MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS DREAMS COMPETITION

Call for Entries

Open to Film, Photo, and Writing submissions; $9000 in prizes.

For centuries and across cultures, artists have represented the world as it may be envisioned through ephemeral images of inner visions, fantasies, mysteries and the unreal. This contest is an opportunity for our international community of photographers, filmmakers and writers of all ages to present their representations of dreams to a distinguished panel of judges. Judges include: Beth Einhorn, Writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno; Tom Wilhite, President and co-founder of Hyperion Pictures; Sharon Creech, Newbury Award-winning author. 

Early submission discount for submissions fees is August 15, 2013 and entry deadline is September 27, 2013. 

To learn more, visit http://www.mainemedia.edu/contest.
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The 17th Japan Media Arts Festival

Call for Entries Deadline is September 12, 2013.

Works completed or released between September 21, 2012 and September 12, 2013 are eligible for entry in the four divisions—Art, Entertainment, Animation and Manga. Entries are sought from professional, amateur, independent, and commercial creators from across the globe. In early December, the winners of the Grand Prize, Excellence Awards, New Face Awards, and Special Achievement Awards, as well as other Jury Selections will be announced. The Exhibition of Award-Winning Works, in which these will be presented, will be held from February 5 to 16, 2014, at the National Art Center, Tokyo and other locations. Entries can be submitted by uploading data online. For more information about entry, and to complete registration and submission of work and/or reference materials please visit http://j-mediaarts.jp/?locale=en. Contact information: Japan Media Arts Festival Secretariat, jmaf@cgarts.or.jp

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Artist Designed Bike Rack Competition (Philadelphia, PA)

Call for Proposals

The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, in partnership with the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, is seeking design proposals for bike racks to be installed in Center City Philadelphia, and other potential locations in the city.

The deadline for submissions is September 4, 2013.
This competition is open to all artists and design professionals.

Of the 10 largest cities in the United States, Philadelphia has the most bicycle commuters per capita. In order to support the transportation choices of its citizens, the City has developed a Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan, with the goal of installing 1,500 new bike racks per year for five years. The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy is collaborating with the Bicycle Coalition on this artist-designed bike rack competition, with the goal of supporting and encouraging bicycling in Philadelphia by providing a creative solution to the need for bicycle parking: bike racks that also function as additions to the city's collection of outdoor public art.

To learn more and to apply, visit: 
https://www.box.com/bikerackrfp
http://www.bicyclecoalition.org

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International Curator Competition 2013

Call for Entries

Application Deadline: September 10, 2013
Started in 2012, Akbank Sanat International Curator Competition has the goal to provide support for emerging curators, reinforce interest in curatorial practices, and encourage new projects in the field of contemporary art.

Developed and coordinated by Basak Senova, the competition has an application-based process. The content and the quality of the proposals will be evaluated by an international jury consisting of three curators. This year's jury includes Anne Barlow (Director of Art in General, New York, and Co-Curator of the Latvian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale), Christine Tohme (Director of Ashkal Alwan, Beirut), and Branko Franceschi (curator of the Croatian Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale; co-curator of the Project Biennial D-0 ARK Underground in Bosnia and Herzegovina; and Director of the Virtual Museum of the Contemporary Art).

The winning curator is given opportunities to realize the proposal as an exhibition that will take place in the first half of 2014 at Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul, accompanied by an exhibition catalogue and additional activities. The curatorial fee, the exhibition production, travel expenses of the curator/s and artists, the production of the catalogue and the additional activities will be covered by Akbank Sanat.
Eligibility
Curators under the age of 40 are eligible to apply for the competition. There is no condition of residency or citizenship. Curators may apply for the competition as individuals as well as in groups (or as curatorial collectives). Curators will not be allowed to participate as artists in the projects.
Guidelines
By filling out the application form, the curators will explain the conceptual framework of the exhibition proposal as well as the artists and their works in detail. There could be additional activities (for instance: talks or video screenings) that could be incorporated into the exhibition proposal. Application forms must be written in English. Applicants are expected to submit (only electronic copies) the completed application form, CV (maximum two pages) and accompanying visual material for their proposals (maximum 4MB total) by sending emails to icc@akbank.com. Closing date for applications is September 10, 2013, 17h GMT +2. Entries must be previously unpublished, and the proposal must not have been realised or exhibited before. All applicants will be notified of the jury's decision by October, 1, 2013.

To apply, visit www.akbanksanat.com

Akbank Sanat
Istiklal Cad. No. 8
Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
T +90 212 252 3500
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SHARE PRIZE 2013 - Real Time | Real Space

Call for Entries

Piemonte Share is announcing a new edition of the Share Prize, the international competition designed to discover, promote and support art in the digital age.

Entries for the Share Prize can be submitted from June 20-August 20, 2013, by completing the entry form on their website: www.toshare.it.

This year, Share Festival will be shining the spotlight on how communications have become simultaneous and geolocalized in contemporary cities, sharpening its focus and critique onto the integration of digital networks in the urban environment. Share Festival sees artists not just as aesthetic messengers but as social agents, who use networks to change the way we think about media and relational space.
"The artistic realm is overlapped with the physical, urban world to explore a new dimension in which art can redirect the social and political leanings of networks, communities and artists into performances. Instead of taking humans into virtual space, digital technology has enhanced the way we interact with others and with the physical world. Today, the map is no longer a representation of the territory; rather, it incorporates it. How do people shape, and how are they shaped by, the integrated platform created between data and location?"

An international jury will short-list six projects for the prize, who will be selected to take part in the 9th Share Festival, to be held in Torino from November 8-17, 2013, at the Regional Museum of Natural Science. The names of the short-listed finalists will be announced by the beginning of September 2013.

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International Kontinent Photography Awards

Open Call

International Kontinent Photography Awards, the prestigious photography competition is now open for entries. Awards aim to honor best photographers in the world of photography and provide them global recognation and new opportunities.

The winners will be selected by our expert judging committee including;

Aidan SULLIVAN / Vice President Photo Assignments, GETTY IMAGES
Carl GRONQUIST / Director of Photography for Documentary, CORBIS
Catherine EDELMAN / Founder, CATHERINE EDELMAN GALLERY & President, AIPAD
Cheryl NEWMAN / Photography Director, TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE
Jim RAMER / Director of the MFA in Photography, PARSONS THE NEW SCHOOL FOR DESIGN
Jayne H. BAUM / Founder, JAYNE H. BAUM GALLERY
Lise Li / Founder, VANGUARD GALLERY
Paula TOGNARELLI / Executive Director, GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Sarah HASTED / Founding Partner, HASTED KRAEUTLER GALLERY

There are 6 main categories in the International Kontinent Photography Awards 2013
1- Advertising - Single Image
2- Fine Art - Single Image
3- Fine Art - Projects
4- Editorial/Documentary - Single Image
5- Editorial/Documentary - Projects
6- Nature - Single Image

Winning photographers will receive major awards including exhibition, book publishing, representation as well as product prizes from our sponsors Think Tank Photo, Topaz Labs and Clickbooq.

Deadline: June 1, 2013
Eligibility: Open to all photographers worldwide

For more information please visit: http://www.kontinentawards.com

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27th ROSEN SCULPTURE Competition & Exhibition

Call for Artists

The Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition is now accepting entries for the 27th competition. The deadline for entries is 5pm EST, Friday, April 12, 2013. Notifications will be emailed by May 3, 2013 (winners may be called). The exhibition dates will be June 2013 through April 2014.

The Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition is a national juried competition presented annually by the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts on the campus of Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Open to sculptors who are over the age of 18 and currently residing in the US. Awards & Honoraria total $13,500 along with installation assistance, and brochure. This competition is a part of the Appalachian Summer Festival.

For more information, please visit http://www.rosensculpture.org/.

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Chelsea International Fine Art Competition

Open Call

 

The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition is open to visual artists from anywhere in the world and at all stages in their career. In previous years the juror has selected artists working in painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, mixed media and print. The awards are carefully designed to aid the selected artists in promoting themselves and their work, increasing their exposure and presence in the art world. The prizes include: inclusion in an exhibition in the heart of Chelsea, New York’s famous art district; internet promotion on ART-mine.com, cash prizes, a review to be published in the contemporary fine art magazine ARTisSpectrum.

Deadline is March 19, 2013. Results will be announced April 10, 2013. The Exhibition for the selected artists will run from August 16th through September 5th.

All visual artists worldwide who are 18 and older are invited to enter the competition. The competition is open to all media except video art, film, performance art, jewelry and crafts. Entries are processed using an online entry system; please use high quality images to give the juror the best and most accurate impression of your work. There is a $35 entry fee for up to 5 images; $5 for each additional image.

Agora Gallery is proud to support the Children’s Heart Foundation, which contributes to research into diagnosing, treating and preventing congential heart defects, the number one birth defect in the United States, as well as providing information to families with children affected. As part of their commitment to helping art make the world a better place, Agora Gallery will donate 15% of its proceeds from the sale of artwork from the art competition exhibition to the CHF.

For further information, please visit the competition website: http://www.agora-gallery.com/competition/ or email: competition@agora-gallery.com.

       

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South Main Design Challenge – Memphis, TN

The South Main Design Challenge is an initiative by the Downtown Memphis Commission to generate creative ideas and conceptual plans for seven vacant or underutilized spaces and buildings in the South Main neighborhood.

The DMC will be accepting registrations for teams interested in participating in the Design Challenge through January 14, 2013. Each team can consist of up to six people..


First Prize: $1,000


To learn more about the project or to register your team:

http://southmaindesignchallenge.virb.com/the-challenge.

Contact:  Brett Roler, Downtown Memphis Commission


Tel:  (901) 575-0540

Email:  roler@downtownmemphis.com

Source: UrbanArtCommission.org

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Taiwan International Contemporary Artist Association: 2013 International Art Competition

One of Asia's top art contests, the International Art Competition (I.A.C.), announces an open competition.

Entry Deadline: December 31, 2012


Organizer: Taiwan International Contemporary Artist Association


Co-organizer: X-Power Gallery


Eligibility: Open to all artists over 18 years old.

Finalists will be announced on the website on January 31, 2013.



Award: Finalists: All accepted entries will be exhibited for sale in the A.R.T. 2013 fair.
Gallery Award: The juror will select ONE artist who will be sponsored by X-Power Gallery and obtain one free exhibition unit (9m2) in A.R.T. 2014.



Award Ceremony and Exhibition: The organizer will announce the winner of 'Gallery Award' at the preview VIP night on May 2, 2013.
 All accepted entries will be displayed during A.R.T. 2012 between May 2 and 6, 2013.



More information available on the website: www.arts.org.tw/2013/eng/register.htm

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