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Cyborg Nation is seeking an adventurous designer who is experienced in working with unusual costuming and/or wearable technology.

Cyborg Nation, conceived by Clarinda Mac Low, a performance and installation artist, and Walter Polkosnik, a physicist, hacker and inventor, is built around a self-contained performance environment (SCoPE); miniature technologies built into a wearable, participatory media extravaganza. The SCoPE is a tool for creating performance dialogues anywhere, acting as a nexus for imagination and as an aid to impromptu philosophizing. The SCoPE allows one-to-one conversation to become a public display. With the SCoPE, performer(s) field and respond to phone calls, images, and email from participants on site and elsewhere.

Dear Artists,

The official W.A.G.E. SURVEY is here!

These 2 surveys specifically target the exhibition experiences of visual and performance artists who have worked in New York with either or both:

Small to Medium Non-Profit Institutions

Large Non-Profit Institutions & Museums

from recent trip to NOLA, and the music was great too.

The Abraaj Capital Art Prize, established by the Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj Capital, is opening up applications for independent curators and artists to apply for its 4th edition. One of the most generous art prizes in the world, the prize is extending its reach to provide the most dynamic creative collaborations between international curators and artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA).

Calling Curators

The Crystal City Business Improvement District is seeking qualified artists to help produce a temporary, outdoor art exhibit featuring illuminated sculptures in the Crystal City Water Park. Selected artists will receive a grant of $5,000 to build and implement their concept.

Deadline: Friday, January 14, 2011
Location: Crystal City Water Park

For participation visit: http://www.crystalcity.org/_files/docs/illuminationcfa.pdf

from Art4Development

Deadline:30/01/11

Location Chile women's film festival will be held for the first time in Chile with the goal of highlighting women filmmakers and movies that deal with gender issues.

The categories are documentary short and short fiction. Applicants must be women who live in Chile and whose works (of no more than 30 minutes) concluded after January 1, 2010.

For more information (in Spanish), click here:
http://www.femcine.cl/

from Art4Development

Artists early in their careers are invited to apply for a $5,000 award that includes a solo exhibition in the Projects Room at the gallery

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAGA) Associates are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship Award. The Award was conceived by two seminal Los Angeles modernist painters—Lorser and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson—and friends to encourage young artists early in their careers by awarding grants to support their creative potential. The Award is offered with the generous support of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates (LAMAGA) in partnership with the Feitelson Foundation.

DEADLINE FOR ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS: FEBRUARY 16, 2011

The Altadena Library District is seeking artists of all mediums to
display artwork in our Community Room for February 2011. All experience
levels are welcome and all forms of work with the exception of
sculpture.

We are looking for material that is educational and we are open to
including written word, poems, etc.

This will be a group exhibit; a total of 5 artists will be chosen. We
use a track/rod hanging system and each artist will be provided with (4)
rods. The rods can hold (4) 5x7's, (3) 8x10, (2) 11x14, or (1) large
image. Note: these are frame sizes.

Before submitting you must be able to comply with the following:

* Be available for the Hanging (sometime between 1/28 – 2/3)
* Participate in an Opening Reception Saturday February 5th,
5-7pm

The Kunsthalle Bern is looking for a new director starting January 2012

Please submit your application by the end of February to:

Kunsthalle Bern
Findungskommission
Postlagernd
CH-3000 Bern 6
http://www.kunsthalle-bern.ch/en/

For further information:
findungskommission@kunsthalle-bern.ch
http://www.kunsthalle-bern.ch/en/

from e-flux

Watermans 2012 New Media Exhibitions project

Watermans
40 High Street
Brentford London TW8 0DS
UK
Phone: +44 (0)7986347922
Fax: +44 (0)208 232 1030
Irini Papadimitriou
irini@watermans.org.uk
http://www.watermans.org.uk

The deadline for receiving proposals for the Open Call is 24th February 2011.

CALL FOR ENTRIES - 2012 PROJECT

To coincide with the Olympics in London in 2012, Watermans is pleased to announce a unique opportunity to present a series of groundbreaking installations exploring interactivity and participation in New Media and Digital Art. Much New Media / Digital Art is increasingly aimed at interaction with the audience and artists are continuously exploring new ways of viewer participation.