As part of the summer cycle Femmes femmes, a dedicated special program to the outstanding contribution of director Joyce Wieland to development of Canadian experimental cinema.
The CVM Symposium 2018: Exploring and Preserving Visual Music will explore the theories, histories and practices of Visual Music. It features two days of talks and presentations from international scholars, artists, students, curators and researchers (August 14-15), plus a final half day of special sessions. Set in Sonoma County’s wine country, the symposium also features several special events.
Dates:
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 (All day) to Thursday, August 16, 2018 (All day)
The Barbara Hammer Lesbian Experimental Filmmaking Grant is an annual grant that will be awarded to self-identified lesbians for making visionary moving-image art. Work can be experimental animation, experimental documentary, experimental narrative, cross-genre, or solely experimental. Applicants must be based in the U.S. This grant was established by Hammer in 2017 to give needed support to moving-image art made by lesbians. The grant is supported directly by funds provided by her estate and administered through Queer|Art by lesbians for lesbians, with a rotating panel of judges. The grant is $5000.
Qubit is pleased to present Binocular Rivalry, an immersive light and moving-image installation by Bernhard Fasenfest. Binocular Rivalry fills the sprawling 6000 square feet of Project-Q’s exhibition space with luminous grids of cascading light, tactile environments, textural fabric projections, and other works that explore the multimodal capacity of expanded cinema.
Dates:
Friday, August 24, 2018 (All day) to Sunday, August 26, 2018 (All day)
All artists of any nationality are invited to participate with the following disciplines : Digital Art - Animation - Virtual Reality - Video Art - Experimental Music - Photography - Sculpture - Graphic Arts.
With the topic NATURE.
Key Words: #Colors #Shapes #Textures #Sounds #Biodiversity #Interaction with human beings #Protection of flora and fauna #Or any relationship that inspires the artist to create!
