Digital artwork filling the façade of a six storey building to be awarded in Norway

Turku, the European Capital of Culture in 2011, is organizing an art competition in Norway in co-operation with the Trondheim Electronic Arts Center and the Trondheim International Filmfestival Kosmorama. The objective is to fill a façade of the six storey building of AØF with digital art.

A two-stage competition

The competition will be realized as a two-stage process.

In the first stage the artists will send their drafts and proposals to the international competition committee, which will then pick two to three works to be processed further. The deadline for submissions is 15th of December 2009. In the second stage 60 000 NOK ( some 7200 euro) is handed out by the Norwegian organizers for further preparation of the selected works. The deadline for the second stage is 2nd of March 2010.

The winning work will be awarded in the Trondheim International Filmfestival in March 2010 with a 2000 euro Live2011.com Grand Prix Event Award. The chosen work will continue to one of the finals of the massive media-art & new media competition with prizes ranging from 20000-40000 euro per category. Live2011.com Grand Prix is organized by Turku, European Capital of Culture 2011.

Competition organizers are looking after works, that can, based on their content, take part to the categories of Live2011.com Grand Prix´s categories


More info at

English competition guide: www.ifolketshus.no/konk/konkurranse-eng.pdf
Building drawings: www.ifolketshus.no/
Live2011.com Grand Prix info: www.live2011.com
TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre: http://teks.no
Kosmorama – Trondheim International Filmfestival: http://kosmorama.no/2010/en/
Turku 2011 – European Capital of Culture: www.turku2011.fi

European Media Art Festival call deadline 15.12.2009

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL OSNABRUECK
21 - 25 April 2010
21 April - 23 May 2010

www.emaf.de

// CALL FOR ENTRIES

// WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUBMIT YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE EMAF BY 15 DECEMBER 2009

// INFOS AND APPLICATION DOCUMENTS FOR YOUR PROJECT CAN BE FOUND AT
WWW.EMAF.DE

The motto of the 2010 festival is MASH UP, reflected in film
programmes, lectures and specials.

Event Award @ Alternative Party

Another Event Award was granted at Alternative Party in Helsinki 24-25.10.2009. Alternative party is a festival devoted to digital culture, that brings art, technology, science and business together in a unique way.

The winning piece is a demo called Bold, makers of which are Dvik, Joyrex & Moran (Daniel Vik, Vincent van Dam and Roman Skvortsov).

Bold was voted by audience as the winner of the main demo series of Alternative Party. The fact that makes Bold special is its realization with an MSX computer standard from the 80's. Since the format of the work is a demo, it is run real time on a prehistoric computer. It must be seen in the context and the performance level of the computers of its time. From a technical point of view the work is quite dazzling. It has required high levels of programming skills, creativity and optimization from it's makers. The main memory of the MSX-1 computers varied mostly between 32 and 64 kilobytes. A modern desktop computer typically has a 4 096 000 kB internal memory.

Live 2011 Event Award @ Mindtrek

Live 2011 Grand Prix Event Award at Mindtrek has been awarded to Donkeypedia.

Donkeypedia is a cross media project with a donkey that travels through European nations, a quest for the identity of children and youngsters. The donkey is very modern, he will carry various devices (laptop, GPS, camera etc). All this equipment is being charged by solar power. The Donkey will be digitally directed by local children, from village to city, from province to province, from nation to nation. Children will collect stories, art expressions, movies and objects that represent something essential about their place and its residents, resulting in a kaleidoscopic platform that reveals the European identity bit by bit, step by step. A donkey has big ears for listening to stories, and he can carry stuff. In this way he can collected and learn about the countries he’s visiting.

Children at home can follow his track live on the website. The pictures and the movies that are being taken, are uploaded and automatically positioned on the route. Also descriptions of images and tags are created by the children online. The website contains spirals where you can uncluster every single event. Every picture has got to be tagged to be traced on a different level. With words like: scary, pretty, challenging or dreamy. This way images and videos are poetically related to each other.

Donkeypedia is a production of 4xM - www.4xM.nl
The Donkeypedia walk is originated by Cristian Bettini

Visit Donkeypedia at www.donkeypedia.nl

Deadline on Sunday for National Student Award and Creative Idea for Mobile City Guide

We want to remind that the deadline for National Student Award and Creative Idea for Mobile City Guide -categories is on Sunday 15th of November. You can take part in the National Student Award category if you are a student and your educational institute is in Finland. We accept works that have been published after 1.1.2009. Remember to read general and category specific rules before submitting your work.

- Live2011.com Team