Indigenous artist grants; New York Residency; Symposium Norway


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eBULLETIN  ISSUE 41: 13 MARCH 2012   
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EXPERIMENTA'S SELECTIVELY REVEALED OPEN AT DIGIARK SPACE, TAICHUNG, TAIWANMichael Zavros, We dance in the studio, 2010 video still

Experimenta and Asialink's touring exhibition Selectively Revealed opened at its second venue, the Digiark Space at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung, Taiwan, on 18 February. Opened by Curator Clare Needham, the exhibition of 14 Australian media artworks continues to investigate the blurry line between public and private in artistic practice. Employing a variety of screen and contemporary video-making techniques, each artist in the exhibition choose precisely what - or what not - to reveal about those around them and themselves. Selectively Revealed is open until 13 May 2012.

 
  OPPORTUNITIES - AUSTRALIA
 
AUSTRALIA WIDE: INDIGENOUS EXPERIMENTAL ART FUND, APPLICATIONS OPEN 
 

Australia Council's Inter-Arts office is pleased to announce the Indigenous Experimental Art Fund − a new 3-year partnership between the Inter-Arts Office, the Music Board, the Theatre Board and the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. Grants of up to $30,000 are available to support Indigenous-led projects that benefit the development of contemporary Indigenous media, interdisciplinary and hybrid art practitioners.  

 

Deadline: 10 April 2010 
EVENTS - AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE: THRESHOLD PROJECTS EXHIBITION AT SCREEN SPACE
 
As lecturers in the Department of Fine Art at Monash University, curators of Threshold Projects at Screen Space, Siri Hayes and Michael Vale are privy to a vast spectrum of student work. Much of what they see is not on exhibition in the ubiquitous annual graduate exhibition, and so, via their privileged positions as mentors, and with the support of Screen Space, Threshold Projects is an opportunity to present exceptional moving image work by recent students.

15 March - 7 April 2012  
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY: AFTRS FRIDAY ON MY MIND PROGRAM

Hosted by AFTRS, Friday on My Mind is your chance to wind up the week with some brain food - supplied by some of the best and brightest in the screen arts and broadcast industry. Different guest speakers every Friday. Free and no RSVP required, but you do need to pick up tickets on the day. AFTRS Theatre 1 in Sydney, and AMCI in Melbourne.

 

5 - 6pm, each Friday until November
OPPORTUNITIES & EVENTS- INTERNATIONAL

NORWAY: DATA IS POLITICAL, A SYMPOSIUM ON ART   

 

Data is Political is a symposium on art, design, and the politics of information hosted by Bergen National Academy of Art & Design, Norway. Designers, artists, scientists discuss the aesthetic, ethical and spatial dimensions of information and its relation to power, the production of knowledge, and construction of urban spaces.

 

15 March 2012

USA: OPEN CALL FOR VIDEO ART PROJECTS, SPECULATION AND SPECTACLE

 

Curators Elisabeth Murray and Jonathan Brantley, in collaboration with from Rogue Video and Performance seek video art to be projected out-of-doors in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. This event will take place in the area beneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, between Meeker and Union Avenues on May 3rd from 7:30pm until 9:30pm.

The exhibition, Speculation and Spectacle will address the theme of gentrification.

 

Deadline: 30 March 2012

USA: THE STILL AND MOVING IMAGE, ARTIST RESIDENCY 

 

The MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York announces the return of the Lens and Screen Arts summer residency - The Still and Moving Image. This engagement is an intensive, four-week summer session for professional photographers, filmmakers, and artists to develop their creative visions with new camera technology.

 

Deadline: 1 April 2012 

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Experimenta Media Arts gratefully acknowledges the support of the Australia Council, the Australian Government's arts funding and advisory body, Arts Victoria, The Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Government, Visions of Australia, an Australian Government program supporting touring exhibitions by providing funding assistance for the development and touring of Australian cultural material across Australia, Screen Australia, Film Victoria and the City of Melbourne.
Image credit:
Michael Zavros, We dance in the studio (to that shit on the radio) 2010, video still, Courtesy the artist.

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