Wahala Dey

Go Digital

Opening Date & Time: Friday, 8th November - 7:00 PM

Venue: Retro Africa Gallery - 12 Ukpabi Asika Street, Asokoro - Abuja 

Institut français du Nigéria and Retro Africa present, 'GO DIGITAL', a contemporary digital art exhibition. This exhibition seeks to expose the innovation and modern technology that is implemented in contemporary digital art through mediums such as, Photography, Video Art, Virtual Reality, Installations and Sound art. 

Commencing on Friday, November 8th, Go Digital will showcase works by the following artists: 

Jeremiah IKONGIO’s “Power-less” using interactive web database, augmented reality and spatial installation to invite the audience to experience what it means to live without electrical power, the ground-breaking film "Hello, Rain" by CJ OBASI will be featured in our video art room, four series of photography as well as an installation by the renowned digital and conceptual artist Ade Adekola, who creates contemporary representations from traditional and urban Nigerian culture, Uche Okpa-Iroha’s ‘Isolated’ series, an internationally renowned body of work candidly capturing the essence of life on streets of Lagos, and "The Realities of Demas" in Virtual Reality by Joel Kachi Benson, a short VR documentary exploring the work of renowned Nigerian architect and designer, Demas Nwoko. The film takes viewers on a virtual journey through some of the most iconic spaces and designs of one of Nigeria’s pioneer artists.

ART + TECH SESSIONS

VAN Lagos presents its very first ‘ART + TECH SESSIONS’ on the 10th of August 2019. These series of sessions will involve the use and application of different emerging and existing digital tech in the arts and beyond. Video. Art. Network. - VAN Lagos is a New Media art organisation based in Lagos, Nigeria, founded in 2009, that promotes and develops New Tech and Media Art activities in Nigeria.

This upcoming session will explore the use of Augmented Reality (AR) in Arts (and even entrepreneurship). The all-day session includes an AR Masterclass and Presentations with Techies and Artists Jeremiah Ikongio and Uche Anisuba at the Mike Adenuga Centre. This session is proudly supported by Alliance Francaise Lagos and Quadron Studios.

9am - 3pm: AR Workshop with Uche Anisuba & Jeremiah Ikongio
5pm - 7pm: AR Jam Session (Free Entrance)



To participate in the Workshop please send Motivation email to Aike@vanlagos.org.ng
Very limited spaces available.



Contact
Web: www.vanlagos.org.ng
Email: hello@vanlagos.org.ng

Call for Applications for 3rd Edition of the International Video Art Festival in Addis Ababa Ethiopia

Addis Video Art Festival intends to provide a platform for innovative video art in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The festival will screen throughout the city in a variety of locations including street corners, rooftops, public centers and art centers. By sharing video art in both conventional and non-conventional settings, the festival will reach both the artist community and the everyday passerby. The festival aims to create a dialogue between local, and international artists by encouraging digital media culture.



Theme: MUTUAL PERIPHERY

The border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has reopened after 20 years of shut- down following a war with more than 80000 fatalities. These sister countries were once a unified nation, sharing history, culture and language, the only two countries in the world to follow the thirteen month Julian calendar.

In response to this historic moment the festival seeks videos shorts that examine ideas and interpretations of ‘Mutual Periphery’.

Regulation and Guidelines

– Open to national and international artists
– Submission deadline April, 01 2019
– Free submission
– Theme: ‘Mutual Periphery’
– Single channel videos only
– Works must be made within the past 3 years
– If the work uses a language other than English, it must be subtitled in English – Maximum duration 15 minutes
– Two works may be submitted per artist/ requiring a separate entry form per submission /Download entry here: addisvideoartfestival.net/AVAF16-enrty_form.- doc
– Selected artist will be notified by June 1st at which point a screening copy will be requested

DOC: addisvideoartfestival.net/AVAF16-enrty_form.doc
PDF: addisvideoartfestival.net/AVAF3rd-entry_form.pdf

For more information please visit: www.addisvideoartfestival.net

YPN is calling for Moroccan, African and Diaspora video artists for the next Digital Africa screening in Casablanca, Morocco

After Yaounde, London and Tokyo, Yaounde Photo Network (YPN), Cameroon’s platform for photography and lens-based media will be hosting its next Digital Africa screening in Casablanca, Morocco.

The Digital Africa programme stems from a digital media (sound and video art) showcase first curated by Christine Eyene as part of the Africa Utopia Festival (2014) at Southbank Centre, London. It was then expanded as part of YPN’s international collaborations and events. In 2019, YPN partners with the International Biennial of Casablanca (BIC) that will open up its work spaces and host various activities during its incubation phase between biennial editions.

YPN is calling for Moroccan, African and Diaspora video artists to submit video pieces or experiments to be presented at Digital Africa: Casablanca in April 2019. The event will take the form of a video art exhibition and screening, coinciding with the launch of the BIC project space.

Digital Africa: Casablanca will have a dual focus following from the theme of the 2018 biennial that dealt with insular contexts, water narratives relating to seas and oceans, history, migration and cultural hybridity. It will also explore language as a subject matter, vernacular or resulting from colonial legacies, orality, text, literature and coded languages of all sorts.

Interested artists or collectives may send between 1 and 3 video pieces by email in avi, mov, mpeg, mp4 files or via a vimeo or youtube link. Additional information must be emailed along the video file or link in Word or PDF format.

This should include:

Name of author

Title of work, date, format, length

Technical specifications

A short biography and statement on the submitted piece/s (both 250 to 500 words) in English or French.

Submissions can be sent to ypnproject@gmail.com, please indicate in the subject line “Open Call DAC”.

Deadline: Friday 01 February 2019, midnight (WAT) 

Yaounde Photo Network (YPN) is an independent Cameroonian platform dedicated to photography and lens-based art practices. Launched in September 2016 as an online project alongside the YaPhoto pilot, YPN supports and showcases works by Cameroonian and locally-based photographers and video artists, through a number of activities and initiatives that include exhibitions, screenings, professional encounters, research, workshops and various public events held both in Cameroon and internationally.

For more information visit: Yaounde Photo Network’s website

Digital Lab Africa CALL FOR PROJECTS

DLA CALL FOR PROJECTS 

The Digital Lab Africa call for projects targets artists, producers, designers, start-ups, students in the media and creative industries. The call is open to anyone from Sub-Saharan Africa having an innovative project in 5 categories of multimedia production : web creation, virtual reality, video game, animation  and digital music.

DLA is looking for projects at initial stage of development, in need of partners and financial support and innovative in terms of narration, content or technologies.

How To Submit a Proposal 

Download the open call

Complete the online form

Email the required documents applications@digilabafrica.com

Email the following application files (in French or in English) to applications@digilabafrica.com before January 31st, 2019

• Pitch deck / Presentation document (PDF, PowerPoint or Word) including:
  – project’s overview, concept, statement of intent…
  – development and production schedule, provisional budget, target audience and strategy

• Visual element and/or research document
  – Storyboard / mood board / graphics / portfolio / screenplay (for web creation, animation or VR projects
  – Game design document (for video game projects)
  – Any preview, pilot or video demo of the project (if available, for all types of projects)

• A cover letter explaining why you want to be part of the DLA Mentorship & Incubation program (1-page maximum)
• A resume/curriculum vitae of the applicant and/or description of the company represented
• A picture (.jpeg) of the applicant

For more information head over to their website at: http://digilabafrica.com/submit-a-project/

Future Generation Art Prize Open Call Closing Soon 2019

The Future Generation Art Prize has extended ints closing date until the 16th July so there is still time to get your applications in. The Art Prize is open to artists under 35 working in any medium. For more info check out their website: www.futuregenerationartprize.org

Open Call for New Dimensions VR AR Lab For African Artist

About the New Dimensions Lab
Now in its 3rd year, the New Dimensions Lab brings together diverse African artists to learn Virtual Reality (VR) storytelling from leading industry mentors. The Lab takes place over the course of a week at a private retreat where artists engage in discussions and workshops, and develop their creative projects. Six applicants will be selected to participate. Past mentors have included Jessica Brillhart (Google, Vrai Pictures), Jim Chuchu (The Nest Collective), Darren Emerson (VR City), Selly Raby Kane, Katy Morrison (VRTOV), Oscar Raby (VRTOV), and Ainsley Sutherland.

Electric South fully sponsors travel, accommodation and meals for participants.

Requirements:
Applicants must be: 1. Citizens or permanent residents of an African country 2. Currently living on the African continent 3. Accomplished in an artistic field. Any creative discipline is welcome. Past applicants have experience in: documentary and fiction film, theatre, performance & visual arts, fashion, photography, writing, design, creative technology and game development.

Projects ideas must: 1. Be non-fiction stories. We welcome creative interpretation of documentaries. 2. Use immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR) or Augmented Reality (AR). This could include 360 film, interactive worlds, animation, hybrid forms, and beyond.

Submission Details
The last day to submit is 31 July 2018. All successful applicants will be notified by 31 August 2018. The Lab will run from 28 October until 3 November 2018 in South Africa.

To Apply click here: http://www.electricsouth.org/apply/

Ududeagu by Akwaeke Emery

UDUDEAGU from Akwaeke Emezi on Vimeo.


We showed Akwaeke Emery's Ududeagu as part of the first Boda Boda Lounge in 2014

Education is Forbidden

Education is Forbidden is a deeply layered mixed media engagement by Rahima Gambo about the aftermath of conflict, the nature of memory and the echoes and consequences of colonial education in North eastern Nigeria. 

Nahima Gambo is documentary photographer and visual artist based in Abuja. Her work has recently been selected to be included in the 11th edition of the African Biennale of Photography.

To find out more about this series and to see more visuals click here: http://www.rahimagambo.com/education-is-forbidden

Displaces Skin

I loved this beautifully poetic video from Kitso Lynn Lelliot

Open Call for Submissions for The One Minute film Series 'Nightmares of the Sun'

Open Call Nightmares Of The Sun - Curated by Khavn from The One Minutes on Vimeo.

OPEN CALL | 20TH CONTEMPORARY ART FESTIVAL SESC_VIDEOBRASIL October 3rd to November 17th 2016

Entries are open to artists from the Global South and Portuguese-speaking countries

 Entries for the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil will open on October 3rd. Up until November 17th, 2016, artists from the Global South and from Portuguese language speaking countries can enter their new or existing artworks in any language or theme, free of charge. The 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil will run from October 2017 to January 2018 at Sesc 24 de Maio, a unit of Sesc São Paulo designed by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and at Galpão VB, headquarters of Associação Cultural Videobrasil.

The term Global South refers to a field of research used by human sciences and arts that relates to cultural, economic, and political situation of countries and territories on the fringe of mainstream modernization. Aware of the transient character of this notion, Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo steer their actions toward constantly reassessing the statute of this concept.

For this open call, the macro-region at hand will comprise countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia (except Japan), Eastern Europe (including the Balkans), the Middle East, Oceania, and the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries – the latter being one of the new additions of this 20th edition. Apart from Brazil, the CPLP comprises: Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East Timor.

The commission will select as many as 50 artists to take part in art shows, video screenings, performances, meetings with artists, public program activities, educational actions, and publication launches set to take place during the Festival, which has cemented its status as the premier Global South art platform. Shortlisted video artworks will be incorporated into the Videobrasil Historical Collection, that comprises works shown in over three decades of Festivals.

In this 20th edition, the featured artists and groups from Brazil and other countries will compete for two types of prizes. An international jury of contemporary art professionals will award 03 (three) Acquisition Awards of BRL 25,000 each to video works that will become part of the Sesc Brazilian Art Collection.

A jury of delegates of residence institutions which are partners of the Festival will award 05 (five) Artist Residency Awards, that will take place throughout 2017. Each award includes  airfare,  accomodation, and a per diem.

 Free online registration from October 3rd: www.videobrasil.org.br/opencall

Send through your entry!

Find out more about 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil curators:

Chief curator:

Solange Farkas is curator and director of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, as well as founder of the Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, first held in 1983. She was director and chief curator of the Bahia Museum of Modern Art from 2007 to 2010. She served as a guest curator at the 10th Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates, 2011), the 16th Cerveira Biennial (Portugal, 2011), the FUSO - Annual Video Art Festival (Portugal, 2011 and 2013) as well as the exhibitions La Mirada Discreta: Marcel Odenbach & Robert Cahen (Buenos Aires, 2006); Roteiro Amarrado (CCBB Rio de Janeiro, 2010) and Suspensão e Fluidez (ARCO, Madrid, 2007), the two latter focussing on the work of Brazilian artist Eder Santos; and African Contemporary Art Exhibition (2000), in partnership with Klive Kellner, with artists like William Kentridge, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Sue Williamson, Oladele Ajiboye Bamgboye and Kendell Geers, and, more recently, Amanhã vai ficar tudo bem, by Akram Zaatari (São Paulo, 2016) held at Galpão VB.


Guest curators:

Ana Pato is a curator and researcher. A doctoral student at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP), she was chief curator of the 3rd Bahia Biennale (2014) and director of projects of Associação Cultural Videobrasil (2000-2012). She is the author of the bookLiteratura Expandida: arquivo e citação na obra de Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Expanded Literature: archive and quotation in the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster).

Beatriz Lemos is a curator specialized in arts and digital networks. Holder of a master's degree in Social History of Culture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), she is the coordinator of the publishing house Sismos Editorial and creator of the online platform Lastro. Since September 2015, she has been a member of Parque Lage Visual Arts School's Visiting Curator Program.

Diego Matos is a researcher, professor and curator. He holds a master's and a doctorate degrees from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP). He was assistant curator for the 29th São Paulo Art Biennial (2010) and for the 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (2013). From 2014 to 2016, he coordinated the Archive and Research Team at Associação Cultural Videobrasil.

João Laia is a writer and curator. He has curated for institutions like Moderna Museet, in Stockholm; the Chiado National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Lisbon; Videoex, in Zurich; Delfina Foundation and Whitechapel Gallery, both in London; and Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro. He contributes with texts and reviews for publications and vehicles Frieze, Mousse, Flash Art, Terremoto and Público.

Boda Boda Lounge 2016 Open Call

The Boda Boda Lounge Project is a cross-continental video festival that will feature at over 15 spaces throughout Africa between the 18 – 20 November 2016. Boda Boda Lounge Project is currently accepting video art submissions from artists based in Africa and of African descent. Relevant submissions will be put forward for intercontinental screening and exhibition programming. 

The Boda Boda Lounge project is based on the conviction that video art can create exchanges between different contexts in Africa that allow both the transcending of physical boundaries and the creation of an intimate atmosphere for introspection and contemplation.

In this year of the second iteration of Boda Boda Lounge, 2016 sees the bending of terrorism torn borders, threats of the building of walls and increasingly squeezed spaces for progressive thought and political leadership worldwide. This state of urgency limits our agency over space and ability to define it in ways that are inclusive and open. Such a belief requires we dare a different reading of space, its scope and its limitations, but also to discover the interstitial spaces, to open up unsuspected pores, to drag along new fluidities, to experiment with new elasticities and, in short, to imagine alternative channels of fluxes, crossings and entangling of energies and meaning.

In redefining space we propose to look down and through rather than around us. Based on the metaphor of the stack of layers, this year’s theme highlights the ability of the artist to excavate, bend and twist spaces. It is to these spatiotemporal crosses the edition 2016 Boda Boda Lounge invites by choosing as theme SuperPosition, an archeology of the present.

Beyond the simple technique gesture to overlay the video elements (superpose), we seek video works for the Boda Boda Lounge project to show the artist's responsibility to stand outside video’s elements and reorganise them in order to better convey its narrative. The 2016 Boda Boda Lounge will exhibit video art works that burrow into the future, like an archaeologist.

The Boda Boda Lounge Project is a collaborative project between VANSA (South Africa), Waza (Congo DRC) and VAN Lagos (Nigeria). It intends to enable wide access for African artists to be part of the festival and to enable a wide range of African arts organisations to take part. It is an engagement with low cost, widely accessible exchange processes on the African Continent.
The project will take place in a number of the venues (Hosting Hubs) across the continent.

Selection Criteria
The works will travel through the many venues during selection period, where each hosting hub nominated jury will do a final selection for the exhibition.
Download application forms here (ENG / FR) and submit them to taryn@vansa.co.za with the subject line [Boda Boda Project Submission]. You can also email this address for enquirers.

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER FOR $100,000 FUTURE GENERATION ART PRIZE

•Exhibition announced at Venice Biennale

The closing date for entries for the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize with a value of US$100,000 is extended until midnight on Sunday 2 October 2016, to give all young artists the chance to participate.

Entries can be submitted online at www.futuregenerationartprize.org

An exhibition of the work of the shortlisted artists will go on show in Kiev from February to April 2017and will be presented internationally as an official collateral event at the Venice Biennale, opening on Wednesday 10 May 2017.

All artists up to the age of 35 of all backgrounds, working in any medium, anywhere in the world are encouraged to apply. Supporting the application process, more than 600 correspondents all over the world will be nominating artists for the prize and over 50 Partner Platforms worldwide will be ambassadors for the Future Generation Art Prize to encourage artists within their regions to apply.

The main prize will be awarded by an international jury in the amount of US$ 100,000, split between $60,000 in cash and $40,000 investment in the production of a new work. In addition US$ 20,000 will be awarded to up to five Special Prize winners, nominated by the Jury. A Public Choice winner will be selected through online voting and announced at the Award Ceremony.

The pioneering Future Generation Art Prize established by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in 2009 is a worldwide contemporary art prize created to discover, recognise and give long-term support to a future generation of artists. Judged by a distinguished jury, The Prize aims to make a major contribution to the careers of younger artists involved in the dynamic cultural development of societies in transition, many of whom have found it difficult to get their voices heard. The competition is open to all artists up to the age of 35 of all backgrounds, working in any medium, anywhere in the world. 

Press Enquiries: Jane Quinn/Dennis Chang, Bolton & Quinn +44 (0) 20 7221 5000

jq@boltonquinn.com or dennis@boltonquinn.com

Calling all talented young Artists...

 You could win $100k to boost your Art career! Apply for the #FutureGenerationArtPrize

Deadline September 2016

 click here for more info: http://bit.ly/1UoAhu5

Online collaboration opportunity with London-based collective They Are Here

Are you Interested in paid work as a ghostwriter for two fictional characters?

We are looking for Lagos-based artists, writers, photographers and social media enthusiasts to be ghostwriters for an ongoing art project.

You would be working across Facebook, Twitter & Tumblr, creating content as a fictional character.

If you are interested, please email 200 words about yourself and why you would like to take part, plus a photograph that conveys a personal take on Lagos.

This project is organised by artists Harun Morrison & Helen Walker, who collaborate as They Are Here (www.theyarehere.net)

Please email contact ( at ) theyarehere.net by 5 June 2016 to be considered

This project is kindly supported by the British Council UK / Nigeria season 2015 – 2016, VAN Lagos & Project Space Lagos.