CALL FOR ARTISTS: Art in the Open

DEADLINE: May 22, 2012

The Brampton Arts Council is calling for artists and artisans to participate in our annual event “Art in the Open” featured at the Brampton Farmers’ Market.   After 2011’s record-breaking year in attendance, we look forward to the 13th year of Art in the Open. Find out why an estimated 75,000 people attend the Farmers’ Market seasonally. Continue reading →

Trans-X Symposium (2012) May 25 to 27, 2012

Call for Papers

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is pleased to announce the Trans-X Symposium May 25-27, 2012.
We are now inviting proposals for papers (deadline: 15 March 2012).

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded from this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a variety of mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of transmission such as VLF to name but a couple of recent examples. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic and fluid, always open to redefinition. With NAISA being a sound art organization, we ask the question, what new sound experiences are possible in the transmission and mobile media platforms? We would like the new artists of today to answer our challenge. Continue reading →

Avalon (Bangalore and Toronto)
Film Program Curated by Shai Heredia

February 27, 1:00 p.m.
Central Hall, 100 McCaul Street

This program of archival films (from the late 1950’s to 1970’s) reflects upon independent India’s pursuit of modernity through an inspired engagement with science, technology and spirituality. These rarely seen films offer a historical context to the fantasy of Avalon.
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