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FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA CALLS FOR AWARDS VIDA 12.0

Fundación Telefónica opens the call for Life International Awards VIDA, in its twelfth edition.

VIDA 12.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and their associated disciplines, such as robotics and artificial intelligence works and projects that have emergent behaviour that evolve over time, react to their surroundings and seem to have own life. A total of 80,000 euros will be given as price; 40,000 in the category of the 3 best works completed, and another 40,000 as an incentive to production for undone projects. Winners will be selected by an international jury composed by Daniel Canogar, José Carlos Mariátegui, Monica Bello, Sally Jane Norman, Simon Penny and Karin Olenschläger.

Jan van Eyck Academie Post-Academic Institute for Research and Production

Fine Art, Design, Theory

CALL FOR ARTISTS' APPLICATIONS
Deadline: 15 September 2009

Jan van Eyck Academie
Academieplein 1
6211 KM Maastricht
The Netherlands
http://www.janvaneyck.nl

The Jan van Eyck Academie invites fine artists to submit research and production proposals for a research period in the Fine Art department. The application deadline is 15 September 2009.

The Jan van Eyck Academie is an institute for research and production where artists, designers and theoreticians work alongside each other and establish cross-disciplinary exchange.

Dear Family and Friends, Mentors and Colleagues:

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BBC world service story about 'Play Me, I'm Yours' artwork by Luke Jerram. 30 street pianos installed across London for SingLondon and City of London Festival.

News link from the Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/12/30-pianos-scattered-acros_n_230...

If you are interested in displaying your artwork at a participating village merchant on a Friday evening from 5:30 -8:30 PM for Claremont Village Artwalk please contact me at marilyn@marilynfay.com. The next Claremont Artwalk will be August 7, 2009

Thanks to AMPer Shirin Pilehvari for sending this on:

Text of Mohsen Makhmalbaf's speech in European Parliament on Wednesday 8 July 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen;
Honourable members of parliament,

I am here - as an Iranian, as an artist and as a representative of the protestors who are being killed in Iran for the sake of democracy - to ask you the following questions:

"If the passengers of an aircraft were taken hostage by a hijacker, would the governments of the world side with the hijacker or with the passengers? Would the nations and governments of the world declare that the hijacking is an internal affair between the passengers and the hijacker, or take steps to rescue the passengers?"

WORLDWIDE SEARCH FOR THE FIFTH CURATOR

BRITISH COUNCIL INTERNATIONAL CURATORIAL COMPETITION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WHITECHAPEL GALLERY

Deadline for proposals 4th September 2009

http://www.britishcouncil.org/collection
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org
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WHAT IS THE FIFTH CURATOR COMPETITION?
The Fifth Curator competition is a new and unique opportunity for an aspiring curator from outside the UK to select an exhibition from the British Council Collection, which includes over 8500 key works of British art from the 20th and 21st century.

Apply for the Ford Amphitheatre Summer Partnership Program

Deadline: Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission is currently seeking applicants
for the 2010 Ford Amphitheatre Summer Partnership Program. The
Partnership Program comprises the core of the Ford Amphitheatre summer
season which runs from May through October. Accepted applicants to the
program enter into a co-producing partnership with the Arts Commission.
The Arts Commission provides significant presentation and marketing
support to participating arts organizations which, in turn, provide the
residents of Los Angeles County with a rich cultural sampling of
performing arts of the region. Performances take place at the 1,200-seat