A fully funded PhD opportunity to creatively use the latest virtual reality art forms or filmmaking techniques to improve the health and wellbeing of disabled communities.

For more information and application details, please visit the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities website here.

Deadline: Friday 11 August 2017

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LATEST | JOBS | FUNDING & RESIDENCIES | SUBMISSIONS | FESTIVALS | STUDIOS | WANTED

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Call for Artist – live drawing event at National Museum of Scotland
National Museums Scotland is seeking an artist to develop and deliver a live drawing event on Friday 8th and Saturday 9th July.
Deadline: 17 June

Anthology 2016 | Call for applications    
Ten finalists will be exhibited at Charlie Smith London and receive £2,000 cash prize.
Deadline: 18 June

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The RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award 2016
The Barns-Graham Travel Award (£2,000) provides a travel and research opportunity for graduating and postgraduate students.
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA William Littlejohn Award 2016
The RSA William Littlejohn Award (£2,000) is for artists working in water-based media (any pigment mixed with water).
Deadline: 9 August

The RSA Morton Award 2016
The Morton Award (£5,000) is for artists working in a lens-based media in Scotland.
Deadline: 9 August

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 Head of Marketing & Communications | Edinburgh
Collective are seeking an experienced individual to lead the strategic development of marketing, public relations and communications.
Deadline: 20 June

Digital Project Manager: Glasgow
Everyone are seeking an experienced digital project manager to assist with the running of our busy city centre studio.
Deadline: 24 June

Various Jobs at SFMOMA | San Francisco
SFMOMA are looking to recruit for various positions including marketing, communications & digital roles.
Deadline: ongoing

Graphic Designer | Shanghai
Experienced Graphic Designer required for NeochaEDGE, an expanding company based in China.
Deadline: ongoing

Volunteer Correspondents
Tribe magazine are recruiting for both international and UK based correspondents to write articles, interviews & features around the arts.
Deadline: ongoing

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Commission, Galoshans Festival 2016
Awards are available for proposals in any art form and which are inspired by or fit within the festival’s theme: ‘When Two World’s Touch’
Deadline: 20 June

Open Project Funding: Call for Applications
Individuals & organisations can apply for funding from £1,000 to £100,000 to support supports the arts, screen and creative projects.
Deadline: ongoing

Night Shift Residency
A peer group residency focussing on attention economy and the 24/7 sleepless society for artists, art practitioners and writers.
Deadline: ongoing

FUNDING: Go and See Fund – Imaginate
A fund dedicated to helping artists in Scotland access work & shows to help inspire their next project.
Deadline: ongoing

Team Effort! Residencies
Residencies last for a maximum of 3 weeks between September 2013 & August 2014 to fit within Team Effort!’s ethos of exploration, risk-taking & collaboration.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Access Residency | Aberdeenshire
This residency offers artists the time, space, facilities & technical support to realise their work & to develop their practice & research new ideas.
Deadline: ongoing

Mark Devereux Projects Associates Programme
MDP announce their revised Associates programme which supports early-career visual artists through events, opportunities & critical exchange.
Deadline: ongoing

Woodland Project Residency
The Residency takes place in Cyprus and seeks to expand outdoor practice and explore the relationship between woodland & human being.
Deadline: ongoing

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Products Wanted | Glasgow
We are looking for great new designs by current students, practising staff, recent graduates and established alumni of The Glasgow School of Art.
Deadline: 22 June

Spoken Word Submissions Sought
Lies, Dreaming are seeking audio recordings of spoken word pieces on the theme of ‘Do you want fries with that?’ for our bi-monthly podcast.
Deadline: 30 June

Open call: Faraway, So Close
Selected participants will work within teams and exhibit under the main exhibition umbrella accompanied by a dedicated catalogue.
Deadline: 10 July

Call out, Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers
Kalopsia are seeking proposals from Creative Workshop Facilitators / Makers for participatory workshops and activities.
Deadline: 1 September

Tin Roof ϟ Zine Fair
Tin Roof invites submissions from artists, collectives, publishers and presses to sell, network and enjoy print.
Deadline: TBC

The Glasgow Photography Gallery: Call for Submissions
See your photography showcased on one of The Glasgow Photography Gallery’s online spaces.
Deadline: ongoing

Peep Show Coffee: Call for Proposals
Peep Show Coffee are looking for proposals & ideas for short-term and long-term use of their project space.
Deadline: ongoing

Callout to Artists Looking for a Venue | London
Ziferblat is a social experiment. The space is ours & yours. To use to create, collaborate, experiment and play; what would you do with the space?
Deadline: ongoing

Hold Me Dear: Call for Submissions
Send a photograph of the place you personally treasure and include a 50 words caption explaining the story behind why this place is important to you.
Deadline: ongoing

Gallery Unit Open Call
Open call for exhibition proposals for new artist exhibition/event space at The Savoy Centre in Glasgow.
Deadline: ongoing

The Facility Makers Call Out
The Facility shop seeks products made in Britain including jewellery, textiles, prints, glass, furniture & ceramics to sell in the Facility shop.
Deadline: ongoing

Exhibit your artwork at Tchai-Ovna
Open call for exhibitors: proposals wanted for monthly solo exhibition at Tchai-Ovna, House of Tea.
Deadline: ongoing

Write Shoot Cut: Call for submissions
Write Shoot Cut is a monthly short film night. They are currently seeking submissions for various programmes.
Deadline: ongoing

Open Submissions for Moving Image Makers
An unconscious & uncurated stream of work will be displayed at Summerhall, Edinburgh for the indefinite future.
Deadline: ongoing

A.L.L. Seaweed
An Lucht Lonrach is searching for articles & artworks on the uses of seaweed.
Deadline: ongoing

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Six Foot Gallery Jewellery Benches for Hire
Six Foot Gallery would like to offer jewellers the opportunity to rent our jeweller’s benches.
Deadline: Ongoing

WASPS Studios: Creative Office Space Available | Nairn
WASPS Studios have one creative industry/enterprise space to rent at Links Studios in Nairn please click link for further details.
Deadline: Ongoing

Open Studio Club: Rent, swap & collaborate studio spaces around the world.
Free Event/Urban/Unusual/Studio/Rehearsal Spaces: 16–25 with an idea, creative project or business? Need a space to help make it happen? We’ll find a space to help you — for free!

Glasgow:

SWG3 Desk hire in Design Studio
Full and Half Desk spaces available in Design Studio 223
Ongoing

Studio Spaces and Co-working desks Available
Two studio spaces available, a space for 1 person or for 2/3 people, and co-working opportunities too.
Deadline: Ongoing

Workspace available for fashion project | Glasgow
Do you have a fashion related project and need space or equipment to develop it? The Fashion Foundry studio is opening its doors.
Deadline: Ongoing

Modern Office Spaces: Spaces available include; a coworking desk space, an office for 3/4 people & an unfurnished whole floor for up to 15 people.
Titan Props: Multi-use spaces for film & photographic shoots.
South Block: Creative space in Merchant City.
MAKLAB: A digital fabrication studio offering use of machines for engraving, embroidery, cutting shapes and making 3d objects.
Studio/Office desk space: Three spaces are available in a bright, secure shared office/desk space five minutes from Central Station.
Shapes Of Things Studio Available for Hire : Studio hire is aimed at those with a fair amount of silk screen printing experience.
The Distillery: Creative freelancer looking for a place to work? The Distillery at The Whisky Bond offers open plan space, quiet areas & meeting rooms.
Toad’s Caravan: Collaborative, creative working space based in the west end with desk space available to rent.
De Anderen Studios: Three spaces are available within the studio in addition to hot-desking facilities
Desks to rent in Creative co-working office space Flexible desk rental from hot desking to permanent available now in Glasgow’s West End with relaxed meeting room available for separate hire.

Edinburgh:

Whitespace: A space for classes and exhibitions.
Media Education: A desk space for hire close to Haymarket station.
Rhubaba Studios Available: Any artist can apply for studios at Rhubaba. All studio artists have access to the gallery space between exhibitions.
The Facility Studios: Involved in textiles, fashion or design? Studios now available to rent at The Facility, Edinburgh.

London:
Project space available at Enclave: A long-term project space will be available from October for individuals/groups of artists/curators running contemporary art programmes.

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Writers:
Pinso | Our Penniless Write | Product Magazine | Fractured West | Colossal

Moving Image:
Write Shoot Cut | Pluspace | The Cutting Room | Soundry

Members:
Fleet Collective, Dundee | Project Slogan Consortium, Aberdeen |
Just Us Collective | Make Works Directory | VAU: Membership Scheme

Artwork:
tribe magazine | artpistol | Product Magazine | Moray Art Centre | Editions | a secret.

Jewellery graduates:
Vanilla Ink

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ROLE
We  have an opportunity for experienced Producers to join our successful team in delivering a series of large media projects and interactive installations across the UK and internationally.

Working from our production studio in Glasgow you will be helping us to deliver content-rich digital experiences that include animation, live action filming, AR / VR, motion graphics and bespoke software development.

The role is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidates to become key members of our studio. You will benefit from the support of a strong creative and technical team and experience on a range of diverse, industry-leading projects.

You will have been involved in animation, games, television or film production or your background will be in digital production in either a design, advertising, online or software development studio.

You will have a  broad interest in culture, technology and the arts and be equally comfortable with creative or technical challenges.

Responsibilties
- Delivering high quality projects across a range of media and platforms, with the skills required to deliver on budget and on schedule.
- A great communicator who will organise and motivate their team and work alongside directors and creative leads to ensure their vision is realised.
- Liaising with clients to determine the aims of their projects and ensuring their requirements are delivered on time and on budget.
- Producing cost breakdowns and schedules and oversee projects from initial briefing to final delivery.
- Managing internal design and production team resources and co-ordinating external freelance associates or suppliers
- On larger projects leading a team of producers, production assistants and project managers
- Excellent reporting skills
- The majority of work will be studio-based with opportunities to work off-site at workshops, presentations, filming or post-production. Some international travel is also required.

Requirements
- 5 years+ professional experience within a media or software related environment.
- Demonstrable experience in handing budgets of £250k+ and the proven ability to work on complex multi-part projects across mixed media and different formats.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to deal directly with directors, designers, developers, production support and freelance associates
- Excellent client management skills
- The ability to quickly determine creative and technical requirements of projects and to put programme and resource planning into place
- Excellent reporting skills especially across budget management and scheduling.
- Attention to detail and a sense of ownership on projects is essential.

SUBMISSIONS
• Cover letter introducing yourself, your work experience and professional  interests. Please make sure if demonstrates the minimum requirements above.
• CV with two industry references
• An indication of salary expectations

The initial contract will be for 12 months full time though we would consider flexible or part-time working for the right candidates. Please indicate if this is a preference.

Please forward to opportunities@isodesign.co.uk

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Senior and Junior full time and freelance positions available at ISO Design, Glasgow.

ISO is one of the UK’s leading digital design studios. We create large scale immersive media and interactive projects for cultural clients, brands and television.

A number of positions for 2D/3D MOTION GRAPHICS and INTERACTION DESIGNERS has opened up at our Glasgow studio.

Full time and flexible freelance contracts are available.

Based out of our new studios in Glasgow’s Merchant City you will be working alongside ISO’s Creative Directors and Production team to design a wide range of media projects for UK and international clients, developing high quality motion graphics and animation with innovative interactive experiences.

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MOTION GRAPHICS DESIGNERS (SENIOR)

Responsibilities:

As a senior designer your role would start at the concept stage of a project, and you would be involved right through to delivery. We would expect you to be capable of taking briefs and conceptualising and storyboarding creative approaches. You would lead the development of designs, animation, sometimes composite live action and 3D with motion graphics, typography and illustrative styles.

You will be client facing with excellent communication and presentation skills and be comfortable collaborating and leading other designers and the wider production team.

Presenting ideas, both to colleagues and to clients

Strong conceptual thinking and storytelling skills

Leading the development, preparation and delivery of creative proposals and pitches, generating style frames, storyboards and sample animation

Generating high quality animated and motion graphics content

Working closely with creative teams, content managers, scriptwriters, designers, creative technologists, producers and project managers

Working on multiple projects at once

Requirements:

Excellent Adobe CC skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator)
Cinema 4D experience
5 years+ professional experience in a design, animation, interaction or games studio

Beneficial skills and experience:

Live action film direction or photography
UX / interface design
Information graphics or data visualisation
Experience of digital production pipelines and linear-to-interactive workflows
Video mapping or large scale media design
Character animation

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MOTION GRAPHICS AND INTERACTION DESIGNERS (JUNIOR)

Responsibilities:

As a studio designer you will enjoy working in a group and are fast learners and who show initiative and are willing to throw themselves into a challenge; that may be quickly learning a new piece of software, assisting on a live action shoot, double checking edits or digital assets before they are delivered or quickly developing a series of creative ideas to a client’s outline brief!

You will be working amongst ISO’s design and production teams to assist with the development of a wide range of work from linear animation and motion graphics (2D and 3D), illustration, graphic and brand development, UI and UX design and the development of digital assets for interactive software.

In return you will be gain invaluable experience across projects of vastly different scale and design ambition. These might might range from 360 degree film installations to television idents, large scale interactive environments to online animations.

The opportunities are varied so we are interested in people across a wide range of skillets.

Requirements

Good solid skills in Adobe CC skills (After Effects, Premiere Pro and Illustrator)
2D / 3D motion graphic or animation experience
Evidence of working in larger digital production teams
Evidence of personally designed projects taken from brief to delivery
Good presentation, writing and communication skills
2 years+ professional experience in a design, animation, interaction or games studio

Beneficial skills and experience:

Live action film or photography experience as director or assistant
UX / interface design
Information graphics or data visualisation
Generative graphics
Visual effects and composition
Installation work
Illustration or character development work
Specialist 3D skils (modelling, lighting, texturing, animation, rendering etc)
Experience of runtime environments (Unity 3D, Unreal etc)
Creative coding

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Submission details:

- Cover letter indicating the job you are interested in, introducing yourself and explaining why you think you would be a good addition to the studio
- CV with two references
- Digital link to examples of your work
- Please include the reference CEN_MGSJ_01

Please forward to
opportunities@isodesign.co.uk

No agencies, thank you.

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This is specifically a digital art prize, welcoming all forms of digitally created art works including photo-montage and manipulation to iPad drawings, interactive art, web art, digital sculpture, and animation. The only requirement is that the creative process involve a digital device as well as commercial or originally-coded software.

A Stranger to Words by Meng Chih Chiang

The prize is a celebration of the digital genre and the winner will be selected by a panel of distinguished judges in this field.  The event will be further celebrated with the tour which will include workshops and seminars on digital art in order to engage with local digital artists and the public.  As of spring 2015, the Lumen Prize has staged 14 shows around the world, including venues in China, the US, and across Europe. For more about the prize and tour, please see our FAQs.

The Platform of Suffering by Seok-Jun Ha

Garden by Rui Hu

A not-for-profit organisation, Lumen is honoured to be working with a range of education and art partners around the world including the Computer Arts Society,  New York Institute of Technology; Cardiff School of Art and Design; the School of Visual Arts, NYC; and London’s Camberwell School of Arts MA Fine Art Digital programme, CADW, the heritage arm of the Welsh Government and Swansea School of Management.

If you are interested applying visit their website or for updates about the tour you can sign up to the newsletter.

Call for entries opens: 15 March

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TRG3 is a project series from The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery. The project showcases pioneering work and provides opportunities to young and emerging artists from home and abroad. Those involved in the programme have access to Edinburgh University’s resources and support from the expert curatorial and technical team to help make new ideas a reality.

So far the 2015 programme has included works from Steven Anderson, Jordan Pilling, and Michael Poetschko.

With a potential budget of £1,500, this opportunity is open to individual Scotland based artists or collectives working in any medium.

Details and conditions of application can be found on their website.

Deadline: 30 October

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A call for entries has been announced for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize. The opportunity is open to all UK painters over 18. Works are selected anonymously by an independent jury.

The winner will receive a grand prize of £25,000, with a further four awards of £2,500 going to the runner ups. An additional prize of £2,016 will be awarded to the winner of the Visitor’s Choice award, voted for by the public during the exhibition.

Please read the entry criteria and rules here. An entry fee of £30 applies and all submissions are to be made online here.

Deadline: 9 November

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Bridging the Gap provides training, mentorship and a first commission to Scottish-based filmmakers. Here’s your opportunity to work closely with the Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI) and make a 10 minute documentary.

Bridging the Gap is Scotland’s flagship short documentary film scheme for new talent and every year, the initiative provides an £8k budget to get your film made. This year SDI are looking for short films inspired by ‘women’. This is an opportunity for filmmakers of all genders to be part of the conversation and make a visually innovative, character-led story with ‘women’ as a starting point.

For the new season of Bridging the Gap, the SDI team will hit the road this month, hosting workshops and screenings across Scotland to help filmmakers prepare their submissions. The workshops will explain the aims of the scheme, provide tips on how to improve your chances of selection and offer you a chance to pitch your short documentary idea informally and receive feedback. They are free and open to filmmakers at any level. But places are limited so make sure to RSVP in advance.

DUMFRIES
7 September (4-6pm) | Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
This workshop will be followed by a screening of Bridging the Gap: Resilience shorts from 6-7pm
Workshop & screening organised in collaboration with the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre.

INVERNESS
8 September (4-6pm) | Eden Court Cinema
This workshop will be followed by a screening of our most recent Bridging the Gap: Resilience shorts at 6pm and by a Q&A with filmmaker Theresa Moerman Ib (The Third Dad).
Workshop & screening organised in collaboration with Screen Hi & Eden Court Cinema.

To attend either the Dumfries or Inverness workshop, please RSVP to rebecca@scottishdocinstitute.com with your name, postcode and a brief summary about yourself.

EDINBURGH
9 September (5:30-7:30pm) | ECA – Evolution House boardroom
For this workshop, and to echo this year’s Bridging the Gap theme of ‘Women’, we have invited Engender, an organisation that has worked in Scotland for 20 years to advance equality between women and men, to come and introduce their work.

GLASGOW
10 September (5-7pm) | GMAC
Workshop organised in collaboration with GMAC.

To attend either the Edinburgh or Glasgow workshop, please RSVP to flore@scottishdocinstitute.com with your name, postcode and a brief summary about yourself.

If you have any question please email flore@scottishdocinstitute.com and we are looking forward to meeting you!

See full application guidelines online here.

Deadline: 4 October

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What could we have as our Facebook, Google+ & Twitter cover images? How could we possibly come up with something as good as any of the work produced by the brilliantly talented community of creatives we have at Central Station? Hang on a minute…

We’re giving you the opportunity to be Central Station’s ambassador, with the unmissable top spot on all of our social pages. Every month we’ll change the image and choose from a previously featured work to find the next “face” of Central Station. All images will be credited to the artist and there’ll be a link to the original featured work spot on our website.

To be considered, just follow us on Behance, Cargo Collective, Flickr and/or Vimeo. We’ll follow you back so that when we choose featured work we can browse your portfolio. It also means that we’ll get updates whenever you upload new work.

Email us if you have any concerns or aren’t sure how to join us.

Previous social cover images:
1. Cities by Atelier Olschinsky [winner of the Central Station 50x50 project]
2. Leg Bound by Sam Spreckley
3. Postcards For Fernando by Alan Wilson
4. COOKIES n BOOBIES by Conzo Throb
5. Optical Nerve by Natalie Kenna
6. Untitled by Lesley Ann Ercolano
7. Bend, Oregon by Sam Brewster
8. Mon Oncle by Andrew Lyons
9. Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by Lesley Barnes
10. Christian by Martin D Barker
11. Transition Collective #002 by Luna Jungeun Lee
12. Negative Experiment by Abdul Hye
13. Norway Infographic by Connor Campbell
14. Untitled by Jim Cowan
15. North by Stephen Edwards
16. Thorn by Ben Risk
17. Table Top Goniometer by Jack Sawbridge
18. Never Seen Burnham by Richard Broomhall
19. Morning in the city by Mika Kuusela
20. Behold! The earth giant has risen by Matthew Carey Simos
21. Theatres on the Bay, Singapore by Stuart D. Maitland
22. Roam & Seek t-shirts by Caroline Tomlinson
23. Venice Double, 2013 by Jonny Lyons
24. Illustration by Cosmic Nuggets
25. Paper Sculpture by Sara Cunha
26. Concealment film still by Josh Murfitt
27. Ghost Web by Ben Bainbridge
28. The Flight by Gemma Cotterell
29. She wears a lion on her heart by Karine Fortier
30. Incredible Places by Matteo Romellini
31. Tristag by Peter Carrington
32. K A L E I D O S C O P E by Sylvie McGowan
33. Sarah by Christopher Fernandez
34. Untitled by Samantha Wilson
35. The Saddle by Richard Gaston
36. Untitled by Joe Crogan
37. Dowel Repeat by Kirsty Macleod
38. Composition K12 by Jen Devonshire
39. Portrait by Amy D’Agorne Craghill
40. Photograph by David Dear
41. Paper Collage Illustration by Isen Aliji
42. Androgyny by Samuel Jones

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What do you think makes a great image? Should it tell you a story or simply capture an incredible moment? Would it be something unique that takes you by surprise? Entries are now open for the Creative Review Photography Annual 2015, celebrating the power of the image to communicate ideas and stories across all media.

Categories range from the most popular Personal/Non-published (showcasing photographers’ personal projects) to Photography in fashion and in Editorial/books. You can see all categories here.

Selected work will be published in a special double issue of Creative Review in December and showcased to an invited audience of leading creative industry figures at the Photography Annual launch party. In addition, the winners will be showcased across CR’s digital and social media platforms, reaching over a million people from across the globe.

Ensure you read the entry criteria and rules here. There is an entry fee of £80 +VAT and all submissions are to be made online here.

Deadline: 18 September

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