AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Are you Optica? Take part with your work!

If you're inside the world of the videoart: independent artist, curator,
vj, institution…, it would be a pleasure for us that you take part of our
program. For that reason, we'd like to invite you to make a proposal for
Optica 2009.

Note for Galleries.-
Optica offers the opportunity to present new video-works by emerging and
established artists. The participation is through invitation and it's free
of charges.

A jury composed of people linked to the world of contemporary art will
select the best work within each section. These will be awarded the Optica
Prize 2009 for best videoart work.

You can send your work together with the submission form, until june 30th,
to:

Optica, International Festival of Videoart 2009

From YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjItY7X0Yc

Prisoners at Cebu are considered the most dangerous offenders in the Philippines. But thanks to four hours of dance lessons a day, their behaviour has been transformed.
Previously, Cebu prison was a wretched place ruled by rival gangs. But when the warden introduced dance lessons, everything changed. "Everyone became friends". Now the prisoners spend most of the day practising new routines. Videos of them dancing to 80s classics have become a big hit on YouTube.

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Thank You for approving me to this site. For the interm I've uploaded some images for review. Any comments are welcome!
Jim

An international photo competition called "Science and Beauty" is accepting entries that reflect the beauty of nature or natural and scientifc processes that cannot usually be seen by the naked eye. Submission deadline: April 15.

Photos can be taken with the use of special equipment, such as a microscope or other magnifying device. Photos should reflect a natural phenomenon, such as a group of insects, or a disaster, such as a volcano eruption. Unusual, colorful and high-quality pictures are encouraged.

Each author can send only one photo taken for the past two years, both published or unpublished.

Authors who wish to participate should register at

http://www.focuscience.org/?p=138 (in Russian).

Proposals and questions can be sent to konkurs@nauka-info.com.ua

This fascinating bit of info was posted in the Art4Development listserv:

Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information

Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information and Eye in the Sky: JPL's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

PASADENA, CA.- Organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art
(PMCA) and curated by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Visual
Strategist Dan Goods and Mars Public Engagement Outreach Coordinator
David Delgado, Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information
explores how scientific data can be experienced and translated by
artists into new and startling forms. This exhibition challenges the
viewer's assumptions by exploring the beauty inherent in the
information and asking viewers to see science in a new light. These

Creative Wall Voices 2009 Invitation

CREATIVE WALL VOICES, International Exhibition
Photography, Art painting, Draw, Music, Writing, sculpture, Cultural or humor short video
Subscription date limit: April 30, 2009

1) 2009 Edition
A video promoting the 2009 edition, showing works and participants to 2008 Edition has been posted. The video is actually on Cultumedias.com, click this link to watch:
http://cmedias.blogspot.com/2009/03/creative-wall-voices-exhibition-2009...
The video is also on www.cultuvida.com

2) Partcipant artists who have website can send their website address or blog link, They
will be included in promotion campaign for free. Partners and Supporters links, info and
logo will be included too.

3) INVITATION to 2009 Edition!

Southbank Centre - The Hayward seeks Curator

Southbank Centre

Curator, The Hayward
Closing date: 8th April 2009

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/jobs

Curator, The Hayward
33,000 GBP per annum

Southbank Centre is the UK's largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site that sits in the midst of London's most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain.