OPPORTUNITIES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

MOBILE CINEMA CALL FOR FILM SUBMISSION

No Fixed Abode invites your submission for films to be shown in Clare Ruddock and Ele Carpenter's Mobile Cinema. In April No Fixed Abode will be hiring the use of the Mobile Cinema. The Mobile Cinema, formerly a 1970's Sprite caravan, will be brought to Sheffield for one day and travel around the areas visited by mobile libraries.

Culture and the arts are significant factors in a Cities economic success. Various bodies and organisations exist within England whose aim it is to promote, develop and enable more people to have access to more art in more places. It is believed that 'the arts have the power to change lives and communities, and to create opportunities for (more) people throughout the country'. 1

Sheffield prides itself on being a cultural city, quick to recognise that the cultural sector was the best way to rebuild its economy after the collapse of many of its industries, particularly those of steel. Like many other cities Sheffield has a cultural development strategy aimed at 'creating successful neighbourhoods and economic regeneration, being instrumental in creating improvements in health, lifelong learning, community cohesion, economic vitality and stimulating civic pride'. 2

Core to the strategy is the cultural enrichment and empowerment of Sheffield's Citizenry, focusing around the development of new programmes through established cultural institutions such as the cities libraries. Again it is believed 'All libraries can change lives' The arts have a central importance in facilitating this process of empowerment and libraries, especially public libraries, are, or certainly should be, essential cultural development agencies within their local community.' 3

One facet of the library services is the mobile library. A library that is able to reach areas and communities that either do not have easy or local access to a public library or contain a number of inhabitants unable to go to the library for whatever reason. Its aim is to bring the cultural enrichment of the public libraries to the community at large.

The Mobile Cinema functions in a very similar way to a mobile library. It has the ability to travel to those areas not serviced by a cinema and bring the cultural enrichment that the contemporary city craves for all.

No Fixed Abode is not sure whether this will have the power to change lives.
Although it is certain that the arts can do this there is no guarantee that the Mobile Cinema will. It is difficult to trust the ideologies of organisations and funding bodies that aim at improving people's lives through art initiatives that are essentially businesses that aim to capitalize and feed economic growth through culture. It must be noted though that No Fixed Abode is funded in this way.

Notes
1. http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/aboutus/index.php 08/12/2006
2. Sheffield Culture A Strategy for Inclusive Cultural and Sporting Development Dr Ann Gosse, Director of Culture, Sheffield City Council. January 2006.
3. Cultural Development & Publicly Funded Library Services, Report of the Libraries & Arts Working Party of the Library Association Public Libraries Committee. 1997

Please send your films in response to the above writing.

Films should not exceed 15mins in length and should be submitted in any format apart from 35mm, 16mm and 8mm. If your film is in one of these formats please get it transferred to a digital format such as DVD, mini DV or .AVI, .mpeg etc.

Deadline: 23rd February 2007

Send Submissions to: No Fixed Abode
133 Neill Road, Hunters Bar, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S11 8QJ

Contact: contact@nofixedabode.org.uk
For more information about No Fixed Abode visit: http://www.nofixedabode.org.uk
Mobile Cinema: http://www.themobilecinema.org.uk

12TH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART BIENNALE WRO 07 CALL FOR WORKS

http://wro07.wrocenter.pl WRO Center for Media Art Foundation in Wroclaw/Poland, announces an international competition open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication.

The competition welcomes creators of artistic projects of diverse forms such as screenings (video art, computer animation), installations, objects, performances, multimedia concerts and network projects from all over the world. The main prize is 5000 euro and the total prize money awarded is 8000 euro.

Biennale: the new strategies and territories of digital artistic communication; Artists in the face of high culture's permeation with popular culture; global with local culture; commercial with independent culture; the role of individual artistic attitudes in the midst of global tendencies; the metamorphosis of an artistic experiment in the light of a spectacle society culture. Media arts that de-interpret the cultural context stemming from civilization as well as interferences into the code that steers behaviors within the social space. The creation and record of a changing picture of culture.

The deadline date for entry submission is 15.02.2007.

Presentation of works selected to the very final along with the international jury's announcement of competition results will take place during public screening at the WRO 07 Biennale.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The International Competition WRO 07 is organized by The WRO Art Center. The competition is open to any work created using electronic media techniques, exploring innovative forms of artistic communication. The main prize is 5000 euro and the total prize money awarded is 8000 euro.

Every participant may submit up to three works, completed after 01.01.2005., for the competition. The works may be submitted by artists, producers, distributors and other persons or organizations holding rights to the submitted works.

Every work should be followed with a legibly filled-in entry form, synopsis, short biography and screenshot or graphics in TIFF or JPEG format. If it's required by the specificity of the work, the submission shall be followed with an additional description or appropriate technical information.

The deadline date for entry submission is 15.02.2007 There is no entry fee.
The submitted works are selected by the organizers. The authors of works qualifying for the competition will be individually notified about the selection. Additionally, the list of qualifying works shall be published on the internet website http://wro07.wrocenter.pl.

Works qualifying for the competition will be judged by an international jury during public screenings at Biennale WRO.

Contact: WRO Art Center, ul. Kuznicza 29a, 54-137 Wroclaw 16, P.O.
Box 1385, Poland, tel.: + 48 71 344 83 69, tel./fax: + 48 71 342 26 91, http://wrocenter.pl,
E: info@wrocenter.pl

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