Media Art’s 12th scouting tour of the Dutch Academies

Like every summer the Dutch academies are showing their best emerging young talent in their end-of-year shows. This year Media Art Festival's 12th Young Talent show, 3 - 14 september, will be showcasing just those students for their artistic promise and poise.

But first we have to find those Young Talents; if your interested and you think you got what it takes you perhaps can be one of those students that will be highlighted this September, so fancy it then download the entry form here..

In the Media Art Festival for Young Talent students pitch their work to the public and have to explain their motivation and student will explore their possibilities for the future. Plus of course their work will be on show in exhibitions. For the public, colllegues and students their will a range of other activities that go with the exhibition Young Talent, such as workshops, training sessions, and guided tours. Also there are prizesto be won, such as workingbudgets and masterclasses with famous and established artists in the field, exciting arists in residence places. So send us your work and we look foward to meeting and seeing your work!

Be aware the entry form is partly in Dutch.

Media Art Festival for Film and Video 2008:
Call for entries

Deadline: 25 juli 2008

The 12th Media Art Festival for Film and Video and the 30th Noordelijk Film Festival (Northern Film Festival) in Leeuwarden invite all artists, filmmakers, producers, distributors, gallery owners, universities and institutions to submit their latest works. Works may be selected for the international media art competition and several additional programmes, such as Face to Face and Solar Cinema.

International media art competition will present the most challenging and innovative video art works of the past two years. The laureate of the international media art competition will be awarded for an outstanding audiovisual production, selected by an independent jury.

Face to Face takes place in a ‘single visitor inflatable cinema hall’, in which the film and video protagonists address their private audience face to face. Works submitted for this program may be older than two years.

Solar Cinema is the first Dutch mobile outdoor cinema exclusively run on solar energy. Solar Cinema will surprise and seduce local audiences throughout the city of Leeuwarden in the days before and during the festival with several short film programmes.

All three programmes are a collaboration between the Media Art Festival and the Northern Film Festival. The film and video program as organized by the Media Art Festival in preceding years has therefore changed dates to 5-9 November, when the Northern Film Festival takes place. The festival will present around 150 feature, documentary and experimental films and videos at several venues in the city of Leeuwarden.

All entries must arrive before July 26, 2008.

You will find the entry form & rules at here...

IDENTITY theme of the 21st European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany

From 23 - 27 April 2008 the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, will take place. EMAF is one of the leading media art festivals in the world with this year’s theme being IDENTITY. Nadine Bors, director of Media Art Friesland, is one of the moderatos of the film and video programme CINEMA in the Lagerhalle.
For more information see: www.emaf.de

Night of philosophy Fryslân, Leeuwarden

During the night of Philosophy Fryslân, on 11 April 2007, ideas were shared on the city, countryside, popular culture, coincidence, stupidity and freedom of expression. Spread over 5 rooms in Tresoar in Leeuwarden, there were lectures, debates, panel discussions, music and films. Columnists gave their straightforward comments from the sidelines. Media Art Friesland was present with audiovisual art to inspire and reflect. The seven minute long Frisian production ‘The boy in the attic’ by Bipolar was extended into a five hour long moving painting.
For more information see: www.leeuwardercourant.nl/nachtvandefilosofiefryslan

Lab. A multi media testing station, Brussels, Belgium

The Centrum voor Beeldexpressie, Recyclart, BAM, Bastart and Media Art Friesland presented ‘Lab. A Multi media testing station ’ on 15 March 2008. A full ‘media laboratory’ was created in Recyclart where everyone have taster of all that is happewning in the field of new media. After all, multimedia exsist in many names and forms (graphic design, 3D, gaming, design, cross-overs). ‘Lab. A multi media testing session’ was an exciting mix of workshops, exhibitions, VJ an ‘pecha kucha’.