8/21: CALLS FOR ENTRY | Los Angeles Art Resource

• Photographers Wanted: One Life 2012 Final Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 28
• Marisa Jahn seeks short videos by African-Diaspora artists
• The 16th Japan Media Arts Festival: call for entries

Photographers Wanted: One Life 2012 Final Deadline for submissions is Tuesday, August 28

Photographers, you are invited to participate in one of the world?s most substantial calls for photography: One Life, An International Photography Competition. Share your images with the world for a chance at $75,000 in awards, international acclaim and more. This is your moment. Your photos tell stories.

Now in its 3rd year and awarding over $75,000 in cash grants, publicity and awards, One Life is one of the most substantial competitions in the world.

This year we are searching for photography that illuminates your perspective, your community, what you love, your travels ? anything that reflects your world and experience. Select your best work, submit your photos and have a chance at over $75,000 in awards.

Join by This Friday June 29, 2012 11:59pm EDT to be eligible for the $1,000 Early Entry Award. Get an exclusive discount off your submission through Friday (applied upon checkout)!

Offering over $75,000 in grants and prizes, including:
Gallery Exhibition in New York City, $25,000 Cash Grant, 2 Page Spread in PDN Magazine, and a Trip Around the World

Go to this website for more information and to participate: http://www.see.me/onelife/?f=ol2012_aw3

Marisa Jahn seeks short videos by African-Diaspora artists

Seeking 3 minute videos or shorter by African-Diaspora artists for Video
Slink Uganda, a 2012-2013 apexart Franchise project
apexart Franchise Exhibition in Uganda: Feb 6th ? March 6th, 2013
Artistic Directors: Paul Falzone and Marisa Jahn (REV-)
Project Description Ugandan video halls (or ?bibanda?) are often no more
than small huts where viewers pay a few cents to watch pirated DVDs on
television screens. Located in the majority of villages and towns
throughout Uganda, they are the only form of popular visual entertainment
and have a wider audience than television and newspapers combined. Numbering
in the thousands, these bibanda reach millions of Ugandans each month.
So-called ?fine art? never broached their corrugated walls. Until now.
?Video Slink Uganda? is a curatorial project that involves burning five
short-form experimental videos by contemporary African diaspora video
artists onto pirated DVDs that will be viewed by millions of viewers in
individual homes and bibanda.
A ?VJ? is a local performer/pirate who translates Western films into the
primary local language of Luganda, acting as both translator and
commentator-making jokes, providing context, and acting as a central node of
distribution to the bibanda. In keeping with this tradition of viewership,
we will involve several VJs in translating these works of contemporary art
for Ugandan audiences.
?Video Slink Uganda?s gesture of detournement recalls contemporary works
such as Chris Burden?s on-camera hijacking of a television news anchor,
Negativeland?s re-mix of a U2 album shopdropped into music stores in the
late 1980s, The Yes Men?s subversive self-insertion into the mainstream
media, embedded art practices by artists such as Artist Placement Group in
the late 1960s, electoral guerrilla politics such as Mr. Peanut, the
life-sized tap dancing peanut who won 7% of the vote in his mayoral run in
Vancouver, and countless undocumented interventionist projects. ?Video Slink
Uganda? similarly reaches out towards new audiences in Africa and frames
their viewership not as passive and silent but as active participants in the
performative production of ?art.? By embedding experimental film into
Uganda?s existing black market cinema and culture of re-translation, ?Video
Slink Uganda? raises larger questions about origination, authorship,
translation, and the complexity of colonialism.
?Video Slink Uganda? draws upon the artistic directors? experience as
organizers of media screenings in Ugandan bibanda with existing relations to
local audiences and VJs. The project will be documented with specific focus
on the audience?s reception of the works and the VJs? involvement. ?Video
Slink Uganda? also draws upon the artistic directors? decade of curatorial
experiences curating, producing, and writing about experimental forms of
curation-shopdropping, embedded art practices, and media hijacks. Through a
series of cinematographic and installational translations, ?Video Slink
Uganda? operates on a syncretic economy whose currency is the slippage that
occurs between and through transposition.
Submission Deadline and Instructions
Submissions due Sept 15, 2012 (early submissions greatly appreciated)
Videos should be no longer than 3 minutes.
Either (a) Email your video (attachment should be no more than 10 Mbs) OR
(b) Upload your video to YouTube/Vimeo/etc. Then email the link to hello at
rev-it.org along with the following attachments: curriculum vitae/resume (2
pages max) and statement about the work (1 page max).
Email the link to your video to hello@rev-it.org along with the following
attachments: curriculum vitae/resume (2 pages max) and statement about the
work (1 page max).
Be sure to include contact info (name, email, phone number) on the top of
each page
Please include the words ?Submission: Video Slink Uganda? in the subject
line of the email.
Due to limited funds we are unfortunately only able to offer the artists a
modest stipend of $100 for their video contribution. Stipends for future
exhibition opportunities will be determined at a future point in time when
venues are secured. We believe in compensating artists and will seek to
provide stipends through future exhibition opportunities.
You will be notified in early October about the status of your proposal
Contact: Marisa Jahn: 917-902-5396 * hello [at] rev-it.org
About the Organizers
Marisa Jahn is an artist/writer/curator/activist and and the co-founder of
REV-, a New York City-based non-profit organization that furthers
socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. She was a 2007-9
artist-in-residence at MIT?s Media Lab and the editor of three books about
culture and politics-(?Pro+agonist: The Art of Opposition? (2012),
?Byproduct: on the Excess of Embedded Art Practices? (2011), and ?Recipes
for an Encounter? (2010).
Paul Falzone is an activist, media scholar, and filmmaker whose work has
appeared in a wide variety of conferences, publications and film festivals.
He earned his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the
University of Pennsylvania and is currently Director of Peripheral Vision
International, a nonprofit organization that produces and distributes
advocacy media in East Africa.
The apexart Franchise is an open call for curatorial proposals for projects
from anywhere in the world other than New York City. Three winning projects
are selected by a jury each year and are presented by apexart.
Marisa Jahn
Artist, Writer, Creative Director
marisa@rev-it.org ? (917) 902-5396 ? rev-it.org

The 16th Japan Media Arts Festival: call for entries

Application deadline: September 20, 2012
Announcement of award-winning works: Mid-December, 2012
Awards ceremony: Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Exhibition of award-winning works: February 13?February 24, 2013 (Closed Feb 19)

The National Art Center, Tokyo
7-22-2 Roppongi
Minato-ku, Tokyo
106-8558 Japan

www.j-mediaarts.jp

The Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee announces the call for entries for the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival.

The Japan Media Arts Festival is a comprehensive festival of Media Arts that honors outstanding works in the four divisions of Art, Entertainment, Animation, and Manga, as well as providing a platform for appreciation of the works that have won awards. The 15th Festival received a record 2,714 works from 57 countries and regions around the world, demonstrating its continuing evolution as an established annual international festival.

For the 16th Festival, entries are sought in various disciplines of Media Arts including interactive art, video, websites, games, animation and comics, and from professional, amateur, independent and commercial sources.

Entries will be accepted from Thursday, July 12 to Thursday, September 20 (please note that late entries will not be accepted). The award-winning works will be announced in mid-December. The Exhibition of Award-winning Works, with approximately 150 award-winning works and jury selections, will be held at The National Art Center, Tokyo from February 13 to 24, 2013.

*For more detailed information about the entry process, please check the Guidelines for Entry (PDF) on the Japan Media Arts Festival official website.

Organizer
Japan Media Arts Festival Executive Committee

Contact Information
Japan Media Arts Festival Secretariat [c/o CG-ARTS]: jmaf@cgarts.or.jp

The Four Divisions

Art Division
Works created with new media and digital technologies. Interactive art, media installations, video works, digital photographs, graphic art, web-based works, media performances, etc.

Entertainment Division
Entertainment works created with digital technologies. Games (video games, online games, etc.), video works (music videos, advertising films, computerized special effects videos, etc.), gadgets (including figurines), websites (including advertisements), application software, etc.

Animation Division
Animated feature films, animated short films, animated TV series, animated series or films released in home-video formats, etc.

Manga Division
Comics published in book form, comics published in a magazine (including works still being serialized), comics published online (for computer or mobile), self-published comics, etc.

*Note that in all divisions professional, amateur, independent, and commercial works are eligible for submission.

Eligibility
Works must be completed or released between Friday, September 23, 2011 and Thursday, September 20, 2012.
?Please confirm the work fits the above timeframe.
?Works that were renewed, changed, completed, presented or released during the above time period are eligible for submission.
?While there is no limit on the number of submissions made, the same work may not be submitted to multiple divisions.
?The entrant must hold the copyright to the submitted work. If the work is submitted by a representative, permission from the copyright holder must be obtained.
?Each entrant must read, understand, and accept the Entry Rules and Regulations before submitting work. (please click here to view the Entry Rules and Regulations)
?By submitting their work, the entrant is deemed to have accepted the Entry Rules and Regulations as stated.

Awards
For each division, one Grand Prize, four Excellence Awards, and three New Face Awards will be awarded on the basis of artistic quality and creativity. In addition, a Special Achievement Award will be awarded on the recommendation of the Jury to a person or group having made a special contribution to Media Arts in each of the four specified divisions.

Grand Prize: Certificate from Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Trophy, cash prize
Excellence Award: Certificate from Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Trophy, cash prize
New Face Award: Certificate from Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Trophy, cash prize
Special Achievement Award: Certificate from Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Trophy

Source: http://losangelesartresource.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/821-calls-for-entry/

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