Athens Video Art Festival
6th-8th May 2010
Deadline: 15th February 2010

Athens Video Art Festival, Greece’s biggest festival of digital arts and new media, invites you to participate and present your work at 6th-8th May 2010 [at “Technopolis” of the City of Athens]. Athens Video Art Festival will continue with its scheduled tour on the Greek Region from May to September 2010.

Athens Video Art Festival is Greece’s official festival on video art and at the same meets the requirements of people from the full spectrum of creativity. During its course it has won the respect of artists, organizations and public which is massively present every year. Through its versatile action Athens Video Art Festival constitutes a field of promotion and a link between the artists and the audience inside and outside Greece.

Every year Athens Video Art Festival evolves, enriches and sets new goals, raising the bar higher, brings out its academic side and enhances it through important tributes and collaborations, provides the artistic community with additional motive for creation presents international cutting-edge developments on the field of digital arts and communicates them to the wide audience.

Our goal remains the expression through a versatile cultural event open to any form of expression of the digital creation.

Main Categories :
Video Art, Animation, Video Installation, Installation, Digital Image, Web Art, Performance Art

Optional Thematic:

With “Feel Free to Feel Green” as a starting point, Athens Video Art Festival will present art works that investigate the relationship between the modern human and the environment. With respect to visual creation as well as the important ecological and environmental issues of our times, Athens Video Art Festival invites contemporary artists create works and inspire, submitting their own views on these matters. With the goal of public awareness and action involving environmental issues, the eco-sensitive works of all the categories of Athens Video Art Festival will meet in a special three day event and address a wide public, open to stimulation and interested in new media. This way, and with the new forms of digital arts as a vehicle, we aim to enforce the modern conception of the pubic in matters of ecological sensitivity.

This thematic is optional.

Deadline for submission: 15th February 2010

Entry forms and information can be found at www.athensvideoartfestival.gr

Additional information & clarifications: [email protected]

Athens Video Art Festival is organized by the Urban Non Profitable Company Multitrab Productions.

University of Edinburgh
Soundings
International Festival of Sonic Art taking place in the Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh.
5th - 7th February 2010
Deadline: 8th January 2010

Call for Works:

syncraesthesia: n. the fusion of acousmatic sound and abstract vision to create an immersive audiovisual experience; see also synchresis and synaesthesia?

Soundings Festival is issuing a call for audiovisual works exploring the combination of electroacoustic composition and experimental video. Selected works will be performed at the Soundings International Festival of Sonic Art in the Reid Concert Hall, Bristo Square, Edinburgh during the weekend of 5th - 7th February 2010.

The performance venue allows for stereo diffusion of the audio component of the works.
Please indicate with your submission if you would like your submission to be diffused by the event curator or if you would prefer a standard balanced stereo playback. Diffusion scores may also be submitted with the work.

Submission guidelines:
- Work must be a maximum of 20 minutes in length.
- Audio must be stereo format.
- Works should be submitted as .avi or .mov file on data DVD.
- A separate audio track in .wav or .aif format must also be included on the DVD.

The submission deadline is Friday 8th January 2010 at 5pm.

Entries must include:
- Full contact details (name, address and email)
- 2 jpeg images (300dpi resolution)

Note that submissions will not be returned, but will be added to the Soundings audiovisual archive.

Please send submissions to:

Andrew Connor
Soundings
Music - School of Arts, Culture & Environment
University of Edinburgh
Alison House
12 Nicolson Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9DF

E-Mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/soundings/

EIFF - Black Box
16-27 June 2010
Regular deadline: Monday 1 February 2010

The Edinburgh International Film Festival invites submissions for its experimental section 'Black Box'. The 64th EIFF will take place from 16 - 27 June 2010 in Edinburgh. The Festival is internationally regarded as a focus for discovery, a celebration of cinema, a centre of debate and a catalyst for new films. Black Box has been developing and expanding over the past few years and screens a wide variety of short and feature-length experimental works on both film and video.

Last year's festival included films by Chris Kennedy, Kerry Laitala, Scott Nyerges, Antoni Pinent, Cecile Fontaine, Frederique Devaux, Ben Rivers, Marie Losier, Tomonari Nishikawa and Makino Takashi. For full details of the programme visit: http://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/whats-on?src=strandlink&section=Black%2BBox

There are three ways to submit:
- Online through the EIFF website at www.edfilmfest.org.uk/submissions
- Download a form from the EIFF website and mail it to us
- Via Withoutabox at https://www.withoutabox.com/login/1360

Please note all submitted films should be no more than 12 months old by June 2010 and EIFF requires at least UK premiere status.

Submission deadlines:
- Earlybird: Monday 14 December 2009
- Regular: Monday 1 February 2010
- Late: Monday 15 February 2010

For further information on EIFF Rules & Regulations, Submission Fees and FAQs, please visit the website.
To contact a member of the EIFF Submissions team please email [email protected] or call the office on 0131 228 4051.
To contact a member of the EIFF Programming team please email [email protected] or call the office on 0131 228 4051

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experimental film festival
July 2010 - Marseille France
Deadline: 1 March 2010

Online Inscription
http://inscription.p-silo.org/english.php