Cda-Projects Grant for Artistic Research and Production 2013

Call for Applications Application Deadline: November 30, 2013www.cda-projectsgrant.org

Since 2011, Cda-Projects Grant has been offering a 10,000 EUR grant annually to support the production of an artistic research project. The grant aims at supporting and opening up discussions on artistic research to an expanded network through an open call. It encourages speculative approaches to how discourse is staged and how knowledge is produced, rethought and interwoven across disciplines. Without any limitations on the content, the proposed inquiries are expected to suggest new forms and methodologies by reflecting on contexts and conditions of the knowledge produced.   Authors (includes artists, curators, writers, thinkers, etc.) of any nationality, regardless of age, can propose projects to be carried out individually or collectively. Applicants can submit an artistic research project that is currently in the production stage or one that is scheduled to be completed during the six month period following the date of selection. All the submitted documents should be in English to grant@cda-projectsgrant.org  and each one should be sent as a separate PDF. Applications that are not sent in the specified format will not be considered. – Project proposal and documentation (maximum 500 words explaining your artistic research project, motivations of the research to be carried and the expected outcome. Up to four images can be included as documentation.) – Curriculum vitae (include e-mail and mailing address.) – Portfolio consisting of three completed research-based projects. – Time-based media should be submitted in low-resolution format via upload and the link should be provided within the portfolio (not larger than 350MB.) If the resolution is important, you can send a DVD with excerpts up to 30 minutes to the address below: Cda-Projects Grant Istiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No:163 K.2 D.5 Beyoglu / Istanbul 34433 Turkey For more information: www.cda-projectsgrant.org

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Visual Activism Symposium (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)

Call for Proposals

The International Association of Visual Culture (IAVC) invites proposals for its third biennial symposium in San Francisco on March 14 - 16, 2014.

The symposium will be an international gathering centered on the concept of visual activism. It will explore the relationships between visual culture and activist practices across a wide range of contexts. Through varied and diverse modes of image-making, artists and designers may create and manipulate tools of social change. Likewise, political activists may utilize visual strategies and objects in order to confront and address social and political issues. Art can take the form of political and social activism, and activism often takes on specific, and sometimes surprising, visual forms that are not always aligned with or recognizable by art-world frameworks. During the convening, artists, cultural producers, scholars, students, critics, organizers, activists, and citizens will engage with and offer perspectives on the many questions that arise: to what degree do forms of visual activism travel? In what ways are they necessarily grounded in geographically specific spaces and locally specific knowledge? How can theorists, scholars, and practitioners engage in conversations about abstract or oblique visual activism, such as those produced in conditions of extreme censorship? How can the complexity of governmental or commercial visual activism be approached to better address hegemonies of visual culture? How does the past become a form of visual activism in the present?

Proposals should respond to these questions or related topics and may take the form of papers (20 minutes), artist talks (20 minutes), short performances (five to 30 minutes), or lighting-round interventions (five minutes). Limited funds are available to support travel. Proposals should include a 400-word abstract, links to websites with additional publications or relevant images and information, and a CV. Please send proposals to edu@sfmoma.org (with” Visual Activism” as the subject line) no later than October 1, 2013.

Free and open to the public, the conference comprises various modes of engagement: short and long-form presentations, small-group discussions, screenings, and performances. It will also be paired with Bearing Witness, the second of three SFMOMA symposia made possible by the Fraenkel Gallery Fund for New Studies in Photography.

For further information, visit: iavc.org.uk and www.sfmoma.org

Source: http://www.artandeducation.net

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Binghampton Exploration Stations (Memphis, TN)

Call for Proposals

 

Deadline: September 30, 2013, 5pm CST

Artists/designers in the U.S. Previous public art experience required. Project budget is $60,000-100,000 all inclusive. 

The Binghampton Development Corporation in partnership with the UrbanArt Commission, the Broad Avenue Arts District and Livable Memphis are inviting artists/teams to apply for the Discover Binghampton project, which will lead to the installation of four art exploration stations along the Overton-Broad Connector, a cycle track currently in design. Discover Binghampton is intended to add to the sense of local identity of the neighborhood. Each station will artistically reflect a story of the Binghampton Community. The goal is to offer an interactive art experience.

For complete details, visit: http://www.urbanartcommission.org/open-projects/
Contact:
Siphne Sylve
ssylve@urbanartcommission.org
(901) 454-0474 x101

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The Telfer Gallery Residency (Glasgow)

Call for Proposals 2014

Residencies/exhibitions will run between February and December 2014. Applicants from all creative disciplines are welcome to apply.
 
The Telfer Gallery provides a platform for focused experimentation as well as a space for artists to explore and expand their practice. Each selected individual or group will be offered a period of residency in the space preceding an exhibition, which will be arranged in conversation with the committee.
The Telfer Gallery will provide the following:

• A 60 square metre gallery space
• 24-hour access to gallery space
• A support network encompassing two project managers, gallery committee, and the surrounding 31 artist studios placed within the building
• Marketing and promotion of events including printed materials
• Optional discussion groups and critical development workshops
• Technical and installation support

To download the application form, visit http://www.the-telfer.com/opportunities/.
To apply, please complete and return the application form alongside one PDF file containing the following:

• CV: (1 A4 Page, including links to any websites or blogs)
• Portfolio: 5 Jpegs (including the information: title, medium, dimensions, date), or 5 minute film/showreel (links preferred, attachments also accepted), or 500 word additional text. Or a combination, or similar amount in alternative formats.

Please send proposals to gallery@the-telfer.com
The deadline for submissions is Friday 16 August, 5pm.
If posting your application please do not send any original artwork as we cannot ensure it is delivered safely. If you would like your proposal returned please provide a self-addressed envelope.
 
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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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Van Ness Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Public Art Program (San Francisco, CA)

Call for Artists
 
Deadline: July 29, 2013    
Budget: $952,600
Eligibility: This is a national call. 

In conjunction with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), the San Francisco Arts Commission will commission an artist to design an integrated art program for the Van Ness -Bus Rapid Transit line (VN-BRT). The VN-BRT will extend from Market Street to Union Street, and eliminate the Van Ness Avenue sidewalk bus stops. The VN-BRT will create nine boarding stations (18 platforms) between Market and Union streets. There are three major stations expected to have high volume located at Market, McAllister (across from City Hall) and Geary streets. We are looking for an artist or artist team to design a series of architecturally integrated artworks at several above-ground transit stops along a busy thoroughfare in San Francisco.

For complete details, visit http://www.sfartscommission.org/pubartcollection/calls-for-artists/2013/07/01/7294/.

Contact:
Zoe Taleporos, Public Art Program Associate
zoe.taleporos@sfgov.org
(415)252-3215     
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John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Media, Culture, and Special Initiatives Program

Call for Documentary Film Proposals (USA)

The MacArthur Foundation supports the production and distribution of social-issue documentary films that address important contemporary topics and are intended for a broad audience, particularly in the United States. The program seeks to fund documentary projects that address the significant social challenges of our time or explore important but under-reported topics. Domestic and international topics are welcome, and preference will be given to projects that align with one of MacArthur's grantmaking areas.

Support will be provided primarily for production and post-production activities, and to experienced filmmakers based in the U.S. with track records of completing feature-length films that have been broadcast nationally and internationally and received critical recognition. 

Grants will be made only to eligible organizations. MacArthur does not make grants to individuals and does not make grants through fiscal agents or sponsors. In order to qualify for a MacArthur grant, a project must be applied for through a nonprofit or for-profit incorporated entity that can claim it has complete financial and editorial control over the documentary film project for which it is seeking MacArthur support.

Applicants may request any funding amount, but the typical grant range is between $50,000 and $200,000.

For the current round, initial online proposals will be accepted between July 15 and July 31, 2013. If a project is selected as a semi-finalist, the applicant will be notified by September 1 and asked to submit a full proposal and detailed budget. Funding decisions are expected in November.

Visit http://www.macfound.org/info-grantseekers/grantmaking-guidelines/media-grant-guidelines/media-documentary-films-guidelin/ for complete program guidelines, application instructions, and the online grant proposals form.

Source: http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=427500004

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Project Anywhere 2014

Call for Proposals

Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2014Project Anywhere is an expanded exhibition model encompassing the entire globe (and beyond) in which the role of curator is replaced with the type of peer review model typically endorsed by a refereed journal. Emphasizing artistic projects situated outside conventional exhibition contexts, Project Anywhere is dedicated to the promotion of advanced artistic practice at the outermost limits of location-specificity. Project Anywhere endorses a two-stage peer review system comparable with the journal-based paradigm for assessing the quality of research outcomes in the arts. Accordingly, Project Anywhere is designed to suit artist academics working anywhere in the world who are seeking independent peer validation and international web-based dissemination for practice-based research. Please send proposals (as an attachment) to projectanywhere@gmail.com. Your proposal should include the following: 1. Title of proposed project. 2. Location(s), date(s) and duration for proposed project (this can be updated later). 3. A detailed project proposal clearly stating the project's potential for creating new knowledge (please refer to the peer review guidelines at www.projectanywhere.net). 4. Images, files (under 8mg in total) and links can be included where appropriate. To be eligible for the first stage of our peer review process, it is imperative that ALL name and contact details are removed from the actual proposal document (and accompanying materials). Contact details should be included in the body of the email only. Any submissions that do not conform to the above criteria will NOT be sent out for peer review. Please note that Project Anywhere does not provide project funding nor expect exclusive hosting rights. Accordingly, we welcome multi-partnered and collaborative projects and/or projects that are hosted by other arts institutions seeking blind peer-validation. For more information visit www.projectanywhere.net.

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eva International, Ireland's biennial of contemporary art

Call for Proposals

Application Deadline: September 2, 2013

Applications can be individual artists or groups in any medium, and works can be existing works or new projects.

Artists can make up to 2 proposals and there is a submission fee of €20 for 1 proposal or €30 for 2 proposals. eva International is a not-for-profit organization where submission fees support selected artists and contribute directly to artists' production, travel, accommodation, transportation and exhibition budgets.

To learn more and to apply, visit: http://www.eva.ie/open-call
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PROJECT SMUGGLING ANTHOLOGIES 2012-2015

Call for Proposals

The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (MMSU) is announcing their international interdisciplinary project about the traditions of underground economy (smuggling, contraband). The project, "Smuggling Anthologies", is conceived as a combination of exhibitions, symposiums and workshops (research) successively occurring on three (3) locations:

- At the MMSU, Rijeka, 2013, Croatia
- At the Idrija Municipal Museum in Idrija, 2014, Slovenia
- At the Trieste Contemporanea Gallery in Trieste in 2014, Italy

Artists, historians, sociologists, citizens, theorists and experts are invited to propose art-research projects in the field of visual, media arts and film, theory, history, cultural heritage, ethnography and sociology which will correspond to the topic of smuggling with a documentary-fictional and practical-theoretical approach. The project advocates interdisciplinary approach to the topic through the proposals which can be: artworks, lectures, theoretical texts, archive-documentary materials, with an accent on the interdisciplinary.

Application deadline: Call for entries must be submitted by June 30th, 2013. The Exhibition and symposium will be held in the period of Oct. 22 to Dec. 4, 2013 at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.

For complete details, visit: http://www.mmsu.hr/Default.aspx?art=550&sec=16

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THE ANTI-ATLAS OF BORDERS

Call for ProposalsFor an exhibition at La Compagnie in Marseille, from December 13, 2013 to March 1st, 2014.

The curator and the artistic and scientific committee are looking for various proposals (artworks, webart, photo, video, testimonies, documentaries, video games, etc) expressing different ways to experience borders.

The antiAtlas of borders is a transdisciplinary event that will take place between September, 30, 2013 and March, 1st, 2014. Bypassing cartography, at the crossroads of research and art, it offers a new approach of the mutations of borders and on the way they are experienced by people in the 21st century.

For full details on this opportunity, please visit:http://www.imera.fr/00_Frontieres/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/call_for_proposals.pdf

Deadline for reception of the proposals: 30 June 2013
Send the proposals at the following address : antiatlas.contact@gmail.com
The antiAtlas website : http://www.antiatlas.net/eng/
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Hotel MariaKapel (HMK) Residency (Netherlands)

Open Call for Proposals 2014

 

Deadline: June 1^st 2013

HMK is an artist-run residency offering research and project residencies for individuals or groups (max 4), and invites artists, curators and researchers to submit proposals for our 2014 residency and exhibition program.

HMK is located in Hoorn, the Netherlands. HMK offers artists a stay in a concentrated work space, where dialogue and collaboration inform experimental, context/based exhibitions and projects. The programme involves artists and curators working in a wide range of media, mainly focusing on installation and context based work and video.

 

For further information and to apply, visit http://www.hotelmariakapel.nl/hmk3/index.php/about/open_call_2014.

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Fogo Island Arts Residency (Newfoundland, Canada)

Call for Proposals

Fogo Island Arts (Newfoundland, Canada) is a residency-based contemporary art venue for artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians, curators, designers, and thinkers from around the world.

The residency program brings contemporary artists and researchers from around the world to live and work on Fogo Island and Change Islands. The program welcomes the participation of artists working in a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to: visual arts, new media, design, music, dance, writing and film.

For its 2013-14 residencies, Fogo Island Arts is seeking proposals from curators for projects to be presented within the context of the organization’s Education Program.

For more information contact: info@fogoislandarts.ca
Deadline: June 1, 2013, for residencies starting September 1st, 2013.
Visit http://www.fogoislandarts.ca/ to learn more and to apply.

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New Commission for The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum (Bedford, UK)

Call for Artists' Proposals

 

Bedford Creative Arts, in partnership with The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum, Bedford is seeking proposals from artists or artists’ groups for a major new commission in 2013, in response to their artistic theme for 2013: OURS – what we have in common and what makes something our own?

 

The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum is nearing the end of a £5.8m redevelopment project with ‘People, Place, Collections’ the theme and narrative arc that runs through their approach to the new galleries and displays. Proposals should respond to the specific identity of this institution, its collections, the town of Bedford and the people who live, work and visit there.

A commission fee of £5,000 is available for the chosen artist or artists group, with an additional budget of £5,000 available for materials, resources and the delivery of specific events and activities. There will also be the opportunity to work with us to identify and secure additional funds and resources in order for the commission to reach its full potential.

Deadline for submissions: Monday 4th March 2013, 12 noon GMT. For further information, a full artist’s brief and details of how to apply, visit http://www.bedfordcreativearts.org.uk/index.php/call-for-artists-proposals-2/.

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ArtWorks Cincinnati Public Art Project

Call for Proposals (US-artists only)

ArtWorks Cincinnati is seeking qualifications from an artist or a team of artists for the commission and installation of multiple permanent site-specific public works of art to be incorporated into the street-scape redesign in the historic Pendleton neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. This project should include an artist-developed creative community engagement strategy.

Application Deadline: Tuesday December 11th, 2012 5:00pm EST. No exceptions.

Project Budget: $125,000 includes design, fabrication, engineering, installation, and all travel. $10,000 is dedicated for the development and execution of a creative community engagement process.

For more info, visit: http://www.artworkscincinnati.org/pendleton

Contact:
David Heyburn
Public Art Manager
ArtWorks
20 E. Central Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45202
www.ArtWorksCincinnati.org
513-333-0388, ext 16

Source: urbanartcommission.org
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Public Art for Two Memphis Bus Shelters

Call for Submissions

The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) is commissioning two works of public art in the form of artistic, yet functional, bus stop shelters at existing bus stops in the Binghampton neighborhood. The Urban Art Commission is facilitating the project.

Deadline: Friday, November 30, 2012 | 5pm

Budget: $41,000 (for both shelters)
Eligibility: Artists/designers residing in the U.S. Previous public art experience required.

Visit http://www.urbanartcommission.org/open-projects to learn more about the entry requirements and to submit your resume, images and project summary.

Source: e-artnow.org

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Public Art Project for Texas Tech University System

Call for Proposals

Deadline: received by December 7, 2012 at 10:30 am

Budget: $193,000

The Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, TX) is accepting proposals for artists to create designs for art to occupy a courtyard adjacent to the new Petroleum Engineering Research Building.

Visit http://esbd.cpa.state.tx.us/bid_show.cfm?bidid=102760 to apply.

Questions: Erin Vaden, Public Art Manager, at erin.vaden@ttu.edu

Source: urbanartcommission.org

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EFA Project Space and A Blade of Grass partner to present "The Hive"

Open Call for Proposals

The Hive is an adaptive arena for artistic projects that redefine audiences and encourage symbiotic, dynamic interaction among participants. Currently the organizations are accepting proposals for the first presentation of The Hive at the EFA Project Space in 2013.

Artists today are working in a new capacity--one that challenges the definition of art itself by introducing new ways for art to become a part of everyday life. Instead of making work in the context of exhibitions and objects for display, artists are focusing on the processes of collaboration and reciprocity with a goal of generating engagement through experiences, interactions or services.

Selected initiative(s) will be granted the opportunity to inhabit all, or a portion of EFA Project Space’s 3,500 square foot gallery for a duration of one to six weeks, and will be sponsored by EFA Project Space and A Blade of Grass.

To apply, visit http://www.efanyc.org/the-hive/ to learn more about the application requirements and submit your proposal by January 1, 2013.

Proposals should be sent in an email no larger than 10 mb with the subject: "the hive proposal" to projectspace@efanyc.org. Inquiries may be sent to the same address with the subject: "the hive inquiry." Proposals will be reviewed in January, and finalists will be contacted by early February. No phone calls please.

Source: mondaynews.net

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The French Cultural Center Boston Exhibition Opportunity

Call for Proposals

Deadline: Friday, November 30, 2012

The French Cultural Center in Boston is currently accepting proposals from Francophone and Francophile visual artists for our Summer & Fall 2013 month long exhibitions to be installed in their first floor gallery in our historic Back Bay mansion.

Proposals are being accepted for individual and small group exhibitions. It is required that exhibitions have an articulate central idea linked to a Francophone culture or French culture, convincingly presented by the works shown in the proposal. This idea must be expressed in a brief artist’s statement. The show can include works in a single medium or several mediums, including painting, drawing, and photography.

For more information, visit: bit.ly/exhibit_guidelines

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