Experimental Media Festival
Open Call For Entries
Juror: Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky, Composer, Multimedia Artist, Writer
Deadline: through September 13, 2010 , 5pm (received deadline)

Screening Dates and Locations:
January 13 and 20, 2011 @ The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
January 27 and 28, 2011 @ The Mansion at Strathmore, Rockville, MD
February 2, 2011 @ Falvey Hall, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
February 10, 2011 @ St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington DC
Other venues to be announced

Calling all video and sound artists...

Washington Project for the Arts is pleased to present the sixth Experimental Media Series, a screening series of innovative video and sound works. The Experimental Media Series was created to showcase the new media work of exceptional and under-recognized talent and provide a venue for experimental media in the Washington, DC area. Since 2006, EMS has presented the work of over 150 artists, including Julia Oldham, Stefanie Barber, Stan Brakhage, Paul Chan, Herman Asselberghs, Miranda July, Jose Ruiz, and Champ Taylor.

All video and sound artists are invited to submit one recent work that is no longer than 5 minutes, exploring any subject matter of their choice. From the received submissions, juror Paul D. Miller will create a selection of video and sound works to be presented in a series of public screenings. Artists whose work has been selected for the screening programs will be notified during the first week of November. Additionally, two artists submitting the most compelling entries, based on overall quality and originality as determined by the juror, will be awarded the Kraft Prize for New Media of $750 and the WPA Experimental Media Prize of $750 on January 20. Please note that the WPA Prize will go to an artist living and working in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The 8 Fest 2011
Call for submissions
Deadline: September 15, 2010

The 8 Fest seeks your 8mm, Super-8, 9.5mm or other small gauge film projects (such as loops and installations) for our 2011 installment next January.

Films can be: Experimental, animated, personal, handmade. Diary & essay films, documentaries. Live performance and music mixed with film. Films from everyday culture ­ historical footage, home movies.

The 8 fest exhibits all work on film. Works selected for the festival, therefore, must be finished on small-gauge film (8mm, Super 8, 9.5mm). We also exhibit blow-ups to 16mm of films that have been finished on small-gauge (or unsplit 8mm pieces). We do not exhibit projects on video or digital.

The 8 fest uses professional small-gauge projection equipment including Elmo GS-1200 and ST-1200 models. Our technicians and programmers have many years experience specializing in small-gauge film formats and technology. The greatest care will be taken in handling, previewing and projecting films.

Submission form online at: http://the8fest.com/

Moving Frames Festival 2010
Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
Festival dates: September 24-6, 2010
Deadline: September 10, 2010

After the last years successful experiment the Alt-Ctrl-Del group organizes the 2nd Animation and Video Art Festival in the city of Mytilene at 24-25 of September. The concept of the Festival remains the same: The use of the space we live and move in, beyond any form of commercial exploitation.

The Moving Frames Festival invites:
1. The artists to send their works, old or new, in order to be presented in different spots in the city of Mytilene. This year we suggest the topic: In-formation (Submission deadline the 10th of September)
2. Festivals, Art groups, Workshops, Non-profit Organizations that work with animation and video art to support and promote this year’s attempt every way possible and also to send us works from their archives in order to present their general contribution to the field of digital art.

Same as last year, the Festival is not a competition. The invitation is open to every form of art that incorporates these concerns und uses digital technology (video-art, animation, experimental video, installations etc.).
The video showings, accompanied by parallel activities, will take place in different spots in the city of Mytilene. The participants themselves will form their spaces.

Access full regulations and application form here.