ArtConnect

We’re on the lookout for exceptional new artistic talents from across the globe to highlight on ArtConnect in 2021. 

Take part in our open call for Artists to Watch for the chance to win exciting prizes that are sure to get you noticed.

Naz Cuguoğlu

David Reves

Radu Sticlea

Romeo Alaeff

Meaghan Gates

Kaija Hinkula

Jia-Jen Lin

Elinor Sahm

Ayin Es

Lisa McCleary

Dorsey Kaufmann

Anne-Marie Giroux

Laura Hart Newlon

Artists to Watch 2021

Boomer Gallery

While some artists are keeping a very traditional approach to art, others are taking risks into the unknown and there has always been a constant debate about “What Is Art” and what makes it valuable. 

In contemporary world success can be seen in both approaches, great examples are Damien Hirst and David Hockney, two of the worlds most famous and richest artists and yet with such a different approach to contemporary art. 

The purpose of this exhibition is to create a dialogue between different approaches to contemporary art and to demonstrate that either way can be successful. 

This Exhibition Will Take Place At Our Newly Opened Space In Tower Bridge. 

The new space is located in Tower bridge, one of most iconic places in the world and the most visited place in the whole UK. 

The space is nestled between modern and classic London icons: The Shard 4 minutes away, Tower Bridge 1 minute away, London Bridge 2 minutes away. 

With a blend of traditional Victorian brick walls and a central private bar just for our audience, the space is unique in the whole city of London. 

Important dates: 

- the open call will run until 02 November. 
- artworks delivery date is 11 November. 
- the exhibition will run from 12 November until 18 November with a private view on 12 November- 6:00 to 9:00 pm at our gallery space in Tower Bridge London. 

Alternatives. 

We had a lot of enquires from foreign artists to exhibit with us but sometimes shipping the work to London in time might be a bit difficult in this challenging period, that’s why we’ve come up with an alternative! If you are one of the accepted artist and you find it hard to ship your work to us, you can send us photos of your work and we can print and frame it for you at no additional cost. 

We have 3 available sizes for the frame: 

1. 32/32 cm
2. 30/40 cm 
3. 40/50 cm 

Good luck to you all! 

What is Art lll

Modrak&Ghidini

Imagine that tomorrow you wake up on this planet and all social, organizational and communication technologies have disappeared—i.e., email, mobile phones, apps. Anyone who considered themselves a technologist has vanished as well. And no one has a memory of any of these technologies, except for you. This is a post-pandemic world itching with dissatisfaction about tedious bureaucracy and how much we labor, and determined to build lives of meaning. In this vision, you value connecting with others, patience, empathy, ethics, and the right to be lazy, unproductive, creative, complicated, and contradictory. You loved certain aspects of the digital world. For example, it allowed you to exist somewhere and in other worlds at the same time. You treasure having access to multiple points of view that catapult you out of one-way, teller-receiver narratives and teach you to be more flexible. And so you have been appointed the Director of Social Technology with the power to commission and design new technologies facilitating social and workplace interactions. No one has any expectations for what you will create because no one remembers the past.
 
UnProductiveSolutions (UnPro) is an artwork/curatorial project presenting as an online “company” invested in revolutionary, values-based, ethical technologies. Italy-based curator Marialaura Ghidini and U.S.-based artist Rebekah Modrak invite artists to submit imaginative and conceptually rigorous proposals imagining technologies. 

Imagined technologies may be digital, a combination of digital and analog, or post-digital (meaning, an imagined mode of transmission). Proposed technologies do not need to be plausible, may be fantastic, and should be sincere. Proposed technologies should be critical of existing ones in their attempt to generate alternative models, but UnProductiveSolutions is not skeptical or meant to be read as parody. 
 

WHAT THE OPPORTUNITY INCLUDES, IF ACCEPTED
— Five proposals will be accepted for artists to develop and complete the work. Artists will receive a $2,000 honorarium / budget upon submission of the final work. As part of the program, we will arrange a studio visit with a specialist, such as a philosopher or astronomer, to further the development of the work. Artists will receive the services of a videographer to create a marketing promotion for your technology. Artworks / technologies will be displayed as a succession of “featured” subsidiary companies on the UnProductiveSolutions exhibition/website.

— Five proposals will be accepted in their current state as proposals. These will receive a $100 honorarium and will be presented in their proposal form as “future projects” on the UnProductiveSolutions exhibition/website.
 

THE SELECTION PROCESS
The Open Call will be reviewed by curator Marialaura Ghidini and artist/writer Rebekah Modrak. We have worked together as Modrak&Ghidini since 2015, starting with the project  #exstrange (2017), an intervention into the online marketplace that we enacted between January 15 and April 15, 2017. http://exstrange.com/  This curatorial project developed our collaborative interest in disrupting the rhetor http://exstrange.com/ogies, e-commerce, and the workings of online platforms. 

Ghidini is a contemporary art curator and founder/director of the web-based curatorial platform or-bits.com. Her expertise lies in web-based curatorial practices and intersections between art, technology, and society in relation to ideas of “progress” and “betterment.”

Modrak’s practice is at the intersections of art, activism, critical design, and creative resistance to consumer culture. Her Internet-based artworks critique brand messaging. She is a professor at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan.

Marialaura Ghidini

Rebekah Modrak

Five proposals will be this budget upon submission of the final work

Five proposals will be accepted in their current state as proposals.

UnProductiveSolutions

### Schlossmediale Werdenberg Residence Grant 2022

**Eligibility**

Disciplines: Sound art / sound studies / audiovisual art / experimental instrument making. Visual art / installations / sculpture / land art / performance
Location: All
Other: University degree

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**Costs**

Application Fee: None
Participation Fee: None

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**Rewards**

Monetary: 4,000 CHF stipend
Exhibition: During festival at Schlossmediale Werdenberg, CH
Production: Up to 1,000 CHF for materials
Travel: 1,500 CHF for travel and food
Accommodation: Provided, on castle grounds

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**Requirements**

✓ Artist Statement
✓ Portfolio
✓ CV
✓ Project Description

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**About**

On Whitsun 2022, from June 3 to 12,  the SCHLOSSMEDIALE WERDENBERG , a festival for early music, new music and audiovisual art, will take place for the tenth time .

Schlossmediale Werdenberg awards a 5-week residency grant with subsequent festival participation for the period May 2 - June 12, 2022.

We look forward to artists who are willing to be inspired for their work by the castle, the surroundings and the annual motto of the festival (detailed information on the annual theme can be found below). 

The 3 selected scholarship holders live in the small, picturesque town - the smallest town in Switzerland - at the foot of the castle. There, the scholarship holders have a bedroom / work room and exhibition space in the castle for the duration of the scholarship.

The resulting works will be shown at Schlossmediale Werdenberg.

International artists from various fields will be represented at Schlossmediale Werdenberg: composers, sound artists, video artists, singers, dancers and musicians.

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**How to Apply**

Information: **[Schlossmediale Werdenberg website, in German] (https://schlossmediale.ch/stipendium-2022)** ->
Apply: Send by email to: stipendium@schloss-werdenberg.ch

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**Deadline**

October 15, 2021


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**Contact**

Name: Schlossmediale Werdenberg
Email: stipendium@schloss-werdenberg.ch

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### [Apply Now] (https://schlossmediale.ch/stipendium-2022) ->


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Schlossmediale Werdenberg Residence Grant 2022

Berlin Summer University of the Arts

The Berlin Summer University of the Arts offers designers and artists, musicians and performers, creative and cultural professionals a great selection of inspiring workshops covering all artistic disciplines and their intersections. The Berlin University of the Arts – one of the largest and most diverse art universities of Europe – would be happy to welcome you for a summer of inspiration.

From June to October, an international team of lecturers and teachers will introduce you to methods and discourses of contemporary art in a diverse and experimental way – both in online and in face-to-face events. You will have a great opportunity to bring your ideas to life, develop an artistic concept, and advance your skills and artistic language within the following categories: Transisiton, Perception, Communication, Participation and Exploration. 

The Berlin Summer University of the Arts offers online workshops as well.

for 3-day course. Other course prices vary.

Berlin Summer University of the Arts 2021

Animation for Music Videos: From Idea to Rhythm II

Volkshochschule Neukölln

In this course, participants will have the opportunity to learn and explore the potential relationships between image, rhythm, and sound in animation and will be introduced to the work of artists like Walther Ruttmann, Norman McLaren, Michel Gondry, Anthony Francisco Shepperd, etc. Through the introduction of synchronization principles between music and animation, participants will be able to develop their own creative practice and gather essential tools in order to convey a coherent relationship between melody and moving image.

Neukölln, VHS-Haus, 12051 Berlin, Mariendorfer Weg 9, 5

Sa, 16.10.2021, 10:00 - 17:30
So, 17.10.2021, 10:00 - 17:30
Sa, 23.10.2021, 10:00 - 17:30

Price: 85,60€
Reduced price: 48,50€

To enroll, please email:
vhsinfo@bezirksamt-neukoelln.de
martina.dehmer@bezirksamt-neukoelln.de
tiago.mar.araujo@gmail.com


About Tiago Araújo (1991)

Freelance animator, illustrator, and visual artist from Porto, Portugal. Has a BA in Fine Arts / Multimedia from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. His short-film "Patrioska" was screened in more than 60 film festivals worldwide, like Animafest Zagreb and Landshut Kurzfilm Festival.

Animation for Music Videos: From Idea to Rhythm (Workshop)

This show is annual fundraiser for the center. All submissions are donations. The center will promote the contributing artists who have donated their pieces with an online gallery show. If artist donates more than one piece, they will be displayed together. This show is to show-off the contributing artist’s work, their talent, who they are, and to give art collectors the opportunity to meet them. Sac Arts Center will mail special invitations to past and prospective art collectors throughout our metropolitan area.

Ars Gratia Artis

The WOC Online Artist Residency is a great opportunity during lockdown to develop a new project or continue working on a previous one, to receive feedback from fellow artists and support to experiment and stay motivated. It provokes dialogue, exchanging ideas, and critical thinking.

As a collaborative program, it is designed to give a chance to communicate across the globe with other artists, to link people from different corners of the planet and to work with them in different ways. The program builds a strong sense of community and artistic collaboration among its participants which lasts after the program ends.

More about the program:

+ Regular meetings and activities throughout the month. Approximately three sessions per week.
+ Weekly live group meetings with fellow artists, focused on your work – discussion and exchange, moderated by WOC team
+ Group critique helping you to conceptualize your art projects hosted by a professional artist
+ Workshops and seminars hosted by international artists
+ Building an effective online presence as an artist. Individual advices on your social media channels and website moderated by the WOC web and graphic designer
+ Internal meetups and discussions with previous WOC artists
+ Social media PR campaigns for each artist, on channels such as Facebook and Instagram
+ Exhibit your project in our online gallery at the end of the residency program
+ Presenting you on World of Co website and blog
+ Become part of our international artist network, consisting of more than 200 artists across the globe
+ Receive an official certificate of participation

About: 

Since 2017, the team of World of Co has been hosting artist residency in Sofia, Bulgaria. Until now more than 200 artists (https://worldof.co/artistsinresidency/) took part in our programs. In a friendly and supportive atmosphere, we helped them to continue growing, experimenting and improving themselves as artists. Meanwhile, since the beginning of the pandemic, we gave birth to an online residency program in order to help the international artist community to stay connected and be creative.

Duration of residency

You can apply for one-month or two-month residency programs. In order to get a full experience of the program, we suggest you participate in the two monthly program.
Every residency program starts on the 5th day of the month and finishes on the 30th. All of the activities are held in the conference software Zoom. Before the beginning of the program, the World of Co team will send you the monthly schedule with all of the activities and Zoom links. Every schedule is created considering the different time zones of the participants, in other the timing to be suitable for everybody. 

Disciplines, work equipment and assistance

The online program is open to emerging and mid-career visual artists, mixed media artists, painters, textile artists, illustrators, designers, writers, sound artists, multidisciplinary artists, curators and art researchers from all around the world. 
Studio / Workspace

ONLINE – Every artist can work from their home and studio. You just need a good internet connection.
Fees and support

The residency fee for a one-month program is 320 EUR, and for two months is 520 EUR.

Note: World of Co will provide you with necessary documents if you are applying for a scholarship or funding.

Expectations towards the artist

 Participatory and respective attitude towards all participants and the WOC team
 Willingness to learn, to experiment, and to show incomplete or drafts in sessions
 Attend residency sessions or inform us if you are not able
 Time and space for reflection
 Good internet connection


Application information

Apply for the World of Co Online Artist Residency until 15 of October 2021 on the following link: https://worldof.co/apply/

Applications are accepted only through the online form on our website. Please state in your application the program and the period you are applying for. In addition to evaluating the candidate’s professional background, during the selection World of Co team pay particular attention to the motivation to join the program. The selected artists will be informed via email regarding the next steps to join the program.

WOC Online Artist Residency Program, Fall/Winter 2021

Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the first Floral online art contest for the month of October 2021. Artists from around the world are welcome to submit. The gallery invites artists and photographers to share their artistic vision using any work with interpretation of botanical and floral art (flowers, herbs, fruit, leaves, plants and related floral subcjects). All visual art mediums (except video and sound) are allowed. All winning artists will receive a digital award certificate. The Best of Show winning artwork will be displayed as the poster of the show. $16 for 2 images, $30 for 4 images, $42 for 6 images, and $50 for up to 8 images. Deadline: October 14, 2021.

Floral Art Contest

INTQRVENTION

INQRVENTION is a project that started in 2020, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The initial objective of the project are attract the public in strategic locations to giant murals full of QRcodes spread throughout the city. — Each code will give access to a link to audiovisual works, installations and visual arts. The main objective is to use art as an attraction for the QRcode, generally used for transactions involving money, purchasing and capitalism. Our first intervention began in the famous artistic occupation Centro Cultural Ocupa 63, the biggest cultural occupation in the Latin America and would proceed to other cultural centers in the city of Salvador, Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro. In the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19, we decided to prioritize the project in digital and virtual format and move it to 2021, but now we are back in art spaces and in the streets, WE NEED U!

INQRVENTION IS A PRIMITIVE AND TECHNOLOGICAL BOLDNESS: ON THE WALLS AS RUPESTRAL PAINTINGS, ON LINKS AS THE NATURE OF CYBER CENTURY DEMANDS.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR ARTISTS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO PARTICIPATE OF INQRVENTION AN ART/FILM FESTIVAL IN THE STREETS AND ART SPACES AROUND GLOBE.


Awards & Prizes

Selected artists will receive a confirmation email including their own QR

Personalized QR code with the link to your work published inside an art gallery

Published posterbombs with your art link in the streets of Brazil with recorded audiovisual content

Rules & Terms

Conditions: Video projects must have a max. 30 minutes.

paintings, digital arts, photographs are accepted, but we prioritize video files.

The project seeks to exhibit ALL the QRs in art galleries after the urban interventions.

Any artist over 18 is eligible.

Selected artists will receive a confirmation email including their own QR


INQRVENTION

𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡 𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗡 𝗚𝗘𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗚𝗘𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗜𝗔
𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗟 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗬

Digital technology is changing the way we think about and make art. The classic image of the artist is no longer representative in an age of virtual and augmented reality art forms – and even fine artists these days increasingly rely on Instagram and social media to generate awareness about their work. At the same time, new technologies are also changing the way we organize our communities and societies. But where do these changes lead us? Towards a greater sense of connectedness? Or to atomization and fragmentation? These are the questions we look to explore in our PARALLEL Residency.

PARALLEL will foster real-time exchange and collaboration between a total of sixteen artists, via the innovative framework of a dual residency. The residencies will be connected through a common programme and characterized by continual dialogue and exchange between the participants in both countries. PARALLEL presents an opportunity for artistic collaboration across borders and disciplines. The residency will culminate in the live performance and a series of German-Georgian collaborative artworks, which will be presented and curated online.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆?
The PARALLEL residency is an artists’ residency that will take place simultaneously in locations in Georgia and Germany. The residencies will share a common programme, which include 2 online sessions and a 5 day artists’ retreat. 16 artists will participate in total, eight in each location. The residency will be supported by Art Directors and technical specialists in both locations.  Participants will not travel between countries. 

PARALLEL is a follow-up to the hybrid a:part project, held in December 2020. www.apartberlinpoltava.net

The project is funded under the grant program “MEET UP! Youth for Partnership” by the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future (EVZ) Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office.

Organisers: Lernlabor Berlin, Propaganda.network and Laboratory Of Sonic Arts (Georgia) 
Funded by EVZ Young


OPEN CALL Parallel Residency

Chromart

Virtual art is a virtual exhibition, dedicated to promoting artistic and creative expression.

This project is defined by a need to accurately express art, appeal to several senses, move within the light, the shadows, and the colours, play with the intersections of reality and phantasy, and the boundaries of digital and analogue.

This exhibition, which features a collection of high digital artworks, represents fresh insights, perspectives, and ideas that change our reality.
The Virtual Art Gallery seeks to provide selected works with significant worldwide exposure for artists to assist them in negotiating and confronting their works and their creations in a virtual environment.

If everything looks good to you, then send us your submission
We are looking forward to it
Regards,
Digital Chroma Team

Open Call for Artists

IAVPOA ART

2ND INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY BIENNALE “VISUAL EXPRESSIONS OF DETAILS”
New opportunity for all artists around the globe to showcase their work in our virtual exhibition!
Living in a global world, we focus only on extreme events such as pandemics or corruption, and we pay less attention to aesthetic or non-aesthetic details of the world, for example, melting ice-cream or falling leaves. Uncaptured small elements of the visual world simply disappear. Therefore, we invite you to find such details in your environment and capture them. Try to admire their aesthetic or non-aesthetic side. The world is not only beautiful but it also has its non-aesthetic elements. This exhibition wants to combine these two elements. We usually think globally, but after all, we are here and now where many unexpected things happen.
Artists are welcome to submit their works.

TO APPLY
1. Submit up to 3 photographs.
2. Photo submission requirements: 
- the submitted photo must be in JPG/JPEG format;
- the submitted photo must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi;
- the submitted photo must be approximately 2100 pixels on the longest side;
- the submitted photo must be labeled in the format “NAME_SURNAME_TITLE OF THE WORK _YEAR COMPLETED_COUNTRY”.


We are looking forward to your works.
*By submitting your works, you agree that they will be featured in a video on our YouTube channel “IAVPOA ART” and on other social networks.
