WELCOME

TO THE INFORMATION PAGE FOR ARTISTS

As well as sharing news about contemporary art exhibitions and events
in the city, Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum is developing an e-mail list for practising artists, as well as web based sector news, exhibition opportunities, information on training, calls for proposals, and invitations to participate in activities hosted by SCAF, its partners and other organisations.

If you are an artist, and would like information that could benefit your practice, visit these pages regularly, join our free mailing list online or email contact@artsheffield.org. Alternatively, if you have any information for contemporary artists, then please send to us at contact@artsheffield.org

FILM AND VIDEO UMBRELLA: Call for Proposals

Deadline 15 August

Film and Video Umbrella currently accepts proposals for both of their submission strands; Exhibition Proposals from artists who wish to be commissioned to make a new work in film, video or digital media; and Development Proposals from artists wishing to develop ideas or proposals for film, video or digital media works. For this deadline Film and Video Umbrella will give priority to Development Proposals for digital or new media projects, or projects proposing innovative use of technology or distribution.

Film and Video Umbrella curates and produces film, video and new media projects by both British and international artists.

The deadline is 15 August at 3.00pm
Applicants will be notified by 26 September 2008

For further details and to download guidelines see http://www.fvu.co.uk/proposals.jsp

SUBMISSIONS CALL: PRAGUE CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL

Deadline: 31 August 2008

After the success of WOOLOO.ORG's own art festival in Berlin in June, WOOLOO.ORG invite artists to take part in TINA B. - The Prague Contemporary Art Festival. For its third edition, TINA Bhas adopted the general theme of "Forms of Engagement", exploring the role of contemporary art, artists and artistic practice as socio-cultural agents on both a local and global level.

At TINA B. 08, WOOLOO.ORG will present the project REBRANDING ACTS - an investigation of cultural identity in an age of transnational migration. REBRANDING ACTS asks artists to look closely at the ongoing production of "nationality" in their home countries and to then perform "rebranding acts" that directly intervene with the hegemony of this excluding narrative and present a radical re-thinking of it. In other words, acts that aim to "rebrand" a specific national identity.

The context and method of the rebranding act can take any possible form but the act must be documented and submitted via WOOLOO.ORG in VIDEO FORMAT. From all of the rebranding videos submitted, WOOLOO.ORG will select the most intelligent, powerful and humorous works and present them as an official part of TINA B. - The Prague Contemporary Art Festival taking place in Prague, Czech Republic from 25 September to 15 October 2008.

The selected videos will also travel to New York to be included in the exhibition Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding taking place at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics from 15 October 2008 to 30 January 2009.

Visit http://www.wooloo.org/rebranding/e to learn more about REBRANDING ACTS and to submit your work. The submission deadline for REBRANDING ACTS is 31 August 2008.

ARTISTS' MOVING IMAGE COMMISSION

Call for proposals Deadline: 26 August 2008 at 5pm

Opportunity: Lighthouse is seeking proposals for an artists’ moving image commission, to support a UK-based emerging artist to develop a new piece of work or to complete a work in development (that has not been previously exhibited).

Lighthouse will preview and showcase the final commissioned piece at Lighthouse during CINECITY, the Brighton Film Festival. The work will be exhibited in the Lighthouse building, as well as being screened as part of CINECITY. There will also be an opportunity to show previous work in an exhibition format.

The brief is flexible and open, allowing artists to consider how this opportunity can impact upon their practice directly.

Commission: £5,000

Details about how to submit can be found at: www.lighthouse.org.uk/opportunity/commissions.htm e

CALL FOR ENTRIES: RENCONTRES

INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID: Deadline: 25 August

The 'Rencontres Internationales' will take place at the Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume national museum and in other key locations in Paris in November 2008. The same program will be presented in Madrid in April 2009 and in Berlin in June 2009. Those three events will propose an international programming focusing on film, video and multimedia, gathering works of artists and filmmakers acknowledged on the international scene along with young artists and filmmakers.

ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANISATION CAN SUBMIT ONE OR SEVERAL PROPOSALS. THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS OPEN TO FILM, VIDEO AND MULTIMEDIA CYCLES, without any restriction of length or genre. All submissions are free, without any limitation of geographic origin.

CINEMA AND VIDEO CYCLES (all film and video formats): Video / Experimental video / Video art; Fiction - short, medium and feature length; Documentary, experimental documentary; Experimental Film; Animation movie MULTIMEDIA CYCLES: Installation; Net art; Multimedia performance and concert

Video and film submissions are received on DVD. ALL submissions are sent by postal mail, enclosed with a filled-in ONLINE ENTRY FORM, UNTIL THE 25th of AUGUST, 2008. Entry forms and information regarding the 'Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid' are available on our website http://art-action.org/en_info_appel.htm

The 'Rencontres Internationales' offer more than a simple presentation of the works. They introduce an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify the vivacity of creation and its distribution, but also of the artistic and cultural contexts that often are experiencing deep changes. The event reflects specificities and crossings of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores media art practices and their critical purposes, and work out this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged. The event aims to present works to a broad audience, creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals.

OUTCASTING

Deadline: October - November 2008

Outcasting, the only online moving image gallery in Wales, is looking for work to screen in its forthcoming seasons. They are looking for artist's video, animation, narrative film, experimental work and documentaries that explore the boundaries of the medium. Submissions can be sent in either of two ways;

1. Send a data DVD with .mov files of your work to Outcasting, c/o Michael Cousin, 116 Paget Street, Grangetown, Cardiff, United Kingdom. CF11 7LA.
2. Email your work via http://www.pando.com (up to 1GB for free or 3GB for $24.95 a year).

Deadline for the October - November season is 1st September but the call is an open one.

www.outcasting.org
Outcasting's Facebook

Critical Network

Opportunities' website

An excellent website that regularly posts up opportunities for artists. Visit regularly to keep up to date. criticalnetwork.co.uk

Forum Cafe in Sheffield seeks exhibiting artists

Rolling deadline

The Forum Café in Sheffield is currently looking for artists to exhibit their work on its walls in this prestigious city centre cafe bar.  A number of spaces are available for exhibitions of various sizes & types.  They are looking for modern, forward thinking work which reflects the vibrancy of the local area.  Those interested should call 0114 2720569 and speak to Alex Liddle, alternatively email examples of your work to alex@forumsheffield.co.uk

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

AT S1 ARTSPACE

Become an Associate Member of S1 for £10 and receive:
* Invitations to exhibition openings, screenings and parties via post and email
* Associate Member newsletter (3 times a year)
* Acknowledgement of support on S1’s website
* Opportunities to be involved in trips, tours and special activities, subsidised by Arts Council England and limited to S1 studio holders (Members) and Associate Members.

Contact Katy Woods at associates@s1artspace.org