POSTER 4 TOMORROW /// WORLDWIDE EXHIBITION OPENING ///
CALL FOR ENTRIES 2010 /// DEATTH IS NOT JUSTICE 

 

 

 

 

October the 10th 2010 (10/10/10) is the World and European Day against the Death Penalty.
On this day poster for tomorrow will hold 100 exhibitions in 100 cities of our posters calling
for universal abolition of the death sentence. And today we’d like to invite you to make a poster
to enter the competition to be one of the 100 exhibited around the world.
We believe in design, and posters, as a medium to inspire social change.
What you create as an artist, graphic designer or art director can inform, provoke emotion and
motivate people to action. It’s a great gift. And a gift you can use to inspire change in the world.
We believe the death penalty is a violation of human rights and that it has no place in modern
society. And that’s what we want to change in 2010.
We’re working with Amnesty International, the Council of Europe, Reporters Without Borders and
the World coalition against the Death Penalty to raise awareness of our cause. We hope you’ll join us.
One poster is a start. But hundreds, thousands, become a movement that cannot be denied.

Bianca Jagger: “As Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador for the Abolition of the Death
Penalty, I am pleased to support poster for tomorrow. Artists are an integral part of the fabric
of society; and if they choose to, they can have a great impact on people’s hearts and minds.
They can vividly illustrate the horror of capital punishment. I urge artists to participate
in the poster for tomorrow initiative.”

Creative Brief
We want universal abolition of the death penalty in 2010.
It’s simple. The death penalty is a violation of human rights.
Article 5 of  the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “No one shall be subjected to
torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
How does that fit with beheading, stoning, hanging, lethally injecting or shooting someone?
The problem is that there’s no going back on a death sentence. And in a world where every judicial
system makes mistakes, it’s inevitable that innocent people will be executed. Which is simply not
acceptable.  More than two thirds of countries in the world agree, and have banned executions.
Sadly, shamefully, 58 still persist in killing people in the name of “justice.”
In 2009, countries with the highest number of executions were Iran (with at least 388 executions),
Iraq (at least 120), Saudi Arabia (at least 69), and the United States (52).
In China information regarding the death penalty remains a secret, but estimates show that China
executes more people than the rest of the world combined.*
But there is hope - the number of people being executed around the world appears to be declining.
And in December the United Nations will vote on a universal moratorium on the death penalty.
It’s a vital step towards abolishing the death penalty once and for all.
No matter whether you live in a country that practices capital punishment or not, we have to raise
awareness across the whole world that the death penalty is a violation of human rights that has no
place in modern society.

 Message: The death penalty is not justice.
I don’t want it done in my name, my country, or our world.

Call for entries dates
10 April: call for entries opens.
18 July: call for entries closes (noon pacific daylight time).

Awards
poster for tomorrow will reward the best 100 designs (as selected by the jury) by including them
in the “Death is not Justice” exhibition, to be held in 100 locations worldwide on October the 10th,
2010. A book about the exhibition will be published.
Ten designs, as chosen by the jury, will become part of the permanent collection of a number of
prestigious design museums worldwide.
For more information about the awards, please visit our website .

Contact Details
If you would like to know more about poster for tomorrow, please contact:
Setareh Farsi, press office manager
T: +331 5341 4161, E: setareh@posterfortomorrow.org
 

POSTER 4 TOMORROW /// WORLDWIDE EXHIBITION OPENING /// CALL FOR POSTERS

DECEMBER 10, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

Submissions accepted until:
15th of November, 2009

www.poster4tomorrow.org

Poster4Tomorrow and Reporters Without Borders are pleased to announce you the next phase of the project: a series of worldwide events to celebrate the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2009. (read the declaration and its 19th article here).

The 100 best posters to be selected by our International Jury will be part of a number of exhibitions in venues ranging from universities to art galleries and cultural centers. We are confident that these will be the ideal settings for a series of purposeful meetings and debates to discuss the state of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression in today’s world.

See you soon in Amsterdam, Beirut, Berlin, Brussels, Cheonan, La Paz, Lima, Derry, Los Angeles, Milan, Montreal, New York, Paris, Seville, Stockholm and more cities to come!

Download the full press release in English or in French.

For more information please go to: 
www.poster4tomorrow.org

 

UM: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FOR EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
12-15 Nov 2009 // LISBON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 www.1um1.net

What is the UM Festival?

Using Our Illusions

UM: International Festival for Experimental Intermedia is a four-day festival programme taking place between 12-15 Nov 2009, across various venues in central Lisbon, with the exhibition continuing until 23 Nov.

The event includes exhibitions, workshops, talks, concerts, performances and public works, with internationally renowned artists, musicians, academics, designers, architects and practitioners taking part.

UM aims to go beyond the limited term of ‘media art’ and instead present ‘intermedia’ practices, as a combination of art forms, which focus on concept, communication, realisation and implication. Within the exhibition, talks and workshops emphasizes is placed on cross-over, experimental and socially engaged practices, which take risks, extend ideas and bring together different approaches and techniques.

As one of the only kind of festival’s currently taking place in Portugal, UM aims to support the presentation and dissemination of contemporary intermedia practices from Portugal, as well as bring leading international artists to the country. Drawing on open curational approaches to programming, this year music promoters and curators, QuJunktions (UK) and Prof. Jussi Ängeslevä (FI/DE) from the Digital Media class, The Berlin University of the Arts/Universität der Künste Berlin have been invited to input into the programme selection.

Landscape: 2009 Festival Theme

Established in 2008, this is the second edition of the festival. Each year UM is guided by a theme, which in 2009 focuses on the concept of ‘landscape’. The concept of landscape originates from the 15th century, where ‘landschaft’ was used to describe a shaped or domesticated land. The word was later used by the Dutch, in the 17th century, where ‘landschap‘ or ‘landskip‘ was used to describe a painting of a particular place, which was perceived as a scope or space. Today the word is commonly coupled with notions of place, nature, view, scenery, environment, as well as romantic or nostalgic notions of the rural.

Within the social sciences and humanities landscape also refers to the complex social construction of how space is organised and produced.  On a fundamental level, landscape is about human presence in the world, it is what we ’see’, our panoramic, from any single (static or mobile) point of view. In this respect landscape can be considered an constructive process, it is a way of seeing the world and our imagined relations to it. It is an active process, whereby the external world is mediated through human subjective experience, this in turn not only informs our sense of reality and self but also enables us to act, to move, to transform – to use our illusions.

The works selected for the exhibition, talks, workshops and performances explore this by considering the inter-relationships that inform the perception and construction of our landscape. Special attention has been placed on works which directly or indirectly address the extension of our perceptual facilities and how they assist us to processes our relations within the world.  In particular the works selected conceptually address issues of awareness, information and control, mediation and empowerment, loss and disappearance, habit and tradition. In their form and aesthetic they are objects, techniques and tools which provide the space to allow for the consideration of alternatives, informing us of our position, differences and the limits, which can open or close possible landscapes and realities.

What is happening?

Exhibtion

This years exhibition returns to the ECV Fiat Garage space in Santos, where last year we took over this car garage and launched UM. This years exhibition shows a mix of sound and installation objects, screen, photographic and mobile based-works, many of which adopt new and existing technologies to visualize, concepts of landscape.

André Gonçalves (PT) sound piece ‘Trigger Happy’ is a historical record or projection of canned laughter over seventy years, reflecting on how media influences the ways in which we communicate and express our emotions.  Jodi Rose’s (AU) iambic, global bridge project, maps the unique soundscapes of bridges across the world and will be creating a specific output based on Lisbon bridges. John Klima’s (US/PT) piece ‘The Great Game’ a hacked kiddie-ride installation comments on information control and ownership of data. While the visualisation of our everyday, habitual movements in particular locations is picked up by CADA’s mobile phone piece, ‘Time Machine’. Julius von Bismarck’s (DE), award winning piece, ‘Image Fulugator’,  is a specially made device which intercepts the flash  digital cameras in public space and overlays other images on the one taken. His pieces brings up questions of how photographic images are used to construct and edit our perceptions. Similarly ‘Artificial Smile’ by  Andreas Schmelas & Stefan Stubbe (DE) is also a device which overlays the perfect smile on the any facial image taken and clearly shows how media tools, often ‘re-touch’ our worlds, in order to given the illusion of perfection. Teike Haapoja (FI), also exposes how the camera can capture often unseen elements of life and her poetic life-size projection, uses infra-red cameras, tracks the cooling down of a horse body as it dies. Sanda Dick & Lukas Hartman (DE), also considers  extended camera techniques presenting her project ‘Monitor Photography’ which demonstrates how a laptop can become a portal photo developing unit. Questioning the way in which architectural images are constructed and the kinds of physical representations they tend to be privalge is at the heart of Torsten Posselt, Benijamin Maus, Frederic Gmeiner (DE) work, which using algorithm techniques to re-map our visions of physical space and it’s construction.

Music

The UM music programme brings a feast of delights, opening with a new musical adventure on the 13th Nov at ZDB (doors open 22.00). Extending your aural landscape, this evening is a co-production with the avant-garde music promoters and curators QuJunktions (UK) who bring their QuWack concept to the festival. The evening opens with local turntable maestros, Whit playing live. This is followed by the QuWack event, an international and local ’special selection’ of sound artists and musicians. Together they will play a ‘game’ of musical tag, with each performer following the other in succession, playing solo and  collaborative. Fresh sounds will  emerge as  Infitive Livez, (UK/DE), Team Brick, Kapulto (UK) and Alfredo Carajillo, Gabriel Ferrandini (PT) and DJ Sniff (US/NL), play and pass their sounds and beats to create an unfolding, live and improvised music-gig-installation. This experimental evening is followed by a live, dance-inspired set from Lisbon, home-boy Mr. Gasparov (PT/ES) and Bass Clef (UK), who will be rocking the house with their live dub, 2-step and electro inspired tunes, in MusicBox on the 14th (doors open 23.00).

Talks and Workshops

UM talks and workshop focus on extending the pedagogical, conceptual and techniques behind the works select and the theme of landscape. Over the core festival dates (12-15 Nov) coversation presentations will be given focusing on: Consciousness and Landscape; Perception and Representation-Computational Ways of Seeing and Tuned Spaces. Speakers include internationally renowned artists and practitoners in their field, including Carsten Stabenow (DE), Emanuel Pimenta (PT/CH), Dmitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch (RU/NL), and Terike Haapoja (FI). Each session provides the space for more in-depth discussion and debate. The 2009 series of workshops focus on contemporary conceptual thinking and design approaches with STEIM, (NL) Unsworn Industries, (SE) and Prof.  Jussi Ängeslevä (FI-DE) leading on specific techniques and ideas.

Look forward to seeing you at UM!

 

LA BRADERIE DE L'ART – 19th édition // 5 & 6th of December 2009

La Condition Publique
in Roubaix
www.labraderiedelart.com

 

> A 24 hours non stop game of live création!
150 international artists : designers, painters, sculptors, graphic artists …
Whaterver they craft, they all play the game of creation using second-hand objects, mixing design with recycling.
This vast temporary workshop (2 500 M2) is held in former factories, each a magical place bearing a tribute to Roubaix’s industrial history : La Condition Publique by P. Bouchain.
The Braderie de l’Art is a space open for free creation that reflects the latest trend of recycling-design or eco-design. It offers a unique occasion to find a guenuine piece of art priced between 1 and 250 euros / And 10 000 people in each of the past édition.
The Braderie de l’Art was initiated in 1991 of the basis of an original concept from Fanny Bouyagui / Art Point M. It tenderly alludes to the popular flea markets of the North of France, and mirrors her strong will to create a non-typical event : the braderie de l’art is no art fair or Christmas market !
It is hosted in a peculiar atmosphere where sounds, smells and colours mix together … In a surrealistic background, cast-off objects start a new life and find new owners … Thus drawing a picture of our society based on consumption and generating waste.
The Braderie de l’Art opens space and time for free creation and new artistic experiences.
A unique event open to all.

> The Braderie de l’Art offers over the past 18 editions
Special focuses on towns such Dakar, New York (for the Lille 2004, european capital of culture), Berlin, Barcelona, Helsinki, Krakow, Warsaw … And LONDON in 2008 with 15 young designers from London in association with Free Range / ex : Russel Martin and his 24 lamps in 24 hours / Sara & Jason from WEMAKE studio aim to demystify design. They wrap second-hand lamps with a ivory polyester shade. At the end, the plastic wrap can simply be snipped off and recycled when the fashion cycle inevitably comes back around. Samuel and FOR’US Studio create a catalogue of ideas : several associations of « junk » objects.
Others examples with Michael Gaujoux and 8 crasy young designers from Paris : their meeting point : humor and ecology !  Julien Kiefer from Lille and his serie of crazed but highly practical objects call « hétérosis » etc, etc …

> The concept travel the world: twin event throughout Europe with Restcycling Berlin – Drap’Art in Barcelona, in Nantes and Montpellier in 2009.

EXPERIMENTA DESIGN 09

 

LISBON - 09.09.09 - 08.11.09

ExperimentaDesign is an international Biennale dedicated to design, architecture and creativity. Positioning itself as a forward-thinking, dynamic platform, EXD fosters and analyses contemporary culture through discussion and reflection. It is a springboard for up-and-coming talent and experimentation in disciplines across the creative spectrum, showcasing original projects and ideas in different formats, from exhibitions to urban interventions, debates and lectures. With a focus on people and ideas, the Biennale’s programme is designed to provide insight and incentive both to a specialized audience and the public at large, disseminating information and fuelling debate. EXD programs possibilities, crosses paths, questions and experiments, challenging participants and audience.

Taking place in Lisbon (since 1999) and Amsterdam (since 2008) with different programmes in alternating years, the Biennale engages a worldwide network of agents in various fields, promoting innovation and creativity as driving forces for sustainable development at all levels. For its 10th anniversary edition, EXD introduced the Warm-Up, a curtain raiser that launched the theme a year in advance with a major exhibition and lecture by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Themed “It’s About Time”, EXD’09 looks at time as material, resource and challenge: time to take action, time to collaborate, time to make, time to reflect.

 

OFFF LISBON '09

 

raster-noton presents almost its complete artist roster live @ OFFF 09, lisbon, portugal, may 7th to 9th 2009

FRAME.SYNC LIVE:

ALVA NOTO
ATOM TM
BYETONE
COH
FENNESZ
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
KANGDING RAY
NIBO
PIXEL
POMASSL
SENKING
SIGNAL
SND
VLADISLAV DELAY (UUSITALO)

in cooperation with Derivative's TouchDesigner, Raster-Noton and Offf'09 festival present a very special event as part of Loopita (the experimental music section at the festival):

FRAME.SYNC - the multi-visual space - featuring most of the label's artists roster, such as Alva Noto, Byetone, Frank Bretschneider, SND, Signal, Atom TM, COH, Pixel, Pomassl, Kangding Ray, Nibo and Senking, Raster-Noton has invited two special guests to join this remarkable event: Fennesz and Vladislav Delay (playing under his Uusitalo moniker).

FRAME.SYNC - the cd compilation - is given for free with the purchase of the ticket for offf festival in lisbon. the audio cd contains tracks of all artists involved, some of the material is previously unreleased.
more information and tickets (including frame.sync cd) are available on www.raster-noton.net/off09

www.raster-noton.net  -  www.offf.ws   -  www.touch077.com

two new releases on raster-noton coming very soon:

     - grischa lichtenberger. ~treibgut, r-n 112, ep 12" vinyl    
     - alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto with ensemble modern. utp_, r-n 96, dvd + audio cd, release may 25th

POWER TO THE POSTER :: CALL FOR POSTERS
 




















As a global citizen, what moves you?
There’s a shift happening. A new dynamic with a holistic worldview. A reigniting of a participatory democracy. A real power to the people movement.
This project is a small sliver of that and we want you to be a part of it.

We are facing serious challenges that pose grave threats to people and planet. The flip side of that is that we have been presented with many incredible opportunities to solve those challenges. Posters alone won't do it, but sometimes it's the catalyst. As creative individuals we have the chance to open these channels of communication. We can take a side, we can be the change and we can inspire others to do the same. And, best of all, we can have a kick ass time doing it.

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YOU'RE INVITED TO PROJECTING CHANGE FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Projecting Change Film Festival
April 2nd-5th 2009
Fifth Ave Theatre, 2110 Burrard St., Vancouver

• Four days of film screenings
• Interactive discussions after each film by select filmmakers and industry leaders
• Special events and activites
• Kids Day screenings during the day on Friday

iDEMi09 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATION OF DESIGN 

Engineering and Management for innovation, First Announce & Call for Papers

International Conference on Integration of Design, Engineering and Management for innovation

14-15th September 2009, Porto, Portugal

www.idemi09.com

DESIGN IGNITES CHANGE























Participating colleges, universities and high schools engage with their students to create work that addresses powerful social topics ranging from issues of diversity, homelessness, hunger and gun violence to scarce water resources, sustainability and endangered species. The students are encouraged to develop actual projects that are visible in, and beneficial to, their local communities; projects that stimulate thought, dialog, action and ultimately change.

Design Ignites Change invites participation from a variety of constituencies.

» High Schools & Youth Groups
» Colleges & Universities
» Mentoring Organizations
» Creative Professionals
» Corporations & Foundations
» Media

www.designigniteschange.org 

[DESIGN 21] Celebrate Diversity Logo Competition!

CALL FOR ENTRIES

Celebrate Diversity! Create the official logo for UNESCO's International Festival of Cultural Diversity

Prizes: $3000 first prize, total prize pool $5500


Deadline: May 19!

CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS



PUBLIC DESIGN FESTIVAL