Call for Submissions - Festival of Animated Objects: La Famiglia

Special Call for Submissions

due November 14th, 2010 - La Famiglia


...LA FAMIGLIA will be a collaborative installation and slow motion animation occurring in four of the +15 Window Spaces in the Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts. Centered on the theme of family, the selected artists will collaborate on the creation, installation and animation of artworks and project addressing narrative themes and familial habitats and characters. Over the course of the two-month exhibition, the artworks will be animated on a regular schedule, revealing the nature of family in a slow motion animation.

Four artist-run centres, Marion Nicoll Gallery, Stride Gallery, The New Gallery, and Untitled Art Society, are collaborating with CAOS and the Festival of Animated Objects to present this multi-artist, multi-venue slow motion animation.

Submissions will be accepted from individual artists and/or groups of artists who are working in any discipline, including animation, installation, 2-D, 3-D, performative art, automata, and new media. Applicants may be at any stage in their career, including students and aspiring artists, mid career- and established artists.

Key Dates:
Deadline to apply: November 15, 2010
Exhibition: February 1-March 30, 2011
Collaborative Discussions: January, 2011
Installation: February 1, 2011

Proposal Packages should include the following:
- Artist Statement: Explain what the proposed work means to you, where it’s coming from and where you hope to go with it.
- One sentence to describe what will be seen in the space.
- Proposal: Maximum 500 words to describe your installation/animation or general approach to the project. Provide details of your approach to the concept of family, and to collaborative processes. Detail what equipment, if any, you will use. Indicate your preferred exhibition space, if applicable.
- Curriculum Vitae representing your education, previous exhibitions or performances grants, scholarships or awards, commissions, professional memberships, published articles, etc. as applicable).
- Support Material: visual documentation, conceptual drawings, or other relevant visual supports. Visual documentation should be submitted as Mac-compatible images (.jpeg, RGB, 8bits) at medium to high resolution (minimum 150 dpi and 1200 pixels along the longest side, maximum 300 dpi, 5MB per image). Video documentation should be submitted on DVD and have a total running time of no more than 10 minutes.
No more than ten items total. Do not submit originals.
- Single copies of relevant print material (exhibition reviews, invitations, brochures etc.), maximum 3 items.
- Corresponding inventory of support material indicating titles of works, size, media, date, and relevance to proposal.
- Self-addressed, stamped envelope in the event you wish your materials returned to you.

Floor plan and gallery information can be found at the following Artist-Run Centre websites:
http://marionnicollgallery.wordpress.com/
http://www.thenewgallery.org/
http://www.stride.ab.ca/
http://www.UAScalgary.org/
Submissions may be dropped off or mailed to any of the participating organizations. Emailed or faxed submissions will not be considered.

Calgary Animated Objects Society
1030 – 20 Ave SE
Calgary, AB T2G 1M6