Digital Art Show

Futuresonic 2008
Urban Festival of Art, Music & Ideas
1-4 May 2008, Manchester, UK

Call for Submissions

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to submit proposals to its Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS strands. Join us for one of the biggest Social’s of the year.

A £5000 commission plus many other opportunities are available:
Art and Conference deadlines — 5pm 18th December 2007
Music and EVNTS deadlines — 5pm 7th February 2008

2008 Theme – Social Networking Unplugged

Digital culture burns bright with a vision of being not in isolation but in groups, placing the relations between people first. Beyond the hype lies ever greater isolation and conformity. The Futuresonic 2008 theme is The Social – Social Networking Unplugged. Join us as we go in
search of the social.

Futuresonic Art – Submit Now

A commission valued at £5000 is available to create a new artwork, plus Futuresonic can support a limited number of other projects, addressing the Social Networking Unplugged theme. Futuresonic’s art strand focuses on social and participatory artworks which re-imagine the city.

Art Submissions deadline — 5pm, 18th December 2007

Futuresonic Ideas – Submit Now

The Futuresonic international conference and the Social Technologies Summit invite proposals for talks, presentations, workshops and session themes. Submissions of innovative formats for social interaction and experimentation are encouraged. Theme – Online, Mobile and Unplugged Social Networking.

Conference Submissions deadline — 5pm, 18th December 2007

Futuresonic Music – Submit Now

In 2008 we invite musicians to share their take on innovative, original and daring 21st century music with our audience. Futuresonic’s roots are in post-dub electronic music, and it showcases genre defying great live music. Futuresonic will be able to support a limited number of performances.

Music Submissions deadline — 5pm, 7th February 2008

Futuresonic EVNTS – Submit Now

Futuresonic now invites any programmer, curator, promoter, label or artist group anywhere in the world to take part in EVNTS 2008, a city-wide showcase of affiliated events. EVNTS has grown into a community of people who each year return to give the festival an extra edge. Awards of £1000 and £500 are available via the EVNT Competition.

EVNTS Competition deadline — 5pm, 7th February 2008
EVNTS 2008 showcase deadline — 5pm, 20th March 2008

Tickets
Conference Pass
Early Bird Delegate Pass
£60 (must be bought by February 1 2008)
Advance Delegate Pass
£100
Delegate Pass (on the door)
£150
Students/Concessions
£30

Further discounts available for group bookings.

A limited number of pay-what-you-can Day Passes will be available on each day of the conference.

The Conference Pass includes access to all festival events.

Email your name, address and contact details to ideas2008@futuresonic.com and we will send you full details on Futuresonic Conference 2008 as well as priority booking options.

Details of Weekender Wristbands and Events Tickets available soon.

Futuresonic 2008

An annual festival of art, music and ideas, which is currently in its 12th year, Futuresonic occupies the orbits of both music and digital culture.

A focus in recent years has been presenting artworks in unexpected city spaces, and on social art and social technologies.

Futuresonic now invites artists, thinkers and makers to get social and present new types of collaborative social experience at Futuresonic 2008.

This is a time when we see how electronic communication can isolate us, as more and more people drown in a deluge of email that generates stress, even reducing IQ; and it is 40 years since people took to the streets of Paris in 1968 calling for society to be abolished.

Join us as we go in search of the social today.

Web 2.0…
I take part
you take part
he takes part
we take part
you all take part
they profit.
(Slogan from Paris ‘68, remixed)

www.futuresonic.com

Futuresonic is supported by Arts Council England North West and presented in association with Imagination at Lancaster.

You can now register and create your own album in the online gallery.
Its quite straightforward but registrations and uploads have to be approved by us before they appear as we do get a lot of spam attempts.

Remember though that Digital Show focuses on artwork created predominantly using computer software, its not for photography or videos.

Chris Bennett has just uploaded a couple of great images including this ‘Trojan Horse’

I know we normally only show still images on this website but, of course, we love animation too.
We’ll have to look out for more of this sort of show, there’s a lot of really cool digital work going on the colleges which doesn’t get seen much on the ‘outside’.

So thanks to those studying MA in digital arts at the London University of the Arts Camberwell for letting us know about their forum taking place today where students are showing short films (2 minute) presenting their work.

Haven’t had time to watch them all yet.

http://web.mac.com/one211/Spectrum/Welcome.html
and a Wiki too
http://madigitalarts.wikispaces.com/MAForum2007

The British Animation Awards (BAA), held every two years, covers most aspects of the UK animation scene, from student work to commercials, children’s entertainment, short and experimental art films, music videos, new technologies, script-writing and craftsmanship. Next Awards night is on March 13th, 2008.

Entry Deadlines
Student entry deadline: 31 October, 07
Other categories entry deadline: 30 November ’07

Pre-selection & Judging: November and December.
Judging: December and January.
Entrants whose work has been short-listed for judging will be notified. Each jury selects three finalists from each awards category, which are screened in extract on the Awards Night (March 13th) and the winner is announced.

Public Choice: You get to vote!
In February 2008, 3 programmes, each with a mix of films, music vids and commercials, selected from open entry, are screened at 20 cinemas across the UK, and audiences vote for their favourites. Any venues wishing to join in the touring programme, please contact us at info@britishanimationawards.com

www.britishanimationawards.com

Some familiar names at the D’Arts 2007 Festival at Arthouse Veszprém in Hungary (October 20th – November 14th 2007) including Mohammad Shayestehkia (Iran) who sent us this photograph of his digital abstracts.

Computer Arts Projects issue 103

The latest issue of Computer Arts Projects asks the art directors, agents and buyers what they like to see and how they like to see it. Also a peek into all sorts of portfolios to see how some of our leading designers and illustrators present their work and offer you help, advice and inspiration in the form of invaluable tutorials, useful articles and plenty of sumptuous visual stimulation.

They’ve resized the magazine (= made it smaller), improved the paper stock and added more pages.

Computer Arts Projects 103

Well I don’t think I’ve seen this before. Taking the term digital art to the extreme, New York’s Oli Goldsmith embeds LCD screens into canvas frames and called them ‘videocanvases’. Clever.

Oli says
“By embedding screens directly into canvases I am starting to blend these two worlds and introduce motion and an amazing dynamic element of digital video to artworks that really serve to make them feel like living, evolving entities.

My first such ‘videocanvases’ use an approach that excitingly allows for the video content to be expanded through flash memory cards. Seeing beyond this type of expansion though, and definitely the most pivotal element in this new direction of all, is the use of screens that are WiFi enabled (wirelessly connected to the net in the same way your laptop is today).”

More on his myartspace

Some outstanding images by Ralph Manis on his Infinitee Designs website.
This one is ‘Girl on a Cliff’
Girl modeled with Poser 4, terrain, and sky rendered in Bryce 5. Tree, cliff, moon, stars, dress, flowers and hair done with Photoshop 7. A 3D/2D recreation of a silk-screen print I made in the 70’s. Tranquil and daring, she watches the sunset over the horizon.

Also tutorials including this portrait of Angie which featured in the Femme Digitale book.
Face modeled in Poser, edited with Maya, materials, hair and touch up’s done with Photoshop, model manipulation and render done with Bryce.

www.infinitee-designs.com

The Common Ground Collection of Gifted Digital Artists 2008

Theme
Future Earth: Our Home in Peril?

Description
Artists from around the world are invited to use the digital art medium to speak to the common issues we all face on this planet, regardless of where we reside or what language we speak or what tribe or nation we identify with. We cannot escape our interconnectedness with regard to the health of planet Earth and its ecosystems. For this collection of digital art, we are looking for compelling imagery that creatively communicates this cross cultural imperative to treat our home – Earth – as the sanctuary that it is for all of us.

Timeline
Please submit your complete entry by September 30, 2007.
October 31, 2007 is the selection notification to artists.

There are NO fees for submissions.

Eligibility and Media
Submission is open to all creative artists whose works can be defined as digital in nature.

We invite artists to submit up to 3 finished digital art images.
Common Ground is using a fairly narrow definition for “Digital Art

Neil Duerden has rejuvenated his website again and sent us this excellent example of his recent work (I wish more people would send us stuff). This one’s called Rapunzel.

Neil seems to be in great demand these days, hope it continues.

www.neilduerden.co.uk