Deadline: July 31, 2009; November 16, 2009; May 14, 2010; and November 15, 2010
Association of Performing Arts Presenters Announces Cultural Exchange Fund Application Schedule
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Cultural Exchange Fund is a travel subsidy program that assists U.S.-based presenters working to build partnerships and collaborations with international touring artists, companies, and their collaborators to promote the display of work by artists from around the world in its own cultural context. In promoting cross-cultural arts programming, Arts Presenters strongly encourages travel to the following locations (including but not limited to): the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
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Call for Art & Writing Entries- by Aesthetica Magazine
Please find below the details of our 2009 Competition:
• The Competition has three categories: Artwork (including photography & sculpture), Fiction and Poetry
• One winner in each category will be awarded £500 (apx $750)
• Additional prizes include an Olympus E-420 SLR camera and a boutique holiday for two
• Winners and runners up will be published in the Aesthetica Annual 2010 edition
• Entry to the Creative Works Competition is £10 (apx $15)
• The entry fee allows the submission of either 5 images, 5 poems, or 2 short stories
• The closing date for the Creative Works Competition is 31 August 2009
For further details please visit:
www.aestheticamagazine.com/submission_guide.htm
Copies of the 2009 Aesthetica Annual are available from Borders stores nationwide and from www.aestheticamagazine.com/shop.htm
Be Just Like Me: I’m Like Everybody Else:
“Students of artistic copyright, aficionados of the Emily/Rosamond infringement controversy, and little-girls-with-bangs fetishists (maybe you’re all three!) will be interested in the unfolding of the lawsuit over Rob Reger’s’popular’brand.
This juxtaposition of images and text snippets surfaced in December. On the left, an illustration by Marc Simont for Marjorie Weinman Sharmat’s 1978 book Nate the Great Goes Undercover; on the right, a 1991 logo of Reger’s Emily the Strange, the creepy 13-year-old who has a booming international franchise in clothes, comics and other crap, along with a movie in the works. Neither Sharmat nor Simont had heard of Emily prior to that, and Reger offered a lame excuse in response. Now Reger is arguing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that Sharmat and Simont should not be allowed to sue him.
SF Weekly has details of the court case:
The lawsuit reads like a primer on 20th-century goth girls, and submits as evidence pictures of Elvira, Vampira, Wednesday from The Addams Family, Lydia from Beetlejuice, and manga characters. ‘For many decades,’ the lawsuit states, ‘a common cultural motif that has appeared in many creative works involves a woman or girl with long dark hair, possibly bangs, and dark clothing who is associated with the macabre, occult, mysterious, or strange, and is sometimes accompanied by creatures such as bats or black cats.’
According to the Weekly, this argument undermines Emily’s main selling point: that she’s a DIY nonconformist who’copies nobody. Probably true, but the whole controversy indicates what a vain pursuit nonconformity is in an economy where even huge brands enjoy only’fractional market penetration. In my world, Emily is a pretty ubiquitous presence, in stores and on clothing, in bars and cars, everywhere. Yet the originators of her original — people who presumably pay some attention to popular culture — had never even heard of her during her nearly two-decade career. (One of these days I’ll tell you how I invented the Sexy Catholic Schoolgirl look with a now-lost series of fourth-grade stroke drawings of my favorite classmates.)
Maybe Shepard Fairey can get involved in this dispute, if punk-ish logos ever help us elect a Goth president (and isn’t it time?).”
(Via Reason Magazine - Topics > Arts.)
June 28th, 2009 in
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Let’s start thinking seriously about our Ignite event surrounding our book signing. I hope someone remembers this at our next Meetup!
Ignite Show: Veronica Belmont on the Do’s and Don’ts of Making Memes:
“At Ignite SF on 4/1 Veronica Belmont shared some do’s and don’ts on businesses and their attempts at viral marketing campaigns. Her advice is simple (Don’t be a jerk, Don’t try too hard, Be funny). Vanessa’s examples run the gamut from one of the best (Subservient Chicken) to the recent and risky (Skittles).”
(Via O’Reilly User Group Program.)
June 25th, 2009 in
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The Artists & Writers Alliance Internationale, founded by Sherry Steiner, is dedicated to encouraging collaborative creative projects is currently accepting listings for its website from visual artists, writers of all genres, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and multi-disciplinary artists who are interested in connecting with other creative types to produce collaborative works of art. All are welcome to submit a free listing to the AWAI website. Thanks to the internet, artists and writers as well as others in all media can work on projects together while living on opposite sides of the world or around the corner from each other enabling cultures and ideas to blend while giving life to new artforms.
AWAI is the clearinghouse that will bring artists, writers and others in the arts together from around the world; it is then up to the participants to contact each other directly for more detailed information for possible collaborative projects.
Artists, writers and others in the arts who are interested in a free listing on the AWAI website should email the following information to: Artistswriters@aol.com with their name, email address, country that they live in, a brief but concise description of their work and the type of collaboration they may be interested in. Submissions for listings will be reviewed and posted on an on-going basis…
For additional information contact Sherry Steiner, at Artistswriters@aol.com or go to the website:
http://www.artistsandwritersallianceinternationale.org
