08.10.2009 - 10.10.2009 ART+COMMUNICATION 2009: ENERGY 11th International festival for new media culture in Riga will be devoted to ideas and notions of "sustainability". This year festival edition will consist of event-series featuring several inter-connected activities: artists workshop in Aizpute (August 2009), conference and exhibition in Riga (October 2009), NICE Training programme II and On-line festival (December 2009). Location: Riga, Latvia URL: http://rixc.lv 05.05.2009 - 07.06.2009 WRO-09 BIENNALE: EXPENDED CITY The 13th International Media Art Biennale WRO 09 (0th Anniversary Special Edition) is organized by WRO Center for Media Art Foundation. The Expanded City extends the concept of expanded media: The city becomes a metaphor for shared space for exchange and communication, expanding and diversifying through new technologies. Submission deadline: 15.02.2009. Main festival dates: 5-10.05.2009. Exhibition in National Museum Wroclaw is open till 7.06.2009. Location: Wroclaw, Poland URL: http://wro09.wrocenter.pl/entry/ 02.04.2009 - 05.04.2009 Pixelache Helsinki 2009 Pixelache Helsinki is looking for projects and ideas related to following themes: - Experimental interaction and electronics - VJ culture and audiovisual performances - Grassroot organising and networks - Politics and economics of media / technology - Media literacy and engaging environmental issues Deadline for applications is 30 September 2008 Location: Helsinki, Finland URL: http://2009.pixelache.ac 01.03.2009 - 30.03.2009 STAND-UP . Art about Human Rights STAND-UP project is focused on human rights issue by using art as a medium. This project responds to the growing needs for acceptance and respect to diversity, dialog and social reflection. Connecting aims and activities of both organizations: One World Association which acts as a part of the Service Civil International organization and Poznan Academy of Fine Arts Student Society, they want to present different points of view on Human Rights issue and raise awareness about them by presenting art works of activists – artists from different fields, cultures and societies. The exhibition in series of events will take place in March, 2009 in Poznan, Poland. Location: Klub/Galeria ZAK/Kino ARS (ul. Szyperska 2, Poznañ), Oúrodek Rozwoju Osobistego Kobiet Babilàd (ul. Bukowska 31/ 6, Poznañ) URL: http://hrart.wordpress.com/ 28.01.2009 - 01.02.2009 transmediale.09: DEEP NORTH In the search for DEEP NORTH, transmediale.09 seeks the paradoxical and global consequences, the re-orientation, shifting of perspectives and means to interact with the issues of cultural and technological development, innovation and creative sustainability lurking below the surface of climate change. DEEP NORTH becomes not a fixed location, but a paradigm transforming loss into a complex state of being and cultural development - an indicator of location becoming fused with global introspection. Earth acts a truly global system of interrelated events where a shift in the perception and attitudes towards cultural interdependencies become critical, DEEP NORTH is a call to artists, media activists and cultural practitioners to explore the roles that art and digital culture play in defining new media strategies beyond the rhetoric of climate change. Location: House of World Cultures, Berlin URL: http://www.transmediale.de