Centre for Art Tapes. Newsletter: January 6, 2012.
Find us at our new location, 1657 Barrington St. Suite 220. To book equipment or editing suites you can reach us at 902-422-6822. Keep up with our activities, connect to other media arts professionals by clicking "Like" on our new Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Centre-for-Art-Tapes/159960707402522
CFAT News:
1. Event: Broadcasting for Reels Opening Reception
2. Event: Out of the Centre: Media Arts Scholarship Program Screening
3. Announcement: CFAT T-Shirts For Sale
4. Opportunities: Volunteering
Local News:
5. Call: Viewfinders International Film Festival for Youth
6. Event: Opening Reception SMU Art Gallery
7. Call: Island Media Art Festival
8. Call: 4Cs Foundation
9. Call: PAINTS for schools
10. Event: Opening Reception Dalhousie Art Gallery
General News:
11. Call: Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
12. Call: The Artist Project (ATT: EMERGING)
13. Call: Book Project, Occam's Razor
14. Announcement: New Art+Tech Blog on Akimbo.ca
15. Call: 100 Prints
16. Call: Yorkton Film Festival
17. Call: Niagara Indie Film Fest
18. Call: Polar FIlm Festival
19. Call: Calgary Underground Film Festival
20. Call: DAÏMON Creation Programs
21. Call: Hothouse Apprenticeship Program (ATT: EMERGING FILMMAKERS)
Members News:
22. Ilan Sandler Studio
23. Lisa Lipton BLAST BEATS
24. WANTED: 650MB CD-Rs
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1. Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary Opening Reception
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to present Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary, an audio art presentation on CKDU 88.1 FM, CJSF (Burnaby), CFBX (Kamloops), CIVL (Abbotsford), CKXU (Lethbridge) and CFUV (Victoria) – broadcasting date February 1st 2012.
Broadcasting For Reels is an audio art exhibition presented annually by the Centre for Art Tapes since 1993. Exhibition curator and host Chris Myhr chose this year’s theme of Sounds (Extra)Ordinary. The international roster of selected artists includes John Abram, Marla Hlady, Francisco Lopez, Rachel Woolmore-Goodwin and John Wynne; as well as collaborative works from Matt Rogalsky and Laura Cameron, and the Audio Lodge collective.
In line with practices of ambient sound design, soundscape recording, and musique concrète, the artists in this series employ audio production technologies as a means of exploring our everyday acoustic environment. The sounds of natural and urban habitats, as well as those of work spaces and machines provide the source material from which these artists facilitate new and expanded listening experiences.
The Centre for Art has partnered with the Craig Gallery at Alderney Landing to install the work in an elevator as a transitory architectural space. The installation will act as a public intervention and be an open place for audience attendees. The opening reception for both the audio installation and radio broadcast will be on February 1st 2012 in conjunction with an opening at the Craig Gallery. The opening reception will take place at the Craig Gallery from 7-9 pm on February 1st. All are welcome to attend, mingle and ride the elevator! Catalogs will be available.
Broadcasting for Reels: Sounds (Extra)Ordinary is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage.
For more information please contact CFAT Communications Coordinator Kristen Atkins at 902-422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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2. Out of the Centre: Media Arts Scholarship Program Screening
Out of the Centre: Media Arts Scholarship Program
February 25, 7PM
Neptune Theatre - Studio Theatre
$8 in advance $10 at the door
Advanced tickets will be available at CFAT Tuesday January 10th onwards
Proceeds go to the Media Arts Scholarship Program
The Centre for Art Tapes is pleased to present Out of the Centre: CFAT Media Arts Scholarship Program Screening, an annual event in its twenty-first year. The Scholarship Program gives ten local artists the chance to explore for the first time an aspect of media art such as video production, audio recording, animation, or interactive technologies. The six month long program includes a series of workshops and one-on-one mentorship from an established media artist for each participant.
The artists included in the screening are Susan Feindel, Karen Hawes, Ruth Marsh, Shauntay Grant, Eric Stotts, Sarah Burwash, Ellen Murphy, Reed Jones and Lorraine Field. All ticket proceeds go towards the next year's scholarship program. Spread the word and help keep this educational program thriving!
The Media Arts Scholarship Program is support by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Nova Scotia Communities, Culture and Heritage.
For more information please contact CFAT Communications Coordinator Kristen Atkins at 902-422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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3. CFAT T-Shirts Now on Sale!
2", 1", 3/4", 1/2", 8mm, 1/4" ... Centre for Art Tapes T-Shirts Have Finally Arrived!
Locally screen printed by Freshprints - BE HIP!!
Men's and Women's styles available in S, M and L
$20+tax
For images please visit our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/centrefor-arttapes/centre-for-art-tapes-t-shirts-have-arrived/302016719836108
Drop by the Centre for Tapes Tapes during operating hours to purchase your T-Shirt! We accept cash or cheque. If you are unable to come by the Centre, please give us a call and we can set a shirt aside for you for a maximum of 5days.
Our hours are Tuesday 930-5pm, Wednesday 930-5pm, Thursday 930-6pm and Friday 930-5pm. We can be reached at 422-6822.
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4. Volunteers Needed!
Centre for Art Tapes is looking for volunteers for the upcoming year! It will be a very busy time come spring and we need all the help and support we can get for our move to Gottingen Street (moving date TBA/Spring 2012).
Volunteers are added to a database. This database needs to be updated with ... YOU!
BENEFITS of becoming a volunteer: Members lending their time and skills to the Centre are compensated through credit toward equipment and in-house facilities rental. Volunteer labour is credited at $12 per hour volunteered. Volunteer tasks range from assembling mailouts, to updating our website, to selling tickets, postering and our big 2012 move!!! Up to $350 in credit may be accumulated by each member per year.
If you are interested in volunteering please contact Kristen Atkins, Communications Coordinator at 422-6822 or cfat.communication@ns.sympatico.ca
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5. Viewfinders International Film Festival for Youth
Each year, the ViewFinders: International Film Festival for Youth produced a number of entertaining, enlightening, and educational programs for the youth of Atlantic Canada.
Film Challenges
ViewFinders encourages and supports Atlantic Canadian youth to get behind-the-scenes by facilitating The Challenges. Each year young people get to compete to see their film on the big screen – and for prizes too!
For more information on the ViewFinders Challenges, visit Challenges.
ViewFinders Youth Jury
The ViewFinders Youth Jury offers youth ages 12-16 the chance to select the best short, animated, featured and documentary film shown throughout the festival. The jury presents the awards at the Closing Gala, which is held on the last night of the festival. Each year, a group of 3 to 5 jurors are selected and receive and intensive crash course in film critique and appreciation from film curator for the Atlantic Film Festival and the Dalhousie art Gallery, Ron Foley Macdonald.
For more information on the ViewFinders Youth Jury, visit Youth Jury.
ViewFinders Productions
ViewFinders: International Film Festival for Youth puts you in the driver's seat of an entire film production!
Camps are typically offered during the March Break and Summer vacation. They offer a hands-on opportunity to learn all aspects of media production, from the creative plan to direction, sound design, set work, and more!
Try your hand at a camp like:
• NSTU PSA Series
• Shaw Media Directors Series
• Building Legends Project
Masterclasses
Throughout the year and during the ViewFinders: International Film Festival for Youth every April, ViewFinders teams up with the local film industry to present a wide variety of Masterclasses and Workshops for the young people of Atlantic Canada.
Want to get involved? Please visit the webpage for more details and forms: http://atlanticfilm.com/festivals/viewfinders/youth
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6. Opening Reception SMU Art Gallery
Jacqueline Riemer: Six Low-Cast Maidens in Search of a Porch
Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
7 January – 4 March 2012
Artist: Jacqueline Riemer
Curator: Robin Metcalfe
Opening Reception: Friday, 6 January 2012, 8:00 pm
Concert: Friday, 24 February 2012, 8:00 pm
in honour of Losar, the Tibetan Buddhist New Year, and with a concert of music by Canadian composers, the inaugural presentation of the new-music society, Musikon
Quintet: A Conversation in Design
Saint Mary's University Art Gallery
7 January – 4 March 2012
Artists: Wing-Ki Chan, Martha Glenny, Shona Kearney, Paul McClure, Katharina Möller
Curator: Robin Metcalfe
Organised & circulated by George Brown College
Opening Reception: Friday, 6 January 2012, 8:00 pm
Panel Discussion: Thursday, 1 March 2012, 7:00 pm
Contact: 420-5445
Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, 923 Robie St, Halifax NS.
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7. Island Media Art Festival
The 2012 Island Media Arts Festival is now open for submissions!
Calling all media artists from the Atlantic provinces, The Island Media Arts Festival (IMAF) in Prince Edward Island wants you (and your work). Animators, documentarians, comics, tragedians, experimentalists, or whomever you may be… we want to see what you create.
In its third year, this year’s festival theme is Diverse Networks. What connects seemingly dissimilar people? What technologies and mediums unite media artists from all perspectives? In this spirit, IMAF2012 seeks to connect media artworks made throughout the Atlantic provinces.
With screenings province-wide, workshops, panel discussions, networking events, street-projections, and parties, IMAF2012 is a little festival with big heart.
Submission is FREE!
SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 15TH 2012.
Contact: IMAC 902-892-3131 or visit www.imac.coop
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8. 4Cs Foundation
The 4Cs Foundation would like to remind interested groups, organizations, and schools of the approaching January 15, 2012 deadline for grant applications to the foundation. Please note: as the deadline falls on a Sunday, applications will be accepted until 5 pm on January 16, 2012.
The 4Cs Foundation funds community arts projects that foster the development of relationships and connections between young people and others in their community.
We recognize “community arts” as an umbrella practice sheltering many arts disciplines, populations, and social contexts of cultural activity. That said, 4Cs community arts projects are specifically about young people and others coming together with a professional artist(s) to collaboratively create artistic activities or works. Projects embody the principles of arts-based community development. That is, principles of collaboration and engagement with one another through transformative creative experiences at a community-based level. Artistic outcomes can give voice to a population, tell stories that have meaning to a community, illustrate through dance, music, movement or visual art the concerns, issues, pride, or history of a group of people or of a geographical location, such as a neighbourhood. 4Cs projects are inclusive, participatory, interactive, and create real connections between young people and others in their community through a sustained involvement with one another and the creative process.
4Cs defines the word “community” broadly as a group of people within a geographical locale or as a community of self-determined identity.
Please visit our website www.4csfoundation.com for more information. In particular, read the page “Applying for a Grant” .
Terri Whetstone, Executive Director
4Cs Foundation
www.4csfoundation.com
Suite 104, 5663 Cornwallis Street
Halifax, NS B3K 1B6
(902)422-4805
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9. PAINTS for schools
Description
PAINTS (Professional Artists In The Schools) is accepting applications from now until January 30th for projects taking place between February 20 and June 20, 2012.
If you are a teacher, a parent, a student in grades Primary to 12 you should check this out! None of the a...bove? Do you know a parent, a teacher a student? Forward this on to them. It's a great way to connect artists and students through creative processes.
The program helps schools in Nova Scotia bring professional visual arts into their classrooms. There are more than 60 artists that are part of PAINTS living and working in every part of NS. Projects can range from 3 hours to 12 hours, and can involve artists working in every imaginable discipline.
PAINTS projects make links between the professional artists’ own work and the workshops that they lead with the students. We’re really interested in providing the richest experience possible through these relatively small programs. A project can be with one class, or a small group of students – whatever makes sense and is manageable with the time available. The application is filled out online through our website.
The school pays $20 per hour for the artist’s time. PAINTS makes up the other 50% and also provides some support for travel and materials costs.
Check us out at www.paintsns.ca.
There you’ll find all the information you need to put together an application for your school.
Call or email Andrea with questions! 423-4694 paints@paintns.ca
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10. Dalhousie Art Gallery Opening Reception
Douglas Walker: Other Worlds
Curated by Peter Dykhuis and Corinna Ghaznavi
Organized by Dalhousie Art Gallery in partnership with the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the Kelowna Art Gallery
Opening Reception Thursday 12 January at 8 pm
Douglas Walker's mostly monochromatic blue paintings on paper from the past decade are executed in a manner that pays homage both to historical fine art illustration and the graphic production strategies found in 'outsider art' and tattoo culture. For the past few years Walker's imagery has revolved around three motifs: fantastical, other-worldly landscapes with mutant, modernist architectural structures; portraits of mid-20th Century women in which, for example, garments and hair morph into plant-like image-fields; and sinewy floral tendrils that parallel graphic flourishes, also from another century. All images and surfaces are finished in a top-coat of Walker's invention that simulates crackled 18th Century Delft-blue ceramic glazing-which itself quotes the Chinese porcelain that was highly valued by the colonial Dutch traders. These paintings are Walker's visitations to other places-perhaps real, perhaps imagined-where exotic graphic figures, human and otherwise, float in science fiction-like fields and atmospheres.
Walker has created new works for Other Worlds that synthesize pictorial components of his previous work into single images which are filled in with obsessively rendered references to cellular structures and organic matter. And Walker has significantly increased the size of these works. Indeed, the first installation of Other Worlds, which occurred this past Fall at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa, Ontario, featured a nearly full-scale image of a sperm whale flanked on one side by a moon-like celestial body and on the other by an androgynous mask-like human, and occupied an entire 77' long wall.
Alongside the work installed at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, this exhibition will present four new pieces that Walker has produced specifically for the Dalhousie Art Gallery: a modernist office building in a landscape, a suspension bridge, a large wave, a tree, and a human body laid out horizontally in a tomb-like structure. These works allude to transitory life forms, energy fields and natural forces in states of flux that are juxtaposed with engineered constructions which penetrate the sky or connect opposite shores over dangerous waters. Remaining poetically unfixed in specific meaning, Walker's images appear to be assuredly rooted in an experience of earth that we collectively know. Yet there are too many little slippages, distortions and embellishments within the images to make us feel certain whether what we are looking at is from this world-or another.
T 902.494.2403 | E art.gallery@dal.ca | artgallery.dal.ca
Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 11 am to 5 pm. Weekends noon to 5 pm
Free Admission
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11. Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (KIAC), Dawson City, Yukon
1. EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
2. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2012
www.kiac.ca
1. EXHIBITION PROPOSALS – ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon
We invite professional artists and curators of all experience to submit proposals for exhibitions of contemporary visual art. The ODD Gallery is housed in the main Klondike Institute of Art & Culture building. We are accepting proposals for general exhibitions in 2013 as well as proposals towards our yearly thematic project The Natural & The Manufactured. The ODD Gallery supports CARFAC-recommended exhibition and artist talk fee rates, and offers shipping support. Please visit http://www.kiac.ca/oddgallery/submissions/ for more information.
2. ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, Yukon
We invite artists of all experience to submit proposals for a work-creation, development or research tenure of 4 to 12 weeks in our Macaulay House residence in 2013. The residence accommodates two artists at a time, and features private studios and bedrooms, as well as a shared living space and kitchen. We are accepting proposals for general residencies, as well as two specific residencies: our Dawson City International Short Film Festival Residency and our yearly thematic The Natural & The Manufactured Residency. Please visit: http://www.kiac.ca/artistinresidence/ for more information.
Klondike Institute of Art & Culture
Box 8000, Dawson City, YT, Y0B 1G0
867.993.5005
kiac@kiac.ca
www.kiac.ca
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12. The Artist Project
Deadline: January 13th, 2012
The Artist Project is accepting applications from emerging artists for its fifth annual exhibition and sale. The UNTAPPED Competition will award emerging artists with a free space at the show for its Open Gallery, Installation Alley and Video Artbox features. This is an excellent opportunity to participate in a professional-level art fair, enjoy the perks of an exhibiting artist, and showcase your work to gallerists, collectors and art enthusiasts at no cost!
Who Can Apply?
· Current students, recent graduates (of 3 years or less), OR self-taught artists who have been practicing/exhibiting their art for less than 3 years
· Artists working in all media are encouraged to apply - larger spaces are available for installation and video/new media projects
· Winning artists must be able to travel to Toronto and be personally present for the duration of the Show (March 1-4, 2012)
EXTRA PERK! Accepted UNTAPPED artists have a chance to win a free booth at the 2013 show.
Show info: March 1-4, 2012, Queen Elizabeth Building, Exhibition Place, Toronto
Contact: Claire Taylor | 416 960 4527 | claire@mmpicanada.com | theartistprojecttoronto.com
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13. Book Project, Occam's Razor
Call for Submissions
Canadian publisher John Denison is inviting artists to submit to his exciting new book project called "Occam's Razor."
Here are the essential facts:
o The invitation is for artists to submit their artwork for potential inclusion in the finished book.
o As the book will be released online first, contributions are not limited to illustrations but can include music, video games, computer apps etc.
o Artwork will be displayed on the website with credit to the artist.
o Submitters will download chapters of the book 5 days in advance of their release in order to complete their illustrations.
o They will then upload them to the site to share with other artists in an online community.
o When the serial ends the best artwork will be chosen to be included in the final version of the book.
o Prizes for the best art include iPad2s and Wacom tablets!
The Call for Submissions ends April 1st 2012.
For more information contact John Denison at 519-833-1242, Jason Dickson at 705-646-2215, or email media@thisaintthelibrary.com Or visit the website at http://www.occams-razor.ca
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14. Announcement: New Art+Tech Blog on Akimbo.ca
New ART+TECH Blog Coming to Akimbo in January 2012!
In the new year Akimbo will be launching an ART+TECH blog written by James Fowler, Akimbo's Social Media Director. This new blog explores the intersection of art and technology offering topical commentary, interviews, tips and interactive discussions. Highlights include:
SOCIAL MEDIA TIPS
Straight shooting information to help artists and art workers manage their social media tools effectively and efficiently. Stay tuned for Akimbo's in-depth Social Media Bootcamps coming up in February.
GUESTLIST
Interviews with artists who address technology in their practice and those who are having an impact on the arts industries with new and interesting technologies.
ART in FOCUS
Highlights new trends, explores new ways of making and presenting art and investigates the synthesis of existing inter-media practices, providing meaning and context.
CURRENT ISSUES
A look at how technologies are changing the art landscape from various perspectives including the makers, the dealers and culture workers. Topics will range from how technology is changing the museum environment to how copyright laws are changing to include digital and inter-media formats.
UNTECH
For those people who are wary of technology: dispelling myths and allaying fears for those yet to engage in new technologies. Also, a look at artists using technology in their art making practice, but excluding it in its product or output.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE!!
TWEETCHATS
Accompanying the new ART+TECH blog, Akimbo will be hosting a monthly TWEETCHAT to engage artists, arts workers, and those who love and support the arts. We look forward to sharing some fresh ideas and hope participants will offer input and insights on various art topics as it relates to technology. Geographical boundaries are erased via this forum!
We are open to suggestions. If you know of someone who is using technology in a new and interesting way, think we might investigate a new trend or want to make a suggestion for a TweetChat topic, please write us at connect@akimbo.ca.
James Fowler has worked in public relations with organizations in various industries to achieve their communications goals and streamline their media messaging, monitoring and metrics. James currently maintains a fulltime studio practice in Toronto and has taken a keen interest in social media and eMarketing. He joined Akimbo this past Spring as Social Media Director.
Watch for it on www.Akimbo.ca!
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15. 100 Prints
100 PRINTS is Open Studio's annual major fundraising event, providing much needed revenue in support of the Studio's programs and operations, including affordable and equal access to printmaking facilities, exhibitions, education, professional development opportunities for artists and scholarships for emerging artists. Taking place on Thursday, May 17, 2012 at Toronto's Palais Royale, 100 PRINTS 2012 is shaping up to be another fabulous event! We encourage you to support this event by donating your best print media works to us.
All work selected for inclusion by the jury is eligible for one of the three 2012 Open Studio National Printmaking Award cash prizes valued at $3,000, $1,500 and $500, which will be announced the night of the event! Prizes will be awarded to works of special merit as determined by the jury. A charitable tax receipt for 100% of the value of each print will also be issued if your work is selected for inclusion in 100 PRINTS. All Canadian printmakers are eligible; you do not need to be affiliated with Open Studio to participate.
Submission guidelines:
A maximum of two unframed prints per artist (3 dimensional works will be accepted, however, no assembly of the work must be required).
Eligible works include any work that is (in whole or in major part): a lithograph, screenprint, etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint, mezzotint, monotype, woodcut, linocut or archival digital print printed by you or otherwise printed in Canada. Works may be unique or from an edition small in number.
Works must have been created within the past 3 years.
Maximum paper size for each work is 30 x 44 inches (diptychs will be accepted but combined must not exceed the maximum paper size). The jury will not consider any works larger than 30 x 44 inches.Minimum value of each individual donated print must be $375.
Work submitted must be priced in accordance with the value of the artwork and current fair market value of the work (i.e. do not mark up a work valued at $250 to meet the $375 criteria). Proof of fair market value may be requested.
Works must be received in excellent condition and meet professional presentation criteria as established by Open Studio. Click here to download the guidelines. Works deemed to be damaged or that do not meet presentation criteria guidelines will not be considered by the jury. Please follow packing instructions when submitting work.
Please include a current CV and one copy of the entry form for each work submitted. Please send works to:
100 Prints 2012
c/o Open Studio
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 104
Toronto ON M5V 3A8
Artists from outside Toronto or who are not able to pick up work that is not selected, should include return postage to cover return of work. Please use only stamps or International Postage Reply Coupons, and not prepaid, dated postage meter tapes. Dated tapes expire and will be unusable by the time the jury has taken place.
If your work is selected, we will request a high resolution JPEG image of the work from you; please document all work before it is submitted.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 5 pm. No extensions will be provided. Submissions will be accepted starting January 5, 2012.
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16. Yorkton Film Festival
The Yorkton Film Festival (Yorkton|SK)
The 2012 Yorkton Film Festival will take place May 24 to May 27, 2012.
The Yorkton Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its 2012 festival season.
Deadline: January 31, 2012
Info: http://www.goldensheafawards.com
info@goldensheafawards.com
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17. Niagara Indie Film Fest
Eligibility
1. Entrants must be Canadian citizens, landed immigrants or hold a valid student visa.
2. Independent status means that the film-maker(s) maintain creative control.
3. The entrant(s) must have served in the capacity of director or producer of the work(s) submitted and maintain copyright.
4. Entries must have been completed between Feb 3, 2010 and Feb 3, 2012.
5. Entries should not have been broadcast in their entirety by traditional broadcasters (television channels - including cable and satellite) and/or by online transmission (such as Video-on-Demand, YouTube, Vimeo etc.) prior to screening at the festival.
6. Non-English entries must be subtitled in English.
7. Pre-screening format must be DVD.
8. Festival screening formats are: DVD (NTSC only).
9. Please ensure there is 5 seconds of black at the head and tail.
* Do not send masters*
Submissions Must Include
1. One complete entry form per submission, typed or neatly written. Photocopies acceptable.
Entry forms here (word version)
2. Each entry must be submitted on a separate DVD-R (NTSC), with either a mixed stereo or mono soundtrack. Other formats will not be accepted and are subject to disqualification. Tapes must be clean of all other material.
3. All DVDs must be clearly labelled with the following information: entrant's name and telephone number; title of work; entry category; and running time. Include email address.
4. Entry fee of $25.00, cheque or money order, payable to: Niagara Indie Filmfest . NSF cheques will be charged a $20.00 processing fee. Cheques must clear prior to adjudication or entry will be disqualified.
5. If you wish your entry to be returned you must include a self-addressed stamped mailer.
Categories
Narrative Drama - Comedy - Documentary - Animation - Experimental
Rules and Regulations
1. The entrant(s) acknowledge that all necessary photographic and music copyright clearances have been obtained (proof may be requested) and hereby grant public performance rights to the NIFF, including permission for the NIFF to use excerpts of the work for publicity purposes, including audio, video and stills.
2. Entries must not exceed 30 minutes including credits.
3. Cash prizes will be awarded. Student entries will be considered separately for prizes. The jury reserves the right not to award prizes in any or all categories.
4. Winning entries will be judged not only on the basis of production values, but also on the creative treatment of subject matter and originality of concept.
5. The festival may, at its discretion, choose to re-assign an entry to a different category, for award considerations.
(Entrants will be consulted prior to re-assignment where possible.)
Dates
All submissions must be received NO LATER than Friday February 3,, 2012.
If selected for inclusion in the festival, entrants will be notified by March 12, 2012.
Screening of selected entries will take place April 13-15, 2012 in St. Catharines.
Please note - The entrants of works selected for screening are encouraged to attend the festival.
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18. Polar FIlm Festival
OTTAWA, Ontario (November 30, 2011) — The Canadian Film Institute (CFI), in
partnership with the International Polar Year (IPY) 2012 Conference Secretariat, is
of?cially seeking entries for the Polar Film Festival. The two-day moving image event is
a featured presentation of the IPY 2012 Conference: From Knowledge to Action, held
April 22-27, 2012, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
The Polar Film Festival will celebrate the rich diversity of the Polar Regions, as well as
examine the many challenges and world-wide implications they face in the 21st Century
and onward. As a follow-up to the IPY Film Festival presented by the CFI in 2009, this
event highlights the efforts of ?lmmakers from around the world who approach the Polar
Regions from many different industries, research interests, artistic sensibilities, and
political perspectives.
The CFI welcomes all ?lms that explore issues and activities of particular relevance to
the Arctic and/or Antarctic regions. Any genres of ?lm and video practice —
documentary, research, industrial, ?ction, activist — from either Polar Region are
encouraged for submission.
Video submissions can be mailed directly to the CFI as a playable DVD or Blu-Ray disc.
Digital entries may be submitted via direct download link, or any common digital media
format such USB drive or DVD-ROM. Entrants are asked to include production credits,
digital stills, director bios and ?lmography, contact information, and other relevant
materials with their submissions.
The submission deadline is January 31, 2012. Please send all submissions to:
CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE
2 Daly Avenue, Suite 120
Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2
CANADA
Tel: 613-232-6727
Fax: 613-232-6315
Email: info@c?-icf.ca
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19. Calgary Underground Film Festival
9th CALGARY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Festival Dates: April 16-22, 2012
Deadline: February 6, 2012
http://www.calgaryundergroundfilm.org/call-for-submission
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20. DAÏMON Creation Programs
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Next deadline: January 31st 2012
Located in the La Filature building - a magnificently renovated former industrial textile mill - DAÏMÔN is an artist-run centre with the mandate of supporting research-creation, production and dissemination of media arts, with an emphasis on video, audio and photography.
By way of its programs Artist Residency, Research and Creation, Photography and digital printing and Support for First Works, DAÏMÕN encourages artists to push the limits of their practice and to develop new approaches to image, video, sound and electronic art, including installation, interactive and performative practices. DAÏMÕN privileges projects emphasising the increasingly complex interrelations between media and those that push the limits of intermedia rather than simply addressing the vocabulary of the chosen media. Only projects involving a degree of research will be considered.
With its STUDIÕ, production and exhibition spaces, DAÏMÕN encourages the installation of, and experimentation with, works of significant scale as well as the development of hybrid practices. Public and informal meetings are regularly organized in order to allow the local community to interact with the work of artists-in-residence. This multipurpose STUDIÕ is available to artists for the experimentation, production and presentation of work requiring a specific technical infrastructure.
DAÏMÕN provides artists with access to image and sound recording equipment and digital audio and video editing suites. A darkroom enables large scale (1m 32) silver emulsion development from negatives of up to 280 mm. A digital printing service (EPSON Stylus 9600 Pro) is also available.
CREATION PROGRAMS
Artist Residency
Research and Creation
Support for First Works
Photography and Digital Imaging
Artist Residency
Offered to professional artists outside the Ottawa-Gatineau region, this program aims to promote fruitful exchange between artists from here and elsewhere. Established, mid-career artists with at least five (5) years of active and significant practice in a specific field of research in media arts are invited to apply. Artist from Québec, Canada and abroad are eligible for this program.
For each of the projects the Centre provides a residency of 4 to 6 weeks including accommodation, access to the Centre’s equipment, and the services of a technician (60 hours). An artist’s fee of $1500 is provided. DAÏMÕN is also able to provide travel allowance and cover limited daily expenses. All other production costs are the responsibility of the artist. DAÏMÕN organises a public evening artist’s talk, in which the artist presents their past and present work.
Research and Creation
This program is open to professional emerging, mid-career or established artists with an active practice in media arts. DAÏMÕN selects six artists annually, three (3) from the Ottawa-Gatineau region and three (3) from Québec and Canada.
DAÏMÕN provides each artist with technical and artistic support, access to the Centre’s equipment for four (4) weeks and the services of a technician (50 hours). DAÏMÕN is also able to provide travel allowance and cover limited daily expenses for artists from outside the region. All other production costs are the responsibility of the artist.
Photography and Digital Imaging
This program aims to improve the support offered to artists working on paper using darkroom or digital imaging techniques. Only research-creation project in photography are eligible. This program is open to professional emerging, mid-career and established artists from the Ottawa-Gatineau region, Québec and Canada.
DAÏMÕN provides each artist with technical and artistic support, access to the Centre’s equipment for three (3) weeks and the services of a technician (15 hours). DAÏMÕN is also able to provide travel allowance and cover limited daily expenses for artists from outside the region. All other production costs are the responsibility of the artist. Artists using darkroom facilities must provide their own development chemicals and photographic paper.
Support for First Works
DAÏMÕN continues its support for the production of a first work for three (3) artists from the Ottawa-Gatineau region. Admissible projects include the production of an original work using video, audio, photography or the application of hybrid media in an artwork.
Emerging artists from the Ottawa-Gatineau region with basic training are invited to apply to create a first work in a professional context. Students are ineligible. Professional artists from the Ottawa-Gatineau region with an established practice in another discipline (painting, sculpture, photography, installation, etc.) who wish to develop a production in video or new media are also encouraged to apply.
DAÏMÕN provides each artist with technical and artistic support, access to the Centre’s equipment for three (3) weeks and the services of a technician (30 hours). All other production costs are the responsibility of the artist.
HOW TO APPLY
Artists are encouraged to consult the specific conditions of the program that interests them. All applications should clearly indicate which program you are applying for and include :
- summary of project (5 lines);
- artist’s statement (max 1/2 page);
- clear and concise project description (max 1 page);
- specificationsof technical needs (max ½ page);
- timeline (max 1/2 page);
- resume (max 3 pages);
- supporting documentation* with descriptive list;
- self-addressed, pre-paid envelope for return of material if desired ( for international returns, please include sufficient postage in canadian funds).
*The support materiel must reference one's artistic practice and not be limited to the proposed project. Supporting documentation may include:
- a maximum of 20 images (digital documents in JPG format compatible with MAC with a resolution of 72 dpi and having a maximum of 1 MB and 1024 X 768 pixels);
and/or:
- 1 CD or 1 DVD (max 10 min.) - video (.mov) - audio (.aiff or .wav) 16 or 24 bits;
We also accept:
- 1 URL address
- 1 publication
- press materials
Proposals can be submitted in French OR in English.
If either of these dates falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
Your completed application and all support material must be postmarked on or before the deadline date.
DAÏMÕN will not accept applications postmarked after the deadline, incomplete applications, or those submitted by fax or email.
In order to have access to the Centre's services, artists whose projects are chosen must become active members at a cost of $75.
Applications should be sent to :
Call for submissions / Centre de production DAÏMÕN
78, rue Hanson
Gatineau (Québec)
Canada J8Y 3M5
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21. Call: Hothouse Apprenticeship Program
About Hothouse
Hothouse is an apprenticeship program for emerging Canadian filmmakers, located in Montreal, Quebec. The aim is to re-imagine ways of making animation that are faster, more flexible and that celebrate the shortest of short forms while maintaining creative and technical excellence, all hallmarks of NFB animation.
This is not quick and dirty but rather intense and amazing. Think of horticultural hothouses where gardeners create optimal growing conditions to encourage the flowering of exotic orchids and other blooms in weeks rather than months.
This program is for emerging creators from across Canada with the imagination, vision, experience and enthusiasm to relish the Hothouse challenge, to flourish in the Hothouse environment and to accomplish the making of a successful project within the program’s parameters.
Key aspects of Hothouse include the active participation of an experienced mentoring director, a team of NFB technical and post-production experts who support the filmmakers, and emphasis on the role of the producers as creative partners, all of which highlight the collaborative process of NFB filmmaking.
Hothouse takes place over 12 consecutive weeks in the NFB’s Montreal Animation Studio. Not merely funding nor school: Hothouse is instead a 3-month apprenticeship in real-world animation filmmaking.
The Hothouse 8 call for submissions is now officially open! See details here:
http://films.nfb.ca/hothouse/?page_id=961
DEADLINE JANUARY 24
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22. Ilan Sandler via Akimbo
Sandler Studio has just launched a free downloads and store section of the website.
The Store contains:
• A First Edition of 12 signed Giclée prints of public projects completed between 2000 - 2011
You can download a free brochure on this year's four public projects, as well as posters, and past catalogues at: www.sandlerstudio.com/store.php
Free Downloads include:
• A Brochure of the 2011 projects
• The 1999 - 2009 Catalogue
• Posters of recent projects formatted for smart phones and desktops
About the Studio:
Sandler Studio Inc. develops large-scale sculpture and media projects for installation in unconventional environments. Under the direction of Ilan Sandler, the Studio collaborates with a network of professionals who specialize in the design, fabrication, site development and installation of unique public artworks. Projects to date emphasize relationships among society, urban environments, and the natural world in order to directly engage the public.
About the Artist:
Ilan Sandler has shown his sculptures, installations, and videos internationally and across Canada and has completed public art commissions in Toronto, St. Louis, Philadelphia, and Busan, South Korea. He installed the public sculpture: "A Departure" in Lethbridge, Alberta in 2009 and "The Vessel" in Toronto in 2011. He has also produced a large public art work called: "What's Your Name?" for North Toronto Collegiate Institute and is currently producing "The School Chair" for the Halifax Regional Municipality and "Under the Helmet" for the City of Calgary. During the summer of 2011 "Beach Chair" was installed in Aarhus, Denmark for the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition. He has received numerous awards, including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Nova Scotia Department of Culture.
Media Contact Information:
Jennifer Brittan
jennifer@sandlerstudio.com
(902) 481 6542
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23. Lisa Lipton: BLAST BEATS
Where: POINT PLEASANT PARK - The Gatekeeper's Lodge , 5718 POINT PLEASANT DRIVE, Halifax, Nova Scotia
every friday i will be hosting double drumming sessions in THE GATEKEEPER'S LODGE in Point Pleasant Park.
i welcome you to join me.
tomorrow is friday...tomorrow "let the beats roll".
http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/334700536559781/?notif_t=event_invite
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24. WANTED: 650MB CD-Rs
Tom is looking to buy about 25 650MB CD-Rs (they'd likely be a few years old) to use for backups; if you have any unused ones lying around, please get in touch at cfat.production@ns.sympatico.ca, Thanks!
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To submit postings for CFAT Newsletters please send them as a plain text email at least two weeks in advance to:
Kristen Atkins
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Communications Coordinator
Centre for Art Tapes
220-1657 Barrington St.
Halifax, NS. B3J 2A1
902.422.6822
www.centreforarttapes.ca
...serving media artists since 1979