22 March 2012,
on International Water Day
held on Waterwheel’s Tap

Organised by
Mohamed Amin Hammami & Hichem Rejeb from Horticulture, Landscape & Environment Research Unit of Higher School of Agronomical Sciences of Chott Meriem, IRESA, Sousse University – Tunisia

THEMES:
- Water & landscape construction of yesterday. What to do today?
- Water and landscapes across disciplines
- Waters and landscapes: issues of layout development & territorial scales

TIMELINE:
- 30 JANUARY 2012: DEADLINE to send performance proposals & abstracts to Amin Hammami & Dr Hichem Rejeb
- 1 March 2012: deadline for completing accepted papers
- 10 –12 March: training on using Waterwheel for the accepted authors
- 12 March: announcement of the symposium program
- 22 March 2012: symposium
- 3 months after the symposium: publication of the proceedings (book & pdf file)

Guidelines for submissions - download here
Submission form - download here
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photo from NASA’s eyes on the Earth blog Ichkeul Lake in northern Tunisia.
Top: November 14, 2001. Bottom: July 29, 2005; the water level is higher, but a large part of the lake appears red due to the presence of aquatic plants. Ichkeul Lake and wetlands are a major stopover point for hundreds of thousands of migrating birds who come to feed and nest. It is the last remaining lake in a chain that once extended across North Africa, and has badly deteriorated as a result of the construction of three dams on rivers supplying it and its marshes, which have cut off almost all inflow of freshwater. The Tunisian government plans to undertake various measures to retain freshwater in the lake on a year-round basis and reduce the salinity of the lake.

WATERWHEEL, a new online platform exploring ‘water’ as a topic and metaphor, will be launched on 22 August, in Brisbane (Australia) AND will take place live online on the TAP at 6pm – find your time here  – Media release here .

The TAP is an online, real-time venue and forum, workshop and stage for live networked performance and presentation. Here you can create and collaborate, rehearse and remix, present and exchange, participate and communicate—privately as a crew or publicly with an audience. The Tap provides tools for live networking and real-time media mixing.
Below some info on how to use WATERWHEEL. Do not hesitate in contacting us for more details or a guided tour of the TAP.

WHAT IS WATERWHEEL
new online platform exploring ‘water’ as a topic and metaphor. Here is a short video presentation about it – check our vimeo account for a new video coming soon showing the TAP in its latest development!  See also media release attached and info below.
All you need is a computer with internet access and a web browser with the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. To contribute and collaborate via the Tap, you might also need a webcam and headset depending on your performance/presentation.
* sign up, you will receive an email with a link
* Activate the link, you can create your TAP (please give it a title) and upload on the WHEEL (check also your junk/spam box, maybe email goes there)

HOW TO UPLOAD
Video tutorial – You can upload: Image (JPG, PNG)  | Video (MP4) | Animation/Slideshow (SWF) | Audio (MP3) | Document (RTF, PDF, DOC, XLS) : all media about ‘water’ as a topic or metaphor.

Download pdf file about upload requirements & instructions how to use the TAP

HOW TO USE THE TAP
* once you signed up and activated the link received by email
* you can create your TAP (please give it a title) and upload on the WHEEL (check also your junk/spam box, maybe email goes there)
* If you want to invite someone on your TAP, add that user in your crew
* user will receive an invitation by email with a link
* link has to be activated
* user will log in
* then click on ‘My Taps’ & on the table, there will be ‘superD’ TAP or another titled TAP you’ve been invited to
* On the right side of the table, you have a link ‘ENTER’. Click on it.
* the TAP will load on your webpage (patience, it might take a few minutes – you might be asked to update your flash player to new version, that doesn’t take much time. Just follow the prompt. But you might need to re-log-in)
* You can go with or without webcam. You will need to go on the top menu and select a tab (webcam, visuals, audio) and within each tab, an icon that you will drag onto the stage below. If you want to type chat, go on the write side at the bottom, there is an entry for public and crew. And in the middle on the right, there is another entry for a crew private chat (not seen by audience).
* if you click on a media (once it is dragged on the white page), you will see a palette of tools – first row from top: keep your mouse down when you select one of the tools, second row: resetting tools, third row: just a click on the tool you need, volume icon: keep your mouse down and go down to diminish the volume.

This project is initiated by Suzon Fuks as part of a Fellowship assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body; in collaboration with IGNEOUS and INKAHOOTS, supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, Brisbane City Council, the Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ausdance Queensland, Youth Arts Queensland & iMAL. Creative Sparks is a joint initiative of Brisbane City Council and the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. People collaborating so far on the project are from NZ, Australia, Indonesia, India, Serbia, Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Canada & USA.

This 2nd lab will happen on the TAP with acces only to webcams (no mixing media yet), so we can be only 6 participants per session (for this lab). Very exciting: there are functions that I never saw before: webcams images can be dragged, resized, flipped vertically and horizontally, as well as rotated!

THIS IS FIRST WEEK DOCUMENTATION on the waterwheel blog

UpStage is an open source platform for cyberformance: remote performers combine images, animations, audio, web cams, text and drawing in real-time for an online audience. All you need is a web browser!

The fourth annual festival of performances in UpStage will be held on 10 October, 2010, featuring a record 17 shows made by artists from around the world.

101010 will start at 2am Milwaukee time on Sunday 10 October and run for approximately 20 hours (with a couple of refreshment breaks). Click here to view the full schedule.

There are dance-based performances, theoretical meditations, comedy, explorations of sexuality, conceptual works, stories, creative interpretations of technology and numerous interactive works. Several performances include participatory contexts prior to the festival and some are part of larger projects. Click here to read about the performances.

Just over half of the shows are by artists who have previously made work in UpStage, with nine shows coming from artists new to UpStage. Many of the new artists are established in other disciplines, including theatre, dance, music and visual arts, and are interested in exploring the extension of their practice in cyberspace.

There will be RL access nodes in several locations including Wellington and Auckland (NZ), New York (USA), New Hampshire (USA), Oslo (Norway), Nantes (France), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Calgary (Canada) and Vietnam.

Supporters
The 101010 UpStage Festival is supported by the voluntary efforts of many people, most especially the adventurous, innovative and imaginative artists creating the performances and the enthusiastic organisers of the RL access nodes. THANK YOU!
The festival is also supported by Creative New Zealand, CityLink (providing free server hosting and traffic), Auckland University of Technology (software maintenance and development) and Stray Media (video editing and support).

More information from http://bram.org/9meetings
+++ Documentation of the Huis Clos / No Exit – On Translation performance at NIMk Amsterdam available from http://bram.org/huisclos/ontranslation/
+++ Article on the HTTP show of this spring IF NOT YOU NOT ME, ANNIE ABRAHAMS AND LIFE IN NETWORKS by Maria Chatzichristodoulou in Digimag 54 May 2010 http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=1793

It is a place where you can leave your waterstory, waterpoem, watersketch, or whaterever: suzonfuks@gmail.com > subject: water.

It is a time when you can get other kinds of aesthetic fluctuations, through the force of streams which have to be caused by decorative and dramatic tidal resonances.
We can’t tell you any more, because this plot is highly dependent upon the coming myriad of tiny aqua-semantical dataflows.
The only saying that would flow around for now is: to sprinkle or not to sprinkle?

SPRINKLER FOUNTAIN is part of VIRTUAL FOUNTAINS:  for 101010 UpStage Festival, there will be presentation of initial ideas of a new project about WATER, a currency in all cultures, a compelling issue providing metaphors and vocabulary for creative exchange online and on-site.

In other words: please send us before the festival memories, tales & media about water that you are happy for us to use: suzonfuks@gmail.com > subject: water, or just turn up at the fountain on the day! we will post a link closer to the date.

31  January 2010 – dança em foco – International Video & Dance Festival
The 2010 edition will take place in August in Rio de Janeiro followed by other cities, with free public showings.
The applications will only be accepted though the site.

5 February 2010 – Arizona State University Art Museum Annual Short Film and Video Festival
guidelines no longer than 10 minutes
The festival is an annual event, taking place in April of each year.
a still image from your entry in digital format (.jpg) for the Web and publicity purposes.
send your DVD copy with a brief description of the work + name + e-mail +phone numbers + mailing address.
Entries selected for the festival will become part of the festival library.  By entering the festival, you give the ASU Art Museum permission to make copies of your work for press and educational purposes.
John D. Spiak – ASU Art Museum
Arizona State University
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, Arizona 85287-2911

12 February 2010
Please submit to the  online portal
Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in London England on 14-16 June 2010
Artistic submissions are invited across the broad range of mediums
covered by
Computational Aesthetics. Specific examples include, but are not
limited to:
•    artworks that employ real-time visual processing;
•    artworks that employ computer graphics on the web;
•    2D or 3D artworks that run on stand-alone consoles;
•    virtual worlds created for the web;
•    game art pieces that run on stand-alone consoles or the web;
•    performances that include live computer graphics and/or live real-
time visuals; and
•    artist presentations, posters or screenings that explore topics
related to computer graphics, modeling, and/or real-time visuals

15 February 2010 Naoussa International Film Festival
- The subject of the films depends on the judgment and the inspiration of the creators. The film has to be mainly created by using digital means. The total duration twenty (20′) minutes for fiction and animation films, ten (10′) minutes for experimental category.
- Please send your film in a DVD (PAL) for the process of selection.In case your film will be selected you should send to Naoussa International Film Festival a projection copy in DVCPRO or DVCAm or miniDV or BETA format.
- completed 18 months maximum before the date of the Festival.
- FILL IN ELECTRONIC APPLICATION FORM, print it, sign it and send it along with the film with the indication: “No commercial value, only for cultural reasons” + CD or via e-mail to publications@niff.gr: Stills  (in electronic form*) + Photos directors/perforamers (in electronic form*)
TO: Naoussa International Film Festival- Digital View Department – Katsoulaki 1 – Naoussa, 59200 – Greece

28th February 2010
17th – 23th June 2010 Munich  short film festival 2010 (Germany) (reelport)

28. February 2010
SIGNES DU NUIT – Paris  (reelport) 31. March – 11. April 2010 – deadline: 28. February 2010
- allowed genres: fiction, documentary, experimental, video art
- 30 minutes max. lenght for shorts
- full lenght for documentaries
- films must have been completed on January 1st, 2008 or after
- screen ratio for 35 mm / 16:9 or 4:3 for DV / Sound/Son: PAL or NTSC
- language sequences should have English or French subtitles

28. February 2010
SHORT FILM FESTIVAL DETMOLD (Germany) (reelport)
From 10th to 13th June, accompanied by video installations, workshops, concerts and parties.

1 March 2010 – Companhia de Dança de Almada (Portugal)
“International Platform for Choreographers” and/or “Video-Dance Showcase”
Companhia de Dança de Almada (Almada Dance Company) is organizing a large forum for performing, meeting, dancing and interacting, to be held in Almada from 16 to 18 September, 2010.  Individual choreographers or dance companies are welcome to submit their projects.  Download the Conditions and the Proposal Application Form

2 March 2010 – [self ] ~imaging // artists portraying themselves in film and video
- The films/videos may be produced between 2005 and 2010
- Excerps of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: max 10 minutes
- Only one film/video can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should be preferably made available online for review and/or download as Quicktime . mov, Windows Media .wmv, Flash video .flv – minimum size 480×360 px, preferred 640×480 px
–> if no own website is available, alternatively the film can be submitted via a free upload/download service, for instance, SENDSPACE – www.sendspace.com – or PANDO – www.pando.com
Once selected, the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality

5 March 2010 http://www.fileprixlux.org/entry-forms.aspx
INTERACTIVE ART
ELECTRONIC SOUND
DIGITAL LANGUAGE

31 March 2010
in May 2010 NapoliDanza – PARTICIPATION RULES
All the companies, videomakers and producers will be admitted to participate sending us a work about dance belonging to one of the following categories:
· A – Recordings of shows or studio processing of shows
· B – Video creations
· C – Documentaries and/or ethnic dances
Participants have to:
•    Compile the online entry form on our web site, in each part ( as correct and complete as possible) for each video subscribed – http://www.napolidanza.com/index.asp?ling=e
•    Mail us
1.    a DVD copy of the video, PAL format only, which will remain as part of the Napolidanza videodance archive and will be used only for not commercial purposes.
2.    1 CD containing at least two still photos in JPEG format about the video, including the back stage working and write information on the support itself (avoid paper prints) and a brief outline (in .doc or .pdf format) about the content of the video (even with printed page attached).
3.    (New) For works whose duration exceeds 3 mins. you must send us also a teaser (duration max 3 mins.) on a second DVD copy (always in PAL format) for free publishing on on-line archive on our website Napolidanza.com.
The folder must be sent to:  NAPOLIDANZA c/o Marilena Riccio – viale Nicola Fornelli 8, 80132 Napoli – ITALY
FOLDER ARRIVED BY ORDINARY MAIL AFTER APRIL, 15TH 2010 WILL CAUSE RESPECTIVE WORK ELIMINATION FROM 17TH EDITION OF FESTIVAL.

2 April 2010 -  One Minute Films of OMFC
(One Minute Film Collection)

5 April 2010 – CologneOFF VI – Cologne Online Film Festival
festival theme: “Let’s Celebrate – memory & identity in an experimental context”
- The full-length films/videos may originate from the years 2004-2010.
- Excerpts of videos or films are not accepted!!
- Duration: max 10 minutes (exceptions up to 15 minutes are possible)
- Max 2 films/videos can be submitted.
- Productions using language and/or text other than English need English subtitles.
- The preview copy should preferably be made available online for review and/or download
- as Quicktime . mov, Windows Media .wmv or Flash video flv (size 640×480 px)
After selection the artists/directors will be invited to send a hardcopy of the selected video on DVD in best screening quality.
Entry form.

23 April 2010 – VISIONI DAL FUTURO festival international contest
second edition .:IridescentWorlds:.
Torino May 28-29-30 2010 Cinema Massimo, Hiroshima Mon Amour
New competition announcement Video and Live media
Visions from the Future 2010 calls all the videomakers and audiovisual researchers to create, shaping image and sound, works that pass through us to imagine IRIDESCENT WORLDS.
Entry Form

30th of April 2010 – K3: Short Film Festival Villach – Awards
The uniqueness of this festival is the courageous mix of engaging and disturbing films.
send films with completed entry form to:
Fritz Hock
c/o K3: Int. Kurzfilmfestival Villach
Eichenweg 16/15
9520 Treffen-Annenheim
Austria/Europe

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TANK TV: An open Call for open minds
tank.tv welcomes submissions. Each piece of work is judged on its own merit rather than on name or history of the artist. In this way, tank.tv exhibits the known and unknown artist side by side.

deadline 1 September 2009 – 1 September 2010
Java Museum – Forum for internet Technology in Contemporary Art will be celebrating in 2010 its 10th anniversary and is looking for Internet based art from the years 2000-2010
details, regulations and entry form

from 27 January 2010 – SFC – Shoah Film Collection
A Virtual Memorial Foundation/VideoChannel
More information and entry form.
REGULATIONS
-The films/videos may originate from the years 2000-2009
-Only complete films are accepted, no excerpts!
-The films/videos can be submitted only in a digital format –> Quicktime, AVI, mpeg2, .flv via an upload platform like SENDSPACE – www.sendspace.com or an URL online
-The duration of a film/video may be min. 1 minute and max. 15 minutes, the duration may be exceeded, but only on request.
-Max. 2 films/videos may be submitted
-Films/videos produced in another language than English, need in any case English subtitles