AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Professional and amateur photographers are invited to submit images of modern Kazakhstan to a competition. Deadline: November 15.

Categories include: Contrasts between regions of Kazakhstan; average people; "I am a Witness"; Reporters in Kazakhstan; and more.

The competition is organized by Soros-Kazakhstan.

For more information (in Russian), click here.
http://www.soros.kz/ru/announcements/competitions

from Art4Development

**Please see Deadline Date below**

The City of Buena Park's Exhibiting Artist program provides local and
international visual artists an opportunity to display artwork at the Buena Park
City Hall for eight weeks. The program is intended to nurture working
relationships & partnerships between local and international artists,
presenters, arts organizations and the greater Buena Park community.

The City of Buena Park is currently looking for POP ARTISTS interested in a
possible group exhibition for 2011.

Open to artists working in painting, design, photography, and mixed media. No
installations or sculptures can be accepted. All artwork must be larger than
16"x20" for exhibition.

Artwork Submissions must include artist resume/bio, artist statement, and 3-10

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Creative Divergents is accepting submissions for the Winter 2010 Showcase!

As a reminder, all subjects, styles, and media are welcome. Challenge, explore, push boundaries! The winning submission will receive a cash award and is determined by creative vision, innovation, potential to engage an audience, presentation (i.e. quality of the images submitted), and overall impression.

Deadline for Winter 2010 Showcase: December 15, 2010 at 11:59pm EST
(Get your work in early to give it more time to be seen, commented on, and rated.)

Award: $1,000 (USD)

Only $5 fee per submission. Each submission includes up to 3 images. Full details are available on the Creative Divergents website: http://creativedivergents.com/faqs/

CALL FOR JURY MEMBERS

PLEASE NOTE: What a cool project!

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Needed in order to study the effects of art on public health

http://www.behringinstitute.com

The Behring Institute is seeking placebos for art. With these placebos, long-term research on the influence of art on public health will be carried out. Artists, art lovers, professionals as well as amateurs, are being called on to submit proposals for potential art placebos before 1 January 2011.

Relationships between art and healthcare, as well as the influence and effects of art on health, have been studied frequently. The results of many studies indicate a positive outcome with regard to the health of people and suggest that art can lead to the improvement of mental and physical health.

SoundCinema: Call for Artists/Sound Artists/Film Makers

Deadline: 29 October 2010

SoundFjord, London's only sound art devoted gallery and research unit is currently programming films/AV work for a 'sound season'. The works will be screened at a renowned arthouse cinema in London, c. Nov/Dec 2010.

SoundFjord is open to ideas, though as a guide, here is a list of what we are currently interested in screening:

✧films with seminal scores/use of silence
✧silent films given a new score
✧AV work experimenting in sound/vision
✧films on sound, sound art, noise, etc.
✧docs on artists working in sound/experimental music, individuals with jobs that involve using sound/technology, etc
✧science docs on sound/perception

The City of Buena Park's Exhibiting Artist program provides local and international visual artists an opportunity to display artwork at the Buena Park City Hall for eight weeks. The program is intended to nurture working relationships & partnerships between local and international artists, presenters, arts organizations and the greater Buena Park community.

The City of Buena Park is currently looking for POP ARTISTS interested in a possible group exhibition for 2011.

Open to artists working in painting, design, photography, and mixed media. No installations or sculptures can be accepted. All artwork must be larger than 16"x20" for exhibition.

Attention Los Angeles County-based filmmakers: The Los Angeles County Arts Commission is currently accepting short film submissions by Los Angeles County-based aspiring and professional filmmakers to feature in the 51st Annual Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration telecast on Friday, December 24, 2010.

FutureEverything Festival 2011

FutureEverything
Manchester, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 161 834 1300
info@futureeverything.org
http://www.futureeverything.org

The FutureEverything Award - Prize £10,000
Deadline: 31 October
FutureEverything Art Submissions:
Deadline 24 October
FutureEverything Conference Submissions:
Deadline 24 October

FutureEverything is an art, technology and social innovation organisation that runs year-round innovation labs and an annual festival of art, music and ideas - bringing the future into the present.

Deadline 5pm Wednesday November 3, 2010

Open to all Southern California Artists

Juried by Franklin Sirmans
Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

LAAA's 2010 Open Show runs December 11, 2010 to January 7, 2011
Reception, Saturday, December 11, 6 to 9pm
PLEASE READ ALL GUIDELINES AND APPLICATION FORM CAREFULLY

Eligibility: Competition open to all artists living in Southern California. Entries must be work created within the last three years.

Media: All media. No craft or functional pieces. *For video: please send DVD and make sure disc is cued. Accepted video artists must provide their own equipment/monitors, projectors, DVD player, etc. Discs must be set up for continuous play.

http://www.pq.cz/en/sound-kitchen.html

The Sound Kitchen: Performance Area at Prague Quadrennial

http://www.pq.cz/en/sound-kitchen.html

The Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space is looking for interactive sound installations for the project’s principal venue, the New Stage of the National Theatre.

PQ Sound Curator Mr Steven Brown invites composers and sound designers to join The Sound Kitchen and offer ideas for 15/20 minute pieces to be played, or activated, live by them using a laptop computer, and/or any other type of mobile device (eg iPod. iPad, mobile telephone, cassette recorder!).

We especially encourage (but not limited to) receiving applications which reflect the following -