New Media Scotland announces Opportunities, Events, and News about deadlines that may interest those involved in Creative Work.

1. Fellowship: Eyebeam, NYC, USA. Deadline: 06/08/07

The application process for Eyebeam's 2007/08 Fellowship program is currently open. The deadline for applications is August 6, 2007.

Fellowships will be offered in the R&D OpenLab, the Production Lab and the Education Lab. The focus of the Fellowships varies depending on the tools and skills available and the creative objectives and philosophy of each Lab. Up to five Fellowships will be granted for 2007/08.

For all of the Fellowships Eyebeam is seeking applications from artists, hackers, designers, engineers and creative technologists to come to Eyebeam in New York City for a year to undertake new research and develop new work. Fellows receive a $30,000 stipend and health benefits during their stay. International Fellows are welcome to apply although we do not have the resources to provide travel or accommodation, and the Fellow is responsible for securing their own visas for the Fellowship period.

For more information please visit the Eyebeam website.

2. Call for Papers, Performances, Posters: INTIMACY, London, UK. Deadline: 19/08/07

INTIMACY is a three-day interdisciplinary programme of events made to elicit connectivity, induce interaction, and provoke debate between makers, participants and witnesses of works that explicitly address proximity and hybridity in performance. It will feature workshops, seminars, performances, posters, and a 1-day symposium. INTIMACY will employ digital and live art practices as agents, aiming to further practical exploration of and vibrant discourse into notions of intimacy in contemporary performance. It is framed as a forum for artists, scholars, community workers, performers, cultural practitioners, researchers and creative thinkers.

Confirmed contributors include: Johannes Birringer, Kira O'Reilly, Tracey Warr, Janis Jefferies, Amelia Jones, Dominic Johnson, Kelli Dipple, Paul Sermon.

INTIMACY will take place on the 7th, 8th and 9th December in and around Goldsmiths University of London, LABAN and The Albany (South London).

Proposals are being accepted for:


Paper presentations or Performance Lectures
Poster presentations
Live performances -physical and/or digital
Deadline for submissions: 19 August 2007.
Notification of acceptance: early October 2007

For more information on INTIMACY please visit Cybertheater, view the full call for submissions online, or email: intimacyrachelz at yahoo.co.uk or drp01mc at gold.ac.uk

3. Prize: Share Prize for Digital Art. Deadline: 30/09/07

Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art. The competition jury will award a prize of 2,500 Euros to the work which best represents experimentation between the arts and new technologies.

Candidates for the prize are required to show their work at the 4th edition of the Share Festival, taking place in March 2008 at the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin.

The contest is open to any Italian and foreign artist using digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all its shapes and forms. For more information and to register, visit the website.