CALL TO AUSTRALIAN-BASED VIDEO ARTISTS

From: Abina Manning (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2006 - 15:30:02 PDT


To Australian-based Frameworkers:

CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

I will be in residence at the School of Art at
RMIT University (Melbourne) from the start of
July 2006 to the first week of August, as part of
the School of Art AIR program. I will be working
with members of the RMIT community to curate a
video screening program of Australian-based
artists video work during my time at RMIT which
will be presented at Horse Bazaar on 27 July
2006. Please distribute and display the attached
call for entries as widely as possible.

Thanks,
Abina Manning
Video Data Bank
Chicago

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CALL FOR VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
YOU SHOW ME YOURSŠ
YOU SHOW ME YOURS, a video art project jointly 
initiated by the RMIT University School of Art 
and Abina Manning from Chicago-based Video Data 
Bank, is currently seeking submissions for a 
juried screening to take place on 27 July 2006 at 
Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street 
Melbourne 3000.
YOU SHOW ME YOURS is a survey of contemporary 
single channel video being made by 
Australian-based artists. The final program will 
be selected on the basis of the originality and 
vision of the works.  Submissions are welcome 
from established and emerging artists and 
students alike.  Works should be under fifteen 
minutes in length and have been completed in the 
last two years.
What to do:
Submit your work in a .mov file on DVD.  Please 
note, submissions cannot be returned.  Please 
include the title of the work, the duration, a 
short description, and a biography of the artist. 
DVDs should be accompanied by your name, email 
address, and phone number, title of the piece and 
year it was made.
Send DVDs and details to:
Keely Macarow
RMIT University
School of Art
Building 9, Level 2, Room 46
124 Latrobe Street
Melbourne 3000
Deadline:  Monday 19th June 2006
About the organizers:
Video Data Bank:
Founded in 1976 at the inception of the media 
arts movement, the Video Data Bank at the School 
of the Art Institute of Chicago is a leading 
resource for video by and about contemporary 
artists. Its collections include seminal works 
that, seen as a whole, describe the development 
of video as an art form originating in the late 
1960's and continuing to the present. Through a 
national and international distribution service, 
the VDB makes video art and taped interviews with 
visual artists and critics available to a wide 
range of audiences.  For more information on the 
Video Data Bank, go to http://www.vdb.org.
RMIT School of Art:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/ART
For more information on this project, email 
email suppressed
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Abina Manning
Associate Director
Video Data Bank
The School of the Art Institute
3rd Floor, 112 S Michigan Avenue
Chicago
IL 60603
Tel:  312 345 3550
Fax:  312 541 8073
VISIT OUR WEBSITE AND ON-LINE CATALOGUE AT http://www.vdb.org
It's constantly updated and features new work and 
new artists in distribution as well as videoclips 
and resources on video art.  Our latest catalog 
is also available to download from the site as a 
PDF.
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