Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art
Katharinenstraße 23
D-26121 Oldenburg
Germany
http://www.edith-russ-haus.de