Johannesburg calling

A MAZE. calling.

We are seeking for curious, playful and adventurous artists and indie game developers from the sub Saharan region to participate in A MAZE. Interact 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

A MAZE. Interact is an experimental and visionary media art festival, which will take place from 29th of August to the 2nd of September in several locations in Braamfontein, Downtown Johannesburg.

Since 2008 A MAZE. is celebrating the convergence of games, art and society. It is a series of events as well as a conceptual format that offers a regularly emerging platform for interdisciplinary and intercultural exchange. Creatives are encouraged to break down the conventional computer game and surpass established digital or analog concepts of play.

The goal of the A MAZE. Interact Festival in Johannesburg in South Africa in 2012 is to create an annual platform for African and European media artists and game developers. A MAZE. Interact targets the collaboration between artists and the exchange on an artistic, academic and cultural level.

Besides a general interest in the broader field of Gaming and Playing, contributions by the selected artists towards one or several of the allocated modules are very welcome.

*Exhibition:
The exhibition will show artistic computer games, interactive and playful installations, video documentations of public intervention and games.
*Conference:
The conference focuses on the topics "Mobility, Public Space, Games and Play".
*Workshop:
The workshops teach practises of engineering by using open source tools for artistic approaches.
*Public Gaming/ Interventions:
Playful game concepts with amazing and wired rule sets which engages interaction in the public and focuses on social and economical issues.
*Performance:
Performative interventions, music or dance performances, using electronics and micro-controllers in public/ stage, mixing music with realtime visuals, circuit bending.

A MAZE. provides the playground. You are welcome to play with this enviroment and make this festival to a powerful game/ platform for social/media critical discourse with international participants and publicity. Please check us out at www.amaze-festival.de and contact me thorsten@amaze-festival.de

The call is open from February 16, 2012 till June 1, 2012.

Our partners are Goethe Institute Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University, University of Johannesburg, Praekelt Foundation, VANSA, Trinity Session, Transmediale, CIANT, Coded Culture.

The A MAZE. team and I am looking forward getting in contact with you and your artistic outcome.

All the best,

Thorsten S. Wiedemann, A MAZE. festival director

THE THIRD EDITION OF OSLO SCREEN FESTIVAL

March 9th-11th 2012
www.screenfestival.no

FREE ENTRANCE!

Oslo Screen Festival is a 3-day international festival for video art taking place at Filmens Hus, UKS, Litteraturhuset and Ny Musikk. This year we have a varied program which includes film programs, concerts, performances and lectures.
http://vimeo.com/36795336

OFFICIAL OPENING
Friday 9th at 19:00 at Litteraturhuset
Film screening by Max Hattler, musical performance by Steen-Andersen & Sunniva R. Wettre, Amund Sjølie-Sveen, Duo Torquati-Dillon and DJ Lasse Marhaug.

FILM PROGRAMS
Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th at Filmens Hus 13:00-20:00
Bringing together artists who work with the moving image using different techniques, forms and themes, these programs showcase films that seek their own language through subjectivity and experimentation. The festival introduces a lineup of films from artists such as Reynold Reynolds, Joao Salaviza, Kiron Hussain, Momoko Seto, Mattias Härenstam, Pierre Lionel Matte, Kaia Hugin, Bao Lixin and many more!

LUNCH CONCERT
Friday 9th at 12:00 at Ny Musikk
USB - United States of Barents is a solo performance with and by Amund Sjølie Sveen with a political insight on questions dealing with local, global and northern identity, power of definition, borders, and the new political and economical focus at the northern areas.

LECTURE
Friday 9th at 15:30 at UKS
Curator Evelin Stermitz will introduce the ArtFem.TV project and talk about Video Art, Feminism, and Women Artists.

ROUND TABLE
Saturday 10th at 11:00 at Filmens Hus
How does sound shape images? - The role of sound and music in non-narrative moving images. Participants: Marte Aas, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Bodil Furu, Bjørn Erik Haugen. Produced by NOTAM.

BEST VIDEO AWARD
Sunday 11th at 13:00 at Filmens Hus
The Best Video Award will be presented by Saatchi & Saatchi Oslo. Saatchi & Saatchi is well known to support young and promising visual artists, and have presented the New Directors' Showcase for more than 20 years, one of the highlights of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

COMPLETE PROGRAM CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE
screenfestival.no/2012/program/Program_A5.pdf

Our partners are: Ny Musikk, Notam, Nabroad, Atelier Nord, Plymouth University, art:screen, Magmart, Fonlad, Projecto Videolab, VisualContainer, Aesthetica Magazine, UKS, ArtFem.TV & The Dream That Kicks.

Kindly supported by Norsk Kulturråd, Oslo Kommune, the Austrian Embassy and Saatchi&Saatchi Oslo.

LINKS:
http://www.nymusikk.no/
http://www.saatchi.no/
http://www.notam02.no/web/
http://www.nabroad.org/
http://ateliernord.no/en
http://artscreen.se/
http://magmart.it/
http://fonlad.net/
http://www.visualcontainer.org/
http://www.uks.no/
http://artfem.tv/
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/
http://www.norskkulturrad.no/

VAN Lagos in Mali

VAN,Lagos will be screening across venues in Sikasso and Segou, Mali between the 10th- 20th February 2012