G4C Festival, New York, This Week!

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Called “the Sundance of video games” for “socially-responsible game-makers” G4C is promoting a new genre of video game – games to change the world – for the better.

The Annual Games for Change Festival brings together the world’s leading foundations, NGOs, game-makers, academics, and journalists to explore how best to harness this incredibly powerful medium to help address the most critical issues of our day, from poverty, climate change, global con?icts, to human rights. Every year, the festival doubles in size and brings in new, high-impact partners.

The festival includes 4 exciting days of panels, keynotes and brainstorming sessions, as well as funders’ meetings, press briefings, a private journalists dinner, birds-of-a-feather gatherings and the usual excellent networking opportunities. This year also features the always popular Expo and reception where attendees can play these new games ?rst-hand.

See the festival schedule and list of speakers here.

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Jason Schupbach Appointed NEA Director of Design

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Jason Schupbach

The National Endowment for the Arts announced today that Jason Schupbach will join the NEA as Director of Design at the end of May.

“I am incredibly excited to be working with the National Endowment for the Arts as they embark on important new smart design initiatives and continue to provide invaluable support for design projects through the NEA’s core grant programs,” says Mr. Schupbach. “From the Mayors’ Institute for City Design 25th Anniversary Grants to the new Our Town program, the new leadership of the Endowment is embracing innovative creative placemaking policies. I’m honored to be part of the team which will implement these strategies to revitalize our communities and put Americans back to work.”

“Jason brings to the NEA an incredible knowledge of the design world and the many ways that art can transform communities,” says NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman. “His experience working with design professionals and members of the government has prepared him to direct the NEA as a leader in smart design.”

Download the full press release. (PDF, 33k)

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ARTmorpheus Artists Roundtable, Tuesday, April 13

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Connecting artists working in any media with entrepreneurial resources and networks.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010
5:30pm to 7:00pm
Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts
551 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116

Promoting your work is an important component of building support for it. This month’s roundtable features Jessica Burko, artist, independent curator, and arts marketer, who will share her tips and lead a conversation about building support and awareness for your work, marketing and community building.

Using new media, artists can reach wider audiences, build a supporter base, and self-promote more successfully than ever before.” Jessica Burko has been an exhibiting artist since 1985, an independent curator since 1997, and believes that artists can make the most of their careers by taking charge of their own public image. Burko holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. For more information about Jessica, see
http://www.jessicaburko.com/FANews.html

This event is free but please rsvp and bring any food item of your choice to share.

RSVP and Q: Liora Beer, 617.456.1131

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2010 International Experimental Media Congress

Toronto Media Congress logoThe 2010 International Experimental Media Congress coincides with the closing days of the 23rd Images Festival. The first Congress since the storied 1989 Toronto Experimental Film Congress, this gathering will promote ongoing international conversations and provide platforms for creative discussions about the burning issues related to experimental media production, exhibition, dissemination, criticism, pedagogy and reception. The Congress includes dialogues about experimental media as a critical and material practice and its politics, myths and institutions; discussions about media arts’ place on the screen, on the web, in the gallery and in the archive; field reports from the burgeoning experimental scenes of Korea and India; and a showcase of recent practices. It brings together over 50 invited film, video and new media artists, curators, theorists and archivists from around the world for an intense four days of discussions and debate.

Keynote talk: Yvonne Rainer in conversation with John Greyson. Wednesday 7 April 2010, 7 PM at the Ontario College of Art & Design.

2010 Images Festival website with program details, schedules and ticketing:
http://www.imagesfestival.com

Congress Registration now online
http://www.experimentalcongress.org
Registration required, please sign up early via our website. Space is limited.
Registration includes FREE access to Images Festival events!

For Congress information, please contact Chris Kennedy, Coordinator:
congress@experimentalcongress.org

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