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Material Synthesis -DiffractiveMedia.Space

Zach Duer

Looking for experimental media and video art that engages diffractive vs representational approaches to moving images and works that utilize technology as a diffractive lens to investigate alternative ways of seeing and making. Material Synthesis is kin to the historical video art genera of signal processing, and operates within the New Materialism movement, specifically Agential Realism, which is the entanglement of matter and meaning*. Diffracted Research:”Diffraction does not produce ‘the same’ displaced, as reflection and refraction do. Diffraction is a mapping of interference, not of replication, reflection, or reproduction. A diffraction pattern does not map where differences appear, but rather…

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The First Annual Small Files Media Festival

Zach Duer

August 10-20, 2020Vancouver, Canada, and streaming at low bandwidth worldwide on our Vimeo platform. $1 membership, and by donationTrailer at https://vimeo.com/smallfile The First Annual Small File Media Festival celebrates low-bandwidth movies that stream with no damage to the planet! We received over 100 submissions from around the world. Animation! GIFs! Low frame rates! Datamoshing! Still images with sound! Movies made with “obsolete” technologies! Websites! Executable files! Very short movies! And movies creatively compressed into small files. We’ve got narrative, documentary, and experimental movies. We’ve got cat videos! We’ve got porn—because streaming porn is responsible for 0.3% of greenhouse gas emissions!…

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SPLIT VIDEOART FESTIVAL – Metonymy association

Zach Duer

SPLIT VIDEOART FESTIVAL Film&Video Art Festival and Exhibition 11.10.2020. Split, Croatia Split Videoart Festival invites international and domestic video artists to participate in the first edition that will take place in Split 8th-11th October 2020. ​Call for entries is opened for emerging and established authors, new authors and students. EVENT DESCRIPTION: Our goal is to promote video art in public space and attract new audiences by organizing exhibitions in galleries and unconventional spaces and locations around town. A part of the programme will be shown online as a stream through our website. Rules & Terms: Split Videoart Festival will take…

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Calling students film works for now. A Notice of INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CREATIVE AWARD 2020 (Japan)_International Video Content

Zach Duer

ISCA is an international arts and information media competition for university, graduate school and vocational school students. We are pleased introduce you to open “International Video Content” For International students category now. We are now calling for film entries/works. We highly appreciate if you could spread and share this information with relative studying students or just graduate student in this year. https://kc-i.jp/en/activity/award/isca/2020/

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26th International Symposium on Electronic Art – ISEA2020

Zach Duer

ISEA2020 ONLINE: CONNECT. BREAK THE DISTANCE! From October 13 to 18, 2020. The 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art will address pressing contemporary issues and present practice-based approaches to explore the theme “Why Sentience?”. @ISEA2020 Montreal invite you to the first 100% online electronic art symposium: a pioneering and unique experience to share with fellow artists, scientists, scholars and researchers from around the world. Let’s come together and connect! For ISEA2020 Online, we have considerably reduced the registration fees (starting at CAD $ 69 Early bird student pass): http://isea2020.isea-international.org/registration/ Teaser ISEA2020 Online:  ISEA2020’s online program ➡ http://isea2020.isea-international.org/preliminary-programming

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Future Focus: Art Hack Practice

Zach Duer

Wed 24th June, 16:30 – 17:45 GMT, hosted online https://futureeverything.org/event/future-focus-art-hack-practice-iii/ The third event in the Future Focus: Art Hack Practice series is exploring the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic in society and culture. FutureEverything’s new online critical conversations, Future Focus, is launching with a series of conversations and provocations from the editors and authors of Art Hack Practice. Art Hack Practice: Critical Intersections of Art, Innovation and the Maker Movement (Routledge, 2019) is a publication edited by Victoria Bradbury and Suzy O’Hara that explores critical and interdisciplinary modes of practice that combine arts, technology and making. The third event in the…

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Science Awareness Occupation with Art, Science and Technology in Brazil – Mines and Metal Museum – MM Gerdau

Zach Duer

The Science Awareness Public Notice is a call to artists, scientists and other creators and researchers to propose the occupation of the spaces of the Mines and Metal Museum – MMGerdau with projects pervading the boundaries between the Arts, Science and Technology, with the power of raising new questions to humankind and to the transforming world in which it is inserted. It is an invitation to those who carry on with the legacy of Leonardo Da Vinci, without making distinctions between all forms of knowledge. Art and Science combined, as something capable of transforming reality, proposing new spaces and narratives…

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Open Call: New Media Caucus MediaLounge Events

KT Duffy

Open Call: New Media Caucus MediaLounge Events at CAA 2021 in New York Every year, the New Media Caucus hosts a diverse set of programming — panels, round-tables, screenings, workshops, pecha-kuchas, and so forth — in the College Art Association (CAA) MediaLounge during the annual conference. These events are open to the public, and do not require CAA conference registration or membership.  The New Media Caucus invites proposals for our programming to be held in the CAA MediaLounge during the 2021 College Art Association annual conference in New York City (Feb 10-13, 2021). Proposals should reflect New Media Caucus’ mandate…

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