Deadline: 4 November 2024
Call for entries

CURRENTS 2025 Art & Technology Festival + 3 Separate Exhibitions
Festival date June 13 – 22, 2025, 3 exhibition dates TBD, 2025; Location TBD, New Mexico

CURRENTS New Media is now accepting submissions for our annual 2025 Art and Technology Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as for three separate exhibitions throughout 2025. These exhibitions will focus on the following modalities of art and technology: Sound Environments/Installations, Artist/AI Collaborations, and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality Environments. This open call allows for submissions to either the festival, the exhibitions, or both.

Every summer since 2010, CURRENTS New Media presents one of the leading art and technology festivals in the United States. Based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, CURRENTS brings together diverse, boundary-pushing works of established and emerging new media artists from the USA and around the world.

Submission Deadline: November 4, 2024
Festival Dates: June 13 – 22, 2025
Exhibitions Dates: TBD

This year’s submission categories include:

Installations (interactive and non-interactive)
Sound Environments/Installations
Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality Environments
Artist/AI Collaborations
Robotics/Kinetic/Electro-Mechanical Objects and Installations
Multimedia Performance
Digitally Generated or Fabricated Objects
Wearables
Outdoor Installations and Projections
Experimental Single Channel Video/Experimental Documentaries/Animation

5. entry fee $25/single, $20 each/multiple
6. Contact adresses/URL: connect@currentsnewmedia.org
application link: https://currentsnewmedia.org/submission-guidelines-2025/

Deadline: 25 August 2024
Call for entries

East London Art Prize
Deadline: midnight, Sunday 25 August 2024.
Bow Arts / Nunnery Gallery

The East London Art Prize celebrates and promotes the incredible talent and diversity of art made in the cultural hive of east London. The winner receives a cash prize of £15,000 and a solo exhibition at our Nunnery Gallery. The runner-up second prize is a year’s studio residency with Bow Arts. The entire shortlist is also presented at an exhibition at the Nunnery Gallery, with all artists given mentoring and career development opportunities through the following year.

Who can enter?
The prize is open to any artist living or working within an ‘E’ postcode, encompassing E1-E20, SE1-SE28 and EC1-EC4. Submitting artists should hold an arts degree, equivalent arts qualification or be able to show demonstrable commitment to their practice. Artist collectives/joint submissions are accepted.

What media is accepted?
All media types are accepted, including (but not limited to!) painting, print, drawing, sculpture, digital, film, audio, ceramics, textiles and performance.

Who judges the prize?
The 2025 Prize judges are Louise Benson (Director of Digital, ArtReview Magazine), Phoebe Collings-James (Artist), Jonny Tanna (Director, Harlesden High Street) and Sam Wilkinson (Head of Public Art and Cultural Engagement, UCL).

Deadline midnight, Sunday 25 August 2024.

Submit using the online form

Headed by Bow Arts and supported by a network of local supporting partners, including The British Council, Dulux, The Line, LCF, LLDC, UCL, V&A East and Whitechapel Gallery, the
Prize forms part of Bow Arts’ ongoing support and development of opportunities for artists.
More info here

entry fee: yes
(Entry Fee £10.00 / Concessions Entry Fee £7.00)

East London Art Prize
https://bowarts.org/nunnery-gallery/east-london-art-prize/

Deadline: 1 September 2024
Call for entries

ONE WORLD INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL, 27th?EDITION?
March?12?– 20, 2025 in Prague and in more than 40 towns around the Czech Republic and in Brussels.?

We would like to invite you to submit your film?to the 27th?edition of the festival. One World has grown over the years to become the largest human rights film festival in the world. It is one of the leading cultural events in Prague and the Czech Republic.?

We are looking for:?

Feature or mid-length?creative?documentaries?finished in?last 2 years (2023?- 2025)?-?minimum length is 40 minutes?
Projects for virtual reality (interactive projects, AR, XR and 360° films)
Docs for kids?- short documentaries and animated films?for children?(no experimental films)??

Creative documentaries on human rights, social, political, environmental, and media issues will be selected based on the quality of the filmmaking and the power of their stories.

Selected film?are?screened in four competitive categories: International?Competition?for creative documentaries,?Right To Know Competition?for documentaries making an exceptional contribution to protecting human rights,?Czech?Competition?for local documentaries; One World Interactive Competition for human rights oriented virtual reality projects focused on social impactand several non-competitive thematic?categories; and several non-competitive thematic categories.

For competitive categories, we prefer?World and International premieres?– in case you plan to premiere your film at One World?Festival, please contact us for more information at?program@oneworld.cz.?

A submission fee will be charged?to cover administrative costs:?

Feature and mid-length documentaries: 30 EUR?

Docs for Kids:20 EUR?

The fee will be waived for selected countries of production (more information in the submission form).?

ON-LINE SUBMISSION FORM:??
https://my.oneworld.cz/film-submission/

https://www.jedensvet.cz/

FIRST FILM SUBMISSION DEADLINE:?SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

FINAL FILM SUBMISSION DEADLINE:?NOVEMBER 1, 2024?(for films finished between September and November 2024)?

Deadline: 06 March 2024
Call for entries

2024 OPEN CALL FOR ENTRY !
The 31st Women Make Waves Int’l Film Festival,
presented by Taiwan Women’s Film Association, will be held in Taipei, Taiwan in October, 2024. We are now accepting international submissions for our upcoming edition!

-Eligibility-

– Directed at least by one female (including self-identifying female) director. For Queer films, filmmakers of all genders are welcome.
– Completed no earlier than 1st March 2022.
– A Taiwan Premiere is required.
– WMWIFF is open to all forms, styles, lengths, and formats. Anything related to LGBTQI+ communities, women themes and topics related to gender, feminism and beyond, and current events around the world that reflect the status quo.

-Entry Fee and Deadline-

– USD$15 or NTD$450.
– The deadline for submission is 06 March 2024.

-How to Submit.

– To submit, please make sure to read the guidline (https://www.wmw.org.tw/en/title/942) first, and fill in our entry form (https://www.wmw.org.tw/submission/internation).
– Or, the entrants can also submit via Filmfreeway (https://filmfreeway.com/WomenMakeWavesFilmFestivalTaiwan)
– Please note that for the film submissions, entry fees are required. Your entry will only be accepted if WMWIFF receive complete entry form (including valid screeners) AND entry fees on time.

-About Us-

Established as a non-profit organization in 1993, Women Make Waves International Film Festival, Taiwan has been one of the major film festivals in Taiwan and has established itself as the biggest one dedicated to supporting female talents. WMWIFF aims to celebrate the achievements of outstanding female talents, to explore different aspects of women’s lives as well as to promote equality and rights of all genders. By covering a wide range of genres, issues, and representations of women, WMWIFF seeks to promote great cinematic arts by female directors and to advocate gender equality through films with feminist consciousness and various subjects.

More info on
https://www.wmw.org.tw/en/title/942

Deadline: 31 March 2024
Call for entries

OPEN CALL
Affective Territories Alternate Belonging

Prospect Art’s 4th WALL—a network of international organizations that promote video works—is currently looking for video works for our 2025 programming, “Affective Territories, Alternate Belonging.” Entries will be considered for physical exhibitions in Los Angeles and Lisbon, and on-line screenings through Prospect Art, a not-for-profit arts organization based in Los Angeles. Selected works will be provided a screening fee and may be included in other opportunities within the network in the future .

We are looking for visual artists at any career stage that work in the medium of video from anywhere in the world. The works can be experimental, non-narrative or narrative as long as they are in the realm of video art, are conceptually based, and relate to the theme of the show, co-authored by Prospect Art’s Curatorial Fellow Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, and Prospect Art’s 4th-Wall Program Manager Pedro Inock.

Affective Territories Alternate Belonging

We are seeking video works that challenge traditional notions of belonging beyond colonial borders. We welcome submissions of works with an emphasis on countering hyper-mediatization in the post-internet era, works that question the true nature of our globalized society, that explore emotional connections to land, ancestral memory, and communities beyond conventional boundaries. This open call advocates rejecting digital orthodoxy. It invites video works that explore the subtle “line” of affective territories, aiming to redefine globalization through interpersonal connections while highlighting the significance of tenderness and belonging in a post-digital society marked by network individualism.

REQUIREMENTS

Single or Multi channel works will accepted.

Only works created in the last 2 years will be accepted.

Multiple entries are accepted, please fill out one form per entry.

We ask for a $10 administrative fee per entry to apply .

Please use PayPal and send the funds to ProspectArtProject@gmail.com, or use the QR code below. As a small artist run not-for profit the fee helps us offset the cost of administering the open call (if the fee is not manageable please email 4thwall@prospectart.org for a waiver.)

Artists need a PayPal account to receive screening fees if selected.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS can be found here

https://www.prospectart.org/4th-wall-2024-open-call-1

Previous 4th-Wall Exhibitions

https://www.prospectart.org/performing-time

Please prepare the following and submit through the google form below:

https://www.prospectart.org/4th-wall-2024-open-call

– Artist statement (250 words)

– CV

– Link to video work (with password) only Vimeo/YouTube links on private channels or to a personal website

– Description of work in relation to the theme described (200 words)

– Link to personal website and social media handle

DUE DATE

Applications are due March 31, 2024, at 11:59 PST.

You can direct further questions to : 4thwall@prospectart.org

call for entries
Deadline: 9 April 2024 – regular deadline

Call 2024
Ibrida, festival of Intermedia arts is launching an open call for the 2024 edition. Ibrida Festival will be held in September 2024 in Forlì (Italy).

Ibrida is a festival of intermedial arts which started in 2015 for the purpose of investigating and divulging the most recent productions and research carried on in the field of experimental audiovisual (video art, found footage, metacinema, 2D and 3D animation, etc.). The festival naturally includes performance art and electronic music. Ibrida Festival is curated by Vertov Project.

Regulations

– Works shouldn’t be older then 2021

– Deadline: February 1, 2024 Earlybird Deadline – April 9, 2024 Regular Deadline

– Each artist may submit up to 3 works, also in different media.
– Submission form FilmFreeway
– The festival doesn’t pay any fees for the projection of the video.
– For the live cinema and AV performance the festival offers: fee, food and accommodation during festival, travel and expenses support. Invitation letter, under request.
– 2024 Two special International Prizes for video art and different special mentions.

What we are looking for:

Video Art – Experimental Film (max. 15 minutes)
Live Cinema & Music ( min. 25 – max 40 minutes)
Augmented Reality – Virtual Reality (preview online)

https://ibridafestival.it/
ibridafestival@gmail.com

Deadline: 18 May 2024
Call for entries

Braziers International Film Festival
Aug 30 – Sept 1, 2024, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire, UK

The 6th Braziers International Film Festival is open for submissions. We welcome films of every genre, but with a focus on experimental shorts and artist film.

Running over three days, Braziers International Film Festival features a diverse and dynamic programme of international films, screened in the unique and historical setting of Braziers Park School of Integrative Social Research, one of Europe’s oldest ‘intentional communities’. Films are projected to audiences in a cinema-style environment, with screenings, workshops and special events taking place inside a large, historic 17th century barn. The curated programmes are selected by a team of artist-filmmakers, who have a particular interest contemporary artists’ moving image work, but who are also looking for a diverse range of films in any genre. Film-makers who are selected will be invited to Braziers, and offered full accommodation for the festival duration.
Entries are open to both the UK and international filmmakers.

entry fee: $12
Contact: braziersiff@gmail.com
submissions: https://filmfreeway.com/Braziers

Deadline: 21 May 2024
Call for entries

Video Art Festival in Virtual Reality
is currently an online virtual 3d event produced by non-profit association ZMO – Zusammenarbeit mit Osteuropa – Regionalverband Dresden e.V. (Germany) creative center “Omnibus”*. Its purpose is to celebrate fine art filmmakers and their unique visions in experimental and fine.

*ZMO – Zusammenarbeit mit Osteuropa – Regionalverband Dresden e.V. are many charitable projects under this umbrella. Art, culture and creativity contribute a lot to international understanding on site.

DEADLINE for submissions: May 21, 2024
EXHIBITION DATES: June 1 – June 30, 2024

We want to bring filmmakers from around the globe together in a unique way in order to showcase and enjoy films in the experimental, fine art, video art, animation and avant garde genres that many have never seen or heard of.

Awards & Prizes
First place -DIGITAL Certificate
Second place- DIGITAL Certificate
Third place -DIGITAL Certificate
Fourth place -DIGITAL Certificate

Rules & Terms
All Films must be experimental in nature. This can be abstract, or
narrative. We also accept works of video art, experimental films, experimental animation, experimental music video.

To be shown at the festival, you must provide us with a YouTube link at unlisted (Anyone with the video link can watch your video) or Public (Everyone can watch your video).

• Entry Fees are non-refundable
• You may submit for multiple categories, but each Submission requires an entry fee
• Content Submitters must be 18 years or older
• No Pornography
• No Nudity

• Submissions must be the intellectual property of the submitter, and/or their team. No proxy submissions are allowed. By submitting to Video Art Festival in Virtual Reality, you confirm that you hold the rights to (or are authorized to use) any and all audio and video in your experimental film.

Categories are:

• Experimental Short
• Video Art
• Experimental Animation
• Еxperimental Music Video

https://www.gallery-omnibus.com/opencalls
submit on https://filmfreeway.com/3dvideoartfestival

Deadline: 30 April 2024
Call for entries

Laterale is an international non competitive Festival of cinematic art organized by Associazione Culturale Laterale. Its aim is to enhance the most innovative aspects of audio-visual languages of the contemporary scene and to reduce the distance between artistic research and public involvement. Particular attention is given to young and independent filmmakers and to self-made no-budget works, as result of individual search.

The eighth of Laterale will take place in Cosenza (Italy), at Cinema San Nicola, in August 2024. The Festival promotes a free and stimulating project of sharing, that shows what usually is neglected or rejected because of the distance from the conventional way to do and to interpret the cinema. A space that breaks down barriers and prejudices, massification and standardisation, a space that wants to become an artistic laboratory where it is possible to discover now the cinema of the future.

Call for Entries 2024

1) Short films of all genres, styles and narrative forms are allowed, released from January 1st 2022.
2) Films must have a maximum length of 20 minutes (with credits).
3) Films can be exclusively submitted by using Filmfreeway.
4) Seven deadlines are provided.
5) In no case the registration fee can be paid back; it has to be considered a contribution to Associazione Culturale Laterale for the realization of the event.
6) Films†selection is curated by the festival artistic direction; the notification of selection has to remain confidential until the announcement of the programme.
7) Once selected, films cannot be withdrawn from the festival.
8) Some frames of the selected films might be used for promotional purposes of the festival.
9) The selected films join the archive of Laterale Film Festival; they are not commercially exploited to protect the interests of the authors and of the production. The organisers commit themselves to use the films only for cultural purposes.
10) The festivalâ€s direction reserves the right to include in the Lateral Selection those films that slightly exceed the scheduled time limits but that can be considered significant for artistic values.
11) The participation to the festival implies the total acceptance of the present regulation. The artistic direction has the final judgement on controversial cases.

Submissions via
Filmfreeway: https://filmfreeway.com/lateralefilmfestival

Website: https://www.lateralefilmfestival.com/
Email: lateralefilmfestival@gmail.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/lateralefilmfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laterale_film_festival

Deadline: 8 March 2024
call for entries

2024 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

2. Deadline:
March 8, 2024

3. Dates & location of event context:
April 19 & 20, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA

4. Call – outlining text
The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival invites submissions to its 2024 edition which takes place April 19 & 20, 2024. Weâ€re looking for unique, boundary-pushing works in video, animation, and film.

SUBMISSION CATEGORIES:
•     Experimental
•     Short Narrative
•     Documentary
•     Animation
•     Student Work
•     AI and Art (works made with or about artificial intelligence)
•     Performance, Video Installation, Expanded Media

Theme: AI and Art
In addition to the standard categories listed above, we invite time-based works that explore or that are made with Artificial Intelligence. As AI finds its way more and more into our lives, into art, and into the public discourse, we would like to use this opportunity to question and imagine its impact in all of these contexts. Works submitted in this category are not bound by genre or medium (experimental, performative, narrative, documentary… etc.) as long as they involve the use of AI to some degree in their production. Submissions can also include works that critically address issues related to AI in an investigative, critical, or expressive way. The submitter should indicate the workâ€s connection to these topics in the project synopsis or description.

Performance and Media Exhibition:
We also invite submissions to a one-day media and performance exhibition to take place in the Falbo Theater of the Canady Creative Arts Center that interrogate the relationship between the body and technology, intimacy and telepresence. Submissions may include theatre, dance, sound, or other performance works that incorporate audiovisual media. These might include remote, online or otherwise telematic performances. They might include augmented or virtual reality performances. They might include in-person performances involving media. Works may utilize tools like motion sensors, projection, live or fixed media in the engagement with the festivalâ€s theme. Please submit a brief document with your submission describing concept and technical descriptions/requirements. Direct inquiries to wvmsff@gmail.com

REQUIREMENTS/AGREEMENTS:
Maximum running time of 15 minutes. Works must have been completed after January 1, 2022. 10$ per entry. Students: Free – with valid, current ID. Maximum of 2 entries per person. Separate entry form and fee required for each entry. Applicants agree to allow festival organizers use of accepted works for all promotional materials and events. Deadline for entry: March 8, 2024. Artists whose works are accepted will be notified on or before March 18, 2024.

General Entry fee: $10
Students: FREE (with valid, current ID)

Contact: wvmsff@gmaill.com
URL: https://www.wvmsff.com
Submissions: https://www.filmfreeway.com/TheWestVirginiaMountaineerShortFilmFestival