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The Fifth Tehran International Animation Festival will be held from February 25th -march 1st 2007 by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children & Young Adults.
Aims and Objectives of the Festival
Providing an opportunity for artists to exchange ideas trough gathering purposeful presentation of the animation works.
Discovering potential and encouraging young animators to innovate and create.
Developing abilities trough new techniques and perspectives.
The festival is categorized in four sections: Competition, non competitive category, Special Screenings and Panorama.

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Animatu it’s a Digital Animation Festival that runs from November 15 to 19 at Pax Julia - Municipal Theatre of Beja, Portugal. Competition categories: Machinima (animations developed in a real-time virtual 3D or 3D game engine), 2D shorts (including flash and all vector-based animations), 3D CGI shorts and Animation for Mobile Phones (2D/3D animations optimized for Mobile Phones or PDA’s with a maximum of 20 seconds length.).

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Electrofringe is a hands-on, all-in new media arts festival dedicated to unearthing emergent forms, highlighting nasßcent trends and encouraging young and developing artists to explore technology and its creative possibilities. Electrofringe will take place in Newcastle as part of the “This Is Not Art Festival” from 29 September - 3 October 2005. The directors for 2005 are Wade Marynowsky and Sumugan Sivanesan. you can email them at electrofringe@electrofringe.net. Emma Stewart is the program co-ordinator for an exciting new additional program titled Australia…Where?

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20-25 June, 2006

You have to love it when a plan comes together!

It’s a fascinating process putting together a festival like MIAF. And the Director collects the best and worst of those moments.

Some moments are irreplacible gems. Finding oneself standing in a tiny workshop surrounded by puppets – past, present and future stars of one of the finest puppet animation studios in the world qualifies as such a gem. Being casually asked – as a coffee cup is slid into ones hands – if I’d be interested in seeing their very latest film even though it’s “not quite finished yet” is even better. But putting that film up on the big screen here and now is best of all. will be a personal highlight of MIAF 06 for me.

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FotoFest® created the first international Biennial of Photography and Photo-related Art in the United States. FotoFest ® is an international non-profit photographic arts and education organization based in Houston, Texas.

FotoFest’s purpose is to promote the exchange of art and ideas through international programs and the presentation of photographic art. Our programs work globally and locally, bringing together an international vision of art and cross-cultural exchange with a commitment to community involvement and the enrichment of Houston’s cultural resources.

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18 - 21 October 2006

Norwich International Animation Festival presents a white-hot programme of seminars, debates, retrospectives and special film programmes, alongside the very best new animation from around the world.

The animation festival is perfectly located in the heart of the medieval city. This year’s main venue, Norwich Playhouse, is situated on St. George Street, on the banks of the River Wensum - a stone’s throw from bars, restaurants and shops, and features a 300-seat auditorium and one of the best (and liveliest!) bars in town.

The Playhouse will be home to the festival videothèque and shop, and is where you’ll need to register and collect your pass. Use the Playhouse Bar as your meeting point throughout the festival - and take in some of the music events taking place throughout the festival.

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Art Not Oil is an annual event aimed at encouraging artists to create work that explores the damage that companies like BP are doing to the planet, and the role art can play in counteracting that damage.It is designed in part to paint a truer portrait of an oil company than the caring image manufactured by the BP Portrait Award, a search for the year’s ‘best’ portrait, which also happens to divert public attention away from BP’s actual activities. Climate chaos is set to have a catastrophic effect on all of us, while hitting the poorest hardest. The companies most responsible are profiting handsomely, yet they’re still welcome it seems in many of our most prestigious public galleries and museums.

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The annual main conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, Eurographics 2006, will take place from the 4th to the 8th of September 2006 in Vienna, Austria. It is co-organized by the Vienna University of Technology and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
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