If you happen to be in Moscow’s NCCA to see the “In Transition Russia 2008” exhibition on the 2nd of December, do stay on to watch “Cor Unum”, a short video program curated by Yiannis Colakides & Helene Black.

MAXXI2percento is an international call for artists for the realisation of two works of art for MAXXI, the new national museum of 21st-Century Art, designed by Zaha Hadid for a lot in Via Guido Reni in Rome, which will be inaugurated in 2009. The competition is held by the Provveditorato interregionale per le opere pubbliche per il Lazio, l’Abruzzo e la Sardegna, along with PARC – Direzione generale per la qualità e la tutela del paesaggio, l’architettura e l’atre contemporanee.

This call is free and open for authors of any age and nationality. In order to participate of the 404 Festival you must:

The 2009 Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto is currently seeking submissions for it’s 12th annual festival under the theme of “networks” . The festival takes place in Toronto from June 11 to June 14th . As in previous years, the 2009 festival will explore it’s theme from a broad cultural and interdisciplinary perspective.

It’s time to submit your material for 10th edition of festival, which will take place from May 27th to the 31st. All artists with projects that are exploring new directions in electronic music and digital creation are warmly invited to submit their work. We are interested in original performances, particularly audiovisual pieces. We strongly encourage applicants to accompany their submissions with live recordings of their performances.

Author and theorist Lucy Lippard defines “place” as “space plus memory.” Separate from landscape art, investigations of place explore how the landscapes of personal places such as homelands, childhood homes, and ancestral spaces take on new forms when combined with memories and individual experiences. We are asking for submissions that successfully use video to illustrate personal narratives imprinted on landscapes, and landscapes imprinted on personal narratives, videos that use experimental imagery to explore how spaces are remade once they are remaining in the mind, and videos that strive to define and delve into the concept of place.

The President of the Venice Biennale, Paolo Baratta, along with the Director of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, Daniel Birnbaum, met today in Venice the representatives of the nations participating in the 53rd Exhibition, to be held between 7th June and 22nd November 2009 in the Giardini and Arsenale main venues (preview: 4th, 5th and 6th June), and elsewhere in Venice.

The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen: this is short film in its most concentrated form. Some 450 films are screened in six days, with around 1,100 accredited industry professionals – filmmakers, festival programmers, curators, buyers, journalists and distributors from nearly 50 different countries – flocking to Oberhausen for this annual event. They appreciate the short routes between venues, the opportunity to discover completely new works in the competitions or to rediscover old favourites in the thematic programmes, the close contact with the audience, intensive discussions and long nights.

MoBY (Museums of Bat Yam, Israel) is inviting artists and groups of all the cultural fields to submit proposals for works/actions for Factory, an international exhibition that will open at the end of May 2009.

The 2da Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe aims to explore and unfold the concept of the polygraphic into marginal and experimental creative practices working with contemporary art and graphic design. Over a dozen polygraphic platforms will be presented between June 2008 and June 2009,concluding in a large scale presentation opening in April 2009 that will consist of solo and group exhibitions, magazines, posters, artists’ books, postcards, wallpapers, flyers, billboards, among others.

For the 5th year in a row TERMINAL/00/ is staging a platform to present, promote and discuss contemporary Balkan art, where both emerging and already established artists from the Balkan region are invited to display their works. Established in 2004, TERMINAL/00/ has since become a major international event for contemporary Balkan art. Located in London, in the midst of the vibrant cultural scene, TERMINAL/00/ has received an enthusiastic response from the public as an experimental, forward-looking and contextual contemporary mixed show. The four editions of Balkan Art Week thus far have to date explored a variety of exhibition formats, visual arts, live music, DJ’s, multimedia, performing arts, public talks, open forums and lectures.

The first edition of [bracket] is centered around the theme of farming. Once merely understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labour, and landscape, among others, can be farmed. Farming harnesses the efficiency of collectivity and community. Whether cultivating land, harvesting resources, extracting energy or delegating labor, farming reveals the interdependencies of our globalized world. Simultaneously, farming represents the local gesture, the productive landscape, and the alternative economy. The processes of farming are mutable, parametric, and efficient. From terraforming to foodsheds to crowdsourcing, farming often involves the management of the natural mediated by the technologic. Farming, beyond its most common agricultural understanding is the modification of infrastructure, urbanisms, architectures, and landscapes toward a privileging of production.