SITE Santa Fe is seeking silent, single-channel videos with a duration of eight minutes or less from professional artists to be presented on opening night of “The Dissolve,” SITE’s Eighth International Biennial. The Biennial, organized by Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco, explores the paradigm shift within the realm of contemporary art making in which traditional visual arts (such as sculpture, drawing, painting) mingle with up-to-the-minute technology, creating a hybrid practice where the homespun meets the high-tech.

For one night only, Friday, June 18, 2010 – the selected videos will be projected onto building façades throughout SITE’s Railyard district during the gala dinner and after party.

Submission deadline: April 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance will be made by email by May 17, 2010.

Eligibility: This call for entries is open to all professional artists. Submissions must be provided in DVD format. Please label all works with title, artist names and duration. Artist contact information including email address must be provided.

Mail or deliver submissions to:

SITE Santa Fe
Attention: One Night Stand
1606 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501

Submissions will only be returned if a SASE is included.

Here’s an arresting article about just what it means to copy a work of art vs. be inspired by it. This LA Times article by Mark Lamster talks about the curious case of photographers David Burdeny and Sze Tsung Leong. Both artists have a penchant for creating large landscape photographs of both urban spaces and natural wonders. While one artist, Leong, has undeniable global recognition, Burdeny, it seems, appears the copycat. But how to prove this? This article touches on some really wonderful questions about artistic license, copyright, and basic ethics. Read the article for more info and compare and contrast the artists’ works for yourself.

David Burdeny / Kostuik Gallery / "River Seine II, Paris," 2009, from David Burdeny's "Sacred and Secular" show.

"Seine I," 2006, from Sze Tsung Leong's "Horizons" show. (Sze Tsung Leong / Yossi Milo Gallery)

Kutztown University of Pennsylvania is compiling information on MFA programs that encourage, recognize, and are receptive to performance art, specifically programs with a strong emphasis on performance, time-based and inter-disciplinary explorations.

The Harpo Foundation is offering awesome grants. For more info visit: http://www.harpofoundation.org/info.html

Mission
Harpo Foundation was established in 2006 to support artists who are under recognized by the field. This applies to all artists whether emerging or further along in their careers. We view the definitions of art and artist to be open-ended and expansive.

Eligibility
Proposals may only be submitted by non-profit institutions. Only one proposal will be accepted per institution. Artists who apply on behalf of themselves are not eligible. Institutions in countries outside of the United States are eligible to apply but if awarded must be prepared to supply the foundation with a legal affidavit written in English qualifying its activities and structure.

Proposals
Proposals to the foundation may take the form of installations, public interventions, residencies and exhibitions where the artist is commissioned to create new work. The Foundation will not support multiple artists in a group exhibition or calendar of programs, preferring instead to support a significant opportunity for an individual artist or collaborative team at an important moment in their development.

Funding Focus for 2010
The relationship between art and site in an era defined by digital technologies is the focus for Harpo Foundation’s 2010 funding cycle. Of specific interest is the dialectic between the non-locality of the digital world and the existential physicality of our everyday environment. For example, our sense of place is being drastically altered by web space, which brings geographically distant locations together to form a new kind of locality, yet what’s small, local, personal, political and natural informs our vision for a sustainable future; the search for place-bound identity persists.

When site-specific art emerged in the late 1960´s, the physical and experiential qualities of a fixed and permanent location inspired the art. Since then, ’site’ has been redefined endlessly, turning the tangible, grounded concept into something fluid and transient. Interestingly, in our everyday lives, the local is often seen as losing ground to globalizing dynamics, evoking the question, has place become an ephemeral, fleeting image?

The Foundation is interested in how artists are reclaiming the significance of the local while simultaneously placing themselves and their creative lives within a global context. We are interested in supporting projects that are grounded in the real world, that will draw upon local phenomena, activate social relationships to inspire a community, trigger memory to recall a place’s unique history, to name just a few of the ways we see artists addressing site today. We are also interested in supporting projects that explore the idea of place using technologies that challenge our traditional notions of what qualifies as locality.

In pursuing this direction for one year, we hope to shed light on how artists today are locating or siting their work in a dematerializing world and the Foundation will prioritize projects that expand, explore, critique, reconcile, and challenge this 21st century phenomenon.

Required materials

• Description of Project [max of 5,000 characters, including spaces] Your description should address the Foundation’s funding focus, priorities, and goals.
• Up to 20 examples of the artist’s work. Follow these instructions below when preparing your work samples for the CD/DVD:

1. Images should be individually numbered, titled, and in jpeg format, not bundled into a presentation. (example: 1.artistname.jpg, 2.artistname.jpg, 3.artistname.jpg)
2. Include video and audio clips among your samples if proposed artist works with video or sound.
3. Include a list that identifies and describes each work sample (max 250 characters per work sample description.)

• Artist/Collaborative Team Bio [max of 1000 characters, including spaces]
• Description of Organization [max of 3,000 characters, including spaces]
• Budget identifying the artist’s honorarium/commissioning fee and artist’s production costs. (Grants will usually not exceed $10,000.)
• Copy of your organization’s government issued non-profit determination letter

Format
1. Submit proposal online. (Our online application is undergoing revisions and will be back online March 15, 2010.)

2. Send a printed hard copy of the proposal as well as a clearly labeled CD or DVD containing the complete proposal to our Los Angeles office:

Harpo Foundation
Julie Deamer, Executive Director
4423-1/2 Mont Eagle Place
Los Angeles, CA 90041

Deadline
The next deadline is April 15, 2010. Online applications must be uploaded by midnight and the CD/DVD must be postmarked April 15; Grantees will be notified by November 1, 2010.

Criteria
Projects and work that advance and cross the boundaries of media and artistic disciplines will be given first consideration. Proposals will be judged on the basis of the quality of the artist’s work, the potential to expand aesthetic inquiry, and the strength of its relationship to the Foundation´s Funding Focus for 2010.

Process
Harpo Foundation’s Board of Directors is responsible for selecting supported proposals.

We stumbled on this gem while surfin the net. There is a bunch of helpful info here for you budding writers out there!

http://chrisguillebeau.com/3×5/overnight-success-year-three/

The City of San Jose Public Art Program – San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant Master Plan & Design Team Artist RFQ

DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT (Mountain Time) on Thursday, March 11, 2010. This is an online application process only and the deadline cannot be extended

For the complete RFQ go to http://www.sanjoseculture.org/?pid=4500

INTRODUCTION

The City of San José Public Art Program is seeking an experienced public artist or team to collaborate with the consultant planning team for the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant Master Plan (PMP). The selected artist/team will work collaboratively with the Master Plan Consultants to provide an artist’s perspective on the overall design of the PMP, as well as identify opportunities to include public art of their design (or by others) into the development of the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant (Plant). The build-out of the master plan will commence approximately two years after the completion of the Master Plan and continue for approximately 10-15 years depending on the adopted scope and available funding.

PROJECT BUDGET: $120,000

ARTIST ELIGIBILITY

This opportunity is open to individual artists or artist-led teams working or living in the United States. All applicants must have all necessary documentation and permits to work in the United States at the time of submittal of qualifications.

If submitting as a team, a professional artist with public art experience must be the lead team member.

Only artist/teams that have completed a large scale public art projects and/or planning projects with a total aggregate (planning, design and implementation) budget greater than $300,000 will be considered.

Artists currently under contract for an art project with the City of San José Public Art Program are not eligible to apply for this project unless their current project will be complete by May 2010, or the project is currently suspended with no proposed re-activation date.

APPLICATION PROCESS

All materials will be submitted online, via CaFÉ™ website (www.callforentry.org). There is no application fee to apply or to use the CaFÉ™ system. To view the application, go to www.callforentry.org , register a username and password, navigate to “Apply to Calls”, and search the list for “City of San Jose – ESD Master Plan Artist.”

We love Lifehacker. It’s always a fruitful fount of knowledge about how to run a more productive and professional practice. So we were happy to see them post this link to hints on how to keep your resume out of the trash:

There Are No Numbers. One of the worst things you can do on a resume is be vague. Don’t just list your accomplishments in a general way — have the quantitative data to back it up. If you exceeded a goal, by how much did you exceed it? If you created and distributed company performance reports, how many did you do? Adding numbers concretizes your accomplishments and paints a better picture of what you actually did.

Also, make sure you are answering the “how” question. If you completed five projects this year instead of the expected four, how did you do it?

More info At Yahoo Finance’s 10 Resume Red Flags

Founded and rooted in Texas, Art Lies provides an international forum for the critical examination of artistic practice, theory and discourse on and about the contemporary arts. Art Lies achieves its mission through the publication of a quarterly journal, our Guest Editorial Program, website, membership events and public programming, including the Art Lies Annual Distinguished Critic Lecture Series.

The hours of the intern positions (8 to 10 hours per week) are flexible within our regular business hours. The internships are unpaid, but the benefits, in addition to publishing experience, include exposure to a wealth of information about the contemporary arts community, locally and internationally. Also, each intern will receive a letter of recommendation at the completion of the internship, assistance with references on request and a free one-year subscription to Art Lies.

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Circulation Intern : (Houston)

Art Lies seeks an enthusiastic and dedicated Circulation Intern. The successful candidate will report to the Circulation Manager in Houston. Applicants should work well with minimal on-site supervision, be self-starters, have strong written and verbal communication skills, have experience working with or interest in retail and independent bookstores, understand the importance of continued communications and relationships with vendors, and enjoy the visual arts and interacting with the public.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

-Create and maintain relationships with independent and museum bookstores.

-Maintain member/subscriber database, including processing of memberships and subscriptions.

-Coordinate both written and electronic member/subscriber communications, such as renewal reminders.

-Respond to member/subscriber queries and requests.

-Work with Circulation Manager to maintain quarterly bookstore events and issue launches

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Preferred Qualifications for all Internship Positions:

-A keen interest in and current knowledge of contemporary art.

-Strong writing and verbal skills, organizational skills and a proven ability to multi-task with attention to detail.

-Demonstrated computer skills, including Microsoft Excel and Word. Experience using QuickBooks and database software such as Access and Filmmaker Pro is a plus.

-Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.

To be considered for these intern positions, please mail or email (info@artlies.org) a résumé and letter of intent to: Art Lies P.O. Box 1408 Houston, TX 77251

An Open Call from NewTown for Installations/Sculptures Incorporating Media

Date of Show: Opens September 12, 2010, runs ca. 2 months

Venue: Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

Prop. Deadline: March 26, 2010 (postmark)

Defining Media

For purposes of the open call, “media” will include video, film, digital moving image and radio.

What is Wanted

We are looking for works integrating media art with sculptural elements or installation.

Due to the nature of the site, we will be able to incorporate only a limited number of larger works or works requiring darkened or blacked out areas for optimal experience.

Curatorial Criteria

Artistic Quality

Seamless integration of media and sculptural or installation elements

Demonstrated quality of prior work

May I Propose an Existing Work?

Existing recent work will be accepted. However, when if all else is equal, new work will take preference. If the work has been widely exhibited it may not be accepted.

Honoraria

A minimum of $500 per accepted proposal.

May I Send Multiple Proposals?

Yes. Be sure to mark them clearly. Avoid sending us a “shopping list”.

How Specific Should My Proposal Be?

The more details you provide, the more likely we are to understand your intent and how you will realize the project. If your proposal is more speculative and/or in development, we will need to look much more closely at your previous work and assess your ability to complete the project in terms of addressing the show’s criteria.

Application Procedure

The following is a strongly urged format for your proposal. Should you opt for another format, it must be clear and somehow convey the same information as requested below.

Please include, in a simple narrative format:

Your name, address, email address and phone number

A concise description of the proposed work

A brief biography

A resume (optional, but not a replacement for the biography)

Also include:

Representative work sample(s) demonstrating your ability to complete the project. Although work samples showing similar skills to those needed to complete your project are helpful, we always encourage you to take new directions and risks. If this is the case, please try to send us materials that show a variety of skills, both conceptually and technically. Work samples may be provided in the following formats.

A DVD that is either edited to a 6 minute presentation or with track(s) indicated.

A CD that is either edited to a 6 minute presentation or cued to a desired 6 minute section

Web site

NOTE ON DVD’S AND CD’S – All should be region 1 format.

When feasible, please provide a sketch or other representation of the proposed work.

If you want work samples returned, you must enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope. If you want more than work samples returned, be sure to let us know.

Send All Materials or Direct Questions to:

NewTown
c/o Richard Amromin
2259 Country Club Drive
Altadena, CA 91001
(626) 398-9278 • info@newtownarts.org

The Core Program: Artist and Critical Studies Residencies

Call for Applications

Deadline: April 1, 2010

http://www.core.mfah.org

The Core Program awards artist and critical studies residencies to highly motivated, emerging visual artists and critical writers who have completed their academic training but have not yet fully developed a professional career.

About the program

Established in 1982 within the Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Core artist residencies encourage intensive and innovative studio practice as well as the elaboration of an intellectual framework to understand that practice. In 1998, the Core critical studies residencies were established to provide an opportunity for writers to pursue independent curatorial and writing projects and to promote the discourse necessary for both artists and critics to sustain their practices. Throughout the year, residents engage in ongoing dialogue with each other and meet with pre-eminent artists, critics, curators, and art historians.

Program specifics

Each resident receives a stipend, health insurance, and private studio/office space. The residency term is nine months, from September to May, and is renewable for a second term.

How to apply

For application instructions, please visit http://www.core.mfah.org.