The Association of Black Photographers invites proposals
Autograph Association of Black Photographers (ABP) is seeking proposals or expressions of interest from freelance photography curators to work closely with the organisation on developing, managing and delivering its programme of photography projects.
You will have a proven track record of curating and an established international network of artists and galleries. You must have an understanding of issues relating to representation, cultural diversity and human rights within photographic practice and be able to see a project through all stages of development including funding applications and evaluation. Excellent project management and negotiation skills are therefore essential.
Send applications by letter only, containing -
1. A letter and CV outlining your experience
2. A short statement on why your curatorial experience is of relevance to Autograph
Send to Autograph ABP, 74 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A3JG, UK
www.autograph-abp.co.uk
VSC/ Triangle Residency Fellowships for Artists from Africa and the Arab World
The Vermont Studio Center, USA (VSC) is pleased to announce the 1st Annual VSC/ Triangle Residency Fellowships Program for artists from Africa and the Arab World, funded by the Ford Foundation and administered in conjunction with the Triangle Workshops in Africa.
All African and Arab artists are welcome to apply for these awards, which will provide eight outstanding artists with four-week VSC Residencies in 2004, including ample studio space, comfortable housing, three meals daily, roundtrip travel stipend, traveller's insurance, materials and shipping allowances, daily living stipend, and one-week cultural trips to New York City museums and galleries hosted by Triangle.
A Vermont Studio Center Residency is an ideal opportunity for meaningful interaction with 75 American and international professional peers per month in a non-competitive, supportive environment on a 30-building award-winning campus. The VSC/ Triangle Fellows will be scheduled in groups of two or more in April, May, June, and September to provide additional support. Artists who wish to work collaboratively are encouraged to submit joint applications.
The application deadline for these awards is December 1, 2003. Applicants are required to submit an application form (www.vermontstudiocenter.org/triangle.html) either by airmail or electronically. Applications must include all of the specified supplementary materials.
Thank you for your interest in the Triangle Residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and best of luck with your application.
For more information about the Vermont Studio Center, visit www.vermontstudiocenter.org.
ITCH is looking for contributions
Bell-Roberts Publishing and Mehita Iqani are involved in an interesting new initiative. 'We're looking for 'essays' from visual artists for publication in a beautiful, coffee-table style collectible biannual magazine - ITCH,' says editor Mehita Iqani. 'We think it's an amazing opportunity for artists (especially up-and-coming artists) to get exposure for their work.'.
The publication will be advertising that artworks - prints and originals - are for sale. Artists retain copyright and ITCH only take 15% commission.
Submissions close November 24
ITCH
A Bell-Roberts Publication
Email: itch@bell-roberts.com
Tel: 084 584-3925
Call for Papers: First International Visual Studies Conference
The 1st International Visual Studies Conference will be held over February 15 - 16, 2004, at the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, in Madrid. Jos� Luis Brea, Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at Spain's Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), is directing the Conference.
The Conference's will feature a series of plenary lectures presented by some of the most important academics and historians who have been doing internationally recognised work on Visual Studies and Visual Culture. A group of specialists will also present a set of preliminary papers on some crucial issues in the nascent field of Visual Studies, organising the debates into different panel discussion areas.
Attendance and participation are open to professors, advanced level students, researchers, and those member of the art and university community who are interested in attending or presenting a paper. An Advisory Committee is responsible for accepting papers and organising these presentations into different areas.
Plenary Lectures:
The conference will feature the intervention of the most prestigious writers and academics who, at an international level, have for some time been exploring all of these issues:
* Norman Bryson
* Hal Foster
* Susan Buck-Morss
* W.J.T. Mitchell
* Nicholas Mirzoeff
* Keith Moxey
Areas for papers:
* Panel 1: "New Art History" / A Epistemology For Visual Studies
* Panel 2: Art Policies And Visual Culture
* Panel 3: Visuality / Technology / Knowledge Society
* Panel 4: Visual Culture / Artistic Practices
* Panel 5: Visuality And Identity
* Panel 6: Visual Studies And The University
Attendance:
The conference is open to professors, advanced level students, researchers, and those members of the art and university communities who are interested in participating.
Participation:
Papers may be presented at the Conference by professors, advanced level students, researchers, and other members of the artistic and university communities. Presentations should fall within one of the areas into which the Conference's working panels have been divided.
Those interested should send an abstract (approx. 1000 words) by e-mail to:
org@estudiosvisuales.net
The deadline for receiving abstracts is 1st December 2003.
The Conference's Advisory Committee will confirm acceptance or rejection of papers by 15 January 2004. Presenters will not be remunerated. Attendance fees will be waived for all participants in the Conference presenting a paper accepted by the Advisory Committee. Presenters are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses, and the Conference's organisers will not be able to provide services in these areas.
The Conference's organisers will co-ordinate the publication of what they consider the highlights of those papers presented. The authors of these papers will be paid the appropriate royalties.
More info: www.visualstudies.net
Call for submissions: KNOPPI01
Knoppi aims to become a platform for audio-visual and new media artists to showcase their work to the roughly 10,000 music fans who will be attending the Oppikoppi music festival.
The vent has already confirmed contributions, ranging from local and international music videos, to PSA's, documentaries about kwaito and fashion, plus several conceptual short audio visual pieces, not forgetting mobile phone art and other new media works collected by Marcus Neustetter, of the trinity session, and Marcel Rossouw, a new media designer and owner of Pointblank Communications.
This is a call to: artists exploring sound as their medium; artists using video and animation as a platform for their work; music video directors; mobile phone artists and anyone practicing in the new media genre.
Artists are being invited to submit their work to be screened/ presented on the stage screens of the event at Oppikoppi Tshwane 2003. Preparation and coordination of these works will be taken care of by KNOPPI 01.
Artist submission and selection criteria:
While most artists will be invited with the intention for presentation, KNOPPI will reserve the right to select works that are appropriate to the curatorial concept of the project.
The works collected should be ready to screen, i.e. visual works should be broadcast format and quality, either on vhs, beta or dvd. The works should preferably not exceed 5 minutes of playing time.
The artist needs to clearly provide title of work, name, date of production, short biography and a short statement with the submission of work.
Works that involve additional flyer campaigns need to provide the flyers ready for distribution.
Deadline: November 14
Contact:
Marcel Rossouw - 082 952 3451 - marcel@pointblank.co.za
Marcus Neustetter - 082 929 1569 - mn@onair.co.za
www.pointblank.co.za/press_release.htm
www.oppikoppi.co.za/beetroot/index.html for more info
Second Call for submissions: Big magazine's South Africa issue
Overview: For over twelve years now the New York-based magazine BIG has been investigating the spirit and soul of places around the globe: New Jersey, Chile, Paris, Brazil, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles; the list is endlessly growing. Soon it will include South Africa.
Founded in Spain in 1991, by the Chilean Marcelo Junneman, BIG is regarded to be one of the most interesting and innovative magazines currently around. Initially based in Spain, BIG moved to New York in 1995. Its content is formed from a collaboration of the world's top photographers, designers and writers. BIG now produces each issue in a different country with different teams of contributors.
The magazine is considered a free space, unbounded by traditional magazine editorial constraints. The creative community have recognised this. BIG magazine "prides itself on high production values, encouraging the cream of the world's magazine photographers," commented The Sunday Times of London. "The magazine's commitment to quality and broad editorial freedom has always meant that it could attract the strongest talent," stated Creative Review. "What began in 1991 as a revolt against publishing norms has itself become a norm for the 21st century," said Wired.
Amongst its wide ranging list of past collaborators and contributors are: Martin Parr, Joel Meyerowitz, Tim Burton, Stefan Ruiz, Terry Richardson, Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones, Sean Ellis, Mario Sorrenti, Javier Vallhonrat, Oscar Niemeier (architect), James Jarvis (illustrator), David Carson (designer), Lee Swillingham (designer), Ekow Eshun (editor), Doug Aitken (artist), Katie Grand (stylist).
Recent accolades include: Gold Medal in Photography, The Society of Publication Designers, New York (2001, 2000), Merit Awards, The Society of Publication Designers, New York (2002, 2001, 1999)
The Call: South African photographers, artists, illustrators, this is a call for submissions, an invitation to you to participate in the realisation of 'BIG South Africa: Year Ten'. If you are interested in being published in this award winning title, in being associated with a creative network of art directors, photographers, writers and editors already features in BIG, this is your opportunity.
For further details on how to schedule a portfolio review date as well as a PDF format overview document, contact Sean O'Toole at:
Tel: (011) 339 3724/ (073) 146 2046
Email: editor@artthrob.co.za
International masterclass on Creation and Design for Interactive Systems
Applications are open for the 2004 edition of the International Masterclass on Creation and Design for Interactive Systems, organised by MECAD/ Media Centre of Art and Design of the Superior School of Design ESDi. The masterclass will train designers, creators and producers in digital interactive systems within the fields of culture, interactive art, corporate and institutional production, education and other related fields.
The masterclass takes place with professors of international prestige and with the collaboration of two other prestigious centres: ZKM - Centre for Art and Media, Germany, and KHM - Media Art Academy in Cologne, Germany. The masterclass takes place from February 16 to July 9, 2004.
The masterclass will be held at Passeig de Gr�cia, 114, pral., Barcelona, Spain.
For more information:
MECAD\Media Centre d_Art i Disseny de ESDi
Passeig de Gràcia, 114, pral.
08008 Barcelona (Spain)
E-mail: info@master.esdi.es
Website: www.mecad.org
Tel.: (+34) 93 416 00 00
Fax: (+34) 93 237 74 74
Professional documentation
If you need any professional art documentation done
for reproduction or electronic purposes, please
contact me for artist friendly quotes.
I work from a studio I hire in Rosebank,
Johannesburg. It�s very secure and there is a lock-up
space if works needs to stay for documentation. I am
also available to do location documentation for large/
permanent installations. I work on transparency,
mostly medium format, but also 35mm upon request.
High-resolution drum scanning can also be arranged.
References are available if you're not familiar with
my work.
Hannelie Coetzee
Tel: (011) 447-1529 or 082 810 1835
Email: hannelie@hanneliecoetzee.co.za
Website: www.hanneliecoetzee.co.za
Sculpture Park Project: Oliewenhuis Art Museum
Oliewenhuis Art Museum is a satellite of the National Museum situated in Bloemfontein, the Free State. It is one of the youngest museums of its kind in the country and the only art museum in the province. The museum is situated in magnificent gardens overlooking the inner city making it an ideal site for a sculpture garden.
Oliewenhuis Art Museum has received funding from the National Lottery Board to launch and to co-ordinate a project whereby sculptors are invited to submit proposals for the execution and erection of sculptures to be permanently situated in the museum gardens. Artists are invited to submit proposals in drawing form, together with a budget, which will include envisaged materials, details of execution, instalment, transport and a timetable proposal.
Thereafter, selected artists will be invited to submit maquettes for a final selection of approximately 10 works. The sculpture garden seeks to broaden the parameters of art making so as to address new audiences and aims to involve artists from all over the country working in different media and styles.
Entry forms and details are available from Oliewenhuis Art Museum, P O Box 266, Bloemfontein.
For additional information, please contact Craig Booth or Sharon Crampton:
Tel: (051) 447 9609
Fax: (051) 447 9283
Email: oliewen@nasmus.co.za
AVA invites submissions
The Association For Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town invites submissions from visual artists who wish to exhibit at AVA from 2004 onwards. The Selection Committee of the AVA meets every two months to review submissions and the next meeting takes place on Wednesday, November 19. Selection meetings take place every second month thereafter.
Interested artists should bring to the gallery six to eight works (these can be supplemented by visual material such as slides and photographs), a CV and a short letter of intent or an artist's statement. The committee is most interested in reviewing the work that the artists wish to exhibit or else their most recent works. Artists can collect their works the day after the meeting.
In addition, any curators wishing to curate exhibitions for AVA should submit proposals to AVA's Selection Committee.
AVA is committed to the ongoing promotion of art and artists, both emerging and established, both formally trained and self- taught. For more information, contact Estelle Jacobs.
Association for Visual Arts
35 Church Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 424 7436
Fax: (021) 423 2637
Email: estava@iafrica.com
Website: www.ava.co.za
Contemporary Art Auction at the João Ferreira Art Gallery
The João Ferreira Gallery is planning a Contemporary Art Auction to take place on Saturday, December 13. The auction will comprise 100 pieces only and artists are invited to submit works for selection. Artists may submit painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and mixed media works.
The auction will enable artists to sell their work in a gallery to the public and to gain exposure on the contemporary art scene. Their works will be auctioned alongside well-known artists such as William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins.
70% of the hammer price will go to artists and reserve prices will be set on works by Jo�o Ferreira Gallery together with the artists.
Interested artists should submit an email or fax with contact details and a description of your proposed selling piece before November 12.
Tel: (021) 423-5403
Fax: 423-2136
Email: info@joaoferreiragallery.com
[R][R][F] 2004 [Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]: Call for Proposals
'[R][R][F] 2004 [Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]' is the new net-based networking project by Agricola de Cologne, currently being prepared for his participation in Biennale de Paris 2004, taking place from February 20 - March 15, 2004 simultaneously in Paris, London, Tokyo, New York, Beyrouth and Berlin.
'[R][R][F] 2004' focuses on memory and identity. One basic part will form Version 2.0 of [R][R][F] Festival which will include - besides artists selected by curators from
China, Iran/ Canada, Romania, Germany and others - a section based on a open call on the internet curated by Agricola de Cologne.
All artists, who produce 'net-based work are invited to submit one proposal comprising a 'net-based art project which explores the subject of identity and related issues. The selected works will be included in '[R][R][F] 2004', which will be presented simultaneously in different cities during the Biennale de Paris 2004.
Only works which have an URL (internet address) of their own will be accepted. All 'net-based technologies are welcome.
Please use this form for submitting:
1. First name/ name of artist, email, URL
2. A brief bio/ CV (not more than 300 words)
3. Title and URL of the submitted work
4. A short description of the work (not more than 300 words)
5. A screen shot (max 800 x 600 pixels, .jpg)
Deadline: November 30
Email: rrf@newmediafest.org
Call for Artists: 2004 Iowa Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Miniature Prints
The Iowa Biennial Exhibition will exhibit an international survey of contemporary miniature prints in all 2-D media to be held beginning June 2004. There is no entry fee and up to three [3] works may be submitted.
For further details contact download a pdf (Adobe Acrobat) information sheet,
OR information@iowabiennial.com or visit www.iowabiennial.com
ArtSPACE Durban calls for exhibition proposals for 2004
ArtSPACE Durban (aSd) is looking for artists to submit proposals for exhibiting work in 2004. Contemporary work, including installations and new media with a focus on challenging embedded perceptions, is encouraged.
aSd is housed in a warehouse just off Umgeni Road in Durban in a suitably gritty industrial environment with a view of the sea. The space is robust and calls for interaction. Exhibition rentals are reasonable as the Main Gallery is R280 per week (180 sq. meters), the Middle Gallery R140 per week (50 sq. meters) and the Coffee Lounge R 60 per week (48 sq. meters). ASd can also take care of invitations (per 1000 (A6) R 550) whilst postage is R1.80 per invite.
The running wall space of the various galleries is as follows:
Main Gallery: 33 meters @ 3.5 meters high
Middle Gallery: 18.4 m @ 3 m high
Coffee Lounge 15.2 m @ 3 m high
Total 66.6 m
25% commission is charged on works sold.
For more info contact Karen on 312-0793 or 083-300-9804.
My Mission: call for submissions
'{self}_representation 2003', the new show on Le Musee di-visioniste curated by Agricola de Cologne and launched on September 30 2003, invites artists to submit to the recently initiated project 'My Mission', a collection of textual self-representations in form of artistic statements.
Please send your statement as a short text in plain email format (no more than 500 words),
stating how you see your mission as an artist.
'My mission' is an ongoing project with an open end, so you can send your statement at any time, there is no deadline.
All serious entries will be immediately included.
Send submissions to info@le-musee-divisioniste.org with 'My Mission' in the subject line.
www.le-musee-divisioniste.org or www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start1.htm
Submissions invited for Dakar Biennale 2004
The African contemporary Art Biennial 'DAK'ART' is an international artistic event devoted to African arts. The biennial's objectives are:
- to support and encourage creativity, promotion, diffusion, artistic training and education in Africa;
- to promote African artists internationally;
- to encourage the integration of contemporary African art into the international art market; and
- to contribute to the development of art criticism in Africa and publications on art and contemporary African artists.
The Scientific Committee, members of which are appointed by the Minister of Culture, has the duty to design and to define the general outline, the methods of implementation and assessment of the African Contemporary Art Biennial. It guarantees the professional credibility and ensures the conformity control and the evaluation of the event. It is the justification centre of the orientations towards the different partners: artists, academics, intellectuals, economic actors and various professionals in the field of art.
The general outline of the biennial, defined by the scientific committee, is submitted to the Senegalese Ministry of Culture for approval. The members of the Scientific Committee are chosen in relation to their credibility and their skills. The Committee is run by a President, and the President and Counsellors' mandate ends after the seminar organised for the assessment of the Biennial. This mandate is renewable.
The General Secretariat is the convenor of the Contemporary African Art Biennial. It is responsible for the practical implementation of the event scenario with the different means put at its disposal by the Senegalese State and various partners. It is the technical authority for the management of human, material and financial resources, as well as the actors of the event, the equipment and the sites. It is led by a Secretary General who is responsible for Organisation Technical Committees and coordinating works.
The main official events of DAK'ART 2004 are:
- The Contemporary African Art International Exhibition
- The Individual Exhibitions for African artists and invited non-African artists
- The African Design International Show
- Paying tribute to an African artist
- The Forums
- The Contemporary Art film show
- The Digital Arts Forum
Economic actors or institutions can organise related events in partnership with the General Secretariat of the Biennial. These related events, organised within the framework of DAK'ART, by individuals (artists, gallery owners, managers, museums and other institutions) can, if possible, benefit from General Secretariat support.
The candidates to the International Exhibition and/ or to the African Design International Show must have an African country nationality and send a candidacy folder to the General Secretariat (address below)
1. An application letter specifying the chosen exhibition (International Exhibition and/ or African Design International Show)
2. A detailed Curriculum Vitae
3. Two recent passport-size photographs
4. Five colour copies of the recent works (slides, ecktachromes, colour photographs). The name of the photographer must be mentioned
5. The duly filled-in Technical Form must be attached
Copies of published articles, art magazines and critical articles on the artist's work, as well as one or several statements from renowned experts.
These documents will not be returned to the artist after the deliberations of the International Selection Committee. They will be filed in the Documentation Centre of the SGBD. Incomplete applications shall not be considered. Duly completed applications must reach the following address no later than November 21:
The General Secretariat of the Contemporary Art Biennial (SGBD)
19, Avenue Albert Sarraut
B.P 4001 Dakar
S�n�gal
Technical Form (to be attached with the application duly completed)
Titles of the works
Technique used
Year of production
Size H x W x D (cm)
Weight (Kg)
Selling price (CFA Francs)
Value to be declared (CFAF)
Value to be insured (CFAF)
The above information must be supplied for each work submitted
N° 1 :
N° 2 :
N° 3 :
N° 4 :
N° 5 :
Installations : Details on the specifications of the equipment, the surface used, etc must be attached.
Other Audiovisual aids : Digital Arts. A CD- ROM of the works or a videocassette and any useful explanation on the production must be forwarded with the application.
Tel : (00 221) 823 09 18
Fax : (00 221) 821 16 32
Email: dakart@refer.sn
Website: www.biennalededakar.sn
Submissions invited for Waves symposium
An international symposium on corrugated board, organised by the Cultural Commission Coevorden (CCC), takes place in May 2004 in Coevorden (The Netherlands. www.coevorden.nl). About 15 participants are sought to realise large-scale indoor works in locations in the city and surrounding villages. The works are to be made of corrugated cardboard, although there is the possibility of making some outdoor works in similar plastic materials.
The exhibition will run until December 1, 2004. A full colour catalogue with four pages per artist, including information about the industry and community will be produced. The exhibition combines its opening with the presentation of the 'Waves Award' - a prize for Dutch industrial designers working with the same material.
The exhibition is themed 'Waves reaching the coast' and artists are expected to interpret this in any way including the literary, poetic and spiritual etc. The works must also deal with the space they are assigned.
The organisers will provide an artist's fee, travel-expenses and full board and lodging. A brief proposal should include documentation of earlier work and a CV (To get this material back enclose a SASE)
Deadline: December 1, but earlier proposals will be published on the website.
Send applications to:
globalartfund
Meulenakker 6
NL - 7841 EP SLEEN
Fax: +31 591362690
Email: fluit077@planet.nl
www.artwaves.nl (from the end of September 2003, this site will provide maps, pictures of locations and artists' proposals)
Donate your art to AIDS orphans auction website
Last year the Art for AIDS Orphans auction raised over a million rands for AIDS orphans. Organizer Nicci Bailey is currently setting up a permanent charity website gallery, www.art4aids.co.za, and are requesting that all artists who would like to donate a piece for this worthy cause to log onto our site.
Contact: Nicci Bailey
Email: beezy@beezybailey.co.za
Call for submissions to New York-based Big magazine's South Africa issue
For over twelve years now the New York-based magazine BIG has been investigating the spirit and soul of places around the globe: New Jersey, Chile, Paris, Brazil, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles. The list is endlessly growing, and soon it will include South Africa.
Founded in Spain in 1991, by the Chilean Marcelo Junneman, BIG is regarded to be one of the most interesting and innovative magazines currently around. Initially based in Spain, BIG moved to New York in 1995. Its content is formed from a collaboration of the world's top photographers, designers and writers. BIG now produces each issue in a different country with different teams of contributors.
The magazine is considered a free space, unbounded by traditional magazine editorial constraints. The creative community have recognised this. BIG magazine "prides itself on high production values, encouraging the cream of the world's magazine photographers," commented The Sunday Times of London. "The magazine's commitment to quality and broad editorial freedom has always meant that it could attract the strongest talent," stated Creative Review. "What began in 1991 as a revolt against publishing norms has itself become a norm for the 21st century," said Wired.
Amongst its wide ranging list of past collaborators and contributors are: Martin Parr, Joel Meyerowitz, Tim Burton, Stefan Ruiz, Terry Richardson, Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones, Sean Ellis, Mario Sorrenti, Javier Vallhonrat, Oscar Niemeier (architect), James Jarvis (illustrator), David Carson (designer), Lee Swillingham (designer), Ekow Eshun (editor), Doug Aitken (artist), Katie Grand (stylist).
Recent accolades include: Gold Medal in Photography, The Society of Publication Designers, New York (2001, 2000), Merit Awards, The Society of Publication Designers, New York (2002, 2001, 1999)
The Call: South African photographers, artists, illustrators, this is a call for submissions, an invitation to you to participate in the realisation of 'BIG South Africa: Year Ten'. If you are interested in being published in this award winning title, in being associated with a creative network of art directors, photographers, writers and editors already features in BIG, this is your opportunity.
Concept Overview: In 2004 South Africa will celebrate its tenth birthday. When the time comes to celebrate it, the local and international media will doubtlessly be asking many questions. How? What? When? Who? Complex questions that will inevitably deal with quantity and measure. 'BIG South Africa: Year Ten' offers South African image makers a unique opportunity to explain this country, not only to fellow South Africans but a visually aware international audience. 'BIG South Africa: Year Ten' offers photographers (primarily) an opportunity to present South Africa in a visual language that is determinedly their own. It is an opportunity to playfully question our accepted visual codes and frame South Africa in a way no one else is seeing it.
The Brief: This is an open call to photographers, artists and illustrators to put forward their ideas. Without being prescriptive, the editor has put forward the following concept ideas, which are open to interpretation.
1. Pierneef and the Troubled Landscape: Pierneef's much debated paintings of South Africa from the 1920s once celebrated the Union. What do his vantage points present today? What is the status of Pierneef's landscape?
2. Fashion as a found object: Seydou Keita's 1950s images offer a static portrait of a period while revealing Africa's fascination with costume and personal portraiture. Shift the locus from 1950s Mali to contemporary South Africa, to a wedding, an AIDS funeral, a soccer game. How do we dress up, and how do we interact with the lens?
3. After Boksburg: David Goldblatt's seminal study of Boksburg offers a memorable portrait of a time now consigned to the dustbin of history. Or maybe not. All over South Africa a new middle class is emerging, taking title to more than simply a house. Is anyone recording this historic birth of a nation? Is there not something of Robert Adams in this subject matter?
4. The new baroque: Razor wire fencing, armed response signage, doll's house watch posts, suburban enclosures, surveillance. Is Kendell Geers the only person to have photographed South Africa's new laager encampments?
5. Hello, I'm not from here: Beit Bridge, Komatipoort, Park Station. Who are they? Why do all South Africans fear them? Why do we continue to speak of immigrants as other? Will a series of facial portraits, in the style of Togo's great photographer Cornelius Yao Azaglo Augustt, reveal anything more beyond the visible surface?
The Team: 'BIG South Africa: Year Ten' will be edited by Sean O'Toole (editor of ArtThrob/freelance writer), with Marcelo Junneman providing creative direction. Garth Walker, of Orange Juice Design/i-jusi, will design this issue (TBC).
Contribution Deadline: December 1, 2003 (All final material ready for review.)
Newsstands: September 2004
Print Run: 50,000
Circulation: 30,000 (USA), 13,000 (Europe), 5,000 (Asia), 2,000 (South America) - based on Big USA series. A further 5,000 issues will be made available locally in South Africa.
For further details on how to schedule a portfolio review date as well as a PDF format overview document, contact Sean O'Toole at:
Tel: (011) 339 3724/ (073) 146 2046
Email: editor@artthrob.co.za or sw_otoole@yahoo.co.uk
The International Festival of New Technologies, Art and Communication: Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004
The International Festival of New Technologies, Art and Communication: Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004 has opened its registration period for the Call for Presentation. Those interested can present their work to the various sections of the festival: Net-Art, Off-Line Multimedia Projects,
International Conference, Computer-generated Animation, 'Minimisation' and Interactive Installations.
Under the theme 'Challenges for a Ubiquitous Identity', the festival will take place in Bilbao from April 23 - 30, 2004. The 2004 festival is organised by the Town Hall of Bilbao through the
following entities: Fundaci�n Bilbao Arte, Lan Ekintza and Bilbao Iniciativas Tur�sticas.
Those interested can find the Call for Participation on the festival at www.ciberart-bilbao.net. The deadline for presenting papers for the congress is the November 30, 2003 and the deadline for the artwork is December 15.
Since the festival's beginning in 1995, its main goal has been to approach the essential elements of artistic production through digital media and to contemplate the changes produced in society as a consequence of the presence of resources, processes and mediation of technology. Ciber@RT has become a world showcase for the art of new media and contemporary research.
Ciber@RT Bilbao 2004
Avd. Reino de Valencia, 58 - 8
46005 Valencia - Spain
Tel: 00 34 96 373 0181
Fax: 00 34 96 373 0545
Website: www.ciberart-bilbao.net
Invitation to submit a tile to art project
Mary Sherman is an artist and the founder of a non-for-profit, artists run organization, Trans Cultural Exchange. TCE has put on shows at the Trans Hudson Gallery in New York, in Korea and at the London Biennale. These shows were made up of artists from around the world's works. TCE were exploring the idea of the globalisation of images, etc.
Last year TCE also staged a huge project, called the Coaster Project (www.transculturalexchange.org/coasterproject). 100 artists around the world made 100 coaster sized art works. Each artist then sent their works, which were re-combined to make 100 sets of coaster sized art works by 100 artists. These were sent back to the 100 artists who showed them in their country and then gave them away freely as coasters at bars, restaurants, etc. The North East chapter of the International Art Critics Association awarded the project, "Best show in an alternative space outside of New York" and TCE received extensive press.
For next year TCE are doing a somewhat similar project with tiles (www.transculturalexchange.org/tileproject). 100 artists will make 20 tiles and send them to TCE's 20 sites, where they will be installed as composite piece (mosaics, fountains, parts of sculptures, etc.). In addition, 20 universities around the world will make/swap and install tiles at their universities (MIT's glass lab, for instance, is also participating). Both the Soros Foundation and the US Art in Embassies Program are assisting with this project.
Artists, universities or schools interested in participating in the project should visit TCE's website, www.transculturalexchange.org/tileproject, where invitations for artists, univerisities, schools are listed in the section titled Invite to Participate. You can also email Mary Sherman at msherman@transculturalexchange.org
Website: www.transculturalexchange.org
San Francisco Art Institute looking for visiting faculty
The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is seeking new visiting faculty to teach undergraduate and graduate courses for 2004 - 2005 in the fields of Digital Studies, Filmmaking, Interdisciplinary Studies, Liberal Arts, Art History, New Genres, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture/Ceramic Sculpture.
SFAI is committed to an experimental studio arts education in a cross-disciplinary environment. MA/MFA and/or Ph.D. in relevant field and a minimum of two years teaching experience required. Applicants should submit a letter specifying the area(s) of interest, CV, slides or other documentation, course proposals or statement of teaching philosophy, and a SASE to:
Dean of Academic Affairs
San Francisco Art Institute
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco
CA 94133, USA
Deadline: December 1, 2003
Please no calls or e-mails. For more information visit our website at www.sfai.edu
TGD4 - International Workshop in Tambacounda
Our organisation Collectif Artistes Plasticiens (CAP), based in Geneva and in Tambacounda (southeast Senegal), is organising an artistic exchange programme. Entitled 'TGD4 - International Workshop in Tambacounda', professional artists (both visual and performance artists) can apply until November 30. The exchange takes place from December 15, 2004 to January 1, 2005.
Details and mode of application are available on our web site:
www.le-cap.ch/tgd4english.html%20
Email: odia@bluewin.ch or dia_anne@hotmail.com
Painting job in Tuscany
An established Italian artist is looking for an assistant. Candidates have to be technically gifted young figurative painters. The studio is located in a beautiful town in Tuscany. Please send some images of your work. Please reply to: geko6@yahoo.it.
Space for hire at Joáo Ferreira Gallery
Joáo Ferreira Gallery presents the "ultimate venue for hire for functions, photo and film shoots, parties and launches. We offer two large, spacious NY loft-style rooms. The venue is suitable for live music, there is safe parking and catering and other facilities are available within the gallery space."
80 Hout Street, Cape Town
Tel: (021) 423-5403
Fax: (021) 423-2136
Email: info@joaoferreiragallery.com
www.joaoferreiragallery.com
Opportunities for artists to teach in Colombia
The Centro Colombo Americano is a non-profit binational cultural centre, founded in 1947 by a group of interested North Americans and Colombians who wished to strengthen the relationships between their countries. The institution is dedicated to promoting human development through academic and cultural programmes with a multicultural perspective, fostering extensive exchange with the United States and the world. In the case of applicants who have a background in the arts, they will actively participate in our ABC programme, which is an initiative to bring the arts into the language-teaching classroom both for adults and for children. Practicing visual artists will also have the possibility to be considered for an exhibition in the centre gallery. For more information on our visual arts exhibition programme, visit our website at www.colomboworld.com, and click on English version, then Gallery.
Medell�n is a pleasant city in the heart of the Andes Mountains, with a year-round temperature of 74 degrees Fahrenheit. With more than two million inhabitants, it is known for its vigorous industrial development and its beautiful flowers. The people, called 'Paisas', are known for their friendliness and clearly spoken Spanish. You can read more about Medell�n and Colombia in www.paisas.com, www.todomedellin.com or www.nuestracolombia.org.co/
Should you have any questions, please feel free to email us and we will arrange to call you to speak personally. We are sure that you will find working with us professionally challenging and fulfilling. Please feel free to check our website for further information on the Center.
If you are interested, send your CV and a recent photo to:
The Academic Director
Centro Colombo Americano
Carrera 45 No. 53-24
Medell�n, Colombia, South America
Tel: (574) 513-4444 Ext.237, Fax: (574) 513-2666
E-mail: Lshem@colomboworld.com
Website: www.colomboworld.com
The new Michaelis Art Shop
The Michaelis Art Shop has moved and reopened in a space adjacent to the school's gallery. The shop supplies a wide range of fine art materials and offers student discounts on presentation of a valid student card. The shop is competitively priced and now officially open to the public.
The Gallery, Michaelis Art School, Hiddingh Campus, 31-37 Orange Street, Gardens
Tel: (021) 426 1948
Hours: 9am to 5pm on weekdays
