There are a lot of opportunities for local artists to get involved in upcoming projects, and Squeaky Wheel has made it easy to get involved. See below for programs, deadlines and contacts. Then write a little thank-you to Squeaky.
Channels ’09 – Stories from the Niagara Frontier:
Deadline is March
16th, 2009 (in-hand)
Channels – Stories from the Niagara Frontier is a new
production program which matches local (Buffalo area) documentary filmmakers
with grass roots initiatives and groups to document cultural and social
movements that significantly impact the Buffalo region, but are underreported
by mainstream media.
Channels addresses the need to disseminate information about
current social and political initiatives with the goal to educate people about
important issues in their communities. The documentaries produced by Channels
give community groups a tool to succinctly and effectively address problems and
issues through the powerful medium of documentary film. The Channels 09 program
is funded by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo. For more information
visit: http://www.squeaky.org/opportunities.html
Call For Artists:
Beyond/In Western New York 2010:
Alternating Currents:
NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 31st, 2009 (by midnight!)
This call for submissions
is open to emerging and established artists and art collectives in Western and
Central New York, Southern Ontario, Northeastern Ohio, and Northwestern
Pennsylvania. Artists working in all media – film, installation, multimedia,
painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, performance, and video – are
encouraged to submit work.
Thanks to the resounding success of Beyond/In
Western New York 2005 and B/I WNY 2007, twelve local arts organizations,
including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Burchfield-Penney Art Center,
will join forces once again for the 2010 iteration of this project. Beyond/In
Western New York 2010 will continue to take a concentrated look at artists who
are working in the specified project area.
At the same time, Beyond/In will
undergo a transformation from previous years. Artists will be asked to respond
to the theme “Alternating Currents,” which was developed by the project’s
curatorial team. Under this thematic umbrella, and also new for 2010, will be a
Non-Regional Component made up of invited artists from outside the established
regional boundaries.
For submission application and information, please visit www.beyondinwny.org.
The EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER // FINISHING FUNDS 2009:
Postmark Deadline March
15, 2009
FINISHING FUNDS provides media and new media artists with grants up
to $2,500 to help with the completion of diverse and innovative moving-image
and sonic art projects, and works for the Web and new technologies. Eligible
forms include film and video as single or multiple channel presentation,
computer based moving-imagery and sound works, installations and performances,
interactive works and works for new technologies, DVD, multimedia and the Web.
We also support new media, and interactive performance. Work must be
surprising, creative and approach the various media as art forms; all genres
are eligible, including experimental, narrative and documentary art works.
Individual artists can apply directly to the program and do not need a sponsoring
organization. Applicants must be residents of New York State; undergraduate
students are not eligible. The application requires a project description,
resume and support materials, including a sample of the proposed project.
Selection is made by a peer review panel. About $25,000 is awarded each year.
Announcement is made in early June.
The program is supported in part by public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, and by
mediaThe foundation.
Guidelines and applications are available on the web at http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/
CALL FOR LOCAL FILMMAKERS IN WNY REGION: If you are a media
maker from Buffalo or surrounding areas, please submit your work to Squeaky
Wheel to be considered for a new screening series entitled Here & Now:
Spotlight on Regional Media Makers. All genres and styles are welcome! Deadline
is May 30th, 2009. Submissions should include a brief description of the work,
short bio and screening history if appropriate. Please submit works to: Squeaky
Wheel, 712 Main St., Bflo, NY 14202 (ATTN: Here & Now)
CALL FOR
SUPER 8 FILMS: For Squeaky Wheel’s Global Super 8 Day screening on May 8th.
Send film, DVD, or mini-DV submissions in any genre, under 10 min., w/ brief
description to: Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Bflo, NY 14202 (ATTN: Global Super
8) Want to make a super 8 film? Visit www.squeaky.org!
CALL
FOR PIXELVISION ARTISTS: Got Pixelvision? Squeaky Wheel wants your Pixelvision
videos for our upcoming Power to the Pixel screening May 22nd. Send film,
DVD, or mini-DV submissions in any genre, under 10 min., w/ brief description
to: Squeaky Wheel, 712 Main St., Bflo, NY 14202 (ATTN: Pixelvision) Want to
make a Pixelvision video? Visit www.squeaky.org!
Call
for entries: 4th Annual ATA Film & Video Festival:
POSTMARK DEADLINE May
29, 2009
Artists’ Television Access invites experimental film and video makers
to submit their work (20 minutes or less) to its 4th Annual ATA Film and Video
Festival. Video, Super 8 and 16 mm animation, documentary, narrative, abstract,
found footage based and other works will be accepted.
The ATA Film and Video
Festival is committed to showcasing films and videos that use an unconventional
stylistic and technical approach and bring up subjects or concepts that not
only entertain, but also provoke, our diverse audience. The festival also
includes installations in ATA’s Mission District storefront gallery, a lunch
for the filmmakers, and new in our 4th year, a discussion forum for the
exchange of ideas amongst filmmakers, curators and audiences.
Submission fee:
$10
Festival will take place in October 2009
More information and submission
form: http://festival.atasite.org/
Artists’ Television
Access is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, all-volunteer, artist-run, experimental media
arts gallery that has been in operation since 1984. ATA hosts a series of film
and video screenings, exhibitions and performances by emerging and established
artists and a weekly cable access television program.
http://www.atasite.org
Call
for Artists: 36th Bourges International Competitions:
Deadline April 25th,
2009
The Bourges Competition is the most important competition in
electroacoustic music. It has been founded in 1973. It is devoted to composers
coming from all levels, but also to sound artists, performers,… they practice
different forms of sound arts. The registration is free. The selection is made
anonymously (except the Magisterium). The jury is made with artists and
personalities well-known in the esthetical fields related to the competition.
In
the competition, you can particularly notice a new part “Electronic Arts” with
3 categories.
1. new practices of sound and music creation – 2.
Performances – 3. Netart. A full English
version is also available on the IMEB website:
http://www.imeb.net/MFLi/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1116&Itemid=330
For any questions,
please send an email to competition.bourges@gmail.com
Call
for Artists: The Pixel Project:
Deadline March 14th, 2009
The pixel is
located beyond the image, beyond its representation, taking as pure
abstraction, pure unifying concept of reality – the image – which is set on the
screen. This is all the more credible the more pixie image has, the greater the
definition.
Opposed to photo-chemistry, whose definition of the image depends
on the number of points and its size, higher points less number on the image,
then lower definition. The process in digital image is different, because the
pixel size does not change: more pixels more image definition.
Donald Kuspit
compares the impressionism of Seurat to digital images; the flick is the same
as pixel. In this sense, the digital image can be seen as a huge web of colors
linked in some way to shape the image.
With The Pixel Project, the UAVM which
to present how artist see images through pixels, images as pixels, pixels as
art.
THE PIXEL PROJECT
4 April. 09 – 27 June 09
http://www.uavm.net/english/index1.html
Call
For Applications: Digital Residency Scheme 2009, UK:
Deadline March 2nd,
2009
Folly, a leading digital arts organization, and Lanternhouse
International are pleased to be seeking new applications for the Digital Artist
Residency Scheme 2009.
The scheme will be of particular interest to
established digital artists seeking time and space to develop new works,
research innovative ideas, make new connections and explore technique or
production.
Based at The National Creation Centre on the edge of the beautiful
Lake District in Cumbria, UK, successful artists will be offered accommodation
and a flexible and open-ended opportunity to push their work forward and
creatively engage with the two partner organizations.
We are seeking
innovative and experimental artists who are naturally collaborative and interested
in leaving a local legacy through participatory activity.
For further
information and details of how to apply visit http://www.folly.co.uk/click/1355/99
We welcome
applications from international applicants.
Call
for Work – Buffalo Arts Studio:
Ongoing Deadline
Buffalo Arts Studio seeks
artists working in all media for consideration for exhibitions. Please send
cover letter, artist statement, resume, digital images, and SASE to:
Buffalo Arts Studio, Attn: Cori Wolff, 2495 Main St., Suite 500, Buffalo, NY
14214. For questions, call (716) 833-4450 ext. #10.
Website: http://www.buffaloartsstudio.org
Black
& White Project Space Seeks Exhibition Proposals:
Deadline March 31,
2009
The Black & White Project Space, a 2500 square foot exhibition space
equally divided between the indoor and outdoor galleries located in Brooklyn,
NY has issued an open call for exhibition proposal submissions. They seeks
site-specific exhibition proposals of high artistic merit that use diverse
mediums in innovative ways to be presented from September to November, 2009 at
its Williamsburg location. Black & White Project Space will prominently
feature site specific installations stressing the links between the indoor and
outdoor environments by dedicating the entire space to a single artist or
artist collective for a period of 3 months. Black & White Project Space is
a not-for-profit organization committed to production, presentation and
promotion of site-specific installations that are under-represented in
commercial galleries because of their scope, content, or production cost. or
complete details, visit www.blackandwhiteprojectspace.org
Squeaky
Wheel’s Local Artist Access Residency:
Deadline June 16th, 2009
Squeaky Wheel is
offering four equipment access residencies to local artists. The residency
includes forty hours free access to our digital editing systems and 6-plate
film editing suite, as well as two days free rental of a production kit: 1
camera, light kit, tripod and microphone. New this year: Selected access
residents also receive a free workshop and a $100 stipend for supplies! All
access residents participate in a public screening of the work created during
the residency. Unfortunately students are ineligible to apply. Download the
Local Artist Access Residency application online at www.squeaky.org. Send your completed
application ATTN: LOCAL ARTIST ACCESS RESIDENCY
SQUEAKY WHEEL, 712 MAIN ST.,
BUFFALO, NY 14202