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Film & Video Festivals Deadlines June/July 2009

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück 2009
Festivalmotto „Glück“
21.10.2009-25.10.2009
http://www.filmfest-os.de
Deadline: 12.06.2009

KunstFilmBiennale Köln 2009
Intern. Wettbewerb für künstlerischen Film und
VG Bild-Kunst-Förderpreis für experimentellen Film
28.10.2009-01.11.2009
http://www.kunstfilmbiennale.de
Deadline: 15.06.2009

Sheffield Doc/Fest 2009
entry fee 25 Pfund
04.11.2009-08.11.2009
http://www.sheffdocfest.com
Deadline: 17.06.2009

Rencontres Audiovisuelles 2009
Festival International du Court Metrage de Lille
Oktober 2009; auch Videokunst!
http://www.rencontres-audiovisuelles.org
Deadline: 22.06.2009

Invideo Mailand 2009
International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond
11.11.2009-15.11.2009
http://www.mostrainvideo.com
Deadline: 25.06.2009

Venice International Film Festival 2009
La Biennale di Venezia
Premierenfestival; Kurzfilme bis max. 30 Min. ohne Gebühren
02.09.2009-12.09.2009
http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema
Deadline: 26.06.2009

Curta Cinema – Festival Internacional de Curtas do Rio de Janeiro 2009
29.10.2009-08.11.2009
http://www.curtacinema.com.br
Deadline: 26.06.2009

The Times BFI London Film Festival 2009
14.10.2009-29.10.2009
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff
Deadline: 26.06.2009

Corona Cork Film Festival 2009
01.11.2009-08.11.2009
http://www.corkfilmfest.org
Deadline: 26.06.2009

interfilm Berlin 2009
Internationales Kurzfilmfestival
03.11.2009-08.11.2009
http://www.interfilm.de
Deadline: 26.06.2009

PUSAN International Film Festival 2009
08.10.2009-16.10.2009
http://www.piff.org
Deadline: 30.06.2009

ALCINE 2009
Festival de Cine de Alcalá de Henares, Spain
Festivaltermin: November 2009
http://www.alcine.org
Deadline: 30.06.2009

Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2009
19.10.2009-25.10.2009
http://www.shortfilmfestival.com
Deadline: 30.06.2009

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2009
27.10.2009-01.11.2009
http://www.dokument-festival.cz
Deadline: 30.06.2009

Ismailia International Festival for Doc. & Short Films Egypt 2009
10.10.2009-17.10.2009
http://www.egyptianfilmcenter.org.eg
Deadline: 30.06.2009

Unerhört! Musikfilmfestival Hamburg 2009
Wettbewerb New Talents: Filme ab 2007, zentrales Thema Musik, Mindestlänge 20 Min.
03.12.2009-06.12.2009
http://www.unerhoert-filmfest.de
Deadline: 30.06.2009

Encounters Short Film Festival 2009
Kurzfilme bis 30 Min.; Einreichgebühren
17.11.2009-22.11.2009
http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk
Deadline: 30.06.2009

China International Animation and Digital Arts Festival CICDAF 2009
28.09.2009-01.10.2009
http://www.cicdaf.com
Deadline: 01.07.2009

L’Alternativa 2009
Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona
13.11.2009-21.11.2009
http://alternativa.cccb.org
Deadline: 01.07.2009

International Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers Greece 2009
02.10.2009-10.10.2009
http://www.independent.gr
Deadline: 01.07.2009

Telluride Film Festival 2009
entry fee 35 $
04.09.2009-07.09.2009
http://www.telluridefilmfestival.org
Deadline: 01.07.2009

Filmfestival Münster 2009
07.10.2009-11.10.2009
http://www.filmfestival.muenster.de
Deadline: 01.07.2009

Cinekid 2009
14.10.2009-23.10.2009
http://www.cinekid.nl
Deadline: 01.07.2009

Prix Europa 2009
Television – Radio – Emerging Media
17.10.2009-24.10.2009
http://www.prix-europa.de/programme_einreichen/
Deadline: 01.07.2009

Festival Internacional de Jóvenes Realizadores de Granada 2009
24.10.2009-31.10.2009
http://www.filmfest-granada.com
Deadline: 15.07.2009

Designboom calls for entries

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

designboom international design competition.
Participation is open to people aged 25 years or older,
across every country in the world, to professionals, students,
and design-enthusiasts.
Free registration required.


01 – the subject of the international competition is
It’s Aperitivo Time
One of Italy’s most established and iconic brands, Peroni Nastro Azzurro, in collaboration with Alessi, are collaborating with designboom to organize the Peroni Nastro Azzurro Blue Ribbon Design Awards 2009 in the UK.

Peroni Nastro Azzurro has created these awards to offer you the chance to design pieces for the aperitivo occasion, which are influenced and inspired by the Peroni Nastro Azzurro brand.

Aperitivo is an authentic Italian tradition that combines delicious small plate of food with refreshing alcoholic drinks during the early evening hours as a relaxing prelude to dinner. Aperitivo is recognised as a reason for social gathering, and is a stylish and elaborate affair. Aperitivo is also a fantastic brief to design against due to the transitional nature of the occasion.
It’s day to night. It’s work to play.

We expect to receive innovative, stylish and original design applications of aperitivo accessories, including glasses, tableware, small furniture, tools and gadgets for the perfect aperitivo time.

The custom of enjoying aperitivo is deeply rooted in Italian culture, with Italians regularly enjoying aperitivo
as part of everyday life – in public spaces, cafes and bars that serve up sumptuous aperitivo; gallery openings and parties; and amongst family and friends at home.


02 – awards
The designers of 2 winning entries will win a cash prize of: EURO 5000 each

The winning entries and other selected finalists will be shown in a Peroni Nastro Azzurro exhibition
in London, which will then be rolled out to the Design Museum’s UK regional partners, and a host of top-end UK style bars.

There is also the opportunity for finalist / winning designs to be developed into items for the Alessi catalogue, working together the Alessi design management structure, as well as the potential for the winning designs to be used in iconic Peroni Nastro Azzurro advertising.

In the event that Alessi exercises the option to use the rights for production on an exclusive basis and sine die (without time limitations), Alessi undertakes to pay a royalty of annual sales to the designer.

And as always, designboom will publish an exhaustive results report.


03 – the jury is composed of
Alberto Alessi, Creative Director, Alessi
Martin Harlow, Board Director, Peroni Nastro Azzuro UK
TBC
TBC
Birgit Lohmann, Editor-in-Chief, designboom
under construction


04 – design criteria
Projects must be new – they must not be currently in production. Previously published or exhibited projects are not accepted.
It is important that you keep your design(s) confidential until the results of the competition are published.


The jury will favour designs and concepts which are innovative in terms of their formal / technological aspects. Please don’t send in vague concepts, but go a step further. It’s not the idea which is the art, it’s more the way somebody handles the idea that makes art.


05 – registration deadline
Applications can be submitted from March 16, 2008 and will be accepted through to 12pm, GMT June 08, 2009, when the competition will be officially closed.


06 – registration
Registrations are now open, please fill in the form (link below). If you are a team, please register with one name only, and when submitting your work you should add all team members names. at time of registering,all team members should be 25 years or older (There is a maximum of 4 works that can be submitted by any individual or group.)
register here


07 – submit your entry / entries
Whether you’re an individual or group, you can only submit a maximum of 4 works. You and your team
will only be eligible for one prize and teams will count as one ‘participant’ for the purposes of these rules and terms.

1. Up to 3 files for uploading to our server
(Images or a composition of more images) of your project.
Please note: use only .gif, .jpeg, (72 dpi) max 100 kb each file, RGB color mode.
image size max 600 (width) x 700 (height) pixels.

If you are not able to reduce the size of your file please see the tutorial on how reduce the size of your file with photoshop.

The original high-resolution image(s) will be requested if your work is shortlisted.

2. Explanation of ideas
You have the possibility to explain your design by entering a brief description, in the text entry fields (english text only, explanation is expected to be concise).

3. You are required to accept the competition rules and terms The Competition rules and terms are contained in this ‘call for entries’ and in the registration link.

By submitting your entry, you and all members of your team are agreeing to such rules and terms. All individual team members will be treated as accepting these rules and conditions upon a submission being made.
Note that:
a) All submissions must be original works. The participant warrants that he or she is the owner of all copyright, design rights, patent rights, rights in trade or service marks or other trade names, inventions,
confidential information, know-how, and trade secrets or any other intellectual property rights including all moral rights (Intellectual Property Rights) in or arising from the design submission, and that the submission or its use, reproduction or display in any from or media (including in future publicity materials) will not infringe the Intellectual Property or other rights of any person or entity and does not require any form of payment (including royalty payments) to any person in order for them to be used or reproduced. only entries with a declaration of authorship are accepted! (when submitting your design you will be asked to tick the box of declaration)
b) Peroni and Alessi reserve the right to make use of winners’ (and all team members) names
(and age and town/city of residence, but excluding their full address) and photographs in future advertising

and other PR or marketing communications, as they see fit. Winners and selected finalists may be required to provide photographs and to participate in publicity activities, for which no remuneration will be paid.

c) The competition is not open to employees of Peroni, Alessi, Designboom, or their associated companies, or their relatives.

d) the organisers shall not be responsible for any entries which are not received which delayed
or corrupted in any way as a result of transmission.

e) The decision of the jury appointed by the organisers shall be final and no correspondence shall be entered into.

f) Judging will take place on or around July 01 2009 and winners will be notified by email.

submit your entry here


08 – deadline for submission of entries
Works can be submitted until [12] pm, GMT June 08, 2009.


09 – copyright
Any Intellectual Property Rights in submissions shall remain in the ownership of the participant

However,
by submitting a design in the competition, the participant agrees to provide Alessi with the right of first refusal to the exclusive use of the design. This option is valid for 6 months after the competition will end.
in the event that Alessi exercises the option to use the rights for production on an exclusive basis and sine die (without time limitations), Alessi undertakes to pay a royalty of annual sales to the designer. [see above comment] and, by participating in the competition, all participants authorise Designboom Peroni Nastro Azzurro and Alessi to publish and exhibit at any time, anywhere in the world all or any of the designs submitted (including project data submitted) – waiving any right to compensation or other fees – at exhibitions and events and/or to use or reproduce them in any communications, publications or advertising linked to the Peroni brand that the organisers may deem suitable and/or necessary.


10 – eligibility
The competition is only open to people aged 25 years or older. Proof of age may be required


11 – applicable law and dispute resolution
These rules and terms shall be interpreted and construed in accordance English law.
and all disputes resulting from or in connection with this competition shall be resolved by the English courts in the first instance.


12 – info on Peroni Nastro Azzurro
Peroni Nastro Azzurro is Italy’s number one premium beer and has been enjoyed by UK consumers since 1965. It has been continuously growing in a declining UK beer market & was re-launched in the UK in 2005
with an ‘Italian design applied to beer’ positioning. It is currently distributed throughout the UK in premium outlets. It’s huge success in the UK driven by establishing and maintaining it premium Italian Style position.
This aspirational lifestyle image sets it apart in the Beer category.

The secret to the success of Italian stylishness & world famous Italian style brands such as Armani, Ferrari, Alessi, lies in an ethos innate to Italian culture. That ethos, ‘La Bella Figura’, is the Italian belief in the importance of looking and acting your best in everything you do. More than a superficial, materialistic notion, it is a fusion of substance and style through the virtues of passion, flair and attention to detail. So inured are these ideals within Italian culture that style and sophistication flow instinctively and effortlessly within their creations.

This sense of craftsmanship is central to Peroni Nastro Azzurro. A well-balanced, clear pale lager, it’s made by brewing the finest spring-planted barley and Italian maize combined with malts and hops to create the highest standard of premium beer.

As the taste of Peroni Nastro Azzurro is synonymous with Italian style, so too is the bottle. Claiming the honour of ‘Birra Superiore’, the embossed Peroni Nastro Azzurro bottle has become an international Italian icon.

To demonstrate and celebrate their shared Italian values, one of Italy’s most established and iconic brands,
Peroni Nastro Azzurro, is collaborating with Alessi.

The coming together of these two ‘Italian greats’ will celebrate Italian style by contributing to the arena with the creation of Italian ‘icons’ of its own through collaborating with Alessi.

As part of it’s 2008 food campaign, Peroni Nastro Azzurro focused on aperitivo, partnering with Locatelli who created iconic Italian aperitivo dishes for this particular campaign.

http://www.peroniitaly.com


13 – info on Alessi
http://www.alessi.com


13 – questions?
Enquiries to mail@designboom.com
Please write in the subject line: It’s Aperitivo Time

Post it Award Russia

Friday, March 20th, 2009

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http://www.postit-awards.com/

SIGraDi São Paulo 2009: From Modern to Digital The Challenges of a Transition

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Queremos invitarlos a enviar sus papers a Sigradi 2009, esperamos tener una participación importante de las Facultades de Arquitectura y Diseño, Artes y Humanidades e Ingeniería de la Universidad en esta edición. Como saben seremos sede de Sigradi en 2010, y es de gran importancia nuestra participacion en Brasil este año.
El deadline es Abril 15, y pueden encontrar más detalles en este sitio Web:

http://www3.mackenzie.br/ocs/index.php/SIGraDi2009/SIGraDi/schedConf/cfp

During the last twenty years, we’ve been surprised by the emergence of a new architecture, of rare formal expressiveness and instigating use of materials that, moving far away from the typical standardization set under the industrial paradigm, employs differentiated components individually adjusted to its varied angles.

As Rivka Oxman (2006) puts it, they are incremental adjustments that when summoned upon the discontinuity, differentiation and diversity, form an architecture of great complexity, one that corresponds to a digital era architecture. 

According to William J. Mitchell, in a keynote lecture given at Viena CAADfutures Congress, in 2005, an architecture that, differently from what occured in the past, when buildings were the materialization of drawings, architecture today is the materialization of digital information, as buildings are designed and documented through CAD systems, simulated by digitally controlled machines and built up in site with the help of digital instruments.

For Branko Kolarevic (2003), this fact is related to the transfer of the contemporary production means keen to the aerospace, naval and automobile industries to the architectural realm, with methodologies based on digital technologies, precluding paper and in a continuous flux between design and construction.
 
Thus we are faced with a new Architecture attainable exclusively by the intense use of digital technologies throughout its production phases.

This condition has been extended into urban, industrial and communication design and arts in general, indicating that a thoroughly understanding of contemporary production entails a permanent debate about the fast paced evolution of digital technologies when applied to our field of knowledge .

This debate shall engage not only specialists and researchers, but the whole architecture and design comumnities, in an attempt to broaden the understanding of the central issues of the digital era and to gather feedback from the professional practice.

The upcoming SIGraDi Congress at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, in São Paulo 2009, will be a great opportunity to check out the state of the art of worldwide developments in digital architecture, urban design, industrial design and arts, as well as an unique chance to take an inner glance at one of the largest global cities in the world.

Colombianamente

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Cordial saludo,

Es muy grato para nosotros el interés depositado en esta convocatoria, estamos seguros que dejaremos en alto el talento artístico de nuestros connacionales.

A continuación se encuentra el marco conceptual de Colombianamente y los lineamientos generales para el envío de las propuestas:

“Colombianamente”

Colombianamente es un festival que se realizará durante todo un día domingo del mes de julio y su principal objetivo es la promoción y consolidación de nuestros valores culturales y artísticos. A través de este espacio, se pretende mejorar la imagen de nuestro país, incentivar la inversión extranjera, promocionar el turismo, promover el interés de la comunidad internacional en Colombia, abrirle
oportunidades y opciones a los colombianos a nivel internacional y finalmente consolidarnos como comunidad residente en el Reino Unido.

De esta manera, se busca abrir una oportunidad en la que se fortalezca el sentido de pertenencia de los colombianos con el país, para así poder reflejarnos positivamente hacía las demás culturas del mundo, en el marco del diálogo armónico entre el arte y la cultura. Consideramos que logrando tolerancia entre las diferentes comunidades que harán parte en el festival, reforzaremos la imagen y riqueza cultural de nuestro país.

Objetivos
Integrar la comunidad colombiana residente en el Reino Unido
Abrir y mantener un canal de comunicación con las demás culturas a través del arte.
Enfatizar en la importancia del arte como forma de expresión social y el rol que juega para armonizar la
realidad política, económica y social de nuestro país.
Conocer, interactuar y aprender de las demás minorías etnicas que convergen en el Reino Unido.

Actividades
Música, Teatro, Danzas, Exposiciones artísticas, Circo, Artes Plásticas, Fotografía y nuestra Gastronomía típica.

Diseño
Es muy importante tener en cuenta que la propuesta se envíe electrónicamente a este correo y en formato JPG.

Esta será la imagen con la que se hará toda la publicidad, promoción, divulgación y convocatoria al festival. Cabe anotar que el nombre del ganador aparecerá en toda la promoción del mismo, esto es en los flyers, posters, etc. Por el momento, el propósito será la creación de la imagen, el logo insignia de Colombianamente. Una vez se tenga escogido, vendrá el proceso de diseño del material publicitario, incluyendo hora, día, lugar etc. En la medida en que estos datos aun no están confirmados, no se los podemos suministrar.

EN CUANTO AL PREMIO, les adelanto que por lo pronto, será un tiquete ida y regreso Colombia-Londres con participación privilegiada en el Festival. Próximamente, les confirmaré algo adicional.

Igualmente, les informo que durante el día de realización del Festival se hará la muestra artística de todos los diseños presentados.

MUCHA SUERTE!!!!!!!

Quedo atenta a cualquier inquietud adicional.

Saludos,

Ana Maria Palau Alvargonzalez
Consulado General de Colombia en Londres
Tel: 44 207 9277121

Direccion:
3rd Floor Westcott House, 35 Portland Place,
London W1B 1AE

Jan van Eyck Academie

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Jan van Eyck Academie
Post-Academic Institute
for Research and Production
Fine Art, Design, Theory

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline: 15 April 2009

Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands

http://www.janvaneyck.nl

Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie. The application deadline is 15 April 2009.

The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production in the fields of fine art, design and theory. Every year, 48 international researchers realise their individual or collective projects in the artistic and critical environment that is the Jan van Eyck. In doing so, they are advised by a team of artists, designers and theoreticians who have won their spurs globally. All in all, the Jan van Eyck offers artists, designers and theoreticians time and space to do research and realise productions, either about topics of their own choosing or as part of a project formulated by the institute itself.

Multi-Disciplinary Research

Artists, designers and theoreticians at the Jan van Eyck Academie work alongside each other and establish cross-disciplinary exchange. The academy is not led by predetermined leitmotivs. Artists, designers and theoreticians can submit independently formulated proposals for research and/or production in the departments of Fine Art, Design and Theory. They can also participate in research projects formulated by the departments:After 1968. What is the political?; Circle for Lacanian ideology Critique; Design Negation; ExtraStateCraft; Imaginary Property; The Cross-Cultural and the Counter-Modern. The result is a very heterogeneous programme of research topics. The miscellaneous nature of its research projects and productions make the Jan van Eyck a multi-disciplinary institute. The crosslinks which can exist between individual and/or collective projects and the exchange between researchers with different cultural and intellectual interests result in a creative and challe nging working environment.

Programme
The multi-disciplinary research projects are the basis for the Jan van Eyck programme. Researchers, departments and the institute organise various weekly activities, to which special speakers are invited: lectures, seminars, workshops, screenings, exhibitions, discussions, … These activities are announced on the website and via email.

Since the Jan van Eyck also aims to initiate the debate on art, design and theory and make it public, some activities are regularly organised with partners on regional, national and international venues, such as galleries, museums, academies, universities, …

Departments

Fine Art
The Fine Art department offers a unique space for experimentation, production, reflection and debate. Fine Art researchers conduct high-quality research in an environment that encourages the questioning of the assumptions, forms, meanings and contexts that are tied in with the practice of making art today. The fine arts department welcomes artists, individuals and groups, without stipulating conditions regarding form, content and media.

Advising researchers:
Orla Barry, Hans-Christian Dany, Hinrich Sachs, Imogen Stidworthy, Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi

Design
The Design department focuses on design as research, discourse and publishing. It initiates and supports research projects in the areas of cultural and corporate identity, mapping, print and new media publishing, urban and regional identity, and book design.

The department expressly solicits individual designers to propose and carry out their own research in exchange with the institute’s array of events and presentations. While, formerly, the department used to focus on graphic and communication design, it has since widened its scope to include spatial, product and service design.

Advising researchers:

Keller Easterling, Florian Schneider, Daniel van der Velden


Theory

The Theory department is an international platform for reflection and research. Its mission is to create the opportunity for outstanding researchers to explore alternative ways of shaping their intellectual horizons by providing a stimulating environment for critical inquiry and intense debate. The Theory department welcomes applications from researchers of unusual promise who pursue their artistic and/or intellectual view of the interface of critical theory, philosophy, aesthetics and psychoanalysis with the visual arts.

Advising researchers:

Katja Diefenbach, Dominiek Hoens, Kobena Mercer