OPEN CALL: Summer Laboratories 2021

gnration is promoting the 2021 Summer Laboratories edition. An initiative that offers financial and logistical support for the creation of artistic content. Applications are open until 2 May.

OPEN CALL: IMPROVISA - Life in Motion

The IMPROVISA. Life in Motion Consortium invites EU artists to submit proposals with new approaches to engaging audiences in cultural and heritage contents through the principles of improvisation and the use of mobile technologies

OPEN CALL: Gulbenkian Foundation supports artistic creation and training

Given the current needs of the cultural sector, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation has decided to support artistic training and creation, individual and collective, across visual arts, cinema, theatre and dance. 

OPEN CALL: ArtCamp Andorra 2021

This year, ArtCamp Andorra - "Colours for the planet" aims to promote cultural diversity, peace dialogue between artists, and sustainable development. The 7th ArtCamp Andorra will take place from 14 to 25 July, in Ordino, principality of Andorra.

OPEN CALL: UNDERGROUND Film Award

Together with the INDEPENDENT DAYS | Internationale Filmfestspiele Karlsruhe, the Filmboard Karlsruhe would like to offer independent filmmakers without great financial opportunities a production option for a low-budget project worth ...

OPEN CALL: International Mobility (Music and Cultural Heritage)

On Monday 15 February 2021 i-Portunus launches the final open calls on music and cultural heritage, with deadline on 15 April. Parallelly the open calls for literary translation, music and architecture are open respectively until 28 February and ...

OPEN CALL: Beyond Matter Residency

Tallinn Art Hall, Tirana Art Lab Center for Contemporary Art, and the Hertz-Lab of the ZKM I Center for Art and Media are jointly calling for European art practitioners / theoreticians to apply for one of three production residencies taking place in Karlsruhe, Tallinn, and Tirana.

Can a drawing change the world? #drawwithdenmark

Can a drawing change the world? Braga Media Arts has been invited by the city of Viborg (Denmark), also a UNESCO Creative City for Media Arts, to join the project ...

OPEN CALL: NOVA ARCADA LOCAL ARTISTIC COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP

SonaeSierra and NOVA ARCADA, through CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PROGRAMMES by SC, within the scope of their regular activity of involvement with the Community, intends to challenge local artistic associations, collectives, and ...

OPEN CALL: Prémio STARTS 2021

As of today, scientists, technologists, artists, institutions, labs and companies are invited once again to submit their best projects for the STARTS Prize 2021 of the European Commission. Entries should ...

OPEN CALL! ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra

Circuito is inviting all amateur musicians in Braga to be part of ODE - Electronic Devices Orchestra, an ensemble made specifically from electronic devices. Until April 4, send us an e-mail to circuito@bragamediaarts.com.

City to City: when UNESCO Creative Cities in Media Arts come together for their artists, the result is a virtual gallery with artworks created online

  In 2020, as a response to this challenging time for the artistic and cultural environment, nine members of the Media Arts Network of the UNESCO Creative Cities: Austin (United ...

OPEN CALL: Collide Residency Award

Are you an artist interested in conducting artistic research in scientific laboratories in dialogue with physicists and engineers? Collide is a fully-funded two-month residency at CERN, the European Laboratory for ...

Braga Media Arts will attend ICT Meets the ARTS - Building Collaborative Networks event

Joana Miranda, Braga Media Arts Executive Coordinator, will be a speaker at the ICT Meets the ARTS conference, organized by Porto Design Factory, in the context of the RegionArts project, supported by the Interreg Europe program.

João Carlos Pinto is the winner of the Open Call of the initiative "City to City: Human Responsibility"

The musician João Carlos Pinto was the winner of the city of Braga for the open call of the initiative "City to City: Human Responsibility", which brings together in one purpose different UNESCO Creative Cities for the Media Arts.

The biggest prize in Portugal for Innovation has a new date for the submission of applications

INCM's IN3+ Prize, one of the biggest prizes to support national innovation, research, and development, has a new closing date for the submission of applications: October 31st.

In this edition, the prize is one million euros, distributed up to three selected ideas.

Portuguese Creative Cities together at Leiria

The UNESCO Portuguese Creative Cities were together yesterday in Leiria for a meeting to consolidate and define future activities in partnership.

Webinar Art & Science Crossovers: A Journey with BOZAR, Waag and gnration

We’re travelling to Garden Amsterdam, Brussels and Braga in this tour, where BOZAR, Waag and gnration give insights into the thought-provoking programming at the intersection of art and science they’re presenting in the framework of the festival. 

Virtual tour through the exhibition "The Invention of Sense" by Marcel Weber

OPEN CALL: City to City 2020 Human Responsibility

The cities of Austin (United States), Braga (Portugal), Calí (Colombia), Changsha (China), Guadalajara (México), Karlsruhe (Germany), Kosice (Slovakia), Sapporo (Japan), Viborg (Denmark) and York (United Kingdom), members of the Media ...

Meeting of Portuguese Creative Cities in Covilhã

Today Braga Media Arts will be in Covilhã for an event dedicated to Portuguese UNESCO Creative Cities. Together with representatives from the cities of Amarante, Barcelos, Idanha-a-Nova, Leira and Óbidos, Braga ...

OPEN CALL: worldwide story contest

This year, the ILFU International Literature Festival Utrecht will be launching the ILFU International Story Contest. On the theme of ‘Rising’, anyone aged 16 and over can submit a story in ...

Theatro Circo 2019 results press conference

It was last Friday that Theatro Circo presented, in a press conference, the results for the year 2019, as well as an analysis of all the activity created during the confinement and post-confinement period.

UNESCO promotes survey for Latin America creative sector

Containment measures or mobility restrictions adopted by many countries to contain the pandemic have drastically restricted access to culture, making the whole cultural ecosystem fragile, in particular through the closure ...

Trans Europe Halles is looking for startups in Portugal

Trans Europe Halles calls for emerging civic initiatives with a focus on arts, culture and creativity that are located in repurposed buildings to participate in the fourth edition of the Startup ...

OPEN CALL: Art For Social Change

Pitroda Art gallery is promoting a series of actions that aim to put art as an engine for social transformation. MOVEMENT is the name of a set of activities that ...

Digital Earth Fellowship: call for entries

Digital Earth is now receiving applications for the "Digital Earth Fellowship" 2020-2021. Aimed at 8 artists and/or duos from different practices, this fellowship starts in September 2020 and ends in May 2021, with a total of €13.500 per fellow for the entire fellowship.

Round table ESCUTAR, SENTIR, GUARDAR

"Audire" project, from the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS) of the University of Minho, is promoting a round table on the theme "ESCUTAR, SENTIR, GUARDAR - Sound experience and acoustic ecology". The presentation will take place at July 17, at 11am.

OPEN CALL: Igual diz-se de muitas maneiras

Until July 22, Circuito is promoting an open call aimed at all residents of Braga, those who have always lived here and those who chose the city to live, to participate in the collaborative show “Igual diz-se de muitas maneiras”.

OPEN CALL! ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra

Circuito – Braga Media Arts Educational Service is still looking for digital musicians to join ODE - Electronic Devices Orchestra. If you want to make music from laptops, tablets, smartphones and synthesizers, apply now! 

Cultural and creative sector Survey

Braga Cultura 2030, the cultural strategy that is preparing Braga's candidacy for the European Capital of Culture 2027, prepared a survey addressed to all artists, cultural agents and colaborators of ...

Edigma Semibreve Award 2020

Semibreve's 10th edition will feature once again the Semibreve Award sponsored by Edigma, a Portuguese company leader in the development of interactive experiences, multi-touch technology and digital signage projects.

 

 

OPEN CALL: Media Art residency at Košice

  Creative City Košice is launching an open call for artists who are either born, live, or work in any of UNESCO Creative Cities, for a two-month artistic residency. The art project ...

Round table "Error in the context of creative and technological processes" online today

Today, starting at 6:30 pm, you can watch the Round Table "Error in the context of creative and technological processes", which took place at gnration on February 29th, in the context of "Construção de um index #1".

Galeria Duarte Sequeira at Arco Lisboa online

Braga based Duarte Sequeira Gallery will be participating in ARCO Lisboa 2020 Online in a partnership with Artsy, presenting works by artists Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, Petros Moris, Vanessa da Silva and Mimosa Echard.
 

Time to watch a Round Table about arte, technology and science

Today, starting at 6:30 pm, you can watch the Round Table "Art, technology and science: new paths for a long relationship", which took place at gnration on February 29th, in the context of "Construção de um index #1".

David Bruno's workshop for Circuito is already online

Workshop "Sampling as a musical composition tool", led by musician David Bruno is online and available on Youtube until next May 31. To watch please click here.

Gulbenkian Award for Adult Literacy

Finding technological solutions that promote adult literacy throughout life was the motto for the creation of Gulbenkian Award for Adult Literacy, promoted by the foundation in partnership with Solve - MIT.

Open Call Marvelous Art Magazine

Until May 13 you can submit applications for the 1st edition of Marvelous Art Magazine, from Marvelous Art Gallery

Your Podcast launches fiction podcast

Covid-19 pandemic forced many companies to change routines, cases  like Your Podcast.

Open Call "Portuguese Emerging Art 2020"

Applications for the open call "Portuguese Emerging Art 2020" run until 30 June.

Get to know Museu dos Biscainhos with virtual tours

If you want to have access to art and culture without leaving your home, Museu dos Biscainhos, in Braga, is offering virtual guided tours.

Zet gallery launches challenge to the youngest

Many doors were closed at the beginning of 2020. Uncertainties, lethargy, distress, but also institutions and people who did not want to let their arms down. zet gallery is an exemple of that.

Open call for PARTIS & Arts for Change

This is the first edition of PARTIS & Art for Change. 

Cosmic Burger wants to support artists

Cosmic Burger launched an online campaign to raise funds to support artists,struggling due to the current events.

Grants for Jovens Criadores 2020 now open

The application deadline ends on April 30th.

IPCA students provide online support on a voluntary basis

 

It is called “Somos Tod@s Digitais” and wants to help those who have to stay at home. Digital skills are fundamental to break social isolation.

Guadalajara promotes virtual creative sprint

Guadalajara, UNESCO's creative city, in partnership with the British Council and the Promoting Council for Innovation and Design are promoting an online creative sprint, a space for dialogue that allows the exchange of ideas.

Call for artists: Summer Laboratories at gnration

gnration promotes this year, the fifth edition of the Summer Laboratories. Aimed at artists or communities in the district of Braga that produce original artistic content, the initiative kicks off on August 3, with a monetary support of 1500 euros per project.

Startups and companies get together at "Doing Business" initiative

“Doing Business”, ScaleUp Porto event that reaches its 5th edition, will be held this year in partnership with UPTEC - Science and Technology Park of Universidade do Porto.

Theatro Circo celebrates 105 years with dance, poetry, music and performances

Tomorrow Theatro Circo celebrates 105 years of existence. A birthday that this year, due to unexpected circumstances, is celebrated virtually.

OECD promotes summer academy for creative industries

How can the cultural and creative industries help to overcome the new challenges we face? And how can national and local governments relieve the short and long-term effects of this crisis on the creative industries?

UNESCO launches global movement on World Arts Day

After launching the #ShareOurHeritage campaign, UNESCO celebrates World Arts Day this wednesday and launches another global movement. It is called ResiliArt and consists of a series of virtual debates and initiatives on social networks.

Construção de um index #: art and technology come together

Having witnessed the birth of index in 2019, this year Braga will receive a set of sessions entitled construção de um inex, an event that will bridge the first edition of index - Bienal de Media Arts, to take place in 2021.

Gulbenkian grants in Visual and Performing Arts

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian opened applications for grants to support projects in the field of visual arts, curatorship, cinema, theater and dance.

OPEN CALL Technarte

The next Technarte International Conference on Art and Technology will be held in Los Angeles, California, USA on August 6-7, 2020.

 

OPEN CALL artist residencies

OSSO Colectivo launched its artistic residency programme.
They invite artists and practice-based researchers from all areas to submit an application.

 

Canceled - BMA lab: A closer listen - Masterclass com Jana Winderen

For family reasons, the workshop “A Closer Listen”, by Jana Winderen, has been canceled. Previously scheduled for January 25 and recently postponed at the request of the artist, the workshop will not have a next replacement date.

OPEN CALL for Media Art grants

The Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art will award three Grants for Media Art of the Foundation of Lower Saxony.

Call for entries LUMEN PRIZE - Art and Technology

Applications for the international digital art prize Lumen Prize, organized annually by Lumen Art Projects, will run from February 15 to May 5, 2020.

IPCA promotes advanced courses in Artificial Intelligence

You can now sign in for the 1st Edition of Advanced Courses, organized by the Laboratory of Applied Artificial Intelligence (2Ai), from IPCA(Polytechnic Institute of Cávado e Ave).

Imaginando develops high quality audio application

Imaginando, a technology startup that creates tools and instruments for the music industry, is developing a platform with an American company, a kind of Skype for Pro Audio.

Open Call: STARTS Prize'19

Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts.

Building an index # 1

In 2019 Braga saw the birth of Index, the first international event focused on the relationship between art and technology, created since the city was awarded the title of creative ...

OPEN CALL AUSTIN SXSW

The UNESCO Austin City of Media Arts Steering Committee, in partnership with the Cultural Arts Division within the Economic Development Department is receiving applications for UNESCO's International Media Arts Exhibition. Artists must be at least 18 years old.

OPEN CALL! Equal is said in many ways

Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service is receiving applications for the community show Equal is said in many ways. The challenge is launched to all new or old residents of Braga. Participants must be over 16 and. Sign up for free until May 8th.

OPEN CALL! ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra

Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service is receiving applications for ODE: Electronic Devices Orchestra. If you're between 15 and 18, sign up for free until March 25!

Circuito - Community Show at Noite Branca

Circuito - Braga Media Arts Educational Service will present itself to the world during Noite Branca Braga 2019. Save the date: September 6th, 21h30, at Palco Praça.

Open Call Circuito - BMA Educational Service

O Teatro Circo, EM, S.A., entidade responsável pela implementação do plano de ação de Braga Media Arts, Cidade Criativa da UNESCO, no âmbito do CIRCUITO (serviço educativo de Braga Media ...

index of art and technology - launch day

index - of art and technology was officially launched yesterday at gnration.

Calígula Morreu. Eu não.

Open Rehearsal of Artistic Residency "Calígula Morreu. Eu não." July 6th - 16h00 @ gnration

INL Mobility Program

 

INL has launched a new mobility program under the nanoGateway project.

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OPEN CALL: Calígula Morreu. Eu Não!

 

Braga Media Arts Educational Service and Terra Amarela are looking for 5 people to join the work group of the Creative Workshop Calígula Morreu. Eu não.

João Martinho Moura exhibits in South Korea

Media artist João Martinho Moura has two exhibitions in South Korea. How Computers Imagine Humans? in the context of ISEA 2019 in Gwangju and Sci-fi Miners at the Nabi Art Center in Seoul.

"A Dança dos Paroxismos" played by Instant Ensemble

The Instant Ensemble interprets the classic film of rare public presentations, "A Dança dos Paroxismos" (1929), by Jorge Brum do Canto, in an audiovisual show for the whole family.

RoadShow 18/19 - UMinho

This third phase of the RoadShow takes us to Maximinos Secondary School for a pedagogical intervention of Product Design students from the University of Minho, focused on groups of blind and low vision students.

ARTECH 2019 CONFERENCE

“ARTECH 2019 – Digital Media Art Ecosystems” is the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts, hosted in the city of Braga, Portugal and organized by the Association Artech-International, Theatro Circo and UCP. 

2019 Experience Changsha

Experience Changsha Media Arts Residency was part of the Changsha Media Arts Festival and the International Youth Forum on Creativity and Heritage along the Silk Road. In the Chinese city, ...

Ciclo Binário: "Falaises"

The artistic cycle Binário presents some of the most exciting audiovisual performances that can be seen today. On May 8, Canadian artists Alexis Langevin-Tétrault, Guillaume Côté and Dave Gagnon, stepped onto the stage of gnration to perform "Falaises".

Open Call: "Edigma Semibreve Award 2019"

Semibreve festival returns to Braga once again to celebrate digital arts along the Semibreve prize in collaboration with Edigma, which is open to works in the area of audiovisual, technology and interactivity.

Artistic Competition White Night 2019

Braga goes back to wearing white in 2019, with various activities ranging from street entertainment to performances or installation. To complement this program, Bracara Augusta Foundation launches an open call to all the community.

RoadShow IPCA 18/19

RoadShow returns in the last week of April for another show of works, this time with six short films prepared by IPCA's School of Design, exhibited in two secondary schools of Braga.

Open Call: community show - Braga White Night 2019

The Educational Service of Braga Media Arts invites singers or choirs to participate in the project "community show", integrated in the White Night Braga 2019.

Open Call: Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival

The international Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Encontros da Imagem, returns in 2019 for another edition spread throughout the city, bringing again a call for artists.

BoCA 2019 - Biennial of Contemporary Arts

BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, returns this year with passage through Braga. Various installations, performances and exhibitions will be exhibited in various spaces of the city, between March 15 and April 30.

Educational Service: Mini Mapa Sonoro

The Mini Sound Map is the latest activity of Braga Media Arts Education Service, proposed for the 2018/2019 school year. A set of interactive and audiovisual maps that describe schools by their students.

Open Call: ECFJ 2019

The Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism (ECFJ) is an experimental grant-making program that supports artists producing innovative and revelatory journalistic work for major media outlets. They are currently admitting applications for issues related to technology.

Braga Cultura 2030

On December 7th, the Municipality of Braga presented the development of a Cultural Strategy, called 'Braga Cultura 2030', for the 2020-2030 time horizon.

BMA lab

In the next academic year, a new cycle of workshops in the area of media arts under the BMA umbrella will be open. BMA lab brings together three initiatives from January ...

BMA: Teacher Training Cycle 2018/2019

This set of Short Term Trainings, prepared by the Braga Media Arts educational service fills the space between creation, Media Arts and the community. It serves so that teachers can improve and acquire new pedagogical and technical tools to be applied in the classroom.