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Registration is open (free) for Understanding Visual Music 2011

Registration is now open for the Understanding Visual Music conference at Concordia University in Montreal on 26/27 of August 2011. Register early to reserve a seat!
Register here: http://uvm2011.hexagram.ca/registration.html

Description
A two-day conference focused on developing an understanding of the practice of visual music, its definition, related creative and perceptual considerations, current trends, technological innovation, and possible future directions.
The event will take place on Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th of August 2011 and will include paper sessions, panels, and creative works presentations.

Featured presenters, curators, and artists:

The Banff Centre
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
Banff, Alberta, T1L 1H5
Canada
Office of the Registrar
Phone: 1.800.565.9989
arts_info@banffcentre.ca
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1111

Application deadline extended until August 1, 2011

Program dates:
November 14 – December 9, 2011

Faculty & Guests: Adam Chodzko, Martin Clark, Simon Starling, Kevin Schmidt

Scholarship funding available

Where's the art work? The residency and its location is the work. The group is the work. The differences between the group is the work. But the group is looking somewhere else altogether. And that somewhere else - certainly, not here - must be where art is really about to happen.

East West Players is pleased to announce its latest Playwrighting
Competition: FACE OF THE FUTURE. This time around we are particularly
looking for plays that explore the reality of multicultural America from
an Asian American perspective. For instance, subject matter might
include (but need not be limited to) biracial or multiracial identity,
clashes or collaborations between cultures, or
international/transnational storylines.

The prizes are as follows:
$5000 First Place
$2500 Second Place
$1000 Third Place

The First, Second and Third Place winners will all receive readings by
EWP. All winners will be considered for workshop and/or production; EWP
must have the first option to produce.

Submission period: May 2, 2011 to August 31, 2011

Throughout history, creative works by women have been devalued,
dismissed, and even buried. In an attempt to keep women’s work
visible, Craftswoman House seeks artworks that make a direct reference
to, or were inspired by, second-wave feminist art for inclusion in a
November-December 2011 group exhibition. We are also seeking video and
performance works for an event in early December.

Please send images or links of up to five works, or a link to video or
performance, a short statement on the relationship between your work
and second-wave feminist art, and a CV to craftswomanhouse@gmail.com
with Stemma as the subject. For further information about Craftswoman
House, go to craftswomanhouse.com or craftswomanhouse.blogspot.com.

Deadline September 7, 2011

from LA Culture Net

Museum Director
SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
http://www.skmu.no

Are you interested in becoming the director of the regional art museum in southern Norway? As one of Norway's newest regional art museums, SKMU aims to be a leader in conveying contemporary art to the public. We are looking for a director who wants to take us to be one of the best art museums in Norway, and increase the number of visitors. SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum seeks to both confirm and extend its role as a museum and as an active participant in the culturel society. SKMU is a large and exciting cultural institution in southern Norway.

Submit your works to info@artaddiction.net

Artists are invited to apply for the 11th edition of the ARTISTS OF TODAY Online Art Annual Of Contemporary Art. The competition is open to all artists and is judged solely by visuals submitted online or attachment. All accepted works that pass the screening will entry into competition and will be exhibited 12 months beginning with the date of the inclusion.

The screening
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The screening is conducted by submitting Jpeg [.JPG] image files versions of the submitted works inline or attachment. Submitters whose entries pass the screening will be notified by e-mail indicating that the works are included in exhibition.

Materials to be received
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Brazil, Sao Paulo
SESC Belenzinho – São Paulo, Brasil

Source http://www2.sescsp.org.br/sesc/videobrasil/site/sobre/sobre_en.asp

The particularities of contemporary artistic production from the geopolitical South of the world inspire the Southern Panoramas Seminar, the main activity in the Educational Curatorial Program developed for the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil. The series of meetings, that will bring together artists, curators and critics from different regions of he world, aims to explore the potency and singularity of this circuit, marked by discontinuity and born out of contexts in which political, social and cultural tensions tend to constantly alter and rearticulate symbolic forms and the way in which information and images circulate.

Writers can participate in a contest on the green economy.

The International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) is holding writing contest. Articles will be part of a new magazine to be launched late 2011.

The contest is open to young scholars from all over the world, graduate students, PhD students or postdocs. Scholars from developing countries are particularly encouraged to participate.

Five winners to be awarded a cash prizes and their work will be featured in the first issue of the magazine. First place will be awarded US$500, second place US$200 and third through fifth place receive US$100 each.

The third call for applications in 2011 for travel grants in the framework of the Marseilles-Provence 2013/RCF Fund is open from 19th July to 26th August 2011. This Fund is open to all artistic projects in the Euro-Arab[1] region in the following areas: contemporary performing arts (theatre, dance, circus/street/puppet art) music, visual arts, digital arts, photography, film, new writing, playwriting, storytelling, poetry, trans-disciplinary projects.

In order to meet the eligibility criteria, candidates must respect the specific criteria of the Marseille-Provence 2013 project, which are:
A) Aims of the trip need to be linked to the Marseille Provence 2013 project and/or the area of Marseille Provence 2013 (which extends from Arles to La Ciotat through the Pays d'Aix).

The "My Country" photo contest encourages photographers worldwide to submit one or multiple photographs of a country of their choosing.

Asia-based stock photo company, Photokore, sponsors the contest. The objective is to submit a photo that best captures the essence of a country that holds a special place in your heart, whether the photographer lives there or has just visited. The word 'My' is subjective and can be interpreted differently based on the participant's personal preference.

There are three categories: people, landscapes and objects.

Amateur and professional photographers can participate. The contest is open to all ages but participants under 18 must have parental consent.