Wahala Dey

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

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/

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

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.

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.

Calling all talented young Artists...

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

Deadline September 2016

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FOTO PARTY

Please join us this weekend for FotoParty (Music, Photography, Video Art) from 6:00PM

The roof top, Goethe Institut Nigeria, 4th Floor, City Hall, 30 Catholic Mission Street, Lagos, Island. 

Fotoparty will provide a relaxed ambience of visual cocktail, lounge, and music with a mixed community and guests.

TVE OPEN CALL EXTENDED: 22ND FEBRUARY 2015

TVE is making an open call in search of recent artist's film and video to be included in an exchange between Fresh Milk (Barbados), RM, (Auckland) and VAN, Lagos (Nigeria).

Fresh Milk, RM and VAN Lagos, are pleased to welcome submissions of recent film and video works – screenings, installations and expanded cinema – by contemporary artists, to be included in programmes for exchange between Barbados, Auckland and Lagos. Submitted works must have been completed in the last five years and must be made by artists practicing in the Caribbean, Africa or Polynesia.

The foundation of this transoceanic visual exchange (TVE) will be a collection of recent artist’s film and video from each region. However, the final shape and content of the programme will be informed by an open workshop process, which aims to involve and promote discussion within the wider arts communities of each arts initiative.

Working between the Caribbean, Africa and Polynesia, TVE aims to negotiate the in-between space of our cultural communities outside of traditional geo-political zones of encounter and trade. Fresh Milk, VAN Lagos and RM first met as participants in IAI (International Artists Initiated), a programme organized and facilitated by David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, in July 2014. TVE intends to build upon relations established during this initial encounter and open up greater pathways of visibility, discourse and knowledge production between the artist run initiatives and their communities.

Submissions: 
• Must be work from artists practicing in the Caribbean, Africa or Polynesia.
• Must be works that have been completed/made in the last five years.
• Can be films of any length (shorts, experimental, features and video artworks)
• Can be in any language (films originally produced in regional languages are welcome) with English subtitles.
• Multiple submissions are welcome
• Must be accompanied by a description of the work (500 words max), a bio (200 words max) and detail of any technical requirements i.e. audio, installation, equipment required, preferred setting etc.
• Works must be in the form of mp4 files no larger than 10MB, or private vimeo / youtube links

Deadlines for Submission: 22nd February 2015
The exchange will occur in June 2015
Please send submissions and enquiries to the region in which you are practicing:
Caribbean: freshmilkbarbados@gmail.com
Polynesia: taarati@rm103.org
Africa: info@vanlagos.org / vanlagos.org@gmail.com

About the Spaces
The Fresh Milk Art Platform Inc. is a Caribbean non-profit, artist-led, inter-disciplinary organization that supports creatives and promotes wise social, economic, and environmental stewardship through creative engagement with society and by cultivating excellence in the arts. Fresh Milk bridges the divides between creative disciplines, generations of creatives, and all linguistic territories in the region. It functions as a cultural lab, fostering critical, creative practices through local, regional and international programming. The platform transforms into a gathering space for contemporary creatives who are thirsty to debate ideas and share works through residencies, lectures, screenings, workshops, exhibitions, projects etc.

The Video Art Network, Lagos (VAN, Lagos) is a Lagos based New Media art organization, established by the collaborative efforts of artists Emeka Ogboh, Jude Anogwih and cultural producer Oyindamola Fakeye. The organizations objectives are to develop educational and public programmes that promote and create new media art awareness in Nigeria. This is realized through curated screenings and exhibitions of both established and emerging New Media artists.

RM is an artist-run space, project office and (gradually developing) archive. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, RM is a gallery that places the work of local emerging artists alongside more seasoned practitioners. RM seeks to engage with the practices, discourses and modes of presentation that aren’t well-supported or easily accessible in Auckland. Though we might look like a white cube, we are more interested in the potentials of an empty room – a space to gather, to think, to talk, to make, to share… Established in 1997, RM is the country’s longest running artist-run-space. The co-directors are Eleanor Cooper, Melanie Kung, Ziggy Lever, Fleur Sandbrook, Taarati Taiaroa, and co-founder Nick Spratt. Previous incarnations of the rm project have included rm3, rm212, rm401 and rm103.

Owambe at A Whitespace Lagos

Big 60 International Video Art Festival Lagos 2014/2015

A Whitespace,
58 Raymond Njoku
SW Ikoyi
Lagos

January 22nd 7pm

The second annual festival hosted in collaboration with A Whitespace continues with work by Nigerian and Indonesian artists, with films being made available by OK Video. The screening will feature 10 years of Indonesian film alongside a curated exhibition of Nigerian videos entitled ‘Owambe’ also featuring an installation from visual artist Odun Orimolade. The screening is supported by the Biritish Council

Owambe
The gathering of people in celebration is an important part of the Nigerian culture. The milestones of life are marked through community gatherings, music and dance, with the ‘Owambe’ being a classic example of this. Owambe translates as "He/She was there", a colloquial expression for a party where the who-is-who in the Nigerian society are in attendance. Visual cues tell of ties to a celebrant through fabric materials that provide uniformity and a sense of belonging. The entire scene is illuminated by shimmering headpieces (gele) and brilliantly coloured costumes (aso ebi), all creatively embroidered and worn with accustomed grace. Reciprocity is practiced in that giving flows in all directions, from the celebrant to the families and the guest; there exists a commonality in the dispersal of gifts.

The Video Art Network Lagos collaborated with invited Nigerian video artists to explore/interpret Owambe, and how Nigerian communities and cultures contribute to the wider cultural discourse of the global community.


Participants:
- Oyinda Fakeye
- Jude Anogwih
- Emeka Ogboh
- Uche Okpa Iroha
- Wura Natasha Ogunji
- Buki Bodunrin

Installation:
- Odun Orimolade